said new york, don't give up hope. >> any hope for new york? >> i think you have to break it down to can you win one game, right? and it starts with one pitch, right? but here is good news, right? the yankees have won four games in a row nine times this year. once in the postseason. you can't think that big. you have to break it down to let's win tonight. >> bill: game four is tonight at 8:00 eastern. check it out. underway at 7:00. first pitch after 8:00 here in new york. >> dana: america loves a comeback story. a dog reunites with her owner after being lost in the woods for months. she realizes she is home and that was a sweet moment captured by an animal rescue service. nice way to land it. all right. harris faulkner is next.

>> harris: we await the nation's 45th president and republican nominee for president is set to hold a news conference at any moment. both presidential candidates are delivering closing arguments today. vice president kamala harris is scheduled for this evening. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." vp harris is skipping the swing states for her closing argument tonight. instead she will make her final pitch to voters from the ellipse right near the white house. her team says the remarks will be optimistic despite days of dark anti-trump rhetoric from the campaign. and from kamala harris. kellyanne conway points out the challenges today for the democrat running for the white house. >> we have been exposed to her constantly now. one thing scarier than not knowing when she stands for is actually what she explains what she stands for. she doesn't have enough time to

define herself. >> harris: one piece says the closing message and high stakes for harris to strike the right cord speaks to the crux of the challenge she faced in her campaign. she will work to tie together a number of issues for americans from the economy to individual freedoms and democracy while delivering a broader message that both speaks to americans driven by concerns about a second trump administration, and other undecided voters still yearning to learn more about harris and her agenda. that's a quote. senior national correspondent aishah hosni is in palm beach, florida, where trump is set to speak at any moment and hold a news conference. aishah. >> good morning to you. welcome to mar-a-lago. we're running an hour behind. we don't know what the hold-up it. it is an important morning for the former president.

this wasn't on the schedule as of yesterday. we are all going to allentown, pennsylvania where he would have a rally tonight and got rerouted yesterday afternoon to mar-a-lago. it will be an important moment for him in this final stretch here. as for what he is going to talk about, this is what a senior campaign official told me this morning. they will be reminding voters out there that vice president kamala harris in this speech tonight at the ellipse, right, sort of like bringing back the imagery of january 6th is closing her campaign messaging talking about hate and division while the trump campaign and the former president is talking about solutions, real solutions for the everyday american talking about inflation, economy, how he will deal with the border crisis, immigration. that is actually something team harris has already jumped on in the last hour and called it quote hilarious spin. the trump campaign sees the rhetoric that the democrats are using now in this final push

portraying the former president as a dictator, fascist, demonizing his character. they are seeing this as a last-minute strategy to energize the base and they are saying this hasn't worked for the last 3 1/2 years and it is not going to work in the last stretch here. president trump has already been on the campaign trail sort of preemptively reacting to what we might hear from the vice president tonight calling it outrageous rhetoric, those are his words and saying that these words are what have led to these two assassination attempts on his life. so probably more of that kind of messaging and tone from the former president when he comes out shortly here. >> harris: aishah, thank you very much. i want to bring in ari fleischer, former white house press secretary. we've talked with campaigns this week and what i had gleaned from trump's campaign after the

madison square garden event where that was billed as closing arguments, this would be a sharpening of that message, a deeper type of that message. what would you like to hear from this candidate? >> i think we have seven days left of closing arguments. the news cycles move so fast. the closing argument should be the economy. this is the bread and butter and what has made this such a close race and what is on the minds of most americans. this media nonsense, this manufactured liberal press corps crisis over a joke a comedian told is not a story, playbook and others are saying it is lighting people on fire. this is nonsense. this is the press fanning a non-existent claim. what the american people really care about is the ability to pay their bills and rent just to get buy in this economy. they want it over with. they want change. is kamala harris change? is donald trump change? that should be donald trump's closing message. >> harris: i want to show you something a liberal media outlet

put the question about one of harris's talking points to a new york voter. let's watch together. >> kamala harris has been campaigning on the idea that donald trump is a threat to democracy. how does that message resonate with you? >> it doesn't. >> why not? >> because it feels -- it feels political to me. it feels like a line that's being used. >> harris: in the wake of donald trump's new york city rally, the harris campaign is urging latino surrogates to keep pushing the talking point that trump is racist. it is apparently ignoring a pro-harris super pac that warned the campaign negative ace tax on trump's character are less effective than kamala harris's plans to address everyday americans. you have heard democrats calling trump a fascist and throwing around the term nazi.

you have a very personal connection and story to this and i was wondering if you would share some of that perspective and put it into context for us. >> yeah. first i will just tell you this is what the democrats always do. they called george bush the same things, mitt romney. joe biden said mitt romney would return african-americans to slavery. they called john mccain hitler. they called mitt romney hitler and called donald trump. this is the classic democratic playbook and here is my point about this, harris. there are still americans alive today, me, whose lives were touched by the nazis. my family, my mother, her brother and her parents fled the nazis in august of 1939. they fled hungary to escape. they got on what my family thinks is last ship before the nazis started to sink every ship that crossed the atlantic ocean

through their yu boats. this is my family's story. we had to flee the nazis and for donald trump to now be called hitler, to be called a fascist and compared to a nazi is the lowest of the low by kamala harris. i don't know to whom she is appealing. this is an american election between two candidates who may not like each other. for harris to stoop to saying she is like those who caused the holocaust and killed millions and veterans who had to fight the nazis for freedom to win. she is saying that's who donald trump is? she didn't win a single vote in her primary. there was no primary. she was put in power by democrats. donald trump beat other republicans fair and square. he likely will beat kamala harris fair and square in an election. they don't like losing so they call him a nazi. donald trump is the essence of democracy. nobody in american politics should compare anybody to the

nazis. that's who my family had to flee from. >> harris: i don't know who hears that story and doesn't get a catch in their throat. i certainly have. i know you have shared that story in recent days but it is so different when you put it in the context of a man about to speak and we know there have been two assassination attempts on his life. that would be on anybody no matter what party in america we cannot take that. it is untenable and then to endanger the party under threat by one of our enemies, iran, to continue to use that rhetoric. i have to ask you and i know you don't speak like i don't speak for every person of color. in the jewish communities what are you hearing about that kind of rhetoric, or are you? >> i think other than the partisan base of the democrat party, which only wants to hear the worst thing about donald trump, for most people they just reject it because they know it's wrong.

historically and morally wrong. other reasons to oppose donald trump if you want to but not for that reason. i think the jewish vote will be after election day, along with the african-american community and hispanic community, key groups that swing and republicans make inroads with. trump will do much better with the jewish vote than he did in 2020 and already has gotten triple the jewish vote that george h.w. bush got. that's how much republicans are making inroads into the jewish community because the biden-harris hand wringing about the gaza attack. they pressure israel and harris said genocide is real. she said i agree with you. that's a problem for harris with jewish voters. >> harris: appearing to capitulate to the pro-hamas crowd. it is one thing you want to help the people in gaza. i don't hear people fundraising at some of those pro-hamas and pro-palestinian rallies to help

the people of gaza. maybe it is happening but i would think they would be as bold with that as far as their hate against israelis and jewish americans. >> if i could just add at madison square garden. >> harris: we're watching the back side door at mar-a-lago as we understand that the former president, the nation's 45th president again against kamala harris on the left is approaching this door. we just want to keep it in sight at mar-a-lago, his home. ari, share your further thought. did we lose him? all right. i think we lost him. thank ari for his perspective there. we will bring you former president trump's remarks as soon as they begin plus a new report out of the united nations puts a harsh spotlight on the

very real danger of biological men competing in women's sports. consider where this is coming from. this is an international spotlight being put on an issue that is becoming a little bit more well-known as an election issue a week before election day. and also seven days from now still in front of us but the battle for ballot integrity is in full swing. >> no matter where people fall on the political spectrum people are looking and saying why is the biden administration pushing for non-citizens to vote in the 2024 election? >> harris: all right. let's keep asking that question. the biden-harris department of justice going after states trying to clean up their voter rolls taking off people who are non-citizens who said they were non-citizens. the supreme court is getting involved. former acting attorney general under trump, matt whitaker, in "focus."

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we've been waiting for a short period of time and we had anticipated that this would be as such, a sharpening, firthering from aishah hosni talking with the campaign and myself. we know that's where he is going with this. we'll be focusing on the economy so on and so forth. for kamala harris her comments will come later in the day, this evening. and her closing argument will be very different, although we're told against the back drop of a lot of anti-trump very dark rhetoric, she will now present to the american people a more optimistic message. this will be yet another shift for her because we've seen her go back between the joy, the rhetoric that's been at times borderline dangerous, to now whatever this next phase will be. we'll cover it all. i want to set the scene. donald trump expected at any

moment. news conference at mar-a-lago. let's get into this issue. i can't promise we'll get very far. if he steps up we'll take it live. let's go with this. a barrage of ballot battles could be headed to the u.s. supreme court one week away from election day. at least seven states already are at odds with the biden-harris justice department when it comes to protecting the vote. one of the highest profile cases we know we've been covering is in virginia. governor youngkin there is waiting for the d.o.j.'s response to his appeal to keep non-citizens off the state's voter rolls. that response is due by 3:00 p.m. virginia just yesterday asked the u.s. supreme court to block a federal court's order for the state to add those 1,600 people back onto the voter rolls. even though many may have checked a box and

self-identified as non-citizens the d.o.j. reportedly had already taken a look at all that and said yes, it is true and then sued the commonwealth of virginia to put them back on the rolls. there is a 90 day quiet period which the d.o.j. should have done that. they were way inside that. a quiet period leading up to the election, we're right in the middle of it and they wage a lawsuit against virginia. i spoke with governor youngkin just moments after the judge had made the ruling on that lawsuit on friday. >> here we are with a judge saying put people back on the voter rolls who you know are non-citizens. this is under a law in virginia that has been in effect since 2006. it has been applied by republican and democrat governors alike into this 90 day period. common sense says non-citizens aren't on the voter rolls. the constitution and law say it

as well. we won't sit by and let it happen. >> harris: we'll continue the story later. i want to go to this now because we see the former president, who is about to hold this news conference. we'll pause on that story and go to the live coverage now of this with donald trump. ari fleischer comes back into focus as this is happening. you've worked inside the white house before and know days like this are big. >> yeah, they are big and if he takes questions it will be really interesting to see if every question is about madison square garden as opposed to what president trump wants to talk about. a bit of a head scratcher. when the media is in this mood they put donald trump up for q and a. sometimes he just make statements. >> harris: what would you advise him to do? >> i would advise him not to do this. a news conference when the press is in one of their artificial feeding frenzy comedian said in

new york will keep the story alive. you want him to talk what he should be talking about. a news conference if he takes q and a is risky. >> harris: let's find out. the nation's 45th president, donald trump at mar-a-lago, a news conference. let's watch. [crowd chanting usa,] >> such great spirit. it is going very well. there are some bad spots in pennsylvania where some serious things have been caught or the process of being caught but the election itself is going very well. we're leading i believe in all seven swing states. [cheers and applause] so i appreciate everybody's work and the spirit is unbelievable. i don't think there has ever been anything like it in our country's history. we want to see our country get better and we're here just to do

a statement and it's an honor to have some of our friends here. in less than four years, kamala harris has obliterated our borders, obliterated. we've never had a situation like this. decimated the middle class and run away inflation has caused problems the likes of which we never thought possible. blood shed, squalor to our cities is coming and they've unleashed a war and chaos all over the world. you take a look, everything is blowing up or getting ready to blow up. no respect for our country anymore. no respect for our leadership. no person has caused so much destruction and death at home and abroad. should never be allowed to be the president of the united states. you can't have that. you can't have that. [cheers and applause]

so i'm running on a plan to save america. we'll save america. we have no choice. it's the greatest there is. we love it and we're going to save it. we have no choice. it will be saving it from the incredible destruction that has been caused by crooked joe biden and kamala. she is responsible because he wasn't responsible and she never said that. he didn't know too much about what was happening. maybe that was exposed during the debate. and yet still the way they took that away from him was not -- was not right. it wasn't right. shouldn't have happened that way. they walked in and said we're taking it away. they stole the presidency of the united states. you can call it a coup or whatever they stole it. like taking candy from a baby. can't have that. she running on a campaign of

imm immoralization and campaign of destruction but more than anything else a campaign of absolute hate. i said yesterday that she is a vessel. she is a vessel. it is a very big, powerful party with smart people. you have to be smart. but it is vicious. they're vicious and they are perhaps even trying to destroy our country because who would want open borders where millions of people can flow in from prisons and from gangs, the worst gang members anywhere in the world? who would want this for our country? who would want all these transgender operations all over the place at will even if you are in detention and want transgender. who wants to defund the police? she has wanted her whole career to defund the police. she only changed recently.

she changed on 15 different items, fracking. she was against fracking at the highest level. wouldn't even think about it. all of a sudden i like fracking very much. but they change after the election in two minutes. i think pennsylvania understands that. after two assassination attempts in just over three months, her lies and slanters are shameful and inexcusable. if i were president and somebody was being threatened, openly threatened, like they've threatened me i would say if you do that, even if this was an opponent, an opponent who i disliked, if you do that, we will obliterate your entire country and it would all stop. they wouldn't make that statement. they won't make that statement. [applause] essentially that statement has been made by other presidents,

even concerning their opponents, as you know. today we're going to talk about the real character of kamala and a person who has no remorse for the anguishs inflicted upon families across america. on the contrary, i have to tell you, kamala intends to conflict and keep this misery going and she will keep it going as long as she can. that's the only way she can get elected. she is going out and only criticizing talking about hitler and nazi and because her record is horrible. her borders are the worst in the history of the world. there has never been a border in the world like this. in third world countries, they would fight them away with sticks and stones if they had to. we let them come in. come on in, knowing in many

cases three murderers and drug lords and traitors in so many ways to our country. if they were involved in our country at all, even that they're coming back in. people that left because they were traitors are coming back in. everybody is coming back in. and it is at a level we've never seen before. criminals off the streets. other countries from where they are coming are setting records, good records for them where crime is down 70 and 75% because they are taking the criminals off the streets and emptying jails into our country. and they're not finished yet. i'm amazed. i thought they would have done it by now but if you take a look at venezuela their crime, is way, way, way down and you go to car act us you wouldn't recognize it. you can walk the streets without being shot or killed or mugged. it is becoming a safe city because they have taken all their criminals, most of them. the rest are coming.

they are all coming. they've taken their drug dealers and put them into the united states of america. thank you very much, kamala. appreciate it. she continues and will continue this misery and her policies have caused such harm and such pain and the three great people up here with me will just discuss that for a little while about what has happened to them and how their lives have been shattered. i would like to begin with the story of one mother whose life kamala has utterly destroyed. destroyed this life. and we're talking about thousands -- thousands of people in very similar situations every day under kamala open border policies. she and if you remember joe biden appointed her as the border czar. she doesn't want to use that term but we'll just use a different term. she was responsible for the

borders. totally responsible. she never made one call to border patrol. two weeks ago the border patrol endorsed me with the most beautiful endorsement i think i've ever gotten. [applause] in all fairness they've endorsed me every year but they endorsed me again and they endorsing me saying i was the best president we've had and the best president by far on the border. [cheers and applause] they said that. this is not easy for them to say. they said that she was easily the worst person ever to work with them on the border. most incompetent. the least caring. think of it. not one call in almost four years was made to border patrol like how are we doing? i used to call all the time. how are you we doing fellows? it going well? they're great people. men and women border patrol.

great people that want to do their job. she didn't call them once. she released the two men who murdered this woman's very precious daughter. everything you need to know about what happened and the character -- the character of kamala harris, you will know from just watching this video. we had it done yesterday. it is very quick, very easy to do but it was very heartbreaking. we showed it in a roomful of people and everybody was just -- everybody was crying. please take a look. >> sunday night i asked her to not stay up super late because of her coming to work with me in the morning first to do her summer school. she said okay. i told her good night, i love you. i went to bed not realizing that was going to be the last time i

saw her. >> we're best friends. >> yeah. >> i woke up to notice she wasn't in her bed. i'm in my heart trying not to lose my mind because i don't know where she is. i finally remembered her phone had a location on and her phone was pinging just two minutes down the road right behind the skate park. i start driving to the direction the phone was being pinged at and i see a couple cop cars with lights on. i see yellow tape and immediately my heart drops and sinks to the bottom of my stomach. my daughter's hands and ankles were both bound. she was strangled to death and left with no pants. and i know in my heart she

fought incredibly hard. she was not going down without a fight. >> we begin with two men charged with capital murder tonight accused of killing a 12-year-old girl. >> police say these meaning strangled her before dumping her into the creek. they were in the country illegally. >> bill: the men accused of killing are affiliated with the gang known for brutal violence. >> kamala harris was in charge of immigration and our borders. if we had better border policies and not open borders and not these catch and release policies, i truly believe this all could have been prevented. under her being vice president of this country, my daughter's life was ripped away from her. she had her entire life ahead of

her. >> happy birthday, dear jocelyn. >> my daughter is six feet in the ground based off policies that she allowed to keep. kamala harris did have one job and she not only failed. she failed my daughter, she failed jocelyn and she was only 12. president trump reached out, gave me his condolences as not former president but as a father and someone who cares. i believe donald trump needs to be back in office. i can at least know that my next child will be safe in this country. >> harris: wow, very moving

there. the former president continues. >> so i know we talk about inflation and the economy but to me there is nothing more important than the fabric of our country being destroyed by people placed there, violently placed there as far as i'm concerned, foolishly and stupidly placed there. i think what is happening on the border is the single biggest issue. i'm seeing it more and more when i speak. i see it more. inflation is terrible and hurting our country and just decimating our seniors. that's why i talk about social security, no tax for our seniors on social security because they've been decimated by inflation. [cheers and applause] what kamala did to jocelyn and her family is the most heartless and cold blooded betrayal imaginable. thousands of cases just like

that. thousands. and throwing open the border, think of it, open borders, they come in from parts unknown. people have no idea who they are, where they are from. anything about them. they know nothing. they just walk into our country. as soon as i heard they were do that i said well, i know these countries. i know every one of the leaders of all these different countries. very sharp and street wise. i know what they'll do. they will open up their jails and dump them into the united states and that's what happened. they opened up their jails and some of the most ruth least killers in the world are roaming our fields and streets all over the united states. i knew it was going to happen. i would do the same thing if i were running one of those many countries i'm talking about. not just the three or four we constantly mention that are near us all over south america and the middle east, all over asia,

all over europe, all over africa. tremendous numbers of people are coming out of africa and they are coming from all over the world. they are dumping them at our border, pushing them across the line and say don't ever come back. if you come back we'll kill you. and we're stuck with them. but we won't be stuck with them for long. [cheers and applause] so kamala violated her oath. she desecrated our laws and she got innocent girls like jocelyn tortured and killed. anyone who knowingly sets loose these monsters into our country has absolutely no right to be running for office, let alone the office of president. no right. so here today is another great person, an american mom, tammy

nobles. two years ago her 20-year-old daughter kala hamilton, who had an autism diagnosis, was found raped, tied up and strangled to death with a telephone cord in her home. kala's murderer was an illegal alien, ms-13 gang member among the most vicious gangs anywhere in the world. i took them out by the thousands thanks to ice. we'll protect ice. kamala wanted to defund ice. if we didn't have ice we would never get anybody out. they're tough, smart and love our country. an ms-13 gang member apprehended by border patrol but under the policy of our border czar, kamala, he was released into the united states to kill. tammy, please come up and say a

few words please. thank you. [applause] >> i just wanted to say that homeland security did not do their job. health and human services did not do their job. the biden-harris administration did not do their job. if they would have done the job and made the one phone call to el salvador my daughter would still be alive today. kala was a very beautiful young lady inside and out. she was independent, learning to become independent. she had two jobs. she overcame obstacles dealing with autism and was able to find a job that she loved. she loved animals, especially her cat, oreio and cared about the homeless. she loved god and loved going to church and her life was just ripped from her three days after she celebrated her 20th

birthday. thank you for having me here today. [applause] >> thank you, tammy. we will not forget kala. she is looking down and very proud of mom. kamala's cruel and immoral actions on our border our actually disqualifying, in my opinion. she is unfit. she is an unfit person and she knows this is going on. she never called anybody, including the 13 soldiers that were so needlessly killed in afghanistan with that horrible moment in time where our country was just lost all respect from the whole world when they saw that and one of the reasons putin went in. if i were president he would have never gone in. i ended his pipeline in europe, no problem.

and what happened? biden comes in and approves it right away but kills the keystone pipeline. putin never would have come in. and he didn't, by the way, for four years. there was never a threat he would do that. he saw weakness and a lot of it was seen in that horrible period of time. she is also aiding and abetting the cartels allowing vast quantities of deadly drugs to pour unchecked into our country. remember this, they now have an app. you call the app and you bring whatever you want they tell you, can you believe it they have an app and big beautiful boeing airplanes flying back and forth over our border. they were saying where are the planes coming from? they were loaded with migrants dropping them in the midwest and dropping them all over the place. i will tell you if you look at

aurora in colorado or springfield in ohio, in ohio they dropped 32,000 illegal aliens they tried to give them legal terminology but it is not. illegal aliens, 32,000 into a 50,000 person beautiful town, no problems. now they don't know what to do and they want to be nice. the mayor wants to be nice. his big thing is to get interpreters. they don't speak english and hard to get interpreters and he is trying to get interpreters. in the meantime they are taking up the hospitals. when people from springfield would be able to check with a doctor, go to a hospital, they're unable to get in. they're packed. the whole town has changed. this is happening all over our country. aurora probably is an even worst situation. you have the meanest gang in the world probably from venezuela and they've taken over large

sections of the town. they have gone into the real estate business. they have taken over an apartment complex. they took over a number of complexes where the people are paying them rent. they have become the landlord. isn't that nice? they are rough, tough people with the latest weapons. they have military quality weapons and everyone is saying where did they get them? you have to get them out of here. we'll get them out fast. we'll get them out fast. [applause] so today i'm announcing that for the first time under my administration we'll be seizing the assets of the criminal gangs and drug cartels. [applause] and we will use those assets to create a compensation fund to provide restitution for the victims of migrant crime and the government will help in the restoration. the government will help in the

restitution but something has to be done and we are going to get it done. kamala has also caused untold misery through her destruction of our economy. our economy is not -- this is like a fake economy. some of the best people on wall street are saying the economy is only good because -- i don't want to say this because other people have said it. it is not me saying it. they think trump will get elected. that's the only reason the stock market is up. [applause] scott is here, i think, someplace, one of the most respected people on wall street. he has made a very big point of it that the stock market is only doing well because of the fact that they think trump is going to win the election. so we'll see. [cheers and applause]

kamala cast the deciding votes that caused the worst inflation in our lifetime, maybe the worst inflation we've ever had. i don't think -- i know for a fact they aren't adding all the numbers. if they did i think it's the worst inflation probably in the lifetime of the country. and it has cost typical american families over $30,000. nearly half of americans say they're broke. think of that. half of americans are saying they are broke. they have no money. 2/three say they're living from paycheck to paycheck and that's a record. we've never had to that extent we've never had that. millions of americans are lying awake at night worried about how to pay their bills because kamala wrecked their family finances and she has done that. she has done nothing good. they have done nothing good. i speak of kamala but it is partially joe. joe is out of it, you know. joe is out of it and has been

out of it for a long time. now she wants to raise taxes for the typical family by $3 thousand a year. she has no empathy for the hard working americans whose dreams she has killed and said recently that there is not one thing that she would do differently from biden. that's only because she choked. i'm sure she could have come up with a couple of things if she thought about it because there has been so much destruction caused by the biden administration. one of the things people don't talk about and the news never talks about, they don't talk about as an example afghanistan. but this is something that's incredible because when you think of the numbers, 325,000 children are missing, dead, sex slaves, or slaves, 325,000 children who came in through the open border are now missing.

many of them are dead and nobody talks about it. i said this must be a mistake. this can't be possible. when i read it first, when i read it i said you are talking about take your largest stadium and fill it up many times. that's what the kind of numbers are. here today is michael, a small business owner who runs a dry cleaner and is struggling to get by because of what kamala has done to his business. they have destroyed small businesses in this country. michael, please. [applause] >> i just want to say thank you, mr. president, for affording me the opportunity and high honor of joining you here today and sharing my small business story with you folks and the american people. so it's a dry cleaner throughout the county in west palm and

seems not too long ago, just a few years, the customer and us the small business owner were able to keep up with inflation. there were resources available to us for expansion or if you had a bad month if there was nothing you needed to make up for the support was there. now just a few short years later, it seems like all those resources have dried up. the support is no longer there. we had an expansion plan about six years ago that we had to pause because we have to wait for our customers to catch up with the inflation, the supply chain issues still because we as a small business can't double our price points although the cost of doing business now is two, three, or four times what it was just a few years ago. we have had to get creative. our industry, probably 30% in the dry cleaning industry never

survived covid and just recently this summer i was contacted, my wife and i, by another local dry cleaner here in west palm asking advice. husband and wife, been there for 35 years, their lease was up and the landlord was doubling their rent, which would have meant that's what they have been paying themselves for probably the better part of 20 years so they had to make a decision, do they hand the keys back or get creative and work together and pool resources? what we did was figured out the right price point for them and did their cleaning for them until we figured it out. they weren't able to pay their operations and couldn't keep it going but able to save their business by partnering and by the end of summer i was contacted by 12 other local dry cleaners saying can you guys help us also because we're going through the same thing. thank you. [applause] and it seems now so the delta

between the reality of what inflation is right now and what we have in front of us and the reality of and small business owner's capability. that delta is too great. unless we effect change immediately, i fear that in the next few years, if we don't see that change, we might see another 30% of our industry and others no longer exist. thank you, mr. president, for allowing me to share my dry cleaners story. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much. you helped a lot of people during the prime time of the china virus. we helped a lot of people. and we helped a lot of people and did it intelligently then. when they took over they threw money around like it was dirt. as you know, the recent monster

hurricane, helene, just wiped out so much. if you look at the different states, north carolina, georgia, alabama, south carolina, florida, tennessee, it was just devastating. devastating. and the response was the worst since katrina but really a lot of people are thinking it was much worse than katrina. they haven't shown up. they aren't in north carolina. the people of north carolina have suffered incredibly and there is nobody to help them. fema has been a total disaster. we had fema that was fantastic when we did this. we had our hurricanes, too. bad ones. but we did a great job with it. it is not there and then you see that they originally blamed and tried to take it back but it was a little late. they said the money was spent on bringing illegal migrants into our country. they spent close to a billion

dollars and these were funds that were spent. you have to say it but i was in north carolina recently and i looked at devastation that was just -- it was just unbelievable. there was nobody there from the federal government. the local people have done incredible things. franklin graham has done incredible things. he has been amazing. but there was nobody there. [applause] so we're pleased also to be joined by christie, i have gotten to know over the last year or so. the mother-in-law of fallen marine corps sergeant nichole guillen. we were not withdrawing. we were withdrawing with dignity and strength and power and we were going to keep bagram, the big air base because it was so close to where china makes their nuclear weapons. one hour away. we should have kept it and we

didn't do that. but the way they withdrew, they took the soldiers out first. no, you take the soldiers out last. i went 18 months without one soldier. i spoke to the leader of the taliban. we went 18 months without one soldier even being shot at. no soldier being killed for 18 months. then we left and you had this group of incompetent people take over. guys like milley should have been fired. they should have been fired. anybody involved with that disaster should have been fired. [applause] she was one of 13 u.s. service members who lost their lives. kamala said she was the last person in the room, that kamala was the last person in the room and involved in everything. she takes credit for that. she was involved in everything. that means she was involved in disaster after disaster because nothing good has happened with this administration except that

our country has gone to almost a third world status with biden when -- when biden made a decision she said she was there, oh, she was there. but the afghanistan decision was a disaster in so many different ways. now you take a look at it they're right back to what they were doing before except much worse to women. they're worse to women now even before it started. but kamala never reached out to the family members of the warriors and she said she was going to but she never did. she never called anybody and christie, i would like you to come up and say a few words, please. [applause] >> good afternoon, good morning. my name is christie and my daughter was sergeant nichole and she was killed in the botched afghanistan exit at

abbey gate. she was the cornerstone of a very large family. instead of planning family gatherings and holiday meals and christmases and baby showers, our family and thousands of other families plan outings at funeral grave sites and that's where we as a family celebrate my daughter-in-law at arlington national cemetery because she is in the ground. her story isn't unique to our family. she is just ours. there are thousands and thousands and thousands of wounded veterans what came home from that war who need our help and who are ignored by our current administration. president trump demonstrates peace through strength. i know what he told the taliban when he was negotiating with them because i've made it my

business to know. and what he said to them when he was negotiating with the taliban he said i will kill you if you harm one hair on one head of an american. [cheers and applause] president trump shows up, he reaches out, and he we can all heal together. [cheers and applause] >> thank you very much. so sad. so many cases like this. nobody should have died. first of all, when they left a soldier should have been there not home watching except for a small group. many of them got killed and large numbers, nobody ever mentions the arms, the legs

missing, gone, the face just obliterated. nobody talks about them. i talk about them all the time. but i want to thank you, christie and we'll carey nichole's memory in our hearts forever. the full consequences of kamala's four year reign are almost too terrible to discuss and contemplate. we're coming to the end of a great campaign. i think we have had a great campaign. [cheers and applause] we really haven't been provided the kind of protection that i needed as president but i said we have to do it anyway. when secret service would ask for additional people oftentimes we would be turned down. they were constantly asking for additional people. i found secret service to be very brave. when i was hit and went down, they were right on top of me within seconds. i tell you what, those bullets

were flying right over my head. i heard them. these guys were right -- i don't know how they didn't get hit actually but they were right there. you take a look at the video, one thing you would say the video is there for people to see but -- but they were never given the kind of help that they requested because our rallies were massively large and they needed more people and they were always fighting for more people and it was never given to them. now they are being given i hope what they need. but that was a constant fight. they would come to me and they would say they don't want to give us the people. yet biden was covered and they would have two people show up. but kamala is grossly incompetent. a total train wreck who has destroyed everything in her path. she has destroyed everything. she left 21 million aliens pour

across our country and she maybe in a short while has to go home to get herself a job someplace, who knows. think about it. she can look and she can look at the carnage and look at all the people that have been killed. you haven't seen anything yet because they've just started. they are getting comfortable in our country. these are very tough people. these criminals make our criminals look like nice people. and she let the more than 13,000 convicted illegal aliens -- nobody would have let these people into our country. remember, they came out of the worst prisons in the world, the meanest, prisons in the world. when she said she wouldn't have done anything different does that mean she would have let 325,000 migrant children die, at a minimum slaves or sex slaves? and they are all over the

country. does that mean she wouldn't have changed that? does that mean that she wouldn't have changed so many of the other things that led to so much death and destruction and even financial destruction of our country itself? we could end up in a depression because of what she has left with us. they are the worst combination president/vice president in the history of our country. jimmy carter is a happy man. his administration by comparison was totally brilliant. brilliant. after kamala endorsed defunding the police, she bailed out rioters, looters and murderers. took them right out of jail. violent crimes in the united states, remember, i was in minnesota, minneapolis was burning down. it was burning to the ground. i watched the cnn announcer say it's a friendly group of people. over his shoulder the entire

skyline was burning. i've never seen anything like it. that's the fake news. violent crime in the united states is up 37%. all of these different crimes are up anywhere from 37 to 105% over a very short period of time. it's almost like nobody even cares about it. very simply kamala harris is not fit to be your president. we can't have it happen. we can't have it happen. we are going to make this country strong again and great again and be respected again. [cheers and applause sss >> crowd: trump! trump! >> her message has been a message of hate and division and my message is about saving our economy, securing our border, bringing together the greatest