Of agriculture. But we just named sunny purdue so i want to congratulate you. Secretary of agriculture. When i was leaving, i just saw general kelly and when i was leaving hes just to put it in the most basic terms, hes in charge of our borders. And they had on all of the stations that lots of things are happening along the borders like this tremendous security all of a sudden, and even before he gets there, they are saying wow, what a difference. What a difference. I was very honored to get border security, all of the Border Patrol agents, they endorsed trump. We had 16,500. I. C. E. Endorsed trump and they know what is happening or already started because general kelly is going to do an unbelievable job in keeping us all safe. [ applause [ applause ] and speaking of safety, we have general mattias. Now, i dont know if he likes being called mad dog mattias so i will not callhim mad dog mattias. Ill call him general mattias. In fact, it was the shortest senator interview ive ever seen. I think they are afraid of him, actually. But just in case you have any question, dont worry, hes going to pass. The cabinet members are doing really fantastic. Ive watched most of it. Ive heard most of it. They have really, really done a good job and i was very proud of them. Im very, very proud of my picks. There is not a pick that i dont love. And if there was, id tell you right now. Probably would, actually. I want to thank the cabinet for being here. I want to thank all of the senators that i see. Youre here. I want to thank all of our donors, big donors, small donors, there are donors that got really, really generous a day after the election was won. I have a couple. They got so generous. I want to tell you, i just sent a big check. Oh, great. Should have sent it a week before. We love you, too. They are now officially a member of our party. Weve picked up hundreds of thousands and millions of republicans, not only did we do great in the election, you remember we cannot get to 270. They were right. We got to 306. You cannot get it. I know, cnn i was watching. I was watching all of them in all fairness. All of them. The main networks, the cable networks, although, fox has treated us very well, i have to say. Very well, very well. Very well. And when i say well, by well, i mean fairly. But they were saying you cannot get to 270. I went to maine four times. For one vote and i got it but i didnt need it. This was a victory for all of us, a victory for all of us and in the audience, by the way, i see my great brother and i see ann marie, thank you for being here. I see my sister marian and david. Where is there, right there, who happens to be a court of appeals judge. He is tough. She is tough. But highly, highly respected. I see my sister elizabeth, which is great. Im so happy youre here. We actually have a very, very good family. We have a family. We have a family that gets along. My sons, look at them standing there. Did they i say why arent you campaigning today . Eric and don and tiffany, who was incredible. And baron is home. But we had we had a great group of people, right . We worked hard. In the audience we have somebody thats under no pressure whatsoever because hes got a Great Quarterback named tom brady and a great coach and a great coach named belichick, bob craft. So good luck, bob. Your friend tom just called. He feels good. He called to congratulate us. He feels good. Good luck. Youre going to do great things. So i just want to thank everybody. Were going to have four incredible years. Its going to be something special. We have in the audience a special person whose worked very hard who married very well, its my daughter ivanka. Where is she . [ applause [ applause ] i sort of stole her husband. He is so great. If you cant produce peace in the middle east, nobody can. Okay . All my life, ive been hearing thats the toughest deal in the world to make. And ive seen it. But i have a feeling that jared is going to do a great job. I have a feeling hes going to do a great job. So [ applause ] youre working with him. [ laughter ] and one other person i have to thank, so we had actually 18 people said 17 people running. Its 18 including gilmore. He was the governor of virginia in all fairness. Is he here . Yeah, hes here. So we had 18 people running and we had reince and i said before, nobody knew how to pronounce his name. Its a crazy name. They call him reince, steve wjut called him still not pronouncing it right, steve. But Reince Priebus, now everybody pronounces his name right. Hes a star, and i knew that a long time ago. He had a problem because he sort of liked me. He didnt like me because of my personality, he thought i could win. He thought i could win. The great philis, shes a great woman. Was a great woman. Passed away six months ago. I went to her funeral in st. Louis. And she came out against all of her fellow conservatives and said i am not endorsing anybody else but donald trump. I dont care what exactly he is. Hes like an unknown quality, quantity but he hes going to win and reince had the same thing and reince was taking tremendous abuse and i want to thank, by the way, philis because she went through hell. Philis went through hell in that last onethird of the year and turned out to be right but reince had the same thing. And reince sort of i always felt he favored me. Like a coach who has a player and you sort of favor, but reince is fantastic. Reince has been an unbelievable leader. Now, he had to win because if he didnt win, it was over. He would have been fired. We would have said reince, youre fired, get the hell out of here. But he is an unbelievable leader. Hes an unbelievable talent. And hes been my friend and hes been with me from the beginning. So i want to thank Reince Priebus and just in finishing up, tom called me. Where is tom . Got to be around here someplace. Tom is a very, very successful guy. He became my party planner. In fact, every time i have a party, are you available . Im having one in about two months, tom. He and all of his friends they came to me and said wed like to run. I said what the hell do you know about running it . Between stephanie where is stephanie . There she is. What a job. What is job you did. Thank you. Did he finally come through for you, stephanie . Tom, thank you, stephanie, thank you your entire group, thank you. So far its been perfect. The bigger one is tomorrow at around 12 00. Okay . Arlington National Cemetery was so beautiful. So many people. It was incredible. So we went there and we laid the wreath with mike and it was beautiful and then we went to the Lincoln Memorial and had a concert and we thought it would be a small concert and never fewer people had it but what they pulled off was incredible. It was an unbelievable period of time but tomorrow seems to be the big one. I made a speech tonight about those Live Television cameras, i cant stand them. But actually, a couple of them are starting to get honest. But i thought it was a very good speech and so instead of saying it was a good speech, they are saying doesnt matter tonight, how will he do tomorrow . They never give you credit. But tomorrow we have a speech, probably around 12 00. It may rain. It may not rain. I dont care. Doesnt matter. I mean, the truth is, if it really pours, thats okay. Because people will realize its my real hair and thats okay. [ laughter ] might be a mess but they will see its my real hair. But we have a speech that i wrote and worked with Steven Miller around here someplace and steven is great. Hes been with us from the beginning. Steven and hope and corey and so many people have been so great. And i see my kelly ann. Oh, kelly ann. Come here. Come here. Come here, kelly ann. Get up here. Come here kelly ann. Shes been so great. Wow. So there is no den she wont go into. When my men are petrified to go on a certain network, i say kelly ann, absolutely, no problem. Then she gets on and just destroys them. So anyway, thank you, baby, thank you. Thank you. Be careful. So this is a celebration of victory. Youre my friends, we needed this victory, three weeks before we won, as you know, it was going to be the single greatest defeat in the history of politics. They predicted that this would be the greatest loss in political history, not even modern political history. They said in political history and ill tell you one thing, i out worked everybody. I think i out worked anybody whoever ran for office. I learned that from belichick, right . But we out worked them and three, four, five speeches a day, all over the place and that last two weeks and the last weeks specially, there was something that was happening. I told the group today they cancelled their fireworks two weeks out and there was a little story they spent 7 million on fireworks, and they cancelled it and thats because history has proven that if youre going to lose, you dont want fireworks, right . And that was a good sign. And there were other good signs. But what we did on those last two weeks, especially in the last week, it was fun and we saw what was going to happen. We were pretty sure we were going to win. But again, thank youall very much. Well see you. We have an election coming up in two years. Were going to get a lot of senators and congressmen elected, a lot. Were going to get a lot of them elect elected. Mitch mcconnell is here smiling so big. He loves those words and we are going to make America Great again, greater than ever before. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. [ applause ] and there you have it, president elect donald trump, the last evening hell be president elect speaking at a candle light dinner. Good evening again from washington. The trumps tonight capping a very full day on the eve of one for the history books and i want to bring in the panel right now. Im here with jeffrey lord, trump supporter, political commentator and American Spectator and van jones is with us, conservative trump critic anna navarro and director of black out reach during the george w. Bush administration. Jeffrey lord, it is interesting on the eve of becoming the most powerful person on the planet, donald trump talking about the election victory and what happened on Election Night and polls and all of it. I think its going to stick in his memory for a long time. I think so, too. [ laughter ] i think that this what youre seeing here is how the next four years are going to go in someways. It will be salted with talk of whatever the issue is of the moment. I assume you mean four and or eight years. Actually, right, right i dont want you to get in trouble with press. Four years. Eight years and maybe more if we repeal no. [ laughter ] ivanka trump and it will be four years that feel like eight years. This is youve seen a style which i first saw firsthand three years, four years ago now and he mixes issues of the moment with this kind of talk where hes very informal and calls out people in the audience, he talks to them, thanks them if he thinks they have been great, doesnt thank them but this is his style and this is how hes going to communicate and i have to say, i think i used to call ron nold ra Ronald Reagan the great co communicator. He how speaks and communicates. I mean, he loves it and there is a backdrop here that is also important to note. President obama could not have come out and spoken that way and been that way because the country he was handed was in a massive crisis. We were losing hundreds of thousands of jobs a month. We were in two awful wars. If a president obama had come out and been that joking, the country would have been quite alarmed. It is a testament to what ocbam has been able to do positively hes handing off a country where there is Economic Growth and enough of a sense that things are secure that you can have a guy come out and be the jokester and chief the night before and i think were going i think we are going to remember president obama much more fondly in years to come than we think of him now. He does have a 60 approval. 60 now and i think it will go up. Anna . I think what weve learned in the last two and a half months since the election is trump will be trump and continue to be trump. He has been relitigating the campaign for the last two and a half months and i think hes going to be relitigating for the next four years and, you know, we see him doing what he always does, exaggerate about the numbers of the, you know, concert, beat up on the press, talk about his victories, talk about how everybody was wrong. If we were expecting a lofty unifying president on the eve of the swearing in, were not getting it. Maybe tomorrow lightening strikes and we do get it but tonight what weve seen is the same trump who i suspect almost drafted the tweet hes going to send out against saturday night live on sunday morning. All that video to our viewers, to explain is from pool feed. Not our cameras, but one camera that everybody takes. There were audio problems with it. That was the problem in the hall and the feed just dropped out, which is why we no longer have the video, paris . Its important for the viewers to know the setting he was in. He was in a room with donors and supporters that fought with him and stayed with him and this is a victory lap. He deserves to take this victory lap. Tomorrow will be a different tone. Hell talk about what his vision is for the country but tonight is celebrating and deserves to celebrate and i celebrate with him. I was there at the Lincoln Memorial. It was thousands of people there. It was packed out. He deserves this moment and give it to him and proud he is doing this in the on the backdrop of what you said, van, of what president obama left him. Hes very fortunate to come into this goodwill. One thing i just want to say, i think for people who havent been to one of those big things on the mall, i was there for obama where there were more people there but a lot of people there tonight, as well. Its a feeling thats very hard to describe. When youre on the campaign trail, youre working, youre knocking on doors and making phone calls and working your fingers to the bone, sometimes you have big, high moments. Its a lot of work. When all of the people on the campaign get together and you have some of the biggest stars and you have the fireworks, there is a way you i mean, i actually felt more excitement the night of obamas inaugural concert than the inauguration. Your folks are happy about that. This idea that hes coming into goodwill is not exactly accurate. I had the most surreal moment today as i was flying up from miami. Half the plane was full of women coming up to march the next day. About onefourth of the plane was full of red hat wearing Trump Supporters and the rest of us were praying that World War Three wou iii would not happen. I was happy i was close to the exit row. We have to be realistic this country does need unifying now. Lets not gloss over the fact we are polarized and divided and hes coming in with the lowest Approval Ratings in history and something he should address. That is for many people what tomorrow is about if you agree or like donald trump, it is a historical day. Well have more on that and more to talk about in the hour ahead including looking at things candidate trump promised to do on day one and whether he can actually do that. Well be right back. For lower back pain sufferers, the search for relief often leads. Here. Here. Or here. Today, theres another option. Drugfree aleve direct therapy. A tens device with high intensity power that uses technology once only available in doctors offices. Its wireless remote lets you control the intensity, and helps you get back to things like this. This. Or this. And back to being yourself. Aleve direct therapy. Find yours in the pain relief aisle. President elect trump just finished making remarks at a dinner. He thanked them one by one, like nothing weve seen in washington but familiar from anyone that seen a speech. It was the final cherry on a filling day. Sara murray has more. Reporter donald trump is leaving his gilded trump plane behind in new york, trading it in for an air force jet as he and his family touchdown thursday in the nations capital. He arrived in washington to spend his last night as president elect at the blare house, a president ial tradition. Friday hell move into his home for at least the next four years. 1600 pennsylvania avenue. I will see you tomorrow and im going to be cheering you on. Reporter the magnitude of the duty that lies ahead as the next commander in chief evident at his First Official inaugural event. A wreath laying ceremony at arlington National Cemetery. With taps echoing, trump and his soon to be Vice President mike pence looked on hands over their hearts. The somber moment giving way to celebration later in the afternoon at trumps inaugural concert as military bands played against the backdrop of the Lincoln Memorial. Part of trumps effort to highlight the Armed Forces Throughout his inaugural festivities. I also have to thank our incredible military talent right here. Thank you, stand up, please. You guys were great. Thank you very much. Reporter trump, turned Reality Television star is no stranger to the spotlight and even he wasnt sure this day would come. Who would want to leave the white house, right . Youre in there no, seriously. Who would want to leave the white house . Although, im building a hotel right next door, which is also located on pennsylvania. I have my alternative if this doesnt work out, ill still be on pennsylvania avenue. Reporter friday surely marks the biggest stage of his lifetime as he prepares to take the oath of office and deliver his inaugural address. Aids say trump is personally writing remarks and honing his draft. I think its going to be less of an agenda and philosophical document, a vision of where he sees the country, the proper role of government and citizens. Reporter amid the circumstance, questions still linger about whether trump and his team are prepared for the challenge ahead. We have a lot of smart people. We have by far the highest iq of any cabinet. Reporter trump will head to the white house as many of his cabinet nominees are still awaiting Senate Confirmation. And gaping holes persist in key leadership roles across the government. Trumps team down playing those challenges as they insist the next president is prepared to kick off his agenda on day one beginning with executive actions. Its going to be a robust day one, first week, first mo