President Donald Trump joins Sean Hannity to react to Biden's vice presidential pick of Kamala Harris.
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Going to join us right now, and I
guess if we have to give way
nobody better than the
President
Senator think he was always for
being with us
joining us now live
hes in the White House as we
speak, the President of the
United States.
Mr President, thank you, Sir,
for joining us
appreciate you being here.
Thank you.
Sean
lets start with the
Big NEWS today,
Kamala Harris your initial
thoughts.
Well, if
you read the various political
pundits you wouldve said, maybe
that wouldve been the one. A lot
of people think its a dangerous
choice.
She is the most person
supposedly in the Senate,
thats pretty liberal,
but she supposed to be the most
im, not sure thats what the
country wants.
I think, if it is weve got
problems,
I would be surprised if it is.
She wants to raise taxes.
She wants to get rid of your
second amendment,
no guns for protection, no,
nothing!
She is very strong on the
second amendment, getting rid of
it
very bad to the military
she wants to cut the military.
She wants to cut spending for
the military and the vets, and
you know I dont quite get the
choice,
but we will have it out here. We
have a great vice president
named MIKE Pence and he will
take care of business just like
he did the last time against a
different candidate.
Vice President Pence
will exclusively join us on this
program. Tomorrow.
Lets go through some of the
specifics
one of the first Democrats to
cosponsor. I call him Bolshevik
Bernie Bernie Sanders.
He used to be an outlier in the
Democratic Party way outside
the democratic mainstream.
She cosponsored not only his
single payer, Medicare for all,
which would be anywhere
estimates from thirty two to
fifty four dollars trillion.
She wanted to eliminate private
health insurance, even for
Americans that, like their plan,
that sounds extreme, serve
well
thats, one hundred and eighty million people,
they love their plan, not like
it.
They dont want to take it away
and if you going to socialized
medicine, which is what she wants,
and support strongly and thats,
what Biden wants ultimately
not quite have a choice, because
his party wants it
the people that really control
the party
he will never control the party
they wanted.
That means youre, destroying
something that one hundred and eighty million
people love.
They have a plan that they
really like
thats, a very hard thing to do
very hard thing to do with my
the way I have to say Larry and
LEO and Janine, and your great
Senator John Kennedy, who
was fantastic,
Karl Rove, has been so great.
You know Karl, and I had our
disputes previously.
We like each other, a lot
hes been great
Karl, was great tonight and I
will say that was some precast I
had on.
That was very impressive.
Thank you.
I guess we call that
the opening act, Mr President,
they were
good.
They were good.
Ive talked a lot
about this and when you were a
candidate, I asked you many many
times about the need for America
to become energy independent.
You went forward with the
Keystone Xl Pipeline,
the Dakota pipeline
youve opened and Warren for the
first time in seventy five years. America
is now energy independent, and we
are now also its been a longer
period of time, the largest
producer of energy in the entire
world,
cosponsor in the U Dot S Senate of
this radical green new deal,
Joe Biden has already pledged
trillions of taxpayer dollars
for that plan.
All I see is it would eliminate
the lifeblood of the worlds
economy, Americas economy
in the next ten years. According
to the original plan that she
was a cosponsor of,
how do you see that, in terms of
the geopolitical strategic, even
defense of this country,
that to me is a crucial program
that is scary
to go back to energy dependence
is scary to me.
We are now
energy independent for the first
time I guess ever
we are very powerful on energy.
When we have the pandemic hit us
from China, it shouldve never
happened,
they shouldve. Never let that
happen.
There was obviously a lot of
energy around
we saved it.
I saved it.
We called Russia,
President Putin,
we called the king of
Saudi Arabia,
they cut ten million barrels of
oil a day
we saved the energy.
Now we are at forty one dollars a barrel.
More importantly, for the people
driving cars, we are around two dollars
and even less a gallon and its
fantastic
shes against petroleum.
She is against fracking,
so is Biden.
That means you cant win back
Texas,
you cant, win Pennsylvania,
you cant, win Oklahoma or
North Dakota or many other
states that it also means your
electric bills would go up
literally by ten times
it wouldnt be even sustainable
if they went with this crazy,
its like childs play
if they went with the so called
green new deal. Youre talking
about a catastrophic for the
country
probably have to close twenty to twenty five percent
of your businesses even to
qualify and they wouldnt
function properly, because we
dont have that kind of energy,
its crazy,
they cant power. We have
these massive plants, some of
which and many of which are
being built under me.
The car companies are moving
back from Japan and from other
countries coming in from
Germany.
Theyre, coming back to America
first time in forty two years,
you cant even think about
firing up those plants with the
kind of things theyre talking
about.
Wind is nice,
its nice,
but its. It causes tremendous
environment of problems,
home values going way down.
If you see a windmill and hear a
windmill, your home is worth
half or less than half.
It kills all the birds.
The whole thing is crazy. What
they want to do and theyll
destroy the country
we built the greatest, and if you
see what happened, we have the
greatest economy and history of
the world
better than China. By far
we were lapping them and then
all of a sudden when the plague
came in, we are to close it
down.
We saved millions of lives and
now were opening it up and
resetting records, and you see
that stock prices today the
markets the NASDAQ is higher
than it ever was.
The DOW is just about ready
its right at almost the same
level,
who would have believed that, in
the middle of a pandemic, which
we are soon going to have
vaccines and therapeutics
its going to be its going to
all be good next year
were going to have one of the
greatest years weve ever had if
it isnt blown out the window
by tripling and quadrupling
taxes and regulations.
Let me specifically
go into the issue and it was a
signature issue for you in twenty. Sixteen
building the wall
update us on that part.
It was a heavy lift and you had
to find a way to reallocate
funds from the Defense
Department and elsewhere,
but you have two candidates now
that support Amnesty
Kamala Harris supports Sanctuary
cities.
The sanctuary state of
California
wants to eliminate. I dot ce,
your reaction to the very
different positions that you
have on this very key issue and
an issue that has defined your
first campaign and is a big
issue still today.
So the
wall as well under construction,
we have two hundred and eighty one miles up.
Two hundred and eighty one miles one of the reasons
the border numbers are so good
because, wherever its built,
nobody comes through.
You cant get through it unless
youre a climber of
Mount Everest
thats about it.
You have to be of that talent.
We have two hundred and eighty one miles.
The rest is being built by the
end of the year. Itll be mostly
finished.
We may add another fifty miles
it was unplanned for in certain
areas that are little bit. Tough
will make that determination.
The wall is built.
You dont hear about that
anymore.
That was the biggest topic
as soon as I won. The Democrats
stop talking about it when they
stopped their copartner stops.
Thats the media, the corrupt
media, the fake news see dont
hear about it, so the wall is
going up and having a tremendous
impact and its exactly what the
border patrol wanted.
We decided together
its exactly what they wanted.
They wanted to steel, concrete
and rebar.
I said how about one
they said, wed all three for
strength and for other reasons,
security,
so that, and if you look at I
see these people are
incredible.
They are taking out thousands of
MS 13 gang members. These are
the roughest. There are
anywhere they are. They are
crazy.
They are crazy.
We are either bringing the back
to their country or we are
putting them in jail.
In some cases, we really have to
put them in jail.
We dont want to have to pay for
them for the next fifty years, but
we dont want to take a chance.
They are so violent.
They kill people with knives
because its more painful any go
slower,
thats what they say. It goes
slower and its more painful.
We are taking them out by the
thousands
Guatemala. You look at
Guatemala, Honduras,
El Salvador.
These are countries that
wouldnt take people back.
Tremendous problems came to our
country,
they wouldnt take them back
now they take them back.
You know we are paying them for
years, hundreds of millions of
dollars a year ridiculously,
I said you mean, were paying
them the money we dont. We
bring them to the country,
they wouldnt, let our planes
land
before me.
When I got there, I said they
wont do that and we are not
going to pay them anymore
once they said that we stop
paying them and then all of a
sudden they take these people
back gladly. Very very happily.
Mexico has twenty seven thousand of their
soldiers on the southern border
and people arent coming in now
they dont go past the mexican
soldiers
very, very few people coming
illegally
thats helped, of course, by the
wall.
We have made tremendous strides.
We let people come in legally.
We want people to come in
through merit where they can
help our country. They can love
our country and thats whats
happening
the Democrats. I call them the
radical left, because if you look
at the races, you look at some
of the races that are taking
place. All of these older
mainline democrats are being
beaten by radical left. I dont
know I guess you could say
anarchists in a certain way,
the people that are winning
these races. For the Democrats,
Eliot Engel he was a staple
many many years. You know who
im talking about
a staple from a very nice part
of the world, thats going bad on
us New York,
its going bad.
I left there four years ago.
It was a wonderful place,
you could see signs of badness,
but it was a wonderful place and
now crime is up by many many
times.
Whats happening in New York is
so horrible for our country.
What theyve done what
Mayor De Blasio has done to
that city and a short period of
time is horrible,
but you look at Elliott. Engel
gets beaten easily by a radical
left and the Democrats thats
where they are,
they dont want petroleum.
They dont want
second amendment.
They dont want religion,
they dont want anything
its disgraceful.
Let me go. I pleaded
that the beginning of the
program is interesting to me
that you would tweet almost
within minutes today the ad
about Kamala Harris and did you
have an instinct that it was
going to be Kamala are perhaps
the names that have been
mentioned? The most
did you have ads prepared for
all of them
know, but
we have some very talented
people.
It was quick.
We have talented people,
I thought it might be her
if you remember she was going
to do very well.
She was one of the people that
was projected to have a chance
at winning
all she did. As people got to
know her, she went down.
She finished at two percent, probably
less than that, and she fled
remember how quickly
she said horrible things about
Biden.
The one thing I felt he couldnt
do.
She took what some buddy said
about her some horrible things
that were said about Joe and she
woman. That said them.
That was a terrible statement,
and I said you know just that
statement alone.
She made terrible statements.
She essentially called him a
racist
and other things that were very
bad.
I said we probably cant pick
her, but lets do something on
her, because people were saying
it could happen. Then we had
others in mind. Also.
We had some other choices.
She was my number one draft
pick.
She was the one I thought would.
Transcript generated on 2020-08-12.