Trump 2020 campaign senior adviser gives hostage rescue update on 'Fox & Friends Weekend.'
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Person to talk about all this
with right now than
Kayleigh Mcenany Trump, two thousand and twenty
senior campaign advisor
Kayleigh. Thank you for being
here.
We are certainly all in the home
stretch of this election season
just three days to go.
So what do you think is the
most important thing that
President Trump could be doing
right now?
Obviously, hes holding a lot of
rallies in the next few days.
What is the most important
aspect of his message that you
think he should be getting out
there front and center right now?
What hes doing is offering
a choice to the american people.
We had a novel virus come in
from China.
The american people have a
choice
open the country safely with
President Trump or close down
the country, Joe Biden will
close down your schools, your
churches, your workplaces.
You have a choice to bring back
the hottest economy in modern
history, which President Trump
brought us historical lows in
unemployment or go to Joe Biden,
who brought us the slowest
economic recovery since World
WAR Ii, and he will raise your
taxes. He said so and finally, on
health care costs are coming
down, premium costs, drug prices
are going down, you can choose
that or you can choose an end
to Medicare, as we know it with
Medicare for all, which is
socialized, medicine and sky high
premiums, which is what we saw
under Obamacare. That is the
choice the american people
have and they will choose
President Trump on November, three
PETE Kayleigh, where the
President goes where
candidates go, tell us a lot
about where we are on the map
and the fact that, frankly,
former vice President Joe Biden
was in Minnesota, shows that that
state they normally take for
granted is also in play.
Weve got the president going
today, four stops in Pennsylvania,
I believe bucks County, Redding
Butler, will be ending
outside of Pittsburgh. Then hes
in Michigan, Iowa, North
Carolina and down in Florida and
Georgia as well.
What should the travels? Tell the
voters and people watching
this race anxiously where hes
going? What does it tell us about
the campaign? Hes running
its a great question? Pete
Joe Biden is often confused, but
right now his campaign is more
confused than ever before.
When you go in one breath to
Georgia and Texas and then in
the next breath, you go to
Minnesota a state. No Republican
has won since one thousand nine hundred and seventy two a state.
President Trump almost won by
one point: five percentage points when
youre stopping by Minnesota.
That should worry you
that should tell the american
people all they need to know.
We are leading. I just checked
out the numbers before I came on
the early vote. We are eight points
ahead in ballots, returned in
Wisconsin,
two points ahead in ballots
returned in Michigan.
They are on the run to find a
state.
They thought they had this.
He hid in his basement from the
american people. He wont
fight for his votes, so he wont
fight for you as president, so
they are trying to find a path
to victory and were confident.
We are going to win in two short
days
will Kayleigh. I know the
election is the front of
everyones mind, but we have this
massive story that broke
that an american hostage was
rescued in West Africa in a
daring raid involving seal team.
Six- and here is a statement from
the Pentagon:
U Dot S forces conducted a hostage
rescue operation during the
early hours of the 31st of
October in northern Nigeria to
recover an american citizen held
hostage.
This american citizen is safe
and is now in care of the? U DOT S
department of state?
No, u dot S. Military personnel were
injured during the operation.
We appreciate the support of our
international partners. In
conducting this operation,
the United States will continue
to protect our people and our
interests anywhere in the World
Kayleigh. What can you tell us
about what went down in this
operation?
It was a successful
operation to rescue an american
hostage.
We are so glad to see it under
this president, we rescued fifty five
hostages in twenty four countries and in
the waiting days of a presidency
before a massive re election,
you typically dont get a lot
done, but this president is the
exception.
He rescued an american hostage.
He secured a Middle EAST peace
deal, he put a justice on the
Supreme Court.
He visited our heros at Fort
Bragg. That was such a special
moment. When I saw the president
interact with the army special
operations.
It was beautiful. He spent an
hour casually talking to them
joking.
They had a great time and he
presented them an award thats
the story of this presidency.
We dont stop.
We go to fourteen states, we rescue
hostages, we secure Middle EAST
peace, and we do it record time
and three days before an
election
PETE Kayleigh its easy for us
to read the news and say seal
team six conduct successful raid
in West Africa.
What goes into something like
this?
The risk,
the potential political fall
doubts if it went the wrong
direction. It takes courage to
make the political call and to
be on the ground as a Navy seal,
but this is not the first time
weve seen something like this
from the president, whether
its Soulemani in Baghdad, the
killing of the iranian
leader with so much american
blood on his hand
when, and why does the president
make these calls, which are tough
ones to make?
They are very tough ones to
make, because youre right, it has
to be conducted just perfectly,
but the president always puts
the american interest first on
it, and it takes a lot of
planning a lot of keeping
things quiet until that moment.
When you get the go ahead- and I
was talking to some of our
soldiers and they said to me- we
pray to get the green light
because I said you know its
got to be scary. When you go into
these raids and they say we wait
for the green light and were so
proud. We have a president that
trusts us and gives us the green
light to take out El Bagdadhi.
These murders, who have killed
far too many american men and
women in battle. But this
President Mays, the
courageous and bold decision
and his record stands- shows that
Jedediah well Kayleigh thanks
for joining us going to be a fun
exciting next, three days we.
Transcript generated on 2020-10-31.