he was also here to stump for representative lou barletta, who is running now against bob casey for theenate. let's talk a little bit first about the taxes and then about the local race. and what do you think is really the story behind him coming to speak to truckers, of all things? george, do you buy into him saying it's gonna even trickle down and help people, tax cuts that will help truckers? >> well, i think two things. i think one, his coming here is a down payment on next year, an indication that they're gonna compete in pennsylvania next year in both the senate race and in the gubernatorial race. secondly, as the son of a truck driver, i don't have any confidence that removing estate taxes and taking away state tax deductions and local tax deductions is gonna put any more money in the pockets of middle-class americans. and i don't think -- what president trump is saying, "trust me in what i tell you what's gonna be the consequence of this and ignore the independent studies" that say it's gonna increase the deficit by $2.4 -- or cost the government about $2.4 billion over the next

representative lou barletta, great guy, running for governor. he's running for the senate. 's running for -- where he is lou? sorry, i heard he was running for governor but then i heard he was running for the senate. he's going to win. you are going to win big. you are going to win big, blue, good luck. a friend of my for a long time, representative mike kelly. thank you, mike. tom marino going to be the drug czar. he's going to do a great job. thank you, tom. will be amazing, the drug czar. patrick meehan.

representative lou barletta, great guy running for governor. he is running for the senate.boos] pres. trump: i heard he was running for governor, then i heard he was running for the senate. you are going to win big. good luck, lou. a friend of mine, representative mike kelly. [applause] pres. trump: thank you, mike. , he will do a great job. thank you, tom. you will be amazing. patrick meehan. thank you, patrick. scott perry. scott. and lloyd smucker. lloyd, thank you. thank you, lloyd. i also want to thank a couple of very special people who have been fantastic in what they have done. secretary of the treasury, steve mnuchin, who is here somewhere. y cohen.: , the speakerailles of the house of representatives. thank you, mike. i think that is enough, right? [applause] pres. trump: that's enough. we will start losing the crowd, mike. before we begin, i want to take a moment to address some of the recent tragedies that have struck our incredible nation. in the darkest moments, the light of our people as shown through. the goodness, the courage, and the love. no destructive f

representative lou barletta, great guy, running for governor. he's running for the senate. 's running for -- where he is lou? sorry, i heard he was running for governor but then i heard he was running for the senate. he's going to win. you are going to win big. you are going to win big, blue, good luck. a friend of my for a long time, representative mike kelly. thank you, mike. tom marino going to be the drug czar. he's going to do a great job. thank you, tom. will be amazing, the drug czar. patrick meehan. patrick. thank you, patrick. scott perry. scott. [applause] and lloyd smucker. lloyd, thank you. thank you, lloyd. i also want to thank a couple of very special people. they have been fantastic in what they have done. secretary of the treasury, steven mnuchin, who is here someplace. there he is. and gary cohn, director of the national economic council. thank you, gary. thank you. and mike turner's eye, the speaker of the pennsylvania house of representatives, thank you, mike. i think that's enough, right? that's enough. we will start losing the crowd, mike. before we get

representative lou barletta, great guy, running for governor. he is running for the senate. ? i heard he was running for governor, but then i heard he was running for the senate. he is going to win. you're going to win big. good luck. a friend of mine for a long time, representative mike kelly. thank you, mike. tom marino, going to be the drugs are -- drug czar. he's going to do a great job. thank you, tom. patrick meehan. patrick, thank you, patrick. scott perry. scott. and lloyd smucker. lloyd, thank you. thank you, lloyd. i also want to thank a couple of very special people that have been fantastic in what they have done. secretary of the treasury steve mnuchin, who is here someplace. steve. and gary cohn, director of the national economic council. thank you, gary. thank you. mike, the speaker of the pennsylvania house of representatives. thank you, mike. i think that's enough, right? that's enough. we will start losing the crowd, mike. before we begin, i want to take a moment to address some of the recent tragedies that have struck our incredible nation. in the darkest mo

representative lou barletta, great guy, running for governor. he is running for the senate. ng -- where is lou? i heard he is running for governor but now he's running for the senate. he is going to win big. good luck. a friend of mine for a long time, representative mike kelly. thank you, mike. tom marino, he's going to do a great job. he's going to be the drug czar. it'll be amazing. the drug czar. patrick meehan. thank you, patrick. scott perry. scott. and loyce smucker. thank you. thank you. i also want to thank a couple of very special people. they have been fantastic and what they've done. secretary of the treasury steven mnuchin and gary cohn, director of the national economic council. thank you. thank you. and mike, the speaker of the pennsylvania house of representatives. thank you. i think that's enough, right? that's enough. we will start losing the crowd, mike. before we begin, i want to take a moment to address some of the recent tragedies that have struck our incredible nation. in the darkest moments, the light of our people has shown through like seldom before.

[boos] >> president trump: lou barletta, he's incredible in congress.nd i think you are going to have a tremendous -- i think he's going to do a tremendous job. and we do need more republican senators. you have a tiny -- we have 52. out of a couple people, they want to grandstand or whatever they want to do. when you want to get every single vote, you have to get at least 50 because the vice president, mike pence. great guy, right? we need 50. that means out of all of these people, two people decide they want to do something for whatever reason. in some cases it is grandstanding. all of a sudden, you don't have health care. we are going to get it anyway. we have the numbers. tomorrow, i am signing something that's going to be incredible. >> sean: in 1974 -- >> president trump: we are going to have great health care across state lines. it will cost the government nothing. private insurance. incredible health care. i tell you what, this will take it i can sign it myself, i don't need anybody. i would have done it earlier but i was hoping they were going t

. >> lou barletta $540,000 from the bank and they did not check your income. >> no income verificationy did not call me up and say how much money. they do not do that. it is almost like you have a guy in the street and say lends me -- lend me $540,000. it seems like it if i casually and though there are a lot of papers that get filled out and flies all over with faxes and emails. essentially, that is the process. ♪ would you have loaned you the money? >> i would not have loaned me the money and no one i know oaned me the money. a person with bad credit. i remember everything about exactly where i was when i have that interview. we're at a foreclosure up as were people were trying to figure out what was happening with their houses in the financial crisis. click backstory, that was a big hour-long episode of this american life. adam davidson, a reporter for npr. we teamed up to do this big finance. on mortgage we were trying to explain what was going on with the financial crisis. we had no idea how to do it and nothing like that had ever been tried at this american life. for inspiration,

representative lou barletta. great guy running for governor. he's running for the senate. or where is lou? so i heard he was running for governor but when he heard he was running for the senate. he's going to win big, you're going to win big, lou. >> [applause] >> president trump: good luck. a friend of mine for a long time , representative mike kelly. >> [applause] >> president trump: thank you mike. tom marino going to be the drug czar, going to do a great job, thank you tom. will be amazing, the drug czar. patrick mehan. patrick? [applause] >> president trump: thank you patrick. scott perry. >> [applause] >> president trump: scott, and lloyd smucker. >> [applause] >> president trump: lloyd thank you. thank you. i also want to thank a couple of very special people that have been fantastic in what they've done, secretary of the treasury steve mnuchin whose here somewhere. steve? and gary cohen, director of the national economic council thank you, gary. thank you. >> [applause] >> president trump: and the speaker of the pennsylvania house of representatives, thank you, mike