Latest updates on the assassination attempt against President Trump, and the death of a Pennsylvania firefighter who dove on to the bodies of his own family members in order to save them from the shooter. Also, a new name has been named in the case of the Pennsylvania shooter, Corey Comparatore, who was a high school student and avid supporter of the former president, Donald Trump. President Trump is on the ground in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as the Republican National Convention begins, and is expected to announce his VP pick this afternoon. We ll get to that in a little bit. First, we discuss the latest updates from the latest on the attempted assassination attempt on President Trump. Second, we find out more details about the shooter and his family. Third, we learn that the shooter was not on the FBI s radar as a potential threat before the shooting. Fourth, the name of the shooter has been identified, and it is a young man named Corey Caudatore. Thanks to everyone for all your support, stay safe, and God Bless! - Your continued support is so appreciated. -Jon Sorrentino, Josh Shapiro, Governor of Pennsylvania, and Cory Caudotore, his family, Corey's wife, Kristian Caudetore, and all the families affected by this tragedy. Thank you for all the love and support you've shown so far this week. -Jon and Corey's family. - Thank you Corey and Kristian's family for being there for all of your support. - and God bless you, God bless! - Jon and Corey, Jon & Kristian, Thank you, Lord Bless You, Lord Lord Lord and Thank You, God Bless You for You, Bless You Truly, Thank You For You, Much Bless You. -Amen, Blessings, Bless, Bless Me, You, Ode, You're All, Bless Us, You All, We'll See Me, We Love You, We're All For This, We See You, You'll See Us, We Say It, We Truly, We All See Him, We Hear Him, Bless Him, And We'll Come Back, OTHERS, We Miss You, Gave Me, OOTY, OTC, And You'll Hear Me, GOTYO, AND THANK YOU, WE'LL SEE YOU, YESTERDAY, AND SO MUCH SO MUCH, MRS. -SOMEBODY, CHEERS, AND YESTER DAY!
00:00:30.000It might be a mystery wrapped in an enigma.
00:00:31.000I'm going to go with he didn't like Donald Trump.
00:00:33.000You've heard a lot of stuff about how he was a registered Republican.
00:00:35.000It appears that this particular shooter, who had given some money to ActBlue, which is a Democratic super PAC, it appears that he registered Republican in order to vote against Trump in an open primary in Pennsylvania.
00:00:48.000With that said, apparently, This particular shooter acted alone.
00:00:52.000That is, of course, what they are saying right now.
00:01:02.000Apparently, not only was a terrible shot, he actually had applied to be on the school shooting team and he was a bad shot so bad that they rejected him from the school shooting team, which is presumably the reason he missed the shot.
00:01:13.000Although, of course, only through the grace of God was President Trump not killed.
00:01:17.000His head exploded on national television.
00:01:20.000Because you can see in the original assassination attempt video that President Trump shifts the angle of his head at the last moment to look at a chart that they put on a big screen.
00:01:29.000And in doing so, he shifts the angle of his head so the bullet travels through his ear as opposed to through the back of his head.
00:01:36.000According to the Wall Street Journal, investigators found rudimentary explosive devices in the shooter's car parked near the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
00:01:43.000They also found bomb-making materials at the family home one hour to the south.
00:01:48.000Again, the FBI says that he acted alone.
00:01:51.000Crooks had not been on the FBI's radar as a possible threat before the shooting.
00:01:54.000Investigators found no indications of mental health issues either.
00:01:59.000According to the Wall Street Journal, he appeared to have little social media presence or much record of political activism.
00:02:03.000He appeared to have an account on Discord, a social media outlet popularized by video game enthusiasts, but he hadn't used it much.
00:02:08.000He hadn't posted with the account in months, according to a spokeswoman for the platform.
00:02:12.000On President Biden's inauguration day, Crooks gave $15 to Progressive Turnout Project, a Democratic-aligned political action committee that rallies voters.
00:02:22.000One of his classmates, a person named Sarah DeAngelo, she said he never outwardly spoke about his political views or how much he hated Trump or anything.
00:02:29.000She recalled him playing games on his laptop during homeroom before the school day began.
00:02:33.000Apparently people described him as a possible school shooter at school.
00:02:43.000As a sophomore, he was photographed in the yearbook wearing a t-shirt of an American flag with the faces of past presidents at Mount Rushmore.
00:02:49.000And as a senior, he won a $500 National Math and Science Initiative Star Award.
00:02:54.000So, again, we just don't know that much about the shooter at this point.
00:02:59.000What we do know is that this could have been significantly worse, and it was bad enough as it was.
00:03:05.000The man who died, his name has now been announced, his name is Corey Comparatore.
00:03:10.000Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro announced his death yesterday, announced the circumstances of his death, pointed out that he died a hero.
00:03:17.000Apparently he dived on the bodies of his family members in order to protect them from the shooter, and in doing so, was shot in the head and killed.
00:03:25.000Here is Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro.
00:03:29.000We lost a fellow Pennsylvanian last night.
00:05:04.000From the place where President Trump was speaking, it was the only building in the area that did not have Secret Service on top of it, well within the range of a normal AR-15.
00:05:14.000The range of a normal AR-15 is maybe 500, 600 meters if you're a decent shot.
00:05:20.000In this particular case, he was extremely close.
00:05:22.000And again, it's only through the grace of God that President Trump is not dead.
00:05:24.000Not only that, video has now emerged showing that the shooter had plenty of time to get ready.
00:05:29.000People saw him climbing on the roof of the building.
00:05:37.000So we've been told by Secret Service professionals that the way that typically these sites are secured is there's sort of an interior area that is controlled by Secret Service.
00:05:44.000And then slightly outside of that perimeter, there's another area where they coordinate with local law enforcement.
00:05:49.000As we will discuss in a moment, local law enforcement signally failed here, not only because they allowed a shooter to get onto the roof of the building, but also because a member of local law enforcement apparently had an actual physical confrontation with the shooter on the roof.
00:06:04.000And apparently, according to the Associated Press, A local cop actually confronted the shooter on the roof and then had to retreat because the shooter swiveled the gun around.
00:06:14.000And then when the shooter swiveled the gun around, he went down the ladder up to the roof, the local cop.
00:06:20.000And at that point, he swiveled back around and started shooting at the president.
00:06:23.000According to the Associated Press, a local law enforcement officer climbed to the roof and found Crooks.
00:06:45.000So, presumably, if not for the cop having distracted the shooter, he might have gotten off a better shot.
00:06:51.000Again, the questions continue about how the gunman got so close to the president in the first place.
00:06:55.000Kevin Rojek, the agent in charge of the FBI's Pittsburgh field office, said it surprised him the gunman was able to open fire on the stage before the Secret Service killed him in the first place.
00:07:04.000The Wall Street Journal I wouldn't be doing this job.
00:07:06.000failure for the Secret Service in decades, which clearly is true since we
00:07:10.000haven't had a major assassination attempt on a president or presidential
00:07:13.000candidate in several decades. The last major assassination attempt on a
00:07:17.000presidential candidate was in fact on President Ronald Reagan going all the
00:07:22.000way back to the early 1980s in which President Reagan was shot at very close
00:07:25.000range. Here's the video of the shooter again he had plenty of time to get ready
00:07:29.000up on top of that roof. You can hear President Trump's voice in the background.
00:07:39.000Somebody is filming and then we can hear people discussing the fact that there is someone on the roof with a gun.
00:08:43.000They followed agency protocol, applying to Trump as a former president,
00:08:47.000according to two sources within the Secret Service community.
00:08:50.000There were also many supplemental agents from different field offices, not Trump's regular detail, providing security at the rally, because Trump's regular detail has been overworked, some working seven days straight, and only two counter-snipers.
00:09:01.000That, of course, is an insane story, given the fact that the threat level to President Trump is so much higher, obviously and clearly, than the threat level to, say, Jill Biden.
00:09:09.000It's more on the Secret Service's failures in just one second.
00:09:13.000First, let's talk about your online security.
00:09:16.000Did you know that social media companies can hide your content from search results just for expressing an opinion?
00:10:44.000The FBI today openly giving us a non-directed briefing about their investigation, but yet
00:10:50.000we still have not heard from anyone from the Secret Service about what happened, about
00:10:55.000what they've changed to see if, about what we know in addition to the event of the Security
00:10:59.000and I just want to know how you think that that's okay.
00:11:03.000So my role in the Secret Service is the RNC coordinator so that is my purview.
00:11:08.000Any questions regarding yesterday's event can be directed to our public affairs office out of D.C.
00:11:15.000That is a stonewalling from the Secret Service agent Audrey Gibson Ciccino.
00:11:19.000That is the Secret Service RNC coordinator.
00:11:22.000The question, in case you couldn't hear it, was, I don't understand why it is you have one of the most significant events in the Secret Service's history and no one from Secret Service has publicly decided to take questions about what exactly happened.
00:11:32.000Well, President Biden is reacting to this tragedy, and now we are going to get the walkback.
00:11:37.000the country is lucky as hell that President Trump was not murdered up on that stage.
00:11:41.000The tragedy occurred nonetheless. Well, President Biden is reacting to this tragedy and now we are
00:11:50.000going to get the walk back, but it's not a real walk back.
00:11:54.000So the walk back that we are seeing from the Biden administration, from the Biden White House
00:11:58.000is an acknowledgement that we need to cool the rhetoric, that the rhetoric has to calm down,
00:12:02.000which of course is something that I have been saying for years in this country, is that when
00:12:06.000you declare that your political enemies are such a threat to the republic, that if they are elected,
00:12:11.000it will be say the last election, it'll be the end of America, that you and your friends are
00:12:16.000going to end up in actual You're not joking about it, you actually mean that.
00:12:20.000When you say that sort of stuff, you are exacerbating political divides to the extent that somebody could take you seriously and then go attempt to shoot the President of the United States in the head, for example.
00:12:30.000Well, yesterday, about 2 p.m., President Biden comes out and he makes a statement.
00:12:36.000And politics, of course, is enmeshed in all of this, because President Biden is running a really rough re-elect campaign against President Trump.
00:12:42.000By polling data, Donald Trump is leading him by about three points nationally.
00:12:45.000If Donald Trump were to win the popular vote by three points, then he has a 100% chance of winning the Electoral College, according to Nate Silver, the poll analyst.
00:12:53.000Joe Biden, until the assassination attempt, was the center of the news, specifically because he is clearly in mental distress.
00:13:00.000He is a person who clearly Is sundowning late in the afternoon evening.
00:13:05.000We'll get to that in a moment because as it turns out he did yet another Oval Office address in which he struggled to make it through a teleprompter address.
00:13:14.000He was flanked by the Vice President Kamala Harris, the Attorney General Merrick Garland, the Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.
00:13:22.000He issued a rather banal statement saying an investigation was underway.
00:13:26.000He said that he had called President Trump.
00:13:27.000Here is what President Biden had to say about 2 p.m.
00:13:32.000Last night, I spoke with Donald Trump.
00:13:37.000I'm sincerely grateful that he's doing well and recovering.
00:13:41.000And we had a short but good conversation.
00:13:44.000Jill and I are keeping him and his family in our prayers.
00:13:47.000As this investigation continues, here's what we're going to do.
00:13:51.000First, Mr. Trump, as a former president and nominee of the Republican Party, already receives a heightened level of security.
00:13:59.000And I've been consistent in my direction of the Secret Service to provide him with every resource, capability, and protective measure necessary to ensure his continued safety.
00:14:08.000Second, I've directed the head of the Secret Service to review all security measures for the Republican National Convention, which is scheduled to start tomorrow.
00:14:20.000And third, I've directed an independent review of the national security at yesterday's rally to assess exactly what happened.
00:14:29.000And we'll share the results of that independent review with the American people as well.
00:14:40.000Now, the Biden team is saying, and they've leaked this to Axios, for example, that Biden is going to try to get out in front of this.
00:14:46.000He's going to try and make himself as public as possible here, mainly because it doesn't require him to take any serious questions about his fitness for office.
00:14:53.000He's been able to shift the narrative because of this horrifying circumstance away from himself.
00:14:58.000And now the entire focus of the American electorate is on President Trump.
00:15:03.000Which gives President Trump the possibility of actually reshaping this election in extraordinary ways.
00:15:08.000Meaning that President Trump, as we'll see, is going to completely shift the tone and tenor of the RNC.
00:15:15.000There's capacity here for President Trump to win 40 states.
00:15:19.000President Trump is now in a position, politically speaking, because he can actually be a voice for unity, which is what he is going to do.
00:15:25.000The way that he responded, by the way, to Joe Biden's statement here is by putting on Truth Social a two-word statement, UNITE AMERICA in all caps.
00:15:32.000He's reshifting his entire campaign messaging.
00:15:35.000That also comes with the risk, presumably, of the fact that the focus is now back on Trump.
00:15:40.000Meaning that when all the focus was on Biden, politically speaking, that means that Biden is going to lose because no one likes Joe Biden as president.
00:15:45.000They think that he's done a terrible job.
00:15:46.000And they also happen to think that he is quite old.
00:15:48.000I mean, the fact is that after Joe Biden finished that mid-afternoon statement yesterday, he shuffled out of the room looking like Mr. Burns from The Simpsons.
00:15:57.000He's holding his hands in a bizarre way.
00:15:59.000And here is some video of him walking away from the podium That video is not particularly flattering to Joe Biden.
00:16:12.000He's holding his hands stiffly in front of him.
00:16:18.000Merrick Garland has to reach behind and make sure the door is open wide enough that Joe Biden can get through.
00:16:23.000Remember that the news cycle until the assassination attempt was all about the fact that Joe Biden might be ousted by his own party because he's trailing in polls and clearly declining every single day.
00:16:33.000But the focus has now shifted back to Donald Trump.
00:16:35.000Donald Trump responds to that press conference, as we say, by saying, Unite America, we'll talk about Trump's messaging in just one second.
00:16:41.000But it also puts Biden on the defensive because the reality is that, as we discussed yesterday on the show, The people have been heating up the rhetoric to the point where there was an assassination attempt against Donald Trump, have been doing so for 10 years, and they include people like Joe Biden, who all the way back in 2011 was suggesting that Tea Partiers were terrorists, that they were akin to terrorists.
00:16:58.000He's a person who suggested that Mitt Romney wanted to put black people back in chains.
00:17:02.000Joe Biden has spent large swathes of his career engaging in the most extraordinarily radical type of rhetoric with regard to his political opponents, full-scale demonization.
00:17:13.000And now Joe Biden has to try and walk that back.
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00:18:22.000Then, around 8 p.m., he made another statement from the Oval Office.
00:18:26.000Now, again, because of his sundowning, there had been a lot of talk about the idea that he was going to pre-tape this.
00:18:32.000And then apparently after it leaked that he was going to pre-tape it, he decided to do it live, which as it turns out, imagistically, was a bad idea because he fumbled and bumbled his way through a very short six-minute televised address.
00:18:43.000He made a bunch of significant errors.
00:18:48.000The message that he was attempting to purvey is a fine message.
00:18:52.000The problem is that coming from Joe Biden, who refuses to dissociate from his central campaign message, which is that his opponent is a fascist who is going to destroy the country wholesale and turn himself into a Hitlerian dictator, it rings pretty false.
00:19:06.000So yesterday, Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, he also said it's time to take down the rhetoric.
00:19:10.000Many people said it was time to take down the rhetoric.
00:19:12.000The difference is Josh Shapiro hasn't said that his political opponents are going to literally end democracy.
00:19:17.000Joe Biden's entire campaign has been about how his political opponents are going to end democracy and institute a fascist dictatorship.
00:19:24.000That if he does not win re-election, then his political opponent is so evil and so bad that there will likely never be another election.
00:19:31.000That democracy will be fatally undermined.
00:19:33.000And so when Joe Biden says, we all need to take down the rhetoric, I'll take that from him the minute that he's willing to say, including me.
00:19:42.000If he says including me, then okay, we can let bygones be bygones.
00:19:47.000We can have some conversations about what level of political rhetoric is justified by the sort of claims that you are making.
00:19:54.000You can talk about Donald Trump's disregard for democratic structures because that's normal.
00:19:58.000It's a different thing to do that than to suggest that Donald Trump is going to come into office and institute the Handmaid's Tale, which is precisely what Biden headquarters tweeted out like two weeks ago.
00:20:09.000Just a couple days before the shooting, Joe Biden's Twitter account tweeted that Donald Trump would be a full-scale dictator.
00:20:16.000So the minute that Joe Biden is willing to dissociate from the central message of his campaign, I will take more seriously his talk about lowering the political temperature.
00:20:27.000And again, I've been consistent on this.
00:20:29.000I think there are people who are on the right who have spent years saying unhinged things about their political opponents.
00:20:35.000No one comes before I do when it comes to criticizing the Democratic Party and the risks to the American public that the Democratic Party platform poses.
00:20:44.000The dangers on foreign policy, the dangers on domestic policy.
00:20:46.000I wrote an entire book called The Authoritarian Moment about the rise of authoritarian executive government.
00:20:53.000But there's a difference between saying that and saying that, say, if Joe Biden wins, there will never be another election.
00:20:58.000And no one actually believes that, because you know what I've been saying for years?
00:21:01.000If you truly believed That your political opposition was so evil that this was the final election, you would actually have a moral obligation to do something violent.
00:21:09.000But now, we are seeing Joe Biden, who's engaged in precisely that sort of rhetoric, dissociate from the violence.
00:21:15.000Okay, well, that's fine, but then you have to stop saying the thing.
00:21:20.000In just one second, we'll get to Joe Biden's actual address from the Oval Office last night.
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00:23:33.000So, again, this sort of rhetoric about how we need to take a step back and take... Your central message was precisely the opposite of this thing.
00:23:41.000It was precisely the opposite of what you're saying right now.
00:23:45.000You're saying we're not enemies, we're friends.
00:23:47.000You literally said in the debate, that was just a few weeks ago, you said you were asked a direct question, are the people voting for Donald Trump a threat to democracy?
00:23:55.000And you said the more they find out about him, yes.
00:23:58.000You labeled what is likely to be 80 million Americans threats to the democracy.
00:24:02.000That is a hard one to walk back unless you are willing to just clearly say the thing, including me.
00:24:40.000Because that's the rock, and the hard place is that if he keeps embracing that message, it obviously is the impetus for violent actors.
00:24:48.000That's the rock and that's the hard place, and he can't escape that, except he's gonna try and walk between the raindrops here by suggesting that everybody needs to take down the temperature, except for me, except for him.
00:24:59.000And again, I do believe that everybody needs to take down the temperature.
00:25:02.000I think all of the talk about incipient dictatorship in what is historically one of the freest countries in the history of the world is absolutely insane and overwrought and ridiculous, as important as I think politics are.
00:25:14.000I've been saying that for pretty much my entire career.
00:25:18.000With that said, Joe Biden is not saying that thing.
00:25:22.000President Biden continued his Oval Office address last night by issuing his condolences to the families, which of course is something that you would imagine that he would and should do.
00:26:18.000I just wish that your party agreed after having winked and nodded at violence on college campuses throughout this year on behalf of Hamas.
00:26:24.000I wish they had not winked and nodded and tried to bail out protesters, if you are Kamala Harris, during the BLM riots of 2020.
00:26:29.000I wish that they had not soft-pedaled the attempted assassination of Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
00:26:34.000I wish that they had not pretended that the assassination, the attempted assassination of Congress people during a baseball game in 2017, Had nothing to do with them.
00:26:43.000I really wish they'd done all of those things.
00:26:45.000And the only phrase that's missing from this particular address, and the one that would have made all the difference, was, including me.
00:26:54.000And if he had done that, it would have been a big political win for the President of the United States, because then he could have been a unifying figure.
00:27:00.000But by eliding that phrase, after his political opponent, who he has attempted to use his DOJ to prosecute, He's targeted him.
00:27:09.000His entire campaign has been about how his political opponent is Orange Hitler.
00:27:14.000Ignoring that phrase, including me there, including himself in the critique, is a massive and clear omission.
00:27:23.000We cannot, we must not go down this road in America.
00:27:27.000We've traveled before throughout our history.
00:28:03.000We can't allow this violence to be normalized.
00:28:07.000Now again, each one of the cases he mentions there is a unique case and an individual case, and you actually have to go and look at the circumstances surrounding each case, sort of grouping them all together in one giant basket is, I think, a little bit intellectually dishonest.
00:28:19.000For example, when you look at the kidnapping plot on Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of Michigan, that plot was actually fomented by federal agents, so much so that the people who were tried in that particular case were not convicted in that particular case.
00:28:32.000And not all of these cases are quite the same.
00:28:35.000And some of these cases involve people who are clearly mentally ill, as the man who attacked Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul Pelosi.
00:28:42.000And some of these cases are clearly politically motivated.
00:28:44.000Say the congressional baseball shooting.
00:28:45.000He says that that was about attacking members of both parties, but it wasn't.
00:28:50.000January 6th was a different case in kind than the attempted assassination of President Trump in the sense that the vast majority of people on January 6th who were arrested were arrested for trespassing and were not carrying weapons.
00:29:02.000And the only person who was actually killed on January 6th was not, in fact, a politician.
00:29:06.000It was Ashley Babbitt, who was one of the rioters.
00:29:08.000So again, each one of these cases, but the general overarching point, which is that the heat of the rhetoric should go down is something with which I generally agree.
00:29:34.000We all have a responsibility to do that.
00:29:36.000Yes, we have deeply felt strong disagreements.
00:29:40.000The stakes in this election are enormously high.
00:29:43.000I've said it many times that the choice we make in this election is going to shape the future of America and the world for decades to come.
00:30:07.000But politics must never be a literal battlefield, and God forbid, a killing field.
00:30:14.000Again, all of this would be fine if he just included that phrase, including me.
00:30:20.000When he says, we all have to cool it down, we all have to take note, we all have to... We all is a way of evading responsibility if you don't say, we includes me.
00:30:29.000Otherwise, like at that point, we reads as you, when you are in some sort of argument with your spouse and we say, we all need to, if she accuses you of something, you say, we all need to take responsibility.
00:30:40.000What you're really saying is you want to avoid culpability.
00:30:43.000And then President Biden goes on to mention the Republican convention and suggest that the Republicans need to make their criticisms in good faith.
00:30:52.000Their candidate was nearly shot to death the other day.
00:30:55.000Maybe you might want to focus on like your own side for a second, Mr. President.
00:31:00.000Republican convention will start tomorrow.
00:31:03.000I have no doubt they'll criticize my record and offer their own vision for this country.
00:31:07.000I'll be traveling this week making the case for our record and the vision, my vision of the country, our vision.
00:31:14.000And then he says, it has to be done in good faith.
00:31:17.000Then he adds sort of one final botchery in his speech.
00:31:19.000He says that we solve our issues at the battle box, which first of all, like if we're going to do that, I'm all in favor of battle boxes.
00:31:27.000I'm all for golfing for the presidency and battle boxes, but I don't think this is what he meant to say.
00:31:33.000I'll continue to speak out strongly for our democracy, stand up for our constitution and the rule of law, to call for action at the ballot box.
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00:34:13.000Meanwhile, again, it is not only President Biden who's been calling for a tamping down of the rhetoric.
00:34:16.000Speaker Mike Johnson, who will be joining us a little bit later on in the show, he also says that we need to tamp down the rhetoric.
00:34:22.000The difference is that Johnson has always been a person who uses stayed and normal rhetoric, as opposed to President Biden, whose entire campaign is based around the idea that his opponent is Hitler.
00:34:32.000Here is Speaker Johnson saying what has to be said on The Today Show.
00:34:36.000Josh Shapiro in Pennsylvania said the same thing, and he's on the left.
00:34:39.000There are people in politics who are responsible and there are people like President Biden who are irresponsible.
00:34:44.000And the reality is, Speaker Johnson, it comes better from Speaker Johnson.
00:34:49.000America awakens to a rather surreal morning.
00:34:52.000This is a horrific act of political violence that ought to be roundly condemned.
00:34:57.000Obviously, we can't go on like this as a society.
00:35:00.000You know, our prayers are with President Trump, all the rally attendees, certainly the family of the individual that lost their life and those who were injured.
00:35:09.000I've gotten briefings from law enforcement.
00:35:11.000I spoke to Secretary Mayorkas last night and asked him some pointed questions with regard to Homeland Security and what happened there.
00:35:18.000I've already announced that Congress will do a full investigation of the tragedy yesterday to determine where there were lapses in security and anything else that the American people need to know and deserve to know.
00:35:30.000But in the meantime, we've got to turn the rhetoric down.
00:35:33.000We've got to turn the temperature down in this country.
00:35:35.000We need leaders of all parties on both sides to call that out.
00:35:41.000Speaking of less credible sources saying this thing, here is Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont.
00:36:27.000Should three people own more wealth than the bottom half of American society?
00:36:30.000So I think what we have got to see is serious discussion of serious issues and not this kind of harsh rhetoric that we have heard for the last number of years.
00:37:00.000He's a bitter man, having gone through four indictments, humiliated.
00:37:03.000He's going to take it out on his enemies.
00:37:04.000We've got to explain to the American people what that means to them, what the collapse of American democracy will mean to all of us.
00:37:12.000Again, when you say those sorts of things, and then you say, well, we just need some moderation in our rhetoric, I don't believe you until you do it.
00:37:19.000Meanwhile, the Washington Post, they ran an editorial talking about taking down the rhetoric as well, which is hilarious, coming from, once again, a very extreme newspaper, the Washington Post.
00:37:29.000The main message of the Washington Post, however, is that the RNC and President Trump are responsible for taking down the rhetoric.
00:37:36.000And that really, Joe Biden, well, maybe a little bit.
00:37:39.000They say Democrats, too, need to recalibrate their rhetoric.
00:37:42.000But Biden struck an appropriate tone on Sunday.
00:37:44.000Unity is the most elusive goal of all, but nothing is more important than that right now.
00:37:48.000But at no point do they call on the president to stop saying that his political opponent will become a Hitlerian dictator.
00:37:53.000Presumably, in order to avoid that sort of rhetoric, the Hitlerian dictator rhetoric, MSNBC told on itself today.
00:38:01.000They actually pulled Morning Joe off the air after the shooting.
00:38:04.000Because they were afraid that Joe and Mika were going to whole hog suggest that President Trump maybe sort of a little bit... Clearly they were afraid of something.
00:38:15.000There's a reason you pull your highest rated show on MSNBC off the air.
00:38:21.000According to CNN, MSNBC will not air Morning Joe, its celebrated politics roundtable program on Monday, opting to instead air continued breaking news coverage of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
00:38:33.000A person familiar with the matter told CNN the decision was made to avoid a scenario in which one of the show's stable of two dozen plus guests might make an inappropriate comment on live television that could be used to assail the program and network as a whole.
00:38:43.000Given the breaking news nature of the story, the person said it made more sense to continue airing rolling breaking news coverage in this fraught political moment.
00:38:50.000They should theoretically be able to handle that.
00:38:52.000What they are basically admitting right there is that MSNBC's Morning Joe has become a propaganda outlet for the idea that Donald Trump is Orange Hitler.
00:39:02.000Meanwhile, in other breaking news, I mean, there's just too much news happening right now.
00:39:06.000A federal judge has now dismissed, according to the Wall Street Journal, the classified documents prosecution against Donald Trump on Monday, siding with the former president's argument that special counsel Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed.
00:39:16.000So that indictment has been effectively thrown out with all of its 40 felony counts.
00:39:23.000That is the classified documents case.
00:39:25.000Judge Eileen Cannon, she says that Jack Smith, who's the special prosecutor in this case, his appointment violates both the appointments and the appropriations clauses.
00:39:34.000So the appointments clause sets as a default rule that all officers of the United States, whether inferior or principal, must be appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
00:39:43.000And then the appropriations clause prohibits money from being drawn from the Treasury unless that money was appropriated by an act of Congress.
00:39:49.000And so Eileen Cannon writes, After careful study of the seminal issue, the answer is no.
00:39:52.000as framed in the motion, raise the following threshold question.
00:39:55.000Is there a statute in the US code that authorizes the appointment of special counsel Smith
00:40:25.000The special counsel's position effectively usurps that important legislative authority, transferring it to a head of department, and in the process, threatening the structural liberty inherent in the separation of powers.
00:40:34.000If the political branches wish to grant the AG power to appoint special counsel Smith to investigate and prosecute this action with the full powers of a U.S.
00:40:41.000attorney, there is a valid means by which to do so.
00:40:43.000He can be appointed and confirmed through the default method prescribed in the appointments clause.
00:40:48.000So she is throwing out, dismissing all charges in this case.
00:41:31.000The presidential contest ended last night, said a veteran Democratic consultant.
00:41:35.000Now it's time to focus on keeping the Senate and trying trying to pick up the house.
00:41:38.000Meanwhile, Axios saying the same thing.
00:41:41.000According to Axios, most lawmakers who spoke to Axios said it's too early to say whether the cessation of tensions will last until the DNC next month.
00:41:49.000But, quote, we've resigned ourselves to a second Trump presidency, according to one House Democrat.
00:41:53.000Now, that doesn't mean Republicans should get complacent here.
00:42:16.000But the problem is that because the assassination story took the wind out of the sails of the Dump Biden movement, now they're trapped.
00:42:22.000Here is CBS News reporting that Biden's challengers have basically stopped calling.
00:42:28.000I've been speaking with some top Democrats.
00:42:29.000They believe that those Democrats who have the concerns about President Biden are now standing down politically, will back President Biden because of this fragile political moment.
00:42:38.000All of that talk about the debate faded almost instantly among my top Democratic sources.
00:42:43.000As this unfolded, they say it's time for the country to stick together, and that means Democrats sticking together as well.
00:42:50.000Again, the Democrats are going to try to stick together, but they're going to go down together at this point.
00:42:54.000Meanwhile, the RNC, as we've mentioned repeatedly, begins today.
00:42:59.000Democrats are trying to swivel this into a referendum.
00:43:01.000The assassination attempt on Trump, they're trying to swivel into a referendum on the evil rhetoric of the Republicans.
00:43:07.000Here's Jen Psaki, former White House press secretary on MSNBC, who is trying to say that the RNC is really the place where all of this change needs to happen.
00:43:15.000And listen, I think the smart thing for President Trump to do is run an absolutely moderate, unifying campaign.
00:43:21.000If he does that at this point, he's going to win 35, 40 states.
00:43:24.000If President Trump does that, he's going to win not only swing states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.
00:43:40.000And Jen, in fact, we've already seen the finger pointing begin.
00:43:45.000Some people even blaming President Biden.
00:43:48.000We heard that very forceful condemnation by President Biden of what happened.
00:43:54.000As someone who used to work with the president, what are you anticipating in terms of, he's obviously pulled his political ads forward, but as Carol said, the question is how long does this moment last?
00:44:04.000And how do you think he sees his role right now?
00:44:07.000I mean, I think his role, I'm betting that how he responded was as a human being, which is how we just saw Lindsey Graham at moments during that interview and Senator Sanders and Senator Coons respond.
00:44:18.000That's how everybody should be responding.
00:44:20.000For anyone out there who has a platform, who thinks the moment right now is to be political and attack the other party, you are feeding into the danger.
00:44:28.000You are making it more likely there's retaliation.
00:44:39.000Maybe, maybe, maybe, again, if you're going to impute violent rhetoric to the other side, you know, we've talked on the show about rhetoric that I think is totally inappropriate from the right side of the aisle.
00:44:57.000President Trump, for his part again, he's running a very smart campaign.
00:45:00.000He has completely rewritten his convention speech in light of the assassination attempt against him on Saturday, according to the Washington Examiner.
00:45:06.000He said, the speech I was going to give on Thursday was going to be a humdinger.
00:45:08.000Had this not happened, this would have been one of the most incredible speeches, mostly at the policies of Joe Biden.
00:45:12.000Honestly, he said, it's going to be a whole different speech now.
00:45:16.000He has switched, he said, from planning to excite his voter base to one that demonstrates his belief The attack on him at a rally in Pennsylvania had changed the election campaign entirely.
00:45:24.000Trump said, Again, he says that he is going to speak about unity.
00:45:26.000different walks of life and different political views have called him.
00:45:28.000He noted he was saved from death because he turned from the crowd to look at his
00:45:30.000screen showing data he was using in the speech.
00:45:32.000That reality is just setting in, he said. I rarely look away from the crowd had I
00:45:35.000not done that in that moment, well we wouldn't be talking today,
00:45:38.000would we? Again, he says that he is going to speak about unity. He has also
00:45:42.000announced that he will be making his VP announcement today.
00:45:47.000Quick rundown on possible VP candidates who are sort of at the top of the
00:45:50.000list unless he goes completely off the board.
00:45:52.000The ones who have been mentioned publicly a lot are Senator J.D.
00:45:58.000He's most famous for a memoir that he wrote in 2016 called Hillbilly Elegy, which was largely about the predations of the welfare state and the effect that that has on blue-collar, low-income people.
00:46:08.000He was the junior senator from Ohio since 2023.
00:46:10.000So he's brand new, like brand spanking new.
00:46:39.000His politics, as we say, are a little bit heterodox from the sort of normal traditional Republican Party, which, for some of his supporters, is the appeal.
00:46:46.000Senator Marco Rubio is another candidate who is up for this.
00:46:49.000Obviously, people know Senator Rubio from his 2016 run against President Trump.
00:47:15.000Vance, actually pretty much all these candidates in this race have at one point or other criticized President Trump because of President Trump's various foibles.
00:47:56.000He's very popular in that purple state.
00:47:58.000He has an MBA from Harvard, extremely pro-business.
00:48:01.000Is the sort of dark pick, Darth Kors pick, VP pick for Trump.
00:48:05.000I think that if Trump picks Junkin, not only is the election over, I think Trump wins a bunch of swing states that he might not otherwise win.
00:48:11.000Mainly because the image that you project going forward here, especially looking for a unity campaign, is going to be one that appeals to those suburban moms.
00:48:19.000This is actually Trump's opportunity to win back many of the crowds that he's lost in 2016 and 2020, while maintaining the crowd that he picked up in 2016 and 2020.
00:48:27.000I think that Junkin might be the single best pick for that.
00:48:31.000I'm gonna put out there the idea that maybe he goes with someone from New York also, because we know that President Trump really is obsessed with New York.
00:48:37.000He is from New York originally, obviously.
00:48:39.000There are polls that show him within spitting distance of New York.
00:48:41.000If he won New York, not only would this be a landslide, this is almost a 50-state landslide at that point.
00:48:45.000So, not completely crazy to suggest he might pick somebody like Elise Stefanik from New York or Lee Zeldin, who is the former gubernatorial candidate who came within six points of beating Kathy Hochul in an extraordinarily blue state.
00:48:55.000We're going to find that out very, very shortly.
00:49:18.000So I assume that you're in Milwaukee in preparation for the RNC, which is supposed to begin this afternoon and tonight.
00:49:24.000So what's the mood in Milwaukee right now?
00:49:29.000You know, it's a little different than we might have expected.
00:49:31.000There was lots of anticipation and excitement, and it's still here, but there's a little bit different feel, of course, after the events over the last couple of days.
00:49:40.000I wouldn't say subdued, I would just say that it's sort of changed the mood.
00:49:44.000They feel the weight of history that's upon us.
00:49:47.000I'll be chairing the proceedings here in a few hours, and we go through the mechanics, all the procedural things, and then it builds up to the crescendo of the speeches each night in primetime, and ultimately President Trump's address.
00:49:58.000And I think people feel that we're in a very good place, that we're going to win this election cycle, I think, from top to bottom.
00:50:06.000But it's more than just a political cycle right now.
00:50:09.000It's really about, in a very true sense, saving the country and turning us back to where we need to be.
00:50:14.000And I think people feel that and it's affected the mood here.
00:50:19.000Speaker Johnson, obviously, you've spoken out since the assassination attempt against President Trump on Saturday that thank God failed by legitimately centimeters.
00:50:26.000I mean, it's an astonishing act of God that President Trump was not killed on stage on Saturday.
00:50:31.000And you've spoken out about the fact that the rhetoric has been too hot.
00:50:49.000There's been a lot of focus from the media for the last 10 years,
00:50:52.000from the Biden campaign over the last several years on the idea that President Trump is an incipient dictator.
00:50:57.000I mean, just days before the attempted shooting, President Biden was tweeting out
00:51:01.000that Donald Trump would be a dictator.
00:51:03.000The New Republic ran an issue in which the cover was a mashup of Donald Trump's face with Hitler's face.
00:51:09.000When you say that sort of stuff over and over and over again, as I've said, you know, any shooter is responsible for what the shooter does.
00:51:15.000But if you keep turning up the temperature on the pot of water on the stove, you shouldn't be surprised when it boils over.
00:51:21.000And it seems to me that that centralizing message that if your political opposition wins, it's the end of the country, that sort of talk is inherently dangerous.
00:51:31.000Well, of course it is, and I've been saying that in interviews throughout the weekend and last night on CNN.
00:51:36.000I went live a few minutes before President Biden gave his address, and I said that same thing, and I pointed out that, you know, many of our Democrat colleagues in Congress, and of course Biden himself, Have done exactly what you said, Ben.
00:51:48.000They've said that Donald Trump's election will be the end of democracy.
00:51:52.000People feel like it's a last resort kind of thing.
00:51:55.000And some people are easy to puss over the edge.
00:51:58.000I mean, we've got to turn the temperature down.
00:52:00.000We need to have vigorous policy debates and disputes.
00:52:03.000Obviously, we don't agree with those guys on anything.
00:52:06.000And we provide answers to all the great challenges facing the country, but the way that we do that is really, really important.
00:52:12.000We've seen a couple of comments that President Trump himself has made over the last day or so.
00:52:17.000He's spoken to a few reporters and comments he's given publicly, and he said he's even changing his own speech here.
00:52:24.000He was going to hammer Biden on all of his policies.
00:52:29.000But he wants to talk about unifying the country.
00:52:32.000That's the kind of visionary leadership that we need right now.
00:52:35.000He's the candidate that can provide it.
00:52:37.000And if he does that and does it well, I think this election is done in a landslide.
00:52:41.000I think President Trump will be the next president, and I think he can guide us and our country through what is probably one of the most tumultuous times, the most turbulent times we've had.
00:53:00.000But we need it to be done in the right way.
00:53:02.000And I think President Trump gets that.
00:53:05.000Mr. Speaker, John, I don't know if you had a chance to actually watch President Biden's address from the Oval Office last night.
00:53:09.000He said many things about cooling down the rhetoric.
00:53:11.000The one phrase that seems to be missing for me was, including me.
00:53:16.000It's one thing for the President of the United States to sort of, on a general level, say that the rhetoric needs to cool.
00:53:20.000It's another thing to say, okay, that includes me as well, since, of course, he's one of the people who's running for President, and he is currently the President of the United States.
00:54:11.000We live in the age of, you know, where voices are amplified that are caustic and it's a problem.
00:54:18.000So you need leaders, you need duly elected representatives of the people to be able to remind them of our better angels as Lincoln used to say.
00:54:38.000It always has, and we can do that in this moment.
00:54:41.000You know, Speaker Johnson, you mentioned that President Trump has already explained to Selena Zito that he has rewritten his entire convention speech.
00:54:47.000It seems like the entire theme of the convention has shifted from talk of policy to talk of unifying going forward, which makes perfect sense.
00:54:54.000Have you had a chance to speak to President Trump about any of that and what you expect to see from him this week?
00:55:17.000it was reported a little bit, but way back during Thanksgiving, I was down at Mar-a-Lago
00:55:21.000with him and I was doing some fundraising events down the beach the day after we had
00:55:27.000dinner with him. And when I say we, I was with my sons, my 18-year-old and 13-year-old
00:55:32.000son. The next morning, they were on the beach while I was doing fundraising events and they
00:55:36.000both almost drowned. They got pulled out in a rip current out to sea into the Atlantic.
00:55:41.000It's a long story, but they were miraculously saved. A parasailor flew by and saw them going
00:55:45.000under, almost lost both of them. And President Trump, when he heard about this story the
00:55:50.000next day, he was so moved by that. And we talked about it at length multiple times about
00:55:55.000God had very miraculously saved the lives of both of my sons, and it really moved him a lot, and I've noticed in some of the things he's saying, some of the comments he's saying in the last couple of days, he's echoing some of those things that we talked about.
00:56:08.000I think he feels truly the providential moment that's before us.
00:56:13.000This is another thing, just a footnote of history, but when Washington, we used to call George Washington the bulletproof president, right?
00:56:19.000Remember the famous battle where he was The French and Indian War, where they took multiple shots at him.
00:56:46.000I think God's going to give our nation another chance, and I think President Trump is going to be the leader that does that.
00:56:53.000Mr. Speaker Johnson, obviously a lot of anticipation today on a wide variety of topics.
00:56:57.000So we actually just found out that the documents case against President Trump has now been dismissed in Florida.
00:57:03.000That obviously will be a big relief to the President, considering that that was, in all likelihood, the most viable case against President Trump.
00:57:09.000Obviously, we've seen the weaponization of the DOJ against President Trump.
00:57:13.000We've seen the weaponization of the Justice Department or the justice system in New York against President Trump.
00:57:44.000I don't know if he'll tease it a little bit longer or go another couple of days.
00:57:48.000We can change the agenda here on a fly, as has already been done.
00:57:51.000I'm, like I said, I'm presiding over the, I'm chairing the proceedings during the day on all the mechanics, and we may have to change the script a little bit if he's not ready to announce it yet.
00:57:59.000But, you know, at the end of the day, President Trump knows how to put on a show, right?
00:58:03.000And he's building the anticipation, and it is great here, and it'll be exciting.
00:58:07.000I'll tell you what, really, at the end of the day in this election, Ben, I don't think it really matters as much who the Vice President is.
00:58:13.000I think this is the Trump election, and whomever he names will be an asset to the ticket, I know.
00:58:19.000But this is about him and his leadership and where we're going to go as a country, and all of us together.
00:58:24.000I'm absolutely convinced we're going to win the White House, take back the Senate, and grow our House majority.
00:58:29.000And we will have unified government at a unifying time, and we'll be able to fix all these great problems that face the country.
00:58:38.000So, Speaker Johnson, speaking of exactly what will happen if all of that occurs, if President Trump does go on to win a big victory, if you and the House grow your majority, if the Republicans actually gain back control of the Senate.
00:58:48.000There's been a lot of talk on the left side of the aisle and in the media about bogeymen and buzzwords like Project 2025.
00:58:54.000Obviously, that's a 922-page document with a wide series of policy prescriptions.
00:59:00.000What exactly is top of the agenda if Republicans take back unified control of the elected branches of government?
00:59:08.000Well, not to put the cart before the horse, but we've been working very methodically and steadily on putting together a very aggressive first 100 days agenda for the new Congress.
00:59:16.000We've got to be prepared to lead on day one, because as I told President Trump, he can be the most consequential president of the modern era, and by extension us, the most consequential Congress.
00:59:26.000But we've got to be ready to run that agenda, and we will.
00:59:29.000And it'll be the things that the American people want and need and deserve.
00:59:33.000You don't have to look at the polls to know what the problems are.
00:59:36.000We've got to close the border immediately.
00:59:38.000We have to get the economy humming again.
00:59:57.000It's about restoring our stature on the world stage.
01:00:00.000We have done nothing but project weakness for the last three and a half years and that's why the world's on fire.
01:00:05.000So it's going to be so exciting to have a strong visionary leader in the White House and to have a Senate and a House that are completely in tune together.
01:00:16.000And that's a big part of this as well.
01:00:18.000We're going to do this in a bicameral fashion.
01:00:29.000And the reason our candidates are running such strong races around the country right now for these House seats is because they're out there providing these answers.
01:00:37.000We have answers to all these great challenges and they're providing it with the right tone.
01:00:40.000These are serious, credible people because we've got a serious job to do and we're ready to do it.
01:00:46.000You know, Speaker Johnson, before the election, obviously there's been a lot of talk of various investigations that are underway in the House.
01:00:53.000One of them that seems to be gaining steam and should be gaining steam, in my opinion, is the scandal that is the cover-up of Joe Biden's health condition.
01:00:59.000We've seen, since the debate, an enormous number of stories breaking about the fact that the President of the United States has not held, for example, a Cabinet meeting in nine months.
01:01:07.000About the fact that two years ago, there were foreign leaders who were commenting on the President's lack of acuity.
01:01:14.000the fact that the president has been essentially sundowning at 8 p.m. and
01:01:18.000there are members of the executive branch who have been participating in
01:01:22.000what appears to be a pretty obvious cover-up of the president's
01:01:26.000health conditions. What sort of indicators have you had that there are
01:01:30.000going to be moves in the house to take a look at the oversight inside the
01:01:33.000executive branch because obviously if you have somebody who's not capable of
01:01:36.000fulfilling the office certain hours of the day that's a massive problem. It is a
01:01:41.000big problem and we've been talking a lot about this the the most appropriate ways
01:01:47.000I mean, our oversight committees and all the committees of jurisdiction that have oversight responsibility, and all of them do, have just been worn out in this Congress.
01:01:58.000The weaponization of the federal government is a real thing.
01:02:00.000I served on that select committee before I became Speaker, and every stone that we underturned There was another series of scandals and questions.
01:02:07.000And so that's what you find here as well.
01:02:09.000The thing about the mental acuity of President Biden is that everybody knows it.
01:02:21.000But the fact that they tried to cover it up, the fact that they went out and said exactly the opposite, even recently, even within a week or two of the big blunder at the debate, tells you a lot about You know, his usefulness to the party.
01:02:36.000I think that there's a lot of interest groups and leftist groups who have been running the country, frankly.
01:02:40.000That's a big question I get all around the country.
01:02:58.000I think you're seeing that being reflected in the polling.
01:03:01.000I think people have lost confidence in this president, and I think they should have.
01:03:04.000They should have done it a long time ago, and if they had been honest about it, everybody would have known this.
01:03:10.000Speaker Johnson, obviously another one of the investigations that's now been announced is the House looking into what Secret Service did or did not do in the lead up to the assassination attempt on President Trump.
01:03:21.000Secret Service has been effectively a black box to the media with regard to its response.
01:03:26.000The real question here that people have been asking is not really about the response to the shooting because once the shot was taken, the shooter was taken down quite effectively and quickly.
01:03:35.000The question is, Why this shooter was on a roof 150 meters away from the president of the United States for legitimately minutes?
01:03:42.000I mean there's video that's now emerged of people who are literally pointing up at the guy on the roof and yelling at officers to go do something about this.
01:03:49.000We know local law enforcement apparently actually confronted the man on the roof.
01:03:53.000He turned, he swiveled, they then retreated for a moment and that's when he took the shots.
01:03:58.000What sort of investigations are planned into Secret Service, their priorities?
01:04:02.000There's been a lot of questions about staffing at the Secret Service, including questions about DEI at the Secret Service and their prioritization.
01:04:08.000What sort of investigations do you think would be appropriate there?
01:04:13.000Well, it's already begun, and it began just within hours of the event.
01:04:17.000I had Secretary Mayorkas, the head of Department of Homeland Security, on the telephone, asking him very pointed questions, many of which he did not have the answers for yet.
01:04:27.000I mean, one of the simple questions was, by way of example, I said, Mr. Secretary, please tell me there was drones covering the area.
01:05:29.000The FBI is looking over the shooter and the plot there, and if anyone else is involved, the criminal aspects of this.
01:05:36.000But the oversight over what happened with Secret Service and everything else, Congress has a huge role to play in that.
01:05:42.000We're going to take it very seriously and be very aggressive about it, and it's already begun.
01:05:48.000Speaker Johnson, obviously one of the big matters of the day is the voting on the GOP party platform.
01:05:54.000There's been a lot of ink spilled over the nature of this particular platform, which is softer than some other platforms have been on issues like pro-life issues or marriage issues.
01:06:03.000Can you speak to the importance of the platform?
01:06:05.000Is it really all that important, generally speaking?
01:06:08.000Is the perception of the platform itself sort of shifting inside the Republican Party given the fact that President Trump is a unique candidate, he is more of a pragmatist than sort of a traditional down-the-line conservative, and that means that the sort of idea of running on a national platform itself may be a matter of the past, at least for this election cycle.
01:06:46.000And, you know, it's interesting that in the modern era, the way things go, because of the way media works, 24-hour news cycle, social media and all the rest, You could probably count on one hand the number of people who actually dive into a party platform and even read it.
01:06:58.000I mean, you know, most of my constituents don't.
01:07:00.000Most of the people that I visit with around the country are not aware of what's in that document.
01:07:04.000So I think it probably matters a little bit less what's on the paper and how we lead and the policies that we actually implement.
01:07:13.000It doesn't matter whether the platform is 60 pages or 16 pages, the Republican Party stands for the core principles.
01:07:19.000Individual freedom, limited government, the rule of law, you know, peace through strength, fiscal responsibility, free markets, human dignity.
01:07:25.000We believe in the sanctity of all life.
01:07:28.000I mean, it's listed in our nation's birth certificate, the declaration in the very beginning.
01:07:32.000We believe in the self-evident truths that God created us.
01:07:40.000That core principle and all those that emanate from it separate us with a wide chasm from the Democrat Party and where they are and where they're headed.
01:07:47.000These are two completely different visions for America.
01:07:50.000It's not even really R's versus D's anymore.
01:08:03.000And I'm grateful to be on the party and in the party that stands for those principles.
01:08:06.000And there's 50,000 people out here in this arena for the next three nights that will be enthusiastically supporting that and representing millions and millions and millions of others around the country.