ambition was the overriding consideration as that coincided he has to pay the civil rights bill because not all to help those poor people of color. >> we're now in cedar rapids iowa where poland -- president trump is will be a political rally his first visit since becoming president talking about farmers and rural areas also with internet access plan. agriculture secretary and commerce secretary are also

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>> thank you everybody. it is great to be back and the incredible, beautiful great state of iowa. [applause] home of the greatest wrestlers in the world including our friend dan gable. some of the great great wrestlers of the world. we love those wrestlers. it's always terrific to be able to leave that washington swamp and spend time with the truly hard-working people. we called them american patriots. amazing people. [applause] i want to also extend our congratulations this evening to

karen handel of georgia. [applause] and we can't forget ralph norman in south carolina. he called me and i called him. [applause] he said you know last night i felt like the forgotten man but he won anyone really beautifully even though a lot of people didn't show up because they thought he was going to win by so much. but he won very easily and he is a terrific guy and that's how you work karen is going to be really incredible. she's going to be joining some wonderful people and doing some wonderful work including major major tax cuts and health care and lots of things. we will be reducing crime and securing that 2nd amendment. i told you about that and that

looks like it's in good shape with judge corsets. that looks like it's in good shape. [applause] i'd like to also extend our thoughts and prayers to our courageous friends. somebody that i've gotten to know very well, steve scalise and everyone recovering from the assault. it never fails. it never fails. [chanting] usa, usa, usa.

[applause] >> thank you, thank you. and we love our police. we love our police. [applause] and steve was in my office the day before. we are praying for you. we are pulling for you. you have our absolute support in their deepest admiration.

[applause] and our gratitude goes out tonight as well to the capitol police officers who saved so many lives. you know they ran from the out field in. they were being hit by rifle fire. they only had handguns and they were able to get them. it was an amazing show of talent and bravery. [applause] so we want to thank all of the police officers who so bravely serve and protect us. thank you very much. thank you. hopefully our nation emerges from this ordeal. it was an ordeal, terrible. more unified and more determined than ever before and i can see it and we are indeed more unified in our own way than ever before. you just have to take a look at what's happening here. [applause]

if we set aside the cynics and the critics we have a chance and it's a great chance. it lies before us to do extraordinary things for our country in the years ahead. history is written by the dreamers, not the doubters. [applause] so while we are here tonight to celebrate the amazing progress that we have already made, and we have made amazing progress. [applause] we are also here to lay out the next steps in our incredible movement to make america great again. [applause]

everyone gathered in this arena is bound together by common values. you love our country. you all pay our laws. you honor our traditions and you care for your families and you love your communities. [applause] all you want is a government that shows you the same respect and loyalty in return. you believe that america must protect and defend its own citizens. with that conviction deep in your hearts, you showed up on election day, november 8, and voted to put america first. [applause] it's about time. it's about time. [applause] and from the moment i took that

solemn oath of office and every single day since, that is exactly what i have done, put america first. [applause] after years of sending our jobs and our wealth to other countries, we are finally standing up for our country and you see it happening. you see it happening. you see what's going on. jobs are just about the best they have ever been. we have created almost $4 trillion in wealth. if you look at your stock values and you look at what's going on with our country, we have created tremendous wealth. the enthusiasm and spirit on every single index is higher

than it's ever been before for manufacturers and our companies. [applause] after spending billions of dollars defending other people's borders we are finally going to defend our borders. [applause] [chanting] usa, usa, usa. >> after decades of rebuilding foreign nations all over the world, we are now rebuilding our nation. [applause]

as of a few months ago our country has spent $6 trillion in the middle east wasted and the lives, the lives, thousands and thousands and thousands of lives $6 trillion and thousands of young beautiful lives. we started 16 years ago and it's been far worse shape than it was 16 years ago by many times over. so we spent all of this money, all of these lives and let me tell you, i came in and took over a very difficult hand but when you get it fixed that's what you put me here for. we are going to get it fixed.

[applause] it's a shame. it's a shame and a new look at north korea and then you look and i am praying for you. thank you very much. but you look at north korea and beautiful otto went over there a healthy beautiful boy and you see how he came back. you see how he came back. so we have been given a bad hand and we are going to take that bad hand and do all we can and in addition to that we are going to start taking care of our country. [applause] the people are the rulers of this country once again. one by one we are keeping the

promises we made to the people of iowa and the people all over our country. we are not going to let the same failed and tired voices in washington keep us from delivering that change you voted for and the change that you deserve, that you deserve. [applause] i do not answer to any donors or financial contributors. i don't care about them. [applause] i am not a holden to any consultants are any of the very powerful special interests and i don't care about them. i have to do what's right and if they are right, that's good. [applause] we will never be intimidated by the dishonest media corporations who will say anything and do

anything to get people to watch their screens or to get people to buy their failing papers. [applause] they are failing. these entrenched forces are fighting only for themselves and in many cases for their survival but i am fighting for you. i am fighting for you. [applause] fighting for your hopes because your hopes are my hopes. i have had a great time in this country. i've had a great run and it was time to do something. we all saw what was happening. it was time to do something. your dreams are my dreams and

your future is what i'm focused on each and every day. we are going to make america great again, believe me. we are going to make america great. [applause] here are just some of the historic accomplishments we have achieved in just a short period of time and i have to preface it by saying, thank you. i have to preface it by saying, you know i've been watching and they are saying president trump has not produced health care. you know i've been there for five months. do you remember during the clinton period they worked for years and years and years and they never got health care. obama -- [booing] although after listening to that testimony i fully understand.

but president obama, his whole administration pushing come pushing for obamacare which is now fail. in fact i was just told by your great governor and ex-governor that your insurance companies have all fled the state of iowa. it's pretty sad, isn't it? although you what they are leaving all of the states. obamacare is a disaster. it's over and there's nothing to compare what we are doing. i hope the republican senate -- if we went and got the single greatest health care plan in the history of the world we would not get one democrat vote because their obstructionists. they are obstructionists. we wouldn't get one democrat. [applause] if we came to you and said here's your plan, you were going

to have the greatest plan in history and you are going to pay nothing, they would vote against it, folks. every single vote so we have a very slim 52-48. that means we basically can't lose anybody. and i think and i hope, can't guarantee anything but i hope we will survive -- surprise you. i've been talking about a plan with hard. i said add the money to it. a plan with hard but obamacare is dead but it is interesting how they say donald trump is not producing health care. so we produced, i don't think any president, could be somebody. they have to be a little careful because they will say he lied. so few presidents, whew, just have to be a little careful because they will say headline,

donald trump lies to the people of iowa. but very few have done what we have done when you look at the regulations, when you look at all of it. you know they are saying but he didn't pass legislative bills. i think it's 38 and we are going to be talking about that, 38. and if you listen to them, but, but in some of them are really big having to do with regulation , having to do with lots of different things but we are working really hard on massive tax cuts. it would be up again at the way i wanted the largest tax cut in the history of the united states of america. [applause] because right now we are one of the highest taxed nations in the world really in a large-scale

basis. we are the highest tax nation in the world and we are going to get it down really low. i don't say the lowest. there are couple that are really down there but that doesn't mean you want to be there. but we are going to have one of the lowest taxes from a highest tax. we are working hard on it and i think it's going to happen and i think health care is going going to happen and infrastructure is going to happen. we have a lot of exciting things over the next few months and i look forward to be able to produce it. let's see what happens. [applause] and by the way if we had even a little democratic support, just a little like a couple of votes and you could give us a lot of votes and we'd even be willing to change it and move it around to try to make it even better.

but again they just want to stop, they just want to abstract. seriously a few votes from the democrats, could be so easy and so beautiful and you have cooperation and the plan isn't working because they thought they were going to win last night in atlanta. they thought they were going to win. [applause] and they have been unbelievably nasty, really nasty and they spent close to $30 million on this kid who forgot to live in the community that he was then, i mean you know. look, i will tell you about the democrats. i'm going to make a little bit hard to get their support but who cares? i will tell you bout the democrats they raised a fortune and they fought like hell and they said they were going to win. all of the television networks other than fox who really has

treated us fairly. [applause] but they built these studios, "cnn". [booing] hey the cameras just went off. i can imagine. i can imagine why. this phony nbc television network. they actually had one of the people say you know it was a little rainy last night. maybe that was the difference in karen's win. can you believe that? but they had these beautiful studios and if walt mossberg had lost they would have been there for weeks talking about this would have been the greatest

defeat in the history of american politics. when she won they said projected winner is karen handel and they said we switch to another program. it was so short. they couldn't get out of there fast enough. and don't forget this happened in montana, right? in kansas. last night south carolina with ralph who was expected to win and he won. california, but it's been incredible. so we are 5-0. we are 5-0. [applause] and they thought they were going to win at least like three. wouldn't you say? at least three and it would be devastating.

the truth is people love us, all of us. they love us. they haven't figured it out yet. you know they are still trying to figure where all of those voters came from. those voters came out of the hills. these are hard-working, we have the hardest working, the smartest people, the toughest people and we are very lucky that our people don't protest, believe me. they are very lucky. [applause] [cheering] [chanting] usa, usa, usa. >> we have them. we have the smart ones. great, great americans and

hillary said deplorables. these are just the opposite of deplorables. these are just the opposite. we have a group like ours pro-trump. they come by the thousands. oh, my man, look. i didn't know you were here. they are here. now we know we are protected. that's right, good to have you here. these are great people and when i see them i say, now we are safe. they like trump and i guess we are well into the 90s. what do you think? 95 but we love our people and they love us and more importantly they love our policies. they love what we are doing. you see what we have party done. homebuilders are starting to build again. we are not confiscating their land with ridiculous rules and regulations that though makes

sense. farmers are able to plow their fields. [applause] if they have a puddle in the middle of their field, a little puddle it's considered a lake and you can't touch it and if you touch it bad, bad things happen to you and your family. we got rid of that one to map, okay? [applause] unemployment is at a 16 year low and manufacturing is doing phenomenally. we have companies moving back. they are coming back, back, back you know in the state of michigan which is just an exit poll work for companies or left i told them you know what, you want to start leaving and you

want to fire all those people. you watch what we are going to be doing. we have the legendary wall street genius wilbur ross here. he's our secretary of commerce. we have gary cohen who is the present at goldman sachs. he's the president of goldman sachs. he paid over 200 billion taxes to pay -- to take the job. why argue wanting a rich person to be in charge of the economy? i said, no it's true. wilbur is a very rich person in charge of commerce. they said that's because that's the kind of thinking we want. really because they are representing the country. they don't want the money. they are representing the country and they had to give up a lot to take these jobs. they gave up a lot. you get the president, the president of goldman sachs, smart, having him represent us.

he went from massive heydays to peanuts. i'm waiting for them to accuse him of wanting that little amount of money. but these are people that are great brilliant business minds and that's what we need. that's what we have to have so the world doesn't take advantage of us. we can have the world taking advantage of us anymore. [applause] and i love all people, rich or poor but in those particular positions i just don't want a poor person. does that make sense? if you insist, i will do it but i like it better this way, right? so we have achieved a historic increase in defense spending and we have created a new office of accountability and the va, our veterans make sure that our

veterans get the care that they richly deserve. our veterans. [applause] ye have eliminated restrictions on the production of american energy who wants to take away our wealth. the world wants to take away our wealth. we have to be lucky. under our feet we have great wealth not only in the form of beautiful fertile soil but also in other locations in the form of energy. they wanted to take back power in that wealth away from us and we have ended the war on clean beautiful coal and we are putting our minors that to work. [applause]

in fact you read about it. last week a brand-new coal mine just opened in the state of pennsylvania, the first time in decades, decades. we have reversed it. [applause] and 33,000 mining jobs have been added since my inauguration. again we are going to have all forms of energy but coal is something we have a tremendous advantage in that we are going to have all weather whether it's natural gas, whether it's alternative sources. we will have everything but it's power for our electric plants and for our furnaces. it's a power. we use electric, we use wind, we use solar, we use coal, we use natural gas.

we will use nuclear if the right opportunity presents itself. we will be strong for the future. we are going to be strong for the future. i don't want to just hope the wind blows. [applause] as the birds fall to the ground. but i like all of them and that's what i need and by the way we are saving your ethanol industries in the state of iowa just luck i promised i would do in my campaign and believe me they are under siege, folks. i don't know few know it but they are under siege. we have approved the keystone xl pipeline and the dakota access pipeline.

[applause] 38,000 jobs and better for the environment by the way, better for the environment and safer. can you imagine the executive for keystone to a year and a half ago was told they had billions of invested and somebody walks into his office probably a consultant and charged him tens of millions of dollars. sir the pipeline was just approved. you know what he's going to do. he said it did a great job and i'm entitled to millions of dollars in consulting fees. it was trump approving the pipeline. we approved it. we approved it. it's good for the country. [applause] my man. and by the way speaking of that when i'm signing for the xl pipeline because i said by the

way who made the pipe? you don't want to know. no, not the usa believe me pass it who made the pipe? they bought a lot of their pipe already so it's hard to say throw it away. i said anybody who builds a pipeline in the united states will use american steel and fabricate in america. no more taking it over on boats. [applause] we have signed 39 pieces of legislation. that means it's going to congress books because they tell you, these guys, the fake news. it's fake news, its fate. not all of that, some of it's good and some of the people are great actually but some are real bad and they are really fake. if you listen to them the past past -- i'm not talking about executive orders which we signed

a lot. we have really signed a lot and we have gotten rid of a really bad pieces that were signed by the president obama, believe me. but if you listen to the fake news they say he didn't pass any legislation. everything is executive order. 39 pieces as of today. some of them are very important. my biggest piece is yet to come, hopefully taxes, hopefully health care, hopefully infrastructure and when they come that won't be good enough. but we have also done a record number of resolutions to laminate the job-killing regulations on our workers, our companies and our farmers. they are gone, they are gone. [applause] we are ending the federal intrusion into your family farms

and your ranches. and we are also working very hard to get rid of the death tax so you can pass your farms onto your children and onto your grandchildren. i don't know if we are going to pull that one off but we are working very hard to do it, right chris? [applause] is what you can pass your motorcycle on. that's not so bad either. i see what you ride, not so bad. i don't know if that was going to get pulled off. why should you be doubled tax? you should have a right to pass your farm onto your children and onto your grandchildren. you should have that right. [applause] without having them, without

having them going out in borrowing a fortune, not being able to make payments, losing it to the bank. it's not fair so we are going to try very hard, i can tell you. i don't know but we are going to try. no longer will the epa be telling you how to run your business or do your job or live your life. instead it will focus on its true mission, clean air and clean beautiful crystal water, nice beautiful clean water. that's what we want, right? [applause] we are also ending the last administration's federal land grab. we believe states, communities and private landowners know best how to manage their own resources. we have made a lot of progress on that.

brian zinke. we want to see local control. that also means we are not going to let foreign bureaucrats plan our economy or tell americans how to run their country. [applause] you know what i mean. when i campaigned for president who promised to renegotiate or to leave any deal which fails to serve america's interests and i'm not going to a allow other countries to take advantage of the united states any longer. and for that reason -- [applause] i totally cut off negotiations. i will not do are great, what is the? go ahead. do you know what it is?

you guys weren't listening. but for that reason, and that too, as you know i formally announced the united states will withdraw from the disastrous paris climate accord. it's a disaster. [applause] it's a disaster. and by the way transpacific partnership, we don't even talk about it anymore but transpacific partnership, bye bye. that was another nafta catastrophe that by the way we are going to renegotiate. he now announced i'm going to get rid of nafta and i have always told you we are going to renegotiate.

we will terminate nafta so i announced that essentially it was going to terminate that i got a very nice call from prime minister trudeau of canada, from the president, a good guy of mexico asking me not to terminate it. could we negotiate and i'm always willing to negotiate. i'm always willing so we'll see how it goes. [applause] but it's been very unfair to the united states. all you have to do is look about the empty empty buildings and plants and factories all over the country. nafta has been a disaster so we are going to renegotiate it successfully which will be my first state terminated and that's going to be that. [applause] now the paris agreement, and it's amazing how the people of this country get it because the

press covers is so unfairly. the paris agreement would have cost america millions in lost jobs and billions and billions in lost dollars and put us at a permanent economic disadvantage. china doesn't kick in until 2030 i could tell you stories, i could give you stats, i could go on all the day. the catastrophe if we would have agreed and they are all saying it's nonbinding. like hell it's nonbinding. when we get sued by everybody because we thought it was nonbinding then you can tell me it was nonbinding. i was elected to serve the citizens of iowa and pennsylvania and ohio and michigan and wisconsin and florida and all 50 states and all 320 million american citizens.

[chanting] usa, usa, usa. [applause] by the way this is a big place. and i used to say during the campaign, we are not even campaigning and look at this crowd. it's easier during the campaign. it's packed with thousands of people trying to get in. look at the size of this place. they will never show the crowd. they will never show the crowd. they will never show the crowd. the only good thing about the protesters which we don't have very much of, this guy is blowing a whistle. he is a bernie sanders guy.

but when we do have one the only good thing the cameras go up into the quarters way up in that arena. every seat is packed. look at that. every seat. every corner is packed in this big arena so it's an honor. wouldn't it be great if they showed -- you know it's funny i go home and my wife, melania who by the way has become very popular. they are liking her. [applause] but she is saying i never saw the crowd but it sounded like a lot of people. you can't imitate the sound of this many people. this is not like 500 people. this is big stuff. you can't imitate that. [applause]

[cheers and applause] [applause] you know what they don't understand? i know they charge a fortune but all those television cameras, all those live ones and i hate to do this but they did even better ratings if they show that i try to convince them but they just can't mentally handle that one. but it's such a great crowd. for all those people watching it's a big beautiful arena and it is packed. [applause]

so as you may know there is another absolutely terrible deal from the previous administration. see how nice i am? i say the previous administration is opposed to the obama administration. i have recently, last week i announced that we are canceling the prior administrations completely one-sided deal with the castro regime in cuba. [applause] isn't it amazing? obama can deal with cuba killing

thousands of people, people in prison, horrible to women, and deal with iran. you talk about the women, bad to everybody, brutal. they are like donald trump's a terrible human being. it's unbelievable. it's unbelievable. america will stand strong against communist oppression. we will make a much better deal. the fact is the deal with cuba was a bad deal. maybe we will make it and maybe we won't but if we make a deal it's going to be a fair deal and a good deal for us. it's not going to be a one-sided giveaway. [applause] we are also fighting every single day to achieve those fair trade deals for american farmers and your ranchers.

representing america's interests in china will be a man you know very well. i just left an event where i honored him, introduced him to a crowd of people that adore him to discuss how to create, i mean he has been doing this for years in iowa. he is longest-serving governor in american history and now he carries the title of ambassador to china, terry branstad. [applause] he is a fantastic guy. i told the story today. we have big crowds in iowa and terry would come and say and he doesn't call me mr. president,

he calls me donald. that's okay, didn't think about it. now they call me donald i get very angry at them but he said donald could you do me a favor? don't say anything bad about china. we do a lot of business with china prayed i'd like china a lot. i have known president xi for a long time. we like him and he also by the way like terry alive and just please don't say anything bad about china which is hard for me and i wouldn't but then when i won and we were looking for somebody to represent us for china which is a very powerful come country and we have had a very good relationship with china in all fairness and i do like president xi, i wish we would have a little more help with respect to north korea from china but that doesn't seem to be working out. i do like the president a lot.

when i was thinking of who am i going to make the ambassador to china after having a good retentive mind i said you know i remember about a year ago and terry branstad was saying all of these great things as governor. so i called them up and i said listen you been doing this for 24 years. do you want to do something else? how would you like to be ambassador to china and i didn't think you would really do it. it's a long trip. 21 hours. that's a lot of playing time -- plain time. i said i wasn't sure you are going to do it and he said when my president calls me to help him with our great country i do it. that's what he said to me. [applause]

so central to that economic agenda is a plan to restore america's crumbling infrastructure. we will rebuild not only america but we will rebuild rural america. [applause] in this great national rebuilding we will follow two simple rules. we will buy america and we will higher america. [applause] we want to get our people off of welfare and back to work. [applause] we also want to preserve our safety net for struggling americans who truly need help. we want to help them. people that truly need help, right chris?

we want to help those people. but others don't treat us fairly. that's why i believe the time has come for a new immigration rules which say that those seeking admission into our country must be able to support themselves financially and should not use welfare for a period of at least five years. [applause] [applause] and we will be putting in legislation to that effect for sure. those coming to our country must embrace our values and love our people.

[applause] and yes, we will build the wall. we have already started planning. it will be built. [applause] [chanting] build that wall. build that wall. >> we will build the wall. we have to stop the drugs from flowing in. you know people don't realize we are already spending a lot of money and design but i'll give you an idea that nobody has heard about yet and i'm not sure but i'm a builder. that's what i love to do. that's probably what i do best. i'm a builder and we are thinking of something, we are talking about the southern border.

lots of sun. we are thinking about building the wall as a solar wall so it creates energy and pays for itself. [applause] and this way mexico will have to pay much less money and that's good, right? is that good? you are the first group i told that to. we are working doubt, we will see. solar wall panels, beautiful. actually think of it the higher it goes the more valuable it is. pretty good imagination, right? my idea. but we have a good shot. that's one of the places that solar really does work with tremendous sun and heat. he really does work there so we

will see what happens there. that will be great and i think we can make it look beautiful too. it will really look beautiful so that will be nice. we are also working night and day to restore law and order to our country, law and order. [applause] you know that. we are reversing the last administration's soft on crime policies that help enable a tragic rise in violent crimes. look at chicago. what the hell is going on in chicago? what is that all about? we have also issued new direct its to protect our police officers and our sheriffs. [applause] and we will always stand with the incredible men and women of

law enforcement. [applause] all american children no matter where they live have the right to grow up in a safe community. no issue is more central to public safety than the issue of immigration and border security. after years of lawlessness the united states is now enforcing our laws, the first time in a long time and protecting our workers, our schools and their families. since i was elected illegal border crossings, and this is without the wall, before the wall have decreased by more than 75%, a historic in an precedented achievement. [applause]

so we are building the wall on the southern border. we have got the greatest security people in the world. i will tell you i.c.e. and the border patrol folks, these are incredible people. you know they endorse me when i ran for president knowing that if i went they are going to have to work much much harder but they love this country and they want the job done and they want the job done right. they have to work harder and it's much more dangerous. the other thing that i have to tell you, you have a gang called ms-13. a friend of mine who is a very high-level police officer said to me in describing them, they are the equivalent or worse than al qaeda. i would say that's the best. they don't like to shoot people.

they like to cut people. they do things that nobody can believe. the searcher animals. we are moving them out of the country by the thousands, by the thousands. [applause] and the people moving them out are a hell of a lot tougher and meaner than they are but they were on our side. [applause] we are getting them out. ms-13. during my campaign for president i met with the families of americans killed by a legal immigrants, many many families including the parents of sarah root a 21-year-old iowa girl who was killed the day after she graduated from college with a 4.0 gpa. to those of you who don't know

if that means solid a's, number one student. thousands of usable american lives like sarah's have been stolen for the simple reason that our government has recused to enforce already existing laws the media, these people like to talk about separating families but the families they never talk about earthy american families separated forever from the ones they love because we don't protect their orders and uphold the immigration laws of the united states. [applause] ..

to the highest level and we will take strong and forceful action to fulfill our sacred duty to save and protect american lives. [applause] every single day we are finding these gang members, criminals,

killers, and we are throwing at them the hell out of our country. we have very strong borders especially with the wall that would never allow them back in. [applause] so we are doing a lot of things. we are very proud of what we've done. justice gorsuch was a big deal. [applause] somebody said when you pick a supreme court judge, you want great intellect because there would be there for 40 years. so if judge gorsuch who is a

fantastic human being aside from a brilliant student and one of the great legal writers that exists in the country and in the world today every time you see a decision over the next 30 or 40 years if it is a five to four decision on the second amendment or so many other you have done something that you can't value. think of it for 30 to 40 year period potentially you've influenced this country and i've heard perhaps outside because we are going to have a strong military and defense, and we need it now. [applause]

the most important thing the president caapresident can do it supreme court justice. so, i've got one, probably have some more but it's important to think of that over years and years those decisions that are so important so i'm very proud of that pic. he's already been there now for almost two months and people are saying that it's a tremendous person and tremendous intellect so we are all very proud of that and you made it possible. [applause] i began this campaign on june 16 at couple of days ago two years, it's myearsit's my birthday on

june 14, flag day of all things. [applause] we came down the escalator ride and the place went nuts. but i think also because they like policies. i set the truth and talked about immigration and what was happening on the borders. i talked about the military and about the drug problems which are tremendous beyond anything we've ever seen before. i talked to about all of it and you know what, we were never off center stage in the debate. we were number one all the way through because of people like you. [applause] never off center.

17 people running and ike said that there's a lot of people. some of them are very talented at 17 people running. we were never off center stage in those debates and that's because of people like yourself, because we agree and we are making such incredible progress. we are making progress like nobody can believe. these people are being driven crazy. [applause] they have felony which which against me. they can't believe it. what is going on. [applause]

even the worst of them said that ais a big win. i couldn't believe it. but we made a journey together like no one ever in the history of the country and maybe beyond that. you look in the history of the country there's never been anything like this has happened we are strengthening out through common sense and strengthening our country. [applause] no matter our beliefs or party, it is time to remember that we are all americans and we are all in this together and it would be

great if the republicans and democrats could come together and get really great legislation passed. [applause] some ar were saying this morning from the time he announced on june 162 years ago they have been hitting the hell out of h him. the problem was when people went to vote they didn't know what she stood for other day and she was saying bad things about me. and i almost became like -- [inaudible]

from the time i announced, then the time i got in i said this is going to be great. then they hit me harder and they now learned that doesn't work. [applause] they need to be positive. they can't continue to be obstructionist. so they should come together. i don't think they will, but i will tell you it would be a beautiful thing if we can get together as the two parties that of our country and come up with that great health care and infrastructure and so many other things as.

just speak about what that unified american nation could achieve. and even if we are not totally unified, but he is coming close to it. they would inspire all in wonder over the world. we used to be the leader in airports. we used to be the leader and now you go to saudi arabia. a monumental epic trip. you cannot continue to fund terror for some. [applause]

and be the king of saudi arabia who is a special man. he's taken it to heart and now they are fighting with other countries and i think it had a huge impact. we will see. but it had a tremendous impact. we cannot let this incredibly rich nation fund radical islamic terror or trigger for some. we cannot let that happen. some immensely powerful nations and everybody in that room was

unified and the ones that were not are trying to get them to be unified. i think it could have a tremendous impact. if you spend billions of dollars on having things manufactured. they will make products and send them to the wealthy countries of the middle east. we want those jobs. so they are making airplanes and all sorts of things.

hundreds of billions of dollars and it is going back. i'm very proud of that. the purpose of my being there was to make sure they do not fund terror any longer. [applause] i said i would come back and i made lots of statements to your governor and your current governor. [applause] she is going to be a fantastic governor.

i said i was going to come back and protect your ethanol for good reasons and i want to let you know i've done it for the people of iowa but i've done it for the people of the country. it's getting stronger and better and we are going to be setting up records in so many different ways. we will straighten up the mess that happened over this long period of time when we went into other nations to tell them how to run the country. but of all of the people that are here tonight, you are incredible people. i want to thank you for your support.

[applause] and i just want to let you know that god blesses you and i want to say you are special in every way. god bless you and god bless america. thank you very much. [applause] ♪

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today secretary of state and defense secretary james maddox met with chinese officials to discuss areas of strategic cooperation including containing the threat posed by north korea. they discussed the meeting and a 15 minute news