25,000, more than 25,000. And it was going to be an inedible event and we started to notice that all of a sudden almost simultaneous almost like, you know, certain time a lot of protesters showed up. And i guess it was a very staged thing with this move on organization which is not a good group of people from what everybody tells me. We had a lot of protesters come in and they seemed to be very disruptive and going into the arena which was starting to fill up with the people that were coming. And we met with the security. We met with Law Enforcement. Who did i think a terrific job. And they really told me it would be very it would be best not to go in and do the speech because if i made the speech it probably had mixed into the, you know very large arena i guess seating 12,000 or 18,000. We had about 15,000 people outside and may have clashed with the people to protest us. But they said it would be good not to be doing the speech because you would have had clashes and people could have been hurt or worse. And i think and we have been given credit for this. Hopefully bedid the right thing but i think, frankly, canceling turned out to be a very good decision because well do it another time. Probably another place. But well do it another time. But we have a tremendous group of supporters come in and it was so sad to tell them and they were, you know, very sad that they werent able to see what we were going to do. We would have a great rally. Stopping the First Amendment rights. I have the right to speak and they have the right to hear and listen. And we were unable to do that for security reasons. Ive said. It was my decision. I said, look. I dont want anybody to be hurt. We want it to be a nonviolent situation and i will tell you the people that i had, supporters who were very angry. Theyre angry to start off with. Whats happening to the country with the jobs going to other countries. With the horrible situation that we have at the border. I mean, everything we have, nothing works anymore. Nothing. Nothing in our country works anymore. And theyre angry people and, you know what . Theyre not really angry about just about anything else. Theyre very secure in themselves but theyre very angry of whens happening with our country. And so on top of everything else, they dont have the right to go into a pavilion and have a onehour rally. Theyre stopped by what took place today which is really a very organized group of people that theres a pretty consistently to different groups of people. You know, mr. Trump, we have statements that actually prove this fact and weve been watching our own coverage here on fox and some people with Bernie Sanders. Moveon. Org put out a statement of hatefilled rhetoric to be put on notice after tonights events. They said that. A direct result of violence at trump rallies. Why see any violence at trump rallies. I have been watching and flipping the dial tonight and somehow people trying to flip this on you, some of your competitors and, frankly, pretty ignorant socalled journalists trying to do the same thing. As if you stating your political opinions is responsible for this. And i want to give you a chance to respond to that. We have seen a lot of this before you even got in this race and ferguson and baltimore. The murder race in the city of chicago is a National Disgrace. What is your reaction to that . Well, you know, i have had many rallies and we have massive rallies, by far the biggest. Much, much bigger than bernie by a factor of many times. We have a couple of weeks ago 35,000 in alabama. We have 25,000 routinely. And we dont have problems. We have some protesters. Every once in a while, somebody will stand up. Today we had a little more than normal in st. Louis in the morning. We had a number of people standing up and it was fine. Nobody got hurt. They had to get taken out. And theyre disruptive and we do the best we can to do a little creative have a little bit of fun with them. Theyre out there protesting. I dont know if theyre having fun doing it, frankly. But were conscious of it and were conscious of the fact we dont want anybody to be hurt so today we had a little bit more than normal in st. Louis and a great rally, tremendous turnout. Thousands of people out on the street that couldnt get in to a very, very large auditorium. And then i came to chicago and, you know, we were going to have so many people. At least 25,000. Many people would have to be outside. And we were able to cancel a lot of the people that were coming not there yet and hadnt come there yet. I got there early. Im in chicago right now. And i was able to figure it out. Were getting credit for canceling. Had i gone e been easier to go there but if i went there you would have had a lot of problems because this was a very organized group. And i think not a good group. Why. Really spiteful. First amendment rights. Its interesting. If we ever did that to them it would be a National Disgrace, a National Story and the likes of which you have never seen. But doing it to us, its a very big deal. So we have, you know, these incredible people that unfortunately were shut out from hearing what they wanted to hear. You know, this is not uncommon, mr. Trump, that supposedly supposed to have free speech on College Campuses. This happens only to conservative speakers on a fairly regular basis here. You see the violence in the city of chicago. It seems like there are no solutions to the violence. We have had weekends with 12, 13, 14 people shot and including Young Children and seems a city out of control like new york before Rudy Giuliani took over. Theres a problem. No question about it. Its a great city. I love chicago. I have Big Investments in chicago. And i think its a great city. But it certainly has certain sections with problems like probably almost no other place in this country. But chicago is chicago. And its, you know, an amazing place and i do like chicago. Its a city that i think is highly underrated, actually, but and they hear about some of the statistics and thats a shame. Thats a horrible shame. And its too bad they arent able to do something about it. But this was i think very unrelated to this. This was an organized group. They knew that we were going to have thousands of people coming. And these are people that just wanted to listen. The theme is make America Great again and wanted to listen about making America Great again, well bring back the jobs. Well bring back so many Different Things to the country that we havent had and strengthen our borders. Well build a wall. Well do so many things and thing that is are positive for the country, not negative for the country. But its all about making America Great again and maybe they dont want to have that happen. I dont know. Ill say this, sean. I think we did the right thing. If we would have gone further i think you could have seen they have bad situations back to 1968, the Democrat Convention was, you know, a disaster. People killed. And lots of things happening. So tonight virtually nobody is even hurt. We made a very good decision. Weve been given credit for making a decision and we closely with Law Enforcement. They gave us good advice. Let me talk about a double standard. I watched and listened and people quoted you from saying i assumed it was joking. The old days, you know, we wouldnt take that sort of thing. But they never seem to Pay Attention to some of the rhetoric of the president. The president has said, republicans want dirty air and dirty water. He talked about the police, the Cambridge Police act stupidly. A long history in the country of africanamericans and latinos stopped by Law Enforcement disproportionately. Every Election Year the narrative of the Democratic Party against republicans is that theyre racist against black americans, hispanic americans, against gay americans that they want dirty air and water and throw granny over the cliff. Nobody i heard tonight trying to blame you for the actions of others has ever been critical of the constant predictable rhetoric, almost a playbook of the Democratic Party. I have asked you in past interviews, how do you deal with this double standard and the predictable playbook of attacks that you would face if youre the nominee . Well, there is a double standard and you know that maybe better than almost anybody. Theres an unbelievable double standard. Sometimes i, you know, ill speak to young people and the children of young people and theyll say could you speak to, you know i do it for friends. Isle speak to their children and i honestly, its a lot easier for people in life to be a liberal democrat. Okay . But if you dont believe in it, you cant do it. And its you have a double standard like nobody can believe. If this rally if conservatives and republicans ever did that to a liberal rally it would be a National Disgrace. It would be all over every paper for weeks. And you can imagine if that ever happened. But with this, almost routine. You see it happening all the time. Very routine and very unfair. I agree with you. Let me ask this. And its a question that i have asked you a number of times on the campaign. Since the president is in office, millions and millions more americans in poverty, millions more on food stamps. Millions more out of the labor force. Hell accumulate more debt than any every president combined by the time he leaves office. The Economic Situation is as bad as you describe. How much do you think this is created anger in the country and maybe just lashing out in this particular instance because youre such a high profile candidate . Well, it is tremendous. First of all, theres tremendous division in the country. Looking at africanamerican youth, young africanamerican, 59 , inconceivable. 59 Unemployment Rate. And you look at even africanamericans in their prime. 30, 40, 50. The Unemployment Rate is very high. We have an africanamerican president. And you would have thought that he would have done a much better job for africanamerican citizens of this country. And he hasnt. And i will. Because im going to bring back jobs from china. Im going to bring back jobs from mexico and so many other places ripping this country apart. Our countrys being ripped apart. Let me tell you. This is largely economic issue, too. You know that workers, hard working people, middle class people, havent had a Salary Increase effectively in 12 years. All right . So for 12 years theyre making less now in many cases than they made 20 years ago. Its ridiculous. And its a lot of anger. Theres a lot of anxiety but theres really a lot of anger from people that are not angry people. And, you know, you get everybody together and you get them in a city like chicago and what you get is a good city. It is a good city, potentially a great city. And a friend of mine whos a very successful guy, found chicago to be his favorite city so you get them in a place like chicago and a thing like this shouldnt happen, especially to 25,000 people we had coming to this, sean. You know, we were able to stop many of them from coming, fortunately. A wonderful thing about the internet. Stopped many, many from coming or would have been really a mess and you dont know what would have happened and did it early enough and the early cancelation and the cancelation was just a turned out to be a very good move because now things things just about cleared up and no damage. What do you say to all those people that are in many ways feel that frustration . You know, when i give out statistics, mr. Trump, and i say, oh 95 million americans out of the labor force. 46 million on food stamps. Doubled our debt. Median income down. I know it sounds like a statistic but these are real people. Real lives. Real suffering. Unnecessarily. It seems to get worse every year. Not better. What do you say to those people maybe left behind, maybe struggling, feeling the anger, feeling the angst, hopeless maybe in many ways that might be, i dont know, drawn into these groups that seem to have agendas and in this case it was obvious lay political agenda. Sean, you know what i say . I say vote for trump. Vote for trump. Were going to do a lot of thing that is will make this country much better. Were going to do tremendous things and one of the things were going to do is bring back our jobs and our industry because its been ripped from this country. It is just ripped right out of the country. Thats 50,000 manufacturing plants and businesses out of just taking like nothing. All the job losses. You take a look at right now. Pfizer is leaving the united states. Carrier is moving to mexico. Ford is moving its big plants to mexico. Nabisco is moving the big, big plant from chicago into mexico. And all the jobs lost. And people are disgusted. Theyre disgusted with their politicians, with our trade deals, the fact that the military cant beat isis. Can you imagine telling general George Patton we cant beat isis . He would beat isis in two days. Can you imagine general macarthur, general patton . They wouldnt believe it. Yeah. We cant do anything. We cant take care of our vets. We cant have good health care. Obamacare is a disaster. Got to be repealed and replaced. We cant get education locally. We have this horrible common core which is a disgrace where people are making a lot of money from washington and they dont care about the people of ohio, the people of anyplace you want to mention. I mean, they dont care. I mean, you have some probably do but for the most part they care about how much money theyre making. And education is so we cant, sean, we cant we dont win at anything anymore. This country doesnt win at anything and why you have so many people coming to my rallies and great anger. No question about it. You know, i have never understood the mindset and i was watching marco rubio was on before you came on, and he quoted you saying, quote, well in the good old days we would handle protesters this way. Im thinking, i never blamed words for inspiring people to hate. It seems like maybe some of your opponents jumping on this to try to capitalize politically. What is your answer to them . Well, i dont know. I was just asked will you get more or less votes . I have no idea. This would not have been done. I did this for security reasons. I dont want to see people get hurt. Some people i was lecturing one of the networks tonight and they said this must have been planned by trump. And believe me, it wasnt. Believe me, it wasnt. The commentary is so over the top and so outrageous and so dead wrong. I mean, when did we start blaming victims of violence instead of the perpetrators of violence . Theres no words that inspire people to hate. Yeah. But when little marco goes and, you know, starts saying what he said about this, its a terrible thing. A terrible thing to say because, look. And i do say, you know, years ago it wouldnt have been put up with. We have some protesters, we have had very little protesters. When we have 25,000, 30,000 people in an arena and we have 2 or 3 people stand up or 5 people, actually, today was one of the bigger. In st. Louis, a number of people. We got through it. It was fine. About 30 people. Right . Yeah. 30 people taken out. Very mild. The police did a fantastic job. Police in the country have to be given much more credit than theyre getting becau theyre not properly recognized in my opinion. Between the police and the vets, you have two group that is are not being properly recognized. We have very, very little. Ten years ago, 15 years ago, 20 years ago, when we take people out, the police dont want to touch them because theyll end up losing their pension, losing their job and life. Brutal today. So its a very hard thing. And i do say, in the old days, they wouldnt have put up with it like they do. A protester standing up in the middle of the speech and screaming at the top of his or her lungs and then also in some cases being very violent, throwing punches. And then when the people surrounding this person people getting hit start throwing punches the other way, the story of the next day is how violent the room was. As opposed to this particular protester or protesters that actually were causing the problem. And i see it because im making a speech on high. Im on the platform. And im able to see it. And i see some people that are really, you know, bad. Theyre bad dudes. And theyre throwing punches and when the punches are thrown back, it is always their fault. It is always the person, the supporter. It is always their fault. Its so unfair. Its so unfair. I see it all the time. We have had very, very little problem. We have actually relatively speaking for the amount of people, the tens of thousands of people at every event, we have had very, very little problem. Moveon. Org, seem to be threatening this is going to go on at future events, mr. Trump. They endorsed Bernie Sanders by a vote in 2016 and a record setting 78. 6 of 340,000 votes supporting Bernie Sanders and yet theyre responsible for creating this havoc and shutting this event down and i would even argue putting innocent peoples lives in jeopardy. There were women and children at the event. I saw them there. Wheres the media asking Bernie Sanders why are your supporter doing this . Some people on fox cameras saying they support Bernie Sanders. They wanted only Bernie Sanders voice heard on tape. People everyone in the media will ask you, who will ask Bernie Sanders, openly endorsed and supported him. Will he condemn it . Will hillary condemn it . Is that a fair question . I remember Bernie Sanderss microphone taken away by the two youngly days in attendance and screaming in his face and took away the microphone and walked back like a little baby. Disgraceful, actually, it was allowed to happen. Look. Whoever the group is, it was an organized group and some point, you know, people get fed up with it. Some point we have people waiting i