president trump talked about the impeachment process thinking several house and senate republicans in attendance for criticizing utah republican senator mitt romney the only member of the gop to join democrats in voting against the president on abuse of power. this is one hour. [applause] [applause] [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] ♪ ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen the president of the united dates. ♪ ♪ [applause] [applause] >> well thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. [applause] [applause] >> thank you very much everybody we have all been through a lot together and we probably deserve at hand for all of us because it's been a very unfair situation. i invited some other very good friends and we have limited room but everybody wanted to come. we kept to a minimum and believe it or not this is a minimum but it tremendous thing was done over the last number of months. if you go back to it over the last number of years we have the witchhunt that started from the day we came down the elevator, myself and their future first lady who is with us right now. [applause] and it never really stopped. we have been going through this now for over three years and it was evil. it was corrupt. it was eerie cops. it was leaker zen liars and they should never ever happen to another president, ever. i don't know that other presidents would have been able to take it treat some people said no, they wouldn't have but i can tell you at a minimum you have to focus on this because it can get away very quickly no matter who you have with you. you can get away very quickly. it was a disgrace. had i not fired james comey who is a disaster by the way, it's possible i wouldn't even be standing here right now. we caught him in the act. cops, bad people. if this happened if president obama a lot of people would have been in jail for a long time already, many many years. i want to start rethinking, and i call them friends because you develop friendships and relationships we used you are at battle and were much more so with the normal situation. with all that we have been through we have done more than any president and administration and really i say for the most part republican congressman, congresswomen and republican senators. we have done more than any administration in the first few years. you look at all the things we have done. i watched this morning as they tried to take credit for the stock market. think of that. let me tell you if we didn't win the stock arctic would have crashed and it was going up a lot before the election because it was looking like we had a good chance to win. when a tremendously from the time we won the election to the time we took office which was november to january 20 and it's all to our credit and leading up to that point it was their credit because one of the reasons the stock our kids have gone up so much in the last few days is people think we are doing so well. they liked the state of the union speech. [applause] it really is a true honor and making the state of the union speech. i was with people who have been around and all over the world and one of them said a highly sophisticated person said you know no matter where you go in the world that doesn't make any difference. there is nothing like what i witnessed tonight, the beauty, the majesty of the chamber, the power of the united states, the power of the people in this room i don't think there is anything like it anywhere in the world. you can go to any other country, any other location in the other place, it it's how it represents our country. i want to start by introducing some of the people that are here. i know some are going to be left out but they work so hard and this is really not a news conference or his speech. it's not anything. it's a celebration because we have something that just worked out. we went through hell, unfairly. we did nothing wrong. we did nothing wrong. i have done things wrong in my life i will admit. not purposely but i have done things wrong but this is what the end result is. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> we can take that home honey, maybe we will frame it. the only good line if ever had in the "washington post." every papers the same. does anybody have those papers because they are really like that so i appreciate them. some of the people here have been incredible warriors. you are warriors. there's nothing from a legal standpoint. this is a political thing and every time i say this is unfair let's go to court they say we can't go to court. this is politics and we were treated unbelievably unfairly and you have to understand we first went through russia, russia, russia. it was all full shift. then we went to the mueller report. they came back two years later after lives were ruined and people went bankrupt. they had people who lost all their money. people came to washington to help other people bright-eyed and bushy tailed they say, they came one, two or three people in particular. we had a rough campaign. it was one of the nastiest. they said andrew jackson was always the nastiest campaign. they actually said we topped it. it was a nasty both in the primaries and then in the election but d.c. we thought after the election it would stop but it didn't stop. it had just started. tremendous corruption. tremendous corruption. so we headed campaign and little did we know we were running against some very bad and evil people with fake dossiers, with all of these horrible dirty cops that took these dossiers and did bad things. they knew all about it. the fisa courts should be ashamed of themselves. it's a very tough thing and then we ended up winning on russia, russia, russia. it took years and then bob mueller testified. that didn't work out so well for the other side. but they should have said that the first week because it came out. they knew in the first two days actually. devin is that right? two days they knew that we were totally innocent but they kept it going. they kept it going forever because they wanted inflict political pain on somebody that had just won an election that to a lot of people was a surprise. we had polls that said we were going to win. we have "the los angeles times" and a few papers said we were going to win but it was pretty close. we did win. it was one of the greatest wins of all time and they said okay, he won. i wrote this down because that was where to me when i saw the insurance policy and that was done long before the election. that was done when they thought hillary clinton was going to win by the way hillary clinton and the dnc paid for millions, and millions of dollars for a fake dossier and now christopher steele admits that it's a fake because he got sued by rich people. i should have sued them too but when you are president people don't like suing that i want to thank my legal team by the way. not for that advice but -- [applause] you guys, stand up. great job. right at the beginning they said sara you have nothing to worry about. all of the facts are on your side. i said you don't understand. that doesn't matter. that doesn't matter and that was really true. they made up facts. the corrupt politician made adam schiff made it up, he brought it out of thin air. he tried and unfortunately he went into politics after that. remember he said the statement, don't call me, i will call you. i you. i didn't say that. fortunately for all of us here today and for our country we had transcripts. we had transcribers, professional transcribers. then they said maybe the transcript is not correct. but lieutenant colonel vindman and his twin brother, lee said what's wrong with it? it didn't matter. they said they are probably wrong but add it. everyone agrees that they were perfectly accurate. when you read those transcripts i don't know if tim scott is here but he said sir, he was the first one to call me. sir i read the transcript. you did nothing wrong. and mitch stayed there from the beginning. never change in mitch mcconnell i want to tell you, you did a fantastic job. [applause] [applause] somebody said you know mitch is quiet. he is not quiet. he doesn't want people to know him. and they said it's mitch smart? i said let's put it this way. for many many years a lot of very smart, bad in many cases, sometimes good that people have been trying to take his place and to the best of my knowledge i have never even heard the subject come up because they have been wiped out so fast. this guy is great and i appreciated. he's also given us 191 now. 191 federal judges. [applause] up to 191. a great guy. he's a tough guy to read. a tough guy to read. what did you do with mitch? i don't know. that's what makes them good, when you can read somebody. fantastic job. this was crooked politics. how about all these people? they are running for office. they are saying the worst things about me, like eight senators on the democratic side. they got their 1% or less. most of them got less and decided to go home. let's go back to california. let's go back to wherever they came from. let's go back to new york. how about that one? and senator gillibrand, let's go back to new york. they got nothing and then they take an oath that they will be reasonable and then they had a sign. they aren't fair. here's the beauty, the far left is saying the most verandas things. and then they are supposed to vote on me. they are trying to replace me and then they are supposed to be voting. i think it's incredible but mitch i want to thank you very much and we have so many folks here that are incredible people and they have been great from the beginning. again you are out of session unfortunately. i only told these folks, let's do this today. we did a prayer breakfast this morning and i thought that was really good. was so good that -- but by the time we finished, this will wipe that one out that statement. i had nancy pelosi sitting for seats away and saying things that a lot of people wouldn't say and i meant every word. but we have some of the folks that are going to be leaving right after this. they work hard and they did work hard. city, senator, stand up bill. what a guy. a great man. when i need to know about health insurance and pre-existing conditions and individual mandates, i called bill ora called barrasso. those two guys know more than anybody. a man who just became a senator. he's a little bit like me. we have a couple of them. very successful guy in business and he said what the hell run for the senate in indiana. i saw him on television destroying his opponent in a debate. they said this guy could win and i got behind him. and mike for all you have done, great job. thank you very much. [applause] a man who got james comey to choke and he was just talking in his regular voice. he's the roughest man. these actually unbelievable and i crocheted the letter you sent me today. i just got it. he's got this voice that scares people. people from iowa can be very tough. we are doing very well in iowa but i'll tie you chuck grassley calls me, what did you say? he wasn't being rough. that's just the way he talks and i think i was with comey when he announced he was lying in everything else. he choked because he never heard anybody talk like that. i wish you got angry. you have gotten the whole ballgame. you would have said i give up. chuck grassley is an incredible guy. [applause] and a man who is running against a tough smart campaigner. we learned how tough she was preaching was a great campaigner. by the end of the campaign, that she was more for me than you are josh. i was worried. you know who i'm talking about. i went to a great place, missouri and i said who do you have to beat her? they said we have four people. i said let me see them. can you imagine i'm interviewing people for the united states senate. where have i gone? i love it because we are getting great people. the first one i met was josh hawley. after 10 minutes i said to the people, don't show me anybody else. this is the guy. he was the attorney general and did a phenomenal job in the state, highly respected and claire mccaskill. the theory was you couldn't beat her. a great campaigner. remember the last campaigned? people say how did that happen? a didn't happen with him but she got so friendly toward me. in fact one of the other still have in the archives is one of the best ads i've ever read. she tried to convince people that we were best friends but josh ended up winning by five or six points. you are unbelievable. you were tough and you are something in one of the greatest supporters of the impeachment hoax was josh hawley. he was incensed. i watched him. he was incensed at what they were doing and what they were saying. i had some that said i wish he didn't make the call and that's okay. it's incorrect. it's totally incorrect. then you have some who use religion as a crutch. they never used it before. an article written and i never heard him use it before. today it's one of those things. it's a failed presidential candidates of things can happen when you fail so badly running for president. josh hawley i want to thank you. you were right from the beginning. man, did i make a great choice. [applause] thank you. a tremendous future. a man who is brilliant and who actually was deceived to an extent. he comes from the great state utah ramiyah poll numbers have gone through the roof. someone's poll numbers would down, not mine, went down big. but he is difficult. whenever my son says you know we signed a lot of legislation. it's big and its powerful but everyone has to prove it. 99-1, 99-when i say don't tell me who. is it mike? yes. [laughter] and he always has a good reason for it too by the way. he's incredible and right at the beginning you knew we were right mike and i appreciate. it was fantastic and say hello to the people of utah. i'm sorry about mitt romney. i'm sorry, okay? [applause] we can say that likely is by far the most popular senator but you have done a fantastic job in many ways, in many ways. a young woman who i didn't know at all that she has been so supportive and i've had great support from other people in that state. she's been so supportive and she's been downright nasty and mean about the unfairness to the president. kelly loeffler i appreciate very much, thank you. [applause] she started very early on and we have, i don't know if we have other senators here but we have a hell of a lot of congressmen and i woke over them quickly but they have also been -- it helped when we won, 197-0. that has to be a first. is that like a first? republicans have this image. i say democrats are lousy politicians because they have lousy policies open borders, sanctuary cities. they have horrible policies. the new policy is to raise taxes. they want to raise taxes. all my life i wasn't in politics but i'd say if you are a politician you want to say we are going to lower taxes. they want to raise taxes. they have open borders sanctuary cities and raise everybody's taxes. get rid of everybody's health care 180 million people in the united states and they are really happy. health care that's going to cost more money than a country that does really well. that's one year. i've always said they are lousy politicians that they do two things. they are vicious and mean, vicious. these people are vicious. adam schiff is a vicious horrible person. nancy pelosi is a horrible person. she wanted to impeach a long time ago ricci said i pray for the president. she may pray but she prays for the opposite but i doubt she prays at all. these are vicious people but they do two things. they stick together historically. i'm not talking now. they stick together like glue. that's how they impeached. they had one of the numbers, 220 people so they don't lose anybody. you can be george washington and you could have just won the war and they say let's get them out of office. they stuck together and they are vicious as hell and they will probably come back for more but maybe not because the republican party's poll numbers mitch have now gone up more than any time since 2004, 2005 and you know what happened then. in normal times that was a little unusual time. it was for a very short period. the republican party poll numbers and donald trump's poll numbers are the highest we have ever had. [applause] it's no way to get your poll numbers up. from my family standpoint it's buried very unfair for my family. it's been very unfair for them actually. think of it, phonecall. a very good phonecall. i know bad phonecalls. it's a phonecall with many people. think mike pompeo was on the phonecall. where is mike? might pompeo was on the call. many people were on the call. they have a. tie. bringing up an old favorite word from "the apprentice," the people. they have many on the phonecall and in the case of ukraine he's a new president. he seems like a very nice person but this whole thing was corruption. the even had a treaty in 2001, 1999. we signed a treaty that we will work together to root out corruption in ukraine. i probably have a legal obligation to report corruption but they don't think it's corrupt when a son that made no money and got thrown out of the military and had no money at all is working for $3 million up front, $83,000 a month. that's only ukraine. he goes to china and picks up more than a half of billion dollars in ghost to romania and many other countries. they say that's okay because is ivanka in the audience? one of my kids could make a fortune. i think they could make a fortune. it's corrupt. it's not even that is just general corruption and the other thing something that i'd told mike pence a great vice president and i would tell them all the time. he was over there and he never mentioned anything. it's a terrible thing but i told mike i said mike we are giving the money and you know we have our country to build. we have our cities to build on our roads to fix but we are giving them money. tell me why isn't germany paying money? wise and france? why isn't the united kingdom paying? why are we paying money? a said a correct statement? find out what the hell is going on and i told that to all of my people. i said ask the question how much is germany paying and why isn't germany paying? why is the united states always a? we are a bunch of but it's turning around fast. except harder was tough like this happening because you want to focus and the want to focus perfectly. think what we could have done if the same energy was put into infrastructure, prescription drug prices. think of what we could have done. i'm not talking about both sides. think of what we could have done if we have had the same genius, because it's genius. i will say it's genius on the other side, maybe even more so because they took nothing and brought me to a final vote on impeachment. that's a very ugly word to me. it's a very dark word, very ugly they did nothing. they took a phonecall that was at totally inappropriate call. they brought me to the final stages of impeachment. but now we have that gorgeous word and i never thought a word would sound so good. it's called total acquittal. [applause] so i want if i could real fast just introduce a few people. have to start with kevin. man, did you do a job. lucky you are there. lucky you are there. if you don't have the right people i will tell you kevin mccarthy has done an incredible job. [applause] and he loves his job and he loves his country. i'll tell you what mitch and kevin, they love what they do. mitch would tell you he liked it. mitch, do you like that? i don't know. he's a poker player. kevin will say i love it. i will say you are going to be speaker of the house because of this impeachment hoax. and i'm going to work it. [applause] i'm going to try to get out in the trump areas where we won by a lot and in 18 we didn't win. we just won two seats in north carolina to wonderful seats that were not supposed to be one but i went in i gave speeches and we had rallies. we did a great job and we took two seats. nobody writes about that. if we had lost it it would have been the biggest story of the year but we are going to do there to do a job and we are going to win a lot of seats. people are angry that nancy pelosi and all of these guys. i've known then much of my life. i always beat him and i had to beat them another time and i will probably have to beat him again because if i happen to walk across the street and maybe go against the lighter something , let's impeach him. we will probably have to do it again because these people have got stone cold crazy but i've beaten him all my life and i will beat them again if i have two. [applause] kevin mccarthy has been great. a few names. if you want you can raise it and say great you are wonderful but we are going to do the best we can. i had my cabinet that my cabinet is different. i didn't see all of them helping so much. there are various brocker sees. my cabinet is great and they are all here but today is the day to celebrate these great warriors. these are great warriors who really fought hard for us. kelly armstrong, north dakota, kelly thank you. great job, great job. jim banks of indiana. [applause] andy biggs. boy oh boy andy, there's a guy, tough. i heard you're doing well in arizona. i think we have to make sure, think martha is going to and will have states that are going to be not easy but verizon is great. we are stopping illegal aliens from coming in and putting up walls. it totally and play, nevada. we are doing well. we are going to have a great -- there is more. i will say this. there is more. >> now for the republican party by far. mike pence just got back from a place, beautiful place that chuck grassley knows well, iowa. he was talking about this fiasco, the democrats. they can't count simple votes and yet they want to take over your health care system. think about it. we also had an election out there and we got 90% of the vote. we had two people running. i guess they consider them non-people but they are running. one is the governor, one is a congressman. they are running. 90% of the vote and everybody from the media was saying who were those crowds over there? the expected as the competitor. and it was trump. this was the trump crowd and a lot of actually my guys went there. they went to iowa and a lot of friends went there. we had -- they say this the spirit. the spirit of your post and party right now is stronger i think than it's ever been in the history of our country. i think it's stronger than ever. [applause] that includes honest abe lincoln. a lot of people forget abe lincoln. i give him one hell of an introduction. he was a republican. abe lincoln. bradley byrne, alabama. what a great place. a man who has been an unbelievable friend of mine, a spokesman and somebody that i really like. i note kelly you are going to end up liking him a lot. something is going to happen it's going to be very good. i haven't figured it out yet but doug collins. where is he? [applause] thank you very much, thank you. a really amazing job. a young man who was born with a great game because i know his father who is a politician. he's from florida. sometimes controversial but actually he's not controversial. he's solid as a rock and a good friend of mine matt gates. gaetz. a great job. this guy. he's the ncaa meeting a couple of years ago when he was in college. ncaa. you are the champ. you are the best. his record was ridiculous. nobody could beat him. and i see it. every time i see it, jim jordan. when i first got to know jim i would say he never wears a jacket. he's obviously very proud of his body. [laughter] and they say where he works out with a congressman and senators they say when jim works out he's not as embassy was that he works out and the machine starts burning. he uses a different form of workout then with others. look at that guy. one day i'm looking and i'm looking at those ears and i say those ears have something going on there. i said -- but he doesn't talk but i checked. this guy was a champion top wrestler. i had all of the teams and by the way the super bowl champions are coming i think next week or very soon. they had a wonderful year and the coach and every one of them. we have people who love it. we had the ncaa championship teams here. they had the basketball and one of the teams was the wrestling team. penn state won the title. it walked up with jim and it's like i didn't exist. those wrestler's, they grabbed grab him. they loved jim jordan and they -- and we love you too because you are some warrior. [applause] a woman who became, we have a couple of women who became stars to and i always like to name lesko. i liked the name. i saw the face and she had like seven opponents, right? you have no idea how much the public appreciates how smart and how sharp you are. you can't tell. they just said you know she's really good. she's really talented. we worked with her. she won her race, tough race. it's no longer tough because what she does out there is incredible. arizona loves her. you were so incredible representing, i don't say me. representing our country and getting us out of this impeachment hoax. what you did was incredible so devey please stand up. debbie lesko. [applause] and men who i became very friendly with. i don't know why. certain people call you and you take their calls. other people call and they won't take anybody's called. other people call and this is a guy, he's just a very special guy. his wife, i actually like her better than him to be honest. he doesn't know that i know that he didn't support me right from the beginning but she did. on my worst day, on my worst day and i won't tell you why it was my worst but it was not one of those good days. she got on the bus and many other buses and women all over north carolina toured north carolina. mark was semi- supporting another candidate which he ended very quickly. i don't think you have a choice because of your wife but thank her and mark meadows is an extraordinary guy. only problem is i guess he's announcing you can only win by 40 points but he's announcing he will not be running this time. somebody is going to win your district by at least 20 points but is a tremendously talented man not just as a politician. it's a human being enduring these horrible times, the way he worked with all of you guys. they -- the way they worked it was like their life was at stake ron desantis is another one. he worked so hard and he called me and he said sara and like to for governor. i said governor? i don't want you to run. no, i want to run for governor. they said well if you have to. i would like your support. i said how can i support you? you are at three. he had no money and somebody else is at 38 and they had 22 million in cash. it's important and i'll do it because he's another great warrior and by the way he ran a the night doris him and his numbers went through the roof. the man who we pii is expected to win easily called me after the race and he said you endorsed him and it was like a nuclear bomb went off. there was nothing i could do. he never even spent his money. ron desantis is another one and now he's the governor of florida and by the way he's a great governor. he is a very popular governor. his numbers are in the 70s and he's done a great job. mark i want to thank you very much. a fantastic job. thank you very much. mark bennett. [applause] and mike johnson of louisiana. where is mike? central casting. what a job. you can represent me anytime. you can represent me any time. thank you. what a job you have done. thank you mike. the other sides were snip there. this guy goes down into dungeons and basements and he will find a document the matter what. he's the most legitimate human being and the hardest worker. he's unbelievable. he took tremendous abuse. the media and the other side, the bad ones the leakers and the liars, the dirty cops. they wanted to destroy him. they got close but he wouldn't let it happen. honestly in a certain way he was the first one wouldn't you say jim and mark? this was the first guy that came out of nowhere. these people are corrupt. he's still saying it and he was unbelievable. devin nunes. [applause] [applause] he'd come in and say i didn't even know him. i just heard it was his congressman and he kept going into a basement into files. he knew something was wrong. now we know a lot more than we did then. he never thought it was as bad as it is and hopefully we are going to take care of things. we can never ever allow this to happen again. [applause] scott perry of pennsylvania. scott, thank you. [applause] thank you scott. really great and you are doing very well over there by the way. a man who, central casting if i'm going to pick perry mason i'm going to do a remake of perry mason. i picked barr first. i have to tell you we are doing a remake of perry mason. there is nobody in hollywood like this. stand up. [applause] such a great lawyer, incredible guy incredible talent. he gets on that screen and everyone says i agree. the other side folds up so fast. we will probably be using a lot of you in the next year but few have been fantastic. thank you very much. and mandy was braver than me and braver than all of us in this room. he got whacked. he got whacked. i went to the hospital with the great first lady that night and we saw a man that was not going to make it. i told him, his wife, she loves you. she was devastated. a lot of wives wouldn't give a dam. a lot of wives, a lot of wives would have said yeah. i said how's he doing? she couldn't even talk to issue is inconsolable. most wife would say not good. i'm going home. but the doctor came in and the wife is like, she was a total mess. she was really devastated and he looked like he had a 25% chance. steve scalise, i think you are better looking now. you are more handsome. you weren't that good looking and you look good now. he looks better now. can you believe the? i don't know what the hell that is. [applause] .. >> were practicing, against the. this walk job, started shooting. rogers, hertz rogers. and the number of people. he was the second baseman, and he went down. and it was terrible. i saw the whole thing and it was terrible. fortunately, you had to break policeman with you because of your high position in congress. and they were amazing. a man, and a woman and they came, they didn't have rifles. they could equipment but all of the head at the time was gone. they started coming in from the outfield shooting and it was so far away that a handgun, is not preferred. this guy has the rifle and he is hitting people. he was going to move up. there was no way to get out. the entrance was a single entrance way on the other side where he was. several went into the dugout, but steve was really hit badly in the stomach. and with a bullet that rips you apart, it rips you apart in these two people came charging forward. one of them, you know who, got the shooter. killed him. from a long distance. it was amazing. and if you didn't have those two people, you can imagine right. what would've happened. so we went to the hospital that night and he was and shuts bad shape. and he's been working so hard ever since. but six months ago, at a baseball game at the national. it is on television. you want to win the game. steve, second base, poor guy can't even walk. he was known for range. he had the greatest range, bobby richardson, second baseman. he would field the ball. he had unbelievable range. this was not steve. [laughter]. steve had no range. [laughter]. 1 foot and he has to fall down right. but he was trying to get away from there. i don't know who the heck put you on the field. this is a true story. so the game starts, and the first pitch second base, and the guy is in really bad shape. i said this is terrible. a ground ball shot, went to second. and steve, i didn't have time to think too much but i said this is not good. the ball is going towards him. and this guy, stopped that ball, caught the ball. he is now laying down. he throws the ball and it is about. is the most incredible thing. i have never seen that. [applause]. nothing like it. and he gets him out and then they took him out of the game. you can never do that again in a million years. but you are going to let that ball go through. i don't care who was sent for the greatest of all time. that ball was not going through you because you are a warrior. steve is fantastic. you are fantastic. you and this, and kevin. when a group. i got lucky. you need the right people. if i had the wrong people there, it may be a different story. we may be celebrating something else. i really want to thank you. and in these, you, i just read the story. what is going on with you, damon said i thought she looks like good talent. but when she opens that mouth, you will kill it. [applause]. and is a picture in the new york post. they treat me well. today they are treating me well. ivan and great mina. new york times, washington post. i had all these great headlines. and it just ended up right there. we had the greatest start yesterday. people from all over the country is contributing to her campaign. they were so enthralled with the way you handle yourself. what you said, the way you said it, and i will always be your friend. it is really an amazing story. what a great future you have. thank you. first lady agrees by the way. [applause]. and michael turner, you can represent me anytime. where is he. [applause]. there's another person, what you think john. and michael. and brad. where is brad. it is a big day. all of the lawyers stayed behind how good are you. command. [applause]. and will, your name is not down. if i did announce lily. [laughter]. however that made this list. i gotta get rid of it. if i wouldn't have vanessa louis, it might've been the end of the presidency. you've been so great in some tough. and so smart. i got it. he is a tough guy, a smart guy in street wise like crazy. we are with you all of the way. thank you very much. [applause]. that is the story. we have a great group of warriors and there are others left and probably i'm sure i didn't mention if you and i apologize if that is the case. women, stand up please. he is one of said man should run. [applause]. matt, he said like five years ago or six years ago, i made a speech and then delete the best speech. he said i made the best speech. with all of these professional politicians, devoted by far the best speech was trump. and i said i didn't know about politics but we learn frankly, the god but god country is not doing better than it ever has been before. thank you matt. so that is the story. we have been treated very unfairly unfortunately we have great men and women that came to our defense. if we didn't, this would have been a horrific incident for our country. when you have lisa and peter, the fbi lovers. i want to believe the path that you throughout, for deputy director andrew, that is the office. there is no way he gets elected. he said probably trying to impress her for obvious reasons. there is no way he gets elected. but i am afraid we can't take the risk. think of this. if i get elected, they can't, to blow lives, they can't take it. the greatest policy. i'm afraid we can't take the list. it is like an insurance policy. in the unlikely event, you die before your 40. in other words, if i won, they're going to do exactly what they did to us. they're going to try and overthrow the government of the united states, a duly elected president. and if i didn't fire james comey, we would have never found the stuff. because when i fired that sleaze bag, all heck broke out. they were renting on each other. they were running for the hills. let's see what happens. it's in the hands of some very talented people. we will have to see what happens. but i can tell you in my opinion, these are the crookedest, most dishonest people that i've ever seen. they said that god, hillary should win. 100 million to one. this is about an agent from the fbi, and look out the litter off. 33000 e-mails, delivered, nothing happens to her. it is unbelievable. you think of that, hillary should have one. these guys are investigating hillary then they go to work for miller. the two of them. and when moeller found out that everybody knew that there were a hundred percent this way, he let them go. but they deleted all of their e-mails and text messages. so when we get the phone, they were all deleted. could you imagine the treasure trove, they illegally deleted it. they left bob moeller, he had to look, mr. g-man, and i love the fbi and if god loves me. 99 percent. it was a tough scum, and the fbi people don't like the top scum. so think of that, 100 million to one. and then god, trump is a low human being, is it heat. these are the people looking at me. i'm really not a bad person. and page suggest, he is awful. how would you like to have that, this is the good stuff. hundred times worse than that, these are all dirty people. and now, i just heard that he is suing the united states of america. because they were interfered with. i'm not going to let it happen. we cannot let this happen to our country. [applause]. i will leave now. i don't know if any of you have anything to say. you could say it but this is sort of a day of celebration because we went through. heck. i'm sure pelosi and crying chuck, the only time i ever saw him cry when it was appropriate. i have known him for a long time. i'm sure he will try and cook up other things. to go through this state of new york and other places. they will do whatever they can because instead of wanting to heal our country and fix it, all they want to do in my opinion, it's almost like they want to destroy our country. we can't let it happen. and jim jordan, did you want to say something. go ahead. mark? [inaudible]. [applause]. >> highly partisan situation, pelosi said i copied it down exactly, before the impeachment, don't let her full view. she said impeachment is a very serious thing. impeachment, is so divisive to the country, that unless there is something so compelling and so overwhelming and bipartisan, to hundred and 97 to nothing. in one failed presidential candidate and a call that calf because actually voted for her but the other one, one failed presidential candidate. we had almost 53. to nothing. we had 197 - nothing. and the only one that was benched, was a guy i can't stand the fact that he ran one of the worst campaigns in the history of the presidency. but she said there is something that has to be so compelling and overwhelming overwhelming and bipartisan, i don't think we should go down that path. because it divides the country. and it is not worth it. that was nancy pelosi a year ago. i think it is a shame. but as i said, if we can put this to work on roads and highways and bridges, and all of the things we can do, prescription drugs, we have secretary with us here. first time in 51 years, drug prices actually came down last year. first time in 51 years. but what we can do working with both parties in congress, would be unbelievable. all we can do, and an of chuck grassley is working very hard and mitch is working very hard. what we can do just generally, we have done so much without it. we build our military, with cut regulations at a level that nobody thought possible. will always protect our second amendment, we all know that. i just want to tell you that it's an honor to be with you all. i want to apologize to my family for having them have to go through a phony, rotten deal. by some very evil and sick people. and my son is here in my whole family is here. they ♪ ♪. stand up money. thank you honey. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. i want to thank my family, this is not part of the deal. i was going to run from president and if i won i was going to do a great job. i didn't know that i was going to run and then want to get in i would have to run again and again and again every week. that wasn't the deal but they stuck with me. i am so glad i did it because we are making progress and doing things for our great people. that everybody said couldn't be done. our country is thriving. our country is disrespected again and it's an honor to be with the people in this room. our country is respected. thank you everybody. thank you everybody in this room. [applause]. [applause]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. campaign 2020 coverage continues right now with elisabeth warren, get out to vote event. it's holding nations first primary next tuesday. you are watching life coverage on "c-span2". [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. >> from california, commerce committee, here to talk about amongst other things, proposal by the trump administration on medicaid. your reaction to yesterday's vote on impeachment. >> it's unfortunate but is not a surprise. we pretty much figured that the senate was not going to vote with a sense of integrity. with all of the evidence that was there, the president used his office to withhold conditioned to a favor that the president of ukraine, announced an investigation to a political opponent for personal political gain. at the same time, putting at risk our national security and integrity of her democratic election. it was very important that we send a strong message to future presidents and future generations that this kind of corrupt behavior, is not tolerated in future scenarios, depending or regardless of the partisan makeup of congress, that a president will be held accountable. in this president will now forever in the history of our nation, be known as a precedent that was impeached. i'm for the reason that he was impeached. >> house democrats to continue on with the same intensity as we saw in the impeachment trial printed. >> we have passed over 400 bills in the house of representatives. 200 over 260 have been bipartisan that are just sitting. and mitch mcconnell's desk. so there's a lot of work that has been or that we have done to lower the cost prescription drugs, other significant legislation, so we can do both. i think it is a duty of every rep., every senator to defend our constitution. and make sure that there are no violations so that we can really fan in the strong message. but the office of the president should never be used for personal political gain. and so we take notes and we should always be vigilance. if he continues to ask a foreign country for personal political gain, foreign countries and favors for put personal gain that we must, it is an oath that we took. >> you a doctor by training. talk about the way the federal government distributes medicaid aid and talk about what the trump administration wants to see happen to change that. >> apparently the federal government pays a certain portion of the cost for the medicaid program. the state putting their amounts, the federal government puts in their amount and that is to give reassurance to the most vulnerable population. those of low income, some with difficulties in their lives. it is very important, because they are able to get the basic care, and also to people who need it. that they will be able to reassure never that they cost will be paid. so the ministration has a numerous attempts to limit the amount that the states received to help pay for the care avert vulnerable population. this one proposal is that they want to block grant, to medicaid. sort of the words, the tell the state that we will give you this amount and you figure out what you want to do with it. not be committed to doing their share of the total cost. that is not a good way of taking care of our patients. and i will tell you why. one, it basically limits the amount in the care for these patients by, because states will then be forced to find ways to cut eligibility, deny certain more expensive treatments that may be hospital stays or chemotherapy the cost of medication. they will also cut treatments to physicians and to hospitals. this primary concerning in rural underserved areas because those physicians that serve their are less likely either seen medicaid patients, and the patient will have less access to doctors as well as hostas hospitals. we already have a rural crisis with a record number of these hospitals in rural areas. they're shutting down. >> just to clarify, if someone gets medicaid from the state itself, this unaffected. do these only affect those expanded states under obama care. >> under the proposal, it seems to be those who are expanded through obama care. but don't forget the vast majority, tens of millions of new people with healthcare, receive that healthcare now because the medicaid expansion in the states. so this is just another attempt to rollback an appeal and take away the health benefits than affordable care act has done for individuals. the republican congress in their attempt to repeal the affordable care act included totally converting the medicaid program, to a block grant program. >> we returned to the person next to us. introduce ourselves. and we share while we are here. to take one minute, turn to the person next to you. go ahead. 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