world. >> and welcome to hannity.. and tonight, we are in beautiful davenport, iowa, with massive crowd. >> welcome, all of you. thank you for being here. thank yoand in a little more thn one month, the verywill b republican caucus will be held right here in this state right . it should be. and by the way, in just a moment, the candidate leadindf the republican field by far. donald j. trump, will join us foiey far, r the hour tonight. >> let's be clear. 024 th in 2024, the stakes could noe t be any higher. r jo >> three years under joe biden. our country is imploding on everyn, our c level.our our economy is wrecked by inflation. our southernecis wre by border r disaster. the american people are no.t safe. >> take a look. what i would say that is uniqutr about environment that we're in right now in my career is that while there may have th over the years wherey individual threats could have been higher here or there thango where they might be right now, i've never seen a timew. where all the threats or so many of the threats are elevated all at exactly the same time. >> that's what makes this environment that we're in now. so fraught. are you concerned internationala terrorism threats to the homeland are risinreinterng as e border continues to be broken? t i am concerned that we are an elevated threat environment, a heightened threat environment from foreign terrorist organizationt s for r a whole hl of reasons. and obviously their ability to exploit any port of entryrc including our southwest border, is a source of concern. >> the concern now that was the fbi director, christopher wrayt wa, today on capitol hill. make no mistake, our wide open biden border is now a massive national security. it is a clear and presentt danger and it is only gettindanr worse every day undery president biden. the pasin the past two years, l over, what, 6000 illegalmigrants immigrants from afghanistan have crossed our southern border, along with 3000al egyptians. more thaong with 300n hundred i. you know, iran, the number one state sponsor of terror, more than 500 syrians, 12,000ndw russians, and hoa whopping 26,00 people from the from china f. i this is a dire nationalsecuri security crisitys, but thatart f is only one part of the problem. >> for years, america' ts bloatd bureaucracy, it has now become politicized. that the fbi, the doj, whiche fb have wasted precious time and resources with political motivated witch hunts. what they're looking into traditional catholics or angry parents that go to school board meetings or pro-life advocates that are nonviolent, you know, trump supporters, donald trump himself, instead of investigating real threats like terrorism, human trafficking, drug trafficking, gang violence, the fbi, their hyperpartisan washington haeld office has obsessively, beenulsively been targeting one person, one man, one family, and that's donaldldu trump the trump organization and the trump family. mpumpso now the 45th president s vowing to fight back and obliterateo the deep state. >> let's take a look. if you put me back in the white house, their rate is over. >> their reign will be over and they know it.ic and america will be a freea will nation onc natioe again. we're not a free nation right now. we don't have free press. we don't have free anything. in 2016, i declared, i am your voice. today i had i am your warrior. >> i am your justice. and for those who have been wronged and betrayed, i am your retribution. >> i am your retribution. non. t going to let this happen? l >> that now that's become a controversy among the left. wrong as he said earlier.play t but we'll play that for him and get a response tonight. now, that's an important promise. america's weaponized, politicized bureaucracy, it's got to be dismantled. the far left hacks and the media mob, of course, they disagree. and once again , they are predicting doom and gloom if donald trump is elected. here'sdof do the washington yesy ,quote, the fear of n poa loomit trump. >> and this is today's headline from salon.comatip.. americans are sleepwalking into a trump dictatorship. that'samericansleepwal now theiw over a fake news wall. cable news channelover as. you know, they're featuring the same brand of fear g. gerin obviously, it's clear they don't want to talk about joe biden and his failedoa record. >> take a look. dictatorship. is that what we have if we reelect donald trump? i think it's a ver y real threateat an and concern. >> i think the phrase sleepwalking into a dictatord ch ship should wake people up. >> correct me if i'm wrongipple >> it's not going to be not the kind of dictatorship with concentration camps ind oftorshipand martial overnit >> that's not what we're going w to get. we're going to get trump borrowing from the orban playbook in hungary from playbook in india.? and what does that look like, jason? what would that look likt lookee in america? >> fears of a dictatorship, the alarming prediction forseco a second trump term. >> liz cheney is right. what she said that wndn. en she are sleepwalking into a donald trump dictatorship. if people wake up and rememberta what donald trump walds to toie the for years, what he tried to do to our democracyto, democracy. >> here's the thing. >> hw what happenncy. under a trump presidency. why? because he's already bee n president. lower taxes, stronger growth, lower taa secure border, peace e middle east. >> new trade deals, energy independence and a push reform. our bloated bureaucracy. there was no dictatorship. we did not lose hts. our constitutional rights. we did not go to war. e the people who hate donald trump, they simply have beendo and continue to lie to you.e to now it's joe biden who has beenu using the justic he system, his doj, to inflict retribution against his political rivals. t his po who called donald trump's supporters a, quote, threat to america, the very guy that says maga republican. oh, makingt says m america, gret is somehow bad. and it's joe biden who is jo into the brinkmeh of yet another possible war. and that's why donald trump is now beating joe biden in almost bey poll. >> take a look at your screen. latestta messenger harris survey has trump against joe biden up by six points. so now the big question, cannow counld trump seal the deal and get the country back on track? joining us now for the ful lull hour, the 45th president of the united states, davenportdent welcome. for former president donalmer d tru. thank you. thank you you. i love my show. thank you. very lengthy. thanks. great to see you. have a seat now. oh, thank you.et int >> let's look before we get into issues and we have a loave t to get into.o, let >> let's tal'sk about these pols for the love, these two.e way, by the way, i've lost all control of this debate as well. here we go. k you, whens you look at this, you look en the polls you see the enthusiasm. >> you've done rallies and crowdsth.e rallie. >> how are you feeling about the race? i feel great. >>l great. it's you know, it ha. to be if it's not, we're going g to be in big trouble. we're not going to have a country anymore. we have no choice. no counymore.and we have had e. look, we did in 2016. we did much better in 2020.. >> and i will tell you, the enthusiasm, some bad things happened, but the enthusiasm that they have now is bigger than eithehave nowr of those tw. and, you know, we're actually less than a year out. but close to a year.er i've never seen anything like it. we have crowds we hav that are incredible in iowa. we were here last week. we hadiowa overflow crowds and other candidates have like seven people standing on a farm and they're talking. and it's a very nice, very nice thing to watch, especially for me. i enjoy watching that. but we have tremendous enthusiasm because they want to seeendous e, you know, i see biden talking about, oh, maga mega maga means america great again. >> that's what it means.. meaand that's what people want. they want to do that, our gentleman. they want to see our country be great again. right now, we're not a great country. we're a country in decline. we are a decliningwe country. f and we're left out all over the world. t all people that respected us e years ago. and they respect it as you wouldn't have ukrainee and russia, you wouldn't have had the attack on israel. you wouldn't have ha dithdra that withdrawal, you would have withdrawn, but we would have withdrawn from afghanistanwnth p tremendous strength and power. and that's. the way i had it set up. you know, in afghanistan, we didn't lose didne a soldier. many soldiers are being killed by snipers and others duringamad the obama administrationmi and biden was there. i guess he wasn't doing so much other than collecting some cas y probably. >> but many, many soldiers were killedwere. of the and i spoke to the head of the taliban. they said, don'ttaliba do it, d. do it. you know, for 18 months wefor 18 didn't m d lose one soldier in afghanistan. >> nobod afghanisty in until thl day where killed our soldiers. they killed our sick of it. they killed our soldiersd . cov they left americans behind. and you cover it better than anybodan y. and they also left $85 billion of the best military equipment because they rebuilt the they left 85 billion. that million billion dollarsof worth of military equipment behind in the most embarrassin r moment in the history of our country. and the people of this country u just don't want to take this anymore. so we gaveso we gave them 85 bi. they killed our people. and they have people there. they hav theye there that we dit even get out. it was like a surrender. and aftea surrr that, russia sa, well, you know, these people are incompetent, re overr they're overrated. and they went in, they attacked ukraine. attacthat would have never hapd a million years. i used to speak to putin about it. e it was the apple of his ukraine, the apple of his eye. apple and i said, don't do it.d. >> don't do it.te i won't tell you exactly. but it was toughll you. >> in fact, he said you wouldn't do that. i said, yes, i will. nos, i wil, you you won't do ith and you know, he didn't believe me, but he believe me, 10%, that's all he had to believe me. >> and he never did anything. i mean, he never did anything. d and by the way any, president xi with taiwan, i had the same conversation in different cities and different countries. i had the same exact conversationi . and he would have absolutely. i mean, he's looking at taiwan w strongly. >> it would have neverou happened. and again, for four yearav.s itv didn't happen and it was never t going to happeo n. >> and now it's very possibly going to happen, which would be a shame. soould be e. so it's one of thod >> thank you. i'd like to be back.e let me ask you this earlier. earlier today, joe biden, i'm sure he mumbled the words as usual. he said he said this if trump wasn't running, i'm not sure i'd be running. mpaign he said at a campaign event e today. how do you how do you react to that? well, i think somebody gave him a talking point. they thought that which i don't get. you know, i just found out that democrats are funding nikki haley's campaign.contri i hear that democratsbu are contributing to ron desanctis or run too sanctimonious to ron desantis, his campaign. and then you hear the talkin and g. that's the only thing they're good at cheating on elections and great talking points. at and they say we want to run against trump. they want to run. well, we did realln ng.y in 2016 and we did so much betterthe pe in 2020. the person they don't want to run against is usrson they . it's us. it's not me. it's us. because it's a movement. its of which this country, sean, has never seen before at the v.a. and we have never seen the likes of what we've all done togethewhll donrb it is not me. it's everybody here. and millions and millionodlionss i think it's not 75 million people. i think it's 150 million50 mil people. >> it might be more than that.li on mean, who doesn't want to see strong borders and a strong bo and lownd low taxes interest rates and go out and buy a house? i played purpose because i see what the media is doing now. >> i would puta a montageey together. they want to call you a dictator. you use the words i amed your retribution. f yo and now before that you said if you've been wronged and you used other wordsu as well. but i want to be very, veryy clear on this to be clear. do you in any way have anyu in plans whatsoever, if reelectedrf president, to abuse power, to break the law, to useo the government to go after people. >> you mean like they're using right now? so in the histore usingy our co what's happened to us again has never happenedto over nonsense, over nothing made up charges. i often say al capone. he was one of the greatest of all time, if you like, criminals. a mob boss, the likes of which scarface, they call him. h, scarftheyand got indicted. once i got indicted four times. >> i wonder what my father and mother would say looking down. ad a l >> we had a lot of privateot conversations in the lead up to your announcement the day that you came downyo that escalator and that leadthac up. i mean, we had some passionate discussions back and forthator. you were telling me that iraq should give us oil to pa y forr and the war and american blood should not be shed overseasam ea in these long protracted wars. >> we talked a lot about that. a lot aband you have been under fire from that day forward. russia , you talk about itth all the time. now you face as many as four criminal trials during an election year. now, i've said this publicly and i'll say it herewi in iowa. i'm not sure that donald d yorkp can get a fair trialon in new york, washington, d.c. i don't think you can get al in fair trial in fulton county, georgia. non countyw where i think you wi better in terms of real justice would be on appeal. the trials will take place during let's othe tria do it ina and so anything but that has got to be that has got to weight heavy on you and what is your. reaction to that, considering all the chargeurs all stemmed from a couple of years ago? >> yeah. and they could have done thiso n three years ago and it would have been long over. but they didn't want to bring them because they had no cas noe and. then they saw how well we're doing in the polls. and th the pol.e two questions i get more than any other is, number one, will they do it againnumber will they do it again? will you stop them? numbwe're going to stop them. number two. number two is how do you take it? how do you get, how do in the ma and how do you take it? and that part is easy for mekea to say. >> i love what i do because we are going to have we are going to make our country greater than ever before. >>countrygreater and it's so i it's so importansot we are going to do things. >> we're going to close the border on dae thy one.one. >> the border gets closedy one and day one and a half, we drill. you know, we drillan w, baby, drill, drill, drill, drill. and probably on day one, day two, we'll get rid of this ridiculous electrilc mandate. >> we have to go buy it by buyc. a car. and it doesn't go far. you know, there'sd does a little problem. it's very expensive and it doesn't go far. son't . i gues i guess they want to keep you away from going too long a distance from your home. o distanbut the whole thing is , you know, they want to make now theyy tanks and they want to make electric trucks, but the electric trucks don' t go very far, you know, on a diesel fuel truck. yo the big ones, great ones. you go 2000 miles on an electric truck, you have nothing left because the batternothinft becauy is sot believe it or not, it takes up most of the space. so that's that's a little problem another but its only goes 300 miles and ye 3t it doesn't matter to them. a child would understand. t. refore you can't do id unders you talk about a supply chain problem, therefore you can't do itchai. the country is sick and you sayc k.this. are they do they know what they're doing? are they smart or do are they kd what they're doing? how could they do it? i see john kerry all over the plac?e talking about talkinu about we have to get rid of our coal plants.a is and yet china is building one coal plant a week massive coal plants, and they're doing it just automatically. and john kerry wantsst us to stp doing anything we can. we have a country.we h we have to fire upe our factories. windup our is not going to firep our factories. >> and it's the most expensive energy, even solar. i like solar from a conceptrom standpoint, but it's massivelysn expensive and wedp can't allowh china to build a factory a week and we do nothing. coa they build a coal plant and they're obvious about it. and then biden goes to see them about global warming. the only global warming we should be thinkingrming we aboug worrying about because it could happen tomorrow, is nuclea aausc global warming, not globalleal w warminarmig. a we almost have to go to a break. i want to go back to thi to go one issue, though, because the media has been focused on this and attackinmea g you. yeah, under no circumstances you are promising america tonight you would never abuse power as retributionne against anybody except for day one. >> yeah, except look, he's going crazy, except for day one. meaning? >>ngnt to close the border . and i want to drill. that's right. that's. that's not. that's not . i'm i'm going to be. i'm to be.ve you know, he keeps. i love this guy. he says you're not going to beu? a dictator. are you? i said, no, no, no. othe i saidr than day one, we'rewe a closing the border and we're drilling, drillingre after that. i'm not that. okay. that sounds to me like you're goingor. to the policies when you were president. take a break. just getting startede polici in beautiful davenport, iowa. donald trump with us for the hournport, as hannity thank you for being with us in your medicine cabinet call coming on. zach cam is the number one cold shortening brand highly recommended people love zach cam's unique zinc formula. it is your coats zach can shortf that colndd this is your season to smile to raise a toast and gather to wrap up the fun and round up the game a the fun and round up the game a to heln epicp you ready your ase dental team is celebrating 25 years of affordable care with an epic anniversary with an epic anniversary savings even right now, new patients without insurance get a free full exam insurance get a free full exam and le get 20% off their treatment plan. n dentalok todaybut hurry, becae the season won't last, the memories you make together will aspen dental book today do you struggle to fall asleep and stay asleep? 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