lyles will need a good leg here. can he deliver? here comes the pass! look at this kid! coming in tight on the line. team usa, what a run! it's gold for team usa. noah lyles with another gold medal. in case there was any doubt, who was the breakout star of these world championships. it is good to be back with you on this second hour of "chris jansing reports." at this hour, donald trump trying to take back the spotlight. the former president set to

speak at mar-a-lago after a week dominated by positive headlines from the democrats and kamala harris's rise in the polls. does he have a plan, though, to change course? plus candidate interrupted, harris goes toe-to-toe with gaza protesters who heckled her during a michigan rally. what she told them. >> and joe biden's big fear, in his first interview since dropping out of the race, the president says he's not confident there will be a peaceful transfer of power if donald trump loses. and as republicans attack tim walz over his handling of the george floyd protests, we have newly resurfaced audio where we hear trump actually complimenting walz. our nbc news reporters are following the latest developments. we start at mar-a-lago as we wait for former president trump. nbc's garrett haake is there. what are we expecting? >> reporter: the trump campaign is keen to respond to the idea that they have somehow been

wrong footed by energy around kamala harris's launch in this campaign. this is an opportunity for donald trump with the assembled media down here at mar-a-lago. try to regain the spotlight and regain a little bit of the narrative. his campaign has been confident, including up until moments before i'm coming to you live. this is a sugar high for kamala harris, and it will wear off if and when they're able to focus on her record, the things she ran for in 2019 and 2020. and a record as vice president. that's the strategy. what we have not seen is the candidate focus on that strategy, has been mired and back and forth, comments about harris's racial identity. this is an opportunity the campaign hopes the candidate believes is his own best spokesperson and try to get back on the offensive in a campaign with 90 some-odd days to go. >> garrett haake, thank you for that. vice president harris meantime is in michigan again today after a rally last night where she was met with anti-war

protesters. shaquille brewster is on the ground in wayne, michigan, where harris will speak next hour. talk about what she's seen, heard and faced so far in michigan. >> yeah, she's seeing definitely a mix. you definitely saw last night a crowd of supporters there for vice president harris and for governor tim walz, you also had in that crowd, a large group of protesters. this is one of the first times we have seen vice president harris at the top of the ticket interrupted in one of her events, interrupted by pro-palestinian protesters. i want you to listen to a little bit of what happened in that moment after she was interrupted. >> i'm here because we believe in democracy. everyone's voice matters. but i am speaking now. i am speaking now. you know what, if you want donald trump to win, then say that, otherwise i'm speaking.

>> reporter: now, we're learning a little bit more about what happened before that protest apparently ahead of the event the two leaders of the uncommitted group, that group that organized some 100,000 people here in michigan to go and show up during the primary earlier this year, but instead of voting for biden to select uncommitted to err their protests about how the administration is dealing with the war in gaza, they met briefly and had an emotional meeting. the harris campaign confiring that this meeting did happen. the group is saying they requested a further sit-down with leaders of the arab and muslim american community. you're seeing that moment. you saw how she reacted to the group of protesters there. that's definitely something that's been making its rounds and run counter to what you have been seeing in the other swing states as she's on that seven state battleground tour, chris. >> shaquille brewster, thank you for that. let's go to the white house,

candid new comments from president biden about donald trump. nbc's gabe gutierrez is following this story for us. what exactly did the president have to say? >> reporter: hi there, chris, good afternoon, the president made some version of this before. these were his first comments, his first interview announced since he dropped out of the race. when asked if he believes there will be a peaceful transfer of power. >> if trump wins, no, i'm not confident at all. i mean, if trump loses i'm not confident at all. he means what he says, we don't take him seriously. >> reporter: think about what that means. the president of the united states saying that he is not confident that there would be a peaceful transfer of power, again, an argument and a threat to democracy that president biden has made in some form before. he was very blunt there. lara trump, former president trump's daughter-in-law and cochair of the rnc was asked to

respond to this in an interview on news nation. take a listen. >> i can assure you, if he does not legally and legitimately win this election, there will be no problem. >> reporter: so that comment slightly different than what former president trump said. he was asked about this directly, and dodged the question many times, chris. he said he'll accept if the election is legitimate, of course there are a lot of questions on what exactly he means by that. certainly that question might come up about the hole down in mar-a-lago, chris. >> how you define legitimate is a key part of the that. gabe gutierrez, thank you. in the meantime, the trump team continues to attack kamala harris's new running mate, tim walz over his handling of the george floyd protests in minnesota. but new audio shows that trump himself seemed to have a very different opinion about that issue four years ago. nbc's dasha burns is covering that for us. >> reporter: former president trump has been leaning into

these attacks against governor tim walz based on the protested and riots in minnesota and the after math of george floyd's death. he was posting on truth social saying that walz, quote, let minnesota burn. we have obtained audio of a phone call from that time, from june 1st of 2020 where he takes a very different tone about walz, in fact, praises him. >> i know governor walz is on the phone, and we spoke, and i fully agree with the way he handled it the last couple of days. but once you called out and you dominated, you took the worst place, and they didn't even cover it last night because there was so little action, because you dominated. you dominated. >> reporter: the trump campaign is defending the comments, sticking to a similar line as their boss, as communications director steven chung, saying walz allowed minneapolis to burn for days.

saying that the phone call on june 1st happened days after the riot began, and president trump acknowledged walz for finally taking action to end violence in the city. >> dasha burns, thank you. and still ahead, former president trump is taking to the podium at mar-a-lago. this is the first time he's spoken since tim walz was named vp nominee. let's listen. >> before i talk about debates, i think that our country is right now in the most dangerous position it's ever been in from an economic stand point, a safety standpoint, both gangs on the street and frankly gangs outside of our country in the form of other countries that are frankly very powerful. they're very powerful countries and we don't know what we're doing. we have leadership that has no clue how to handle them or how to handle any other situation.

we have a lot of bad things coming up. you could end up in a depression of the 1925 variety. that took decades to recover from it, and we're very close to that. we're very close to a world war. in my opinion, we're very close to a world war. we have people that don't know how to handle it. they're not respected. all over the world they're laughed at. and we can't have that. most dangerous period of time i have ever seen for our country. with that being said, we have somebody that hasn't received one vote for president, and she's running. and that's fine with me. but we were given joe biden and now we're given somebody else, and i think frankly, i would rather be running against the somebody else, but that was their choice. they decided to do that, because kamala's record is horrible. she's a radical left person at a level that nobody has seen. she picked a radical left man,

he's got things done -- he has positions that it's not even possible to believe that they exist. he's going for things that nobody's ever even heard of. heavy into the transgender world. heavy into lots of different worlds having to do with safety. he doesn't want to have borders. he doesn't want to have walls. he doesn't want to have any form of safety from our country. he doesn't mind people coming in from prisons, neither does she. by the way, she was the border czar, 100%, and all of a sudden for the last few weeks, she's not the border czar anymore, like nobody ever said it. and i just hope that the media becomes more diligent, more honest, frankly, because if they're not going to be honest, it's going to be much tougher to bring our country back. we have a very sick country right now. you saw the other day with the

stock market crash. that was just the beginning. that was just the beginning. it's going to get a lot worse in my opinion. and fortunately, we've had some very good polls over the last fairly short period of time. rasmussen came out today, we're substantially leading, and others came out today that we're leading and in some cases substantial. i guess msnbc came out or cnbc came out also with a poll that was, you know, has us leading and leading fairly big in swing states. in some polls i'm leading very big in swing states because people want safety, security, respect all around the world for our country. they don't want this horrible culture that is developing -- a culture of no common sense. it's really a culture of no common sense, and it's not what anyone wants. we want to have a safety country, a strong military, low interest rates and we want to be able to have the american dream, and we want to be able to have

our youth buy homes, housing, get good jobs, and we're really just at the opposite right now. it's so sad to see. but as a border czar, she's been the worst border czar in history in the world's history. i think the number is 20 million, whether it's 15 or 20, it's numbers that nobody has ever heard before. 20 million people came over the border during the biden/harris administration. 20 million people. it could be higher than that. nobody knows what the number is. nobody has a clue. the got aways, they call them the got aways. somebody was quizzing me on it the other day. no, no, i don't think so, sir. i don't think so. they have no idea what those numbers are. but they're much higher than you would think. just like far more people were killed in the ukraine/russia war than you ever report. just like the october 7th would have never happened. russia would have never happened

hit ukraine had the election result been called differently. it was a very bad call. russia would not have attacked ukraine, october 7th, and israel would have never happened. you wouldn't have inflation. a lot of great things would have happened. you have millions and millions of dead people, and you have people dying financially because they can't buy bacon. they can't buy food. they can't buy groceries. they can't do anything, and they're living horribly in our country right now. with all of that being said, i think it's very important to have debates, and we have agreed with fox on a date of september 4th. we've agreed with nbc fairly full agreement, subject to them, on september 10th. and we've agreed with abc on september 25th. so we have those three dates and those networks. they're very anxiously awaiting that date.

and those dates. so we have september 4th, september 10th, and september 25th. we have spoken to the heads of the network, and it's all been confirmed other than some fairly minor details. audience, some location, which city would we put it into. but all things that will be settled easily. i think it will be very easy. the other side has to agree to the terms. they may or may not agree. she can't do an interview. she's barely competent. i look forward to the debates because i think we have to set the record straight. why is it that millions of people were allowed to come into our country from prisons, from jails, from mental institutions, insane asylums. that's a mental institution on steroids, that's what it is,

when you see the people -- institutions that are being emptied out. not in south america, all over the world. prisons are being emptied out into our country because we have a president that's the worst president in the history of our country. we have a vice president who is the least admired, least respected and the worst vice president in the history of our country. the most unpopular vice president. and because of political reasons or because of being politically correct, even though she never received a vote. don't forget, she was the first one defeated. i remember. she never made it to iowa, the first day, she never made it to iowa. she was the first one that was defeated. she was the nastiest to him. she was nasty with calling him a racist and the school bus and all of the different things. she was very nasty to biden and shockingly he appointed her,

asked her to serve as vice president. well, i don't know if he's happy about that decision right now. this was taken away. the presidency was taken away from joe biden, and i'm no biden fan, but i'll tell you what, from a constitutional standpoint, from any standpoint you look at it, they took the presidency away. and people were saying he lost after the debate, he couldn't win. i don't know if that's true necessarily. whether he couldn't win, he had the right to run. they took it away. said they're going to use the 25th amendment. i know exactly because i know a lot of people on the other side, believe it or not. and they said we'll do it the nice way or we'll do it the hard way, and he said all right. so they've really taken -- what they have done is pretty incredible. and now i'm running against somebody else. and we're leading. we're leading, i'm not complaining. i'm saying it's a -- for a

country with a constit we cherish. we cherish this constitution to have done it this way is pretty severe, pretty horrible. you would have thought they would have tailbone out to a vote. they would have had a primary system. they would have done something. to take it away like he's a child and he's a very angry man right now. i can tell you that. he's not happy with obama, and he's not happy with crazy nancy. she is crazy too. he's not happy with any of the people that told him you've got to leave. he's very unhappy, very angry, and i think he also blames her. he's trying to put up a good face, but it's a very bad thing in terms of a country when you do that. i'm not a fan of his as you probably have noticed. he had a rough debate. but that doesn't mean you just take it away. he had 14 million votes. you got know votes. i think when people find out.

people are starting to find out what a bad job she did on the border, she's trying to say she had nothing to do with the border. she was appointed to head the border, she's border czar, she loved that name. she never went there. she went to a location once along the border but that was a location that you would love to go and have dinner with your husband or whoever. that was a location that was not part of the problem. that was not really going to the border. essentially she never went to the border. if you listen to tom holman, the great border people, brandon judd from the border patrol, if you listen to paul, so many different people, i speak to them all the time, and i did when i was president. we had the best border in the history of our country. now we have the worst border in the history of the world. millions of people coming in, and our country cannot sustain it. our country is going down because of this. because of incompetent people. so i just look forward to these

debates. i think it's very important. i hope she both agrees to the, september 4th, 10th, 25th. i think they'll be very revealing. do you have any questions, please? >>. [ inaudible question ] >> i haven't recalibrated strategy at all. it's the same policies, open borders, weak on crime. i think she's worse than biden. he got forced into the position. she was there long before. she destroyed san francisco. she destroyed california. san francisco, he said the greatest city in the country is san francisco, that was about 20 years ago, and he passed away a while ago.

he would be looking down, he said what happened, he thought it was the best city in the country. he had divisions, lows, and he would be looking down in horror. no crash bail, weak on crime. yet they weaponized the system against me. the judge was a brilliant judge. this judge was a fair but brilliant judge and as you probably heard the big documents case, i won it. biden lost it because he didn't have presidential immunity. he didn't have the presidential records act. he lost it, but the special -- i call it prosecutors, special counsel. special prosecutor to me. appointed by him, appoint bid

garland. he said the man is incompetent. he can run for president. we no longer have to worry about that. we have somebody that in my opinion is more incompetent. she couldn't pass her bar exam. and lots of other things. she should not be in a position because if she becomes president, our country is going to be a giant fail. it's going to fail. it's going to be a failure, the likes of which we have never seen. how about you. never seen how about you. [ inaudible question ]

>> i'm wondering how you are going to go after black voters now that she's the nominee? >> it changes around a little bit. i'm getting other voters. perhaps, you know, i was doing very well with black voters, and i still am. i seem to be doing very well with black males, this is according to polls, as you know. it's possible that i won't do as well with black women, but i do seem to be doing very well with other segments, extremely well with hispanic, jewish voters way up. white males, way up. white males have gone through the roof. white males way up. all we're doing is giving you the stats that you have. it could be that i'll be affected somewhat with black females, but we're doing pretty well. i think ultimately they'll like me better because i'm going to give them security, safety and

jobs. i'm going to give them a very good economy. we could literally be on the throes of a depression, not recession, a depression, and they can't have that. i think i'm going to do well with everybody, especially when the facts are out. yeah, please, in the back. >> your home state of new york, what do you think of kamala harris not picking josh shapiro? >> i know josh shapiro, he's a terrible guy. he's not very popular with anybody. i think this election maybe is better than josh shapiro would have been. i think she had some good choices. josh shapiro is not one of them. he's caused a lot of damage with a lot of people. i don't think he would have been better. i think he would have been maybe the equivalent, maybe not as good. they had some people they were looking at that were good, far superior to her. they had ten people that he was looking at and her, and they

said she was the worst of all. in other words, she was the worst out of the ten people. >>. [ inaudible question ] >> i don't know how that's going to work out. we would like to do three debates. we think we should do three debates. we think fox and abc, and we also have cbs is going to do the vice presidential debate. so cbs will do vice presidential. and i have to tell you, j.d. vance has really stepped up. he's doing a fantastic job. >> are you worried at all about the size of harris's crowds? >> give me a break. listen, i had 107,000 people in new jersey. you didn't report it. i'm so glad you asked. what did she have yesterday, 2,000 people? if i will had 2,000 people, you would say my campaign is finished. it's so dishonest, the press.

here's a great example. i had in michigan recently, 25,000 people and 25,000 people we just couldn't get them in. we had in harrisburg, 20, 25,000 people, and 20,000 people couldn't get in. we had so many. nobody ever mentions that. when she gets 1,500 people, and i saw it yesterday on abc, they said, oh, the crowd was so big. i have ten times, 20 times, 30 times the crowd size, and they never say the crowd was big. i'm saying turn around the cameras, i'm so glad you asked that. i think it's so terrible when you say she has 1,500 people, a thousand people, and they talk about, oh, the enthusiasm. let me tell you, we have the enthusiasm. the republican party and me as a candidate, but the republican party has the enthusiasm because people want to see crime stopped. they want to see a country that's respected think of it. if i were president, you wouldn't have russia and

ukraine. would have never happened. zero chance. you wouldn't have had october 7th of israel. you wouldn't have the horrible withdrawal and i don't mean the withdrawal. the withdrawal was fine. i was ready to withdraw from afghanistan, and we were going to do it with dignity and strength. and we were keeping our equipment. we weren't leaving $85 billion worth of equipment behind. we wouldn't have this 13 great soldiers. i know the families of those soldiers well. we wouldn't have had soldiers killed, and we wouldn't have had 45 soldiers obliterated, no legs, no arms, the face. none of that would have happened. you wouldn't have had inflation, inflation was caused by their bad energy problems. now they've gone back to the trump thing because they need the votes. you know, i don't know if you know, they're drilling now because they had to go back because gasoline was going up to 7, 8, $9 a barrel.

the day after the election, if they won, you're going to have fuel prices go through the roof. everybody is going to be forced to buy an electric car. they don't want that. it's got a great market. it's really a sub market. people want gasoline propelled cars. they want hybrids and they want electric. we don't have enough electricity. we couldn't make enough electricity for that. and you know what else, the weight of a car, the weight of a truck, they want all trucks to be electric. a little things that a lot of people don't talk about, the wait of the truck is 2 1/2 times heavier. you would have to rebuild every bridge in this country if you were going to do this ridiculous policy. so -- but on crowd side, in history for any country, nobody has had crowds like i have, and you know that. and when she gets a thousand people, and everybody starts jumping, you know that if i had

a thousand people, people would say that's the end of his campaign. i have hundreds of thousands of people in south carolina. i had 88,000 people. in alabama, i had 68,000 people. nobody says about crowd size with me. she has a thousand people or 1,500 people, and they say, oh, the enthusiasm is back. no, no, the enthusiasm is with me and the republican party because they want to stop crime. they want to stop people from pouring into the country from places unknown and countries unknown. from countries that nobody ever heard of. that's where the enthusiasm is. >> your campaign in georgia, how important is it to you and is it -- [ inaudible question ]

>> i got him elected. he was doing terribly. i got him elected. i hope we can repair it. the people are the people, and they're going to vote. we're leading in georgia by a lot. in pennsylvania by a lot. i don't know. now, in pennsylvania i have great relationships, in georgia i do too. unfortunately not with the governor. i have never understood it. when you get somebody elected. they're supposed to like you. he's not exactly for some reason, and you'll have to ask him about that. i would love to see it get repaired. that i think if we don't win georgia, georgia is a big win, a big state. i won alabama by a record. nobody has ever gotten that many votes. i won south carolina by a record. you don't win alabama and south carolina by records and lose georgia. it doesn't happen. and the people of georgia understand that. there was tremendous anxiety in georgia. a lot of people saying what happened. all we want is honest elections,

if we have honest elections in georgia and pennsylvania, we're going to win by a lot. >> fears that there wouldn't be a peaceful transfer of power if you -- >> he said it two ways. first he said it incorrectly and then he corrected himself, do you agree with that. he said it two ways. i mean, he said it two ways because he doesn't know what he said. why didn't he bring it up at the debate. he had a chance for 90 minutes to bring it up at the debate. he could have talked about that at the debate. he didn't do it. everyone said he said this, he said that. he read it very badly. he actually said it the opposite, and he had to go back and correct himself. he said the opposite. he should have brought this up at the debate. if he had a problem. of course there will be a peaceful transfer, and there was last time. i hope we're going to have

honest elections. >> some of your allies expressed concern that you're not taking this seriously. >> what a stupid question. >> asked on the other side, why haven't you been campaigning? >> because i'm leading by a lot and letting their convention go through, and i am doing tremendous amounts of taping here. we have commercials that are at a level i don't think that anybody has ever done before. plus, in certain cases, i see many of you in the room where i'm speaking to you on phones. i'm speaking to radio. i'm speaking to television. television is coming over here. excuse me, what are we doing right now? she's not doing any news conference. you know why, she can't do a news conference. she doesn't know how to do a news conference. she's not smart enough. and we need smart people to lead this country. our country has never been in this danger before, economically and from an outside perspective.

russia doesn't respect us anymore. china doesn't respect us anymore. north korea, kim jong un liked me a lot. he doesn't like this group. we are if great danger. we are in great danger of being in world war iii. that could happen. after the convention, i'm going out, when i go out to wyoming or montana or i'm going to different places to help people. i don't have to go there because i'm leading in those states by 35, 40, 50 points. i'm leading by record numbers. i'm going because i want to help senators and congressmen get elected. congressmen and women get elected. yes, please. go ahead. >>. [ inaudible question ]

>> elon called me, as you know, he endorsed me full throated, great endorsement. i respect elon a lot. he respects me. not easy for him to endorse, to be honest with you. it takes courage to endorse people. monday night. and i believe he's the host of the show so it will be very interesting. a lot of people are talking about it. i look forward to it. that will be done on monday night. >> we have a lot of misinformation spread about china, and you have a lot of misinformation spread about a lot of different places. i think i'm going to get along great with china. president xi of china and i were very good friends. we met right here, except we had

a beautiful sofa there, as opposed to what we have right now. right now we have you, but president xi and i had a very good relationship until covid. and i held him responsible for covid. it broke up our relationship. i think we're going to have a great relationship, and i think it's going to be mutually beneficial. we cannot have it where china is taking advantage of the united states, and that's what they were doing as you very well know. yes, please. >> [ inaudible question ] i think the people that, if you look at january 6th, which a lot of people aren't talking about very much. i think those people were treated very harshly when you compare them to other things that took place in this country where a lot of people were killed. nobody was killed on january

6th. but i think that the people of january 6th were treated very unfairly. they were there to complain. not through me. they were there to complain about an election. and, you know, it's very interesting. the biggest crowd i've ever spoken to, and i said peacefully and patriotically, i said peacefully and patriotically, the biggest crowd i have ever spoken to and you have seen, maggie, i was at the mall, i was at the washington monument. the whole thing, i had crowds, i don't know who's ever had a bigger crowd than i have. the biggest crowd i've ever spoken before was that day, and i'll tell you, it's very hard to find a picture of that crowd. you see the picture of a small number of people, relatively, going to the capitol. but you never see the picture of the -- the biggest crowd i've ever spoken. nobody's spoken to crowds bigger than me. if you look at martin luther king, when he did his great

speech, and you look at ours, same real estate, same everything, same number of people, if not, we had more. and they said he had a million people, but i had 25,000 people, but when you look at the exact same picture, and everything's the same because it was the fountains, the whole thing, all the way back from lincoln to washington, and you look at it, and you look at the picture of his crowd, my crowd, we actually had more people. they said i had 25,000, and he had a million people. and i'm okay with it because i liked dr. martin luther king. please. >>. [ inaudible question ] >> yeah, sure. we have a constitution. it's a very important document, and we live by it. she has no votes.

and i'm very happy to run against her. i'm not complaining from that standpoint. and i hate to be defending him, but he did not want to leave. he wanted to see if he could win. they said you're not going to win after the debate. they said you're not going to win. you can't win. you're out. and at first they said it nicely, and he wasn't leaving, and then you know it better than anybody. wait a minute. so when you think about it, they said at first they were going out to another vote, they were going to go through a primary system, a quick primary system, which it would have to be, and then it all disappeared, and they just picked a person that was first out. she was the first loser, okay. so we call her the first loser. she was the first loser during the primary system. during the democratic primary system. she was the first one to quit, and she quit. she had no votes, no support , she was a bad debater by the way. that's not the thing i'm looking forward to. she was a bad debater.

did a bad job. she never made it to iowa. then for some reason, and i know he regrets it, you do too, he picked her. and she turned on him too. she was working with the people that wanted him out. the fact that you can be -- get no votes, lose in the primary system. in other words, you had 14 or 15 people. she was the first one out, and you can then be picked to run for president. it seems to me actually unconstitutional. perhaps it's number please. >>. [ inaudible question ] was there any way you see her working on -- >> i have run against hillary, and i've run against various other people. i would say that in terms of intelligence, hillary was far superior, i would say that.

hillary was smart. she was her own worst enemy in many ways, but she was smart, very smart. if you ask me to compare them. please. >>. [ inaudible question ] question ] >> would you repeat that question, please. you have to speak up. it's a hard room because it's very big. so this is worth $18 million. >>. [ inaudible question ] how do you plan to -- >> so i think the abortion issue is been very much tampered down, and i've answered issue i think, very well in the debate, and it seems to be much less of an issue, especially for those where they have the exceptions,

as you know, and i think it's when i -- for 52 years, they wanted to bring abortion back to the states, get rid of roe v. wade. that's democrats and republicans, and independents, and everybody. liberals, conservatives, everybody wanted it back in the states, and i did that. now the states are voting, and frankly, some of the votes are much more liberal than you think. ohio turned out to be, they had a big vote, and it turned out to be a much more liberal standing than people would have thought. kansas, the same thing, and you have texas and other places where it may be different. but the issue has been brought back to the states now, and like ronald reagan, i believe in the exceptions for rape, incest and life of the mother. i believe, you know, strongly. i think that's a very important thing. i think when you don't -- you have to follow your heart, but when you don't believe in the exceptions, i think it's much tougher. it's a much tougher issue. but about 82% of republicans do

believe in exceptions. i think the -- and a lot of them are changing their mind and coming even further. i think that abortion has become much less of an issue. i think it's actually going to be a very small issue. what i have done is i have done what every democrat and every republican wanted to have done, and we brought that issue back to the states, and now the states here are voting on it, and frankly, some of the votes are a lot different than people would have thought. but it's the vote of the people that's taken care of, and you know, when you think about the radical. the democrats are the radical ones this this. they are allowed to do abortion on the 8th and 9th month and even after birth. if you look at your new governor from minnesota, he's talking about -- he's like the governor previous, the former governor. i don't want to get them mix ed up. glenn is doing a good job.

he said the baby will be born. we will put the baby aside, and we will decide when the mother what we're going to do, whether or not we're going to kill the baby. the minnesota gentleman, this guy, agrees with that. he is the most liberal. look, between her and him, there's never been anything like this. there's never been a combination so -- i'll use the word progressive. they don't like the word liberal. i like liberal better. it's more appropriate. nobody knows what progressive means. they now like to use the word progressive. there has never been anybody so liberal like these two. or even close. i think the abortion issue has been taken down many notches. i don't think it's a big factor anymore really. when people hear what i said in the debate, and i think i said it well, we brought it back to the states, everybody wanted it in the states.

and very importantly and you think about this, assuming you have exceptions, if you don't have exceptions it's a more difficult thing. at the same time, there are people that strongly feel that way. you have to follow your heart, and you should follow your heart. that issue is very much subdued. thank you. >>. [ inaudible question ] >> she wants to take away everyone's guns. can't do it. people need the guns for protection. now, entertainment they want it, hunting, you know, different things, but they need weapons for protection in this country. people live out in the woods and they're not going to have a gun. if you look at some countries, i don't want to get them in trouble. but some countries have actually gone the opposite way.

they had very strong gun laws, and now they have gone the opposite way where they allowed people in one case they encouraged people to get guns, and crime is down 29%. and remember this. what is the toughest gun law in the united states. chicago. on july 4th. 117 people were shot and 17 died. the toughest gun laws in the united states are in the city of chicago. you know that. they had 117 people shot. afghanistan does not have that. afghanistan, by the way, was the lowest point in the history of our country in my opinion. that was the worst embarrassment and putin would not have gone into ukraine. when he see the incompetence, when he saw that happen, when they took out the soldiers

first, they took out the soldiers first. you know, if you go back and check your records. for 18 months, i had to talk with abdul, the leader of the taliban, still is. i had a strong talk with him. for 18 months, not one american soldier was shot at or killed. but not even shot at. 18 months, and then we had the disaster. of the lift. people falling off airplanes from three times the height of the world trade center. terrible. our country has to be respected again. please. [ inaudible question ] i'd be against that. that kamala is in favor of not giving israel weapons. that's what i hear. look, she's been very very bad

to israel, and very bad to jewish people. i say it. if anybody i know is jewish and they would vote for kamala over me, they should have their head examined. if you think about it, i gave them golan heights, i gave them the capital of israel, jerusalem, i even built the embassy. the problem is they didn't do anything with it. iran was broke. we could have made a deal so easily. i would have had a deal done within one week after the election. iran can't have a nuclear weapon. it's simple. i was looking forward to it. i was fine with iran. we hit them a couple of times pretty hard but we would have been fine with iran. i terminated that deal. i got them the abraham accords. she's been very very bad to israel and she's been very bad and disrespectful to jewish people, and any jewish person that votes for kamala and her new friend, who i don't know if she knew him before, but i don't

think he's too good, but anybody that votes for them, if you're jewish or if you love israel, you have to have your head examined. go ahead, please. >>. [ inaudible question ] >> they have. the fbi came to see me about the shooter. i think they've done a very good job. and i think they did a very good job with respect to this other lunatic that they have in custody. please. >> there's been some discussion around vice president harris's relationship with brown, the mayor of san francisco, and i'm just wondering if you have followed that discussion at all. >> well, i know willie brown very well. in fact, i went down in a helicopter with him. we thought maybe this was the end. we were in a helicopter going to a certain location together and there was an emergency landing. this was not a pleasant landing. and willie was a little

concerned. so i know him pretty well. i mean, i haven't seen him in years. he told me terrible things about her, but this is what you're telling me anyway, i guess. but he had a big part in what happened with kamala. i don't know, maybe he's changed his tune. but he was not a fan of hers very much at that point. >> do you believe vice president harris would certify your election if you win? >> yeah, i do. >> go ahead. how -- [ inaudible question ] >> how are you planning to vote as far as abortion efforts this time? >> i'm going to announce that. i'm going to have a press conference in the near future. i don't want to tell you now. florida does have a vote coming up on that, and i think probably the vote will go in a little more liberal way than people thought, but i'll be announcing that at the appropriate time.

>> your tax cuts coming up fairly soon, and what specifically about the tax code -- a number of tax breaks. >> we gave tremendous for child care and all of that. our tax cuts, which are the biggest in history. our tax cuts are coming due, as you know, very soon and if the democrats don't renew them or make it impossible to renew because it's pretty close in terps of vote, if they don't renew them, it's the equivalent of having a four times tax increase from what you have right now, and it will destroy the economy. i think they're under tremendous pressure to do it. i have never seen, all my life, i grow up and watch politics, and i used to be on the other side of politics, and run for office. in all the years of studying politics i have never seen people get elected by saying we're going to give you a tax increase.

we're going to give you no security, a weak military, no walls, no borders, no anything. all of these things they're doing. transgender, became such a big thing. but they do all of these things but they always say we're going to give you a tax increase. i never heard anybody campaign on a tax increase. a politician said i will cut taxes. i'll give you one example. social security, they're going to destroy social security. i'm going to leave social security. i'm not raising the years, not raising the age, i will be saving social security, and i'm going to work it out that there's no tax on social security for seniors. i'm also doing no tax on tips. no tax on tips. so waiters, waitresses, caddies, people that drive cars, people that no tax on tips.

that's a big thing [ do you believe the imprisonment of steve bannon was politically motivated? >> sure. other people have done far bigger things than steve bannon. it's politically motivated. it's a horrible thing. they have weaponized government against me. the new york cases are totally controlled out of the department of justice. they sent their top person to the various places. they went to the ag's office. got that going. then he went to the d.a.'s office. got that going. ran through it. this is all politics, and it's a disgrace. it's very common that it happens but not in our country. it happens in banana republics. we have no borders. anytime you have mail-in ballots, you're going to have problems. france learned that lesson.

france had all mail-in voting, and they went back to paper ballot, voter identification, they went back to a normal system. the election starts on september 6th because it's early voting. we should have one day voting. paper ballots. we should have voter i.d. and proof of citizenship. please. >> mr. president. >> [ inaudible question ] >> do you support continuation of tax credits and what sort of political or policy advice did elon musk give you? >> elon is very worried about

the country, and i don't know if it's good for him politically to have supported me, although i think we have a vast majority of this country does support me. but elon more than almost anybody i know, he loves this country. he loves the concept of the country but like me, he says this country is in big trouble. it's in tremendous danger. >> polls suggest overwhelmingly that americans trust -- [ inaudible question ] >> what question do you have for americans struggling to pay for groceries. >> the polls have suggested, some say we're going to win in a landslide. people are voting with their stomachs, meaning they're going to the grocery stores, paying 50, 60, 70% more food.

gasoline has gone from $1.87, and we had moments when it was below that. but it's gone from $1.87 to $5, $67,$7. they take the strategic national reserves. they're virtually empty now. we have never had it this low. he's using that to keep the gasoline prices as low as possible. he's sucked all of the oil out, essentially the gasoline to keep the price down a little bit. and it's had very little impact. but you know what, we have no strategic national reserves now. he's emptied it. it's almost empty. it's never been this low. and i had it at a good level. i would have had it more if the democrats would have approved the deal. i had a deal to buy it at $22 a barrel, and now it's going to be close to a hundred soon, my opinion. and the democrats didn't want to do that. we bought a lot anyway, and we

had it pretty good, and what they've done to the national reserves, the strategic national reserves, as you know well, because you've covered it, what they have done is incredible. for the sake of getting votes, you know, that's meant for wars. it's meant for, like, tragedy. it's not meant to keep a gasoline price down so that somebody can vote for biden or in this case kamala. who, by the way, is worse than biden, and she's actually not as smart. she's actually not as smart. >> direct your fda, for example, to revoke access to mifepristone. >> you could do things that will supplement. those things are pretty open and humane. but you have to be able to have

a vote. and all i want to do is give everybody a vote, and the votes are taking place right now as we speak. there are many things on a humane basis that you can do outside of that. you have to give a vote. >> a political question, too, you think kamala harris is worse than president biden, i know you said you think you're very far ahead. you said you think you're far ahead in the polls. >> i'm not a big fan of his brain, but i think that she's actually not as smart as he is. >> to what do you attribute her rising in the polls, this becoming a more competitive race since she has taken over for joe biden? >> well, she's a woman. she represents ever certain groups of people. i will say this, when people find out about her, i think she'll be much less. i see it right now. i see her going way down in the polls. now that people are finding out that she destroyed san francisco. she destroyed the state of california along with governor

gavin newsom. she was early, she was the first of the prosecutors really, you know, now you see philadelphia, los angeles, you see new york, you see various people that are very bad, but she was the first of the bad prosecutors. she was early. [ inaudible question ] >> would you repeat that, please? no, you, would you repeat what she said. you have to speak up. louder. >>. [ inaudible question ] >> do you hear her? >> do you commit to a daily press briefing. why would i do that. look what i'm doing here. why would i do a daily press. you would get tired of me very fast. i'll give you total access and you'll have a lot of press briefings, and for me, are you

talking about for me or from a press secretary. >> press secretary. >> well, yeah, probably they'll do something. you'll have more than you want. >> yeah, please. >> president biden vowed not to pardon his son hunter. [ inaudible ] would you consider granting clemency or pardons? >> i don't think it's appropriate for me to talk about it. i think it's a tragic story, if you want to know the truth. and i felt that with hillary clinton, too. you know, with hillary clinton, i could have done things to her that would have made your head spin. i thought it was a very bad thing. take the wife of a president of the united states and put her in jail, and then i see the way they treat me. that's the wait it goes. i was very protective of her. nobody would understand that. i was. i think my people understand it. they used to say, lock her up, and i used to say, relax, please. we won the election, i think it would be very -- i think it would have been horrible for our

country and we had her between the hammering of all of the files and don't forget. she got a subpoena from the united states congress, and then after getting the subpoena she destroyed everything that she was supposed to give. i thought it was so bad to take her and put her in jail. when it's my turn, people don't think that way. she did a lot of bad things. she was pretty evil. in terms of the country and in terms of unifying the country, bringing it back, to have taken her and to have put her in jail. you know the things as well as i do. there were some pretty bad acts that she remembers. i think it would have been very bad for our country. a lot of the my people, a lot of maga they call them, like the base. i think the base is 75% of the country. far beyond the republican party

because we're a party of commons, and i'm a person of common sense. i want low taxes, strong borders, a strong military so that china and russia, look, they have allowed china and russia to do the impossible. . combine. they're natural enemies, they always have been. china needs more land and russia has it. they have always been natural enemies and because of obama, it started with him, and biden because he didn't know what hell he was doing, they have become one force, and they are adding iran to it, and they're adding north korea to it. pretty powerful force. this is something that's unthinkable that they allowed to happen. >> bidenomics, you're saying you're not going to change your campaign strategy. what if this doesn't end? >> the honeymoon period is going to end. she's got a convention coming up. it's about policy. it's