inside. defendant out there for us tonight. thank you. we'll be watching that when it gets started. that is the story of thursday, october 10th. "the story" goes on and on. we'll be back here tomorrow. ♪ >> tucker: this is a fox news alert. at a moment now president trump will begin addressing supporters in minneapolis, minnesota. it's his first rally since the start of the ukrainian impeachment drama and he will have a lot to say about that. going left to the president as he began speaking, but in the meantime welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the president is deep in enemy territory and you'll be inside the boundaries of ilhan omar's congressional district. the president has been at war of words with the mayor of minneapolis jacob frey which he accuses of sabotaging in its rally. we will be going there as we said in just a minute. this of all the rallies the

president has had we would say in the last couple of years, this may be the one with the greatest potential to make news. this was not a close call. we are going to be taking this label but it begins. we want to preview what we are likely to see tonight with fox's matt finn, he is there at the rally in minneapolis and he joins us know. >> as bc coast to coast with president trump rallies, thousands and thousands of people started lining up earlier today and happening right now, thousands and thousands of protesters. many have very vulgar, obscene posters and we will try to not to show them and people had been cursing us out and telling fox news to leave. many of the people are also blowing while souls, you might be able to hear some of that piercing sound. there are some protesters that tell us this represents a sea of "whistle-blowers." leading up until the days of this rally, the mayor and president trump have been

feuding. they trump campaign was built $530,000 for security. the "star tribune" reports that this was the first political campaign that has ever been billed in the city of minneapolis. they trump campaign sat at refused to pay anymore. tonight you hear them declaring victory. earlier in the week president trump tweeted, "the radical left mayor of minneapolis is doing everything possible to stifle free speech despite a record sellout crowd at the target center." president clinton and obama paid nothing. the mayor of minneapolis responded, "someone tell the president of united states that he can afford to pay for the extra time or officers will be putting in while he's in town." they trump campaign says it's not paying anymore and they said this rally is going on with the original contract and jacob frey has issued a proclamation declaring today, love trumps hate day in the city of minneapolis.

>> tucker: some enthusiastic fans behind you. matt finn live in minneapolis. quite a scene. one thing to watch for tonight is before the president has anything to say about the nda and other corporations kowtowing to the fascist government of china. on wednesday night the washington wizards here in the capital of the nation played them in a preseason game and several people protested the chinese government by wearing pro-hong kong t-shirts and caring science of the same effect. they were immediately confiscated by personnel. >> what was the reasoning? i understand you're doing your job. >> we respect your freedom of speech. we are personally -- we don't have any stance on it.

>> tucker: he was one of the protesters there. that was a twitter feed. he joins us here in the studio. thank you for coming on. this is in the nation's capital, the capital of united states and you can't protest mainland china and the capital of united states. >> it's incredible. you think about the nba, this is a link that advertises itself as the most vocal league and all of sports when it comes to getting involved in politics and protesting president trump, black lives matter, north carolina a few years ago. when it comes to china, a country that is the serial human lights abuser, has a million plus camps and concentrations of -- >> tucker: that murderous blue glow prisoners for their organs bear that has banned free expression. this is a fascist country. >> they don't want to talk about it. they're afraid to upset their bottom line with china and so this is what we have here one back in the 90s we granted

china, most favored nation status and we were told that this would be about exporting our values to china. what we are seeing -- we have exported a lot of jobs, but they're exporting their values here and our corporations are adopting a lot of their fascist tendencies. >> martha: and the capital city of our country. what you think would have happened if you would have unfurled and impeach donald trump sign? >> you know what, i don't have the reaction would have been the same. they were big on you can't have a political sign, that's what they told us. apparently google leaders as inherently political which we were confused by it. that was the second sign. it was asking people, steve kerr and steph curry, these guys have said we don't have enough information and we can't make a judgment call on china. >> tucker: we can stand up for political freedom and the freedom of speech. >> we had that side hoping that people would look it up and see, oh, my goodness. china is actually really

terrible. >> tucker: asking people to learn more about concentration camps is a political statement? >> that is what we were told. that was a political sign. >> tucker: who made this decision? two confiscated your signs? >> i think it was sent by someone up top. security guards were talking when we first unveiled dead and then they came towards us. with the second sign they weren't sure what that was and they hadn't determined whether it was a political -- >> tucker: the kind the video has been told what to do. he is an employee. not his fault. the orders came from presumably the owner, or owners of the team, for the fifth time in the nation's capital. have they responded or explain themselves? >> they said this is in accordance with their policies of not doing political -- any political show at these events which is hilarious coming from the nba which is political all the time when it comes to

domestic policy. >> tucker: it's unbelievable. he pointed that out as capably as anyone. thank you very much. the author of hillbilly elegy, the best-selling book and one of the sharpest observers of american politics, were grateful to have him on. thank you. what is the story to tell you but where were going? >> have grown up in the conservative movement since i cared about politics when i was a teenager and i do think that one of the things that's been an article of faith among postwar conservatives is that the free market is generally aligned with the interest of united states of america. one of the things that we are learning is that the free market only really works for the united states of america's national interests one united states is the sole economic power in the world. when you have a country like china that is rapidly growing and part of course because of our mistakes, what you have is an entire new customer base where companies like the nba, apple, like a lot of other folks

are actually prioritizing their bottom line over the national interest of their own country. i do think it really should challenge conservatives to think about what this means for the next 30-40 years of american policy when we are no longer the sole hyperpower in world economic affairs. >> tucker: they are basically using our libertarian economics against his and our corporations are choosing china over the country that incubated them, that made them possible, our country and we are not saying anything about it. >> out that's exactly right tucker and if you think about the response t to the particulas badge between the nba, china and the broader country, one of the things that's pretty clear is that one side of the country ses this primarily as a free-speech issue as an active moral cowardice on the f of the nba and that's partially true, the nba isn't making a p.r. mistake.

they're not making any sort of business error by prioritizing the interest of the chinese. china has 1.4 billion rapidly, upwardly, economically mobile people and they'll be customers. they already are the second largest market for the nba. what we are seeing is that the nba is not actually making the mistake. it's making a rational business judgment. the other side of this though is that the united states also has to make rational judgments about what is in our national interests. it's the interest of multinational corporations aligned with the interest of china then we have to accept that we have to fight back. the way that i put this tucker is that for the past 60 years one of the things that's been true about american economic and political cultural life is that the big institutions of the economy, big companies, big businesses have tended to be on the conservative side of the spectrum and the cultural institutions, the academy, university and so forth, those

have tended to be institutions of the left. the left in the right have fought over who controls the politics, but what we are entering as an era where both the economic institutions and the cultural institutions are aligned with the left. the big question for us as conservatives is what every going to do about that new world given how significantly different ed is from the one we had been living in the past 30 or 40 years? >> tucker: right, we've been asleep, paying attention to only marginalize tax rates and misty sea change and we, meaning the majority of the country have become completely outlined by people who hate us, our values and are more loyal to the chinese. what do we do about it? >> i think the big general picture level we have to accept that there is more important things than the free markets. the free market as he was said on your own show as a tool, an important tool, but it's not the only thing that matters in american public life. i'm not sure if you saw this,

but last year a marriott employee was fired in nebraska i believe, middle of the country for lugging a tweet that was hostile to communist china. i think we are entering an era of american public life where we have to decide what matters more, the free speech and expression rights of her own citizens, or the bottom line of corporations who care more about china than they do about us. in that world what it means i think is that the standard bush republican approach of more free-trade and more tax cuts for corporations is not just an adequate as may be dangerous and stupid. >> tucker: people need to be forced to choose a side. there are two sides. once american and ones -- thank you. great to see you. >> thank you. >> tucker: we are waiting the president to begin speaking to supporters in minneapolis, minnesota, and we will go there as soon as he takes the stage. we expect he will address his

announcement to withdraw troops in northern syria and that's hardly the only american military commitment that has gone on a long time. this week incidentally marks the 18th anniversary of american involvement in afghanistan, the president has said repeatedly he wants to out that war, most of washington is united to keep it going indefinitely. eric prince knows a lot about the subject. he founded a private military group and he is chairman of the front or resource group. he joins us on site tonight. great to see you. he had been in and out of afghanistan since that were started 18 years ago. looking backward, what is your assessment? >> failure. we won in the first six months we were there fighting a very unconventional war. it was a few special forces guys anand a few cia officers backedy air power. six months hammering the taliban and on the pentagon and the conventional military rolled in, largely repeatedly still be a battle plan and we have gone backwards ever since, wasting hundreds of billions of dollars, thousands of american lives and no one has been held

accountable. all these generals, all these people that were in command write books, they are lauded for their leadership and its failure. what kind of ceo could run an enterprise for 18 years with that kind of failure and still be lauded? they should have been fired. >> tucker: my assessment as you seem to be one of the only people involved in that effort was learned anything. i know there are others, but you're one of the few high-profile people who is willing to say. given what you've learned, how should we apply those lessons to syria? >> the presidents and stinks are right. do not have american permanent presence in eastern syria, that's not a strategic requirement for the united states. on the flip side abandoning the kurds, not the best idea. there are other ways to do this that doesn't require u.s. forces. a perfect analogy is the flying tigers. when you had japan in the 1930s bombing chinese cities, america was not going to be involved.

the fdr allowed the action along american marines and the navy, army pilots to go work for a private company and they became the flying tigers and they defended chinese cities from japanese aggression before the united states entered the war. now you can do the same thing. the syrian kurds have oil, 400,000 barrels a day, they can sell and produce, i can pay for effectively a contracted peacekeeping force that would keep the ice has guys at bay and deter the iranians and the turks from rolling in. i doesn't require u.s. forces were active duty, it forces the syrian kurds to pay for their own defense, but nobody in the pentagon, nobody in this clique of the beltway wants to think outside the box and give the president different options. the same thing they been doing in afghanistan for 18 years is all they've ever given him. more money, more troops or nothing and here in syria, for money and more troops or nothing. nothing.

there's a lot of hybrid ways to do this, but no one is willing to think outside the box. >> tucker: is interesting because i think most americans and i'm certainly in this group, they give the benefit of every doubt towards our military leadership. we respect them and most of them are worthy of respect, but because we respect them so much we don't i think feel comfortable often second-guessing their strategy and so you almost never hear anybody say, wait a second. you made a series of dumb decisions. why should i listen to you? >> we have a great volunteer for us, but one half of 1% of the u.s. population serves in the military. maybe another 3-5% of that one half percent leading 95% of america with no real contact with the military. literally no skin in the game and so no one feels empowered to call b.s. on the general. everyone says we support our troops and we thank you for your service, they want to support

their troops, demand battery. demand their sacrifice not be wasted. we not just muddle along with some of the generals. >> tucker: youth served in the navy as a young man. are you struck as he walks uniformed military officers, flag officers ignored the commander in chief? >> we have the finest staff officers, ncos in the world. it seems like once they become very senior generals, it becomes a ice-cream cone of who gets promoted and who gets approved to join that club and anybody who thinks outside the box, we have no george patton's anymore. we have no lessees as grants. we have none of the swashbuckling generals that made things happen. we don't have a fantastic record of finishing wars since world war ii. >> tucker: self licking ice-cream cone, that image will follow me to bed tonight,

unfortunately. do you think the president has around him trustworthy, wise advisors? any? >> so far all they've been telling the president is kind of keep doing what they're doing. the decision on afghanistan and the summer of 2017 to going with more money and more troops was two years ago. secretary john mattis and the generals got exactly what they want and rules of engagement to be aggressive and we are still at the same thing. he taliban controls more land now than they have since 9/11, 2001. who could objectively look and say, this click of this paradigm has been pursued by the apparatus in the last 19 years as working? >> tucker: that such a good word down my point and soberly expressed. thank you for coming china is not the only country that major american companies are willing to prostrate themselves before and censor themselves on behalf of, nobody is more outraged then to.

>> trump is betraying our allies, the kurds will blood and died to defeat isis. >> there is a real sense of confusion and betrayal. >> it seems the u.s. is hanging them out to dry. speak with her being betrayed by those who helped them. >> wears the u.s. credibility in the region with both its friends and its adversaries after abandoning the kurds? >> the kurds are feeling quite betrayed. >> tucker: betrayal! how can you do that? it turns out there is more than one cnn. in america cnn tells you what people in washington want to hear. the network has an affiliate in turkey too. we have told you about it. cnn turk knows its audience so they have taken a different line, they describe the military as a peace spring operation. they consistently describe the kurds as terrorists! just like the nba, money is the

bottom line over at cnn. author and columnist mark steyn is a connoisseur of cnn and he joins us. are you surprised that in the midst, we have called that cnn turk. now cnn turk finds itself at the very center of one of the big news stories of the day and cnn u.s. kind of ignores it? >> on cnn u.s., it's kurt, kurt all the time. and cnn turk oddly enough, whenever the kurds are in the news, cnn turk cuts away to something else. you've had situation where the kurds are in the street protesting and turkey and cnn turk cuts away and shows a cookery show. they protest again and cnn turk cuts away to a documentary on beekeeping. they apparently haven't unless -- personally i would rather they ran some of that stuff over here. i would rather watch that,

anderson cooper or anything. bring on the beekeeping. what is odd about this as when you say it's like the nba, the nba is just like guys bouncing the ball around. this supposed to be a journalistic operation and the idea that what they do, cnn oversees franchises in its brand to dictators. as if it's like kentucky fried chicken. the guy wants to open up a kfc franchise. okay, we'll give him cnn. this is a very odd thing. to treat journalism like this is bizarre and if you recall, cnn has been here before because immediately after the fall of saturn, the head of cnn -- what was he called? eastern jordan who you probably know from the old days, he wrote

a piece in "the new york times" saying the stories we kept to ourselves relating thinks that he knew in advance. he was told by the sum that he was going to have two of his brothers, in other words he gets a head up notice on two assassinations and cnn doesn't report it because in the end, being the kfc of news and having outlets, having drive through, phony, franchises in baghdad is more important to them. >> tucker: if we opened a fox news north korean affiliate, i would be embarrassed. i would absolutely be embarrassed. mark steyn, i hope you will stay right there. there are new developments tonight involving nbc and its cover-up on behalf of harvey weinstein. people who run the network have a lot to explain, but they're

not explaining. mark steyn will join us after the break. also where monitoring minneapolis and we will go there as soon as the rally begins. stay tuned. big night. ♪ the final horn doesn't have to mean the end of the action.

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being exposed as a serial and longtime abuser of women. of something that they knew and hated. today, nbc news president went off behind was grilled by employees, one employee during an internal phone call. one staffer called his behavior "an absolute disgrace." he still has his job. mark steyn is back with us tonight, so, mark, i'm familiar with television operation tonight. i see this one in action over it nbc and basically they're trying to make the story all about matt lauer. matt lauer did this, that's, clearly did something didn't do other things, whatever. it's not really the story. the story is that andy and noah and others at nbc news protected harvey weinstein for whatever reason. really, until the story about harvey weinstein, it seems to be getting lost. >> actually, the details of it the choppiness , the acceptance the

fawning on him. the flattery that they caught harvey weinstein's eyes. these experts from the book, there are amazing, and i'm actually reading it. i don't know him at all. i know much about him but i think it's only because of his particular situation that he was actually dogged enough to sit with the story. because what it is and you can see this when hillary's guys are trying to get ronan the brushoff, you can see that he's a kind of semicelebrity journalist. he is the son of mia farrow and woody allen and woody allen and mia both say that in fact he may be frank sinatra's on and then had to pay child support for frank sinatra son. but he's plugged in, never mind all that, he's also denting one of obama's former speechwriters.

what this will story really is is at a certain level, it's understood that people have pathologies, people have publishers, people can be cycle for pathic here are all meant to be total title on the other guy's tail. the fact that harvest weinstein is saying, if you come after me i will leak some dirt on matt lauer. nbc is saying, well, we stick with harvey and that is what it is. they feel that ronan farrell is guilty of some kind of betrayal. i think it's only because of who he is and the particular background that he was big enough actually be adjustment in the regular working joe, just a regular guy with some worthless journalism degree from some lousy college, he would never actually have been able to break the story. he broke the code that it's the

agreed group at a certain level of celebrity, whether it's political, television, show business, whether you're harvey weinstein, hillary clinton, or in these nbc who behave appallingly. if it's understood that you all protect each other -- you protet harvey weinstein so harvey weinstein will protect you. actually horrible. >> tucker: they bullied him. he's a kid, by the way. they say to him, look, this is journalism, son. we are journalist here, and you don't really have the story. he had people on camera saying that. he had absolutely -- he won the pulitzer prize. imagine how tough it takes to say, actually made my 20s, but i'm doing it anyway. >> actually, what they mean by you don't have the story is what they told the reporter almost 20 years ago now after the impeachment trial about juanita.

they said the problem isn't that your credible, the problem is that you are too credible. it was not that he did not have the story, it's that he had the goods. on a major figure and they did not want to go there. >> tucker: can i ask you something. and all of this, we learned that hillary clinton was one of the people who tried to bully ronan farrell, who is no right-winger, i don't like is making it out. hillary clinton tried to protect harvey wednesday bible inc. run in farrell, that's a headline in "the new york times" ." everyone sort of ignoring that, why? >> you got to believe by the way, the only reason that she knew that and her staff knew that is because actually harvey is not just some hands up guy who does a bit of bundling as they call it, a bit of fund-raising for her when she's actually on the west coast, they're closer in the nuts

at some points, and running farrow's book, at some points, harvey weinstein actually called on hillary clinton. to assist her in that matter. you play that demonstrating about seth macfarlane at the oscars talking about the oscar-nominated actress, good news that none of you not have to pretend to be attracted to harvey weinstein. nobody, the oscars go out around the globe, they always post about 3 billion people watching or whatever, none of those 3 billion people, maybe 200 know who harvey weinstein is. it's an insider joke. the whole point of ronan pharaoh story is that he's an insider whether mia, frank, witty, the obama guy, there is inside as they can get, and it's a class betrae did.

>> tucker: no, never thought i'd to this but i'm for class betrayal. >> we need more of it. >> tucker: difficult thing, mark. keeping the eyes of the atlas, president begin speaking at any moment. if we will be back. ♪

♪ >> tucker: vice president of the united states is speaking at this hour in minneapolis. moments from now, we will go there when he does. meantime, more than 20% of this country's homeless or in the state of california. no city has more homeless than los angeles and in los angeles, the epicenter of the crisis appears to be a place called venice beach. of the richest pocket in l.a. along the small strip of the beach is many of the thousands of homeless people now live emma edward he's got a new piece on the venice beach almost epidemic it's fascinating. here is how it went. >> so, for those not familiar

with the geography of los angeles, on the western edge on the beach, it's one of the most expensive pieces in the city and county of los angeles. how did the homeless went up there? >> the entire county and the entire state is welcoming relatively speaking, the homeless not just because of the weather but because of some so-called reforms to california's lives which make it very difficult to incarcerate people who are mentally ill and also, even worse, it's very hard not to do anything about petty theft or to do anything about public intoxication and drug possession. so, what you have is kind of a magnet with the weather in this permissive environment. >> tucker: officials, we interviewed a number of people from the state were involved in responding to the homelessness epidemic crisis, whatever we're

calling it and they always tell us how much money is being spent. how much is being spent and why isn't it obvious? >> williams are being spent and absently nothing has happened except the problems have gotten worth. so my stomach worse. and venice, will we have seen as an example of a situation where they have publicly owned land and in particular, they have 3 acres and is a parking parking lot right now. it starts at $30 million per acre so this is a piece of property that's worth about $100 million. they are going to build an additional cost of construction cost estimated at $105 million. an apartment building that is going to hold 140 people. so, if you do the math on that you're looking at well over $1 million per person that you're going to put a roof over their head and say the this is

an absolute impossible situation to solve when you're spending that much money. >> tucker: what about -- people are leaving the state in droves and that's not an overstatement. if the majority of the california resident surveyed this month's have thought about leaving and one of the main complaints as it costs too much to live there so if working people, middle-class people can't afford to live there, what do they think of this their politicians spending $1 million per vagrants? >> well, it's a situation where you have to assume that if you are really feeling compassionate towards the homeless and if you are really feeling compassionate towards the citizens who are working very hard to be able to live there, then you have to solve this problem in a more cost-effective way. there are opportunities to put together a so-called permanent supportive housing, i mean, and north los angeles county you can buy land for $1,000 an acre instead of $30 million an acre. we have a lot of experience

putting together shelter for people, we do it all over the world. so, why is permanent supportive housing defined this way? it seems like the first principle would be do not create housing that is better than the housing elsewhere in los angeles where people are paying for that housing. >> tucker: it is so and sexually unfair, not just for running thanks, we are learning that the homelessness in venice, it's really fastening paint thank you for running that's, the giver coming on. >> thank you. >> tucker: as you say, the president is walking up to the microphone and any moment you will hear him. joining us again come up over that happened. the presidents, one of the busiest newsweek's at any of us can remember, what would you say tonight? >> i think he needs to actually connect the by then business with the wider problem. the biden family are the swamp.

in ukraine and the chinese euro, they went hundred biden on the board, give the to put the president on on the board, youn put the vice president on the board but you can put the vice president's son on the board. so, that is swapping this at its most swampy. and joe biden is a political opponent. you know, he's got the media on his side is that the democrats and the peach went on the side but biden himself isn't nimble enough. and they will be and so the democrats will then be in a situation that they were with hillary. trying to drag and obviously an effective candidates across finish line. he has to actually say, this is why i ran. hunter biden getting 50 grand a month in a country where people earn $200 a month, it's not a question of whether it's illegal, not a question about whether it's unethical.

if you cannot smell that, you are in the swamp. you're part of the swamp. because everybody else stinks to heaven. >> tucker: the complete sleaziness of the obama administration, something that no one ever mentions. leveraging the american empire. what are they doing right now? there living like bureaucrats. on the basis of connections with borders. >> as the clinton stated -- you know, and the old days under the clinton family and foundation, the oligarch would get full million $4 million that everybody slip through. now they would simply eliminate the middleman. so in a sense, they streamline the system. but he should swap it out on them. you should hang that swamp around job and his neck. >> tucker: because otherwise,

i think the risk they face and i hope they see this coming, is that a candidate could emerge under this field who uses the rhetoric against them. flanking them on the populism and rights, that means you're in trouble. >> i think actually liz warren is kind of sort of doing that. as you sent on your show a few weeks ago, because of her personal story has been alive for the last four years. because of that, she's talked about policy and oddly enough she's moves ahead of biden in the poll place. i think that's what he needs to do. he needs to get back to where he was in 2015, take the swamp, and basically dump joe biden and it's like one of those little things that they have a a county fairs where you have to try to get the cap village pastor or

whatever. they need to swamp biden. of speed want the president annapolis, a town full of left-wingers. it full angry scandinavians. >> that's the old minneapolis. but there may be an town. >> tucker: by the way, i guess, it's hard to imagine outside maybe cambridge massachusetts, a place left hospital with the president and yet he is there. why? >> again, i think the first time i saw him live last time was in burlington, vermont, where in other words he decided to go to the capital of bernice van. he's not saying, i'm fighting on this narrow bit of turf that will just be over the edge. i dig he does this sort of thing very well when he goes for the

heart of left wing liberal america, in this case, some bernie fans, and he's taking it the harder. i think that's what the president should be doing, he should be cap again in all 50 states. i hope they can actually make that happen and turn it red but you have to be there on the ground doing it. god bless president trump or president trump being there and sticking it to the heart of left wing liberal minnesota. >> tucker: you know, most people, even those politicians, even most presidents don't want to deal with it. you want to go where your loved. which is why most republicans just kind of do a lot of the best in naples, florida, and go home. speak of your rights, he actually loves the way this tour the mayor has threatened to send them a bell for security. just aging rocker doing his farewell to wear.

if he is thriving on that. what he has to do here, he is all that ukrainian mud hanging off joe biden 24 hours a day. >> tucker: you think you will get into the specifics of the impeachment effort against them? >> i think you will generally reference it and it's a disgrace which it is, and that there is no due process which there isn't, and their in fact trying to remove it and underhanded wa. the original so-called intelligence operations four years ago. isaac is actually going beyond saying it's a disgrace and why s involved but it's actually the millions of people who voted for him who are in effect having that election nullified one by the other by the democrats. >> tucker: election a year from now. mark steyn, thank you for the

radio. great to see you tonight. >> thank you, tucker, go get them, mr. president! >> tucker: still playing in the background, we got to hand it over and out to the president of the united states with a previewing this for 48 minutes. he is about to take the microphone. we have taken a lot of trump rallies life over the last two years. i think this one promises anyway to be among the most newsworthy, certainly the timing could be more in the center of things. here is, president of the nine states, donald trump ♪ [cheers and applause]

[chanting u.s.a] >> president trump: thank you very much, thank you minnesota, this is a great state we are going to wear when the states f short period of time. this feels like the day before the election. so, we have 20,000 plus people inside which set a new record. and we have 25,000 people we

still love outside. [cheers and applause] and close to 100,000 people wanted to come tonight, thank you all, this is great. i want to thank our great vice president mike pence and karen pence for being here tonight. it is great to be back in the twin cities with the freedom loving american basis. who make our country run, you know that, you know it. for the next 13 months, think of that, it seems like yesterday for the next 13 months, we are going to fight with all of our heart and soul and we are going to win the great state of minnesota in 2020.

america now has the number one economy anywhere in the world and it's not even close. [cheers and applause] you know, i'm dealing with china right now. they are in washington, were going to see if we can make a deal, but they want to make it and were going to determine whether or not we mount to make it but making it very nice and today we got a call from the top representatives and he said "congratulations, mr. president on having a truly great great economy." that's pretty nice. we picked up since the election, trillions of dollars in value and china has lost trillions of dollars in value. i will say this, if our opponent

had won the election but you know what might have happened? right now, china becomes the night it would be, the number one economy anywhere in the world and right now i could tell you they are not even close. [cheers and applause] our country is stronger than ever before because we are probably putting for the first time in a long time, we are putting america first. [chanting u.s.a]

and i have to say, there's a lot of very beautiful red t-shirts and the audience. that's a record sales that they did very well and i will tell you why. cops love trump and trump loves cops. [cheers and applause] our pursuit of this pro-american agenda has been great, and it's enraged the ruling class in washington and it's not easy to get them out but we are doing it slowly but surely. these corrupt politicians and the radical left got rich bleeding america dry and they knew that my election would

finally end their pillaging and their looting of our country and that's what they were doing. that's what they continued to try to do. that is why from day one, the washington swamp has been trying to nullify the results of a truly great and democratic on the election. at the election of 2016. they're trying, but they're not getting very far. they want to erase your vote like it never existed. they want to erase your voice and they want to erase your future. but, they will fail because in america, the people rule again. do you remember that just 19 minutes after i raised my

hand, and took the oath of office, "the washington post" a terrible newspaper, -- [boos] that does not know how to right the truth published a story and in this case, they might have gotten it's pretty correct. at least at the to impeach president trump has begun and that was the headline. little did we know, they were not playing games. [boos] think of that. that was 19 minutes after the oath of office. they struck. [boos] remember, the leaf to the, what a group. she's going to win, 10 million

to one, she's going to win. i'm telling you, peter, she's going to win peter, i love you so much. [cheers and applause] i love you, peter! i love you too, lisa. lisa! lisa! lisa, oh, god, i love you lisa. and if she doesn't win, lisa, we get an insurance policy, lisa! we will get the son of the outs. we got an insurance policy. and we are living through the insurance policy, that's what it is. the phony russia hoax. lisa, i love you. now, the do-nothing democrat and scammers are getting desperate. 13 months, we got to move fast because of not beating us in the

polls and they know it. despite the phony -- despite the phony poles that you see all the time. they are phony poles. you know, polls are no different. remember, i always used to talk about them. polls are no different than crooked writers. they are crooked pullbacks. no different. boy, that's a lot of media looking back there. that's a lot of media. they are so dishonest and frankly, they are so bad for ou. they are so bad. and they could be so good for our country, they could be so

good. maybe they will change and maybe they won't. i have been waiting for a long time. you know, after a won the last election, finally, it's okay. finally i will get some rest. it got worst! they got worse! i said, finally, were going to get i said to the first lady, darling, were going to finally get respect. if we are finally going to get media and press coverage that's going to be great. look at what we have done and i'm telling you, it got worse. [boos] they know they cannot quite ! win. you understand. well, if you didn't understand, honestly, there's no way anybody could win because he would believe them and if you believe them, there's no way anybody -- it's like 94%. i can do the greatest things in history and they will make them bad to very bad. if i do a neutral, something

neutral and it worked out okay, it's like give me the electric chair, that was terrible. right? no, this is the worst. these people and the democrats, their partners, is a partnershi partnership. how about on the newscast like the word manufactured. and every news outlet goes in every night manufactured along the board. every newscast is using its and it's a talking point giving to these fakers by the democrats. [cheers and applause] so they know the 2020 election. >> tucker: were going to watch this, we are going to see you tomorrow. at the president will continue speaking on sean hannity's program. see you tomorrow night. >> president trump: for more time than i have been an, because you know, struck with

insurance deal. this was before, remember this, this was before months before i took office. that statement was made months before the election took place. sweet it will going to "hannity "hannity," working with biden when he was big and they knew each other. my monologue after the presiden president. >> president trump: and rush, a lot of people, sean hannity. the great mark amount we have a lot of great people. lou dobbs, great people.