national committeeman bob asher, rnc cochairman tommy hicks, an -- and an incredible friend, david irvinlause] i just want to thank -- this is an amazing group of people. with their help and the help of everyone here, we are going to set records like we've never set before. i used to say and i still have to say, 2016, i don't know if anything like that can ever happen. but i think we are much better, all of the things that i said, cut taxes, cut regulation, take care of our veterans, look what we did for our vets. look what we did. look what we did, we now have the ability to fire all of the bad people in the va. right? [cheering] over 8000 people that were disrespecting our vets. they would have not done it in primetime, i can tell you that. but what we do for our vets, and rebuilding our military, what we have done so many ways, and we, unlike the democrats, will protect your second amendment. [cheers and applause] so we have done a job, and we are proud of it, and we have tremendous people, let's give them a hand. thank you very much. [applause] thank you, thank you everybody. thank y