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 i