Stabbing wounds. Yes, thats right. They dont have guns. They have knives and instead theres blood all over the floors of this hospital. They say its as bad as a military war zone hospital. Knives, knives, knives. London hasnt been used to that. Theyre getting used to it. Its pretty tough. Were here today because we recognize a simple fact. The one thing that has always stood between the American People and the elimination of our Second Amendment rights has been conservatives in congress willing to fight for those rights. We were fighting. Youre fighting. Were fighting to defend our freedom. We need the people to support our candidates, to support the people that have to raise their hand. You know, they say we have a majority. We have what, a majority of one person . Thats not really a majority. We need republicans to do it right, to get the kind of things we want. Weve got to get republicans elected. We got to do great in 18. Those mid terms, we have to do great. We need judges who will enforce our laws, protect our sovereignty and uphold our american way of life. The constitution cant be changed by judges, bureaucrats or the united nations. That is why we are appointing federal judges who will interpret the law as written. In my first year i nominated and the Senate Confirmed more circuit judges than any new administration by far in history, and we will have the alltime record very soon. President obama was very nice to us because he left us a lot of judges. And i said thats a lot of judges. Like almost 140. Thats a lot of judges. I was very surprised. I was very happy. And we put an incredible new justice on the supreme court, judge neil gorsuch. Yet virtually every single democrat in the senate opposed neil gorsuch, just like they have consistently opposed judges who will protect your basic freedoms. And, by the way, the way theyre slow walking people that are supposed to be working for us in government, if you look at what theyre doing, in the history of this country, there has never been anything like what the democrats are doing on great people who gave up their jobs and their lives to take a job as an ambassador or people working for our government and they cant get approved because every singlie one of them is being slw walked by the democrats and its never happened before. And you know what . I hope we have long memories but i hope we dont have to worry about it because were going to be there for a long time. But what hair theyre doing is disgraceful. What they are doing, schumer and the group, is disgraceful. You just take a look at the border. Take a look at whats happening. My administration and conservatives in congress were elected to uphold your rights. To rebuild our military, which we are doing a great job of rebuilding. To restore our prosperity, rebuild our communities and defend our borders. We have the worst immigration laws anywhere in the world, but ill tell you what, its not easy for people to come in, i will tell you. We have the worst laws. After years of defending the borders of other countries, we go into wars with other countries. We shouldnt be there. We go into wars to defend their borders. We dont defend our own borders. And were going to start defending our country. Were going to start defending our borders. Youve always soon een on televn all over the papers the Illegal Migrants pouring up through mexico, flooding the border, many from central america, honduras, all of those coming up by the thousands. Were stopping them at different fronts, but we dont have laws. We have laws that were written by people that truly could not love our country. Illegal immigration must end. We are going to have strong borders. We have maxed out every law. We are going to have truly strong were going to have people come into our country, but theyre going to come on based on merit, not based on picking somebody out of a bin. Were not going to let our country be overwhelmed, and were going to demand congress secure the border in the upcoming c. R. Its going to be soon. Democratic lawmakers have voted against legislation to close deadly immigration loopholes like catch and release. How about that one. We caught him. Oh, release him. Byebye. Welcome to america. Welcome to america. Thats what we have. Were going to keep the violent criminals out. Senate democrats like john tester, you saw what happened there, what he did to one of the finest people in our country. What he did to the admiral, what he did is a disgrace. John tester. Bill nelson and bob casey voted against case law, legislation named for kate, who was gunned down by a fivetime deported illegal immigrant. You saw what happened with that court case. Can you believe the result of that court case . Can you believe what . Same senators along with nearly every other democrat also voted to protect something thats actually becoming very unpopular, sanctuary cities. Can you believe finally people are starting to get it. Democrats and liberals in Congress Want to disarm law abiding americans at the same time theyre releasing dangerous criminal aliens and savage gang members on to our streets. These countries send up their worst. Remember my opening speech, i got criticized for it. Remember . Guess what . Theyre not sending their finest. That i can tell you. Were getting some real beauties in here. But were taking ms13, horrible killer gang members, were getting them out because our guys are much tougher than theirs. There is not even a little bit of a contest. And thats the only language they understand. Thats the only language they understand. These are savage killers. My administration believes our cities should be safe havens for americans, not sanctuaries for criminals. And we believe that violent gang members must be thrown out of our country immediately, not left to stay, to fester and to get larger. We get them out and we are taking them out by the thousands. And if we had the right laws, which we can have very quickly with cooperation, we wouldnt even have a problem. It would be so much better. So much easier. We believe that politicians who put criminal aliens before american citizens should be voted out of office immediately. As we secure our borders, were also supporting the here wos wh fight crime, serve our is the sense and secure our streets, our brave men and brave women in blue. We love them. In my administration we have a simple policy. We will protect those who protect us. You saw what i did with the military equipment, the excess equipment that was sitting all over the country in warehouses never to be used again. And other administrations, they just didnt want to give it to the police. They said its too much protection, it looks too strong, it looks like military. Guess what . Its now being distributed all over to our police forces. And its better than they could ever buy. You cant buy stuff like that. Today our love and prayers go out to the family of Slain Dallas Police officer, rohilio santander, who was murdered. We ask god to heal the wounded. They will be back, they will be better. Send our love. So important. Thank you. And we mourn together with the entire Dallas Police department. Its a great police department, a police force that has lost too many heros but has never lost its will to protect and to serve you. Were all taking very strong action to secure and protect our most valuable resource, our children. All of us here today are deeply committed to school safety. Nothing is more important than protecting innocent lives. And i will tell you, wayne and chris and all of the people at the nra, we speak about it all the time. These are great people. These are great americans. These people have great heart. They know what theyre doing. Our entire nation was filled with shock and grief by the monstrous attack on a high school in parkland, florida. We mourn for the victims and their families, got i dont kte members of those families. These are incredible people. Our heart breaks for every american that has suffered the horrors of the school shootings. In the aftermath i met with the parents, the survivors of the shootings approximate shootings. I was inspired by all of them. We agreed we need ensure that we actually make a difference and my administration has pursued an aggressive strategy on community safety. Were working to improve Early Warning systems so that when the police are called, when the community sees the red flags, which they saw in parkland all over the place, there has never been a case where more red flags have been shown. Swift action is taken by the authorities. Law abiding gun owners want to keep firearms out of the hands of those who pose a danger to themselves and to others. We all want that. We all want that. I recently signed legislation that includes more than 2 billion to improve school safety, including the funding for training and metal detectors and security and mental health. Mental health is a big one. They doesnt like to talk about mental health. Mental health, that was the number one example in park. That legislation also made vital improvements to our background check system, which everybody wants. Finally all of us agree that we must harden certain schools. At the same time the police have to be able to get into those schools if theres a problem. We want armed guards. We want to be able to get in. I saw some of the craziest plans that ive ever seen. You can spend a fortune on each school. You will spend so much, nobody knows more about construction than i do. You will spend so much, youre going to make it so hard that you cant run a d8 you know what that is through the doors. Its a tractor. The only thing is if one of those maniacs gets in, you cant get in. We have to be careful. We strongly believe in highly trained teachers carrying concealed weapons. Theyre highly trained. And we want highly trained security guards. 98 of mass public shootings have occurred in places where guns are banned, just so you understand. Tragically, as we have seen, theres no sign more inviting to a mass killer than a sign that declares this school is a gunfree zone. Come in and take us. 98 . You know theyre cowards. You saw that in the recent case, where he did all of his damage and then he sort of slinked out of the school. And the policeman outside caught him in a different community. That policeman did a good job. That policeman did a good job. Caught him in a different community. But they are cowards. When they know theres guns inside, theyre not going in. We just dont understand that. We cant get that word out. But highly trained people. At the same time there is no stronger deterrent for a sick individual than the knowledge that their attack will end their life and will end in total failure. When they know that, theyre not going in. Youre not going to have school attacks. We support the Second Amendment. Not only because we believe in freedom but also because we trust in every day talented, wonderful people. They love our students. And, by the way, these teachers, they love their students. They love their students. They understand it. They love their students. And theyre not going to let anybody hurt their students. But you have to give them a chance. In america we trust the people to be wise and to be good, we trust them to take responsibility for themselves, their families and their communities. And that is why in america we have always trusted the people to keep and bear arms. It is fitting that we gathered today in a great state of texas, a place that cher isishes their right like no other. Before i left today, a couple of people came up to me, good political people, they said, you know, going to the Nra Convention and speaking today, that will be very controversial. It might not be popular. You know what i said . Byebye, got to get on the plane. Because we have to do the right thing. We have to do the right thing. Thank you. This proud state would not exist if not for a handful of determined and defiant texans who refused to surrender their rights nearly two centuries ago. You know who im talking about. In 1835 soldiers from general santa am zons marched into the town of gonzalez and ordered them to surrender their small cannon they relied on to protect their lives and protect their homes. The texans refused. You refused. Youre tough. They were not about to give up their only means of selfdefense. In response, the army returned with a large group of additional people. They had men all over the place. The army was big. This time they were met by dozens of texans, soldiers and ordinary citizens, who had rushed to gonzalez to defend their rights and their freedoms. As santa anas men watched from a distance, those brave texans raised a flag for all to see. You know what it said. On the banner they painted a canon, along with four words that echoed from the ages, and you know what it said, come and take it, come and take it. [ crowd chanting usa ] like those early texans, americans will never surrender. Never, ever, ever. We will never, ever surrender. We will never give up our freedom. Americans are born free. We will live free. And we will die free. So again, it is a great honor to be with you very special people. We truly appreciate your support. Im doing the right thing. Im doing it for you but were doing the right thing. Were doing the right thing together. I want to thank again all of our friends and patriots from the nra. We will never fail and we will always protect your Second Amendment. Thank you. God bless you. And god bless america. Thank you all. Thank you. President trump addressing the annual meeting of the nra in dallas. Were listening to him for nearly 50 minutes, if my numbers are right there. He mentioned kanye west, the rhetoric with north korea, talked about jobs, praising the judge in the manafort case and reading k reading cnns own reporting after calling it fake news. What else did the president have to say . Well unpack it all after a short break. What if we filter it over and over . sighing oh dear. 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He also perhaps not surprisingly talked about the judge who earlier today admonished the special counsel in this case involving Paul Manafort. And to share with the audience exactly what had happened, he read cnns own reporting, which was a moment in and of itself. Mark, i want to bring you in on that one. Were listening to the president as hes making this case. Not surprising he would jump on that because this judge said, look, you might be overstepping here. Its been nothing but a flood of bad news regarding this russia investigation, this was something positive where he saw the judge admonish what was happening in the Mueller Investigation. Saying youre trying to use Paul Manafort to try to get to donald trump and thats not necessarily the right thing to do. I think we take a step back and look at what we just saw. We just saw a Campaign Speech wrapped up in trying to clean up remarks that donald trump had made following the parkland shootings where he appeared to be stricter and was willing to be stricter at gun laws and at the very end was soliciting sympathy from a very large, influence crowd for the Mueller Investigation. We didnt hear a whole lot about gun laws necessarily. They were interspersed throughout the speech but this was a speech very much about donald trump given by donald trump. Go ahead. It was almost like at moments the president would pick up the train of thought by suddenly remember he needed to read from the teleprompter, which was where clearly the remarks were about gun laws. But he was all over the place. And at the same time, you know, clearly pleading with his base to stick with him in this election year, you know, talking about how knives and vans and trucks can be more dangerous at times if they get into the hands of terrorists, really not veering too much into policy here at all but clearly trying to reassure gun activists and the nra, which are going to be huge power players in 2018 and 2020 that he is fully behind them and with them. Making that point very clear. He was also, though, touting we talk a lot about the president s base but what the president likes to talks about, too, is the growing support, the growing support he sees. Hes touting the unemployment numbers he got today and touting numbers among africanamericans, among women, thanking kanye west, citing a pole that even the pollsters said maybe you shouldnt go with this with a huge jump in support, from 11 to 22 , saying its all due to kanye west. Is this him trying to reach out and broaden that base today . No, i dont think so. He wants to mention kanye west because there was a lot of chatter around kanye west, who apparently supports President Trump and got a lot of blow back from africanamericans. This poll seems to be an outl r outlier. Africanamerican men were much more supportive of donald trump than africanamerican women. I thought this was a very effective speech, one that can travel. If hes going on the road for the mid terms and some republicans will want him there. I thought hes very much able to tie this idea that the Mueller Investigation is bad for the country. And this is something that he had talked about earlier, but he seems to be able to flesh it out much more now. Because hes talking of the things that hes done that he thinks are good, hes protecting our country, hes got this north korea summit coming up at some point. Hes tough on immigration, cracking down on sanctuary cities and there is mean old mr. Mueller, right, who is really trying to go after him, to tarnish what hes doing and hurt the country. So i think in that way its a speech that, you know, republicans dont really know how to deal with the kind of mueller cloud. But i think in this speech trump is heading somewhere. And this is going to be a theme of his, this idea of mueller is a bad guy and hes trying to interrupt a