sausage sam from fort worth, texas. he said prime time to get to the bottom of every story. what ever happened this search to find jesse jr. a good brand of sausage. we got him a good brand. it's thin. the brand as this gave me right now but i will report back tomorrow. always remember. i'm watters and this is my wo world. [cheers and applause] >> sean: welcome to "hannity." we are in beautiful cedar rapids, iowa. hi, iowa. how are you? we have a crowd of thousands. many started lining up yesterday and we are outside. how many of you slept outside overnight? thank you for coming. we appreciate it. to get a spot inside today.

they are not just here to see yours truly. in a moment the 45th president of the united states, current g.o.p. front-runner donald j. trump will join us for an exclusive town hall. we have a lot of ground to cover tonight. today we learned that biden's department of justice is likely pursuing even more charges against president biden's chief political rival. >> [boos] >> sean: according to donald trump through truth social he said joe biden's doj sent a letter that i'm the target of the january 6 grand jury investigation and giving me a very short four days to report to the grand jury, which almost always means an arrest and in the indictment. tonight president trump is vowing to fight any at all politically charged indictments. if elected, he's also planning to completely reform america's two-tiered system of justice and

weaponized justice system. so without further ado, joining us now to explain for a full hour tonight, the 45th president of the united states, donald j. trump, is with us. [cheers and applause] >> the people! thank you very much. thank you very much. thank you. >> sean: mr. president, great to see you. [cheers and applause]

>> thank you. >> sean: i came out here and they started chanting trump, and i said my name is sean. if you like, grab a seat. if you want to stand, we can stand. whatever you prefer is fine with me. thank you for doing this town hall. it's great to see you. you look well. you look healthy. >> feel good. >> sean: let me ask you a basic fundamental question. you have all of these never-ending attacks and the released on truth social earlier today that that your target of this january 6 grand jury. my first question to you is, it doesn't seem to bother you like i think it would bother so many other people. what is it about you? >> it bothers me. it bothers me for everybody, this incredible sold-out

audience. it bothers you. i got the letter on sunday night. think of it. i don't think they ever sent a letter on sunday night and they are in a rush because they want to interfere, interference with the election. it's election interference. has never been done like this in the history of our country and it's a disgrace. what is happening to our country, whether it's the border czar of the elections or things like this with her dear jm has become a weapon the democrats. absolute weapon. it seems that every time -- we are leading by a lot in a place called iowa, a lot. not only with the republicans but we are leading against biden by a tremendous amount. they haven't seen anything like it. they feel i guess they want to try to demean and diminish and frighten people. they don't frighten us because we're going to make america great again. that's all there is.

our country, sean, is a mess. you know it better than anybody. your reporting is incredible. sven i've never been more fearful of the state of the country that i am right now. the economy, foreign policy, our future, our kids, our grandkids. >> you look at biden with these leaders send they are looking at each other like the don't even believe what's happening. our country is no longer respected. three years ago, energy independent, powerful military that was totally rebuilt. the president announced three days ago which he should never have said. possibly classified information. we have no ammunition. when you think china says when they hear that we have no ammunition? it's a very, very sad thing. if you look at the worst border in history. we had the best border in history. we had three years ago the best border we've ever had. we built hundreds of miles of wall. we got to mexico, free of charge. you know they say about mexico. mexico gave us billions

of dollars worth of soldiers for years. 20,000 soldiers. when the best numbers we've ever had. today we have i think the worst numbers in the world because i don't think there's any country in the world that would stand for what's happening here to us with millions of people flowing in from by the way mental institutions, insane asylums. they don't like me using those names. insane asylums. but we have very bad, very sick people, very ill people coming into our country. prisons and jails all over the world. it's not the four countries that we consider neighbors. last week we had 129 countries representatives of people i came into our country illegally. we are losing our country and we are losing the spirit of our country but i will tell you make america great again and maga in america first and all these things and we talk about, there's never been -- look at this crowd. never been more spirit we have right now.

2024 [cheers and applause] 2024 is the most important election that weaver had. we used to sit with 2 2016 unlimited 100%. we are going into almost a communistic state and i think were even there. you look at what they are doing, you can call it fascists. you can call it marxist brady can call it communist. what they are doing, like with the department of justice, they have totally weaponized it. it's weaponized. we have never had this before. catholics. you see what's happening. parents and school boards being harassed by the justice department, the fbi. no one has ever seen what's happening right now. we have a guy at the head of this country. it is probably around him. there are people who are vicious and smart and have horrible ideas in our country.

i don't think this guy can put together two sentences. i watched him last night. [applause] he is almost incapable of talking. >> sean: i am not sure he knows that today is tuesday, sir. >> we have a problem. the potential of a war beyond the war with russia and ukraine. that would have never happened before. by the way, if i were president, that would've never happened. if i were president, ukraine and russia. spear and i to get to that. i came here today and i've watched the two hours of mark levin, i watched your hour with tucker. bret baier, you did two hours with me. i watched you on maria. i watched your interviews. and fake news cnn. i watch that too. >> mr. trump: that was a good one. >> sean: that was a trump classic. >> mr. trump: they ended up

firing the head of cnn. they have the highest ratings in 11 years and they fired him. >> sean: you want to maybe start a show and at the end of every show say "you are fired." i wanted to talk about the problems and solutions. in other words, identify the problems on the solution. we cannot ignore today's events when you put out your truth social posts. by that, i want to talk about what is clearly know what the judiciary committee is looking into, whether or not the fbi and department of justice have been weaponized and politicized. i have two headlines here. fbi tipped off biden team secret service about planting interview hunter. according to a supervisory ag agent. tomorrow there will be another irs whistle-blower. like this man who came out. he should have been indicted on felony charges.

and i've been doing that. hunter biden. you know that i covered this every single night. the issue of trump-russia collusion the never occurred. the durham report. the horowitz report. it's a long way of me asking this very simple, basic question. if you look at hillary clinton in a way that she was treated, no prosecutor would prosecute. 33,000 subpoenaed emails deleted, devices destroyed. the dirty dossier was used to get four f fisa warrant. 2019 they had hunter biden's laptop. they verified it in march of 2020. fbi agents in the months leading up to that election. meeting with big tech companies. according to the former integrity site head, telling them that it might be about joe or hunter. the laptop story got censored.

the american people were denied the truth about what would be a bombshell story. >> mr. trump: it still is censored. they haven't really gotten into the meat with all of the great reporting done and this has been some great reporting. generally speaking the press is fake. it's fake and it's restorable actually. but there still is been some great reporters and great reporting done. and you are at the lead. you've been incredible. but sean, when you look, they haven't even gotten to the bottom of the laptop. they don't want to put the pictures in. they have pictures in there than anybody else, they would go away for ten years. what happened to hunter is he got a traffic ticket. other people are being sentenced to many years in jail for doing much less. he got a traffic ticket. the only good thing is that people know it's just not going to happen. jim jordan and jamie comber,

these guys are doing a great job. but you find out the criminal. nothing happens with that. instead, they go after you. >> sean: hillary clinton's home wasn't rated. joe biden's garage wasn't rated. university of delaware. his home, his beach home. how he affords a beach home on the senator salary, that wasn't rated. hunter biden is being protected obviously. cocaine in the white house, a ten day investigation. they literally interviewed nobody. okay, investigation is over. with that have happened in your white house? >> mr. trump: you mentioned the beach home. the beach home had these documents. by the corvette on the floor, classified documents. >> sean: that's not the beach home. the beach home was on the place they found. >> mr. trump: this was also the beach home. a tremendous amount of payment was made for that home by somebody into joe biden. there is a big story about one day and then you don't hear about it.

when you look at the documents, whatever happened to that one. they go after me on documents and i have the presidential records act which is a big deal. [applause] the presidential records act. thank you. they know better than anybody else. >> sean: why weren't there homes raided? >> mr. trump: and protected by the presidential records act and they come up with this obscure crazy theory, a madman theory. this guy's a a deranged prosecutor prosecutor has had tremendous failures all over the place. he's a nasty, horrible human being. they come after -- biden has many thousands. he's got 2,000, almost 2,000 boxes of documents. they can't get to them because the college or whatever that has them doesn't want to give them. he probably told the college. more broadly, china gives millions of daughters to upenn and may be worst of all he's got

documents in chinatown. many, many documents. boxes of documents. you never hear about it. all you are about his trump. i'm totally covered by the presidential records act. and also by the clinton sox case. clinton took out tapes in his socks and put them in his drawer and they sued him on a very civil basis and end up winning the lawsuit and the judge said he could have whatever he wants and that's called the presidential records act. >> sean: about sandy berger shoving documents down his pants. >> mr. trump: you're only covered by the presidential records act if your president. joe biden wasn't president. in fact, joe biden was a senator for many years they've got a lot of classified documents when he was senator and other democrat senators can't even believe that he has these documents. they said. i watched dick durbin, here's another beauty. i watched dick durbin saying i can't believe you took them. he couldn't even believe it.

it's a very, it's a two-tiered system but it's worse, a very corrupt system. >> sean: my question to you is when you see hillary had top-secret classified information in the conclusion of jim comey, no prosecutor would ever prosecute. 33,000 subpoenaed emails deleted. devices destroyed. the fbi in early october of 2016 sent to agents over the pond to meet with christopher steele. they offered him million dollars to verify any part of that. >> mr. trump: to get trump. >> sean: they couldn't verify it. in late october even though it wasn't verified, they use that, according to andrew mccabe, deputy fbi director, without that dirty dossier, they would never have gotten those fisa warrant approved. they knew they couldn't verify it. the durham report confirm none of it was true and yet they would use it as a backdoor to

spy on your campaign and your presidency. is it a dual system of justice? >> mr. trump: the whole thing with fisa was horrible. one thing we did that was so great. i fired james comey very early. people said you shouldn't of done it. they are given a term. they are give any term. very early. not immediately early but very early. early and a few months. i got rid of this guy and by doing that was like you threw a rock at a hornets nest. the whole thing collapsed. you saw the love letters back and forth with different people talking about the insurance policy. the insurance policy, that was against me. for some reason looses, darling, you may have an insurance policy. they will get me out one way or the other. you know what this is 30, 35 years of being put into government and you get there and initially i didn't know people in washington. i was there 17 times my entire life. i had never stayed over. never stayed over before this and all of a sudden line

president of the united states and we have tremendous people don't forget, biggest tax cuts in history. the guest regulation cuts, rebuilt our military, took out isis. took out saul amini, al-baghdadi, the two biggest terrorists. we did was incredible, strong supporter with ever had. no inflation, best economy in history. we had tremendous -- we had tremendous people. they made a lot of money. sorry, we had tremendous people. we also had some. you rely on others. you rely people that you knew. you rely on other politicians see the answers and you find out they are rhinos or they give you bad advice so we had some that weren't good. when you think, comey had a term, he had many years left. i said this guy is bad news. i realized it very early. i fired him. it was wild. that's when we found out all the

corruption. had i not fired comey, you wouldn't know any of the things that you were talking about. >> sean: you think they would've tried to destroy you. >> mr. trump: they were trying to take me out. it was like a coup. it's interesting. people that are very smart that you know very well said when i did it all, that was a mistake. that was a mistake. now they say it was the greatest instinctual move they've ever seen because comey was a very bad guy and comey led the group of thugs in there. they were doing a number. very dishonest. years and years of putting in people, democrats and rinos and other people, but putting them into office and we got rid of a lot of them but we are going to get rid of a lot more, a lot more. you have some bad people. >> sean: one more question. in the past, i think it's been a mistake. i am like you. i think we should have paper

ballots, same-day voting. make election a national hol holiday. i have partisan observers in every precinct watching the voter i.d. and the counting. when the polls close, declare a winner, game over. that's not the system we have. with republicans have been reluctant and resistant towards early voting, mail-in voting. they have also been resistant towards legal ballot harvesting which democrats have mastered which is why they can hide in their basement and run hundreds of millions of dollars in ads and never answer a press? shake a hand or kiss a baby or do a town hall. do you encourage and embrace early voting, voting by mail, and legal ballot harvesting? >> mr. trump: i do but i also have to say something else. >> sean: this is important. >> mr. trump: they also create phony ballots. that's a real problem. that's my opinion. a lot of phony ballots. >> sean: has her mind shifted?

in other words i think of republicans start out down, that becomes nearly impossible to catch up with. >> mr. trump: for some reason republicans always wanted to go out on tuesday and vote and i respect that. it's great and it would be great if we can get back to one day and all the things that you said. with voter i.d. because the democrats don't want -- >> sean: signature verification. >> mr. trump: they don't want voter i.d. because they want to cheat. even the democrats, regular jerrica fifa want voter i.d. but leaders don't because they can't cheat. the one thing we have to be very careful as phony ballots. everything you say is great but they create ballots, that's my opinion. that's the opinion of a lot of people. >> sean: will you encourage your voters based on the system we have two go along with the system or early voting and voting by mail? i think if you don't, it's a big mistake. >> mr. trump: no, no, no, i will but those ballots get lost also. they send the men and all of a

sudden they're gone. those ballots get lost. i will because you would like it. >> sean: i've got to take a break. >> mr. trump: bad things happen to those ballots also. they are sent in early. look, we have very corrupt elections. we have no borders. if you don't have borders in the content of good elections, you don't have a country. that's where we are. but i'm okay with it. >> sean: by the end of this year, will probably have nearly 8 million illegal immigrants. quick break. more of our exclusive town hall with president donald j. trump streit had been rude going to take questions from the audience as we continue from beautiful cedar rapids, iowa. stay with us.

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♪ ♪ >> welcome to fox news live. i am matt finn. north korea launched ballistic missiles into the sea shortly after a u.s. nuclear capable submarine arrived in south korea. the stop in pusan is the first visit since the '80s. temperatures have been rising with north korea testing its weapons at the same time the

u.s. and south korea are increasing joint military drills. u.s. service members and north korean custody tonight after crossing the board without authorization. the soldiers served two months in the south korean prison on an assault charge. 16 michigan republicans are facing felony charges for allegedly acting as fake collectors for former president trump. they are accused of submitting full certificates confirming they were gemini electors. joe biden ultimately claimed three in michigan. i am matt finn. now back to "hannity." [cheers and applause] >> sean: as we continue, we are in cedar rapids, iowa, with the 45th and possibly 47th president of the united states, donald trump. [cheering] you know, we have this whole

issue of cocaine in the white house. okay. i could only imagine what the reaction would have been in the media and with others about this and here's what bothers me. they had a ten day investigation. they had cameras on every single person that walked into that area. they didn't interview a single person. and after ten days, they declared the investigation is over. we don't know who did it. >> [boos] >> sean: what's your reaction? >> mr. trump: i know the area very well. it's very private. >> sean: first it was three different locations. >> mr. trump: they don't even know what location. and they said that the bidens weren't there and they were there. a lot of false reporting, misinformation. they dis and mis information. no one's ever actually the difference but let's assume they're pretty close. you have more cameras in that area than any else in the world.

the situation room. probably the most important room anywhere in the world. wars are decided. nuclear is decided. weapons are decided. there's nothing more important. >> sean: that's where you decided to take out soleimani. that's what you decided to take out al-baghdadi. >> mr. trump: don't forget we defeated isis. i was told it would take three to four years to defeat isis and we probably couldn't do it. i did it in four weeks. less than four weeks. took out the worst. but the situation room is very heavily guarded. they know everything. the other thing is, have a great respect for secret service. i deal with them all the time. they are really incredible people. secret service knows what's happening. they know what's happening. so i think it's very disappointing that after just a few days -- that's a big deal. cocaine.

the cocaine, as they say, could have been worse. they could've gone to the bio weapons. but cocaine is pretty bad, if somebody is taking cocaine and making decisions. >> sean: what if it was anthrax? god forbid. >> mr. trump: he could have been a lot of things. they have cameras. i would imagine that it doesn't stop here but secret service is so incredible. they don't get enough credit. they are under the orders of other people but i think secret service will be able to tell you the real answer but you can't have a thing like that. the most embarrassing thing for our country. we were respected. three years ago this country was respected and putin knew he couldn't do it and president xi of china knew he couldn't do it. i gave iowa and farmers, the farm states $28 billion from china. 28 billion. i don't want to be too boisterous because you never know, right, but i said there's no way i can lose iowa and

nebraska, any of the states. i give the farmers $28 billion from china. no person, no president has ever gotten $0.10 from china. i got hundreds of billions of dollars. i went to the secretary of agriculture. how much -- [applause] thank you. i love you too. i will tell you that. think of president xi. central casting, brilliant guy. when i see these brilliant, everyone says oh, that's terrible. he runs 1.4 billion people with an iron fist. smart, brilliant, everything perfect. there is no one in hollywood like this guy. i got them to pass $20 billion because they screwed our farmers for years. i have the secretary of agriculture, but i said give me a number. they said it's $28 billion. comes back a week later. $28 billion. i said that's a lot.

we're going to take it from china. i got $28 billion for the farmers. who got a check? did everybody get a check? i also made the usmca, we have the worst trade deal that we ever made, nafta. you got killed on nafta and i made at the best trade deal. usmca. i got billions and billions of dollars from japan and other countries that were taking advantage. >> sean: did that money help pay for the wall? >> mr. trump: let me tell you what paid for the wall. mexico paid much more than when i was asking for because i had 20,000 soldiers on the border when i was building the wall. we built almost 500 miles of wall. our opponents, you know if they say? if there is a little wadded out to buy for laying on the ground that's been there for 50 or 60 years. they would say when we build a 30 and 40-foot wall, it's just a renovation. that's not included. we built almost 500 miles of

wall. we renovated a lot. then i said that's built on the other 200 miles because there were some areas that were weak. it was all they are ready to be installed and they didn't do it. but mexico, i said to the president, you have to do me a favor. you have to do us a favor. we need 20,000 soldiers on the border, mexican soldiers. he laughed at me. i'm a very good relationship with him. but he said, why would we do that? they are coming in through mexico. you have to stop them from coming in. they are coming in caravans. he said we can't do that. then he had a representative come to see the state department and the state department presence that i've been doing this for years purely of always asked for a lot of different things, like remain in mexico. i got remain in mexico past. nobody thought it was possible. catch and release. how about this? you catch a criminal and release him into the united states? i got catch and release. but i got this and they said to me we won't do it.

they smiled. they laughed. hthey said are you crazy. i said you'll do it because if you don't do it we're going to put a 25% tax on all of your cars coming in from mexico. we are going to take and billions of dollars and we will do it ourselves. so mexico gave us billions of dollars of free soldiers free of charge. they came back into the room after kind of laughing at me, how stupid of a question this was. they're not going to do that. yes. all of your products, including all the cars. they have 32% of our car business for mexico. i said we are going to put a tariff, 25%. 25%. he said may i leave the room please? yes. he comes back 5 minutes later. we would be honored to give you 28,000 soldiers. mexico paid plenty. >> sean: going back to the china issue. think of the incidents we had.

chinese spy balloon then went from the skies of alaska into idaho, montana. kansas, missouri, kentucky. the east coast. i look at the communist chinese now confronting our navy ships in international waters, confronting our fighter jets in international airspace. on top of intellectual property theft, on top of covid-19, on top of the unfair trade practices, devaluation of the dollar. i believe attempts to eliminate the u.s. dollar as the world's currency. >> mr. trump: they are working hard on that. >> sean: they have aligned with russia and iran. now they are negotiating. >> mr. trump: and north korea. >> sean: now they are negotiating deals between the saudis on the iranians, the saudis and the syrians. i think china is taking advantage of a president that has abdicated his role as the most dominant american being,

the most dominant force in the world. would they have ever done that under you and how would you of preventative? >> mr. trump: number one, they wouldn't of done it. number two, if they did it, i would've said excuse me we're going to put a 100% tariff on all of your goods coming into the united states and they would've backed up immediately. i took in hundreds of billions of dollars from china. as i said, not one president for many presidents ever took in anything. they revered china. i don't know. i also explain, hey, we all love china. list of china. let's respect the president. that's respect everybody. but they took advantage of the united states, making hundreds of billions of dollars a year. we built their military because they made so much money. i took in hundreds of billions of dollars from china. >> sean: do you think taiwan is going to get invaded? >> mr. trump: they have no respect whatsoever for them. it would have never happened. i met with putin and said listen, if you do this, really,

really bad things are going to happen to russia. i don't want to say because i'm not going to get into that but i said really bad things. he said no, no, no, you would never do that. i said yes i would. he said oh, i don't like that. maybe he didn't believe it but he believed 5% or 10% and that's all he needed. i said bad things. so the same thing with president xi. i had a great relationship with frankly both of them. having a good relationship with both, they are smart, tough, and have a lot of nuclear weapons. i tried to explain to the fake news it's a good thing. not a bad thing, good relationship. nobody has been rough on russia like i have. i'm the one that ended nord stream two, the pipeline going into germany. i ended it. that's the worst thing that any president or anybody has ever done to russia. and of their pipeline. the money. putin said to me, how could you do that? i ended it. biden came in and approved it.

i put sanctions in. i gave the javelins, antitank busters, i gave the javelins to ukraine. when they took out all those tanks, that was from trump. when they say oh, trump was good to russia. i was the worst that ever happen. but i still got along with putin and he respected me and i got along with president xi. they no longer respect our country. >> sean: you have said very boldly that you could end this ukrainian-russian war in 24 hours. how? >> mr. trump: i know zelenskyy very well because he was very honorable with the fake phone call impeachment hoax number one. they said i made a phone call to him and i was threatening. i was actually very nice, congratulating him but when they asked, they said, were you threatened? he didn't even know what they were talking about. he is very honorable. he could've done grandstanding and said high felt threatened. he didn't do that. as you know i get along very well with putin.

i would tell putin, you've got to settle. i would tell zelenskyy, you've got to settle. i would get a settlement in 24 hours. it should have never happen. you have hundreds of thousands of dead people right now. hundreds of thousands. you have cities that are obliterated. i don't know if you are receiving the cities after they finish with the rockets. you have cities with no building standing. it looks like just a demolition zone. get so horrible. then they will say to me for hurt. no, hundreds of people and thousands of people were killed. you're gonna find out that the number of people killed are far greater. hundreds of thousands of people are dying. these cities are being obliterated. basically they say, what's your stance question regarding you for russia? i am for one thing very simple. i want to stop people from getting killed. >> sean: take a break. we'll come back. up next, we'll talk about the

2024 primary and one big question. is the biden family with their business dealings with china and russia and romania and ukraine and kazakhstan and mexico a anda dozen other countries, are they compromised? more with donald trump on the other side. straight ahead.

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♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] >> sean: welcome back to "hannity." we are in beautiful cedar rapids, iowa. what a great crowd we have. g.o.p. front-runner donald j. trump. we just got done talking about china, russia, iran, north korea. we have a little problem here and that is the biden family. joe biden sent of this country repeatedly during your 2020 election that he never once spoke with his son hunter about his foreign business dealings. then we have joe on tape bragging that he leveraged 1 million taxpayer dollars to get a prosecutor fired and ukraine. okay. as a result, son of a b, they fired him and hunter continued

to get paid. hunter goes on "good morning america." no experience in oil, gas, energy. why are they paying you that money? he actually said "i don't know." 50-year-old man. he is my big question. now we know about the whatsapp message which said "i'm sitting here with my father." we have photographic evidence. we have times and places of meetings, joe and hunter informed business partners all meeting. they have found all of these bank accounts. james comer is saying it's up to maybe $40 million in business, the biden family. i want an answer to this question. do you believe with all the millions that they didn't business with china and russia and ukraine and because asked on and romania and it, and, and mexico and all these countries. is that why russia got the nord stream two pipeline. is that why there were no

consequences for the spy drone that china sent? or hostility towards our navy and air force. are they compromised? >> mr. trump: i think no question about it. you have china paying millions of dollars just the one conversation which sounded like a mobster conversation. they got $5 million and then they got in about 5.2 million. they got 10.2 million. that's from china and that's the only one they have covered so far. what about ukraine? we have given -- we want to help people. we have a heart. we want to help people too but we were in for almost $200 billion in ukraine and europe is in for $20 billion. europe is essentially the same sizes us and the economy if you add it all up. why is europe in for 200 --

why aren't they in for 200? i asked them for the money for nato because the u.s. was paying for nato. europe treats us badly on trade, not so much anymore but that's going to change. i got hundreds of billions of dollars for these countries. all i had to do is ask. they said, are you going to protect us from russia? are you delinquent? i said it will not protect you from russia and then the money started pouring in. we got hundreds of billions of dollars coming in and they were very happy. look at ukraine where hunter is getting hundreds of thousands a month. i guess from what they say, 3 million up front payment to sit on an energy company. he knows nothing about energy. the debate. i had a debate and chris wallace, who was terrible. he sure is not his father. he's not the great mike wallace. he wants to be buddies not. i mentioned, why is the mayor of moscow's wife paying the biden

family money. i joe was trying to answer it. chris wallace cut me off. i said i have two people i'm debating, not one. the one i deftly don't mind. chris wallace, how is he doing lately? not doing good. two people are watching his show. here's the story. russia is giving them massive amounts of money. ukraine is giving them massive amounts of money in china is giving them massive amounts of money and many other countries also. it's horrible. it's horrible. they are compromised. joe biden is a compromised president. you know what. until i got invited... until i got indicted, i had such respect for the office of the president. i didn't want to say things. i would do numbers on him. >> sean: you yelled at me for being too tough on him. >> mr. trump: i thought you

were joking too much. i thought you should take it seriously. >> sean: i talked about joe. he is a cognitive mess. everyone agreed? >> mr. trump: you're always making sort of comedy out of it and i said honestly, sean, it's a serious problem. we are in the nuclear age and we have a manic charge of our country who doesn't have a clue. i said there's nothing funny about it. i did tell him that. he sort of changed a lot. by the way, this man is doing very well on television. i don't know if you watch ratings but his ratings are very good. i always say, why do you take the commercial saying how successful your show is, how good your ratings are. he's a good man and he loves this country, i can tell you. but they are compromised. sean, we have a compromised president. china gives him millions of dollars. if he is giving biden millions of dollars, he's compromised. that's only the stuff they found. there's a lot of other things. there will be some things that you never find but there's a lot of other things so he's getting

millions of dollars illegally from china and then you say hey, they impeached me over a phone call that was perfect. why aren't they impeaching biden for receiving tens of millions of dollars? why isn't he under impeachment? >> sean: we are at a point where 60 some odd percent of americans live paycheck to paycheck. in my early adult life, i lived paycheck to paycheck. i could barely pay my rent. that was for a number of years. it's not fun. the average american has $54,000 in debt. biden inflation is cost the average american household over $10,000 a year. we can't afford this. on top of 37 trillion in debt. how quickly and what would you do to get this economy turned around? >> mr. trump: it'll go so quick. number one, i'm closing the border. like i had it. we have the best border. by the way, i think you all

agree. i think you'll agree. we want people to come into our country but we want them to come in legally. we had a good system. they were taking tests. we want people to love our country, not people that want to blow up our shopping centers in our farms. i want people. but i would make our border so strong and get off the criminals. we have many criminals in our country that weren't here three years ago. i will get them out. i.c.e. i will drill, baby, drill. you know the expression. get energy way down. when energy comes down, inflation is going to come down. >> sean: more with our town hall in cedar rapids i'll with donald trump. straight ahead. aximum otc strength lidocaine that contours to the body to relieve pain right where it hurts. and did we mention, it really, really sticks? salonpas, it's good medicine.

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