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Aug. 24, 2023 - Owen Shroyer Live
02:05:50
Live Republican Debate Coverage Plus Reaction To Trump Tucker Carlson Interview
Participants
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donald j trump
39:12
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mike pence
06:06
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owen shroyer
33:20
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ron desantis
06:17
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vivek ramaswamy
09:08
Appearances
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bret baier
04:20
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chris christie
02:05
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doug burgum
01:03
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martha maccallum
01:55
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nikki haley
02:04
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tim scott
02:14
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tucker carlson
04:55
Clips
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candace owens
00:23
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tim kaine
00:07
v
victor willis
00:29
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Speaker Time Text
owen shroyer
We made it.
unidentified
Here we are.
owen shroyer
Forget that.
Let's just go live.
They're about to make their opening statements.
There's some oddities to this deal tonight.
I'm explaining that later.
But here we go.
The Trumpless debate begins with the opening statements.
We're also going to have a response, a reaction from the Trump Tucker interview, but let's pop in quickly here first to the debates for the first time here tonight on Owen Schroyer Live.
unidentified
We're still waiting for opening statements now.
owen shroyer
And Fox put out an odd statement basically saying that they're going to sue anybody that rebroadcasts tonight's debate, except for it can be less than three minutes, I think is what they said.
unidentified
So less than three minutes, you're good.
owen shroyer
More than three minutes, you're no good.
But we're going to try not to go over three minutes at any straight time.
However, we'll be popping in and out of the debates live in the response to the Carlson.
Nobody has even spoken on the stage.
This thing is already a joke.
Nobody has even spoken on the stage.
unidentified
What the hell is going on here?
Nobody has spoken.
owen shroyer
It's already more than five minutes into this deal.
They played a video of Joe Biden out of the gates.
Now they're playing this video of the viral song from Oliver Anthony.
What is going on here?
candace owens
All right, Ron.
chris christie
Okay, a little awkward smile there at the end.
unidentified
Darn it, Ron.
owen shroyer
You were going.
You had us, Ron.
You had us.
chris christie
You were gripping our soul.
owen shroyer
And that little weird smile goes in.
Oh, we're going to Christy next?
unidentified
All right.
owen shroyer
This is...
If he's not amazing, Trump is basically worthless and irrelevant.
unidentified
So let's pop away from that for a second here.
owen shroyer
And let's pop in for a moment, shall we?
unidentified
To the Trump-Tucker interview.
owen shroyer
I think we should.
unidentified
There's no point in hearing from Christie Kream.
owen shroyer
What was the best nickname for him?
I forget.
Krispy Krem is pretty good.
That's not the one I'm thinking of, though.
So then, I say, we get our first taste of the Tucker-Trump interview.
Check.
donald j trump
It's right to do it.
If you're leading by 50, 60, I have one problem leading by 70.
bret baier
I think we should be going.
donald j trump
Why am I doing it?
And I'm going to have eight people, 10 people whoever made the debate.
I don't know how many it is, but I'm going to have all these people screaming at me, shouting questions at me, all of which I love answering, I love doing, but it doesn't make sense to do them.
So I've taken a piss.
You probably noticed.
tucker carlson
I'm grateful that you did.
owen shroyer
All right, apologies for the no audio there.
Damn it.
That's the second broadcast in a row where I have blown it like a chump.
So I apologize for that.
Let's pop in on the debates here and see what's going on.
I guess they're not doing like the traditional opening statement.
tim scott
Thank you for the question.
Over the last several years, I've had an opportunity to vote against spending package after spending package after spending package.
What we also need to understand is that Joe Biden's Bidenomics has led to the loss of $10,000 of spending power for the average family.
When you see 16% inflation, your gas is up 40%, your food is up 20%, your electricity is up 20%.
We can stop that by turning the spick it off at Washington, sending the money back to the states and allowing the decisions to be made at their own houses.
I helped write the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017.
We cut taxes for a single mom like the one that raised me by 70%, for dual households by 60%, returning to the average family $4,000.
If you don't send it to Washington, we can't spend it.
That's good news for the American people.
martha maccallum
Okay, but just to follow up, you did during the Trump administration.
unidentified
He felt good about that.
martha maccallum
$4.4 trillion, $4.1 trillion, $1,300.
They're talking about Trump over the course of that administration.
That's a lot of money.
tim scott
There's no doubt that during the Trump administration, when we were dealing with the COVID virus, we spent more money.
But here's what happened at the end of our time in the majority.
We had low unemployment, record low unemployments, three and a half years.
owen shroyer
All right, so he's basically campaigning for Trump at this point, I would say, of his delivery.
So that's a little awkward.
And by the way, the reason why there was no sound is because I was doing an interview earlier today in this studio, and I have to change the sound settings, and I just forgot to do that.
So that was on me.
But Rumble was collapsing.
Rumble was having technical issues tonight, but that was why I was late getting on.
That had nothing to do with the audio thing.
That was me forgetting to switch something like a jackass.
Let's go back to Tucker and Trump then, shall we?
tucker carlson
It's interesting, though, because you spent a lot of your career in television.
Yeah.
You would a top show in television on NBC.
But you don't feel the need now running for president to do television, obviously.
Do you think television is declining?
donald j trump
Well, according to a poll that I guess we just saw, it just came out where it's down like 30, 35%.
But I think they were talking, referring to cable.
I think cable's down because it's lost credibility.
MSNBC, or as they say, MSDNC is so bad.
It's so wrong what they write and what they do and what they say.
It's fake news, as I said.
I think I came up with that term.
I hope I did because it's a good one.
It's not tough enough anymore.
It's corrupt news.
You know, really what you do is call it corrupt news, but somehow that doesn't play as nicely.
But it is corrupt news.
So you have MSNBC and you have CNN, who's absolutely doing no ratings at all.
I mean, they're dead.
But they're doing because they don't have credibility.
They really don't have credibility.
Fox is way down, as you know.
unidentified
And the good old days are long ago.
donald j trump
I will say this.
It could come back, but they just don't have a lot of credibility, Tucker.
You know that perhaps better than anybody.
I think it was a terrible move getting rid of you.
You were number one on television, and all of a sudden we're doing this interview, but we'll get bigger ratings using this crazy forum that you're using than probably the debate or competition.
tucker carlson
When you say there are people on stage who shouldn't be running for president, who do you mean?
donald j trump
Well, I don't want to really use names, but it wouldn't matter too much.
A guy like I call him Ada Hutchinson.
It's ASAP, but I call him Ada.
tucker carlson
What do you call him Ada?
donald j trump
You know, I could tell you, but I don't want to get myself in a little trouble.
But he's weak and pathetic, and he was, I never understood the guy.
I never knew him.
unidentified
What is that?
donald j trump
He was the governor of Arkansas.
owen shroyer
What is that?
donald j trump
Not a very popular guy.
I don't know how he, but that state is such a great state.
The people are so incredible in that state, and they love me, and I love them.
How does this guy get elected governor of Arkansas?
But he's nasty always and has been.
A guy like Chris Christie, the guy left with an 8%, think of it, 8% approval rating in New Jersey.
Now he's running for president, and he runs solely on the basis, oh, let's get Trump.
He's like a savage maniac.
He's like a lunatic.
And that's all he talks about.
His poll numbers are very, very low.
He's about 2%.
tucker carlson
What's he like?
You know him well.
donald j trump
I've been friendly with him over the years, but I couldn't give him a job because I just never trusted him very much.
I was just never one of his people that really trusted him.
I never gave him the job.
And that's one of the reasons he feels so hurt and so betrayed.
And I understand that.
I really do.
I understand it.
But I never gave him, you know, he wanted to be different things.
He was looking at different elements of the administration.
And we decided, I decided just I didn't want to, I didn't want to do it.
owen shroyer
All right.
So Trump giving it the Chris Christie treatment, the Krispy Kreme treatment.
Mike Pence about to speak.
mike pence
Thanks for letting me respond to a reference to our administration's record.
I'm incredibly proud of the record of the Trump Pence administration.
owen shroyer
Trump.
mike pence
I mean, in four short years, we rebuild our military.
We revived our economy.
We unleashed American energy.
And we appointed three conservatives to be able to do this.
owen shroyer
How awkward is this?
mike pence
That gave the American people a new beginning.
owen shroyer
This is hilarious.
This is so awkward.
It's hilarious.
mike pence
Martha, you asked earlier who's the most best prepared for this job.
And I must tell you with all due respect to all of my friends on the stage.
unidentified
And even to one that's probably W8N4Y4.
mike pence
Unfortunately, I am the best prepared.
owen shroyer
Scott Freezy.
mike pence
The most terrible.
qualified and proven conservative in this race.
I was a leader in the Congress of the United States.
I led Indiana where we balanced budgets and had a AAA bond rating when I was governor.
And as Vice President of the United States, we spent funding to backfill on the military cuts of the Obama administration.
And then we were there in the worst pandemic in 100 years.
owen shroyer
The Trump administration.
mike pence
I was the first person in this race to say that we've got to deal with the long-term needs.
He's fumbling.
owen shroyer
He's fumbling.
He's not going to, this isn't moving the needle anywhere for him.
How awkward is that?
He's up there touting, and he goes, the Trump Pence administration.
Dude, nobody will remember anything you did now.
You had a chance to be memorable and you blew it.
The Trump.
I'm proud of what we did during the Trump Pence administration.
It wasn't the Pence anything.
It was the Trump administration.
So if you're proud of that, then you're proud of the Trump administration.
And last I checked, Trump is running.
So why wouldn't I just vote for Trump?
donald j trump
And now I'm glad I did because you see, but you know, we had some great people.
I had great people.
We'll have even better people if we do this because now I know Washington before I didn't know I like to hear that.
owen shroyer
I'll tell you what, I think Viveka is about to speak.
I want to hear this.
Let's go live.
vivek ramaswamy
Reform the U.S. Fed, stabilize the U.S. dollar, and go to war.
The only war that I will declare as U.S. president will be the war on the federal administrative state that is the source of those toxic regulations acting like a wet blanket on the economy.
So I'm not sure I exactly understood Mike Pence's comment, but I'll let you all parse that out.
For me, it's pretty simple.
That's something a U.S. president can do with focus, and I'll deliver on it.
mike pence
Let me explain it to you.
Let me explain it to you, Virginia, if I can.
Oh, I'll go slower this time.
vivek ramaswamy
You know, I sometimes struggle with the reading customer.
mike pence
I was a House conservative leader before it was cool.
I actually pushed the Deficit Reduction Act.
That was the last time we actually reduced it.
owen shroyer
Nobody ever says Mike Pence is cool in the same sense.
mike pence
I balanced budgets and cut taxes when I was governor.
I mean, look, Joe Biden has weakened this country at home and abroad.
Now is not the time for on-the-job training.
unidentified
We don't need to bring in a rookie, we don't need to bring in people without a team.
martha maccallum
30 seconds when you have a rebuttal, okay?
And you are up, Governor DeSantis.
ron desantis
So here's the thing.
Why are we in this mess?
Part of it, and a major reason, is because how this federal government handed COVID-19 by locking down this economy.
It was a mistake.
owen shroyer
It should have never happened.
unidentified
Strong.
owen shroyer
DeSantis is coming off strong tonight.
I got to give it to DeSantis.
Aside from the awkward smile deal at the top, I got to give it to DeSantis.
He's coming out hot.
He's coming out strong.
There's a new swag in Ron DeSantis tonight.
No doubt.
No doubt.
And I'm sure that Trump not being there is a major factor in that.
I would say a major factor is definitely Trump.
He's awkward after his statements, though.
You notice that?
martha maccallum
You know what?
vivek ramaswamy
We're going to bring in the pressure.
I just want to respond to Mike for one second because he invoked me back.
Listen, now that everybody's gotten their memorized, pre-prepared slogans out of the way, we can actually have a real discussion now.
The reality and the fact of the matter is...
doug burgum
Is that one of yours?
vivek ramaswamy
Not really, Mike.
Actually, we're just going to have some fun tonight.
And the reality is, you have a bunch of people, professional politicians, super PAC puppets, following slogans handed over to them.
owen shroyer
I'm sure that works out.
vivek ramaswamy
Last week, the real choice we face in this primary is this.
Do you want a super PAC puppet or do you want a patriot who speaks the truth?
Do you want incremental reform, which is what you're hearing about, or do you want revolution?
martha maccallum
Okay.
vivek ramaswamy
And I stand on the side of the American revolution.
bret baier
We're going to take control back here.
martha maccallum
We need everyone to have a push on the economy.
I think that's.
owen shroyer
Oh, my.
unidentified
The heat just went up.
owen shroyer
The heat just went up.
Oh, my gosh.
That was wild.
Oh, who wants to hear from...
Uh, no.
Actually, it's funny.
They were saying he might not make the debate because he injured himself in a basketball game.
I'm not even kidding you.
They were saying he might not make the debate because a basketball injury that he suffered.
But glad to see that he made, he was able to make the cut there.
Wow, from Vivaik.
I knew he would definitely change the game, but that took it up.
Let's go.
Let's check out some more of Trump and Tucker here.
donald j trump
No, Washington.
But guys like Bill Barr were terrible.
I mean, they were, I would say, bushies.
candace owens
What?
owen shroyer
So Trump talking about the deep state saying that.
donald j trump
I say that with respect to the Bush family, but they were bushies and just it doesn't work out for us.
tucker carlson
It was clear.
This is kind of frustrating.
But it was just interesting.
I read Barr's account of his time.
He wrote a book about it.
Right.
His autobiography.
And in it, he lies about Jeffrey Epstein's death.
Clearly lies.
Do you think Epstein killed himself sincerely?
donald j trump
I don't know.
I will say that, you know, he was a fixture in Palm Beach.
Yeah.
I don't know what Barr said about it either.
I have no idea what he said.
What did he say?
He killed himself, probably.
tucker carlson
He said he killed himself and that they were going to do this investigation.
They never did the investigation.
It's never been public.
And they hit it.
And like, why are they doing that?
And clearly, Barr knew.
But why would Bill Barr be covering up the death of Jeffrey Epstein?
donald j trump
Bill Barr didn't do an investigation on the election fraud either.
Okay.
He said he did, and he pretended he did, but he didn't.
Mix Wayne, the U.S. attorney in Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, said Barr just wouldn't let him do it.
It was crazy.
Barr became so petrified, so frightened of being impeached.
They're going to impeach him.
I don't know if you remember it.
It's not a big moment in history.
But they said, we're going to impeach.
You know, they play a much rougher game, the left, the lunatics.
And they were going to impeach Bill Barr, and he was petrified.
Now, how do you not get impeached?
Don't do any of this stuff.
But he didn't do the job there.
I don't know what he did with Epstein, but possibly he didn't.
tucker carlson
Do you think it's possible that Epstein was killed?
unidentified
Oh, sure.
donald j trump
It's possible.
I mean, I don't really believe.
I think he probably committed suicide.
He had a life with, you know, beautiful homes and beautiful everything.
And he all of a sudden he's incarcerated and not doing very well.
I would say that he did.
But there are those people.
There are many people.
I think you're one of them, right?
But a lot of people think that he was killed.
He knew a lot on a lot of people.
tucker carlson
He was killed.
I think the more the closer you look.
Look, I'm not a conspiracy person at all.
I believe everything I hear.
But yeah, the closer you look into it, I mean, the Attorney General of the United States, your Attorney General, clearly.
owen shroyer
This is epic.
This is one of the more epic Epstein conversations as the topic you're ever going to hear.
Tucker and Trump talking about it.
unidentified
That's about as epic as it gets right there.
owen shroyer
All right, I guess.
tucker carlson
Lied about the Epstein death.
donald j trump
Yeah, he was.
vivek ramaswamy
Why?
donald j trump
He was certainly it wasn't well done.
They had no cameras.
They had no anything.
Everybody was sleeping.
And, you know, a case could be made.
Look, I'm not going to get involved in it, but I can tell you, a case could be made either way, but it certainly wasn't the most well-run play.
tucker carlson
So the reason I'm asking you is I'm looking at the trajectory since 2015 when you got into politics, you know, for real.
And then one.
It started with protests against you, massive protests, organized protests by the left, and then it moved to impeachment twice.
donald j trump
Right.
tucker carlson
And now indictment.
I mean, the next stage is violence.
Are you worried that they're going to try and kill you?
Why wouldn't they try and kill you?
Honestly.
donald j trump
They're savage animals.
They are people that are sick, really sick.
unidentified
All right.
owen shroyer
Whoa, this is, hold on.
We got to take a breather.
We got to take a breather on that.
This is about to get heavy again.
Let's go to Ron DeSantis speaking right now.
ron desantis
He was asked about it.
He said, no comment.
Are you kidding me?
As somebody that's handled disasters in Florida, you got to be activated.
You've got to be there.
You've got to be present.
You've got to be helping people.
They were doing this.
And here's the deal.
vivek ramaswamy
Let's just answer the question.
ron desantis
So here's the question.
owen shroyer
Is that a yes?
donald j trump
Or is that a yes?
bret baier
Is that a hand raise?
unidentified
Vivek.
vivek ramaswamy
I think it was a hand raise for him, and it's my hands are in my pockets.
I didn't raise your hands.
Let us be honest as Republicans.
I'm the only person on the stage who isn't bought and paid for, so I can say this.
The climate change agenda is a hoax.
The climate change is a hoax.
And we have to declare an independent story.
And the reality is, the anti-carbon agenda is the wet blanket on our economy.
And so the reality is more people are dying of bad climate change policies than they are.
The actual climate change.
ron desantis
Governor Haley, are you balking everyone down?
donald j trump
Hold on, hold on.
bret baier
Listen, listen.
No, wait, hold on.
owen shroyer
Oh, here, listen to this.
chris christie
I've had enough already tonight of a guy who sounds like ChatGPT standing up here.
owen shroyer
Oh, this is awesome.
chris christie
And the last debate spread who stood in the middle of the stage and said, nobody likes you, Christie.
Was Barack.
owen shroyer
Nobody cares about you, Chris Christie.
And now you're going to compare Vivek to Barack?
Hilarious.
vivek ramaswamy
Give me a hug just like you did to Obama.
And you'll help elect me just like you did to Obama too.
Give me that.
donald j trump
Hold on.
unidentified
Hold on.
bret baier
Oh, Governor Haley.
Would you like to respond?
Are you bought and paid for that?
nikki haley
What I would like to say is the fact that I think.
owen shroyer
Oh, my goodness.
Okay.
Well, there you go.
They wanted Trump up there.
They got Trump up there.
His name is Vivek Ramaswamy.
This is too much.
And he's actually having fun.
These other guys, they didn't like that.
Everybody's bought and paid for.
Oh, they didn't like that.
That one cut a little too close to home.
By the way, Vivek Ramaswamy has pretty much funded his entire campaign.
He had about $20 million in campaign funds.
$15 million of it is his own money.
So he can say that, where these other guys can't.
They simply can't.
Whatever Haley is saying right now is pretty much irrelevant.
I really want to go back to Trump and Tucker with this epic question he asked about, are you worried about getting killed?
But I want to see where this conversation goes.
Maybe there's some audio we listening.
nikki haley
I think we need to acknowledge the truth, which is these subsidies are not working.
We also need to take on the international world and say, okay, India and China, you've got to stop this.
owen shroyer
No, she's responding to.
She's responding to Ramaswamy saying climate change is a hoax.
Well done.
bret baier
Are you bought and paid?
tim scott
Absolutely not.
I mean, here's what the American people deserve is a debate about the issues that affect their lives.
Going back and forth and being children is not helpful to Americans.
owen shroyer
So Tim Scott is trying to play the role of nice guy, and that's fine.
And he's going to have a significant role and an important role, and that's fine.
And I like Tim Scott.
But no, bought and paid for politicians is an issue we face.
To sit here and say, we can't talk, we need to talk about the issues to go back and forth about bought.
No, no, no.
Bought and paid for politicians is the issue we face.
Bought and paid for politicians is the issue we face.
It's not a, we don't talk about this.
Let's all talk about policy.
We need to talk about the issues.
Yeah.
I have a policy where I don't like bought and paid for politicians, and I believe that's an issue.
So, sorry, but that softball doesn't play here, Tim Scott.
So, Tucker Carlson asks Donald Trump if he's worried about being killed for taking on the deep state.
tucker carlson
Your attorney general clearly lied about the Epstein death.
donald j trump
Yeah, he was living.
He was certainly it wasn't well done.
They had no cameras.
They had no anything.
Everybody was sleeping.
And, you know, a case could be made.
Look, I'm not going to get involved in it.
But I can tell you, a case could be made either way.
But it certainly wasn't the most well-run place.
tucker carlson
So the reason I'm asking you is I'm looking at the trajectory since 2015 when you got into politics, you know, for real, and then won.
It started with protests against you, massive protests, organized protests by the left, and then it moved to impeachment twice.
donald j trump
Right.
tucker carlson
And now indictment.
I mean, the next stage is violence.
Are you worried that they're going to try and kill you?
Why wouldn't they try and kill you?
Honestly.
donald j trump
They're savage animals.
They are people that are sick, really sick.
You have great people in the Democrat Party.
You have great people that are Democrats.
Most of the people in our country are fantastic, and I'm representing everybody.
I'm not just Republicans or Conservatives.
I represent everybody.
I'm the president of everybody.
But I've seen what they do.
I've seen the lengths that they go to.
When they make up the Russia, Russia, Russia, when that's exposed and they go down, and Barr should have gone after them, and other people should have gone after them.
And they did very late because the Durham report came out.
It was fairly good.
It could have been a lot tougher, I guess, but it was fairly good.
But it explained how corrupt it was.
I'll tell you who did a great job was the Inspector General Horowitz.
He did a phenomenal report.
You didn't have to go to Durham.
He did it on Comey and on, I guess, McCabe and some others.
And it was a vicious, it was basically a true report, how bad they are.
But these people are sick people.
These are people that I think they hate our country.
You want to know the truth.
When you see open borders, when you see these policies that they have and so many other things, it's so sad to see.
You know, we have a country that's very fragile right now.
I've never seen, I will say, look, I ran in 16, which was 15, but I ran in 16, election in 16, and there was tremendous spirit.
In 20, there was even more spirit.
We got many millions of, we got millions and millions more votes.
You know, it wasn't even a contest.
People said, well, what'd you think of 20?
I said, we did much better.
We did.
You got to base it on the number of votes.
We got many more votes in 20 than we did in 16.
But the election was rigged.
It was a rigged election.
And with COVID, they used COVID to cheat a lot of different things.
And we have so much on it.
It's like so easy.
But we had judges that didn't want to look.
We had people didn't want to get involved.
He's a conspiracy theorist if you say anything about the election.
But I have never seen spirit like there is right now.
Even coming down here, just the people on the road that are just absolutely going crazy.
And the reason is, I think they like me, and I know they love my policies.
I hope they like me too.
You know, a lot of people say they don't like me, but they like my pop.
I think they like me.
But I have never seen spirit like it is right now.
And the reason is because crooked Joe Biden is so bad.
He's the worst president in the history of our country.
I don't think he's going to make it to the gate, but you never know.
But he's a corrupt person, so corrupt that I took the name off Hillary.
You know, I don't do two people at one time.
I took the crooked Hillary and I made it.
I retired the net.
That was a good day for her.
I bet she was very happy.
owen shroyer
Trump does not do two people at the same time.
Now we know.
donald j trump
But Joe is really.
tucker carlson
But you don't think he's going to make it to November of 2020.
donald j trump
Well, I think he's worse mentally than he is physically and physically.
He's not exactly a triathlete or any kind of an athlete.
You look at him, he can't.
owen shroyer
He's a stud football player.
He thinks he was the best cornerback in the NCAA.
donald j trump
You know, it's only two inches at the White House, right?
That's not a lot.
But you watch him, and it looks like he's walking on toothpicks.
And then you see him in the beach where he can't lift a chair.
You know, those chairs are meant to be light, right?
unidentified
They're like two ounces.
donald j trump
He can't lift the chair.
He can't walk to the chair.
And I don't know what they're doing with the beach.
You know, all these beaches seem to play a big role, but they love pictures of him on the beach.
I think he looks terrible on the beach.
tucker carlson
He looks terrible.
donald j trump
But he can't walk through the sand.
The sand is not that easy to walk through.
But when he walks through the walk through the sand, and there's somebody in there that thinks he looks fabulous at the beach.
I think he looks horrible at the beach.
Plus, the beach doesn't represent what the president's supposed to be doing.
You're supposed to be working.
You're supposed to be getting us out of that horrible, horrible war that we're very much involved in with Russia and Ukraine.
You could do that.
You could do that very easily.
I believe you could do that very.
I don't believe he could do it because he's just incompetent.
But that's a war that should end immediately, not because of one side or the other, because hundreds of thousands of people are being killed.
Can you imagine you're in an apartment house and rockets are going into that building and blowing it up and knocking it down?
And who can why?
Why should anything, why should anybody, human beings, is a human, whether they're Russian or you.
owen shroyer
Quick pause here.
Quick pause here because Joe Biden is apparently watching the debates or whoever tweets from Joe Biden's Twitter account is watching the debates.
Joe Biden's Twitter account just posted climate change is real, by the way.
Climate change is real, by the way, says who's ever posting on Joe Biden's Twitter account tonight, which we know is not Joe.
He's not up at 9.30 at night.
So is it his press secretary?
Is it one of the other White House Karens?
No, the climate change hoax is being used to form a global government.
Good for Vivekra Maswami calling it out.
donald j trump
Ukrainian or whatever they are, it's got to be stopped.
And it can be stopped very easily.
It would have never started.
If I were president, it would have never started.
tucker carlson
So just back to Biden, I'm interested.
So you think he's failing?
He obviously is failing.
I think it's clear to everybody.
But that would make Kamala Harris the candidate?
donald j trump
Well, not really.
I mean, I guess they'd have maybe a free-for-all.
A lot of people say she has to remain for certain reasons, the candidate.
She has to.
I don't think that's true, actually.
I don't think that other people would stand for it.
She has some bad moments.
Her moments are almost as bad as his.
I think his are worse, actually.
Yeah.
tucker carlson
She seems pretty senior too.
unidentified
She speaks in rhyme.
donald j trump
It's weird.
It's weird.
But she has bad moments.
tucker carlson
In rhyme?
donald j trump
Well, the way she talks, the bus will go here and then the bus will go there because that's what buses do.
It's weird.
The whole thing is weird.
This is not a president of the United States future.
And I think they probably have some kind of a primary and other people will get involved.
tucker carlson
I'm Newsom, right?
donald j trump
Could be, could be.
I mean, you know, I always got along well with him, believe it or not.
But could be him, could be somebody else.
He's got a big, a big load on his shoulders because you look at California, what's happened.
But I don't know if the American people really, the people that vote for him, I don't even know if they care.
You know, you look at so many of the things that are going on and people don't seem to be.
In the old days, if you had a bad record, it meant a lot.
Today, if you have a bad record, it doesn't really mean anything.
You know, he looks good.
He's a nice-looking guy, speaks well.
But Biden, every time you watch him talk.
owen shroyer
All right.
So we're almost a quarter through the Tucker interview.
Let's go back live to the debates to Santa speaking.
bret baier
But just to be clear, Governor, would you sign a six-week ban federally?
ron desantis
I'm going to stand on the side of life.
Look, I understand Wisconsin is going to do it different than Texas.
I understand Iowa and New Hampshire are going to do different.
But I will support the cause of life as governor and as president.
donald j trump
Vice President Pence, you're shaking your head.
unidentified
Hold on, hold on.
bret baier
Hold on, Senator.
Vice President Pence.
You're shaking your head.
mike pence
Well, look, I'm not new to this cause.
owen shroyer
Uh-oh, here comes Pence.
He's going to posture himself to the right on the abortion issue.
mike pence
Xavier, I opened up the book and I read.
Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.
And see, I set before you life and death, blessings and curses.
Now choose life.
And I knew from that moment on, the cause of life had to be my cause.
And I've been a champion for life in the Congress, a champion for life as governor and as vice president.
And to be honest with you, Nikki, you're my friend, but consensus is the opposite of leadership.
When the Supreme Court returned this question to the American people, they didn't just send it to the states only.
It's not a states-only issue.
owen shroyer
I didn't hear what Haley said.
My guess is she took a more liberal response to this.
And here's the thing.
While probably Mike Pence is the hardest right when it comes to the issue of abortion, I think it's fine for him to own that.
And that's respectable, obviously.
The problem is it's not going to help him politically.
It's not going to move the needle for him politically.
And so that's fine.
And respect for him for going the farthest right on the abortion issue, thinking that can do something for him, it's just not going to do much.
I'm wondering what Nikki Haley is saying, though.
Maybe the letter responds.
nikki haley
People, and that's where it should be.
But when you're talking about a federal ban, be honest with the American people.
We haven't had 45 pro-life senators in over 100 years.
So no Republican president can ban abortions any more than a Democrat president could ban all those state laws.
Don't make women feel like they have to decide on this issue when you know we don't have 60 Senate votes in the House.
mike pence
70% of the American people support legislation.
unidentified
But 70% of the Senate does not capable of experiencing panic.
mike pence
We want to take a leadership.
martha maccallum
Hold on.
nikki haley
70% of the Senate does not.
You have to be honest with the American people.
martha maccallum
Let's get Governor Bergman for one minute here.
owen shroyer
Okay.
So, all right, Republicans debating the abortion issue.
I mean, really, that's something that the Republican Party should come out and just have a policy on, wherever they want to put it.
To be up there debating it just seems kind of.
I mean, most people aren't moved on the abortion issue.
They have their view on it, and that's it.
You're not going to change anyone's mind with this debate.
So it seems like seems like a non-starter debate issue.
And then you go to guys that are polling zero, and it becomes even less important.
So let's go back to Tucker and Trump here.
doug burgum
It's very simple.
owen shroyer
Who was just talking?
You don't know because nobody recognizes their voices.
Nobody's heard of them before.
And they're up there on the debate.
No, Larry Elder, though.
The Republican Party kept Larry Elder off the debate stage.
That was a big mistake.
Bad on them.
donald j trump
He's walking on eggs.
You're waiting for him to collapse.
owen shroyer
Joe Biden.
donald j trump
And he almost always does.
owen shroyer
We know who he's talking about.
donald j trump
And I got to know the leaders of all of the countries, essentially, but the big ones.
And the bigger, the tougher the leader.
You know, it's like sort of, I guess maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.
But I got to know President Qi of China and Putin and Kim Jong-un.
North Korea did a great job with North Korea, kept us out of a nuclear war.
We would have 40,000 dead soldiers right now.
They'd drop a nuke right on top of the military base, but we have 40,000 soldiers over there.
And I dig deep.
owen shroyer
He probably doesn't even know that.
donald j trump
That's a positive thing.
owen shroyer
I didn't want to even know that.
donald j trump
He said nice things about Kim Jong-un.
I also said horrible things at the beginning.
Horrible enough that he wanted to talk.
And we talked and we met in Singapore.
We met actually twice.
And we had unbelievable meetings.
I know him very well.
We were in great shape with him.
tucker carlson
What do you think he and Xi and Putin think of Biden?
donald j trump
I think they can't believe it.
I think they probably say this is some kind of system.
You know, they had great respect for our country.
They respected me.
They had great respect for our country when I was there.
Every one of them, look, if you go to North Korea, you take a look at what happened.
You know, the Olympics was dead.
South Korea spent billions on the Olympics.
Nobody was going to go.
They didn't want to get blown up.
They called me and they said, we are going to let the Olympics proceed.
This is North Korea.
I said, you should go into the Olympics.
Put your athletes in.
It wasn't like they were big on athletes because, you know, famine.
But they went in and they actually participated.
And within about two days, the entire thing was sold out.
And if it wasn't me, that would have never happened.
But I got along very well with him, and that's a positive thing.
He does have massive nuclear power, by the way.
And if Hillary would have gotten in or if the Obama thought process continued, it would have been a nuclear war, absolutely, with North Korea.
He was expecting to go into a war, and it would have been a nuclear war.
tucker carlson
So do you think the rest of the world looks on at Biden and thinks someone else has got to be running the government?
donald j trump
Well, somebody else has to be.
I don't think he's capable of doing anything.
Look, when I debated him, I said, how come, and this was in front of probably not a friend of yours, Chris Wallace.
He was the moderator.
tucker carlson
Not a friend.
donald j trump
I said, why is it he wants to be Mike, but he doesn't have the talent?
unidentified
It's one of those.
tucker carlson
He's a busy little man.
donald j trump
He wanted to be his father, but he didn't have the talent of his father.
His father was great.
unidentified
His father.
tucker carlson
Little fussy man.
donald j trump
His father interviewed me in 60 minutes.
It was actually a talent.
tucker carlson
His father had talent.
donald j trump
I may have been the only guy that he gave a good 60 minutes to.
He was rough.
His father was tough.
He was great, though.
He was great at what he did.
owen shroyer
Chris Wallace, the failed CNN host.
donald j trump
Chris Wallace was so upset.
He was guarding this guy who wouldn't do a show, by the way.
He wouldn't do it.
I figured I didn't mind Chris Wallace because he wouldn't do, Biden wouldn't do a show.
And it was very obvious.
You know, he kept asking him and asking, but he wouldn't do the show.
So I figured he's got to like me.
But he came from a different planet.
But remember when I asked the question, why is it that the mayor of Moscow's wife is allowed to give you $3.5 million?
Don't forget that was brought up now.
It's brought up all the time, but that was brought up by me long before anyone ever heard of it.
I said, the mayor of Moscow's wife giving you $3.5 million.
What did you do?
I was $13.5 million to Biden.
And Chris Wallace said, this doesn't, this has nothing to do with the debate.
I mean, he fought for it.
He got in the way of the question.
Well, it was.
owen shroyer
Yeah, Chris Wallace, a complete disgrace.
All right, I want to pop back in on the debates.
They're showing a video right now of the inner city.
I think it's New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, the drugs is a result of those COVID lockdowns.
martha maccallum
And is your administration in part to blame for how we got here?
mike pence
Well, I think what's in part to blame is the Democrats have been talking about defunding the police for the last five years.
And we ought to be funding law enforcement, particularly in our major cities at unprecedented levels.
I mean, it's extraordinary to think about the violence that's claiming innocent lives literally every week in every major city in this country.
And yet Democrats and liberal prosecutors in major metropolitan areas continue to work out their fanciful agendas to do bail reform and go easy.
What we need is strong commitment to law enforcement.
We need leadership.
owen shroyer
Remember when Mike Pence could barely even defeat Kamala Harris in a debate?
It's all making more sense now, isn't it?
It's all making more sense now.
This guy's just a flatliner.
Even if he means well and is a genuinely good guy, just a flatliner, not going to move the needle.
And really, he's just waiting for his opportunity to attack Trump and to see how that might move the crowd or move the needle.
That's what he's waiting for.
So, but it's just, there's no delivery there.
mike pence
We'll bring our cities back.
bret baier
Governor Christie, another issue.
This weekend here in Milwaukee, reports say there were 30 shootings and a number of them including kids.
Add that to the big increase in school shootings.
Democrats blame this crisis on easy access to guns.
They also blame Republicans for blocking gun control legislation.
unidentified
What would President Christie do?
chris christie
You know, I'm proud of the fact, Brett, that I'm the only person along with Governor Hutchinson up on this stage who's actually running United States Attorney's Office.
I ran the fifth largest office in America.
unidentified
I would have all the Americans throw our guns in the bay and I would turn it into a chocolate cake.
owen shroyer
It'd be about this big.
Chocolate cake would be probably about this big.
unidentified
I could make all the guns into another chocolate cake and then I'd have two chocolate cakes and I'd eat those cakes.
I might share some with you, Brett, but one for me for sure.
One gun chocolate cake for me for sure.
owen shroyer
All right, I don't think any of us need to hear any more from Chris Christie.
So let's pop back into Tucker and Trump then.
donald j trump
It's crazy.
And I said, well, wait a minute.
He got $3.5 million from the mayor of Moscow's wife.
Now, people forget that, but if you go back and take a look, you will see.
And Chris Wallace didn't want me to ask that question.
I said, I think it's a very appropriate question.
It turned out to be much more appropriate than people thought.
tucker carlson
Amazing.
So do you have a preference?
Chris Wallace, assuming you're the Republican nominee and all goes as you plan it to go, do you have a preference in who you run against?
donald j trump
In many ways, I'd love to run against him because his record's so bad.
You know, it's still horrible when you look at inflation and everything else.
owen shroyer
All right, I want to pop back in here.
I think they're about to go to V. Vake, and I want to pop in.
He's been lighting it tonight.
vivek ramaswamy
Reality is we have a crime wave in this country and we know how to fix it.
The question is, do we actually have the spine to do it?
More cops in the streets who are on the streets able to do their jobs without looking over their shoulder for getting sued.
And we also have a mental health epidemic in this country.
Just over the same period that we have closed mental health institutions, we have seen a spike in violent crime.
Do we have the spine to bring them back?
I think we should as president.
I will.
But it's not just drugging up people in those psychiatric institutions with Zoloft and Saraquil.
It's a deeper issue.
I think faith-based approaches can play a role here, too.
We're in the middle of a national identity crisis.
And I say this as a member of my generation.
The problem in our country right now, the reason we have that mental health epidemic is that people are so hungry for purpose and meaning at a time when family, faith, patriotism, hard work have all disappeared.
What we really need is a tonal reset from the top, saying that this is what it means to be an American.
Yes, we will stand for the rule of law.
Yes, we will close the southern border where criminals are coming in every day.
And yes, we will back law enforcement because we remember who we really are.
And that's also how we address that mental health epidemic in the next generation that is directly leading to violent crime.
bret baier
Governor DeSantis, really quickly.
Governor DeSantis.
owen shroyer
I wish he would have gone a little heavier on the inspirational deal there, but what is Pence going to say?
mike pence
Kennedy, the American people are the most faith-filled, freedom-loving, idealistic, hard-working people the world has ever known.
We just need government as good as our people.
vivek ramaswamy
Well, Mike, I think the difference is you might have some others like you may have on the stage.
It's Morning in America speech.
It is not Morning in America.
We live in a dark moment, and we have to confront the fact that we're in an internal sort of cold cultural civil war.
mike pence
the American people with the failed government in Washington, D.C. We just need government as good as our people again.
owen shroyer
The whole issue is the streets that are filled with crime and drug addiction and mental health.
And Pence is acting like it doesn't exist.
bret baier
The rise in Florida, Governor DeSantis.
How do you stop crime?
owen shroyer
I don't know what that was from Pence.
I wish that Vivaik would have leaned more into the tonal thing, leaned more into the inspirational thing, but then Pence gets upset at the truth that what's going on in our cities.
ron desantis
Because decline, and one of the biggest reasons is because you have George Soros funding these radical left-wing district attorneys.
They get into office and they say they're not going to prosecute crimes.
They disagree with the inmates start running the asylum.
There's one guy in this entire country that's ever done anything about that.
owen shroyer
Me.
ron desantis
When we had two of these district attorneys in Florida elected Soros funding who said they wouldn't do their job, I removed them from their post.
owen shroyer
He did.
He did.
Yes, he did.
ron desantis
And as president, as president, we are going to go after all of these.
owen shroyer
Did you hear that applause?
Did you hear that applause?
Big energy.
Go after Soros.
Winning political message.
unidentified
Okay.
One more here before the brain, Vervin.
doug burgum
Brett and Martha.
owen shroyer
Wow.
Wow.
So there you go, folks.
That's big.
You want big political points?
I'm telling you, the politicians are going to be forced to respond to the voters.
They always are.
Even if things are rigged, the politicians have to respond to the voters.
They will see, go after George Soros if you want cheap, easy political points.
Even if you don't even intend on doing anything about it, this is going to become big.
That's one of the biggest applauses of the night is DeSantis going after Soros.
And by the way, everything he said there is true.
Nobody's going after Soros harder than DeSantis from the governor's office.
So, yeah, that's good for him.
Let's go back to Trump and Tucker for a second now, shall we?
donald j trump
Bad records.
I mean, California is a bad record.
So, you know, should it be Gavin or should it be somebody else?
When I look at San Francisco, what's happened to that incredible city?
That was one of the greatest cities in the world just a short while ago.
And now it's very sad when you look at it, Los Angeles.
Every city, practically, all the Democrat-run cities, you know, Republican-run cities are doing very nicely because they arrest people when you have crimes.
And they don't go after political candidates because they think it's good.
You know, I mean, it's like been amazing.
My poll numbers are the highest I've ever had.
But because people understand it.
tucker carlson
Can I just ask you?
That gets back to my original question.
So if the protest didn't work, you got elected anyway.
Impeachment didn't work twice, obviously.
Indictment is not working.
Your poll numbers go up when they raise Mario.
owen shroyer
Speaking of indictment, perfect time.
I believe that the debate topic is about to switch to Trump's indictment now.
martha maccallum
So next, the candidates will have an opportunity to talk about the coming trials of Donald Trump.
owen shroyer
Okay, okay.
All right, so it's going there next.
So that's where it's going next.
I very much looking forward to hearing that argument.
What is Pence going to say?
Are they all going to get a chance?
Are they going to let Vivek speak?
unidentified
Wow.
owen shroyer
Okay, so let's hear from Trump talking about the political persecution with Tucker, and then we go to the GOP debates where they're going to address it as well.
tucker carlson
So last year your numbers went up.
They can indict you 20 times, and it's not going to, you're not going to lose the Republican primary because of that.
donald j trump
Well, it makes it look even more ridiculous.
I mean, the four indictments, and maybe there'll be more.
I don't know.
These people are crazy.
tucker carlson
But they're counterproductive.
So if you chart it out, it's an escalation, is what I'm saying.
So what's next after trying to put you in prison for the rest of your life?
That's not working.
So don't they have to kill you now?
donald j trump
I think the people of our country don't get enough credit for how smart they are.
And I'm not sure I would have said this 10 years ago.
But they get it.
They really get it.
When somebody gets indicted, your poll numbers go down.
When somebody gets indicted, you announce, ladies and gentlemen, I'll be leaving to spend time with my family and to fight for the rest of my life on this stuff.
But you're out of politics.
I got indicted four times.
All trivia, nonsense, bullshit.
It's all bullshit.
It's horrible when you look and you look at what they're doing.
The boxes hoax.
I'm covered by the Presidential Records Act.
I'm allowed to do exactly that.
He's not covered, and he's got 25 times the number of boxes.
And he's got them stored in Chinatown.
He's got him stored in a flimsy garage underneath his Corvette at Penn.
And by the way, at Penn, he gets millions of dollars.
China pays this guy millions of dollars.
See, I think he's the most corrupt president we've ever had.
And he also has the distinction of being the most incompetent.
And I believe both.
I mean, he's both incompetent and corrupt.
So I actually believe he's compromised because China knows so much about him.
They know where the money comes from.
They know where it is, who paid it.
And they probably paid it.
Well, they do pay Penn, and he gets a million dollars.
I think he takes $999,000 because he keeps it a little bit under a million, like by a dollar.
But he, in many ways, is a Manchurian candidate.
We have a Manchurian candidate, and he's afraid to tell Russia to get out of Cuba.
He's afraid to tell China to get out of Cuba.
He's afraid.
China now is building.
unidentified
Think of this.
owen shroyer
Or he can't.
donald j trump
China's building military installations in Cuba.
The Cuban population of Miami is not too happy because they're never going to be able to go back.
And you don't even hear about it.
And the worst culprit is the press, the media, because normally, you know, when I first heard that, that China is building installations in Cuba.
And installations means military installations.
Okay.
You know, they said, just some communication.
They did that on the islands with Japan.
They took the island.
They started this massive construction.
And they told everybody, including the Japanese, the Japanese have to be very careful.
They told everybody that this is a housing development.
They're going to build a housing development.
And I said, how come the runway is 20,000 feet long?
You know, private jets need 4,000 feet.
They don't need 20,000 feet.
The big ones need 20,000 feet.
They don't even need 20.
And I looked at the runway.
I said, that's the largest runway ever built, both in width and length, for housing development.
tucker carlson
There's nobody that has a plane that big that you would have a runway that's allowed to conduct imperialism in our hemisphere.
donald j trump
Well, yeah, and it's far beyond Cuba.
It's all over South America.
tucker carlson
Yeah, and the Caribbean.
donald j trump
So we built a thing called the Panama Canal.
We lost 35,000 people to the mosquito, you know, malaria.
We lost 35,000 people building.
We lost 35,000 people because of the mosquito.
Vicious.
They had to build under nets.
It was one of the true great wonders of the world.
As he said, one of the nine wonders of the world.
No, no, it was one of the seven.
This happened a little while ago, you know?
It says nine wonders of the world.
You could make nine wonders.
He would have been better off if he stuck with the nine and just said, yeah, I think it's nine.
owen shroyer
See, Trump actually has real-world experience.
Biden couldn't talk about any of this.
Biden has no clue about anything.
donald j trump
The Panama Canal.
It was such an incredible.
owen shroyer
What about Kamala?
Oh, yeah.
donald j trump
Marvel.
We sold it under Jimmy Carter.
We sold it to Panama for $1.
The following day, they quadrupled the amount of money the chips had to pay to get across.
They didn't lose one ship.
And now they've made it much bigger, and now they've widened it.
They've doubled it, right?
They've more than doubled it.
And it's one of the most profitable things anytime it's.
owen shroyer
If you want to hear more about that, there's a great book, Confessions of an Economic Hitman.
That thing goes deep.
But they're about to go to the question of the Trump indictments during the debate.
I want to hear the response.
I think this is going to be interesting.
bret baier
Immigration, education.
But we are going to talk about this moment and talk about the elephant not in the room.
owen shroyer
That's good.
That's good.
That's funny.
martha maccallum
He's been indicted.
owen shroyer
That was good.
That was a good one, Brett.
martha maccallum
Georgia at the Fulton County Jail for charges relating to the 2020 election loss.
bret baier
You all signed a pledge to support the eventual Republican nominee.
If former President Trump is convicted in a court of law, would you still support him as your party's choice?
owen shroyer
Oh, so but anybody but Trump, but they didn't put that in there, so you can support anybody but Trump.
They didn't put that in there.
Oh, Chris Christie, Mike Pence, and Hutchinson didn't raise their hand.
unidentified
Governor Christie, you were kind of late to the game there, but you raised your hand.
chris christie
No, I'm doing this.
Look, look, I'm doing this.
bret baier
And I know you didn't.
chris christie
Whoa, whoa, no.
What's the news?
owen shroyer
Ace and Hutchinson don't even know what's going on.
chris christie
Bottom line.
Someone's got to stop normalizing this conduct.
Okay?
Now, and now, whether or not you believe that the criminal charges are right or wrong, the conduct is beneath the office of President of the United States.
owen shroyer
What is he talking about?
Is he talking about Biden or Trump?
Wait, wait.
chris christie
And you know.
owen shroyer
Wait, what is he even talking about?
Is he talking about Biden or Trump now?
chris christie
It's allowed.
But it doesn't change the truth.
It doesn't change the truth.
unidentified
Mr. Rutten Swami, you raise your hand supporting.
vivek ramaswamy
No, I'd like to get in and respond.
Let's just speak the truth, okay?
President Trump, I believe, was the best president of the 21st century.
unidentified
It's a fact.
vivek ramaswamy
And Chris Christie, honest to God, your claim that Donald Trump is motivated by vengeance and grievance would be a lot more credible if your entire campaign were not based on vengeance and grievance against Russia.
Donald Trump without an iota of vision for this country.
owen shroyer
Score.
vivek ramaswamy
Just the channel to MSNBC right now.
I am not running for president of MSNBC.
I am running for president of the United States.
We're skating on thin ice, and we cannot set a precedent where the party in power uses police force to indict its political opponents.
It is wrong.
unidentified
We've just demanded the weaponization of justice in this country.
30 seconds, Governor December.
chris christie
Let me tell you.
unidentified
I'm sorry.
30 seconds, Governor Christie.
chris christie
You make me laugh because you sit here in an answer.
unidentified
You sit here and answer...
martha maccallum
Go ahead, Governor Christie.
unidentified
Hold on, Governor Christie.
owen shroyer
They're trying to control the audience.
unidentified
Well, so listen, the more time we spend doing this.
owen shroyer
Oh, come on.
bret baier
We can talk about issues you want to talk about.
unidentified
Oh, God.
bret baier
Let's get through this section.
Governor Christie.
chris christie
You sit here talking about how you want to stand up for the rule of law.
vivek ramaswamy
Yes.
chris christie
And law and order.
And the fact is that it can't be selective.
In your book, you had much different things to say about Donald Trump than you're saying.
Here's the question.
owen shroyer
Oh, here we go.
unidentified
Okay.
chris christie
All right.
Well, it is very true.
unidentified
That's not true.
chris christie
It's very true.
unidentified
I read behavior and illegal behavior, Chris.
vivek ramaswamy
And you as a prosecutor should know about it.
chris christie
You know what?
unidentified
I know a lot better.
There's a difference between behavior.
chris christie
And I know a lot better than you do.
You've never done it like you've never done anything to try to advance the interests of this government except to put yourself forward tonight.
And here's the thing.
unidentified
What is he even doing?
owen shroyer
He's babbling.
chris christie
He's not a big order.
owen shroyer
He's babbling.
When I got to the debates tonight, I was told there would be two dozen donuts with my name on the box.
And I did not get my donut.
No, hold on.
Hold on.
Where are my doughnuts?
I only agreed to be here if I got two dozen doughnuts.
Where are they?
Oh, do you know, Brett, where my donuts are?
I didn't see them backstage.
I didn't see them front stage.
chris christie
Where are my donuts?
owen shroyer
I'm not answering another question until my two dozen donuts are delivered right here on my desk.
unidentified
We're going to get everyone in on this issue, but I have a good question about the doughnuts.
martha maccallum
Hold on, you will.
All right.
President Trump's former vice president is on this stage tonight.
He has faced hecklers on the campaign trail over his actions on January the 6th.
On that day, the vice president moved forward with the certification of the election.
So do you believe that Mike Pence did the right thing, Senator Scott?
Do you believe he did the right thing?
tim scott
Absolutely.
He did the right thing.
unidentified
Number one.
tim scott
Number two.
We should be asking a bigger question about the weaponization of the Department of Justice.
When I'm president, the first thing I'll do is fire Merrick Garland.
Secondly, I'll do fire Christopher Wright because we need Lady Justice to wear a blindfold.
unidentified
Without that, no one has confidence.
owen shroyer
All right, Tim Scott is just too cut and dry.
His messages are fine.
He flubs the opportunity to move the needle in the right direction by saying Pence did the wrong thing.
So he took the coward's route on that.
So this is really unmotivational stuff.
And my guess is they start going to a couple of the irrelevant guys, maybe DeSantis on the issue.
We might pop back in if it's DeSantis.
We'll monitor this.
Let's go back and hear more of the Trump-Tucker interview.
Where did they left off?
Trump was just telling stories about his world experience that Biden has no clue about.
donald j trump
It's just incredible, right?
We gave it away for $1.
China now controls it.
They actually control the Panama Canal.
They run it.
They control it.
And we shouldn't let that happen.
And we can't let China be in Cuba.
And they'll get out.
If I'm president, they'll get out.
Because I had a very good relationship with President Xi, but he respected this country.
He respected me.
And he'll get out.
And we can't let that.
owen shroyer
All right.
I want to hear now DeSantis is going.
Let's see if he has anything good to say here.
ron desantis
That's not the question.
I know, but here's the thing.
This election is not about January 6th of 2021.
It's about January 20th of 2025 when the next president is going to take office.
I know what the Democrats would like to do.
They want to talk about all these other issues, but we've got to focus on your future.
We've got to focus on reversing the decline of our country.
I learned in the military, I was assigned with U.S. Navy SEALs in Iraq, that you focus on the mission above all else.
You can't get distracted.
So Republicans, we've got to look forward and we've got to make sure that we're bringing the message that can win in November of 2021.
martha maccallum
Do not answer the question.
bret baier
Vice President Pence relation to the president.
mike pence
What do you think is to support and defend the Constitution of the United States?
I think the American people deserve to know whether everyone on this stage agrees that I kept my oath to the Constitution that day.
There's no more important duty.
ron desantis
So answer the question.
I've answered this before.
vivek ramaswamy
So yes.
ron desantis
Mike did his duty.
I got no beef with him.
But here's the thing.
Is this what we're going to be focusing on?
I'm relieved going forward, the rehashing of this?
I'll tell you, the Democrats would love that.
And they will win if we let them get away with it.
I'm not letting Bowen hang out in the basement.
owen shroyer
All right, so he doesn't go all in on the January 6th issue, but he at least doesn't buy into there.
Oh, we have to say it's the worst thing ever.
bret baier
Former President Trump is beating you by 30, 40 points in many polls.
So it is a factor.
Governor Hutchinson, you did not raise your hand.
unidentified
I did not raise my hand.
owen shroyer
I didn't know the question.
unidentified
That's an important issue we as a party have to face.
And over a year ago, I said that Donald Trump was morally disqualified from being president again.
owen shroyer
Okay, that's nice.
All right.
Speaking of the man you're talking about, Donald Trump, let's actually go back to Trump and Tucker.
donald j trump
Panama Canal.
We built the Panama Canal.
Should have never been given to Panama.
We should have had it.
But we gave it for $1.
Think of it.
They quadrupled.
In one day, they lifted the fees, which are, you know, pretty big for these massive ships to go through, right?
Rather than going around the Cape and through all the tremendous storms, such beauty, such, you know, when you, it's beautiful stuff.
But you didn't want to get caught in those storms.
Those were storms that wiped out the biggest ships.
And we go through the Panama Canal.
We built it.
And we got to go to the next step.
owen shroyer
Biden couldn't talk about any of this.
donald j trump
Biden never closed.
We have done the stupidest things in this country.
And now we have a president that can't put two sentences together, can't speak, can't walk, can't talk.
I don't think he gets to the Sardigate, but these people do miracles.
I mean, he ran out of his basement, and you got away with that one because of COVID, so he sort of got away with it.
They cheated on the election, but you have people that are very smart, but they're fascists and they're radical left lunatics, and they're destroying our country with the all-electric cars and the windmills all over the place, which, by the way, don't work, and they're all most of them made in China.
For the most part, they're made in China.
Germany, a little bit, but China.
But you look at what's happening to our country, even no voter ID.
I mean, why don't they want voter ID?
There's only one reason they don't want voter ID because they want to cheat.
Who doesn't want, you know, the Democrat convention, the last one, they had voter ID that was this big, it looked like a prison card, this big on their chest.
You walked in, they had your picture, you had this, your fingerprint.
They had everything.
The most incredible voter ID I've ever seen.
That was to get into the Democrat National Convention.
But to get into vote, if you buy groceries, if you buy practically anything now, you have ID on a card, credit cards or otherwise.
tucker carlson
But don't you think it's racist to have to show your ID?
donald j trump
Well, they probably say that.
They use anything not to show ID because soda ID is pretty simple.
And we could go back and we should go back to all paper ballots.
owen shroyer
Elon Musk just shared.
Elon Musk just shared this interview.
It now is up to 76 million views on Twitter in just over an hour.
donald j trump
The presidential election, anytime you have...
tucker carlson
Isn't that the whole point of them?
Yeah, you can cheat.
donald j trump
Yeah, sure.
It's their whole point.
That's the whole point.
They want to cheat.
unidentified
Yeah.
donald j trump
They have to cheat because their policies are so bad that if they didn't cheat, they couldn't get elected.
Who wants open borders?
Who wants high taxes?
Who wants high interest rates?
owen shroyer
Not me.
donald j trump
Who wants to not be able to use a gas stove or have to drive an electric car, which, you know, you have a four-hour drive, but the car only goes an hour and a half, yes, you have to charge it.
The happiest moment for somebody in an electric car is the first 10 minutes.
In other words, you get it charged, and now for 10 minutes.
The unhappiest part is the next hour because you're petrified that you're not going to be fine to another charger.
People, I'm saying if people, I'm not knocking electric cars, they're fine.
owen shroyer
they're fine but if people want to actually they're not fine I don't think they are that fine.
I think we'll find out they have negative health effects.
vivek ramaswamy
And turn the page forward.
That's exactly right.
mike pence
We'll be convicted of these crimes.
vivek ramaswamy
You should be able to make a commitment.
The same justice system that was this.
mike pence
What's the difference between you and me?
vivek ramaswamy
Yeah, I'm not a professional politician.
That's the difference.
You can answer questions.
mike pence
I've actually given pardons.
When I was governor of the state of Indiana, it usually follows a finding of guilt and contrition by the individual that's been convicted.
So, if I'm president in the United States, we'll give fair consideration to any pardon requests.
But if I may, if I may.
You know, it's not about looking back at January 2021.
It's about January 20th, 2021.
owen shroyer
You're not the president.
You've ruined your plan.
This is ridiculous.
Look at this.
This is just, it's so fake, Mike.
The gig is up.
Stop this G.I. Joe Boy Scout American Patriot Act.
It's done.
You're not a patriot.
You're not a fighter.
You're out of a cardboard box with plastic strings holding your arms and legs together.
You have no momentum.
This is an embarrassment.
mike pence
Clear whether or not they'll do the same if they earn this job and the confidence of the American people.
owen shroyer
Vivai's pulling over you.
mike pence
Look, I've made it clear.
It's not even close that the issues surrounding the 2020 election and the controversies around January 6th have not come to this, have not come to criminal proceedings.
I would rather they have been resolved by the American people and the American people alone.
tim kaine
But no one's above the law.
And President Trump is entitled to the presumption of innocence that every American is entitled to.
mike pence
And we will make sure and extend that to him.
owen shroyer
Look at that.
Nobody even applauds him.
People deserve to know that the president Pence has fallen harder than Ron DeSantis.
Pence has fallen harder than Ron DeSantis, and he is just bombing tonight.
Pence will take the biggest hit from tonight's debate.
Pence will start pulling at zero very soon.
bret baier
This has been this is this is the biggest nothing burger I've ever seen is Mike Pence this this debate we beat them in 2024 thank you Vice President Pence now we are moving on to other issues the U.S. has committed nearly $77 billion in aid to the Ukraine war the administration is now asking Congress for $24 billion more regardless of that the specific specifics of that plan is there
anyone on stage who would not support the increase of more funding to Ukraine here we go this is hot we would not support it a boy vivid But you're saying you would not too, Governor DeSantis?
ron desantis
I will have Europe pull their weight.
Right now, they're not doing it.
I would not say that.
owen shroyer
Wow, Vivek is owning this.
ron desantis
Our support should be contingent on them doing it.
And I would have support in China to be able to take and do what we need to do.
owen shroyer
Which way is the wind blowing?
bret baier
Mr. Ramaswamy, you would not support an increase of funding to Ukraine.
vivek ramaswamy
I would not.
And I think that this is disastrous.
That we are protecting across somebody else's border when we should use those same military resources to prevent across the invasion of our own southern border here in the United States of America.
unidentified
We are driving Russia further into China's hands.
vivek ramaswamy
The Russia-China alliance is the single greatest threat we face.
And I find it offensive that we have professional politicians on the stage that will make a pilgrimage to Kyiv to their Pope, Zelensky, without doing the same thing for people in Maui or the south side of Chicago or Kensington.
I don't know.
Pence felt that references to secure our own borders.
bret baier
Pence felt by the masses.
vivek ramaswamy
He was referring.
And the reality is this is also how we project strength by making America strong at home.
bret baier
We heard the names.
Governor Christie first.
owen shroyer
All right.
chris christie
I did go to Ukraine, and I went to Ukraine because I wanted to see for myself what Vladimir Putin's army was doing to the free Ukrainian people.
And let me tell you, I want you all...
owen shroyer
Yeah, they're living high on the hog right now, too, with all that money.
So nobody cheers for Chris Christie.
Everybody cheered for Vivek.
Folks, this is big.
Did you hear that audience applause?
Again, politicians are forced to respond to the voters.
Even if the election is 100% rigged, and you believe that, they still have to respond to the voters.
They still have to at least pretend that they're listening.
So Vivek just owned this.
Only one on the stage to say he wouldn't fund Ukraine.
Did you hear the round of applause?
I would guess 80 to 90% of Republican voters don't want to fund Ukraine.
Vivek is going to make a massive spike tomorrow.
Vivek, Vivek's poll numbers will have a massive spike tomorrow.
Guarantee it.
Guarantee it.
And I would say most people would say Vivek has won this debate.
unidentified
Hang on, Governor.
mike pence
Hang on.
bret baier
My question is.
martha maccallum
Governor Haley, we'll come back to this.
bret baier
Vice President Pence was mentioned.
You get 30 seconds.
mike pence
Yeah, well, let me be clear.
Anybody that thinks that we can't solve the problems here in the United States and be the leader of the free world has a pretty small view of the greatest nation on earth.
vivek ramaswamy
That is incorrect.
mike pence
We can do both, Vivek.
We've done both.
owen shroyer
No, we're not.
mike pence
We're the leader of the free world and the Arsenal democracy for years.
The Reagan doctrine years ago made it.
owen shroyer
Folks, this is nothing.
Leader of the free world, the Biden administration is arresting all of its political opposition and its lawyers.
We have a wide open southern border.
This stuff doesn't hit anymore.
This isn't George Bush selling you American platitudes, Mike.
mike pence
Forces are going to have to go and fight him.
I want to let the Ukrainians fight and drive Putin and the Russians back out into Russia.
vivek ramaswamy
It's not working.
Vice President Pence, I have a news flash.
The USSR does not exist anymore.
It fell back in 1990.
You talked about the Greeks and the real communists that we have to address right now.
mike pence
Any idea what Putin's aims are?
vivek ramaswamy
You already spoke.
Now I actually have to vlog.
mike pence
Senator Putin has been saying he wants to reestablish the old Soviets.
owen shroyer
Now Pence is just lying.
Now Pence is just lying.
mike pence
This is pathetic.
owen shroyer
I didn't realize that the military-industrial complex owned Mike Pence, but this is just pathetic.
What about our authoritarianism, Pence?
vivek ramaswamy
The real threat we face today is communist China.
And we are driving Russia further into China's arms.
The Russia-China military alliance is the single greatest threat we face.
Nobody in either political party is talking about it.
unidentified
And I am the only non-GioCon optimist.
Mr. Vice President, we can't hear to give Russia every threat they've got.
mike pence
Mr. Vice President is that Ukraine will never be in NATO.
And then somehow.
owen shroyer
This is a non-winning message, folks.
The crowd is not liking this, and neither do the voters.
Pence is going to slide down to zero.
Ramaswamy will become number two after this debate.
martha maccallum
I think we need to reestablish the generals.
unidentified
When we hear this bell, that means your time's done.
bret baier
So, Mr. Vice President, we appreciate your aggressiveness here.
30 seconds is 30 seconds.
Mr. Ramaswamy, you were mentioned.
You get 30 seconds.
vivek ramaswamy
So the reality is that today, today, Ukraine is not a good idea.
owen shroyer
Pence is crying like a little bit.
vivek ramaswamy
And I think that the same people who took us into the Iraq war, the same people who took us into the Vietnam War, you cannot end it.
You have to start another no-win war.
And I do not want to get to the point where we're sending our military resources abroad when we could be better using them here at home to protect our own borders, protect the homeland.
owen shroyer
Imagine Pence just wants to argue that he argues that.
martha maccallum
So I do want to get to some other people.
unidentified
Wow.
owen shroyer
That was, whoo.
I'm telling you, folks, Pence is more.
Pence really has exposed himself as actually being quite pathetic.
And now it makes more sense why he did not do well in his debate against Kamala Harris.
That's like debating a rock with eyes painted on it.
And he barely was able to beat a rock with eyes painted on it.
So now we're starting to see how weak Pence really was.
Man, imagine if Trump had a strong vice president that wasn't Mike Pence.
Yikes.
Yikes.
By the way, I'm telling you, the applause from the audience tonight in response to being anti-war in Ukraine, the response from the audience tonight in support of Donald Trump, those have been, that's been big.
The response from the audience tonight against George Soros, this has been big.
The candidates will have to respond to this.
And all that's going to end up happening is it's going to separate DeSantis and Ramaswamy from the rest.
Because they've clearly shown they're the only ones that are willing to say this stuff.
Nobody else will.
Actually, let's go back to the debate stage because now they're probably all going to start coming after Vivek is my guess.
nikki haley
Go and stop funding Israel.
You don't do that to friends.
owen shroyer
Oh, here we go.
nikki haley
You do instead is you have the backs of your friends.
Ukraine, it's a frontline.
owen shroyer
Israel's our friend.
Okay.
Putin has said: if Russia, once Russia takes you, here's your Israel candidate right here as Nikki Haley, but we all knew that.
nikki haley
To prevent war.
Look at what Putin did today.
He killed Pergozin.
When I was at the UN, the Russian ambassador suddenly died.
This guy is a murderer, and you are choosing a murderer over a total American country.
bret baier
First of all, first of all, first of all, Mr. Ramaswamy, you have 30 seconds.
vivek ramaswamy
Mr. DeSant, I wish you well in your future career on the boards of Lockheed and Raytheon.
nikki haley
I'm not Raytheon.
And you know you're not.
vivek ramaswamy
Boeing came off of it, but you've been pushing this lie.
You've been pushing this live all week.
Okay, let me address that.
I'm glad you brought that up.
unidentified
I'm going to address each of those right now.
This is the false laws of a professional politician.
nikki haley
So the watch America lessons.
owen shroyer
Nikki Haley.
Oh, Israel.
unidentified
Nikki Haley.
owen shroyer
Israel, Israel, Israel.
That doesn't register anymore.
unidentified
So our relationship with Israel will never be stronger than by the end of my first term.
vivek ramaswamy
But it's not a client relationship.
It is a friendship.
And you know what friends do?
Friends help each other stand on their own two feet.
So I will lead Abraham Accords 2.0.
I will partner with Israel to make sure Iran never is nuclear armed.
But you know what I love about Israel?
And I've been there probably in the last 10 years more than most people on this stage.
You know what I love about them?
I love their border policies.
I love their tough on crime policies.
I love that they have a national identity and an iron dome to protect their homeland.
And so, yes, I want to learn from the friends that we're supporting.
And what puzzles me?
unidentified
No, I want to learn from those and apply those to protect our homeland.
nikki haley
Israel needs to be America.
America needs Israel.
owen shroyer
Oh, my gosh.
bret baier
Governor DeSantis, you were mentioned in the territorial dispute.
ron desantis
Not only your first obligation is to defend our country and its people.
And that means you're sending all this money, but you're not doing what we need to do to secure our own border.
We have tens of thousands of people who are being killed because what we're not handling, though.
owen shroyer
Oh, my gosh.
Nikki, get the shekels out of your mouth.
They're falling out of your bra and panties at this point.
Jeez.
ron desantis
When these drug pushers are bringing fentanyl, that's going to be the last thing they do.
We're going to use force and we're going to leave them stone cold dead.
bret baier
We're actually going to move on to China.
We're going to talk about China.
nikki haley
Okay.
bret baier
Governor Bergham.
China has the biggest navy in the world, the biggest army in the world.
Now they have worships.
owen shroyer
Wow.
Wow.
Geez, Nikki.
Why didn't you just go up there with an Israeli flag around your back?
How much are you getting paid?
What lobbyists from Israel own your campaign and your microphone and your podium?
Good Lord.
I mean, we all knew she was an Israeli shill.
We all knew she was a neocon.
We all knew she never saw a war she didn't want someone else's kid to die in.
But wow, was that pathetic?
My goodness, was that pathetic?
doug burgum
Imports 10 million barrels of oil a day, more than any other country in the world.
They do not even have all the food they need to feed everybody in that country, so they don't have energy security or food security.
owen shroyer
All right.
Yeah, okay.
I don't know how interested we are in this.
So let's hear more from Trump and Tucker while some of these less important candidates get their speaking time.
We'll go back to who will eventually be the nominee here, Donald Trump.
donald j trump
Gasoline car or hybrid.
Hybrids are pretty good, actually.
But they should be allowed to buy.
They don't want to do any of this.
So right now, California's in a big brownout because their grid is a disaster.
The grid all over the country is sort of a disaster, but the grid in California.
And yet, they want to have in a very short period of time, millions and millions of cars going off that grid, essentially.
It doesn't work.
tucker carlson
So plug your car into a grid that's free.
donald j trump
You should be able to buy an electric car.
You know, electric cars could be fine if you drive short distances and you want to have, you know, whatever, and you have plug-ins every way you go.
They could be fine.
But you've got to have gasoline cars.
You've got to have everything.
Let people buy everything.
Now the new thing is your heating systems in the house.
They don't want you to have a modern-day heating system.
They want you to use a heating system that will cost you at least $10,000 to buy and won't work very well.
You know, none of this stuff works as well.
One of the things I did with EPA is you have states, many states, most of the states have so much water.
You know, it comes out of heaven, right?
The water pours down and you have it.
owen shroyer
Let the people buy anything.
donald j trump
Wherever it goes into the ocean, it's not like a big problem.
Now, in some states, they have a problem.
You know, you have some desert areas and all, and for that, it's okay.
But they have sinks where no water comes out.
You turn it on, no water comes out.
No water comes out of the shower.
No water is allowed to go into the washing machine for your dishes or for your clothing or what.
And I avoided all of that.
tucker carlson
Wait, they have sinks where no water comes out?
donald j trump
Sure, you have restrictors.
When I say no water, very little water.
You want to wash your hands, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
donald j trump
And you've seen this.
And you turn on the sink and it's very little.
owen shroyer
He's so right.
Have you ever seen that?
These things, they just dribble a little bit of water.
It's the same thing with the modern-day dishwashing machines.
They don't even have the water pressure.
Oh, because we've got to protect the climate.
You can't have water pressure.
donald j trump
Yeah, you take a drill and take the well, you can, but now they make it so you can't do that so easily.
They have a restrictor.
It's called a restrictor.
And it restricts the water from coming out.
So I ended all of that.
And you have to see these, they let the water come out.
You know what people do?
They wash their hands like five times longer, or in the washing machine, they'll press for their, let's say, the dishwasher.
They'll press it.
Then they'll press it about seven or eight times.
They'll end up using more water, and it still won't be very good.
I met with the head of Whirlpool.
They were practically going out of business during my administration.
And they said to me from Ohio, incredible, great state.
I love Ohio.
And they were really doing badly because people were dumping washing machines all over, mostly from South Korea, but also from China.
And he was explaining it's just a terrible situation.
I said, let me ask you, how's the quality?
He says, well, better, but they are good enough quality.
But, you know, of course, he's going to say that.
But, you know, they are better.
He said, but they don't allow us.
They're dumping these machines.
They're cutting us in half.
They're killing us.
And on top of it, the government won't let us use water in our machines.
I mean, he shows me like a quarter of a bottle of water that's supposed to be washing clothing.
And I freed it all up, and I put tariffs on these countries that were selling and the machines coming into the country.
And that company went from a big, big, all the washing machine companies, they make washing machines, they make dryers, they make all of the different machines that do this kind of work, including dishwashes.
And they went from a disaster area to being just thriving.
But they love me in that part of Ohio.
tucker carlson
Well, I bet they do, but why should EPA, no one at EPA was elected by anybody?
Why do they have the power to decide how much water your washing machine uses?
Should Congress and a democracy get to vote on that?
donald j trump
Yeah, you could say that.
They do things that are not very.
tucker carlson
So how do you, that's my question.
owen shroyer
There's a hilarious AOC story about this where she's begging the.
She's begging, I don't even know who it is.
Maybe the EPA or the FDA or somebody.
She's begging them to allow these foreign sunscreens to come in.
And it's like, AOC, you're in Congress.
You're above them in the political hierarchy.
But she, oh, no, it's the administrative state.
It's the bureaucracy state.
They are in control now.
That's what communists love.
donald j trump
That was a great thing.
If I didn't fire Comey, maybe I wouldn't be talking to you, or I'd be talking to you about real estate or something else other than politics, right?
That was a coup, in my opinion.
That was a very sick deal.
That was the insurance policy.
You remember the insurance policy?
Oh, she's going to win, darling.
She's going to win.
But just in case she doesn't, we have an insurance policy.
unidentified
insurance policy was what they were doing and we caught them with yeah you caught them all right They belong in jail.
owen shroyer
I wish they would have been punished for their crimes.
ron desantis
Here's the thing.
owen shroyer
Let's go back to the debate.
ron desantis
Cartels are killing tens of thousands of our fellow citizens.
You want to talk about a country in decline?
You have the cartels controlling a lot of part of your southern border.
We have to reestablish the rule of law, and we have to defend our people.
The president of the United States has got to use all available powers as commander in chief to protect our country and to protect the people.
So when they're coming across, yes, we're going to use lethal force.
Yes, we reserve the right to operate.
How many more tens of thousands are we going to let to die?
I am sick.
I've met angel moms throughout this country.
I met a lady in Texas named Tracy, and her son took one Percocet that was laced with fentanyl, immediately died.
That is happening all across this country because of the poison that they are bringing in.
So as president, would I use force?
Would I treat them as foreign terrorist organizations?
You're darn right I would.
bret baier
You know, Vice President Pence.
Vice President Pence, why would you be better at this issue than Governor DeSantis?
Oh, here's on the campaign challenge.
Here comes the refers to your Boy Scout delivery.
mike pence
Right.
victor willis
Look.
mike pence
We secured the southern border of the United States of America and reduced illegal immigration and asylum abuse at 90%.
When Joe Biden took over, he threw open the southern border of the United States and the wave of humanity, the wave of fentanyl that's been eloquently described here is a wave of human tragedy across this country.
But Martha, you began this evening talking about who is best prepared to be the next president of the United States.
owen shroyer
I just can't stand this guy.
I just cannot.
unidentified
He's just, it's such a phony.
owen shroyer
He's just insufferable to me now.
He is just totally insufferable to me now.
You know?
And that's going to be the takeaway, I think, for a lot of people from Mike Pence tonight.
donald j trump
That was a very important tweet or whatever it was, text.
It was a big deal.
That was a big deal.
The insurance policy.
She's going to win 100 million to one.
That's not good odds.
At least they gave me one, right?
100 million to one.
But just in case she doesn't win, we have an insurance policy.
And everybody said, that's strange.
That's strange.
But we caught all that because I fired Comey.
Because when I fired Comey, it was like throwing a rock into a hornet's nest, into a nest of bees, and the place went crazy.
tucker carlson
So when you were president, are you confident that you knew everything, say, CIA was doing around the world?
donald j trump
No, I'm not.
I'm not.
It's a very interesting group of people.
I had very good relationships, I thought.
But I was a little surprised when I got out that, you know, things go on, look, it's...
tucker carlson
What were you surprised by?
donald j trump
I was surprised.
I think it's some of the people.
I was surprised that there was, I had a group of people.
Look, we killed many using the CIA.
I have to say this.
Bad, very bad actors.
We were very good at it.
You look at Solomony, you look at al-Baghdadi, bigger than Osama bin Laden.
I mean, Osama bin Laden, but al-Baghdadi did ISIS, and he was rebuilding ISIS very strongly.
tucker carlson
And that was the CIA that did that.
donald j trump
That was really us that did that.
That was really us that did that.
And Soleimani was us that did that.
unidentified
Folks, this is a good one.
donald j trump
But we did some very good work.
owen shroyer
That is unreal that he's talking about U.S. proxy wars and the CIA's involvement.
And this is for the anti-establishment liberal.
That would be like crack cocaine when Bush was in office.
But when Trump says it, they hate him.
So it just shows how they're all brainwashed.
If a politician would have said what Trump just said about the wars in the Middle East and the CIA's involvement and our responsibility there, that would be like crack for an anti-establishment liberal during the Bush years.
But now those same liberals will tell you that Trump is the problem, even though he speaks like them.
It's like they just don't even get it.
So that's a pretty fantastic part of that interview right there.
All right, let's check in on where we're at with the debates.
We've got about 30 minutes left here.
They may actually be going to a break at the half hour.
Not proficient.
Yeah, okay, they're about to go to a break.
So let's go back to Trump and Tucker while they are in a break during the presidential debates for the Republican Party in Milwaukee.
donald j trump
I work with the CIA.
But I started, you know, when I looked at the 51 intelligence agents, that was the laptop from hell was Russia disinformation.
When I took a look at that, I said, that's a horrible thing.
They knew it wasn't.
They knew it was not.
And by the way, you're talking about cheating on the election?
McLaughlin and Fabrizio, great pollsters.
If they said a thing like that plus other things meant anywhere from 10 to 17 percent of the vote would change.
tucker carlson
Whatever happened to Mike Pence?
You've always been nice to Pence.
I've never heard you criticize Pence.
You've defended him in public many, many times.
He's out there attacking you.
donald j trump
Right now.
So Mike wants to run for president.
You've got to understand, in my opinion, Mike Pence had the absolute right to send the votes back to the legislatures.
The Democrats and everybody said, you don't have the right.
In other words, I said, is he a human conveyor belt?
You mean if he finds fraud in Pennsylvania, in Georgia, in any of these states, Arizona, he has to send them to Mitch McConnell, right?
That's right, sir.
Well, if he finds fraud, he has to.
Yes, sir.
I said, so he's just, so he's a conveyor belt.
Well, put him in.
I said, I don't agree with that.
And we had some lawyers, not all.
We had some lawyers that said, no, you do have the right to send them back to the legislatures to be rechecked.
Because if you looked at what went on in Wisconsin, who, by the way, now agree with me, Wisconsin has been virtually, other than the fact they're not allowed to do anything statutorily, but Wisconsin has been, I mean, what they found is incredible.
I mean, we won Wisconsin.
But Mike Pence had the right, in my opinion, to send them back.
tucker carlson
Do you ever talk to him now?
donald j trump
No, I haven't spoken to him in a long time.
I was very disappointed in him.
I didn't want to do what Thomas Jefferson did.
Thomas Jefferson, it was Georgia.
And it was here ye, the great state of Georgia is not capable or allowed to tabulate their votes.
And Thomas Jefferson, who was the vice president, said, is Georgia sure that they cannot tabulate their votes?
Georgia is sure.
He didn't send them back and have them redo it.
He said, we will keep the votes of the great state of Georgia for Thomas Jefferson and his president.
I didn't ask him for that.
Could have done that too, but I didn't.
unidentified
I thought that would break turmoil.
owen shroyer
Another topic of discussion here that Joe Biden would be lost and have no clue what's going on.
donald j trump
You know, in Wisconsin, let's say.
tucker carlson
But why didn't he?
I mean, you'd worked together for four years.
You're the president, he's VP.
You say you're aligned on everything.
donald j trump
I think he got very bad advice.
I really do.
Now, let me tell you what happened.
I sat there with a few people.
I think his lawyer was in the room too.
His lawyer was very much against it.
There were other lawyers that felt you could do it.
It was one of those things.
You probably, I think you could have done it.
I think you can always do something if you see fraud or if you see problems.
But it's very interesting.
So after the election was over, the rhinos got together with the Democrats and they redid the election so you couldn't do it anymore.
So then I called the people.
I said, so in other words, you're saying I was right.
You could do it.
Yes, you could do it.
In other words, they took the voting act and they redid it so the vice president no longer has the power to do what I said he could do.
So when that happened, I said, wow.
So, and you know, you'd look some of these Democrats in the eye and they'd say he has absolutely no right to do it.
And immediately after the election, they met, rhinos, could name them all, and Democrats, and they approved legislation that takes away the right of the vice president to do it.
So I said, ah, so you're saying I was right.
owen shroyer
Wow.
Well, that's a big clip that people are going to be talking about tomorrow.
bret baier
Ten-year-olds and third-party.
owen shroyer
Go back to debates.
bret baier
Governor DeSantis, you would eliminate, you said, the Department of Education.
But as president, would you still have a responsibility to fix this crisis as we see it?
ron desantis
Absolutely.
The decline in education is one of the major reasons why our country is in decline.
We need education in this country, not indoctrination in this country.
And in Florida, Florida, we stood up for what was right.
First, we had schools open during COVID.
owen shroyer
This feels like Brett Baer teed up this question.
In fact, it feels like Brett has teed up a lot of moments here for DeSantis.
ron desantis
That was wrong.
We stood up.
I took a lot of fire for that.
I was pilloried by the media, but I stood for our kids.
And as president, I'll stand for you and your kids as well.
But we have to make sure that what our schools are doing is focusing on solid academics.
In Florida, we eliminated critical race theory from our K-12 schools.
We eliminated gender ideology from our K-12 schools.
And we have elevated the importance of American civics in teaching our kids about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
As president, I'm going to lead an effort to increase civic understanding and knowledge of our Constitution.
We cannot be graduating students that don't have any foundation in what it means to be an American.
bret baier
Mr. Ramashwami, Mr. Ramashwami, Mr. Ramaswamy, hold on, Senator Scott.
owen shroyer
Pence and Scott trying to get in.
bret baier
The Department of Education, the FBI, the ATF, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the IRS, the Department of Commerce, many of these should not exist.
owen shroyer
Keep rolling them up.
vivek ramaswamy
That's correct.
bret baier
So to the education question, how would you deal with the crisis?
vivek ramaswamy
So look, we have a crisis of achievement.
Let's shut down the head of the snake, the Department of Education.
Take that $80 billion, put it in the hands of parents across this country.
This is the civil rights issue of our time.
Allow any parent to choose where they send their kids to school.
End the teachers' unions at the local level to allow public schools to compete.
And then revive our national identity where every high school senior should have to pass the same civics test that, frankly, every immigrant, including my mother, had to pass in order to become a citizen of this country.
And the fact of the matter is...
owen shroyer
I like that.
vivek ramaswamy
There's a part of education policy that also rests with the family.
owen shroyer
I had to do that.
I couldn't graduate from high school unless I got a 100% on the Constitution test, which was 100 questions, and the Bill of Rights test, which was only 10 questions.
But you had to get a 100%.
You could not get one wrong to graduate from my high school.
vivek ramaswamy
More not to have a man in the house than to have a man in the house, contributing to an epidemic of fatherlessness.
And I think that goes hand in glove with the education crisis as well, because we have to remember education starts with the family, and the nuclear family is the greatest form of governance known to mankind.
owen shroyer
Aggressive.
martha maccallum
Governor Haley has said, Governor Haley has said that biological boys playing in girls' sports is the worst.
owen shroyer
Why was there just a woman screaming?
What was that about?
Now they're going to talk about boys playing as girls.
I mean, this stuff is just pathetic.
It's pathetic that we even have to have this debate.
It's pathetic that this is even a topic of discussion.
So I don't even want to hear about it, really.
donald j trump
The vice president did have the right to do it, and they said, yes, he did.
tucker carlson
So if you're saying they stole it from you last time, why wouldn't they do the same this time?
donald j trump
Oh, well, they'll try.
They're going to be trying, yeah.
And not only me, you know.
Look, DeSanctis is out.
I think he's gone.
So he was at a level.
People have figured him out.
He's gone.
But if somebody else got in, other than me, they'll go at him just as viciously as they did me.
These people are sick.
They will go after them.
And a lot of people say they won't be able to hold up.
I do get credit for holding up quite well, I must tell you.
I think it's...
tucker carlson
How do you do that?
How do you get indicted every week and stay cheerful?
donald j trump
I think it's a lot easier because I'm so high in the polls because it means the people get it.
The people see it's a fraud.
The people see it.
Like this horrible district attorney from just a little while ago from essentially Atlanta.
That's Fulton County.
She said, basically, I don't have any right to challenge an election.
Well, what about Stacey Abrams?
What about Hillary Clinton?
What about all of these Democrats that are still challenging my election?
The same people that are saying he's challenging an election challenge my election.
And they did it with slates.
They did it with all sorts of things.
They were very bad, very bad about it.
But basically, they're suing me and they're saying you don't have any right to challenge.
And if you challenge an election, we're going to indict you and put you in jail.
So what they're doing is they're really, they've weaponized, and don't kid yourself, the DOJ and Biden and the whole group, they're watching all of this stuff.
They love the local stuff, you know, the DA in Manhattan.
Not only that, they put one of the DOJ top people into the Manhattan DA's office to run things.
They don't even have a case against me.
It's not even a case.
Everyone says, even the Democrats say, you can't bring these cases.
You have no case.
The Attorney General or the District Attorney, Fanny, Fannie Willis, in Atlanta, she's getting killed.
Basically, she's saying Trump doesn't have the right to criticize an election.
But you've been around long enough now.
You've seen many elections criticized.
I mean, Hillary Clinton goes crazy.
Every time she talks, she says, he's not the president, Jimmy Carterson.
He's not the president.
Well, I am the president.
Hillary Clinton called me, by the way, 302 in the morning to congratulate me the night of the election.
tucker carlson
Did her voice crack?
donald j trump
Well, her voice was very different, I will say.
I won't get into that.
tucker carlson
What do you mean?
donald j trump
Her voice was very different.
owen shroyer
She drunk?
donald j trump
Don't forget, they were all celebrating at 5 o'clock in the afternoon.
And I came home and I said, She was drunk.
I felt we won because the rallies are so big.
You know, we'd go to Wisconsin and we'd go to Georgia.
We'd go to different states.
In Michigan, we'd have rallies.
In Pennsylvania, we had 58,000 people in Butler.
And I said, you know, how are we losing this?
How do you have a rally where you have from 50 to 100,000 people, many of them?
You know, I did seven a day for a couple of days.
That's a lot.
That's a lot.
These are big rallies, too.
And I didn't hold back.
I didn't say, let's make them little, let's do abbreviations, right?
But they challenged this stuff.
Hillary Claude called me up and conceded.
Now, the word is that Obama said you have to do that.
But she called up and totally conceded.
But now, you know, every time you see her on television, she's saying, like, well, she's challenging the election.
So that would mean that she should be indicted, but that would mean also that Stacey Abrams in Georgia should be indicted because she still thinks she won the election for governor.
She still thinks that.
She's never recanted.
And I think that's the only thing.
owen shroyer
You know, this has been seen almost 100 million times.
That's amazing.
bret baier
Test or public service for those on the street.
owen shroyer
Go back to the debate coming to a conclusion.
bret baier
So the question is, do you want a mental acuity test for presidents over 75?
vivek ramaswamy
I believe in the people of this country to tell the difference between somebody who's an automaton and somebody who's actually a thinking agent in the White House, which we don't have in there today.
And I will tell you, I want to address Vice President Pence's comment.
I think we do need somebody of a different generation to lead this nation forward.
Look at the way I've run this campaign.
Go into the south side of Chicago, to Kensington, in the middle of Philadelphia, where traditional Republican candidates don't go.
We have an opportunity to build a multi-ethnic working-class majority to deliver a landslide.
And I think I'm the only candidate in this race, young or old, black or white, to bring all of those voters along to deliver a Reagan 1980 revolution.
owen shroyer
Saying we're going to do it in 2020.
unidentified
Same question to you.
Don't worry, it's no vote in a presidential election until 2020.
vivek ramaswamy
I will answer that.
I will answer that.
martha maccallum
30 seconds.
vivek ramaswamy
30 seconds quick answer.
unidentified
You don't have any questions.
nikki haley
Nobody's getting control of this.
unidentified
Everybody's going to get an instigation.
bret baier
Shut up, Nikki Haley.
owen shroyer
Israel controls your debate.
bret baier
Governor Hutchinson.
You have 30 seconds on the same question.
unidentified
On education.
First of all, look at Arkansas.
We have to compete with China.
I built computer science education.
We led the nation in computer science education, going from 1,100 students to 23,000 students taking it.
This is how you compete with China.
As president of the United States, I will make sure we go from 51 percent of our schools offering computer science to every school.
owen shroyer
All right.
We'll continue to monitor this if somebody important talks.
tucker carlson
Stacey Abrams will be indicted for that.
donald j trump
No, of course not.
She won't be.
The Democrats don't get indicted for things like that.
They don't get impeached.
No, it's a different thing.
With that being said, I had great support when they did impeachment hooks number one and impeachment hooks number two.
Jim Jordan.
The House was fantastic.
And actually, the Senate was very good for me.
Other than, you know, Mitch McConnell, I think if he had, it's too bad I endorsed him.
He was begging he was going to lose that race, and I endorsed him, and he ended up winning the race because of my endorsement.
He was down.
He was going to lose to Amy McGrath.
She was $90 million in cash, all set to go.
She was leading by three.
He was going down.
I did him a favor, and then three, four months later, he really wanted to impeach me.
He's a bad guy.
But if you look at what's going on politically, it's so interesting.
The level of loyalty is different in politics than it is in normal life, I will say.
With that being said, I've had great loyalty also.
But the House was fantastic.
The Senate was very good.
You know, they overrode Mitch McConnell.
Mitch McConnell, in my opinion, was trying to get senators to impeach me, especially for the second one.
And on the first one, he acted very, very slow.
He should have gone much faster.
owen shroyer
All right, Trump hammering Mitch McConnell.
DeSantis about to speak here.
We're speaking now.
ron desantis
Taught me, you know, when you go in that type of environment, anything you have, your personal agenda, you check it at the door.
You go there, and it's about focusing on the mission above all else.
And guys come together and they get it done.
And that's how I would view being the president of the United States.
It's not about me.
It's not about all these other side issues.
My sole focus will be on your future and reversing this country's decline.
unidentified
Okay, now for something a little out of this world, and this is for you.
martha maccallum
Christy, do you believe that the recent spike in UFO encounters...
chris christie
I get the UFO question?
martha maccallum
Yeah, you do.
unidentified
Come on, man.
owen shroyer
We ate the UFO.
martha maccallum
We've been hearing a lot of, we've hearing here a lot of testimony in Congress, and people are taking this flat more seriously.
And we're hearing that, you know, there are things going on that people aren't aware of.
unidentified
So, if you were president, would you level with the American people about what the government knows about these possible years ago?
owen shroyer
And when I saw him, I immediately said, that would look good on a grill.
I went and grabbed some barbecue sauce, slavered them up, and then I cooked them.
And I started to feel bad.
And I thought maybe this was an intelligent life form that could have helped our planet.
But I was hungry.
Everybody can understand that, right?
unidentified
Right?
owen shroyer
We all understand.
So anyway, we got a bunch of this technology now, but we have no idea how to use it.
Pence has no idea how to use it.
Trust me.
And you have no idea how to use it, Martha.
So I'm sorry I ate that alien, but think about this.
I could have stopped another alien invasion from happening by eating that one alien.
Now they're afraid of all of us.
You should be thanking me for that.
bret baier
We've got closing arguments plus.
Right after the debate, Hannity is live from the spin room right here in the 5-C forum with reaction from all the candidates.
owen shroyer
All right, all right.
How are we feeling, huh?
This debate pretty good here, huh?
This is going to be perfect timing.
We're going to finish up with Tucker and Trump and then hear final statements.
And we're going to be ahead of schedule and under budget.
donald j trump
But Mitch McConnell wanted to, and the senators went up to guys that are subservient to him because he gives money.
You know, he gives them money.
He gives them a lot of money.
He raises some money and he gives it to him and therefore they do what he said.
That's the only form of leadership he's got.
tucker carlson
So last question.
If you're elected president again, what's your top, your number one priority?
When you ran last time, you said, I will build a wall.
This time, your bottom line, top promise to the country.
donald j trump
So you can do numerous things at the same time.
unidentified
Of course.
donald j trump
But let's say number one is a border and taking hundreds of thousands of criminals that have been allowed into our country and getting them out and bringing them back to their country, Guatemala.
By the way, not only the four countries that we think of as neighbors, all over the world.
Last month, we had 149 countries represented.
Think of it.
We had 149 countries represented, Tucker, from places that many people never even heard of coming into our country.
And they're coming in from mental institutions and they're coming in from prisons.
They're emptying out their prisons all over South America.
They're emptying out their mental institutions.
Terrorists are pouring into our country.
We have no idea.
I had the strongest border in the history of our country.
And I built almost 500 miles of wall.
You know, they like to say, oh, was it less?
unidentified
No.
donald j trump
I built 500 miles.
In fact, if you check with the authorities on the border, we built almost 500 miles of wall.
And I had another 200 that I was going to build.
You know, it's like water.
It seeks.
And we're going to build another 200.
We built it.
It was all set to go.
All they had to do was install it.
It would have taken three weeks.
And that's when I found out.
I said, I think these people actually want open borders.
The first thing I would do would be, I would seal up the border good and tight, except for people that want to come in legally.
unidentified
Do you think we're moving towards civil war?
donald j trump
There's tremendous passion and there's tremendous love.
You know, January 6th was a very interesting day because they don't report it properly.
I believe it was the largest crowd I've ever spoken before.
And you know some of the crowds I've spoken before.
And like July 4th on the mall, I think they had a million people there.
But I think that the biggest crowd I've ever spoken before was on January 6th.
And people that were in that crowd, a very, very small group of people, and we said, patriotically and peacefully, peacefully and patriotically, right?
Nobody ever says that.
Go peacefully and patriotically.
But people that were in that crowd that day, very small group of people went down there.
And then there are a lot of scenarios that we can talk about.
But people in that crowd said it was the most beautiful day they've ever experienced.
There was love in that crowd.
There was love and unity.
I have never seen such spirit and such passion and such love.
And I've also never seen simultaneously and from the same people such hatred of what they've done to our country.
tucker carlson
So do you think it's possible that there's open conflict?
We seem to be within the world.
donald j trump
I don't know because I don't know what it, you know, I can say this.
There's a level of passion that I've never seen.
There's a level of hatred that I've never seen.
And that's probably a bad combination.
tucker carlson
Donald Trump, thank you.
donald j trump
Thank you very much.
unidentified
Very much.
Thank you.
tucker carlson
That is a bad combination, Brian.
donald j trump
Bad combination.
Thank you.
owen shroyer
All right.
So there is, I mean, talk about ending it on the heavier side.
I don't even want to touch that one.
And Donald Trump just did.
By the way, I'm monitoring the Drudge poll right now.
In fact, let me take this live for you.
unidentified
All right.
owen shroyer
Who do you guys think is winning?
You already know who I think is winning, and I guarantee it that the poll results are going to be Ramoswami.
After that, I don't know, maybe DeSantis, even Christie has kind of been set up for a victory.
But I think those are probably going to be our top three.
Let's see what we got here.
Nikki Haley beating DeSantis.
Yikes.
That is bad for DeSantis, folks.
This is a sad day that he can't even crack the top three.
And Nikki Haley and Chris Christie are beating him.
Yikes.
Pence polling about the same as Bergham and Hutchinson and Scott.
That's sad that Scott is so down low.
Ray Moswami winning, though.
But what's amazing is look at these numbers.
Boy, are Drudge's numbers down or what?
Usually the top vote getters are getting hundreds of thousands of votes.
That just shows you how down Drudge is right now.
All right, final comments.
We go live.
Final moments of this debate.
bret baier
Adults said they were extremely proud to be an American.
That number has now plummeted to just 39%.
In his pitch to get to the Oval Office, President Reagan called America the shining city on a hill, a beacon of hope and optimism.
martha maccallum
So in your closing statement tonight, please tell American voters why you are the person who can inspire this nation to a better day.
These are 45 seconds, and we begin with Governor Bergham.
doug burgum
I understand why America's hurting.
Biden's inflation is choking us.
I grew up in a small town.
My dad died when I was freshman in high school.
My mom, widow of three, went back to work.
Every job I had growing up was one where I took a shower at the end of the day, not at the beginning of the day.
Our cities are less safe because of the fentanyl pouring into this country.
Our economy is being crushed by Biden's energy policies, which are raising the cost of every project.
owen shroyer
I really like that shirt that he's wearing, but I feel the jacket isn't fitting him properly.
He needs a little tighter in the shoulders and the chest because there's way too big of a gap between the collar and the shirt.
But that shirt looks really nice.
doug burgum
It's for sure.
When I'm on a horseback in the Badlands of North Dakota, it looks like the horizon is just limitless.
And when you can almost see beyond that horizon, you can see that this great country, our future is unlimited.
But we've got to focus on innovation, not regulation.
We've got to cut the red tape.
We've got to drive ourselves toward the way we win the cold.
owen shroyer
All right.
So he's, you know, he's polling at 3% tonight for the debate.
And here's the guy.
They're going to go.
So they go in order of, so it's going to be Hutchinson next.
And they go in order.
Oh, I didn't even realize.
Hutchinson.
I forgot to say, Hutchinson, who's more pro-Israel, Hutchinson or Haley?
Hutchinson has an Israel flag on his lapel pin.
What is that about?
unidentified
Of Joseph Biden.
The solution is not four more years of Donald Trump.
The solution is new leadership that can bring bold ideas to America.
That's wearing an Israeli best of America.
A president's number one responsibility is to bring out the best of our people.
That's what Ronald Reagan did.
And he did it with optimism and hope for our country with a consistent conservatism.
That's exactly what I bring.
As president, I'll bring out the best of America in terms of individual responsibility, building our economy, in terms of securing our border, enforcing the rule of law.
I'll bring out the best of America in terms of our national character, our faith, and our hope for the future.
Join in this fight.
He doesn't seem like a very bright guy.
martha maccallum
Thank you.
Senator Scott.
tim scott
Thank you.
I was a disillusioned young man growing up in a single-parent household mired in poverty.
I wondered if the American dream was real for a kid like me.
I can stand before you today and say the dream is alive, it is well, and it is healthy.
I have the good fortune of a mom who works 16-hour days making sure we have food on our tables.
She taught me that if you're able-bodied in America, you work.
If you take out a loan, you pay it back.
If you commit a violent crime, you go to jail.
And if God made you a man, you play sports against men.
owen shroyer
No, I don't think that's the same shirt.
I think his shirt has a blue.
His shirt has blue to it.
It might be the same design.
It does seem to be the same design and texture.
But it would appear to me that Scott is wearing a blue shirt tonight.
chris christie
Thank you, Brett.
Thank you, Martha.
owen shroyer
Guys.
chris christie
Everybody on this stage wants to be the next president of the United States.
And the only way that's going to happen is if we beat Joe Biden.
unidentified
Excuse me.
owen shroyer
Let me get a doughnut here.
unidentified
When I first arrived with this debate, I was told I'd get two dozen donuts.
owen shroyer
When they weren't here at the start of the debate, I started to get anxiety that I might collapse or faint even from the malnourishment.
But I have good news for you now.
Not only did they deliver two dozen donuts, but a bonus dozen long johns with the chocolate icing were also delivered right here under my podium.
And when I finish these donuts, I want the rest of Americans to know that you and your pantry will be overflowing with donuts and chocolate longjohns as well.
I'm Chris Christie.
I have a size 46 waist.
unidentified
Wow.
nikki haley
Several weeks ago, I dropped my husband Michael, a combat veteran from Afghanistan, off at 4 a.m. for another year-long deployment.
I watched him and 230 soldiers pick up their two duffel bags of belongings to go to a country they're going to be all in the name of protecting America.
If they are willing to protect from there, we should be willing to fight for America here.
I will beat Joe Biden, and he knows that.
I will strengthen our economy, and we'll bring this inflation down.
We will put transparency in the classroom.
We will secure our borders.
We will have the backs of our law enforcement, and we will make sure we have a strong national security.
And once again, we will make sure we have an America that is strong and proud.
We have a country to save.
Join us.
Go to NikkiHaley.com and let's get it done.
donald j trump
Then there's something wrong with you.
You're certainly not very good.
owen shroyer
Look at this smug phony.
mike pence
This evening.
It's an honor to be here.
Joe Biden has weakened America at home and abroad.
The disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, their war on energy, runaway spending that launched the worst inflation in 40 years, a crisis at our southern border, an assault on us.
owen shroyer
This guy is just so phony.
He just comes off as such a phony now.
I just cannot help this.
Mike Pence is so insufferable to me now.
And I feel that most people probably feel the same way.
mike pence
Proven leadership at the national level that knows how to move a conservative agenda forward.
We proved in the Trump Pence years you can turn this country around federalism.
You can imagine.
And I have faith we will again.
owen shroyer
Said Trump.
mike pence
Because I have faith in the American people.
A good, decent, hardworking people.
owen shroyer
Nobody, you wouldn't even be on the stage if it wasn't for Trump.
mike pence
That God is not done with America yet.
And if we will renew our faith in one another and renew our faith in him who has ever guided this nation since we arrived on these wilderness shores, I know the best days for the greatest nation on earth.
owen shroyer
Imagine campaigning on the Trump presidency and you're running against him.
vivek ramaswamy
Born in 1985, and I grew up into a generation where we were taught to celebrate our diversity and our differences so much that we forgot all of the ways we are really just the same as Americans bound by a common set of ideals that set this nation into motion in 1776.
And this is our moment to revive those common ideals.
God is real.
There are two genders.
Fossil fuels are a requirement for human prosperity.
Reverse racism is racism.
An open border is not a border.
Parents determine the education of their children.
The nuclear family is the greatest form of governance known to man.
Capitalism lifts us up from poverty.
There are three branches of government, not four.
And the U.S. Constitution, it is the strongest guarantor of freedom in human history.
That is what won us the American Revolution.
That is what will win us the revolution of 2024.
Thanks for letting me introduce myself tonight.
unidentified
Thank you.
Wow.
owen shroyer
Strong.
Strongest yet.
That was the strongest yet.
unidentified
All right.
owen shroyer
What's DeSantis' answer?
bret baier
Governor?
ron desantis
This is our time for choosing.
We will send Joe Biden back to his basement and we will reverse the decline of this country.
I'm a blue-collar kid.
I work minimum wage jobs to be able to make ends meet.
I understand the importance of the American dream, and I know how that slipped away from so many millions of Americans.
We'll restore it.
I'm a veteran who served in Iraq.
I know what it means to put service above self.
I'm also a dad and a husband to six, five, and three-year-old.
I understand the importance of protecting parents' rights and the well-being of our children.
In Florida, we showed it could be done.
I made promises, and I delivered on all of those promises.
2024 is make or break.
We're not getting a mulligan.
No excuses.
I will get the job done.
And as your president, I will not let you down.
unidentified
God bless you all.
bret baier
We want to say thank you.
Thank you to all of you.
unidentified
All right.
Yes, thanks.
Okay.
bret baier
And thank you to Milwaukee.
ron desantis
All right.
owen shroyer
Yeah.
Okay.
Not bad.
You know what's weird about this?
DeSantis has this nervous tick.
Have you noticed this now?
He has this nervous tick where he delivers something and it's a strong delivery.
He kind of has this like, like, oh, I did it.
Like, oh, I got through it.
Like, you like me now?
It's a very odd thing.
But there you go.
There you go.
To me, Vivek Ramaswamy, the obvious winner.
I don't think anybody would argue otherwise if they're being honest.
And the early numbers, I mean, I don't know what other poll I would go to.
Drudge's poll is usually the poll when it comes to the presidential debates.
A side story is just how the numbers are so much lower.
These debates used to get hundreds of thousands of votes, barely getting, in fact, not even getting 100,000 votes now at Drudge, less than 50,000 even.
So it shows you the fall off of Drudge since it went left.
But there you go, Vivek Ramaswamy, the clear-cut winner.
Chris Christie coming in at number two, that kind of shocks me.
DeSantis can't even clear the top three.
I mean, folks, that's bad.
That's really bad for DeSantis.
If he can't, honestly, if he doesn't come up as the runner-up to Trump, he's probably politically dead.
But if he can't even come in the top three of the debates without Trump, then he might already be a walking political corpse.
And that's too bad.
I think Ron DeSantis was a good governor.
I think he's probably a well-meaning guy, but he's rubbed elbows and is with all the neocons and the Bushites and everything else.
And I think he knows we know it, and he can taste the, he can feel the momentum moving against him.
And so that's kind of the awkwardness because he probably really is a genuine guy.
But how do you come off as a genuine guy when everybody knows that now you're working with the ingenuine members of the Republican Party?
So there you go.
Ray Maswami, I think, takes the cake easily tonight.
It seems that you guys would agree.
That's what the comments would indicate.
And also, oh, let's not forget a very solid headline-making interview with Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson.
So that also is a big story from tonight.
That's going to do it for me.
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owen shroyer
We'll see you guys tomorrow.
Band.video, InfoWars War Room.
Gonna be a loaded one.
Oh, oh, oh, and I guess there's kind of a big day tomorrow, isn't it?
The Trump indictment.
Here's what they're going to do quickly before I sign off.
I think they will probably give us the Trump mugshot.
And the judge is going to try to gag Donald Trump.
I think that's going to be the big thing.
The judge is going to try to gag Donald Trump so he can't campaign, can't post on the internet.
But there's definitely going to be some crazy twists and turns.
Atlanta's going to be bumping.
I mean, look, we're in mid-season now.
It's on.
Usually the presidential election year is the seasonal time.
Well, no, it's presidential election year already.
Everybody can feel it.
Everybody knows it.
The interest level is peaked.
We're not watching the ball games anymore.
We're not watching the naked horrors on TV anymore.
We care about the future of our country.
This is what we're paying attention to.
It's mid-season forum now for the 2024 election.
I'll see you tomorrow at band.video.
victor willis
Be good.
Can you get your pay?
All people who succeed must listen to what the government has to say.
We must go cleanse ourselves of happiness Yes, I got on this to hope we pray.
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