Im sorry we are running late we have a Big Television personality you probably have time to watch the show before you came here its magic that he made it. We want to thank the Community College and this beautiful space. We appreciate theyve been great partners and were great people to work with, a round of applause. Thank you. [applause] thank you we appreciate that and want to thank our sponsors [applause] [applause] how are you all doing . You are amazing. Thank you for that warm welcome. You left the set in new york, hopped on the train. 6 00 my assistant said weve got to go right now theres a car waiting for us to take us to penn station which is about 33rd or so. I get in the car, press my math did come map and it says you will be there at 6 37 and i said thats a problem. So i said ive got to run, swear to god i get out of the cards ct about 90 degrees in the city and im running holding my shirt and a bag of running down seventh avenue. Anyone remember folder so cars are coming and im stopping and going and running. I made it with like four minutes left. [applause] [cheering] what concerns me is you are running around new york and theres a lot liberal drivers. We have some of the finest here tonight keeping the Community Safe and we are so thankful. Thank you. [applause] and the Community College folks jumped at this the first to second when asked. By the way folks come he chose us as his First Official stop in the book. [applause] a year ago we sat down and did this at the train station you were so much fun. But i said what is the address of this venue. I havent even shown you i dont know if youve seen this yet i just took this picture a second ago. You probably know by now and if you dont then you are on swamp road, total coincidence take a look at that intersection. I came in on the intersection of swamp and liberty. [applause] i said if ever there was more a poetic intersection that is exactly the nations intersection. The cspan people are telling us to sit down. We are on tv everybody. This is one of those crazy coincidences weve been experiencing. We will get into how the book came about later. So im writing this book and thinking i need a good cover. I know why im writing the book that i want a good cover that will catch you. So i am looking up pictures and i happened to type in swamp dc and the picture comes up and its the Capitol Building being built on a swamp and i just went back and said this is the right project at the right time. Part of the dome isnt even on eight yes and if they literally had to drain the swamp to build the capital but they drain the swamp and left the metaphorical. To make a long story short, this is another one. We have a lot to give to. Everybody wave. I dont know if you follow me on facebook and twitter and social media. We have some of the most engaged fans. They go online and they are just amazing. By the way they are talk radio listeners. [applause] so i wake up yesterday i see one of the first from the day is the most powerful man in the free world saying by the new book. Rupert murdoch. No, im kidding. Then i log on and theres the new book and then i turn on the highest rated Cable News Program and their you see it all in the same day. Ive never seen a rollout like that. Whats its like to get the president s endorsement absorbed with . So that was tuesday. You sleep about three hours when you launch a book. My publisher said lets get some media. So we do this book party and have a couple of cocktails. Then i take my closest friends out and the publisher says great news i have an interview set up for here. Wyou. We have a 10 00 interview set up for you. It was an hour interview from ten to 11. I am an hour away from home so i finished the interview, got home at about midnight or so and they hahave me back at like 6 00 in e morning. Tell me that you were drunk on fox and friends. [laughter] so i get there and im literally pushing an envelope you have to be here and here. I make it by a minute, the moratorium being upheld and then some of the healthcare stuff. Getting into it pretty heavily and then i get off the set and said what you just said get my new book, its out today and it gets sent again a minute after im off the set. It blows up and peopl flows up e saying did you see the president just retweeted your tweet . Than they have a link to barnes and noble and amazon. The book was inspired by donald trump and i think that he knows that and understands that. To be very clear and what the record stayed there were not many. And coulter was the only one i know other than you in the very early primary process. [applause] [cheering] ive known donald trump for a long time. I dont want to interrupt the story but can you talk about knowing him and believe that . Maybe ten or 12 years ago he was doing apprentice before Celebrity Apprentice and one of my friends said you would like trump and i said i dont know him. He said come on come he was producing the apprentice brand, so i go to some Cocktail Party and it ends up being a party on tv and a fund raiser so we are just kind of hanging out having fun and having drinks. So i met donald, he met my wife and over the years id gone to a lot of Celebrity Apprentice events and started working at fox and interviewing donald on fox and friends in the morning and he knew i came from a financial background so we had a connection and would call to say that was great so i developed a friendship over the years. I wasnt sure if he was going to run and i was surprised and shocked when he did. When he came down the escalator, every single human being in the newsroom, thousands of people working in the hustle and bustle newsroom, no one could pick pay attention. Every eyeball stared at the tvs. You can love him or hate him but he has something that is going to get americas attention, and he did. But heres the thing. Throughout the campaign, there were bumps. The video, the audio from the billy bush thing but i stayed with him and i got my television butt kicked on a daily basis. It wasnt easy being pro trump for a long time. There were probably six months and it wasnt because i was liberal. Anyway, he knew that and watched a lot of tv. After the election he calls me, the phone rings and i put him on the speaker. You know, you were with me from the start. I saw this coming and always had confidence in you for the first time mr. President. He said you know Something Else when it didnt look so good for me, you were there but heres the point. The reason that was relevant to me, universal about on the campaign trail. You never saw a doubt in his mind. He didnt want to portray that he wanted to confidence straight through. You know the Media Business and ive been honest about this as often as i can because it is important to be honest i voted for donald trump never in a million years thought i could possibly weather or the billy bush thing. You know the news media. This is the moment. Think about this for one minute if it isnt a donald trump is it going to be held at the clinton and are you sure you want a Supreme Court that is going to move far left for probably the next three to four generations. You can despise everything donald trump is about what hes goinbut hesgoing to keep the se Courts Center right. [applause] and when kennedy retires we thought it was going to be this month. He may stick around for another year. There will be another conservative and probably a third in the next seven or eight years. Think about that. That is a truly conservative Supreme Court matter for many, many. That will undoubtedly be his legacy without question. Like a private visit plaques to the ive got the fox questions coming up. It is for me first i called them up and say i have a new show it would be cool if the first day i could launch an interview with the president. No problem, just like that. It went from we are going to do it on friday or monday was the first day of the show but it ended up coinciding with 100 days on saturday of the presidency, so i didnt want it to lose its value. Got that the crack of dawn monday morning, interviewed the president , had a great 15 minutes with him. The interesting thing about that whole event. The white house has their cameras and we have ours as well. Its a whole production so this is going on for a couple hours. The president walks in, sits down, 30 people in the room watching this is the west wing but then he does something no one expected and probably no other president has done or what do. He said he wante if you want toe oval office and i said yes. Then he says all you sound people, do you want to go in the oval office . Yes. Thats donald trump right there. You can tell your kids you were in the oval office. [applause] then its pretty early on in his presidency and he and she talked about the meeting i dont know how many of you heard about this but the room meeting he gets up and says he want to go over to the oval and they walk in and even his staff this kind of flummoxed you want us to clean the desk off mr. President . And i said to the sheriff, that is what i take away from him. He really believe that is the peoples house. He really believes that. [applause] one step further. One derivative of that and he believes that hes one of the people. What billionaire do you know its so friendly with a regular person. It happened yesterday there was a reporter. Is that bad to say now . So hes the most powerful man on the planet, a billionaire and if you didnt know if you were sitting next to him and i think except for the hair that hes one of your friends. And i would still take that hair by the way. [applause] what fox has gone through do you believe that is directly correlated with the opposition to the president , do you feel like it is all hands on deck we have to shut anybody down that have to do with helping this man succeeded to get to the white house . You mean the turnover because it was a very different place. I cant even count on one hand the amount of very hydrated hosts a. I was absolutely shocked. I never even heard of it but once it started to unravel and unfold, they did the right thing. I will tell you leading up to if there was no indication. Now, do i think commander this is my personal opinion that there were a lot of satellite losses optiplex that probably have no merit but they were just interested in making this, its a bad time for all of this happening, lets get through and maybe they wouldnt settle. Let me ask about a couple of individuals and if you are not comfortable i wont. You can always ask. Shes wildly talented and smart. I have seen her take apart guests they dont know its coming and they walk right down to the corner and she just takes the legs out including. Fair enough, okay. She doesnt discriminate based on the ideologies, heres the point. I think shes extremely talented and in the wrong place right n now. She felt it was their biggest rising star. She would come to friends like mine in the same rogers praises. And then shes going to nbc. I do think that the accusations towards roger are what took roger down. She probably had some evidence. [applause] for me personally i did for the better part 200 or 300 300 oreilly factors i spent a lot of time with that crew and staff. When he took some time off he left. We spent a lot of time. I got a call that day and 12 05 in jeans and a polo shirt and the secretary says mr. Murdoch wants to see you now. So i put on a suit and tie and i ran up to the office. He said down and said heres the deal. Our attorneys have said we have to part ways with bill oreilly. We have an issue at 8 00 at night and its going to go to primetime. But he said i want you to know youre going to stay at 5 00. I need to maintain the audience into prime time and i want you there. I said okay, great. Thank you very much. I called my wife and said okay, so im going to do the 5 00 shadow. Im not sure if im on the five anymore but they are going to what originally was good to be 8 00 int8 00 and then they put five . So there is a press release that comes out but says the host of 5 00 hour and im looking at my name on the 5 00 and see jesse waters. Every one of your shows, the entire lineup from cavuto to sean and it kept getting bigger as the night wore on. The tucker edition, you like back . [applause] i cant wait to talk with him about this but because i can imagine and im wondering what all of you thought, who in the hell is going to take bill oreillys chair and he gets a call did everybody say yes or i dont know about that. Did you think that . What happened was you saw tucker doing something very unique. I had never seen that before. He was bringing liberals on. College professor some where and of the 7 00 show on fox news. Thats brilliant and aggressive. Things could go horribly wrong and the other question i will never forget the first at 7 00 7 00 he comes on the five to do a thing i go tucker wyatt did these liberals come back on your show you destroy them and he said i dont know i will keep doing it until they stop. Its amazing how theyll are going to come in. Everyone thinks theyre going to do that. Any sports fans . Is like going into the other teams stadium, the other teams wraps are their uncle. Its insane. You have no shot. You have your own stage and you have cameras and you could play a lot of games and by the way tucker is wildly talented anyway but its fun to watch. Heres one of the little fact door secrets. The fight was going to go at 8 00. They were going to move the five to the oreilly show. Bill shine the tim i think he was the one who said i can do an ensemble show at eight. So they said tucker was doing very well. Sean probably thought about it and floated the idea but the other thing about the 8 00 of the 9 00 our is they have to be life. There is breaking news throughout the night in a want it life. Sean is a very close friend of mine but sean is hardcore opinion so you can pretty much take that at 6 00 and 7 00 and it will last until 10. Sean is like im not going to come here and stay until nine or 10 00 at night but im going to tape at six and it will be good until 10 00 the shot did Something Interesting because it wasnt long after this that he also came under some attack but he decided to strategically tackle it differently and he took a little time off than everybody thought we know what happened with bill oreilly with a little time off. Sean wont come back and sean did come back and i think his numbers are stronger than they have ever been. [applause] did anyone happen to see this special today at 5 00 . Hand up. Kyle my assistant said theres this young kid like 17 years old and hes holding a poster that says congratulations eric with a picture of the book. Why dont you say hi to the kid on the way into the studio. Absolutely and ill take it one step further so i go out and i meet the kid and i shake his hand and he is so nice. He said i read the swamp and i loved it. I put in with mark or congratulations. Will you stand by the window during the show if you have time . He beamed. He was like oh my god thats amazing. Just then hannity walks and and im hanging out and hannity smacks the kid and the kid is like oh my god sean hannity and sean says what of eke out there . He holds up a poster and he says bollings book . The point is sean is such a nice guy. The guy was so happy he got a picture with sean. He is just a regular guy. The most successful cable news hosts on air right now. And hes philanthropic. Sometimes we celebrate someones birthday and we sit around having steaks and chicken or whatever, cant tales. Sean will pick up the whole tab insist on picking up the whole tab and leave a 1000dollar tip and walk out. Hes the nicest guy in the world. I will ask you one more fox question and that is ultimately the death of roger ailes. It seemed like i was terribly emotional for those of you that were left. Brian kilmeade and certainly sean and you really seemed to be profoundly impacted. Which is interesting because in terms of politics show up is not a guy you would think would be aligned with everything they said about roger ailes. Show up is not politically a rightwinger by any means. Not even close. Roger saw something in him and hired him. Think about that for a minute. He is not your typical conservative rightwing talking head human being person and shep had a great relationship. I was at a birthday bbq at rogers house and shep came. Shep is and he talks about it and he brought his partner. Roger put his arm around both of them and said glad you are here and thanks for being here and he goes on his way. Think about rachel maddow. She also is very complimentary of roger ailes so all these bad things that were said about roger is all generated in the media. He was not a bad guy. He had issues, yes and i dont know what happened but in life he gave a lot of money and he was very very religious. Everything i know, everything i know for a fact about roger was very positive and very nice and very good. And i know you have heard it and read it and i get people to say this, oreilly is gone and its just a matter of time now. Ive heard rush say rogers out and theres a new direction. They are not fair and balanced and people made a big deal about that. Where is fox going . Are you concerned about it . The ratings are fine right now and its at the same product that we are accustomed to watching . A very interesting question because i dont know if there is an editorial directional change. Thats something beyond my pay grade and thats something where mr. Murdoch resides. I dont know if they are trying to move into the center. I have never ever been told to tone it down and in fact on the new 5 00 special and more conservative and more vocal than i ever was. Contrary to what you will hear and read, no one says this is what we have to do our highlight this today. These are the talking points for the day. Never happened. Doesnt happen and certainly no one has ever done that to me. So what you are saying is you dont work at cnn. I cant confirm that. [applause] oh, come on. You go out for drinks and in you all talk, what a mess they are in. They have so many strong protrump voices. But from an Industry Insider this would be watching a rival talkshow host across town struggling. Not personally but professionally because theyve been caught up in bad stuff. Now they have just been caught redhanded and finally must feel like the truth has set us free, hallelujah. I did a monologue today. Is this a wakeup call for the future in media that this trump arrangement syndrome you have going on just trying to tattoo him with every story you can possibly tell to him with without doing your homework and without backing it up and checking sources. Just run with it . People are getting fired. I do think that is what happened the scaramucci. I think the tide is going to change. Rush said today and i wondered if you feel this. Rush said this morning on his program that he really feels that there is the tide turning. He feels suddenly for the first time theres an inkling of a Momentum Shift in terms of the media relationship in the white house. So rush copied my talking points . Thats between you two. I think thats why trump retweeted my book by the way. Have you met rush . Like you the Momentum Shift, the public is now seen theres a party that seems to be offering nothing but republicans are a bunch of killers. Its russia trump, russia trump and the American People they have just had it. Its so transparent now its not even run anymore. [applause] and i think thats what the story did. It exposed their willingness or their desire or me to paint that picture of trump and the collusion or the obstruction of justice. Look at what hes doing with the economy. My monologue today was, so i put the sound bite of when obama were said rush is a problem. The 80s once their Foreign Policy back. Its not a threat anymore. That was four years ago. He must have surely changed his mind over the last four years and i put up the sound right of october. Theres no way anyone in their right mind would think the russians were meddling and it would have any effect. Why is russia such a big story when even the head of their party as saying russia is not an issue. Its because they dont care about facts anymore. Theyre just trying to nail trump. They didnt see them winning and they despise him so much because he is fighting back. They are making a lot of mistakes. At sporting events are in a competition once you start wanting a team so badly you start making mistakes you know youre glossed. They know they have lost. [applause] msnbc is at least honest about what they are. I think they are changing. They are trying to see the landscape out a little bit. Cnn seems to be antitrump. They were centrist for a long time. Lets pick apart everything he does and bring up some negative stuff. Seems to work. The numbers are up as well. Msnbc who you would think would be the most antitrump than anyone on the right has now hired hugh hewitt, Greta Van Susteren and nicole wallace. Those are three, not conservatives but three republicans which i never thought they would do. My point is i think they are still figuring out where they are. Every now and again Chris Matthews falls and hits his head and says something that surprises me. Lately, yale. I dont know what to make of him. Do you know what i mean . One tuesday in the middle of the month they might say trump might be onto something. At one point he said Something Like trump he came president tonight when he did something. I care remember what the event was but that was for Chris Matthews when he became president. He probably got reprimanded. We are here, why not. Let me get to some questions from the audience. Do you miss greg gutfeld and the five . [applause] i definitely miss the five. So heres the thing. I was there from, so take it back six years glenn beck said to roger ailes, im leaving at 5 00 and im doing my own thing. Roger said okay, fine at the end of the summer, right . He said no at the end of the week. Roger ailes had an issue not unlike what murdoch had so roger was sitting and he will tell you this story. Hes trying to figure out what to do with a couple of his president s or whomever. He said okay i want five people. Bolling in the middle. He used to be a broadway producer and he will tell you if you put together the five the way you put together a broadway production. I want someone who is like the girl next door and someone who is very attractive and smart. And we will put, can we find a foster works character for the liberal . Foster brooks . It was supposed to be july 11 until the end of the summer and when they got to labor day they were going to launch a big void show. Within a week or so we were beating the numbers. And the desk, this is a true story. It was wasnt glenn beck sold studio. If you remember he had chalked boards around the place and once in a while he would ring some stuff out and a table to put some stuff on. It was this old ikea table. Then there were four chairs. Huckabee had the studio audience so they took the huckabee church and the studio audience and rot glenn becks old ikea table and that was going to be the set for the rest of the summer. Its still the set. It never went away. We moved into this new shiny 30 million studio months ago and its a new table and new chairs the exact same thing. Rob went away for a while and then came back. Did you all miss him personally . You talk about the way roger put it together. He put together this cache of political friends. It was like that. And if you extract somebody like that all of a sudden, it works fine. You travel and during elections you will go to the primaries. We became a family so when you remove someone from the family there is a void there. You feel the void. Warren and geraldo, they did. Bob went away and when he came back i will be honest it felt like it was two years. We had grown as a group because we had gone through some really heavy political storms and i think bob came back and expected to be the old lobban joking and playing around and we are all like, lob. So the tone isnt where you would on. It was a little bit awkward at times. Ive spoken spoken to bob a couple of times. He got a complaint and they let him go. I must have missed that. Geraldo has threatened to throw a punch at you. And i think he basically said Something Like you got one, go ahead, do your best. I said what you wait for the break. This will only take a second. [laughter] [applause] by the way i dont care how mad i am im never going to threaten you. He will take me in a hot second. Let me explain exactly what happened. The conversation was going back and forth about trump and the wall and inflation. Hes so mad about the wall and trumps immigration stance and he said trump is trying to sensationalize everything. Aye coming from a guy who is made out career out of everything. He got so mad. It really was kind of a low blow but hes like if you were my friend i would punch you in the mouth. Whatever, geraldo. He is the perfect example of a liberal who has a personal relationship with the president and is having a very difficult time being committed to the movement when he knows that the guy is a good guy. I see him struggle that way. He likes him. I think hes a good political adversaries because they are on opposite side of the spectrum. But i think geraldo has flipflopped on trump a couple of times. Trump knows everyone who was there and he knows those who didnt. Hes up in the morning president trump. We have a bit on the show we do. We have a twitter alert. Its a show and i dont have to did do anything anymore. About 6 16 he will tweeted off we go. [laughter] its amazing. India think he doesnt know that . Watch this, im going to tweet this. Mr. President , not going to do it. 40,000 talkshow hosts, he tweeted. Get it up on the screen. You know my other favorite thing . I love that fox and friends watches the corner of the white house waiting for the light to come on. The president is up. They know he is watching them so they are kind of doing a show for him. Its very funny. I just think its funny. He does watch it though. I dont say it disparagingly. Hes watching right now. [laughter] im sorry mr. President. When i write a book that i also have a tweet . [laughter] i could use the help. Have to send the kids to school. Eric wants to know if you eric are running for the senate in 2020 in new jersey . Yes and no. That story started naming a month ago. The starledger ran a full page in the weekend edition. About the show on whats going on and my relationship with trump. He said what you going to do later . He ended it right there and printed it. Politico, reporter politico caught it and wow. Politico has a tendency to sit down and do an interview and then they will just rip it up and turned into something. Our Pr Department watches out for us and somehow they got by and shes doing an interview with me and it went from lets talk about the show to you get the point of view on the senate run. What i said was when the lights were gone on my television i would love to run for elected office. She said where . And i said im not going to say where. It could be 1820 18, 20 but i would almost rather primary nonconservative establishment type republican because i cant stand a couple of our senators who get their on conservatism and turned into one of these. [applause] they dive right into the swamp and you cant get them out. Do you want to name names . No. Its not hard to figure out. No, it isnt. Technically south of new jersey. I wouldnt mind replacing a booker with a bolling over their new jersey or a bob with a bolling. Thats bob menendez. I cant imagine a republican. Didnt he use to get excited about the idea of Chris Christie . Wasnt there a time and by the way you know the president. What the hell happened there . Back i went from being one of biggest stars of politics to a close adviser to present to seeming like he cant get an invite to a tea party on the white house lawn. If you go all the way back he was wellregarded as the next republican president. He had a shot but he turned it down and within a year or so hes patting president obama on the back. He ruined his political career that day. There was a chance to revive with trump but the bridgegate was so bad. When you run for president they dissect your whole life and people realize there are a lot of things that hes. Lucky to be where he is right now. This is what i imagine, he said chris i love you but you are an albatross. Ive got enough problems. I dont need you. By the way doesnt help that Chris Christie persecuted Jared Kushners father. It makes for some awkward dinner conversation. Hey dad can i talk to you . Pass the gravy. When will they start to investigate real obstruction and crime like Loretta Loretta lynch and Hillary Clinton . [applause] i dont know if they ever will. So we get a special counsel. We get Robert Mueller and he hires more clinton donors to work in his office. He must spend a heck of a lot of money. I dont mean to make you the president s spokesman that you seem to know him well enough. Can you tell me, is he thinking to himself, just turn me loose on these guys but im going to fire them all and people are restraining him . Or he is saying to himself if i do that, that would make us look worse. His advisers tell him, theres going to be nothing anyway. I think this will end up being a positive for trump anyway. He spent 100 billion investigating. They leak everything about this guy. They are going to spend a lot of money and time and at the end they will give him the all clear and it will be a positive. Like you said, i hope there are tapes. We all knew there were tapes. That was just hilarious to me. I hope there are tapes. Thats like one guy ripping another guy, dont screw with me, a you. I hope there are tapes. We know. We know what he was doing and he finally tweets, no tapes. No tapes. Was that even a real . He is so good at messing with people. You really is. The media doesnt know what to do with him. The fbi director cant figure it out. You are in the business. What is this doing to cnn . Poor jim acosta is going to have a stroke. Have you seen him . I just adore and i dont know puts the president or who it is that said you can run the audio at these press briefings but no video. Is there anything worse . Finally they figured out you try to do it the right way and the news medias reporting a completely wrong. I will ask a thousand questions about russia and in the meantime the economy put up an Economic Indicator that is really good, Consumer Confidence is up and no one ask questions. Poor sean spicer, no one wants to hear him and he spent 45 minutes on russia. He was like two can play this game. You can do the sketches. It was amazing. 2017 and we are doing sketches of spicer talking. Cnn is going to be, they are going to be whittled down to wolf blitzer and the flip book soon. Remember the airplane, the Malaysian Air flight that was lost and they had the simulator . They have spicer simulated in the press briefing room. It is a riot and brit hume. What a classy way to slap them around. The other night when he said anybody that is worth a dam this business to call up the white house and get the information you need. These press briefings are for nobodys. He didnt say it that way. Whats happening is the press briefings are making these social media stars. People who other than this white house did you ever really no other than four or five white house correspondents . Now we have jim acosta. They are making stars so of course they will be louder and more vocal. Did you see this video clip i put up on youtube of me with spicer. Brit hume made the point. If you are a big network you get access. You are on some sort of media that is well received and while watched, it becomes oxygen. People need, some people need to be on or they think they are done. With these press briefings were all these reporters have their hair and makeup done before press briefing and a hand goes up and you get called. You attack sean spicer, you get all these networks. They love that. What they are doing is holding airtime out of these reporters and they are going crazy. Its driving them nuts. [applause] interesting question how the viewers knowing you mentioned this about seans program. How do they know when its alive or agram or a recorded program on fox . I will give you insight it sometimes sean does his show from home and you cant tell. He is a studio built in his house that is identical to his studio. Scenic heres how you know. Watch seans show. Every single guest is on remote. If he is not in the studio hes at home. We are actually a hologram in seans living room right now. Heres another one that im a College Student studying Political Science at Temple University but i was wondering if you could explain where you see the difference between trump draining the swamp from powerhungry politicians and replacing them with a billionaire businessman as if they arent up riddled with corruption and backroom deals. There is a ringer in the house. So i have had this book for a few days now and a very common question is trump promised to drain the swamp but he brings these Goldman Sachs people to work for him and i say no, look as an investor you want the most successful smart is incapable people running the company or do you want someone who has been around for a long time who doesnt know what hes doing . He want these successful people running. Trump brought in the most successful people. We have Rex Tillerson. Rex tillerson was a ceo of exxon , worth 400 million. I want to Rex Tillerson there. I dont want Hillary Clinton, i want Rex Tillerson there. We have steve mnuchin. We have the very best of the best. Love them or hate them, a very bright guy. Trump bring these people in and he makes all these deals raising trade deals deals that are better for america. The country starts a turnaround in the economy is turning around. What he has done and very quietly he will never tell you this but hes building up political currency. Hes got a Political Bank account its going like this not with cnn and not with Mainstream Media but with people who matter, the voters. Its building up and its building up. At some point he says now its time to really drain the swamp. Get rid of people left and right who were swamp dwellers on both sides of the aisle, republicans and democrats. If you are part of that big crony corrupt, government gets bigger and bigger every year you are moving out. You cant make your department better, cheaper and stronger you are done. That is a lot of political capital, a lot. [applause] by the way would you read there have a Billionaire Oil executive board James Sanders who bankrupted a college . Isnt that amazing . On saturday or sunday before the book comes out we find out the socialist who is for against income inequality and everyone he wants everyone to get a bigger piece of the pie is under federal investigation for corruption. You are the reason why the book was written. People like Bernie Sanders are the reason. Coming off. She telling us how we should live and give more of our money to the government and then hes under federal investigation for corruption. Free college for everybody and hes the poetry of that, anyway and im sorry. Kristin says hey eric fox news who we are major influences along the way . I had the most amazing parents in the world. My father worked so, so hard just to put clothes on our backs. He was amazing and my mom he was very aggressive. She was always like keep working but her last two words on this planet and i would never forget at her bedside. Her words were never quit. And then she passed. I will never, ever forget that. So you get knocked down and you get back up and you get knocked down again. You remember, good example is when they moved to 9 00 and im staying at 5 00. I have never met her in my life. I have seen her on tv a couple of times and she did some interviews with me but i dont really know them. So whole new format. A center seat on the five is pretty darned good in this show is giving me a bigger voice for conservatism. I go to church every single day of the week in new york that i go to Saint Patricks cathedral every day that i can and i go to mass every sunday. I think theres a plan. Its turned out very well. [applause] how can Trump Supporters best help trump get more help from republican legislators . Thats a good question. Newer publicans he said. Do you believe and primary candidates . C you would doit. Oh yeah. There are two i can think of right now. They say they are conservative and they are anything but conservative. Can you give us a region . South. South of here. How do you think we can sell the victimization of conservatives on College Campuses and i would ask you what you dare try to walk onto College Campus and talk about your book right now . Yes, yeah. [applause] i have an 18yearold the knees going to be 19 next month and he decided he wants to go to the university of colorado. A very liberal school. The state is liberal and the school is liberal. He gets there. He was a freshman this past year so hes there for the election. He joins a fraternity and he said dad look at this picture. Its five Fraternity Brothers holding up trumps sign. Did you get any push back . None. I visit them three or four times and i walked around people would come up. I love you guys. Im one of the only conservatives around. I walked 10 more feet, im a conservative and i really love you. Another 20 minutes, im the only conservative in colorado. There are a lot of conservatives out there but they are shy or in heirs to say it. But you have to do is stand up. My son held up the trumps sign at what is supposed to be one of the most liberal colleges in the country and they got no pushback. You just have to own it. The president of that college emailed me and said my faculty is very liberal but im conservative. It was great. Will you go to a College Campus . Have you been asked . Will you make plans to go . When . I think rutgers or across the river from us Condoleezza Rice canceled a commencement speech. She didnt want her to be about that so she just left. And ann coulter. I dont know when you say, yeah all right. When you are involved in a speaking gig and thats what ann does, you were asked to go to those colleges anywhere in that room. I am top to bottom and doing hits for sean or whatever. The show was terrific. Its a terrific format. The contents of that for people who havent seen it, you bring in people every day, you bring in people with unique perspectives on certain items of the day. The show comes up and like i said that night at 7 00 or 8 00 that night they call us touche tell us what the show is going to be. Two rotating guest every single day, we want people to feel comfortable about five people at 5 00. I said okay so the first, we launched the show in one week to launch a brandnew concept. Okay, lets try it. The first day we come up on the show and mind you when the camera comes up on the five u. S. Five people sitting around a table and it feels like, talking to us for dinner. We come up and the camera comes up and its a day or two specials are soandso. Lets get into it. What do you think . It didnt feel right to me. I said to the executive producers, we have to change this. Its not going to work. What do you mean . This is too cold. The five was different. You had a seat at the table on five so a week i pushed back. Our ratings were swamping. I said give me one day. Okay, what you want to do . The next day was a monday we come up on the show. I go did you see what happened today . The story happened here. What do you think of back . She comes than and she gives us where she is. Its a different political leaning but we have this thing and we talk about it. What do you think . We talk about it for four or five minutes. People have a couple of sound bytes in middle of it and then we go hey we have some specials here and here and there we have a discussion. If we didnt make the show about eric and kat people would say i dont want that. We went from here to here to hear and the chemistry developed and we developed a relationship with the audience. We are seven weeks and. That takes time but we are on the right track. I have to tell you [applause] having gotten to know you over the last couple of years and interacting with you privately and personally as we set up these conversations we have had it does my heart well to know when i tune in and watch your show not only do i like the programming but hosting it is a generally decent human being. You strike me as a very decent and kind guy. [applause] i can only hope that everyone feels that way because i am and that means the world to me. Eric bolling ladies and gentlemen. [applause] [applause] can i just tell you guys, its amazing. This warms my heart. It almost brings a tier two my eye. You guys are just awesome. Thank you for coming out. [applause] there you go. There you go. [applause] i want to hang down here and meet some of you all if you are willing to hang on. Eric is going to take over. Give me a couple of minutes. I want to come back and say hi if youre willing to hang out. Can we shake a couple of hands over your . Eric bolling. 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