>> john: we are tracking president biden and vice president kamala harris' movement as they visit some of the communities hardest hit by hurricane helene. president biden will take an aerial tour in western north carolina. he just touched down. and in moments we do expect vice president harris to land in georgia, where she will survey damage there. a couple days after former president trump did. i'm john roberts in washington. good happy with us today. >> gillian: things for having me. i'm gillian turner in for

sandra smith. towns in north carolina completely unrecognizable. especially the western part of the state. asheville mayor r faced of their resources. the pictures you can see right there on your screen proved that is the case. emergency crews are working to reach the isolated communities that have been devastated by catastrophic flooding. residents there are heartbroken, desperately pleading for help. >> there has been landslides. our valley got wiped out. they had to rescue people, the national guard had to come in and take people out. >> i have been a resident, and we never experienced anything like this. we need things like baby formula, baby food, pet supplies, we need outreach. we are trying to do the best we can but we just need help.

>> john: fox weather's jane minar is live in boone, north carolina. jane, what are you seeing? >> yeah, john, so we traveled 2f boone, trying to get to these rural mountain towns because that is truly where there is a ton of devastation. the scale of this is really hard to put into words. in cove creek, north carolina, this was the centerpiece of this community. you had soccer fields, a track off to the distance. that is now filled with debris. power lines that have been pushed by the cove creek, that once was a small stream, rose more than 10 feet, became a raging river. you had cars and rvs that were pushed downstream, mangled amongst the mess of those power poles. this is the playground where the local day care center, 3-year-old ada came to talk to me this morning. she had her rain boots on and her gardening apron and gloves,

wanting to pick up some of these pieces. her motto, any little bit helps. but unfortunately, this has become the second deadliest storm behind katrina, was now more than 170 deaths being reported from helene. many of those in western north carolina. we've seen nine men, horseback, going up into these hollers, trying to do welfare checks, checking in on schools, children, making sure they are all in a safe place. i spoke to one woman with me today who said that she is worried that her children will be back into her school districts four weeks, if not months to come based on the destruction of what we are seeing here in these rural communities. i think the playground is really what pulls at me, when you know that kids were using this. you have tennis courts. the stream lower, babbling off into the distance, but you have

feet of debris that's going to take a long time to clean up. >> john: no question about that. there is just so much h hardship out in that part of the state. jane minar, thank you. hurricanes are one thing because there is a lot of wind damage, storm surge damage, but you can rebuild when something is knocked down by wind or waves. but there with 10 feet of mud in some parts of downtown areas of these little towns or the center of these little towns, where do you even start? >> gillian: you know, talking to the fire cheap earlier, i was also thinking about how in boone in particular they have 19, 20,000 people who live there, a lot live off the tourism industry. about to peak, normally would, fall tourism is incredibly beautiful and special part of the country, everybody wants to see the fall foliage. people there, many people are running restaurants, shops, air b&bs, that really only get going for three or four months of the year and now they have no

income potentially all year. >> john: you have to feel for all of those folks who literally lost everything, buried under tons and tons and tons of mud. as jane was pointing out, trying to find little trinkets here and there of memories. it is hard to find. there is such utter devastation. >> gillian: hoping i guess for some kind of remnant of what your life was like before this horrible storm. >> john: terrible. >> gillian: there is also this, our other top stories, tensions running high in the middle east after iran's bombardment of israel yesterday. trey yingst recently embedded with the idf, units moved across the border into southern lebanon. trey is the first journalist to go into the country with the idf since the conflict erected between the two sides. he joins us now from the northern city of haifa, israel, with an exclusive look, also looking back, we saw yesterday just before this time, trey, at your hotel, as those missiles were incoming, sort of look like right over your head. >> yeah, gillian, good

afternoon. as is really a forces launched a ground operation to southern lebanon this week we were amongs to enter. here's a look at a hezbollah position dug into the side of a mountain. right now israeli forces are conducting a ground invasion into southern lebanon. we are embedded within elite commando unit that just arrived at this hezbollah position. carved into the side of a mountain. it's in tunnels and rooms like this, the israelis say, they are finding irani weapons smuggled t to syria and then into southern lebanon to get to this hezbollah position we had to cross minefields and hike across uneven terrain, pocked with craters, the result of israeli bombardment of southern lebanon. all of this began on october 8th, when hezbollah followed hamas and started attacking northern israel in the

hours after the october 7th massacre. now israel says they are conducting these limited raids across the border to destroy these hezbollah positions and allow israeli civilians to return to their homes in the northern part of the country. the israeli ground and air campaign against southern lebanon continues today. we know that hundreds of hezbollah fighters have been killed in the process, along with hundreds of civilians. while we follow this developing story, we can also report at this hour that eight israeli soldiers were killed earlier today in battles with hezbollah. gillian? >> gillian: trey, thank you for that coverage. thank you for staying up late to be with us and for your pretty much continuous coverage over the last 24 hours. great job. john? >> john: let's bring and retire u.s. army brigadier general anthony tate of for more on this. general, good to see you. what do you suspect israel will do in response to the massacre

strike? >> first i want to say trey does a great job. transportation secretary in north carolina, my heart goes to the people of western north carolina. i know that part of the state well. what israel is going to do next i think is going to continue the netanyahu plan of eradicating the means of war from those tunnels that trey just showed, and continue his step-by-step process of pushing the extended range of the weapons back in lebanon so they can't range the people that live in galilee and golan heights area. >> john: do you think it will be limited to that or will they strike back against iran itself? iran use to attack israel solely through its proxies. that all changed on april the 13th when it attacked directly and it happened again yesterday. israeli sit back and say, okay -- >> they have three fights on their hands. hamas in the south come hezbollah in the north, and iran

as -- >> john: and the houthis -- >> and all of the she a militia groups funded by these unfrozend oil that iran is trading with china and russia when president trump was in office, abraham of course, all of that unwound by biden and harris. they are able to build these tunnels and stock weapons. israel is very capable and less time like you mentioned, 35 came in and did a pinprick strike as a demonstration of what they could do. i anticipate that israel will be targeting leadership, targeting nuclear facility. >> john: we know what the trump administration policy towards iran was, maximum pressure, as you said. the policy by the biden administration seems to fall in lines with what obama did. he told around several times, particularly in relation to this, any kind of retaliation for haniya or nasrallah, don't,

looks like iran gave in the middle and did. >> they have put us in this situation, trying to appease, and that allowed iran to have the resources to do what they are doing right now. >> john: it seems the biden administration has pursued a policy of appeasement with iran hoping it can craft some sort of reentry into a nuclear deal that likely doesn't include anything about iran's policies in the middle east or its ballistic missile program, both of which were on the table in the trump administration. >> the harris-biden strategy is maximum pressure on israel, what they have created is the environment for all of these shia militia groups, the houthis to those in gaza, hamas and hezbollah and the militia groups throughout syria and israel or in a rack to attack u.s. interests in israel, and that's

funded by all these funds that we discussed, and so israel has to get at the heart of that, and harris and biden should have had a full-scale, maximum pressure campaign with diplomacy, information messaging, military, economic, all of that work in a tandem like we had under president trump that choked off the ability for iran to provide these supplies to those that want to do harm to israel and u.s. interests. >> john: secretary of state antony blinken had what appeared to be a poorly timed op-ed article in foreign affairs on tuesday in which he said, in part, quote, the biden a administration strategy has put the united states in a much stronger geopolitical position today than it was four years ag. this twin pillared strategy they believe was the best to disabuse competitors of their assumptions that the united states was declining and diffident. i mean, putin invaded ukraine. october 7th happened. iran attacked israel directly.

and who knows what she is going to do about taiwan and this article comes out. >> jake sullivan's article, had to change foreign policy. the relations have never been better and peace is breaking out all over and we have hamas attacking israel on that horrible day. on october 7th. they are so out of touch. they don't have the levers of government working together to create strategy to secure our national interests and those of our allies, and that is the bottom line. harris and biden are bad for foreign policy and bad for domestic policy accordingly. >> john: general tata, great to see you in d.c. and our hearts go out to the folks in north carolina. appreciate it. thank you. gillian? >> gillian: moments from now, j.d. vance set to speak in michigan about his plan to tackle rising costs. >> john: plus homes destroyed, personal belongings gone, lives

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>> gillian: all right, welcome back. folks across the southeast scrabbling to recover their homes, pets, belongings, whatever remnants really they can in the wake of hurricane hitting's complete devastation. west north carolina one of the hardest-hit areas. you are seeing pictures of the home of someone who lost just about everything from the look and sound of things. he is now trying to look forward in the hopes of eventually rebuilding. he joins us now to talk about this devastating experience. ic, is that diane?

>> that's my wife. >> gillian: thank you for taking time with us. this must be incredibly difficult. just want to hear about what you have been going through, what you have seen and heard and experienced the last, i don't know, is it six days now? it feels like forever. >> it does feel like forever. it happened so quickly. the water rose so quickly from both creeks. that within minutes, our house was 4-foot of water in our house. >> gillian: wow. >> my wife and granddaughter had to be rescued from the back of the house, and i was trying, there was a lady next to us by herself and she was standing at the back doors i was trying to tell her there is help on the way. they wouldn't let me go over there because the water was so deep. >> gillian: is your granddaughter okay? >> they are both fine. they got them out with a canoe. >> gillian: oh, thank god. >> local fireman, good friend of ours.

>> gillian: bo. oh, guys, i'm so sorry. if you want to take a break, don't feel pressured to keep going. >> we are fine. i just want to say one thing. >> gillian: please. >> we would try to clean up ourselves but you have to go quick or you're just going going to lose everything. samaritans first sent 50 people over and gutted our house and saved our house. they are bringing us food, bringing food and helping where they can. god is good. we are not hurt, but it is just going to be a long road back if we can build it back. >> gillian: a long road but if you have all of that support, and it sounds like a wonderful, loving family, you are better equipped to do it, may be, most of us. what is an immediate first step for you guys? what are you hoping to achieve in the coming hours before it gets dark out today?

>> well, they are still cutting, when they haul the mud out, they go halfway up the sheet rock and cut it out, and when they get through, samaritans first told us it would be contract ready which means we can start building back. >> gillian: oh, wow, okay. >> we didn't have flood insurance so the expenses going to be on us and going to have to figure out how we do that. i mean, as bad as it was for us, i know there's other people that are even worse, and down the road here we had a neighbor get killed at her house, so we are just thankful we are alive. >> gillian: what about your -- i am so sorry about your neighbor. any belongings you have managed to salvage that are not part of your house? any personal effects, where are all of those? >> we got a few shoes, a few clothes, not a whole lot. we look around, and i show you what's left, they took it out of

the house. can we go around? >> gillian: see if our photog, there we go. oh, wow. >> it, it... >> gillian: wow -- >> they had to get it out so we could save the house. but all the neighbors here are in the same situation. it's just devastation. >> gillian: of course, of course. we are obviously thinking of you. we are praying for you. i can't imagine how incredibly hard it is to come on national tv in the middle of what you are going through to enlighten all of us, but it really is helpful to see what is happening there on the ground, so thank you b both. and please stay in touch with us. if we can be helpful to you, we would love to be. >> okay. thank you. it gives us a place in our heart when you actually see people show up like this, out of their

own goodness to help you out. thank you. >> gillian: you know what, what's next for you guys, do you think, before i let you go, if you don't mind my asking. meaning, do you think you are going to get the house rebuilt and move back in, or do you think you might try and move somewhere else? or have you not even gotten that far yet in your minds? >> we have not even thought that far. if we can rebuild, i think we will, because this was a 100 year flood. i mean, this won't happen again while i'm alive, probably. we've lived here 40 years. >> gillian: maybe you will live there another 40. you survived this, so it seems like, you know, you can probably quite literally survive anything. give your family a hug from us, and thank you guys so much. >> thank you. we appreciate it. >> gillian: thank you.

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♪ ♪ >> incredibly consequential. the last thing we need on top of that is a man-made disaster, what's going on at the ports. we are getting pushback already, hearing from the folks regionally that they are having trouble getting product they need because of the port strike. >> reporter: anything about that? >> i haven't personally. >> john: but he still doesn't believe in taft-hartley. that was present biden speaking about the port strikes earlier today calling out the port

owners, he said they need to get this strike over but critics say as president he could actually intervene if he believed in taft-hartley, which he doesn't. more than 100 ships are said to be in route to the closed ports and there are growing concerns about supply shortages and price hikes as both sides digging in. we have coverage, in seabrook, texas, but first lydia hu is at the port of newark in new jersey with the latest from the east coast. lydia? >> yeah, hey there, john. we are seeing strike day 2 in newark, new jersey, and 100 other striking workers have returned here to the picket lines. you can take a look and see many of them all around us, and they are not the only ones. truck drivers have been passing through here on the highway all day, all morning, honking their horns and very loud signs in show of support. while it seems very active here

on the picket line, it doesn't look like there is a lot of activity with the talks in negotiations. in fact the u.s. maritime alliance that represents the employers issued a statement yesterday asking the union to respond to the offer that they had extended just before this strike started. they wrote this in a statement yesterday, quote, our current offer of a nearly 50% wage increase exceeds every other recent union settlement while addressing inflation and recognizing the ila's hard work to keep the global economy running. no response from the union. but ila president told me yesterday that he wants at least a $5 per hour wage hike across the board for every year of the contract, which comes out to roughly a 77% wage hike. he's also demanding protections for the jobs from automation. here is the economic impact of this strike already. at least six ships are anchored out at the sea, right outside the port here because they didn't make it to the port in

time before the strike started so now they and dozens of others on the way have to wait for this strike to end before their goods can be unloaded. workers here on the picket line today, we are talking to them, they understands the concerns that this strike could create to the supply chain. listen. >> john: all right, lydia, sorry we have to cut that short. j.d. vance in auburn hills, michigan, fresh off of last nights debate in which many people say he prevailed. let's listen in. >> in the great state of michigan once again. it is great, it is great to be at an incredible manufacturing firm. and it is great to be in the state that i think is going to be pivotal to giving us 270 electoral votes and making donald trump the next president of the united states. [cheers and applause] now it is hard to believe we only have 33 days until the

election. good news bad news, we have a limited amount of time to make our case to the american people that donald trump ought to be reelected president, but the good news that means only 33 more days for kamala harris to gaslight and lie to the american people and that is a pretty good thing. [applause] now we of course had a debate last night. a vice presidential debate. i thought it went pretty well. [cheers] [chanting "j.d."] now it's funny because, you know, we did this debate and then i talked to the president afterwards and we talked a little bit about what actually happened, you know, some of the points i made, some of the points governor walz made. he made this observation, he said tim walz said that he was

friends with school shooters twice. and that is something i actually didn't notice that tim walz had said that on the debate stage, and i said, did he really say that, sir? he said, i'm telling you, man, go and watch the clips, he said he was friends with school shooters twice. i said that was probably only the third or fourth dumbest comment tim walz made that night. look, i got to be honest. i feel a little bad for governor walz, and the reason i feel bad for him is because he has to defend the indefensible, and that is the record of kamala harris. and think about this. the past eight weeks, kamala harris, who never won a primary vote, has gone around the country saying she is on dae affordability crisis that is making it hard for you to afford groceries, housing, and everything else. she says on day 1 we are going to make energy prices lower for american consumers, and on day o

tackle the instability and conflict all over the world. well, kamala harris, day 1 was 1400 days ago. what the hell have you been doing that whole time? why don't you get to work instead of just talking about... instead of just talking about what you are going to do, why don't you actually do it? here is the thing. i am running to be your next vice president of the united states. i am incredibly honored to stand here and ask you for your vote and ask you for your hard work. if we win, and i believe we are going to win in 33 days, my friends, i feel very confident about it. [cheers] but when we win, the american people will have given me an awesome responsibility, to represent them on the world stage, to advocate for donald trump's policies, to work with congress to get things done for the american people. you know, i get sick of having a

vice president of the united states for three and a half years pretend that she bears no responsibility for all of the policies that have made this country weaker, less prosperous, and less secure. and part of our responsibility, part of our job, my friends, over the next 33 days is to remind michiganders and everybody else that yes, kamala harris is at fault for the inflation explosion act. yes, kamala harris is at fault for the explosion in federal spending that drove inflation through the roof. yes, kamala harris is responsible as the border czar for the wide open border. kamala harris has been in power, she caused the problems, we are not going to entrust her to solve the very problems that she created, we are going to trust donald trump with the presidency of the united states. [cheers] now let's talk a little bit

about manufacturing because i know we have a lot of employees and a lot of family members who work with vision nearing a great american aerospace company. we believe, donald trump and i believe one of the biggest mistakes our leaders made is they decided over 40 years that we didn't need to make our own stuff any anymore. this company is a proud and stark contrast because right here in visioneering, workers making great american products, we are proud of you, we're going to fight for you and we are going to build on that great track record. you know, my pop always a union steelworker for almost 40 years and almost 10,000 jobs, now about 2,000 jobs. and the steel mill where the lucky ones because a lot of great american steel producers didn't just shed 8,000 jobs,

they went out of business altogether, and why did they do it? they did it because other countries used literal slave labor to undercut the wages of american workers and destroy our industries. and donald trump, if we stand for anything, we stand for an end to that practice. we are going to build more in america. we are going to manufacture more in america. we are going to make more in america. and we are going to do it with american workers and build american prosperity in the process. that is our promise. that it donald trump solid promise. now here's the thing, of course, visioneering is a great aerospace engineering company. we've got a lot of other proud industries in the state of michigan and a lot of proud industries that are not thriving thanks to kamala harris' policies. now where did we go in this country where you've got kamala harris, who wants to tax working people so that rich

people, she wants to subsidize rich people to buy electric vehicles made in china. is not a good idea? absolutely, it's not a good idea. now here's the thing. my papaw, like i said, was a union steelworker and he was a little gruff from time to time, i love my papaw, but he had a word for the kind of policies kamala harris pursued, and tax american workers and send their jobs overseas, one word of that was bullshit. doesn't make an ounce of sense. and it's not just american workers, the michigan workers in particular, we've got the proudest auto industry in the entire world built right here in the state of michigan. as a buckeye, it is hard for me to admit that, my friends. it is hard for me to admit how good michigan workers are at making automobiles. why are we trying to tell americans that they've got to drive electric vehicles made in china? why don't we send this message, this is america, drive whatever the speech when he for you want

to because we believe in freedom and we believe in choice in the united states of america. and look, if we pursue those policies, yeah, you want to drive an electric vehicle, by all means, drive an electric vehicle. but if you want to buy a michigan-built gas-powered car, that is your right and we are going to support your choice to do whatever you want to do and we are going to build prosperity for michigan workers in the process. things to kamala harris' policies, this is a person who loves to pretend that she stands for american workers. well, nobody stood as strongly and is probably for american workers then donald j. trump. he did it for four years, and he's going to do it again. so just in the last few years under kamala harris' leadership, i'm going to read this to make sure i get my facts right. stellantis announced it was going to lay off 2500 michigan

autoworkers who make the ram 1500 classic. what a disgrace that is. a great american automobile, and those jobs are going to get destroyed, and either replaced with factory jobs in mexico or completely eliminated altogether because kamala harris doesn't want to empower americans to buy michigan-made automobiles. last year, gm let go 1300 michigan workers at two separate facilities, and ford is currently rolling back and a lot of the tv production because a lot of americans don't want to buy ev's, they want to buy the cars they want to buy. now why are we doing this to our own workers? why are we doing this to our own industry? why are we doing this to our own country? because kamala harris has decided she is going to pursue policies that make her donors, her green scam donors rich, and she is going to impoverish a generation michigan autoworkers. i say hell no, let's empower and

enrich michigan autoworkers with the leadership of donald trump. [applause] now look, this is not just about, 2500 jobs, my friends, that's not just a number. think about that, that is 2500 american families that have a family supporting wage and that disappears thanks to kamala harris' policies. that's 2500 moms and dads that are going to have financial stress they didn't have before because of kamala harris' policies. that is 2500 families that are going to be worried about putting food on the table or paying heating bills because we all know it gets pretty cold up here in the middle of a michigan winter. that is 2500 families made to suffer not because of an act of god, not because of something that happened accidentally, but because our own leadership failed to do its job. and if this election is about anything, it is about getting

back to some common sense economic principles that put american citizens, american workers, and american consumers first, and that is exactly what we are going to do. every single day. that's why we exist, is to serve you, not to destroy your jobs like kamala harris. now of course, remember, the promise that was made, tim walz made this argument last night, and one of these things that really, really annoyed the hell out of me is he said, well, look, here is this economist who said that donald trump's plans are going to lead to higher inflation. well, first of all, tim, donald trump was already president for four years, rising take-home pay and lower inflation, so i don't think those economists know what the hell they are talking about. even if you ignore the evidence of what donald trump did in office, what these economists are saying is if we ship our entire industrial base off to countries like china, it's going to make american workers richer somehow. it's going to make our goods

cheaper somehow. well, we have been living through the inflation of the last three and a half years, and we know that when we make our country less self-reliant, when we pursue the policies that kamala harris says we ought to pursue, it makes americans poorer, it drives up the cost of food and housing, and makes our country less prosperous, and it makes our nation more dependent on people who don't like us to make the critical stuff that we need. we've got to get rid of that. stop listening to the economist and start listening to common sense in this country. [cheers] but think about this. they said -- here's the deal. tim walz has the audacity and kamala harris has the audacity to say that, well, donald trump's policies are enacted, that's going to lead to higher prices for american consumers. tim, we already ran this experience once.

donald trump's economic policies worked for american families, they worked for american consumers. but here is the thing. think about it. if a chinese company wants to hire a literal slave laborer making $4 a day, and they want to import the goods made by that slave laborer, then it's going to make americans poorer because of course we shouldn't expect american middle-class workers to work for a wage in china. we ought to expect our middle-class workers to be able to support a family on those wages, and that is what we are going to fight for every single day. so here's what you've got to do to prevent those countries and those companies from undercutting the wages of american workers. you've got to be willing to impose tariffs. fight back against the theft of the american middle-class. penalize those companies that are shipping jobs overseas and give a tax cut to american workers. that's how you build prosperity for this country and that's what we are going to fight for.

[cheers] and let's just recap what kamala harris' policies have actually done. the average michigan family is spending over a thousand dollars per month to pay for what they could have bought three and a half years ago. that's $12,000 a year, a hidden tax of $12,000 a year just to be able to buy what you could have bought three and a half years ago. that is not pro-working people. kamala harris has provided over policies that have seen the cost of housing go up by over 50%. that is not pro-working families. she has seen policies that have seen the cost of eggs go up by more than double. a gallon of milk is now about $4 in the state of michigan. groceries are up 25%. kamala harris' leadership has been tried and it has been found wanting and americans, we want to get back to common sense. we want to be able to afford a nice living, a nice house for our families, and to do that we

have got to elect a common sense leadership of donald j. trump, and that's exactly what everybody in this room is going to do. [cheers] now i want to talk about just something else. you no credit card only when sees are about 9% right now. that means a lot of american families are sacrificing, they are not paying their credit card debt so they can afford groceries or they can afford the mortgage. what a disgrace and what a sad commentary it is on kamala harris' economic policies that you've got hardworking people who are doing everything they can to provide for their families and they are further behind, not because they are not doing their job but because kamala harris isn't doing hers. and ma'am, you are right, kamala harris doesn't care about this because she doesn't understand, she doesn't talk to anybody. she's afraid of interviews. so she doesn't talk to people

and she doesn't realize that her economic policies are making it harder on american families. and you all know my story, i talked about it a little bit last night, but i was raised by a grandmother who sometimes would refuse to turn on the heating at night when times got especially tough. i was raised by a woman who would sometimes forgo paying for her own medicines so that she could put food on the table in our family. and i remember feeling, even though money was tight, that thanks to my grandmother, i never really lacked for anything, but american grandparents and american parents shouldn't have to make those sacrifices to begin with. if you work hard and play by the rules, you ought to be able to afford a good life for your family, and that is what donald trump and i are going to fight for every single day for the next four years. [cheers and applause] and i want to talk about one more issue. we are going to take a few questions but i want to talk about one more issue because the

american media and especially kamala harris and tim walz, they don't want to talk about how this illegal immigration crisis is a theft of the american dream from american citizens. and we see this in small communities. we see this in big cities all over our country. when you let in 25 million people, you know what that does? that stresses municipal budgets so a lot of cities and towns can't afford to provide for their own citizens because they are focused on providing for people who shouldn't be here. you know hospital wait times because illegal aliens use hospital emergency rooms primarily, so hospital wait times have gone up in the state of michigan. they are close to three hours for american citizens who want to go into the hospital and see a doctor. we have got so many problems. housing. you know, when you let in 25 million illegal aliens and they compete with americans for scarce homes, that drives up the cost of housing and that is a major cost of the housing crisis.

i had the debate moderator attempt to fact-check me last night. she said what's your evidence that illegal immigration promotes and increases housing costing increasing? i said first of all, common sense. when you let in millions of people who shouldn't be here, you have to house them somewhere, and those are houses that ought by right go to american citizens. donald trump and i are going to fight for that every single day. american homes for american people. [applause] but there is also, to talk about tim walz economist that he loves to cite, our own federal reservd a study that shows that when you let in a lot of illegal aliens, it jacks up the price of housing. so how about this simple principle. kamala harris wants to give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens. [boos] she does. she wants to bankrupt that a care by giving medicare to illegal aliens. do we want that?

she wants to bankrupt social security by giving social security to illegal aliens. do we want that? here is the donald trump plan and here is the donald trump message to illegal aliens in this country. in six months, pack your bags because you are going home. that's what we are going to do. [applause] and you know, you heard this a little last night, you hear a lot of talk about compassion with the issue of illegal immigration comes up. well, let's talk about compassion. because i am the father of three beautiful young kids. i don't think it is compassionate to empower the mexican drug cartels to engage in sex trafficking along our southern border. that's not compassionate. i don't believe that it's compassionate to flood american cities and towns with fentanyl that is killing our citizens by the tens of thousands. i don't believe that it is compassionate to allow our southern border to become a drug trafficking and business zone or some of the most evil and terrible people in the world.

you know what is compassionate? closing that border down and putting the interests of american citizens first, and that is what we are going to do. [cheers] you know, because these guys, they love to talk about threats to democracy. well, as donald trump often remind you, he took a bullet for democracy, so i do think that any person can accuse the guy of doing anything other than fighting every single day to make this country more prosperous and to make the world more peaceful. but when the media talks about threats to democracy, you know what a threat to democracy is? when you have kamala harris running for president despite not earning a single vote from democratic primary voters. that is a threat to democracy. you know what else is a threat to democracy? when big tech firms and major american companies and big government censors american citizens and deprives them of

their voice in the town square. that's a way bigger threat to democracy than anything else going on, and we are going to stop, we are going to stop it right away. i genuinely think this is one very big difference between kamala harris and donald trump. look, i disagree, of course, with kamala harris, i disagree with governor walz, i disagree with a lot of the folks who support him, but i would die fighting to defend their right to speak their mind even if i disagree with it, and i think every single person in this room believes that because we believe in free speech. [cheers and applause] and as a person who was raised by a couple of working-class, blue-collar democrats, i want to say to every democrat who is watching at home, every democrat who is in this room, you are more than welcome in donald trump's republican party, we are the party of common sense. we've got a big ten, and you are

welcome in our movement. because whether you agree or disagree with us about tax policy or regulatory policy, i think a lot of americans are saying they are sick of the censorship. they are sick of being told what to think and what to say. they are sick of being told they are not allowed to be friends with people they disagree with politically, and they are sick of tired of being told by their government to shut up because we believe in the first amendment in this country. you have every right to petition your government and tell them they are screwing up, and that's exactly what kamala harris is doing. [cheers and applause] >> that is why bobby kennedy endorsed donald trump back because we believe in persuading our fellow americans and not silencing them here that is a big difference between donald trump and kamala harris.

yesterday, governor tim walz said that he cannot shout fire in a crowded theater. you know that line is from a disgraced supreme court opinion, we believe that the solution to bad ideas is to debate them and persuade our fellow americans. kamala harris believes the solution to things she disagrees with his to silence you and to shut you up, it is disgraceful, it is anti-american and we will not stand for it and it donald trump's political movement. [applause] so i would like to close before i take some questions from the media, i would like to remind you that we have to look through kamala harris' lies, she talks about these great plans. some of them she straight copied from donald trump, so it does not sound loud bad, you went to donald j. drum.com and copy pasted it appeared she will put

on her red maga hat next thing you know. if you have all these great ideas kamala harris have a message, why don't you try them right now? you are the sitting vice president and you have not done anything for the american workers and american people. [applause] this sitting vice president cannot say on day one we will tackle the affordability crisis, day one was 1400 days ago and your policies caused the affordability crisis. she cannot say day one we will make the borders more secure because she has been to the borders are for years, telling americans at the border is the cure, she has to do something about it now rather than lying and gas citing the american people. [applause] she talks about restoring the american leadership into the world and bringing back peace

and stability to the walls that has turned to chaos and when she says that i say kamala harris, i have a very good idea for how we can bring peace and stability back to the world, vote for donald trump and bring him back to the oval office. [cheering and applause] so to all of you, to all of you who are here and to all of you who are watching and we'll see clips of this later on, i just want to tell you we have the greatest country in the history of the world appeared we have, i mean flying in here, as a buckeye it is hard to admitted, one of the most beautiful states in the entire united states of america, especially this time of year. i love being in michigan. [cheering and applause] we have the best natural resources, the best people, the best workers, the best history anywhere in the world appeared

in a know a lot of people feel the american dream is out of reach, i know a lot of people feel they has got way too expensive to afforded food and energy, way too expensive to pay the rent. just want to tell you please do not give up on this country because as broken as the leadership of this nation is, it will change again 33 days that only if we get out there and work for it. [cheering and applause] so to every american out of there, we will bring back the american dream, we will bring back affordable groceries, we will make housing and rent possible to afford for normal american citizens. you will cut the border out and close down that border, we will bring the american dream back but only if donald trump is back in the white house and we have with 33 days, that's make it happen, let's fight for it, lots of work for it and make him the

next president! [cheering and applause] let's take a few questions from the reporters, i always like to start with the local reporters first and then we will do the national post if we have time afterwards the one senator j.d. vance, first of all congratulation on last night's debate. >> is thank you. >> i had a chance to speak to voters before you stepped on stage and they said they loved how the debate was civil and policy focus to ask as he got an opportunity to speak to voters outside of the event and i have a question from robert from pontiac, it is a two party question. the first part is, with issues where americans are divided, if elected as the next vice president, how will you bring folks together especially from the other party? nav there is an issue you disagree with donald trump, how will you make your voice heard for the people?

>> the first question was from robert? >> it correct. >> my message on the first question is i think the reason of this country feels so divided is because of failed leadership and nothing goes. look cagayan genuinely believe this. with a lot of folks who will vote against me and donald trump, there are a lot of people out of their fundamentally good humane beings but the leadership of the democratic party, kamala harris is an absolute disgrace. here is the way, again, why do we have so much division and why do we have so much rancor in this country's political debate? it is because kamala harris and her allies are trying to silence of the american people rather than a engage with empirical when he tried to censor your fellow citizens, when you try to shut them up, you breed division and hatred. donald trump and i will bring to this country back together by encouraging the free exchange of ideas an