come out with a win, that's the story, we will see you back tomorrow night. >> mark: this is a fox news alert. president trump is speaking to thousands of supporters in manchester, new hampshire. good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." on mark steyn informed tucker. the president is visiting my state. he is rocking and rolling. he's on a tear and the crowd is loving it. let's listen in. >> president trump: add to that the fact that we love our neighbors and we love our country. [cheers and applause] together, we are all united by one fundamental principle and a nation's first duty must alwaysc be to its own citizens. its own. we have to take care of our own. you haven't heard that from a

politician or political leader in a long time. it's called america first. it's america first. we are thrilled to be joined tonight by many tremendous republican leaders and great friends of mine. a man who is doing an incredible job as your governor. i because i want to take 100% of the credit for the incredible turnaround of new hampshire and i remember it not so long ago, things were not looking good. people were leaving. a lot of bad things were happening. but we have to give him a lot of credit. he has been a great governor, chris sununu. a great father, too. great father.r,

with a great father. his father was tough. chris, your father was so tough. he was for somebody else in the primaries and then one by one, i won here, won there, and then when i won, his father said oh, this guy kills me. he's so tough. and he said, president trump will be the greatest of all time. i said what happened? he went from being the toughestl critic to the best there is so i want to say hello to your father. okay? chris, you'll tell him. great guy. what a family. what a family. thank you, chris. new hampshire senate republican leader chuck morris. chuck. thanks chuck. new hampshire has republican leader, dick hench. thank you, dick. thank you, dick. great job. a man who was with me right from

the beginning. in fact, he had a meeting at his house. his house has never been the same, his house is a disaster now. in fact, somebody said he justis sold it but you know what? because of the trump economy, i bet he sold it for a big fat beautiful profit. where is steve? >> mark: we are going to get back to the president and a couple of minutes, but he's name checking every politician in new hampshire right there. we wanted to bring in charlie hurt, the opinion edito at "the washington times" and also the author of "still winning; why america went all in on donald trump and why we must do it again." he joins us now from d.c. and charlie, the president came within 3,000 votes of winning new hampshire last time. is it in play in 2020? >> i think without a doubt, it's in play but it would have been

in play no matter what but i think when you look back at the economy, new hampshire, as you know, is a place that they like it when the economy is good and they like to keep their tax dollars. they like to -- this is all very good news for them. to look around there, the enthusiasm that you see in that arena counts for something. >> mark: he sort of kind of sideways alluded to something from last time around which is that he came within a couple of thousand votes of winning despite the fact that the entire republican establishment in the states, starting with the then senator kelly ale, was actually opposed to him. he had a coyly reference with the sununu family. it's not going to be that way this time around. >> he really does like to sort of point out those people that were his enemies at one point but have come around to think

he's great. and it's -- it's a crafty little wave of both kind of needling them a little bit, but also kind of softening, perhaps, people that don't -- aren't exactly thrilled with him. i've got to say, mark, i never get tired of these things. they are so entertaining. and i wonder, you know, what was -- we didn't even know that our american politics was missing this sort of show on a routine basis. where you have a guy, an entertainer, who goes out there. i get it, there are people don't like his style, they don't like him, but he goes out there and he's telling stories and he'seo crafting villains and he's talking about policy. things that no politician would ever go into an arena and get wild applause over. yet, this guys doing it and i can't help but think, what if whatever you think of the guy, this is a healthy thing to get people tog come together and tak

about this kind of stuff and cheer and -- he talks about tariffs in china and immigration policy and people are screaming from their seats. i just -- i can't help it. i think it's a healthyhy thing. >> mark: he said, you know, my best friend right now is jens stoltenberg who is the secretary general of nato and is barely a household name even in his own household, and yet the crowd is going wild as if he's the lead singer of the latest boy band. it's amazing. >> and you know, if you believe in self-governance, and you and i both do, you know, this is -- you have to have an informed thpublic and of this is the way the republic gets informed, i things.k of worse i think it's a very positive healthy thing. alove it. >> mark: thank you, charlie. joe biden on the other hand is having a bit of a rough time on the campaign trail. he has been calling cory booker

the president. that's some nightmare right there. and he thought he met the parkland kids at the white house when he actually wasn't vice president or anywhere near the white house at all. now, some of biden's allies wonder if the solution to his campaign isn't to have less of it and to keep them hidden from the public. lisa boothe is a senior fellow at the independent women's voice and she joins us now. lisa, joe biden is really the anti-trump here. the solution is fewer, shorter rallies. if we could just keep him in a cupboard until election day, he will cruised to victory. >> and apparently according to reporting, he makes more mistakes later in the day, so the thinkingmo is that if they curtail his schedule, perhaps he will make less gaps. just to give people at home a reminder of what they have been saying and why biden s aids are feeling this way, take a listen to this. all right, we don't have the

sound. >> we choose a science of over fiction, we trues truth over facts. >> so that, that puts it in the context a little bit. the fact that -- he made theses repeated gaffes last week in iowa, which is a i critical sta, the first contest, the iowa caucus. it's really not a state that you want to be making these gaffes and i think the problem for biden, it's really twofold. one, it's the age issue. hee will be 77 in november. there's a concern among democrats that he might just be a little bit too old and the second is the electability. part of the reason why he's the front runner but is this perceived notion that he is the most electable candidate against president trump so i think the more mistakes he makes, it erodes that confidence that he's the strongest candidate to take on trauma. >> mark: yeah, and they always like to go to these characters who are supposedly electable and then turn out to be not quite as electable as they thought. that was the rationale with john kerry. and you're right, lisa.

you know, it's not an age thing because the president is within a couple of years of him and you never see biden feeding off of the crowd the way the president does night after night. >> and i want to show you too, there's this quote from david axelrod that i think summarizes it as well. we can put that up for the viewers at home. and so basically he says this is bad advice. he goes on to say he either can cut it or he can't and the only way he can prove he can is to be an active and vigorous candidate. he's running for president of the united states for god's sakes. and joe biden had recently not too long ago floated the idea of a stacy abrams, potentially the vp nominee or at least biden'sto allies did and now, she's saying potentially she'd be open to being the vp nomination. listen to what she said in an interview. >> if any of the nominees offer me the opportunity to run with them as their vice president after they have been selected at the nominee, of course i'd beun honored to consider that.

>> mark: that's very sporting of her. we are going to come back to you but as we said, the president il on a roll here and we don't want to miss it. here he is in new hampshire. >> president trump: ours was far more sophisticated and we had a man that did anti incredie job and he is now our campaign manager and he's one of the tallest human beings i've ever seen. and his name is brad parscale and he is great. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] nice when you don't have to look for anybody, you just looked over and you see a guy who was twice as tall as everyone. great job, brad. thank you.'t how are we doing, brad? got great poll numbers. we've got great poll numbers in a lot of states. ohio, iowa, you know, iowa, every week that they campaign,

our numbers go up. they are winning iowa. we gave them ethanol which is very important. a lot of things for i love you a lot of things for iowa, but every week we seem to bee going up because they are campaigning in iowa. wherever they go, our numbers go up. somebody is going to have to explain that one to me someday, but we like it. a man who is a friend of mine, who was the greatest mayor in the history of new york city -- [boos] who -- stand up, rudy! rudy giuliani! [cheers and applause] he did a job -- he did a job in the first year,

i've never seen anything like it. new york was crime infested, we had problems, we had problems like nobody would believe and rudy went in there and he did the job and people loved him foa it. it wasn't like he was a horrible person. people loved rudy giuliani. he was a great, great mayor. thank you rudy for being here.li [cheers and applause] and the first person that i've put on in the campaign, he was driving me wild, he said i'm saying you could win, sir, you could win! i'm telling you, you can win! he loves this state. he's from the state. he said, you could win, sir! i'm just telling you -- for month after month he would come drive memo crazy. he said you could win. you could win. and finally, we said let's give it a shot. and i had corey, i had hope,

just a couple of people. we had a rather lean and mean staff but corey lewandowski loves your state, loves new hampshire, he was the firste one that talked about us possibly winning the whole big ball game and he is tough and he is smart and i'm hearing he's thinking about running for the senate from new hampshire. i don't know. [cheers and applause] i think he would be tough to beat. i'll tell you one thing, he will go into washington and he's going to have you in mind. he is going to do a job if he does do it so we will see what happens. he hasn't made up his mind yet but he would be fantastic and i guess it's something you go back and you talk to your family and your wife and you make a decision.

they are all saying are you going to support them? i said i don'torou know if he's running. so let us know please, if you don't mind. let us know. our shared republican agenda is pro-worker, pro-jobs, pro-family, pro-growth, and 100% pro-american. [cheers and applause] for decades and decades, the permanent politicians in washington pursued the very opposite. they sold out our workers, you see it, you know it better than any place.e. when i talk about the horrors of nafta, the horrors of trade deals, i mean, i'm starting to i'm sorry to tell you this, usually referred to new hampshire -- nobody took it worse than new england and nobody tooke it worse than new hampshire. now, here's the good news, i would never let that happen

again and chris will never let that happen again. [cheers and applause] is there a doctor please? a doctor in the house? thank you. doctor in the house. please. doctor? please. thank you very much. take your time. take your time. thank you. >> mark: there is a medical emergency taking place in southern new hampshire university. they asked for a doctor.

plenty of doctors in new hampshire. let's go to joe concha from wrr radio. joe, how's the rally grabbing you so far? >> it's grabbing me, mark. only because what i'm seeing here is the president basically acknowledging. he did this earlier in the rally, that look, you don't have to like me. i know you may have wanted to vote for a priest below, you got a president instead and he said, you know, what choice do you have when your wages are going up, when you have unemployment in the state of new hampshire at 2.5%, which is just an incredible number. when you are secure in their jobs, when your 401(k) is going way, way up. so look, you may not like me, the president seems to be saying, and i'm sure there are a lot of people out there who don't like the tweets and the way he conducts himself in the oval office in terms of not being so-called presidential, but at least he is authentic in terms of who he is and is people

who might not like that. all that said, he is saying, you know what, like what you're portfolio looks like, like what you are looks like i just like in 2016 when he put out a list of conservative judges that he would nominate to supreme court. he said look, you don't have to like me. you may not believe i'm conservative, but think of the alternative if you vote for hillary clinton. in this case, he said if you vote for the democratic nomineeh particularly if it's from the far left, lives with one, bernie sanders, kamala harris,rt any of the people that he couldr contain a socialist. so that's the theme i see. this is the preview we have not had capitalism, trang. socialism, democrats. or, economy, trumpet alternatives, that economy, democrats pay that's what i've seen so far from this rally. >> mark: let me mention a point i made with charlie hurt, which is the last c time around, he lost new hampshire very narrowly. but with the entire republican apparatus against him, and we

had a little west of the tension tonight. he mentioned that corey lewandowski is thinking of running for senate against the democrat in new hampshire, and it's no particular secret that the sununu family, for example, rather opposed to corey lewandowski running for senate. basically here, the lesson of the last couple years is that there is no nontrump republican party. if you are conservative, if you are a republican, you are either onboard or you are irrelevant and there's nowhere else to go. >> yeah, i don't even think donald trump is necessarily republican. i think he's a populist. i think he has his own kind of party. i don't think there is a big groundswell or backing of the establishment republican party right now but look, as you mention, he only lost by 2800 votes in new hampshire. that's not too hard to turn around when the unemployment right, as i mentioned is only

2.5%. new hampshire is very important, mark, because of trunk and take new hampshire, then he can afford to lose pennsylvania and michigan and still capture the presidency if he wins all the other states that he won in 2016. just those four electoral votes give him that edge. >> mark:at h absolutely. that was george w. bush's margin of victoryry in 2000. without those four electoral votes, he would never have been in the white house. what do you think --ve the president essentially has invented a whole new form here. we talked with lisa about sleepy joe biden. worried he gets too tired later in the day, so they want to cut down events after teatime at 3:00, or maybe they should wake him up later so he doesn't start campaigning until after lunch. basically, having established this entirely new form ofin campaigning, do you think it's going to be possible for opponents to run the same old

tired, scripted lines, focus themes, as opposed to a guy just standing up there, riffing on whatever he wants to talk about? >> i've seen this movie before. it was in august of 2016. t that was the big momentum changer during that particular election. that's when hillary clinton basically went the european root and said i'm basically going to take the month off. she campaigned something like one-third the time that donald trump did and he out-hustled her. there was a hurricane that hit louisiana and he and mike pence were down there stamped on mechanical supplies and hillary clinton was nowhere to bear found. he could outwork his opponents every time and biden, if he's going to do that, you're going to see is a losing t strategy. >> mark: he is great fun talking about his opponents. he's doing it right now. we are going to see what he has to say.he >> president trump: you would've given out one-third of the price you've got. that's true, by the way. steve's too smart to let that happen.ot we won't let them take it away from you.

we are reversing decades of calamitous trade policies that shatter new hampshire and your factories, they shattered your communities. and they shattered american power and american prestige all around the globe. new hampshire lost one in four manufacturing jobs, following nafta and china's entrance into the world trade organization, two of the worst deals ever in the history of our world. not just our country. election after election, politicians came to your state, pretending to have the courage to stand up for the american worker. then they went to washington and to let other countries push them around and special interests buy them off and steal your jobs and take your companies. what happened?

me, i don't care about their campaign't contributions. it doesn't matter to me folks. we want to do a job. we want to do a great job. and we are setting records. you know who is sending us the money? the small donors. we have big donors, though we have small donors, too. they are sending us the money for the election. m pretty amazing. that's not supposed to happen to a republican but it's happening to this republican and it'ss happening to you. [cheers and applause] every valve that politicians made was broken. every hope was dashed and every promise turned into a total betrayal of new hampshire and of our country. but in this administration, we have something those sellout politicians could only dream of. it's called strength and commitment. we don't play games.

we don't play games. [cheers and applause]h after years and years of building up other countries, we are finally building up our country, standing up for our jobs, our workers, and standing up for our dignity. [cheers and applause] [crowd chanting "usa"] the forgotten men and women of america will never, ever be forgotten again. you were forgotten. the last administration was sleepy joe and obama. they tried to ram through one of the worst trade deals ever negotiated.

it worse than nafta, worse than wgo. it was called the trans-pacific partnership and it would've been a disaster. gpp would've gutted the american auto industry. it would have been in shambles. our auto industries coming back so small. it would've gutted and destroyei the auto industry but in my first week in office, i proudly withdrew the united states from that job destroying catastrophe. [cheers and applause] and we are imposing beautiful, well-placed tariffs, money comes in, on foreign countries that cheat our workers, stealri our jobs, and break all the rules. i'm sorry. and by the way, they have been changing and charging tariffs on us for years.

we have countries that charge us 100%, 200%, 297% in the case of canada, with your foreign products. we are not going to stand for it. and man, did we turn things around. and we just started. if companies don't want to pay a tariff, i have one simple solution. come make your product in america. come make your product in new hampshire. zero tariffs. zero. zero. no tariffs. [cheers and applause] together, we are restoring this nation's industrial might and we are doing it with american iron,

american aluminum, and american steel. we are doing steel. steel industry is hot. the steel industry -- they were dumping steel all over. they were destroying our companies. u.s. steel now, all of them, the steel industry is back. they are all expanding. it's doing great. we are opening up mines in minnesota, the great state of minnesota, they have magnificent mines that have the best iron ore in the world and president obama closed them down. [boos] maybe we can get representative omar from minnesota to open up but i don't think so. [boos] she will open them up, i don'tbu think so. representative omar. that's a no-no. that's another one. we are replacing nafta with a brand-new usmca. that's mexico and canada.

[cheers and applause] great deal. the usmca will create countless jobs for farmers, manufacturers, all across the state. we need congress to pass the usmca immediately. we will make it a bipartisan deal here and we don't need any more credit. the union's benefit, the nonunion's benefit, everybody benefits. it brings it back to fairness and it makes it very hard for our company is leave our countries, go to mexico or canada. we lose all of our jobs. we lose all of our taxes. we end up with empty factories and plants. it makes it almost impossible we are not going to have that. that was my one rule that i had to have. w it's going to be very hard for companies to do that. i've also taken the toughest ever action to stand up to china's chronic trade abuses.

earlier this month, the u.s. government officially labeled china for the first time ever, a currency manipulator. another promise kept. while others allowed china to freely loot the u.s. economy,ot $500 billion a year, not million, not million, billion! with a b! we've made it clear that the theft of american jobs and american wealth is over. yet today "the wall street journal" editorial board, and some others, continue to publish foolish articles that demonstrate that they understand nothing about trade or business. nothing. they advocate only economic surrender. they actually say go to china

take off the tariff for less. make a deal. make a deal. think of it. they say, go to europe. by the way, the european union is worse than s china. just smaller. it treats us horribly. barriers. tariffs, taxes. and we let them come in. it's worse than china. many of us come from there. i do. that's what it's got going. that's about it. they treat us really badly. and many others, many, many others. india tariffs' probably higher than any nation anywhere in the world. we have tariffs of a hundred percent on products and much more than that. india. so we are working on all of them. i called prime minister modi, i said, mr. bai minister, it's

not fair, we got to change, got to change, got to change. and we are talking to them very, seriously. we are talking to a lot of places. the but when "wall street journal" comes out and they say no, take the tariffs. they've been trying to talk to them for 25 years but actually, you know what? they really haven't. the fact is, the leaders that were in my position, they didn't do a thing. they didn't talk. they didn't talk.y past leaders followed the terrible advice of these editorial boards that are frankly and experienced in totally inexperienced in business, i guess. and our industries were utterly decimated.kl globalism enriches foreign countries at our expense. globalism. i love our country. i'm the president of the united states of america, i'm not the president of the world. [cheers and applause]

and as long as i am presidents, america will never bow to a foreign nation like we were for so many years. as we restore our prosperity, we are also restoring public safety. we are fighting to reduce violent crimes. you see so much and over the last 25 years. so much crime. and ensure that every american can live in safety and peace and yet, with all that you see, we have had one of the best years of crime prevention that we've ever had. it wouldn't seem that way but it is one of the best years because those gentlemen that we just saw, the law enforcement, they do a great job. [cheers and applause]

and you've been reading about this a lot lately. we are working very hard to make sure we keep guns out of the hands of insane people and of those who are mentally sick and shouldn't have guns. [cheers and applause] but people have to remember,t however, that there is a mental illness problem that has to be dealt with. it's not the gun that pulls the trigger. it's the person holding the gun. [cheers and applause] years ago, many cities, i remember it so well, closed mental institutions to budget. they let those people out onto

the street. you probably have your examples up here. i can tell you in new york, they closed so many of them and they let really seriously mentally ill people out on the streets. and you see plenty of them today. even today. we are going to have to give major consideration to buildinge new facilities for those in need. we have to do it. [cheers and applause] and at the same time, we will be taking mentally deranged and dangerous people off of the streets so we won't have tost worry so much about that. that's a big problem. we don't have those institutions anymore. and people can't get proper care. they are seriously ill people and they are on the streets.

we can't make it harder for good, solid, law-abiding citizens to protect themselves. we will always uphold the right to self-defense and we will always uphold the second amendment. we will. so important. one of the most powerful promises i made to the people of this state was to confront the opioid and drug epidemic. [cheers and applause] i used to go around new hampshire, more than any state, and you would say sir, this state is infested. he said sir, we are like a drug den. you tell me. and i didn't really see it and

then i met with the police officers and fire departments and all the people and you just seem to have a bigger problem, and by the way, the wall is being built. [cheers and applause] that's going to stop a lot of it.[c the wall is being built. [cheers and applause] it's being built. you know, we have the fake news. you know about that. a law that is lying underground in a very important section, we pick up the wall, it's in pieces. i mean literally it'sin gone.

and we build a brand new 30-foot steel and concrete wall. and the fake media says "he didn't build the wall, that's just renovation.l. most quote people walk right over it. it's rotted, rusted, gone. we take it away, we put a brand-new wall. they give me no credit. you know u why? because they are fake news. that's why. [boos] we are building a lot of wall. the army corps of engineers is doing a great job. they are doing a great job. since i took office, we have attacked the challenge with everything we have. we have secured a record $6 billion in new funding opioids. we have vastly increased the distribution of overdose reversing drugs, which are pretty amazing things.

we've given them tiered we've given them to your police department, fire department, pretty amazing. we have reduced the total amount of opioids prescribed by 34%. in the department of justice has prosecuted more than 3,000 defendants in opioid-related cases, and our public awareness campaign about the terrible suffering that drugs inflict has already reached 58% of all young americans. you have to show them. beautiful ads. they are brutal. we are doing ads on how bad it is so they can see it. d the greatest thing we can do is not get people started on drugs. right? not get them started. it's hard to get off of them who

we can get them off and we are doing it and it's been done, but it's hard to get off. if they never start, it's really easy. it's real easy. we're trying to get young t kids -- you want to the fruits of this labor for a little while because it takes a while, but we are working so hard on advertising and promotions to tell young kids to my children, how bad drugs are, how dangerous they are, how horrible they are, how they destroy your brain, how they do so many bad things and they are really very tough ads. they are hard-hitting ads. and i think they are having a you will see. big impact. over time, you will see. [cheers and applause] but we still have much work to do. but as a result of these efforts, last year we saw the first nationwide decline in drug overdose deaths in 31 years. pretty amazing.

[cheers and applause] and at the center of america's drug crisis, it's the border crisis. vast quantities of deadly narcotics are being smuggled across the border, including meth, cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl. and as part of my trade deal with china, it's been very important, and president xi said he's going to do it, so far heha has not done it, but i said you have to stop sending us fentanyl. have to. and you have to criminalize in china the making of fentanyl and so far, he has not come through but i think he will. you'll know. you will know. yet, democrats want to open borders, and republicans want strong borders. that's the difference. one wants open borders. who can even think of an open border? think of it.

even though many people are who come into our country are wonderful people, they are still coming in illegally. they are not coming in throughho merit. but what about the badt ones? we have serious,s? serious criminals that want to come in and if we had open borders, they would be flowing in like you've never seen before. democrats want open borders. they don't mind crime. we do mind crime, and that's the way it is. democrats also support deadly sanctuary cities. last year alone -- [boos] >> president trump: sanctuary cities declined more than 17,000 requests from federal authorities to hand over criminal aliens already in their custody. in othery words, 70,000 criminl

aliens were released by these cities directly into u.s. communities. [boos]s] you don't even understand what they are doing. what are they doing? 17,000. republicanss believe our cities should be sanctuary from lot law-abiding americans, not for criminal a aliens. and we will always support the amazing heroes of ice and border patrol, and we will always support law enforcement. every democrat candidate also wants to give illegal immigrants free welfare. republicans believe public benefits should be protected for

truly needy americans, not for illegal aliens and we should reduce our taxes and many other things with all of that money that we are talking about. [cheers and applause] we need to elect a strong republicano majority to end sanctuary cities, stop human traffickers, stop drug smugglers, and adopt an immigration system that puts the needs of american workers and families first. it's also time for democrats to join with us to protect the sacred integrity of our elections by supporting voter i.d. voter identification.

it's incredible. they're constantly saying we need to protect -- they are not looking for that. they are not looking for that. we said what about voter i.d.? in other words, we have a picture. they don't want to do. we need voter i.d. the democratic party hasas never been farther outside the mainstream. [boos] >> mark: we are going to stick with the president, but they are escorting a protester out.

the last time i saw the president with that, the president actually told them they should take his coat away which is not pleasant in the depths of a new hampshire winter, but it's august we are going to go back to the so it's 54 and cloudy. president. they are removing protesters. >> president trump: you have everything and then you see these people, they are against -- they have no idea what they are doing. they have no idea what they are against. every major democrat running for president supports a massive government takeover of health care that would raise medicare and destroy the private health insurance plans of many american families that they love. my administration is defending your right to choose the plan and the doctor that is best for you. [cheers and applause] the individual mandate is gone. the most unpopular part of obamacare.

and we almost have obamacare gone. we are close. we would've had it before but we had a vote that was a bit surprising. i'm sure none of you knew who that vote was. we had it done. reveal and replace. but it's going to happen and i think it's actually going to be in the end actually better. you watch. so we got rid of the individual mandate, which was the most unpopular part of obamacare, and we are running it. i had a political decision. do i make it great? alex cesar, our secretary, do we run it well? and sort of say hey, we ran it well. or do we run it badly and have everybody upset? we said we have to run it well but it still, much too expensive. it's lousy health care.ai but we got rid of the worst part of it. individual mandate. individual mandate. where you have the privilege of buying the right not to have to pay for expensive insurance that's no good. health insurance. and you got to remember this.

republicans. and i speak for everyone of them. we will always protect pre-existing conditions. we are going to protect. always. got to do it. our ambitious campaign to reduce the price of prescription drugs has produced the largest decline in drug prices in 51 years. [cheers and applause] and of the only decline in 51 years. we have launched a historic initiative to require price transparency empowering you to choose the lowest price for yourself and for your family. believe it or not, you didn't have the right to go in and to price your drugs. who could even believe this? i wonder if big pharma had something to do with that. [boos] so we are going to have transparency virtually every top democrat, also now supports late-term abortions, ripping

babies straight from the mother's womb, right up until the moment of birth. [boos] and in the case of the virginia governor, he is having a rough, rough time. and his case, the baby is born and then he goes to talk to the mother, the doctor talks to the mother. the baby is now born. wrapped, as he said, and then they decide whether or not to execute the baby. [boos] that is why i have asked congress to prohibit extreme late-term abortion because republicans believe that every child is a sacred gift of god. [cheers and applause]

hard to believe, isn't it? democrats are not a party of democrats are now the party of high taxes, high crime, open borders, late-term abortion, and socialism. [boos] the republican party is the party of freedom. we are the party of the american worker, the american family, and of the american greed and i'm fighting for you each and every day. [cheers and applause] so importantly, we have confirmed more than 140 federal judges within 90 days, it will be 179 federal judges, thank you very much, president obama. thank you very much.

i don't know what happeneduc to them but i came to office and i had 138 judges that were not appointed by president obama. so i say, thank you mr. president. very good. and they will say he was a great president. the fake news. he was a great president. he was a great president, howth come he left me 138 judges to appoint when everybody says that's the single most important thing a president of the united states has to do? great president. he was great. yeah, he was a great president. and these judges will apply the laws written, including -- we appointed two great supreme court justices, neil gorsuch and brett kavanaug brett kavanaugh.

and to help patients with life-threatening illnesses, we also passed something i'm so proud of. 44 years, they couldn't get it passed. right to ps. try. you can use our newest, our best medicine. incredible what's happening. i'm so proud ofib that. this from forever, five decades, we passed for our great veterans. va choice and va accountability. and one of our great friends was a veteran who's been with me in new hampshire. where is our guy. where is he?

he's been with me from the beginning. he liked trump. i came in, he said, sir, i have cancer and, sir, i went -- they were very, very late, they have problems, i'm not blaming them. but they gave me the right to go out and get a great cancer surgeon. he had his operation. you look much better than you did three years ago. much better. va choice, right? va choice. great story, thank you very much. and thank you for your loyalty. he's been to every rally i ever gave in new hampshire right from the beginning. i got so tired of lookingng at him, he'll always be here. look at him, now he's sitting -- very good, that's very good. but i appreciate that story.

va choice just makes sense, right? doesn't it make sense? we were achieved record funding for the united states military. $716 billion. $700 billion, and $738 billion and it's almost00 completely rebuilt, including, and we hope to god we never have to use it, we have the finest, most powerful nuclear capability anywhere on the face of thepa earth. and i hope to god we never have to use it. we are investing in the future of humangh space flight and someday soon american astronauts will plant the stars and stripes on the surface of mars.

i told my guys at nasa. when nasa took it over, it was exhausted. when -- weeds going through the cracks in the concrete, he wouldn't recognize it now. it's beautiful, if the best place anywhere on earth. i also said -- i hear all these rich guys, for some reason they loveve space. i said let them send the rockets are. why do we have to do it? right? so i see jeff bezos and elon musk. they are putting rockets up. i think it's great. they pay us rent. they are also doing it. nasa has some of the greatest plans we've ever had. if these are great people, great scientists, but we also let the private sector put up rockets. the one that recently went up and you see the engines coming back down. it's almost like what are we watching. is this fiction?

and they come down and they save all of the propellants. all of the really most expensive parts, they are able to save it by bringing it back. who would think they could do this? i never saw this before six months ago, but they are doing it now more and more. they are saving a lot of the most important and expensiveth parts of rockets, so we have a lot of rich guys paying us a lot of rant, but we are also doing it ourselves. to protect america's security, i withdrew the united states from the horrible one-sided iran nuclear deal. i recognize israel's true capital and opened the american embassy in jerusalem. [cheers and applause]

in just three months ago we also recognized -- as being a part of and protected by israel. for years you watched as her politicians apologized for america, and i have a president who is standing up for america and we are standing up for the people of new hampshire. thank you. [cheers and applause] and you must never forget the 2020 election right around theio corner. 2,020 right around the corner. and it's about one thing. you know what the one thing is? you. it's about you. it's about. your family. it's about your future, and it's about the fate of yours country.

so when we ran together last time, we said the most important -- we had to turn it around. this country was going bad. weur see what happened to venezuela with socialism. venezuela 15 years ago was one of the richest a countries. now they don't have water, they don't have food, they don't have anything. and this was one of the richest nations in the world. they don't have anything. we are really workingki on it, t it's very sad. it's never going to happen to us because we will never, ever be a socialist nation. [cheers and applause] no matter what label they use, they vote for any democrat in 2020 is a vote for the rise of radical socialism and destruction -- the destruction of the american dream. we have a dream. it's a great dream. this is the destruction of the

american dream. we begin this campaign tonight with the best record, the best results, the best agenda, and the only positive vision for the people of new hampshire and for the people of america. [cheers and applause] together we will lift millions more citizens from welfare to work, dependence too independene and poverty to prosperity. millions and millions of people. with your help, we will elect a republican congress to create a safe modern fair and lawful system of immigration. [cheers and applause] we will enact trade deals that are already happening that ensure more products are proudly

stamped with that beautiful phrase, made in the usa. [cheers and applause] we will achieve new breakthroughs in science and medicine, ending the aids epidemic in america and findingn new cures for childhood cancer. [cheers and applause] and something i never thought i'd be able to say, within one decade, the aids epidemic in the united states willll be gone. think of that, did you ever think you are going to hear that? did you ever think you were going to hear that? the work they've done on aids is incredible. that's the incredible thing. when they told me that, it's just shattering. it just breaks your heart, what's happened. but think of it, in ten years, the aids epidemic will be eradicated.

so great. who thought that was going to be happening? who thought i'd be able to get to say that. so early and what we are doing together. we will defend privacy, free speech, free assembly, religious liberty, and the right to keep and bear arms. [cheers and applause] above all, we will never stop fighting for the values that bind us together as one america. we will support, protect, and defend the constitution of the united states. [cheers and applause] >> mark: the president cranking it up for campaign season. very impressively.

that's it for this hour. i am mark steyn in new york. the president continues into the next hour, and that means that sean hannity is going to break it all down i for you with full analysis. good night from me. opening monologue in just a moment. the president in new hampshire continuing. opening monologue soon. >> president trump: we believe that children should be taught to love our country, honor our history, and to always respect our great american flag. [cheers and applause] and through every day and every challenge, our hearts beat to the words of the new hampshire state motto, live free or die. [cheers and applause]