fox report we'll take you now back live to the president at the values voters summit in washington d.c. president trump: he said a lot of what he said to the press so we'll take a look at it and go after these people. these are bad, bad people. i told my lawyers sue him anyway , he's got immunity. i said sue him anyway even if we lose the american public will understand. >> [applause] president trump: and soon nancy pelosi, or maybe we should just impeach them, because they're lying and what they are doing is a terrible thing for our country and the president of ukraine said, there was nothing wrong with the call and you heard the words there was no pressure.

he didn't even know what we were talking about. i tell you what i respect him so much because a lot of times i don't want to comment or get involved. he said that it's a very nice call. it was nothing there and the people that read it after we gave the transcript said it was great. i had one very smart brilliant lawyer from new york. i didn't like your call, with your crime, mr. president, he used to call me donald, now mr. president. 30 years he calls me donald, and nobody calls me that any more. i lost all my friends they call me mr. president. >> [laughter] president trump: it's true. it's true. he goes mr. president, i keep saying call me donald. mr. president, i didn't like that call to the ukraine yankees president. i said really, what was wrong with it? it was terrible the way you

threatened him and it was horrible and i said i didn't threaten him. of course you did. i said where did you read it? i didn't read it, i listened to what adam schiff was reading. i assumed that was a correct statement and i said no. he then calls me back after reading it and he said i can't believe it. i've never seen anything like that. a lot of people saw that. a lot of people thought it was bad thought it was bad because they heard adam schiff and they don't hear us talking and they don't know what we're saying. they think that it's somebody, he's reading it like i said it. it's a terrible thing going on in this country, but they are using that call to impeach your president who won in 2016 perhaps the greatest election of our time. [applause] president trump: and i won it for you. i didn't win it for me. i won it for you and others but i won it for you. they're coming after me, because

i'm fighting for you. it's a big part of it. and i'm fighting for all americans and our way of life but i'm fighting for you and they don't like you. they don't like you when you explain why. you explain why. your values are so incredible. they don't like you. nobody in this room would do what adam schiff did. nobody would ever think of it. by the way, he only did it because he never thought i was going to release the transcript. had he thought, and i didn't even know, i was going to release it even before he did it but i said release to help transparency can you get, right? he's saying we're holding back. i gave the transcript of the call, but he did it and then i release the transcript, they never thought in a million years , even in terms of violation with another country, but we got the approval, so he's very embarrassed but he gets up

to the microphone and remember he used to say well i have personal proof that the president was very closely aligned with russia. russia! i'm starting to say, does he know something that i don't know gets up with his very narrow neck, do you remember? dana you'd not be impressed with him physically. but he gets up, no dummy, but he's a crooked person, smart guy , crooked as hell. and this is what they're using, and they're going to be very unsuccessful but this is what they're using this call to impeach the president of the united states, who did win one of the great elections of all-time. >> [applause] president trump: and it couldn't have come at a better time

because if we had lost that we would be in a lot of trouble we'd have a very different country, even with china they are saying it's incredible what you've done. our economy is up many many trillions of dollars. their economy is down many many trillions of dollars. >> [applause] president trump: big gap. we would have been number two if our opponent had won and they would have been way ahead of us and now they're way behind and that's okay. we made a great deal yesterday, have to get it papered but we will because they want to make that deal because they've never had pressure like this and i don't blame china by the way. i blame the people that were leading our country for 25 years , allowing that to happen, where $500 billion is being taken out of our country and given to china so they can rebuild their entire empire, so i never blamed china and i say that openly. i don't blame china. i wish we could have done it to

them. i would have left it. and now maybe we are. >> [laughter] president trump: they are trying to destroy anyone of fundamental ly transforming the united states of america and the one thing about the radical democrats, that is something that you have to admire, they stick together. the republicans don't and i love the republicans. they have horrible policies, the democrats and they're for sanctuary cities, the democrats and they're against strong, powerful and beautiful, i love our law enforcement. >> [applause] president trump: they believe in open borders where anybody can come into our country, anybody. you have to see that we've done

a great job. no support, the only opposition we have 27,000 mexican soldiers on our border and the numbers are dropped like off the table. and i want to thank the president of mexico and mexico for doing that. >> [applause] president trump: but the democrats have one thing. they stick together and it's like glue. its been that way for a long time, not just now but for whatever it is its been that way for a long time and it's the one trait that i do respect and admire. they stick together. they don't have people coming out against the president, and you know, i'm at 94% approval rating, but still, you have people out there, they don't get it so we love the republicans, we love what we're doing, we love our programs, in many cases we're better politicians, we

have much better policies we want strong borders, we want powerful education, we want freedom of speech, we want a strong military, we want a powerful second amendment which they don't want. >> [applause] president trump: they don't want , i wouldn't say they're too much into the second amendment the world of the second amendment. i will tell you if certain of these people i would say almost anyone or your second amendment is in serious serious trouble. serious trouble. socialism is obsessed with the pursuit of power because it is replaced religion within government and in their eyes it has absolutely replaced religion when you look at some of the things that they are in favor of , it's like anything, nobody has ever seen anything like thought. the new green or green new, you could say that by the way it

means the same thing. >> [laughter] president trump: somebody said which comes first and i said it doesn't matter. they are both crazy. no planes, no people, no energy, no oil, no gas, no nothing. this evening we reaffirmed true foundations of americal society, we believe that every american has the right to live by their conscience and the teachings of their faith. we believe in the right to free exercise of religion. >> [applause]

>> [route chanting] "four more years four more years four more years four more years" president trump: all right thank you very much. you know, years ago you could have said that and people would have said yes and it would have been routine. today you said you get standing ovations, because we're under assault and we believe in the right to free speech. we believe in the right to life. >> [applause]

president trump: thank you. we know that families and churches, not government officials, know best how to create strong and loving communities. its been that way in our country and above all else, we know this in america, we don't worship a government. we worship god. >> [applause] president trump: thank you. you were there from the first

minute of my presidency. i have taken historic action to defend religious liberty. tony knows that very well. tony wasn't really sure, he was saying what do you think? i don't to him very well. but i think you're very happy now, tony, right? something i'm very proud of i stopped the johnson amendment from inter fearing with passes rights to speak their minds. you can do whatever we want. you're the people we want to hear from. we want to hear from you. we are protecting the conscience , rights, and think of this, those rights of doctors and nurses and teachers and groups like the little sisters of the poor, incredible people

and we're preserving our country 's tradition of faith- based adoption. >> [applause] president trump: as you know just a few days ago a democrat running for president proposed revoking the tax exempt status of many churches and religious groups. and you know why and you know who it is. he's a wacko. >> [applause] president trump: i will never allow the federal government to be used to target, harass, or punish communities of faith and i will never allow the irs to be used as a political weapon, as it has been and currently is, it is currently being used. but has been used so viciously, so violently against many people in this room.

virtually every top democrat lawmaker also now supports taxpayer-funded abortion, right up to the moment of birth, but it's really now even worse. the governor of virginia, if you remember, he was on a show and he talked. people said what did he say? what was that? he said the baby is born and then we have a conversation as to whether or not what he meant, as to whether or not we execute the baby because now it's an execution, and that was a very big moment, and they don't do anything about it. those unbelievable moments to the people in this room, for the people on the radical left, they didn't understand what was wrong with what he said. that's where we've come but

we're going now in a different direction, and don't forget -- >> [applause] , when i go after what i call the fake news, i call it the corrupt news because it's stronger than fake but fake sort of reads a little bit better, there they are. but when i go after the fake news, i have a magazine for one of the many covers i've been on the covers of this particular magazine, i'm magazine and they were in my office and maybe i'll get a better story out of these people so we had a nice talk, and i was talking about unfairly the press treats me and you. they treat us all very very badly. no matter what we do, it doesn't matter. it'll never be considered good and if it's just a neutral, it's a horror. and if it's something bad, i

hate to say it, it's like the electric chair, okay? bring back the electric chair, they say. but i was talking and i was going after fact after fact after fact about how crooked and corrupt the media is and then i realized i'm in the oval office and i said but i'm president and you're not. so what's this all about? >> [applause] president trump: i'm going on for like 20 minutes ranting and i said wait a minute, here i am, here i am. here it is, it's right there. and i walked away with a big smile on my face. >> [applause] president trump: but because of the late term abortion, this is why i've asked congress to prohibit the late term, abortion

of babies, and it's a big thing and i have a lot of fighting, you wouldn't think there would be a lot of fighting remember the debate with crooked hillary where i said she wants to rip the babies out of the womb and everybody said wow, that's the first time they heard that statement and you're just lick it that we won, because we won, i didn't win, we won. this would be a much different country and by the way it's like a plant. you seed the plant, you put the plant in, but those roots have to gain. that's why we need the next four years. we have to have those roots they have to grab on. >> [applause] president trump: that's why. we've done so much there's no administration that's done what we've done in the first two and a half almost three years if you look at everything we've done with taxes and regulations and right to try and all of the

different things that we've done , the vets, the military, we've rebuilt our military. >> [applause] president trump: we had a general come to my office and respected general and having a big trouble with one country. first week in office, very early , and said sir, we have no amunition. i said do you know what? we're going to have amunition a lot of it and hopefully we'll never have to use it but we'll have a lot of it but i also said i never want to have another president of the united states hear those words from a general, because does that puts in bad position? and this administration, we believe that every child, born and unborn, is made in the holy image of god. >> [applause]

president trump: during my first week in office i reinstated the mexico city policy to protect the lives of the unborn. we have issued a final rule to prohibit title x taxpayer funding from subsidizing the abortion industry. >> [applause] president trump: we stopped federal funding of fetal tissue research. my administration has also made tremendous progress in fighting back against the left's effort to use the federal courts to impose their fringe ideology and crush the same religious liberty than we've been speaking of tonight, to defend our constitution, we have confirmed more than 160 highly-qualified

judges to interpret the law as written including two incredible new supreme court justices. >> [applause] president trump: you know i've always heard that federal judges , judges and justices, supreme court justices, most important decision a president can make and i disagreed. i always said look, defense to me has always got to be number one, but i got it. i said you know it is. it's really incredible, and usually when a president comes, there's no previous president would have, should be no vacancy. whatever their ideology is, but i guess they thought that the crooked one was going to win or something. so i came in, and in the first couple of days i said by the way , i had a couple of other things going too including the

fact that a few minutes after i was sworn in the washington post wrote a story that the impeachment starts right now. you saw that right? did you see that, right after i took the other of office they did a story literally a very few moments after the swearing in. the road to impeachment starts right now, but i have a lot of other things but i said during the course of the first very early period like a week, i said by the way how many federal judgeships do i have? they said sir, we have 142. i said what? you have 142, sir. i said you've got to be kidding. 142? you mean, i have two. one, none. now i have 142. and president obama was not very

good automate getting it done because you know, people held him up but with time you get them all done. get them done, but he put a big rush on at the end when he saw that we were doing well in the polls and coming up and up but it wasn't enough time so we inherited 142 open federal judge ships including court of appeals. >> [applause] president trump: first time in history. first time in history anything like that has ever happened and then they say oh, he was a great president. oh, great. he was great. great for who? he was great for us. >> [laughter] president trump: and then that way he was. there's never been a better president for the republicans in what they consider the most important way, tony. gave us 142 judgeships in the first day in office. and you go back and check it out , you'll find that others left none, usually none or one or two, but one, none, 142 and

then we have extras that we got through attrition, through retirement, through death and we will very shortly and less than a couple of months we'll have 182 federal judgeships including appeals judges, court of appeals 182. >> [applause] president trump: and we were getting killed with the court decisions. if you look at our first few months i think i was 0 for 8 and then we won one in a newspaper i think it was the failing new york times, what would they do without me? the paper was dead until i came along. two months before i ran, i remember holding one up that was like from a grocery store the things that you hand out it was

like this. it's all right when we leave in 10 or 14 years, they'll fail. >> [applause] president trump: i'm only kidding by the way. i told you he wants to stay. did you see the crazy comedian? i won't even give him the name, but you know who. he said he's interviewing a guest a couple of weeks ago and he said very liberal guest and he said you know he's going to win don't you? you know he's going to win. the guest said no, no, we're going to fight very hard. no, no, he's going to win and you know he's not leaving after that don't you? he's going to stay. there's no way we will ever get him out of office. i thought he was kidding and he was really, he believed it so do you know what? let him believe it. i think it's great.

>> [applause] president trump: he's never leaving. in recent years, the hard left has tried to muzzle christian voices in their aggressive attack on free speech, last year , remember the student government at the university of california berkeley slightly liberal out there, abstained from a campus vote, that violated her christian faith. she was condemned by the student government and kicked out of nearly every single club of which she was a member at college. on the way that members of student government condemned her they went after her like nobody would believe and she sent out christian community is here to love and serve this campus, and isabella is here somewhere

tonight. where is isabella? >> [applause] president trump: beautiful. we a slight you thank you very much, isabella to safeguard the rights of students my administration has taken historic action to withhold taxpayer dollars, we're talking about billions of dollars by the way, from schools that infringe on students first amendment, freedoms and other people's first amendment freedoms. do you notice they've been treating us much better lately

and say we got to let this person speak. we got a lot of millions of dollars every year these schools they are all of a sudden letting them speak but they still don't speak properly about us, we don't like that, but it's really had a big impact to support american families, we double the child tax credit and cut a record number of job-killing regulations. >> [applause] president trump: we've created over 6 million new jobs since the election nobody would have believed that. if i would have said that, tony, the media back there, the wonderful people in the media would have said he's exaggerating. i would have never said six actually. you really have to go by the day after the election, because you know when you look the day after the election there was euphoria and the market went up tremendously before signing, and obama gives credit, the market was crashing. the market would have gone down the tubes, so i said why did he

get all of that upside? they only did the upside for two and a half months or whatever it was, between let's say november 9 and january 20, they only did the upside because we got elected. >> [applause] president trump: if he would have gotten elected it would not have been a good situation. last month unemployment reached the lowest rate in over 51 years and you've heard me say this african american, hispanic american and asian american unemployment rate have all set record lows, and women, 71 years i'm sorry you didn't break a record, but we're doing very well with the women. do you know why? women are so smart and they want safety, security, they want a great military, they want strong borders. remember last time, he will not get the women's vote, there is no way to get to 270. they needed 270 electoral votes.

he will not get the women's votes, and then after the election said man he did good with the women! >> [applause] president trump: he did good with the women. he's like a tape recording the same thing now. he will not get the women's vote i said really they don't want to have a strong military or security or safety? we're working harder than any administration's ever worked on opioid and drugs and our numbers are coming way down. nobody has seen numbers like this. nobody has seen numbers like what we've done. we've lifted 1.3 million american children out of poverty , our agenda is lifting up americans of every background , race, religion, color, and creed, last year with the help of many faith leaders, many of you are in the room right now, i signed groundbreaking criminal justice reform into law, everybody wanted that. >> [applause]

president trump: the african american community wanted it so badly they couldn't get it. president obama couldn't get it done. previous presidents couldn't get it done, we got it done to protect the well being of our citizens we're fighting violent crime, securing our border, building the wall and it is going up rapidly by the way, rapidly. do you think that was an easy one? that was a tough one and it's the, i said the rolls royce that criticized me on that. they said that car is not made in the united states. i said we're building a rolls rose. we brought in border security, brought in the border parent l toes, we went over that and i said give me your a-list. i want every single thing so when i build it, i build it right. what do i know about building walls? and they gave me every single thing and i got every single thing from the height to the vision through to the type of steel that can't be cut easily, to the type of concrete, 5,000

pounds, very strong concrete. to the type of rebar, to the anti provision that we have on top. who knows about the anti-climb provision? and we built and we're building a wall and it's going up rapidly and that's tough because i built it against every single democrat who four years ago wanted it, and the only reason they don't want it now is because i want it . president trump: the only reason only one reason and i said, you know, the first time i said i can't believe it took me so long to figure this one out. if i would have said i do not want the wall, i will not build a wall, they would have insisted on a wall that would have been so much easier. it would have been so much easier. oh, dana it would have gone up so fast but i took money from here, and there, and here, and

military, because it is national security, okay? how about these people that say it's not, when drugs are pouring in, human trafficking, women, mostly women, human trafficking, and children but mostly women, and it's going up really fast and it's all financed, it's really financed and we may get more if we get additional financing we'll extend it a little bit, but we should have by the end of next year, we should have anywhere from 400 to 500 miles of wall built in the most important areas that's exactly what we need. >> [applause] president trump: to protect national security we are fully rebuilding and for the most part have fully rebuilt our military. >> [applause] president trump: because as i say and i've said tonight, my first duty as president is the defense of our nation, as a

candidate i promise to make fundamental changes to our foreign policy, after years of deadly debacles and blunders under previous administrations, its been pretty bad out there. we have the greatest soldiers in the world, but they had equipment that was depleted. it was old. we had jets that didn't fly. 50% of our jets didn't fly. they would go to the plane graveyards out in the deserts, and they would take parts because they didn't make the parts any more. and we've now spent, think of this, $8 trillion in the east. thousands of american soldiers have lost their lives and tens of thousands more have been severely wounded. the hardest thing i have to do as president, the single hardest thing by far is sending letters to the families of our fallen heros. it's the worst to come in with letters three, four, five, and

sometimes i'm call the parents. it's the hardest thing i have to do, and sometimes i'll go to dover and i'll see the big big incredible machines come in, the cargo planes and i'll see them take those coffins off those planes and i'll see parent s and sisters and wives and brothers, family, i'll see families, i'll meet them inside and they will seem fine sometimes, and i'll say to the people that did it, they greet the dead. that's what they say. they greet the dead. they greet our heros, but i'll say to the people that do theophano're so professional. that's what they do. that's what they do every day. that's what they do. so professional. sir, you will stand here, you

will then hear the drums. you will then hear the horns, you will this and you will that. it's like but i'll go, dover air force base. i'll see the parents and the wives and the husband's and whoever it might be, and oftentimes, i'll say to the colonel in charge, they're doing great. no, sir they're not. i said no, i think they're really doing great. i had a great talk with them. they are really strong. sir, they won't do good. i said what do you mean? you'll see in 20 minutes when the plane pulls up and the door opens up that big huge cargo door that's as big as, much bigger that back wall here, when you see that, sir, it's rare that bad things don't happen for those families. it's rare. i said all right, this is my first time. when i first came into office,

and that big plane pulled up and i had just spoken with the families but that big plane pulled up. it's beautiful in its strength, its power and it pulled up, just arrived and we're all standing there, everybody, the military, i'm with generals and some cabinet members, and the families are over here. that tremendous door in the back , where they roll up the tanks and they roll up like unlimited amounts of equipment and you wouldn't believe it's possible to fly with all of the things, you know the power of those planes, and that door came down and there's five soldiers on each side, beautiful soldiers , beautiful. and a coffin with a flag on it and the same people, the same

exact people, that 20 minutes ago i was saying to the colonel, oh, they're doing great, but he was right. and that door opened and you would hear screaming and cries like you've never heard before actually, like i've never heard before. and the colonel explained to me, sometimes you'll see a mother or a wife, sometimes you'll see a sister break the line, breakthrough the military and run to the coffin and jump on top as these incredible, strong, beautiful soldiers are carrying this coffin, jump and jump on top of the coffin just like

devastating, and they move as though nothing has happened, they just keep moving. and they take the body to where it's going, they place it in the hearse, and it goes away, but you think this is easy, and we've been in these wars now one of them 19 years and they didn't fight to win, they fight to just stay there. in theory we were supposed to be there for 30 days and we've been there for 10 years and these wars never end and they have to bring our great soldiers back from the never-ending wars. i see the other day, i went to friday, i went to walter reed medical center, the hospital, first of all those doctors are

incredible what they can do but i gave out purple hearts and i see in this case, young men, all men, and they had been just decimated. they stepped on a bomb and what's done to them is just in credible, so i see this, and it's the very hard thing to do. it doesn't mean we won't fight. we'll fight harder than anybody, but sometimes we have to know what we're fighting for, and we can't stay there for ever. we have to bring our great heros and soldiers, we have to bring them home. it's time. it's time. >> [applause] president trump: in the case of turkey and the kurds, and i could go into a whole story because i understand it i think

better than most, but the kurds were going to fight the iraqis about a year and a half ago and remember they say with ehave to fight with the kurds and i said well wait, we just spent $4 trillion on a wreck and now we'll fight with the kurds against iraq, i'm not going to do it. this was in a different part of syria. totally different. they said well the kurds are going to fight and they are going to fight it's going to be horrible. well, i said so we just spent $4 trillion fighting with iraq which by the way, was the single -worst mistake this country has ever made going into the middle east. >> [applause] president trump: now for $8 trillion, thousands of our lives, and millions of lives on the other side, by the way, millions. i'm talking about millions and millions of lives, but i said we're going to stand by, we're not going to choose sides, they

will have to go at it let's see what happens. the kurds left, they left. and there was very little combat and it was a great decision, we could have stayed and fought, fight the people that we've been fighting for, whether right or wrong, and we left and we watched and nothing happened. and most people don't even know where i'm talking about because it was a year and a half ago and even at the time, and nobody got credit for that correct decision, and now i'm sort of one again but now this may be happening again that 30- kilometers at 22 miles strip along turkey, and the kurds are tending to leave and that's good let them have their borders but i don't think our soldiers

should be there for the next 50 years guarding our border between turkey and syria when we can't guard our own borders at home. >> [applause] president trump: i don't think so. so let's see what happens, and it's a long ways away. we killed isis. we defeated. we did our job. we have to go home. we did our job. another story i went over to iraq and said we can do it, sir. they told me it would take a year to two years, my washington generals, highly overrated. they said it's going to take one year to two years and i said man , that's a long time. remember i wanted to pull out? dana it was 97% i wanted to go and i said that's enough let's get out. you wouldn't believe the military industrial complex came down on me, so i went to get 100 % but it was going to take a

year to two years and then i went over and i met with the generals and i said so generals, and these guys are like i'm telling you, like better than anybody in hollywood, there's nobody that looks like this in hollywood, i said a couple of them looked better than tom cruz , they are just tougher and taller. >> [laughter] president trump: better than tom cruz but i said so general, let me ask you the big question. they said it's going to take a year, maybe two. how long will it take you? two weeks, sir. what do you mean two weeks? you could do it in two weeks maybe a month but two weeks, sir how do you do that? and why are they saying you could do it so much longer you say sir, two weeks we're going to hit them in the left, we're going to hit them in the right, we're going to hit them underground, overground, this way that way, they would never

let us fight. i said but i they went in and tt him in the left, they hit them in the right and hit them down the middle and within three weeks after i gave the go ahead, isis, we had 100% of isis, and we captured a lot, a lot were killed the fighters, they don't do big white flag things, people said maybe they will give up the generals said no they won't, sir they don't give up. it's an ideology and it's tough ideology, but we did it very quickly, and so we did what we should have done. most of these fighters came from europe. they came from germany, they came from france and many countries in europe, and i called them and i said you've got to take back your fighters and they said nope, we don't want them. i said you don't understand. we're not going to take the fighters. we don't want them, we're not

bringing them to guantanamo, we're not bringing them to our prisons and the united states. they come from france, they come from germany, and in many cases they are citizens, they left the fight. we don't want them back. i call them again and i said got to take them back or we're going to let them go right in your dam n border. but they wouldn't do it. they wouldn't do it. they didn't want them back. we have thousands of them. they had really bad ones, the beatles, you know the beatles are the ones with the chopped off heads and do you know what we did? the night that the war that the shooting started we had some incredible military people go into that prison and grab them and take them and bring them out and we have them totally under wraps. they were the worst of everybody , and we've got them now. >> [applause] president trump: but people don't treat us right. we did them a big favor. we captured these people, and i just want you to know that

because there's a big story to this. it's not just what these people say, and by the way, if i did the opposite, if i stayed and fought, we could have stayed and we could have fought and we would have knocked turkey around and we, they would have hated it if they get out they hate it. no matter what we do they will hate it. no matter what decision we make, if i'm right, i hope they do because it's very hard to beat a force that has planes and they don't or they have weapons that the kurds don't have, we paid a lot of money to the kurds over the years and don't forget they are fighting for their land. they are fighting for their land and that's good but we've helped them. but no matter what we did the media will say it's the wrong decision. makes no difference. if i said we're going to stay in sight, we're going to fight them like you never saw, they

will say it's terrible, i told you, he loves war. don't forget when i got elected everybody thought i'd be in world war iii the first day, right? now they say, not only aren't we but we have the strongest economy in the history of our country. >> [applause] president trump: just so you know wars and economies don't go well together you can check that out so despite all of the blood that was spilled, the lives lost and the money that was spent, the middle east is right now, remember when i say it i'll say it going in with the worst decision. they went in in for weapons of mass destruction and there were none. there were none. but it was the intelligence agencies, there were some real beauties. it's less safe now, it's less secure. less stable, and they fight. that's what they do, they fight.

the generals came to me in afghanistan. sir, it's going to be a rough spring. why? my first year. why? well, sir, the taliban is going to come out of the mountains and start fighting. i said but why do you say rough? well that's what they do. they've done this for a thousand years come out in the spring, they fight. it's what they do. they are very good: very good fighters that's what they do. you know, tony wants to go watch a football game. i want to go do things they want to come out and fight that's what they do. right, tony? they probably are a little tougher than tony but that's okay. >> [laughter] president trump: just ask russia if they're tough but we could beat anybody. we could beat them easy. we're policing in afghanistan. but we've been there 19 years, so i just wanted you to understand these things. we've got to bring them back home we're rebuilding our country. we're rebuilding our military. we don't want to deplete it as fast as we build it and we have

other problems. you have russia, you have china, you have other big problems. i think we'll get along great with china. i think we'll get along great with russia but when they create a phony russia hoax it makes it tougher to get along with russia when they create lots of different scenarios with china, it makes it tougher to get along with china. i think we'll do great, but they got to let us run our country the way it's supposed to be run. >> [applause] president trump: so these never- ending wars have increased , not decreased. and the grave danger posed to historic christian communities has been incredible. since the united states went to war in iraq, now listen to this. i was against going to the war. nobody cared i was a civilian, but i got a lot of publicity for whatever reason. they always liked me, or hated me. no i used to get the greatest publicity that's how i'm here. once i announced i was going to

run they killed me and then when i won i said you know, i told my wife first lady she's doing a great job. >> [applause] president trump: doing a great job. if you were married to a liberal democrat he'd say she may be the greatest in our history of the world but she's married to me but the first day, i won, it was historic, people didn't think although three polls said we would win, i thought we would win because of the crowds we were getting just like we got last night in louisiana let's see what happens with that, just like we got in a blue area of minnesota. i think we're going to win minnesota. >> [applause] president trump: group from minnesota. 22000 teachers like madison garden, the timberwolves arena

where they play the nba games and it was packed and we could have sold it out four times so somethings happened but i said we won. you know the great thing is, because the press was so dishonest during these campaign, like unbelievable and i said you know the great thing, told to my wife i said now they respect what we did and i'm going to get great publicity for a while like i used to get my whole life and it got worse. it's worse, it's not even close. it's worse now than ever but that's okay. because as i said to time magazine, we're here and you're not, right? so since the united states went to war in iraq, in 2003 the christian community in the country has decreased by 80% from roughly 1.5 million people, to right now just 250,000 christians, in iraq, you don't hear that. my administration is absolutely committed to protecting religious minorities in the

middle east, and all around the world. you know if you were -- >> [applause] president trump: if you were a christian in syria which is a rough place to be you'd have almost no chance during the last administration of coming into the united states, so they say the hardest thing to do to come into the united states number one, most people place in the world to come in is if you were a christian and syria, if you were a muslim in syria it was extremely easy to come into the united states, and christians were prosecuted in syria. and that's the way it is. but it's not that way any more. >> [applause] president trump: this week i directed $50 million to support christians and other religious minorities and syria, i did it on friday. $50 million. i'll make it in honor of pastor brunson, tony, dana, people that have done a great job for us. $50 million and that's going to

help christians in syria, not an easy situation for them. in total my administration has provided more than a half a billion dollars in support of religious minorities and other suffering from atrocities in syria, and iraq alone. other presidents would not be doing that. they'd be spending a lot more money, but they'd be spending it on things that would not make you very happy. with one clear voice, the united states of america condemns the prosecution of christians. >> [applause] president trump: and we pledge our support to christian communities everywhere suffering under the brutal heal of oppression and violence our hearts and souls are joined with these brave believers in their religious struggle and pastor it's great to have you back here >> [applause] president trump: i've made clear to turkey that if they do not

meet their commitments including the protection of religious minorities, and also watching over the isis president in other words that we capture, we will impose a very swift, strong, and severe economic sanction, like i did with respect to my negotiations to get pastor brunson out, otherwise i hate to say this pastor you'd still be there and i hate to say this also and this isn't done from ego, any other president of the united states, you would still be there. you know what we had to do and i have to say you were very brave the way you put up with it but it wasn't an easy situation. any military engagement where we send young men and women to fight and die must have clear objectives, vital nation interest and a realistic plan for how the conflict will end. we don't want to be a 19-year wars where we serve as a policing agent for the whole

country. we will continue our fight against the menace of radical islamic terrorism. >> [applause] president trump: a lot of people don't want me to use that term. president don't use that term. i said but it's the truth. i don't want to use that term but it's the truth and we will never tire or waiver in our defense of religious liberty. a few weeks ago i was honored to be the first president to host a meeting at the united nations to call upon all nations to end religious persecution. could you imagine? >> [applause] president trump: the first president that did that, and can you imagine that? you would have thought that would be done every year for 40 years wouldn't you? and i read that and it became a big story and i said can you believe that's the first president that said we want to put an end to religious

persecution. how can that be the first president its been there a long time but that's the way it is. earlier this year i appointed a certainly envoy to monitor and combat the poison of anti-semitism. unfortunately the democrat party is an invited anti-semitism into its own ranks, look at omar, look at her. have you seen what she says? not only about our country, but look at what she says about israel. and they're always making excuses. well, she didn't mean it, oh, she meant it, she meant it much moreso than even her words. my administration is confronting this and we're standing with our close friends and partner, the state of israel. >> [applause] president trump: and as you know very well, i recognize the internal capitol of israel and open the american embassy in

jerusalem. >> [applause] president trump: thank you. and we did it for the right price. right, tony? we got the building and it was an interesting, i'm sure some of you have heard it. we have a great ambassador, david friedman but great lawyers one of the top lawyers in new york, made a lot of money and he wanted to be the ambassador, but he wanted it, everybody wanted it and every president has promised that for years and years and they promised, going to recognize the capitol of irs and we're going to move the embassy, to jerusalem, but they didn't do it. i understand why, because once i got into office, you have no idea the pressure that was put on. now that was called a quiz pro quo. >> [applause] president trump: that was a quiz pro quo.

the pressure put on me by so many other countries calling, please don't do it, please don't do it. the last two weeks i didn't take anybody's phone call. i got calls from kings, you could imagine, i got calls from everybody. not to do it, please don't do it so what i did is i said do you know what i'll do? i won't take their call, i'll call them back in a couple of weeks and i said do me a favor tell the prime ministers i'll call them back in two weeks, i'm busy. they said two weeks that's a long time. tell the king, i call him back in a few days. so anyway i did it and then i made all those phone calls and a lot of publicity, it was a big story. nothing happened. remember the world was going to come to an end right? nothing happened. i kept saying are we okay? yeah. is there a protest? no. three, four days go by and i said what's going on? this is strange. but then i started making the

calls and i said king, what do you want? what's up, king? and it goes i wanted to call you to tell you we would be very much opposed and i said oh, i wish i spoke to you sooner, sorry. [laughter] president trump: and everybody is happy. everybody is happy. so we had to decide on a building and they came in, sir, would you please sign this order i said what's it for? we're going to build, start the process, we'll take 30 years by the way, of building the embassy the actual embassy. how much is it? $1 billion, sir. i said it's a one story building how do you spend 1 billion? sir we're going to purchase land and then we're going to get approvals. i said how old are we going to be by the time this thing finishes? >> for more than an hour now an energized president trump has been speaking to a supportive

and conservative audience at the values voters summit in washington d.c. among the other points the president scoffed at the democrats impeachment efforts enches welcome to waters world a waters word. in thes set up trump in credit, now they're trying to imeefn impeach him in secret and it is fix here's what i mean. witnesses are interviewed in secret. witnesses aren't allowed lawyerses. republicans can't subpoena any witnesses only in thes can. and the president can't cross examine anybody or access to evidence. there's no due process . there's not even a vote think about it. there's not even voting going on on impeachment. in the u.s. congress -- plus, the whole games being run by adam shift who lied to perve c