host: one of the people who made the case was the former president donald trump. he spoke in south carolina this year at the black conservative federation gala. here is some of his comments from earlier this year. [video] >> joe biden and the radical left have abandoned everything black americans care about. they really have let you down. we all understand it. they have thrown black americans overboard. it has been not a pretty thing to watch. take a look at some of the inner cities. i and the republican party will fight for the black community like you have never had anybody fight for four. -- fight before. you will never be taken for granted. they always come around about two months before an election and they get your votes and then they go on and four years later they come and say hello or two years depending on what office we are talking about. they come back and do nothing. they do absolutely nothing until it is election time. then they come in and seek your vote. the future we...

into the building. here are some of those comments from this morning. >> so we begin again. this is a case that should never have been brought. every single -- every single scholar, the great mark levin, says this is a great disgraceful case. it's a disgrace to the new york city court system. all the cases are, frankly. we probably saw last night that jack smith got caught with his hand in the cookie jar. it was released late last night. it's a big story. the documents case is a hoax, created by them for election interference purposes. a brilliant judge said the facts. i haven't read what was revealed. it just came out. but the document hoax is a hoax. it's all a hoax. they're all hoaxes, including the civil case. they're controlled by the white house. they're controlled by democrats, prosecutors that were put there specifically. they hate trump. the people just came out, a poll that was just release beside two minutes ago, and i'm leading by a lot of in every swing state and leading...

facebook.com/cspan and on x at @cspanwj. the black gala the former president spoke at, here's another portion from that. you can find the whole speech on c-span. here is more from donald trump. [video] >> black conservatives understand better than most some of the greatest evils in our nation history have come from corrupt systems that try to target and subjugate others to deny them their freedom and deny them their rights. you understand that. i think that is why the black people are so much on my side now. they see what's happening to me. it happens to them. does that make sense? i have heard that. when i did the mugshot in atlanta -- that mugshot is number one. elvis presley is number two in frank sinatra. they had frank sinatra for fighting and elvis for something at a gas station. he tried to hold up a gas station, i don't know. elvis is never too but he was always number one. the mugshot. we have all seen the mugshot. you know who embraced it more than anybody else? the black...