I know why we are all here. Thea great predator great pleasure of introducing them. He has served our nation and he is doing a great job in the senate right now. Lets keep him in that seat, please give an allout welcome to senator big Luther Strange. Thank you huntsville so much for being here. [applause] are you ready to support our president tonight . Thank you so much for being here. This is an exciting night. For thee biggest rally senator. Youre making it possible. Thank you so much. [applause] friendhonored that my taken thetrump has time to come to the great city of huntsville tonight to campaign for me. [applause] ,n my short time in washington we have worked together to fight the establishment and take on the issues to make America Great again. Lets talking about fixing our immigration system. I love that building the wall, that is fantastic. The president will come out here to talk about what he is doing to fix the economy, create jobs, bringing back jobs in a way we have not seen in years. Here we are in huntsville, the defense capital of the world. Lets give our military a big hand. [applause] my opponent says that the president is out of touch with his base. It doesnt look like that to me, is he out of touch . Lets show him what we think about it. Our president loves the state of alabama. [applause] he said to me, luther, i cannot wait to come back and thank the people of your great state and campaign for you. Where do you think i should go . Twice andn to mobile it is such a wonderful place. Said, they love you in huntsville and northern alabama and birmingham and mobile. [applause] but you know what, we love our president too. Dont we love our president . [applause] tuesday will be a historic election in this countrys history, and the states history. It will depend on you getting out to vote. Whether thermine president has the votes he needs in the senate to stand up to Mitch Mcconnell, john mccain, and socalled conservatives that are standing in the way of the agenda. Ts that is why he is here to support me, casinos i have because he knows i have his back and working every day to make sure his agenda of making America Great again passes in the senate. [applause] your vote for me on tuesday, i would greatly appreciate it. Your vote for me on tuesday will send a message. To the world. To the United States, all across this country and it will send a message to the establishment and washington dc that alabama stands by its president. Lets send that message on tuesday. [applause] thank you for this wonderful reception. Thank you for being so gracious to me and my family. Most importantly for keeping us in your prayers, they me more than i can tell you. Now it is my great honor and privilege to introduce not only the president of the great United States of america but a friend of mine. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States. [applause] [playingsweet home alabama] turning,els keep on carry me home to see my kin. Singing songs about the , i miss my family once again and i think it is a sin. I heard mr. Young sing about her, i heard old neil put her young wille neil remember, a southern man dont need him around anyhow. Sweet home alabama. Blue,the skies are so , lord, i amlabama coming home to you. Thank you very much. Wow. Thank you. [applause] thank you, everybody. I love this place. Every record in alabama. I love alabama. Thank you very much. [chanting u. S. A. ] witham thrilled to be here the really great person i have got to know, Luther Strange. And with the hardworking citizens of this great state. There are Football Games tomorrow, we will have a lot of fun and then you will win a football tomorrow. I love the state and i love the people of this state. They have been so good to me. And we are producing. E are really producing [applause] thank you. On tuesday we will send a real fighter and a good guy from alabama to the United States senate on a permanent basis. [applause] we have another great person and our audience tonight, richard shelby. Where is richard . Where is richard . Thank you richard. Stand up so they can see you, richard. Fantastic. Thank you richard. Respected man. Respected and loved in the senate. He has only been there for what, 34 years . He loves the people of alabama too. Like all of you, Luther Strange knows the true source of americas strength, god, family, country. [applause] luther is going to be taking lovefor a man that you all , what is his name . Senator Jeff Sessions. [applause] you love Jeff Sessions and he is doing a good job. [applause] he is doing a good job. We have him very busy watching the borders. Lot of things are happening luther is taking over for jeff hopefully and you will be so impressed with what we are going to do in washington. To sende begin i want our thoughts and prayers to the people of texas and louisiana and florida and georgia and puerto rico and the Virgin Islands and all the other communities that have recently been ravaged by storms and floods. I called the other day and spoke to your governor. I said how are you doing . She said, we have 17 Million People that entered alabama for shelter. And you took such great care of those people. You really did. [applause] said, you know governor, you are the fastestgrowing state anywhere in the world this week. You did a great job. Your governor is doing a great job too, by the way. When one part of america hurts, we all hurt. We grieve over all that has been lost but we are also inspired by the incredible strength and spirit and resilience of our people. Together we will recover, rebuild, and return bigger, better, stronger than ever before. It will happen and it will happen quickly. [applause] better. [applause] we also send our prayers to the people of mexico. They got hit hard by a devastating earthquake. [applause] taking a lot of lives, more than they thought. I have spoken with the president of mexico and we pledged our total support. We have crews in their lifting up that heavy concrete and it is a rough sight. [applause] people we sentf down with Big Equipment but that is a tough go. It is tough to see and to see the sadness but that was bad. I have just come from a very productive week at the United Nations general assembly. [applause] [chanting u. S. A. ] pres. Trump we have been working with our friends and allies to pursue a future of prosperity and peace and we have good people i know and have tremendous relationships and we have some really, really bad people and we will take care of the bad people, it is about time. We will take care of the bad people. [applause] it is one of the greatest honors of my life to represent the American People on that world stage. The world isou, starting to respect the United States of america again. [applause] as i said during mya just to the United Nations as i said during my adjust to the United States ands to the United Nations, i am here for you. We are not here for the rest of the globe. We want to treat the rest of the globe right. When i say, America First, i never liked it from the no one really understood, for years they have said, America First, though i am the one that really means it. There is a big difference. [applause] look, it will be America First. We will renegotiate these trade deals, bringing people back, bringing companies back. You see it in alabama. You see it in alabama. [applause] i am not going to worry so much about other countries. I want to treat them with respect, treat them good and i want their people to fight for them just like i am going to fight. We are going to be like your football teams, we are going to win all the time. Were going to win. [applause] [chanting u. S. A. ] pres. Trump i believe the best path to a more Peaceful World are proud, independent sovereign nations that respect their own people. There are so many who dont respect to their people but we want nations that cooperate together to create better for all people. That is what we are all about. All people. We cannot have madmen out there shooting rockets all over the place. [applause] by the way, rocket man should have been handled a long time ago. [applause] he should have been handled a long time ago by clinton. I wont mention the republicans. By obama. , this is aifferent different time. This should have been handled eight years ago and four years agoand honestly 15 years and 20 years ago and 25 years ago. Handled now. Ot be but i am going to handle it because we have to handle it. [applause] little rocket man, we are going to do it. Because we really have no choice. We really have no choice. Now he is talking about a massive weapon exploding over the ocean. The pacific ocean. ,hich causes tremendous tremendous calamity, where that plume goes, so those cancer, so those tremendous problems. I want to tell you something and i am sure he is listening because he watches every word and i guarantee you one thing, he is watching us like he never watched anybody before, that i can tell you. That i can tell you. [applause] oute something gets worked and maybe it doesnt. Personally im not sure that it will. Other people like to say, we want peace. Theyve been saying that for 25 years, we want these, we want these. Then he goes and keeps going, going, going. Maybe something gets worked out and maybe it does not. I can tell you one thing, you are protected. Ok. You are protected. [applause] no one is going to mess with our people. No one is going to play games. Nobody is going to put our people in that kind of danger. Nobody. [applause] japan and south korea are right up there with us. By the way, many other countries, many many other countries. They are right up there with us. I have to tell you, i made a friend in china, president xi jinping and yesterday he took the Banking Industry basically away from north korea. Never been done before. [applause] never been done. That is based on relationship. Relationship is very good. We are dealing with somebody we will figure out. He may be smart, strategic, and he may be totally crazy. No matter what he is, we will handle it, folks, believe me. We will handle it. [applause] the foundation for progress begins at home with a government that protects and defends our citizens. That is what we have to do. That is why i am here tonight to ask the good people of alabama to send Luther Strange to the United States senate so he can defend your interest, fight for your values and always put America First. Go out and get out the vote. [applause] i will tell you, i will tell you this quick, crazy story. Why do i like luther . I have a lot of friends. Some of them call and say, do you mind if i go for the other candidate . They may not have a job on monday but [applause] richard . No, they are good people. I will tell you what happened. The first go around on health care. I said, you know, for seven years we have been hearing, repeal and replace obamacare. For seven years i have been hearing repeal and replace. They like to say, mr. Trump, President Trump sat in the oval office and didnt i am on the phone screaming to people all day long for weeks. They gave me a list of 10 people that were absolute nos. 10 republican senators. Booing] john mccain was not on the list so that was a totally unexpected thing. That was terrible. Honestly terrible. Repeal and replace because john mccain, you look at his campaign. His last campaign was all about repeal and replace, repeal and replace. So he decided to do Something Different and that is fine. Have we will do it eventually. With a luther, we will do it. I have to tell you this story because we are here tonight for Luther Strange. I am here for luther and i am actually here for friday night, i really do love the people of alabama because you have treated me so good. [applause] said, i dont want to speak negatively, i said if i lose this election, a b i will end up moving to alabama or maybe i will end up moving to alabama or kentucky or some state where people love you and you love them. It is special. Here is what happened, here is what happened. But we never want to lose, despite that. We have a great agenda and by the way we are doing a lot of work, were doing a lot of things. Supreme court justice, neil gorsuch, will say, how about a thing called your Second Amendment . Remember that . [applause] crooked hillary got elected you would not have a Second Amendment, believe me. You would be handing in your rifles. [booing] you would be turning over your rifles. [chanting] you have to speak to Jeff Sessions about that. [applause] so, here is what happened with luther. List, 10 names of people that are absolute total they were good people, a lot of them. In all fairness, rand paul was on that list, dont even waste your time calling him. He voted twice, he was very good. I havent given up on him because i think he may come around. Wouldnt it be ironic if he took a john mccains place . And they definitely do not like each other. Wouldnt that be ironic . That would be very ironic for you who know the inner workings of the senate. So with luther. I have a list in one of the names is Luther Strange. Senator fromthe alabama but i dont know him. I met him once. I said, that is the tallest human being i have ever seen. I am tall. I never saw he should be on the new york knicks. They could use them. That is why i call him, big loser. Everyone is calling him big big luther. I call him big luther. They come over as a family, i call all night , i think i senator get there but you have to do me a favor, you have to see my brother and his wife and they love you and want to have dinner with you and breakfast with you and when you finish with them how we go out for a picnic on the white house lawn and then maybe we will start talking. It was brutal. You have no idea. Now i call Luther Strange. And i say, senator, i need your help. I need to get your vote on health care. He said, you got it. [applause] i said, what do you mean i have it . He said, i have always been for you, my family has always been , do i have to have dinner with you and your wife . No sir, i have supported you from the beginning and you shouldnt even waste anymore. Ime talking to me i went home and told my wife, that is the coolest thing that has happened to me in six months. Then time goes by and he voted and of course, john mccain came and went thumbs down at. 00 in the morning i know so much folks, i can tell you. It was sad. We had a couple of other senators, at least we knew, that was a horrible horrible thing that happened to the republican party. That was a horrible thing. Luther isby and i see in a race. Friendlye saying he is whether you like Mitch Mcconnell i told mitch, luther is a tough cookie. Cowtownt deal with and to anybody. He is down in the race by a lot. That is unfair. Because he happened to be in the senate they were giving him a bu m wrap. I remember the call. The other people i called, they were fine. You dont even remember, you remember one sentence. Waste your time talking. You have a lot of business to do. This was a definite no. I remember that. I called him and checked and he was down, because of being saddled with stuff. He was down by quite a bit. Said im going to endorse you you would do that . Want to do is i be involved in a primary. I could be sitting home right now getting to watch some of the games tomorrow. , itously, the last thing was really cool. Happened, how are you doing . He said, honestly i am down a little bit. I said, i think youre going to come back and kick everyones ass and you are going to do great. Got saddled with things that he should not have gotten saddled with. He started off here, he was in third or fourth. Second. To third, now it is almost pretty even. And ied him up a week ago said, you know, i think youre down by a few points but i will come to alabama and i will make a speech for you on friday. [applause] true story. As soon as we announce. You know the media, the fake news, i call it. The worst. They wont show this. Trumpill say, donald spoke before a small crowd in alabama last night. It was a small crowd. Very unenthusiastic crowd. It was a terrible evening. These are among the most dishonest people. These are among the most dishonest. [applause] instance, look at the crowd, i would love to have them show the crowd, they show me. The whole night, i go home, i say, melania. By the way, she has become very popular. [applause] she has become very popular. Mean, she respects the white house. We love the white house. Said about me, that i called the white house a dump. Retract it and i hated it. I love the white house. , she leaves the plane and she is dressed appropriately for the white house because we respect the white house. She is wearing high heels as many of you would do. They went after her. She didnt know. They know it was dishonest but they said she wore high heels. She is going to go into the floods with high heels. She has become very popular. Luther did that for me. I remembered luther. We have to be loyal in life. There is something called loyalty. I might have made a mistake. I might have made a mistake. There is the story. If luther doesnt win, they are not going to say we picked up 25 points in a short space of time. Theyre going to say, donald trump, the president of the United States was unable to pull his candidate across the line. It is a terrible, terrible moment for trump. This is total embarrassment. These are bad people. By the way, both good men. I told luther, i have to say this, if his opponent wins, i will be campaigning here like hell for him. I have to say this. You understand this, look at the polls, luther will definitely win. You know what i am saying. [applause] roy has a very good chance of not winning in the general election. It is all about the general dont forget, we dont stop here. You have an election coming up. This is over on wednesday morning, the new race begins. You have to beat the democrat. Luther will win easily, and roy will have a hard time winning. But i will be backing him if he wins. [applause] if you look at huntsville, billions and billions of dollars to the army Missile Defense. [applause] by the way, by the way, how important are those words when you hear Missile Defense . Thank you very much, huntsville. Thank you very much. [applause] missiledefense. When you hear those two words, we just approved the 700 billion budget, much higher than originally anticipated. If the other candidates had won against me, that would have gone way down. You do not know what were doing. We are rebuilding the military, at a level to which has never been before. We are rebuilding the military. [cheers and applause] but that would have gone way, way down. Then you look at the new fbi facility being built. Great. Great. You look at nasa. How about nasa . Billions of dollars. Richard shelby has been a big help with this, i have to tell you. A big help. [applause] he has been a big help. I will say this. We are spending a tremendous amount of money in alabama. Youre doing great. As long as i am president , you were going to have so much money spent here. You know what, a lot of other states also. We are bringing back jobs, companies. Companies are not building and other areas. In some cases, they have already started to plant and they are not. There are coming back. I am renegotiating nafta, one of the worst trade deals ever made. [applause] we stopped other trade deals. We are doing a job i tell you what. We have jobs and we have jobs pouring back into the country like we have never seen. The most number of jobs. The most number of jobs in the history of our country. With all of that being said, we have a lot of people that want to work. We have a lot of people that have given up on finding jobs. Those people will be taken care of. That is one of the reasons we as a group that is why we won. One of the reasons. I think we won because of the military, the vets, the evangelicals. Take a look at that. [cheers and applause] i had to tell that story about luther. I thought it was really cool. I said i will be there and then i said something i didnt like. I said luther, you have got what it takes. You have really got it and let us go. That was two months ago. Youve got yourself and even race. If you get out the vote, he will win. You will have a great senator. [cheers and applause] you will have a great senator. He will not only be great, he will be the tallest senator in the history of the United States. That is not so bad, right . Shelby is tall too. He will be great too because he is tough on crime, tough on borders [cheers and applause] dont even think about it. Do you know who i have your tonight . General john kelly, who headed up homeland security, and what the job he did on the borders. Where is general . Where is he . General, come up here really quick come up here come, come, come, come, come. What a great man this is. Do you know the expression . No game is being played. Fourstar marine. Very few. Fourstar general. [cheers and applause] he just wants to work. He has done a great job. Fourstar marine. That is good. What he did on the borders and this is without the wall, by the way, the wall is happening folks. Believe me. The wall is happening. In fact, you probably saw you know, we have a wall up there now and we are renovating its already. It is being made pristine, perfect, good as new. It has to be a through wall. I didnt know it until about a year ago. If you cannot have vision through it, you do not know who is on the other side. Let us say we build a concrete wall and we have people on the other side. Literally i was given an example. It is going to stop drugs and a lot of things. The drug epidemic in this country is out of control and we will stop it. We will stop it. [cheers and applause] but they would literally so you have a concrete wall and that is what i do best. That is what i do best. That is what i really do, although we have done a good job in politics too. In all fairness, we have only been doing it for about two year but what i do best, i build. We have a concrete wall. Mexico, wonderful, wonderful place. Then we have the United States. You have drugs when you throw weights. 100 pounds of drugs. You throw it over the wall. They have catapults. It hit somebody in the head and you do not even know they are there. Believe it or not, this is the kind of stuff that has happened. You need to have a great but it has to be seen through. We are now looking at samples. We had four samples already built. We are looking at different samples of see through walls. I think to be honest with you, a see through wall would be better. You dont have that whatever it might be. Were looking at fou different samples built byr four different samples built by four different companies. We are renovating the existing wall and we will have as much as we need. You dont need all the way. You have a lot of natural barriers, etc. Some of that are you going to build the wall in the middle of the river . Are you going to build on the mountain . The mountain is the wall. We will build the wall. It is coming along way. We will have the final choices done and the renovations will be done within the next six or seven months. Were spending a tremendous amount of money and we will have a wall. I wanted to let you know where we are. [cheers and applause] we are very, very happy about that. Everyone is saying he does not really want to build the wall. I say excuse me. That is the great thing about twitter. [laughter] when the press is dishonest, most of the time, and when i say i do not want to build the wall, i can tweet, that was a false story. Boom, boom, boom. [cheers and applause] it is really not a question of what we want to do. We really have to do a wall in order to stop the drug in particular. We have been dealing with isis ice and the border patrol. These people know better than the architects and consultants. The countries to go out and get consultants and spend a fortune on consultants on how to build it. They do not have a clue. They got out of the Harvard School of something and they would write about a wall. Let me just tell you, the best guys who are telling you what to do are the border patrol. The best guys are ice. These are the best guys. Do you know what it costs . Nothing. We get it free and they are happy to do it. It is really great. This is going to be a very important element to making America Great again. [cheers and applause] when it comes to taking on the bureaucracy, luther is your man. Luther wants to end business as usual, stop the insider dealing, and Luther Strange is determined to drain the swamp. [cheers and applause] luther has been fighting hard for the people of alabama and the United States since his first job in office. I have to tell you something. He has not been there very long. He does not know those people. He hasnt met them and he doesnt know them. He does not know those people. Luther has worked so hard. I know the one to work hard and i know the ones who dont work hard. I was talking about it with richard before. Dont worry, richard, i will not give away any of your secrets. But we were talking about it. He is a hard worker, richard. He has been working hard for 34 years. [cheers and applause] we were talking about who are the smart ones, the hardworking ones. We talked about the less smart ones too. I learned a lot. But luther shares our convictions. Maybe most importantly, he shares our agenda and remember, he will win the race. He is going to win the race. [cheers and applause] and i am not talking here. I am talking against the democrats, which starts very quickly and this is why it each one of you needs to get a friend and the whole family and bring them out to vote for big Luther Strange. [cheers and applause] big luther. Luther and i and everyone in this arena tonight are unified by the same Great American values read we are proud of our country. We respect our flag. [cheers and applause] wouldnt you love to see one of these nfl owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say get that son of a bitch off the field . [cheers and applause] [chanting u. S. A. ] pres. Trump you know, some owners are going to do that. He will say, that guy who disrespects our flag, he is fired. That owner, they dont know it. They are friends of mine, many of them. They will be the most popular person for a week. They will be the most popular person in the country because that is a total disrespect of our heritage. That is a total disrespect of everything we stand for, ok . Everything that we stand for. And i know we have freedoms and we have freedom of choice and many, many different freedoms. But you know what . It is still totally disrespectful. When the nfl ratings are down massively, massively, the nfl ratings are down massively. The number one reason happens to be they like watching what is happening. They like whats happening. If they hit too hard, 15 yards, throw them out of the game. They have that last week. I watched for a couple of minutes two guys, beautiful tackle. Boom. 15 yards. The referee gets on television, the wife is home, so proud of them. They are ruining the game, right . There are ruining the game. That is what the referees want to do. They want to hit. But you know what is hurting the game more than that . But people like yourselves turn on television and you see those people taking the knee when they are playing our Great National anthem. [crowd booing] if you see that leave the stadium. I guarantee things will not. Just pick up and leave. It is not the same game anymore. One of the things we have done when i say we, it is us together we protect religious liberty. [cheers and applause] because we and family, not government and bureaucracy, are the true centers of american life. And america, we do not worship government, we worship god. [cheers and applause] right . We cherish our magnificent constitution, and we believe judges must interpret the constitution as written, and that includes defending as a just said our great Second Amendment. We support the rule of law and we stand strong with the incredible men and women of law enforcement. We protect our citizens, uphold our traditions, and we will always defend our borders. [cheers and applause] these are alabama values. I understand the people of alabama. I feel like im from alabama, frankly. [cheers and applause] isnt it a little weird when a guy who lives on fifth avenue in the most beautiful apartment you have ever seen comes alabama and alabama love that guy . [cheers and applause] crazy crazy crazy but i do, i understand your values and i love your values. Those are the values i believe in. Those are the values that made this country. Those of the values that made this country great. Those are the values. I understand those values. But as you know, these values have been under attack for many years in washington, and that is why we need a person like Luther Strange. We need him. You have to get out and vote. [cheers and applause] you know, i think if everyone in this room goes out to vote, luther, you win easily. Luther is not in washington to serve the special interest like a lot of people. Even the way he handled that thing with me, he can ask the you have to this and that. What did he do . He got better. But he never went with quid pro quo. He just treated me great. And i called him. I said you want me to help you. He couldnt believe it. He said why. I said you gave me the coolest answer and a long time. That is why i am here. He didnt ask me. The only mistake he made i shouldnt say this he said, sir, we have a venue that holds 1000 people. I said there is no 1000 people. And then we came to this place and we are jampacked. There are thousands of people that cant come in. They do not have your real estate ability. Yes, thousands. Thousands of people outside. Thousands and they may be listening because we put some big speakers out there. I hope they are going to vote for luther. They may not be too happy, but i think they will. Luther came to washington to serve and represent you i can tell you when big luther we call him that people call you big luther before you met trump . I brand people. A lot of them are friends of mine. So nobody ever called you big luther . He is seven feet tall. I can never call him little luther. I just saw him and was like he is big luther, and that is all. When he walks in, Everybody Knows that alabama has arrived. [cheers and applause] luther was a very advanced eagle scout who has not spent his lifetime in politics. He only entered in recent years, and he has been in washington for even less time than me. He does not know all these people who he is supposed to know. He has his own mind he has the mind you want. Luther proves he is not beholden to anyone and not afraid to take on anyone and i have unit. And i have seen it. As your attorney general, he won over 25 public corruption convictions. [cheers and applause] now, he has brought that same political courage to washington and i have to tell you, friends of mine have told me very strongly that if luther wasnt appointed to office for the shortterm, and he just said he was going to run when you have to run, which is now, he would be leading every poll by 50 points. He would be killing everybody the fact that he got appointed hurt him. If luther didnt take appointments, if he just ran, there wouldnt even be a contest. No one would come close to him. It is one of those things. I can tell you personally i am very lucky and this country is very lucky that he did take that appointment. He has done a hell of a job. [cheers and applause] and that is what we need in washington. People who have the courage to stand strong for our values, our families, our nations. People who have the courage to challenge a failed system. With obamacare, i have been listening for seven years as many of these people kept saying repeal and replace. It didnt take much courage. They were getting all of these great votes. I think they voted 61 times 61 times to repeal and replace they finally get a president who will sign the legislation, and they dont have the guts to vote for it. [crowd booing] i was told, congratulations, you won. You know why . Electoral college is a very special thing. I decided intelligently to campaign in the states you have to win for the Electoral College victory that you need. It is very simple. I took a pass on a lot of states. I have never really been in favor of it but now i appreciate it. To me, winning the popular vote is easier because you go to new york, california, texas. Beauty with the Electoral College is i went to maine, i went all over to dollars state. It brings the whole country into play. It brings states into play that would never be thought of. But i focused heavily on pennsylvania and North Carolina and i focused very heavily here, but i actually made one speech here and i said, do you mind if i dont come back for a while because we have a 38 point lead and i would much rather spend my time in florida and pennsylvania and North Carolina and other places. [cheers and applause] so alabama, you were great. We won by so much. So the Electoral College is actually something i have come to respect. It is sort of like if you are a 100yard dash guy or if you are a longdistance runner, youd train differently. If hillary runs again in four years, which i hope she does, we will teach her to spend more time in michigan. We will teach her to go to wisconsin. We will teach her to spend a little more capability in pennsylvania, North Carolina, and florida, which she lost and she spent a tremendous amount of money. You hear so much about this. Remember this, if you are going for the Electoral College, it is a much different race. You do not spend time in california and new york, you spend your time in iowa and ohio. Remember, you cannot win unless you win ohio. We won ohio by a lot because i spent a lot of time on it. [cheers and applause] but i would rather have the popular vote counts because for me, it would be easier than winning the Electoral College, which they set a republican could not win, if you remember. Remember they said, there is no way to 270 for trump. That is why i went to maine four times. Because i needed one. There is no way they said. Well i ended up with 306. Luther, they were right. They were 100 right. There is no way to 270. But there is a way to 306. You hear this nonsense. When you are a golfer you have matchplay or stroke play, you train differently. They have to learn their lesson. They have to campaign in areas that really matter. We had a great victory. It was something that was aweinspiring and something that i think everybody in this room will never, ever forget. I appreciate the fact that the people of alabama were with me right from the first day and they said to me, do not come back. Go to those other states but you have to win in i appreciate it. [cheers and applause] by the way, folks, in case you are curious, no. Russia did not help me. Ok . I call it the russian hoax. That is the thing democrats did best. They lost the election and didnt know what happened. They needed an excuse so they said russia. And then they said, wait a minute. Russia. And trump honestly, that is the thing they did best. To convince people about this hoax, that is one thing they did best. No, russia did not help me. That i can tell you, ok . Are there any russians in the audience . I dont see too Many Russians. I did not see too Many Russians in pennsylvania. We need people in this country who have the courage to say what they mean, to do what they say, and never, ever backed down. As your attorney general, luther helped lead the fight in court against the obama administrations big power grabs. Did you see what i did to that . Boom. Gone. Look at that guy. He knows. [cheers and applause] gone. And i did that one without luther, but he defended it and got rid of a lot of things. Also, i defended and boozer has offended so vigorously religious liberty from obamacare and the fighting of obamas and the administrations dangerous, inhumane plan on refugees. Inhumane. When i opened my election, i talked about the viciousness of what was happening. It turned out to be understated, not overstated. I was a big part of our success. Since the day luther arrived in the United States senate, luther has always been for us. He has always been for us. He is not a friend of Mitch Mcconnell. He does not know Mitch Mcconnell until just recently. And i do not say that badly about mitch at all. I am not saying that badly. I am just telling you he doesnt know. He just got there. I said, how well do you know him . He said he just met him because he just got there. He just came out against and he was against it before but he just came out against that totally ridiculous rule, the filibuster rule. It is ridiculous. [cheers and applause] we have 52 senators and on a lot of legislation you need 60 votes. And that means we need a democrat. And they get upset with me when i go to see nancy pelosi was very nice. Why did you see them . Because this role is crazy. We have 260 bills. Many of those not all of them, because they can use reconciliation. Many of those bills will never get past. Most of them will not because you cannot get 60 votes. You cannot. It means 8 democrats control the senate. I think will pick up seats in 2018. I will work very hard. I think we will pick up democratic seats. I believe that. We will pick up democratic seats, but they have to get rid of the filibuster rule. Basically, we can go to 60. [cheers and applause] luther was with us on withdrawing the United States from the deeply unfair job killing paris climate accord, ok . [cheers and applause] you know, it sounds so nice, but it was a killer. It was a killer for our country. It was very unfair. As an example, we are with china who i love right now this week. Dont forget, that was a big thing. About a 150 votes. Russia and china both came along. That was a great thing. Maybe, more importantly, when china did this banking thing, let us see what happens. It has never been done and i think you will see good things. I think china wants to get this problem over with. They do not need this problem. Theyre very smart and they are good people in the president is a really good man and he was china. It is good for china getting rid of that menace. Believe me. [cheers and applause] luther is with us on cracking down on dangerous sanctuary cities that release criminal aliens into our cities. What is that about . By the way, Jeff Sessions is working very hard on that. Really hard. Really hard. [cheers and applause] and effectively. Very effectively. Luther is with us on planning taxes and bringing jobs back to america. He was with us he is with us on giving the military tools are limited. He wants them to fund the fight so we can win without question. That is where we are going. 700 billion. [cheers and applause] he not only has my endorsements, remember this, he also has the endorsement of my great friend and Vice President mike pence. [cheers and applause] he has the endorsement of the National Rifle association, the nra. That is a biggie. That is a big one. Luther, that thing. He has got the endorsement of the national right to life and the alabama farmers. [cheers and applause] that was a big endorsement. That nra endorsement, i am telling you, that is a powerful endorsement. With Luther Strange, you dont just send a message to washington, you send a fighter to change washington. Since 2008, we already achieved wins for the American People. The stock market reached its highest point in history. [cheers and applause] they hate to hear that. Oh. It went up like 22 since november. 22 since the election today. I think it is even more than that. Think of it, the highest point. Unemployment is at the lowest level it has been for 16 years. Close to 17. [cheers and applause] most importantly for me, but i have to say it again, companies are flowing back into our country. They want to be here. I was with one of the great gentleman that i became friendly with. A leader of a major country, there are only a lot of people watching on television and look at all those red lights. Aye. Look at cnn. And i say it is they use. And you see that light go on so fast. By the way, do you think they show the room . Do you think they show the nooks and crannies . I dont think so. If there is an empty seats, they will show the empty seats. Two people got up to go to the bathroom and they are coming back. They show the empty seats every single time. People that run companies that truly hate me, they now let me. That means jobs, that means everybody. I am serious. People that truly like the president. Theyre coming up in hugging and kissing me. I am not doing it for them im doing it for the country. I told you many times, and this is not been a choice, we are renegotiating nafta. We will get a fair deal or we will terminate nafta. It is very simple. It is one of the worst deals ever negotiated. One of the worst deals ever negotiated. Every day i am keeping my promise. We passed over 50 pieces of legislation. Getting approved by the house and the senate. That is not including all the executive orders. That is not including the fact that we have reduced unnecessary regulations to a point that this country hasnt seen in years. We are doing one of the best jobs at our veterans. We published online wait times at every va facility, opens the promised white house v. A. Hotline, extended veterans choice. These are the greatest people. The bravest, most wonderful people. In some cases, they get older and things happen. They are waiting on line for seven days, nine days. In some cases they die. In some cases they can have a simple procedure. They can have a simple prescription and it takes 11 or 12 days to get offline to see the doctor. By the time they get to the doctor, they are terminal. I said without knowing much for having a lot of common sense and very good up here always. Always. I said that doesnt make sense. If theyre waiting in line, can you imagine . We have a lot of people were very successful people here. Can you imagine going to your doctor and having him say you have to wait for 11 days . If i have to wait for two seconds, i go crazy. Hopefully we will not have to see too many doctors. But they wait for days and days and they go to a doctor in the area now. We pay the bill and it is the least offensive thing we can do. We save everybodys life and everybody is happy. Everybody is happy. I have only been doing this for a little while. When i first heard of the problem, that is what i said. Why are they not just going to see a doctor . We have to negotiate with the doctors very carefully. I know they charge a lot of money. But now the people are happy. We are doing so many things. Money. We had the v. A. Worker accountability. For 40 years they have been trying to get it passed. They couldnt. I will not blame the unions and i will not blame civilservice. That was the problem. You have the unions. For 40 years, they cannot get passed. You would have people working in the va who would abuse our great veterans. By the way, 20 years before, they would have had their ass kicked by the same person they were abusing. They would have been in trouble. They would have been in trouble. 25 years earlier, they wouldnt be doing it. That is the way it is. I passed the va accountability act. We have a great man running the va. He has done more in eight months than they have done at the va for years. I am very proud of him because i made that promise. In the best tradition of americas greatest leaders, were standing up for American Workers and defending american jobs and american industry. [cheers and applause] were building our future with american hands, american labor, american iron, aluminum, and steel. We will buy american and higher american. In my first month, i withdrew the United States from the job killing it would have been a disaster, the transpacific partnership. Great ripoff. You want to see jobs leave the country . Sign that. They were going to find that as fast as they could. That was a disaster for this country. Eliminating unnecessary regulations so we can have more jobs and wealth here in america. I am to the obama administrations war on coal, and were putting our coal miners back to work producing beautiful, clean coal. [cheers and applause] here is one that nobody has the guts to do and i did it in my first few days in office. I authorized the construction of the Keystone Pipeline and the Dakota Access pipeline. Over 50,000 jobs. 50,000 beautiful construction jobs. Environmentally better, much better. We have increased our military and Defense Budget to the highest level it has been probably ever. [cheers and applause] it is going to be over 700 billion. We will rebuild it. We are new fighters and jets. You know what has been happening. The jets are so old that the father flew it and the son goes into the air force and flies the same plane. Were improving a stateoftheart Missile Defense system. Thank you very much, huntsville, alabama. Thank you very much. [cheers and applause] pres. Trump it is amazing the way all of a sudden missiledefense system sounds so good. By the way, these systems, i watched them and i see what is being developed. They have taken out rockets that are going so fast. The percentage of success is so high, it is so brilliant what we can do, so that we can do what we have to do to have a safe country. I want to thank you, huntsville, because you are a big part of it. [cheers and applause] we have just brought back the National Space council to restore americas legacy of leadership and space. The council will be chaired by Vice President pence, who is visiting your nasa facility in huntsville on monday to get you out to vote. Get you out to vote. Were making our communities safe again by going after violent criminals and putting dangerous offenders behind bars. [cheers and applause] we have the backs of our police officers, our ice officers, and our Border Control officers. We have their backs 100 just like they take care of us. [cheers and applause] one by one, we are finding and i mean in large numbers, and our guys are much tougher than their guys were finding the drug dealers and criminals who prey on our people. We are throwing them out of our country and they will not come back in. They do not come back in anymore area different age. They do not come back in. We also understand immigration security is a national that is really a national treasure, but it is a National Security. We need National Security for safety. We are going to keep radical islamic terrorists out of our country. Sorry, sorry. [cheers and applause] call up some of the other countries in the world and say how are you doing, folks. Not so good. We are creating an immigration system that puts American Workers and American Families first. We are moving quickly to pass a massive tax cut and how are you doing, folks. Not so good. We are creating an immigration simplification for the middle class. We want new tax returns, simplification, massive tax cuts. That is what were doing for business. That is what we are doing for the middle class. [cheers and applause] if we want to restore american prosperity, we need tax reform that is progrowth, projobs, proworker, profamily, and proamerica. [cheers and applause] the United States currently have the highest business tax rates anywhere in the world. 60 higher than other developed countries. This is a massive economic disadvantage for america, costing us millions and millions of jobs and trillions of dollars. Under our plan they were going to see next week, enjoy it, ok . Enjoy it. You are going to love it. It will be the biggest tax cut i have to get approved by richard and luther, but i have a feeling youll be ok. Luther, do you promise . Because if you dont vote for it i am leaving right now. Im taking away the endorsements. [laughter] under luther and richard, we will have one of the lowest tax rates in the developed world, bringing back our jobs and companies to our shores. Google reform our tax does make American Business competitive again so that American Workers and American Companies can win again. We are going to bring back to our country three, four, maybe five nobody even knows what the number is but many trillions of dollars currently parked overseas and it will come back to the good old usa. Right now it is impossible to bring it back. We are committed to protecting Small Businesses and family farmers by ending the death tax on estates. You lose your farm in business back to the good old usa. And you cannot pay the tax. Were getting rid of this. In addition to passing historic reforms, luther and are totally and i are totally dedicated to repealing and replacing medicare. We have some time. We will go back. It is like a boxer. Get knocked down, get up and the bad ones stay in say we quickly say, we quit. The great ones end up winning. We might make it this time, but the most we will be is one or two votes short. You cannot quit if you are one or two votes short. You cannot do it. The people will not be liked by the communities they come from. In most cases, and i think almost all of the cases, they got elected on the basis of repealing and replacing and they are not doing a service to the people they represent. [cheers and applause] got elected on the basis of repealing and replacing and they Luther Strange fought against obamacare as attorney general of alabama, and he fought it well. Hes fighting obamacare in the senate and he is going to keep fighting because we are going to win. It is going to be gone and we will have Great Health Care in this country. [cheers and applause] your premiums are surging. Your deductibles are through the roof. Alabamas is up, but we have states up 150 . Alaska is up more than 200 and i am having a hard time getting a certain votes, but she is a good person and i think she will come through. Alaska is up over 200 . That means obamacare is no good. We should have a hard time getting her votes and i think she will come through. I hope so. Insurers are quitting, doctors are quitting, choices are disappearing, Congress Must do its job by ending the obamacare nightmare. [cheers and applause] so, to deliver for American Families, we are also working to pass the raise act, legislature that would end chain migration and switch our countries to a meritbased immigration system. Merits, merits, merits. People that would help our country. People that would help our country. We have two great senators and they are working on it. This would keep new immigrants from going on welfare for five years. Wouldnt that be nice . It would require them to support their families financially. It is time for a system that serves the interests of the United States of america. We also want an infrastructure bill that generates 1 trillion of investments for rebuilding our country with american hands. We want to lift americans from welfare to work, from dependence to independence, and from poverty to prosperity. [cheers and applause] we want every american child to grow up learning the dignity of work, the pride of a paycheck, and the satisfaction of a job well done. [cheers and applause] we want our citizens to go to work every morning and a job they love supporting their families. This can only work if they take the America First agenda and make the make America Great again agenda back to washington and drive it to victory. We can only achieve those historic legislative wins and we have had a lot of them in a short period of time only if we stand up or what we believe, and that i can do it. [cheers and applause] we can only win those fights and drain the swamp and we have smart, tough, and tenacious leaders who know who they represent and they know how to deliver. Luther strange is our man. He is our man. You have to get out and vote. [cheers and applause] i mean, again, i am taking a big risk because of luther doesnt make it, theyre going to go after me. The very dishonest people are going to say trump, trump, trump. But we have done great together and we have done great over the last two months right here. This is your moment. This is a big day because you have a lot of people banking on somebody elses victory and thinking that will become democrats in the state of alabama. I dont think that is a good thing. [crowd booing] that is not a good thing. If this man lives, that raises over. If this man wins, that race is over. And that always puts the needs of our citizens first. [cheers and applause] we are americans, and the future along to us. The future belongs to all of you, but we have got to go out and take it. We have got to go out and earn it. We have got to go out and votes. If we do not vote, it is not going to happen. On tuesday, vote for your country, vote for your family. Vote for your victory. Vote for Luther Strange. He is a phenomenal person. [cheers and applause] pres. Trump together with the great people of alabama and your giant in the senate, we will make america strong again. We will make america wealthy again. We will make america proud again. We will make america safe again. And, we will make America Great again thank you, alabama. I love you. I love you, alabama. [cheers and applause] cant alwaysyou want]t you today, on cspan, washington journal is next with your phone calls. Coveragelife live of the march for his ability on the national mall. We cover free speech on college campuses. Of anhuck collins, author article on predatory mortgage practices. We will also speak with michael berg about host good morning on this saturday, september 23. The end of a busy news week thats all donald trump make his first appearance before the United Nations and it an escalating war of words with north korea. 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