Sean Hannity Show - Trump Live - 8.31

Sept. 1, 2016 - Sean Hannity Show

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Trump Live - 8.31

Sean took Donald Trump's full remarks on Immigration live in the second hour of 'Hannity' and it is certainly worth listening to. Was it the defining moment in the campaign? Only the polls will know for sure in the coming weeks... The Sean Hannity Show is live Monday through Friday from 3pm - 6pm ET on iHeart Radio and Hannity.com. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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	Trump is touched down.
	He's in Mexico.
	He will be meeting with the Mexican president.
	Already it's being politicized by Hillary Clinton and company complaining that Donald Trump's visit to Mexico is undermining America.
	How could a trip to Mexico possibly undermine America?
	Talk about stupidity.
	Anyway, the only thing it's undermining maybe is Hillary's chance to become the president of the United States.
	But anyway, Cincinnati Inquirer, they have an article out today.
	Donald Trump's visit to Mexico today serves as an example of the way a Trump presidency could undermine the U.S. leadership as an exceptional nation, Hillary told veterans.
	And she criticized Trump for trying to make up for a year of insults, insinuations by dropping in on our neighbors for a few hours and then flying home again.
	As her Republican opponent headed to Mexico to test his diplomatic prowess in a visit with the country's president, he accepted an invitation from the Mexican president.
	Our power comes with responsibility to lead humbly.
	You know, that's what I first think of when I think of Hillary enriching herself.
	She's leading humbly.
	You know, humble people tell lots of lies like Hillary, thoughtfully in a fierce commitment to our values.
	When America fails to lead, we leave a vacuum.
	Oh, you mean when you pulled out of the war in Iraq that you sent our young men to fight, bleed, and die for?
	Or maybe you're talking about the weapons and the money you're giving the Iranians.
	Or maybe you're talking about not honoring 600 separate requests for those in Benghazi and then lying to the families and giving a stand down order and more worried about what our brave military would be wearing when they went to save them.
	That's the record of Hillary Clinton.
	So I have a lot to get to.
	I have so many stats.
	You know what?
	On average, illegal immigration, the impact on our criminal justice system, our health care system, educational system, it's costing us, taxpayers, $113 billion a year.
	That's what we're paying.
	That's out of your pocket money we can't afford.
	95 million Americans out of the workforce.
	And guess what?
	Got 11 million illegal immigrants in the country, some 8 million of which are working or trying to work.
	Well, they're competing with the 95 million Americans out of the workforce.
	And guess what?
	Often is the case that they're winning those jobs over.
	And in the process, they're driving down wages.
	And who has disproportionately been impacted by this?
	Oh, the black community where Hillary claims to have a monopoly of compassion.
	And the same with the Hispanic community and people in inner cities.
	So we're going to get to all this type.
	We got a lot on our plate.
	We've got the DHS now taking over America's elections.
	I have a lot of problems with this.
	We've got new poll numbers.
	In the course of two weeks, the real clear politics average has dropped in half for Hillary Clinton or about in half for Hillary Clinton.
	Trump is zeroed in on Uma Abedeen's ties to radical Islam in this radical Islamic journal of her mother.
	You got a former Obama doctor, I hope CNN is listening, urging Hillary to have a neurological exam and release her medical records.
	Interesting piece by Judicial Watch warning that Hillary could actually be impeached before the election.
	Rick Perry has now called on the FBI director to resign over the Hillary cover-up.
	Vicente Fox, I once had a big fight with him on TV.
	He called the current Mexican president a traitor.
	Why is he a traitor?
	He invited Donald Trump.
	I guess he wants to run for office again.
	But we'll also get into this DHS issue.
	I think it's a really big one to take over the electoral process.
	That is going to be very, very problematic.
	Homeland Security eyes a special declaration to take charge of the elections.
	Why do I not feel comfortable by any of this?
	We'll look at the legality and constitutionality of it as well.
	I want to start with something else, though.
	And this is going to be the last day I address this issue because we're now 69 days outside of an election.
	And I want to deal with these never-Trump people forever and put it away.
	And they can say anything they want about me from here on in.
	And I just don't have time to respond.
	And I know Glenn Beck on his radio program devoted a lot of time to the topic today.
	I didn't hear it.
	I got reports, pretty detailed reports about the things that were said.
	I'm not questioning his patriotism, by the way.
	I did meet his son, and I think he was a lovely kid.
	And I said, your dad's a patriot.
	You know, he's on the radio fighting for his beliefs, and I stand by that today.
	That's not what this is about.
	You know, and for a period of time, I guess some of the disappointment here for me is I've written Glenn privately, and he only wrote me back when I CC'd some of our co-workers and bosses.
	Otherwise, he gave me a half-assed answer, and I was disappointed in that.
	And I've also been very critical of him because on many occasions, he has taken my position, my comments out of context, and I spent a lot of time explaining it to him personally.
	It's not like this is in a vacuum what my plan for the 2016 election and the primary was all about.
	And I have it all on tape, and I'm going to play it again.
	What I said at CPAC in 2015 and what I said at CPAC in 2016, but I explained to him personally what my approach to the primaries were, that I want to serve, best serve my audience, and that I felt the best way I can do this was to give as much possible airtime to every single candidate.
	And I don't even get to vote in the Republican primary because I'm a registered conservative, so it's not my vote to begin with anyway, nor do I feel particularly comfortable in telling people who they should vote for.
	Now, I'm taking a very strong position in the general, but that was part of my promise too, that whoever you, the people, decided you wanted as your nominee, I would support because I felt and I feel today that out of the 17 people that the Republicans had running for the nomination, they were all infinitely better than anything that Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders would have to offer to us.
	You know, and so it's frustrating when you're mischaracterized.
	It's frustrating.
	I understand that when I say you own it, you own Hillary Clinton because of the way that many of these people have been acting that it gets under their skin.
	And I've seen the tweets and I've seen the commentary and I've seen the attacks.
	And I got to tell you something, I don't care because this country is in a rapid, precipitous, steep decline.
	And as somebody who started at the bottom in life, paperboy at eight, 12 dishwasher, 13 cook, busboy, waiter, bartender at 17, somebody that has painted houses.
	Again, this is two decades of my life.
	This is not Sean Hannity, born silver spoon in his mouth.
	I was born on a 50 by 100 lot, Franklin Square, Middle America.
	You know what?
	My parents did not have money for vacations and new cars most of my life growing up.
	Period.
	End of sentence.
	So was I raised?
	Well, yeah.
	I mean, they did the best they could.
	My father grew up poor in Beds Die in Brooklyn.
	I'm very honored.
	But I see this dream evaporating before our eyes.
	There's a reason I give out statistics about how socialism, statism, redistribution, Obama's presidency has failed.
	And you know what?
	Maybe it's not impacting the punditry class or the Wall Street Journal class or the NRO crowd over there that are writing their books and their articles and they're so sanctimonious and superior to the rest of us and they're disgusted that you, the people voted for Donald Trump.
	Ugh, mere masses of stupidity that you are.
	And I get where they're coming from because they are the establishment.
	But the reality is, when you, at the end of the day, your choice is now this.
	It's Trump or it's Hillary.
	So you choose.
	So I'm not going to vote.
	I'm going to waste my vote and vote for Gary Johnson.
	And I think it's a mistake, and I think it's a half a vote for Hillary.
	Now, one of the things during this process, well, first let me go to my promise at CPAC in 2015.
	At CPAC 2015, I began the process.
	I interviewed Jeb Bush.
	I interviewed Donald Trump.
	I interviewed Marco Rubio.
	I interviewed Ted Cruz.
	I did a lot of this on stage.
	And I gave my own speech.
	And here's part of my speech and my promise to how I would handle the primaries in this election cycle.
	This is my pledge to you.
	As somebody who's undecided, on both my radio and television program on the Fox News channel, I promise you this.
	As somebody who has not made up his mind, I am going to give access to every single solitary candidate as often as I can, as often as they'll come.
	By the end of the process, I will ask them every question I can possibly think of.
	And then I am putting this all in your hands.
	And I stuck to that promise all that year.
	And then I went back one month after the primaries and caucuses started.
	This was March.
	They started February 1st of this year.
	And I went back to CPAC and I said this to the crowd.
	The problem is at the end of this process, only one person is going to be the winner.
	And what I'm worried about here tonight is that if your candidate doesn't win, that some of you are going to be angry and emotional that your guy lost and some of you are going to want to pout and some of you are going to go on TV and radio and call my show and say, I can't support that guy.
	And then what's going to happen is you are giving half a vote to Hillary Rodham Clinton.
	I don't care if you support Trump, Cruz, Rubio, or Kasich.
	Any one of them are better than Hillary Clinton.
	But this is my question for all of you here at CPAC.
	Will you ask yourself in your heart, regardless of who the candidate is you support, will you at the end of the day, I want to ask you, as a matter of fact, I want you to stand.
	Wait, wait, don't stand yet.
	I want to see in this room, if your candidate doesn't win, you know how the Republican Party made people who pledge, will you all pledge to support whoever wins the nomination?
	And everybody but one person that I saw stood up in that room.
	You know, during this process, when I was accused of being unfair by some of the Senator Cruz supporting people, we actually took the time and we added up the number of appearances and the actual time that we gave the candidates on radio and TV.
	It turned out Senator Cruz had much more radio time than any other candidate.
	And he and Trump, for example, as they move later in the process, they were pretty equal on TV.
	And again, I stuck to my pledge that I would serve you, my audience, give you access, ask every single question I could.
	Now, I'm telling you right now, after today, I am not spending one more minute on any of this.
	I am moving on.
	And apparently, Beck is assuming that this election is over and he's talking about everybody coming together afterwards.
	I have anybody that tells you right now who's going to win this election, they do not know what they're talking about.
	And I'm going to spend every day, the next 69 days that I'm on air, and I am going to try and convince you that by far, on the issues that matter the most, that Donald Trump is the far superior candidate than Hillary Clinton.
	Now, I kept my promises to you throughout this whole process, and I am at peace.
	My conscience is clear, and I kept many of my views to myself.
	I'll be honest at the beginning, I thought it was either going to be Cruz, Walker, Rubio, Perry, or Kasich.
	I didn't think Trump was going to break through this way.
	And as the campaign evolved, it became very obvious that Trump was becoming a force to reckon with.
	And I think there are reasons for this.
	He's politically incorrect.
	He's outspoken.
	He has formulated a strong nationalist, populist, conservative, America-first message that is extremely unique and compelling.
	But again, I stayed true to my pledge.
	I just put them on, asked them questions, and let you decide for yourself.
	And you voted for him in record numbers.
	You know, in the course of that process, there were three times I spoke out against candidates.
	One against Marco Rubio.
	I didn't like.
	I thought he played the race card against Trump.
	I thought it was unfair.
	Trump, when he tweeted out the pictures of Melania and Ted Cruz, his wife, I thought that was unfair.
	Ted Cruz, three interviews in a row.
	Yeah, I'm asking Trump questions of him.
	I got pissed off because I was asking my questions that were relevant at the time.
	So short of that, I want you to know something.
	I traveled around the country, by the way, often dipping into my own pocket to do so because I made a promise to all of you to provide the best election coverage I possibly could, and I meant what I said.
	And when I said I would support the nominee, I meant what I said.
	I made that pledge.
	It was simple for me.
	Voting for Trump right now is simple for me.
	Any of the 17 today are infinitely better than her.
	Now, this is becoming, and I knew then it is a choice election.
	Now, the problem here is, is you've got all of these guys combined, Wall Street Journal, NRO guys, you know, Glenn Beck, everybody now is evolved into now not being as critical of Hillary Clinton as they are of Donald Trump, and especially elected Republicans.
	They're the worst.
	You want to know why this was an insurgency year?
	Because Republicans, they catapulted both Cruz and Trump to the top because they failed the Republican Party.
	Every exit poll showed 65% of Republicans felt betrayed by their party.
	They have been weak, visionless, timid, feckless, and spineless.
	I have said this multiple times.
	And when you look at the NRO, the Wall Street Journal, Jonah Goldberg, Bill Kristol, George Will, Mitt Romney, his entire team, when you look at pushing other candidates to replace Trump, then you can add the Glenn Becks of the world, and then you have every candidate that pledged to support the nominee breaking their pledge, and then you got people rubbing their faces in Cheetos, and then other people making Nazi references,
	then the how do people like Sean Hannity sleep at night references by Glenn Beck and others, then members of Congress don't have the courage to support him or the Senate don't have courage to support him.
	Not any one of these guys hurts Trump's chances of winning.
	I believe he can win even without all of those people.
	I honestly do.
	But cumulatively, this is a sabotage.
	This is an undermining of his chances to win.
	And when I get back, I'm going to explain all of you that are doing this what you will own as a country if Hillary's elected.
	And I will blame you.
	And if Trump gets elected and breaks his promises, feel free to blame me because I'm supporting Donald Trump.
	800, 9-4.
	And by the way, very confidently, very at peace about the whole thing.
	Donald Trump is in Mexico meeting now with the Mexican president.
	We expect a joint presser together at some point coming up here.
	I'm going to say this for the last time, and in the next 69 days, I will not be responding anymore because we just don't have time, and there's way too much at stake, I think, for the country.
	I'm not saying that any one of these groups of people are responsible for the sabotage of Donald Trump, although I do believe in the minds of many of them that there's going to make nothing, none of them happier than to be able to say to you, the American voter, see, you should have listened to us.
	NRO people, Jonah Goldberg, Wall Street Journal folks like Brett Stevens, Bill Crystal, Weekly Standard, George Will.
	I'm very disappointed in Mitt Romney.
	Always liked him personally.
	I still believe he would have been a great president.
	Him and his almost his entire team, the Stuart Stevens folks out there every day doing everything they possibly can to undermine Donald Trump and his chances of defeating Hillary Clinton.
	And when you look at the people that have pushed for other candidates to replace him, when you add the Glenn Becks of the world that just, you know, I've heard Nazi references on his program.
	I have heard him refer to me.
	How does Sean Hannity sleep at night?
	Frankly, I sleep well because I kept my promise.
	I served my audience and I'm keeping my promise now and I'm going to support the nominee.
	And infinitely, as I said from the beginning, Trump is better off than any of them.
	Members of Congress and the Senate, the very people that created an atmosphere for Donald Trump to flourish, every exipole, 65% of Republicans feel betrayed by their party.
	They've earned that distinction when they say we're going to repeal and replace Obamacare.
	And they have all these show votes and they can get back to their district and they can use that vote to get reelected.
	But when it really came time to stand up and use their enumerated power of the purse, they wouldn't do it.
	They didn't have the courage.
	They didn't have the strength.
	They didn't have the will.
	When John Boehner is speaker in charge of the power of the purse, when he doesn't use that enumerated power, he cedes that power to the presidency.
	And all Obama needed to do to get Republicans to bubble and fizz like alka-sulture and water was to go out there and say, well, we're going to blame the Republicans for shutting down the government.
	And they were more concerned about the perception in the public and maintaining their own power than standing up for something that they had promised you, the American people, and more specifically Republican conservative voters.
	And then it became 2014.
	Illegal, unconstitutional executive amnesty.
	Every Republican said it.
	Every senator running said it.
	And then when it came time, before they even got into power, they gave away most of their leverage by passing an idiotic cromnibus bill.
	But they did say they would withhold funding for the Department of Homeland Security.
	They did say that.
	And then when February came and Obama threatened to say that they're going to shut down the Department of Homeland Security and we're not going to be safe, then they caved again.
	And thus, there it then lies where the 65% of Republicans feel betrayed.
	I am a conservative.
	I feel betrayed.
	I'm one of them.
	Now, but if you look at all of these people combined, there's not any one individual.
	It's not the NRO alone.
	If they had enough power, Trump wouldn't have gotten the nomination.
	It's not the Wall Street Journal alone.
	It's not Jonah Goldberg alone.
	It's not Bill Kristol alone.
	It's not George Will alone.
	It's not Mitt Romney and his entire campaign team alone.
	It's not Glenn Beck alone.
	It is a cumulative impact that it is having.
	And I say that this is now a combined sabotage of Trump's chances to win.
	And I'm saying that they are responsible for their choices here.
	Now, any one of them hurts Trump's chances.
	And to make the case here, people keep saying Hannity's preparing for Trump to lose, not at all.
	I'm looking at polls today, and, you know, first of all, the real clear politics average is down to, what, 4.2 percentage points.
	Hillary's leading.
	I believe in the polls, Nate Silver.
	But they're going down dramatically.
	I see that Donald Trump is tied in Ohio.
	I see that he is up one in one poll in Florida, down one in another poll in Florida.
	I see that he's only down five in Wisconsin, down three in Pennsylvania.
	And there's a lot of game left to play.
	I'm giving you the exact polls as they come out.
	I don't hide them.
	I don't sugarcoat them.
	And it's a lead for Hillary Clinton.
	In Wisconsin, for example, there's a poll out today.
	Now, Donald Trump cut Hillary's double-digit lead to three points now and put the race in play.
	And right now in a head-to-head contest, Clinton is up by 345, 42 among likely voters.
	I think that's pretty fascinating to me, Marquette University Law School.
	So I'm looking at that poll too.
	And I look at Hillary's decline.
	It's precipitous.
	It's rapid.
	And those are the issues I prefer to focus on.
	But this is my final admonition to all of you combined, all of the people that I mentioned.
	And it's not personal for me, but life is about choices.
	You know what?
	All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God for those of you that love religious references.
	And I say this to you.
	No, Donald Trump's not perfect.
	Donald Trump's made mistakes.
	Donald Trump's new to the process.
	Donald Trump's politically incorrect.
	Donald Trump speaks from his heart.
	He's made mistake after mistake, but still he's in this race.
	And I'm not coming together after with those saboteurs and uniting after because the time to change the country is right in front of your face.
	And so if you're part of the effort to undermine, sabotage, hurt Donald Trump's chances, this is what I'm saying to you.
	If Hillary does win, and I hope she doesn't, I believe Trump can win.
	But if she wins and she gets to appoint Supreme Court justices and not the justices that Donald Trump gave you names of, you own her choice.
	You own her choices.
	This will impact this country for generations.
	And by you undermining Trump, you are supporting her.
	You don't vote for Trump.
	That's a half a vote for Hillary in my mind.
	And I'm standing by it.
	If unvetted refugees, of which she wants a 500% increase, 550% increase from Obama's very high number, and you don't listen to James Clapper, the Director of Intelligence, National Director of Intelligence, or Comey, or Steinbeck, or Brennan, or Mike Bacall, or General John Allen, who all warn we can't possibly vet these people and ISIS will infiltrate that population.
	If they kill the American people and you helped support Hillary getting into office, you own that too.
	And if illegal immigrants come into this country and let's say some of them come in with the idea of bringing harm to American towns and cities and we don't have a wall because Hillary wants to build a bridge and not a wall and they commit crimes against Americans, that would be the worst case scenario.
	Or if they continue to compete with Americans when 95 million Americans are out of the labor force and take their jobs and drive down wages, I'm blaming you for that too.
	Hillary has said she wants to put coal miners out of work and coal companies out of business.
	Trump says he wants to expand coal, fracking, drilling, nuclear, and all of the above.
	Well, if we're not energy independent or better off energy-wise, and we don't get the millions of jobs, high-paying jobs that a goal of energy independence would give us, well, I'm blaming you for that too.
	If Obamacare continues to be the law of the land, even though in the last eight years under Obama, the average family is not keeping their doctor, not keeping their plan, and paying on average $4,100 a year more, and the price continues to go up and the care continues to be inferior and go down, then I'm blaming you for that too.
	And if education remains where we're the highest, we pay per capita the highest amount of any industrialized nation, and we're still 35th and four years after you help elect Hillary, instead of sending education back to the states as Trump would do, I'll blame you for that.
	If Hillary raises taxes $1.3 trillion as she promised, you can eat that policy too.
	You own it.
	If she spends $1.4 trillion as she has proposed, you own that.
	You eat that also.
	And I'm holding you responsible.
	And I'm similarly saying that if we have a president that can't say the word radical Islam, then I don't think you can defeat an enemy you're not willing to name, then I would say you're responsible for that too.
	Because to me, this is a moment where it's about choices.
	And if you look at the Supreme Court, if you look at the economy, if you look on refugees, if you look on immigration, education, energy, health care, and all the big issues that we face, there are diametrically opposed views and visions for the country.
	And that's why I'm proudly supporting Donald Trump.
	Now, this is the logical part that I don't understand.
	If Donald Trump just fulfilled five promises, if he were to just allow, just appoint Supreme Court justices, our country is infinitely better off versus what Hillary would appoint.
	If Donald Trump just kept the promise to be energy independent and we expand coal, fracking, drilling, nuclear, all the above, millions of high-paying jobs, just those two things, it would be great for the economy.
	If Donald Trump followed through on his promise to allow multinational corporations to repatriate the trillions of dollars they have parked overseas because of the high taxation that they would face if they brought the money back to the country and he incentivized them to bring it back at a very low tax rate and said, just please invest in manufacturing centers and factories here to put blue-collar workers in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Ohio back to work.
	That would be infinitely better than what Hillary is proposing.
	If Donald Trump just built the wall, that would make us infinitely more safe and it would help the 95 million Americans out of the labor force, the lowest labor participation since the 1970s.
	Here's what you've gotten in the last eight years of Obama.
	And nobody vetted Obama like I did.
	Nobody warned you about him like I did.
	Nobody told you about black liberation theology, Alinsky, and Acorn and Reverend Wright and Father Flager and Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dorn.
	I predicted all of this.
	And this is the result.
	We have 12 million more Americans on food stamps, now 50 million Americans on food stamps.
	We have 8 million more Americans in poverty, 46 million Americans in poverty.
	We have the lowest labor participation rate since the 70s, in spite of them lying to you and saying unemployment is going down.
	Black Americans have suffered disproportionately.
	I love that Trump is reaching out to the black communities going to Detroit later this week.
	58% increase black Americans on food stamps.
	20% increase black Americans out of the labor force.
	We are having the worst recovery since the 1940s.
	This president will be the first president never to reach 3% GDP growth.
	The American dream is dying for so many, the lowest home ownership rate in 51 years.
	We now have one in five American families without a single family member in the workforce.
	We now have one in six young men in this country, 18 to 34, that are either in jail or living in mommy and daddy's basement.
	He has accumulated more debt than every other president before him combined.
	And I haven't even touched the disaster that is Iraq and handing over Mosul and Ramadi and Takrete and Fallucia, along with Hillary, to ISIS, drawing a red line in the sand and allowing Assad to stay in power.
	The support of a guy that says that the Israelis are descendants of apes and pigs, Morsi, in Egypt, the disaster that is known in Libya, North Africa, and Benghazi, the disaster that is known as the entire Middle East that they've blown up, the disaster that is the Russian reset.
	So what I'm saying to all of you never Trumpers, and this is my last word, you own it.
	You have done everything you can do to undermine somebody that is, look, Hillary's going to be wrong 100% of the time, just like Obama.
	I'll accept that maybe Trump will be wrong sometimes.
	I'll anticipate it.
	But if he builds the wall, picks good Supreme Court justices, if he vets refugees, if he builds the wall, if he does send education back to the states, if he does allow competition for health care, if he does make us energy independent, and he does build up our military, which he has pledged so that we can, you know, have peace through strength, your country's going to be better.
	You want to be arrogant?
	You want to be ignorant?
	You want to help Hillary?
	You want to be sanctimonious and self-righteous and superior, and you want to stick your finger in the face of the American voters, you go ahead.
	I'm moving on.
	My next 61 days are going to be spent trying to elect a superior candidate that will stop America's precipitous decline.
	And this is personal for me as somebody that started at the bottom as a paperboy, dishwasher, cook, busboy waiter, bartender, house painter, wallpaper hanger, tile layer, house framer, house roofer, and somebody that busted his teeth and arm and everything else.
	That was 20 years of my life, and God gave me opportunity through the American dream.
	And it's dying before your eyes.
	Live with your choice.
	You want to blame me for Trump if he gets elected and breaks a promise?
	You bet.
	You go ahead.
	You have had it.
	But I'm blaming you, all of you that I've mentioned, and holding you responsible for your ignorance, for your arrogance, for your self-righteousness, for the sanctimony that you are now showing, because you're hurting the country in the end.
	This is a choice election.
	There are dramatically opposed visions for the future of the country.
	And by you trashing Trump, you've chosen Hillary.
	And I stand by that.
	All right, glad you're with us, Sean Hannity Show.
	Donald Trump expected to speak with the Mexican president.
	They keep saying mere moments, every cable channel, but it's not mere moments because we've been waiting, what, 40 minutes now for them to step up to the podium.
	When it happens, we'll bring it to you live.
	It's supposed to be a joint statement, but I don't think I ever remember a time that Donald Trump doesn't take questions, and I assume it's going to be in English and Spanish, so it might take longer than you think, but we'll have full, complete coverage of all of that.
	Hillary's blasting Trump for going to Mexico.
	Well, to me, it's Donald Trump.
	He wants to be president.
	The Mexican president invited him.
	Why wouldn't he go?
	Now, to me, if he didn't go, Hillary Clinton would be blasting him for not going.
	Maybe she's just jealous she didn't get the invitation at the same time and get to go first.
	She did have the ability to go to Baton Rouge the way we did, the way Trump did, and then even Obama embarrassed into going.
	So we'll have to see what happens.
	Now, look, you know, this whole issue of immigration is really simple.
	If you go to Donald Trump's website, immigration reform that will make America great again.
	As a matter of fact, here they come.
	They're stepping up to the podium.
	And when they do, we'll get it to you.
	A nation without borders is not a nation.
	A nation without laws is not a nation.
	A nation that does not serve its own citizens is not a nation.
	Anyway, there is the Mexican president and Donald Trump.
	They now begin their step to the podium.
	It's in Mexico City.
	And we don't have the audio yet for some reason.
	President Nieto and Donald Trump apparently had a pretty long meeting.
	This was all at the invitation of the president of Mexico.
	None of the networks have audio and it looks like it's all being if you look at the shots on the different cable networks, it looks like it's none of it is a real clear satellite shot.
	And it's not good video.
	So I'm wondering there must be some transmission problem of some kind.
	Not one cable network has the audio up on this thing.
	The Mexican president is actually speaking because I can see his lips moving, which is a good way to decide if somebody's speaking.
	Anyway, when that gets up.
	All right, let's, we got it up.
	Here it comes.
	With intense debate and many ideas and a full citizen participation, which are all the characteristics of the great democratic tradition of the United States of America, both Hillary Clinton and Mr. Donald Trump have publicly expressed their respect towards me.
	As the President and my friend Barack Obama has said, the next president of the United States will find in Mexico and in its government a neighbor that wishes to work in a constructive way in order to strengthen and increase the relationship between our nations, the bonds of our countries, and to face our common common challenges.
	If we decide to look at our opportunities together as friends, as good neighbors, and as strategic allies, based on a relationship which is founded on mutual respect.
	Although you do not agree in everything, we trust that together we'll be able to find greater prosperity without losing sight of the fact that liberty and independence are the grounds for everything we do.
	Any close relationship has to be revised and renewed once in a while.
	We're always open to discussions, to look at what works and what doesn't work, how to improve things on both sides of the border.
	How can we clarify and overcome misunderstandings and understand each other better?
	In this spirit, in the last few days, I sent a letter to both presidential candidates, to Mrs. Hillary Clinton, and to Mr. Donald Trump, proposing that we should meet with each other and to have a constructive conversation about our shared destinies.
	I have met today with Mr. Donald Trump, and I hope that I will soon be meeting with Mrs. Hillary Clinton, with whom I have had the pleasure of speaking in the past, also here at the official residence, Los Pinos.
	We are not in agreement on all topics.
	Mr. Donald Trump, who is president here, shows a basic fundamental thing in common.
	Our respective countries are important to each other.
	The United States is very important for Mexico, and likewise, Mexico is very important for the United States.
	We share one of the most heavily transited borders in the world.
	Every day, there are over one million people who legally cross the border and 400,000 vehicles.
	Trade between the countries is over $500 million per year.
	And we produce things jointly.
	And in terms of security, there is daily cooperation between our governments, which is growing year by year in order to meet the challenges of a very complex world.
	I had a conversation with Mr. Trump that was open and constructive.
	The purpose of our meeting was to get to know each other and to exchange our opinions and our views on our bilateral relations, on the bilateral relations.
	And in issues of trade, I share with Trump the notion that the free trade agreement of North America has been very good both for the United States and for Mexico.
	Exports by the United States to Mexico represent around $200 million per year.
	And the agreement with the Chamber of Commerce, according to the Chamber of Commerce, about 6 million jobs in the United States depend on these exports to Mexico.
	Our country buys more from the United States than Germany, Spain, France, and Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom altogether.
	There are many manufacturing jobs in the United States that have not moved to other regions of the world, specifically because together we have been able to develop a competitive manufacturing platform in the North American region.
	40% of the Mexican exports are made in the United States.
	As partners, we have to work together in order to avoid the loss of jobs from our region.
	However, this does not mean that the North American Free Trade Agreement can't be improved to the benefit of both parties.
	It is an agreement that was signed over 12 years ago.
	The next President of the United States will find in my government a partner who wants to build the road to modernization so that we become more effective in generating quality jobs and better paid jobs in both countries.
	I do not believe that trade must be a zero-sum endeavor that one loses when one wins.
	Quite on the contrary, it should be seen as an effort that produces value on both sides and that makes our region, North America, the most competitive and innovative one in the whole world.
	With regard to border relations, I have a very clear view on that.
	The border must be changed.
	There have been many developments in the last few years.
	We have worked closely together with the Obama administration and with the next administration.
	We must keep on with those efforts so that the border between Mexico and the United States becomes more efficient and safer.
	However, there is a considerable number of American citizens who see the border as a real problem because undocumented people and illegal drugs cross the border towards the United States.
	Non-documented immigration from Mexico to the United States reached a maximum point 10 years ago and has been diminishing since then.
	And it is now even negative as a net rate.
	But even so, we know that it is a shared challenge to face the number of non-Mexicans who cross the border coming through our country, going to the United States, and also leading to serious humanitarian issues.
	However, this is a vision that is obviously incomplete and which needs to be addressed.
	One has to take into account the flow of cash and of illegal weapons coming from the south.
	Every year, millions of dollars of illegal weapons and cash enter Mexico illegally from the north, which benefit the cartels and lead to illegal actions generating violence in Mexico, which lead to benefits in the drug trade in the United States.
	And this flow has to come to an end.
	What we need is to have an overall focus, an overall policy on the border, which deals with undocumented immigrants, the flow of drugs, weapons, and cash, all at the same time.
	Many lives can be saved on both sides of the border if the criminal organizations stop receiving the flow of cash and weapons that permit them to carry out their illegal activities.
	The illegal flow of weapons, drugs, and cash going in both directions have many bad consequences for both sides of the border.
	Our border must be seen as a mutual opportunity for both countries.
	Our countries must invest more in it.
	More infrastructure, more people, and more technology to make it more safe and more efficient.
	But I recognize the fundamental right of each country to protect its borders.
	At the same time, there should be a true spirit of collaboration between neighbors and allies, which is the best way to go forward.
	I would like to express to myself.
	All right, we're listening to a joint statement by the Mexican President Nieto and Donald Trump.
	Donald Trump has yet to speak.
	We will have comprehensive analysis of all of this.
	Just a note along the Sean Hannity Show network that we have a local break coming up and wanted to give you some time and warning that we will be staying with the program and the press conference.
	And if you choose to take your local break, please feel free to do so.
	Otherwise, we will be staying with this presser.
	Both sides of the border exchange information and coordinate their actions independently of the results of the elections in the United States.
	The next American administration can expect our goodwill and our effort to make the North American region safer.
	Mr. Trump, I would like to once again reiterate what I said to you a few moments ago in private.
	My priority as President of Mexico and the priority of my government is to protect the Mexicans wherever they are.
	That is my responsibility and I will continue working for that purpose.
	Everyday exchanges between the United States and Mexicans and Mexico contributed talent and prosperity on both sides of the border in Mexico and the United States.
	The Mexicans in the United States are honest people and hardworking.
	They are well-intentioned people.
	They are good people who respect the institution of the family and community life and who respect the law.
	As such, the Mexicans respect the deserve the respect of everyone.
	I will continue working to consolidate the relationship between the United States and Mexico based on mutual respect, trust, and common attention to our common challenges.
	And I will conclude by saying that the government of Mexico will be absolutely respectful of the electorate of the elections in the United States.
	We recognize their decision to continue a constructive dialogue, a dialogue which is the way forward.
	For those who think differently to come together, the dialogue is the way forward because it leads to better understanding.
	Thank you very much.
	Just listen to the words of the public.
	Mr. Donald Trump.
	Thank you.
	It is a great honor to be invited by you, Mr. President.
	A great, great honor.
	Thank you.
	We had a very substantive, direct, and constructive exchange of ideas over quite a period of time.
	I was straightforward and presenting my views about the impacts of current trade and immigration policies on the United States.
	As you know, I love the United States very much, and we want to make sure that the people of the United States are very well protected.
	You equally expressed your feelings and your love for Mexico.
	The United States and Mexico share a 2,000-mile border, a half a trillion dollars in annual trade, and one million legal border crossings each and every day.
	We are united by our support for democracy, a great love for our people, and the contributions of millions of Mexican Americans to the United States.
	And I happen to have a tremendous feeling for Mexican Americans, not only in terms of friendships, but in terms of the tremendous numbers that I employ in the United States.
	And they are amazing people, amazing people.
	I have many friends, so many friends, and so many friends coming to Mexico and in Mexico.
	I'm proud to say how many people I employ.
	And the United States' first, second, and third generation Mexicans are just beyond reproach.
	Spectacular, spectacular, hardworking people.
	I have such great respect for them and their strong values of family, faith, and community.
	We all share a common interest in keeping our hemisphere safe, prosperous, and free.
	No one wins in either country when human smugglers and drug traffickers prey on innocent people, when cartels commit acts of violence, when illegal weapons and cash flow from the United States into Mexico, or when migrants from Central America make the dangerous trek, and it is very, very dangerous,
	into Mexico or the United States without legal authorization.
	I shared my strong view that NAFTA has been a far greater benefit to Mexico than it has been to the United States, and that it must be improved upon to make sure that workers, and so important, in both countries benefit from fair and reciprocal trade.
	I express that to the United States and that of the United States, that we must take action to stem this tremendous outflow of jobs from our country.
	It's happening every day.
	It's getting worse and worse and worse, and we have to stop it.
	Prosperity and happiness in both of our countries will increase if we work together on the following five shared goals.
	Number one, ending illegal immigration, not just between our two countries, but including the illegal immigration and migration from Central and South Americans and from other regions that impact security and finances in both Mexico and the United States.
	This is a humanitarian disaster.
	The dangerous treks, the abuse by gangs and cartels, and the extreme physical dangers.
	And it must be solved.
	It must be solved quickly.
	Not fair to the people anywhere worldwide, you can truly say, but certainly not fair to the people of Mexico or the people of the United States.
	Number two, having a secure border is a sovereign right and mutually beneficial.
	We recognize and respect the right of either country to build a physical barrier or wall on any of its borders to stop the illegal movement of people, drugs, and weapons.
	Cooperation toward achieving this shared objective, and it will be shared, of safety for all citizens is paramount to both the United States and to Mexico.
	Number three, dismantling drug cartels and ending the movement of illegal drugs, weapons, and funds across our border.
	This can only be done with cooperation, intelligence, and intelligence sharing, and joint operations between our two countries.
	It's the only way it's going to happen.
	Improving NAFTA, number four.
	NAFTA is a 22-year-old agreement that must be updated to reflect the realities of today.
	There are many improvements that could be made that would make both Mexico and the United States stronger and keep industry in our hemisphere.
	We have tremendous competition from China and from all over the world.
	Keep it in our hemisphere.
	Workers in both of our countries need a pay raise very desperately.
	In the United States, it's been 18 years, 18 years.
	Wages are going down.
	Improving pay standards and working conditions will create better results for all and all workers in particular.
	There is a lot of value that can be created for both countries by working beautifully together.
	And that, I am sure, will happen.
	Number five, keep manufacturing wealth in our hemisphere.
	When jobs leave Mexico, the U.S., or Central America, and go overseas, it increases poverty and pressure on social services as well as pressures on cross-border migration.
	Tremendous pressure.
	The bond between our two countries is deep and sincere, and both our nations benefit from a close and honest relationship between our two governments.
	A strong, prosperous, and vibrant Mexico is in the best interests of the United States and will keep and help keep for a long, long period of time America together.
	Both of our countries will work together for mutual good and most importantly for the mutual good of our people.
	Mr. President, I want to thank you.
	This has been a tremendous honor, and I call you a friend.
	Thank you.
	All right, that is a joint statement given by Donald Trump and the president of Mexico after a long meeting they had.
	The press is begging for questions.
	Let me see if they're going back to the podium.
	And we had a tremendous more than an hour.
	I think really very good.
	Say it, yes?
	No, not at all.
	Look, we want what's good for the United States, and the President wants what's good for Mexico.
	And in sitting down and talking, we both realize that we've realized this from the beginning, that it's good for both of us.
	Better for both of us, actually.
	Yes, John, we didn't discuss that.
	We didn't discuss.
	Who pays for the world?
	We didn't discuss.
	Is it a non-sorry?
	Is there any chance Mexico pays for the wall?
	Well, I'll start.
	I mean, nothing like an easy question like that.
	We did discuss the wall.
	We didn't discuss payment of the wall.
	That'll be for a later date.
	This was a very preliminary meeting.
	I think it was an excellent meeting.
	And we are, I think we're very well on our way.
	A lot of the things I said are very strong, but we have to be strong.
	We have to say what's happening.
	There is crime, as you know.
	There's a lot of crime and there's a lot of problems.
	But I think together we'll solve those problems.
	I really believe that the President and I will solve those problems.
	We will get them solved.
	Illegal immigration is a problem for Mexico as well as for us.
	Drugs are a tremendous problem for Mexico as well as us.
	I mean, it's not a one-way street.
	And we will work together and we will get those problems solved.
	It's a very specific way of in which I've expressed how the government of Mexico has shown complete respect for the elections in the United States.
	The candidate Trump has quickly answered the question dealing with bilateral relations.
	The relevance between the two countries, the relationship between the two countries, the importance, the strategic partnership between the two countries, is something that I have underscored.
	And the President of Mexico has a great responsibility of defending the interests of the Mexicans, the Mexicans here in Mexico and those who are outside of Mexico.
	There has maybe been a poor misunderstanding or statements that have maybe hurt, unfortunately, an impact, had an impact on Mexicans and their perception of the candidacy of his candidacy.
	And I respect that.
	Mexicans have felt offended by what has been said, but I am certain that his genuine interest is in building a relationship that will provide our mutual societies improved well-being, and that the intention and the will of the President of Mexico is to meet with both candidates in the presidential elections of the United States,
	so that we can build together.
	But above all, on the basis of mutual respect between us, that is what I shared with Mr. Trump, the candidate.
	As Donald Trump walks out of the briefing room there in Mexico.
	All right, there you have it.
	They together now walk out of the briefing room.
	As you heard, what is that, Brian Williams?
	All right.
	But Mexican President, the talks were open and honest.
	Donald Trump in the QA did say there that, in fact, no, they did not discuss who's going to pay for the wall.
	And both did say, and it was interesting to watch the president of Mexico, Nieto, talk about how he felt very confident.
	Some Mexicans had been offended, but after meeting with Trump, it's clear that he wants to improve the relations between the two countries and work towards that.
	They did talk about, and Donald Trump was very straightforward about five very specific problems that needed to be solved.
	And he talked about the crime issue.
	He actually listed the five things that he talked about and of illegal immigration, and that also includes Central America, securing the border.
	Every country has a sovereign right to protect their borders, dismantling the drug cartels, improving NAFTA, and keeping manufacturing in this hemisphere, which I think are all really good and noble goals.
	Both addressed the possibility of shifting and changing NAFTA, which Trump said was 22 years old, I think, from the beginning and the onset of the negotiations of that versus the president of Mexico talking about a 12-year implementation.
	But either or, both are open to discussing and improving based on new circumstances that exist, both acknowledging the major problems that exist here.
	The president of Mexico did say that he invited both candidates to meet.
	He did say he does want to work constructively with the United States, talked about the importance of bilateral relations, about the close relationship, alleviating misunderstandings.
	He did talk about the different trade imbalance, but also pointed out that Mexico was the number one importer of products, even more than a bunch of other countries included.
	So he tried to make his case on that.
	He talked about an open and constructive meeting that the two of them had, $200 million in exports that they take in, 6 million American jobs associated with that.
	40% of imports made into the U.S. they take into Mexico.
	He did talk about some of the other issues involving drugs and weapons, and Mr. Trump reiterated that, and how they sounds like a really productive meeting, to be honest, on every level.
	Mexican president said the talks were open and honest.
	Trump said drug cartels can only be dismantled if we work together.
	So I think on every level, a pretty amazing meeting between these two men today.
	You know, one of the things that I assume is going to come up, now this is a preview.
	Donald Trump now will be leaving, going wheels up, and he'll be in Arizona where about, I guess, what, 9 Eastern?
	Tonight, he's going to give a speech on his immigration policy.
	We'll have complete reaction at 10 Eastern when we come on the air, which is a great time to be on after the speech.
	But we've got 11.3 million illegal immigrants.
	That's a lot of people.
	You've got 8.1 million illegal immigrants either working or looking for work, and yet we have 95 million Americans out of the labor force.
	That's according to the Pew Research Center.
	Now, you have the estimated cost to the taxpayers of this country at $113 billion a year.
	If you look at state and local governments, they're bearing the brunt of a lot of this, the majority of the money.
	It's estimated they pay $84 billion a year.
	You can break the money down.
	It's impacting our educational system to the tune of $49.2 billion, our health care system to the tune of $10.8 billion, our general expenses to the tune of $10 billion.
	Justice costs $8.7 billion.
	$5.3 billion for welfare-related expenses.
	You know, this is not millions.
	We're talking about billions of dollars, $113 billion a year.
	And this is a country that has taken on more debt in the last eight years than every president before combined has taken on.
	This is a country that is headed towards insolvency on important promises to the American people like Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid.
	If you look at the crime problem alone, in 2010, about 55,000 illegal immigrants in federal prison.
	In 2009, there were about 296,000 illegal immigrants incarcerated in state prison systems and local jails.
	If you look at the Federal Sentencing Commission and U.S. Sentencing Commission stats for the year 2015 alone, of the 70,225 federal sentences given out in fiscal year 2015, 36.6% of those sentences were offenses by illegal immigrants.
	That is a massive amount of percentage.
	I know Hillary has flip-flopped a lot on immigration.
	She wants to take Obama's policies of open borders even further.
	She said she doesn't want to build walls.
	She wants to build bridges.
	She had flip-flopped on the issue of licenses.
	We'll play that maybe later in the program today.
	She's flip-flopped on the issue of sanctuary cities.
	She's flip-flopped on the idea in 2006.
	She supported a 700-foot border fence, and she flip-flopped on that.
	She's flip-flopped on health care benefits for illegal immigrants.
	She's flip-flopped on whether we should call illegal immigrants illegal immigrants or undocumented migrants.
	Did that with Jorge Ramos fairly recently?
	I'm adamantly against illegal immigrants, she said in 2003.
	Well, now she says to Jorge Ramos that, you know, well, we can't, I don't, I regret using that term.
	Now, Trump's principles, very much similar to what he had laid out way before this, that there's got to be a wall across the southern border, that we can't have a president bypass the rule of law, our Constitution.
	Laws passed in accordance with our constitutional system of government must be enforced.
	If they're enforced, illegal immigrants would get sent home.
	By the way, the way they do it in Mexico with people that come from El Salvador and Nicaragua, Central America.
	He talks about Mexico paying for the wall.
	He wants a national or nationwide E-Verify, mandatory return immediately of all criminal aliens, detention, not catch and release, which we've been doing.
	Trump's plan calls for defunding sanctuary cities, enhancing penalties if you overstay a visa, cooperating with local gang task force, ending birthright citizenship.
	And when you think about it, you know, think about, for example, the impact of immigration just on jobs in this country.
	95 million Americans out of the labor force.
	The government doesn't give you honest unemployment numbers because they don't count the chronically unemployed or those that gave up looking for work, but the labor force participation rate is the lowest it's been since the 1970s.
	Okay, who's been disproportionately impacted by the loss of jobs?
	Well, you can look at the black community where there's been a 58% increase in black Americans since Obama's been president on food stamps.
	You can look at a 20% increase in black Americans since Obama's been president out of the labor force, 20% increase.
	And that is a massive number of people we're talking about.
	So it's getting very interesting how this issue is evolving, and it'll be interesting too to see whether or not Hillary Clinton goes to Mexico and follows Trump's lead.
	She didn't go to Baton Rouge.
	Former president of Mexico, Vicente Fox, I had a big fight with him once on Hannity.
	He refused to acknowledge the term illegal immigration.
	And I kept saying if they don't respect our laws and sovereignty and enter the country without permission, they have broken the law.
	That means they are here illegally.
	That makes them an illegal immigrant.
	He said, no, they're migrants.
	I said, the problem is a country has borders and you're not allowed to migrate to any country you want.
	Now he's calling the current president, Nieto, a traitor.
	Now, when I went down to the border, one of the many times, about a dozen times I've been there, all the way from the Rio Grande to San Diego, and the many times I've been on horseback and helicopters and boats and all-terrain vehicles and on foot, I've seen illegal immigrants actually getting arrested while I'm there.
	We have it on video, including one gang member.
	When I was down with Rick Perry, this was the briefing that President Obama was supposed to attend in 2014, but I attended.
	Well, I was told and presented with stats and statistics just for Texas alone.
	For example, in Stark County, one county alone in Texas, 26% of all crimes are done by criminal aliens, not by U.S. citizens.
	And criminal aliens in a seven-year period committed in Texas alone 642,000 criminal offenses, including, by the way, over 3,000 homicides by illegal immigrants.
	One of the aspects we'll cover tonight, we're going to hear from the families that lost loved ones.
	Anyway, 800-941-Sean, our toll free telephone number.
	You want to be a part of the program as we check in with Joe in Brookhaven, New York.
	Joe, you're on the Sean Hannity show.
	Glad you called.
	By the way, Eric Trump will join us in the next hour.
	We also have a debate coming up with Juan Williams and Ron Christie.
	That's all in the next hour as well.
	What's up, Joe?
	How are you?
	Sean, how are you doing?
	Thank you.
	I just got to say, you're the greatest patriot in America.
	Thank you for the voice, what you're doing for us.
	Watch the speech.
	I'm shaking.
	That has to be the next president of the United States.
	He's a great man.
	I watched Hillary early a little bit about one sentence that I fell asleep at the American Legion today in Ohio.
	This man, he is a brilliant, good patriot.
	I've been supporting Trump before he's been supporting himself.
	And I'll tell you, I've been against Hillary since she was Secretary of State.
	She's a terrible person.
	But you know, let me give you an observation, what I saw today.
	As strong as Donald Trump has been on the issue of immigration, here's the Mexican president, you know, saying how constructive, how good, how productive this meeting has been and talking about the very issues Trump has addressed.
	And that is trade.
	That is illegal immigration.
	That is drug trafficking.
	That is cartels and gangs and murder and guns.
	And really, it seems to me that Trump's strength caused this man to reach out to him.
	He must be thinking Trump has a good chance to win this.
	Or else, why would he otherwise be reaching out?
	And the discussion was civil.
	The discussion was straightforward.
	Trump didn't back down an inch.
	And, you know, I'm sure tonight he's going to mention all of the things that I just laid out.
	Now, maybe that proves to some of these, you know, weak and timid and feckless Republicans out there that strength actually brings out respect from people.
	Weakness incurs aggression.
	You know, Ronald Reagan talked about the evil empire.
	And lo and behold, the wall came tumbling down.
	Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
	And it came down.
	Strength.
	All right, let's get to David in Charlotte, North Carolina.
	Dave, how are you?
	Glad you called, sir.
	Yes, David.
	Sean, it's a pleasure and honor to speak with you.
	Yes, sir.
	The pleasure, honor is all mine, sir.
	And equally, the pleasure to hear Donald Trump out there, you know, speaking for the Mexican president, he was extremely capital P precedential.
	And I've never been so proud the way Mr. Trump, you know, he demonstrated the really high point of his, you know, of his career, even though he's not a politician, but he demonstrated, you know, a lot of political, you know, conversations with the president over there.
	And he, I believe I'm speechless, to be honest with you.
	You know, I've known Donald Trump for many years.
	I'm not speechless.
	And I know is he irreverent.
	I know he can be a little over the top and combative.
	But I also know that he loves the country and wants to make the country a better place.
	And frankly, everything he's advocating will keep America safer, protect American jobs.
	I don't think he wants a trade war with Mexico, but he's certainly starting from a position of strength.
	And certainly having the Mexican president react and respond to him and want good relations with him shows that you can be strong and advocate your positions and still negotiate from a position of strength and win.
	And I think that, you know, I think everybody else, every most other politicians are too weak and too timid and too afraid and too calculating and too poll driven to actually do something as bold as Donald Trump has done here.
	And I think you'd have the same impact when you deal with ISIS or other people.
	I don't know if you noticed, but the president of Mexico, I believe he showed a really high degree of respect towards Donald Trump because he realized, and I think he feels it in his bone, that this will be the next president that he's got to deal with.
	And it's really unusual, but Hillary Clinton, she missed the opportunity to go down there and speak to the president.
	And by the way, if she goes now, it's going to look like she's just following Trump.
	So, you know, compare what Trump just did here to Obama's apology tour.
	Think of the difference.
	Trump said, I love my country three times.
	I love America.
	He didn't apologize for America, nor should he.
	Anyway, I appreciate it.
	Thank you.
	Tom in Santa Barbara, KTMS.
	What's up, Tom?
	How are you?
	Glad you called, sir.
	Yeah, thank you.
	I supported Donald Trump because he promised to get these illegals out of this country.
	He better not backslide on that promise.
	I want these people gone.
	I don't want any excuses.
	I don't care.
	They've had children in this country.
	I don't care how long they've been here.
	These people are here illegally.
	They've committed crimes to stay here.
	They've used them false names, false social security numbers.
	I want them gone.
	I'm a victim of identity theft.
	And I'm not going to allow any illegal alien who's used a false name or false Social Security number to remain in this country.
	And Minister Trump better get that loud and clear.
	And I want to hear it tonight.
	Okay, Broad, send your message along.
	Angel in Brooklyn, New York, the all-new AM710WOR, The Talk of New York, New Jersey, Long Island.
	How are you?
	I'm doing great.
	Thank you, Sean.
	I love your show.
	Thank you.
	Sean, I'm from Brooklyn, New York, Sean.
	I'm born and raised there, and I am a true New Yorker.
	Donald Trump speaks like a New Yorker, which is frank and right to the point.
	When I was living in New York, I was living during the David Dinkins mayor era, and the city was a mess.
	And Giuliani came in and cleaned it up.
	Donald Trump is going to clean up America for the mess that's been left behind for the past eight years.
	I'm Puerto Rican.
	I'm not offended by what he says.
	And I believe this man.
	And it's about time someone spoke out for the things that I've been saying to my friends for years.
	America's in trouble.
	We need help.
	Not a politician, a businessman.
	All right, my friend.
	Appreciate your input.
	Thank you.
	Wow.
	We got such reaction.
	People are going nuts here.
	We got Juan Williams and Ron Christie debating when we come back.
	Also, Eric Trump is going to check in with us in the next hour.
	Donald Trump's son.
	Americans in every way, but on paper.
	Apollinar Alsamarado had come in and wanted to buy cigarettes.
	Altamorano then pulled a gun and pointed it at Grant.
	Grant immediately offered up the cigarettes.
	And Altamorado then shot him point blank in the face.
	My son's death was completely preventable.
	Apollinar Alsamarado had been in the country illegally since he was 14.
	If we cannot get comprehensive immigration reform as we need and as we should, with a real path to citizenship that will actually grow our economy, then I will go as far as I can, even beyond President Obama, to make sure law-abiding, decent people in this country are not ripped away from their families.
	My son dropped his girlfriend off.
	It was her birthday.
	He gave her a kiss and told her, Happy birthday.
	I love you.
	See you tomorrow.
	He drove about 10 minutes less than a mile from his apartment and was shot in the head by an illegal alien who went on a shooting school.
	This should not happen.
	Before my son was born, I wrote in his baby book and I said this to him throughout his life.
	And on his birthday, I would change it by adding in his year.
	I would tell him, did I ever tell you that out of all the children in the world, you're the one I would have kicked, and I deserved to have him at the end of my life sitting next to me.
	And Paul Ryan and other politicians that don't think a border is worth it.
	This is the loss.
	I'm not about to let anybody who can make a contribution to our economy and our society get thrown away.
	My youngest son, Joshua, was a senior in high school and had his whole life ahead of him.
	He went to school and never returned.
	As Josh walked up to the doors of the school that morning, Hermilo Morales walked up as well.
	At trial, the killer testified on his behalf and gave exact testimony on how he systematically killed Joshua.
	He first threw a punch in the face so that Joshua's vision was messed up and he could not fight back.
	He next kneed Joshua in an abdomen so that he would go to the ground.
	Josh went to the ground as his spleen was sliced in half.
	The killer was aggravated that it was not over yet.
	He was a black belt in mixed martial arts and thought he could do this without any blood.
	He was aggravated it was not over.
	He said he grew tired of watching bloody bubbles come from Joshua's nose as he was trying to breathe.
	Next, he took a closet rod and beat Josh over the head again and again until the rod broke in four pieces.
	Joshua was still breathing.
	Next, he strangled him.
	He let him go to see if it was over.
	No, it's not over.
	So he continued until there were no more bloody bubbles.
	He must have said it six times from the stand.
	He waited and he watched him die.
	He tied Josh's body up, stuff in the back seat of our truck, bought gas, dumped Josh in a field and set his body on fire.
	The killer went home, took a shower, and went to see a movie, had popcorn and coke.
	It's obvious the Republicans are more afraid of the dreamers than they are of ISIS.
	All right, there you have it.
	The divide, the debate over illegal immigration in this country.
	Now, as I've told many of you many times, I've been down to the border at least a dozen times now, and we have covered it from the Rio Grande to San Diego and everywhere in between.
	And we've been down there and we've been on horseback and in all-terrain vehicles and on foot and in boats and in helicopters.
	And I've seen the wall where it's built.
	I've seen where it's successful.
	I've talked to border agents.
	I've interviewed them.
	I've seen drug warehouses.
	I've seen tunnels dug all the way from Mexico to an office building in San Diego.
	I went down for a security briefing at the time with then Governor Rick Perry.
	I learned at that briefing that 26% of all offenses were done in Star County by criminal aliens, not U.S. citizens.
	And in a seven-year period from 08 to 2014, criminal aliens were responsible for 642,000 of criminal offenses, including the most heinous murder, rape, et cetera, against the citizens of Texas.
	You got homicides, over 3,000 committed by criminal aliens, I was told in that briefing.
	We've got 11.3 million illegal immigrants, according to the Pew Research Center of the United States.
	8.1 million unauthorized immigrants working or looking for work as of the last year we have available 2012.
	The estimated cost to you, the taxpayer, is $113 billion per year.
	State and local governments spend the majority of that money, $84 billion per year, over $49 billion on education, $11 billion on medical costs, $9.6 billion general expenses, $8.7 billion on criminal justice costs, $5.3 billion welfare-related expenses.
	In 2010, there were 55,000 illegal immigrants in federal prison.
	In 2009, there were 296,000 criminal alien incarcerations in state prison systems and local jails.
	And according to the U.S. Sentencing Commission, 36.6% of the 70,225 federal sentences handed out in 2015, well, they were offenses committed by illegal aliens, illegal immigrants.
	So how do we best deal with this?
	Hillary says we don't need a wall.
	We need a bridge.
	Anyway, joining us now to discuss and debate all of this, we have Juan Williams, author of We the People, the modern-day figures who have reshaped and affirmed our founding father's vision of America.
	Ron Christie, former special assistant to President Bush and columnist with SideWire.com.
	Welcome, both of you.
	Nice good news, Sean.
	First, don't you both think, I would think, Juan, you agree with this, that Donald Trump is doing a good thing by going to meet with the Mexican president today.
	Yeah, I'm surprised.
	I mean, you know, the Mexican president, Nieto, has called him Mussolini, Hitler, and worse.
	And, you know, all the Mexican- By the way, that's about what you call me on a daily basis.
	I mean, it's not that bad.
	I just want you to call me for lunch.
	No, I am surprised, but I think that it's an effort by Trump to suggest that he is mending fences, literally mending the wall, if you will, with the Mexican community.
	Well, we know certain things that are just true, Ron Christie.
	We know that the wall stays.
	We know that criminal aliens will be deported.
	We know that birthright citizenship will go away.
	In other words, so-called anchor babies.
	We know that there's going to be a dramatic change, correct?
	I think that's absolutely right, Sean.
	And if you look at her website on immigration reform, it's a joke.
	She wants to extend what President Obama has done, not stop what he's done.
	And she seems to want to allow people who are here illegally to have access to Obamacare, to have access to federal welfare benefits.
	The list goes on and on.
	The good thing about Trump going down today is it makes him look presidential.
	He and Hillary were both asked to go.
	She declined, and now she's whining in Cincinnati and saying that, oh, he's just dropping in for a photo op.
	But I think it gives him a great opportunity to show leadership and to meet with a foreign leader and talk about the issues between our two countries.
	Well, I didn't see her in Louisiana.
	Trump went down there.
	I didn't see her in Mexico.
	I didn't see her, you know, I mean, I know she's traveled the globe.
	She doesn't have a particularly big track record.
	Juan, I guess this is the question.
	She wants bridges, not walls.
	So do you not agree with me that the biggest national, one of the biggest national security vulnerabilities this country has, if people can cross the border from El Salvador and Nicaragua and from Mexico and from other countries, so too can't America's enemies.
	There's been many, many reports in the last year about ISIS camping outside border walls, border areas on our border.
	Do you not worry from a national security standpoint that somebody could cross into this country and commit atrocities against American citizens?
	Of course you have to, if you want to worry about it, you want to focus on the negative, but that just hasn't happened.
	So at best, you are involved with conspiratorial type of thinking and fear-mongering.
	I mean, there's justn't happened.
	Well, what about Texas?
	When I sat through the security briefing with Rick Perry, and in a seven-year period, there's 642,000 crimes committed by illegal immigrants against Texans.
	Don't you think that's a little high, including murder and rape?
	Any crime committed by anyone, whether they're a legal immigrant or legal immigrant or American, is too much for me.
	But the idea that you would say all crimes are being committed by illegal immigrants...
	Ron Christie, did I say all crimes are being committed by illegal immigrants?
	I never said all crimes are being committed by illegal immigrants.
	No, Sean, you never said that.
	And Juan, here's the problem I have with what you just had to say.
	The fact of the matter is it's not just people coming from El Salvador or Nicaragua.
	It's ISIS news.
	They have a free highway.
	They can go under tunnels.
	They can enter this country illegally.
	We know that they want to hit us again.
	So it's a question of when are they going to use our immigration system, which is broken and failing, to infiltrate this country?
	I think they're already here.
	I think they're already planning.
	And we need to stop these people from coming in here.
	And Hillary promises more of the same, more illegals, more trouble.
	No, she didn't promise more illegals.
	What she's saying is we have to do something that works, that brings people in.
	No, she didn't say that at all.
	I don't hear this from Sean Hannity, but immigrants are a boon to the U.S. economy.
	They're a boon to our high-tech industry.
	They're a boon to our agricultural industry.
	Well, I mean, you're not listening to it because I'm actually quoting to you, the Federation of American Immigration Reform.
	They now put the cost of illegal immigration to taxpayers on the criminal justice system, the health care system, the educational system, and much more at $113 plus billion dollars every year.
	And I broke down the adjusted cost for you, and you don't seem to pay attention.
	It's so bogus because, in fact, so many of these illegal, let's just talk illegal immigrants for a second.
	They pay taxes, but they get no taxes.
	And some pay no taxes in terms of Social Security medicine for Obamacare.
	So what you have to realize is they are a plus a plus.
	Okay, well then the U.S. Hang on a second.
	The U.S. Sentencing Commission.
	36.6% of the 70,225 federal sentences that were given out in fiscal year 2015.
	You trust your government, Juan, right?
	U.S. senior offenses by illegal aliens.
	Yeah, what was the offense?
	It was crossing the border illegally.
	No, Juan.
	Yeah, that was the case.
	We're talking about all sorts of serious violent offenses, Juan.
	I mean, the fact of the matter is that you have 40% of our federal jails are filled by people who are here illegally.
	They're not going down to the candy store to buy nice things for kids.
	They're talking to them.
	They came here to grocery.
	They came here to support their families.
	Oh, Juan, that is absolutely not true.
	Let me jump in here.
	I don't mean to interrupt, Ron.
	Ron, we just played you.
	Parents whose sons and daughters were murdered by illegal immigrants.
	Now, if Trump had a wall up, and this was before, prior to these people not respecting our laws and sovereignty, you know, those kids would be alive today, Juan.
	And my question to you is, why do you not care about those parents?
	Wait a second.
	I love your logic, but let me tell you, if a drug addict had killed their kids, I would feel so much for those families because I can't imagine a worse fate than losing your child.
	But if it's a drug addict, if it's a common criminal, I don't care who it is, you have to feel for those families.
	So why are we in this conversation demonizing illegal immigrants?
	I have no idea.
	We're not demonizing illegal immigrants.
	We are demonizing the people who come into the United States.
	They kill innocent people like Kate Steinley and thousands of other people when they had no business of being here, Juan.
	That's the issue at hand.
	They had no business being here, and our federal government, which is supposed to protect our national security and protect our citizens, has failed in this administration.
	But what I'm saying to you, Ron, is we have much more crime committed by Americans, and we don't say, oh, well, you know what?
	We should kick them out.
	No, we say this is a bad crime problem when there's a crime problem.
	But again, it just seems like you're demonizing the illegal immigrant.
	And I suppose this is to boost Trump and his wall.
	But to me, it's, you know, you guys are reaching beyond all reason here.
	Reaching beyond all reason to secure our borders, and Hillary wants to.
	Let me just say.
	Wait, whoa, whoa.
	So you want to leave the door wide open so that anybody doesn't have to respect our laws and sovereignty?
	Are you against building a wall?
	Is Juan Williams against building the wall?
	Yeah, I think the walls are not available.
	The walls are not available.
	So that means the country's going to be wide open.
	They can walk in, and some of them will be criminals, and some of them will maybe just want a job and a better life for them and their families.
	But there are 95 million Americans out of the labor force want, a 58% increase in black Americans, for example, that are on food stamps, and a 20% increase of black Americans since Obama's been president that now are not in the labor force anymore.
	So they're going to compete for those limited jobs, drive down wages.
	Is that fair to the American citizens that will lose those jobs and have lower wages?
	Is that fair?
	You have a lot of people who are in this country.
	I mean, the fact is, I think it's like 40% of the country.
	You don't want to answer the question.
	The companies in Silicon Valley, immigrants.
	If you're talking about, you know, who is it that boosts economic productivity in this country?
	Again, you're largely talking about newcomers, people who are working the hardest, people who believe in the American dream.
	And yet, you, Sean Hannity, want to say, oh, this is the poison in the American citizens.
	No, what I'm saying is do it legally.
	But the question's a real simple one.
	Do you want these people who are here illegally competing when we have a faltering economy due to this president's terrible economic plan competing with a very limited number of people who are trying to re-enter the workforce?
	Why should those folks have to compete with people here illegally?
	We're not demonizing anybody.
	We're just saying the fact of the matter is these folks are here.
	They are taking jobs from Americans.
	Why aren't we deporting those people?
	I think we are deporting people.
	In fact, President Obama is deporting a record number of people who are, and this is so rich to me.
	Donald Trump says Barack Obama has the right idea in terms of deporting these people.
	I can't believe it.
	I can't imagine what Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, gang of eight have to say about Trump's sudden transformation on the immigration issue.
	Talk about flip-flops.
	He's doing more like, you know, seesaws and cartwheels.
	It's such a radical change, all of a sudden embracing Obama.
	But that's what we've got with him.
	He doesn't have an idea about how to purposely, productively change the immigration system except to go for simplistic jargon like throw up a wall.
	Throw up a wall?
	I am in favor of a wall.
	I think it's, in fact, it's criminal that the United States government for years hasn't put up a wall.
	Why would you not want a wall that would keep illegals out, people who want to harm American citizens, people who want to bring drugs into this country?
	Why wouldn't you want to have a barrier to entry to those people who clearly aren't coming to help America but trying to hurt us?
	All right, I got to leave it there.
	Juan, don't get mad that I'm cutting you off because I am, but I'm out of time.
	It's not on purpose.
	Vincente Fox, by the way, the current president of Mexico said he would meet with you.
	Will you meet with him?
	Yeah, sure.
	I'd meet with him.
	You would.
	Absolutely.
	I'd meet with him.
	How do you, they're not going to write you a check.
	How do you get them to pay for it?
	Well, there are many ways.
	Look, look, on trade, they're absolutely killing us.
	They're killing us.
	They're killing us at the border.
	They're killing us on trade.
	We have a trade deficit with Mexico of close to $60 billion a year.
	So right there, you can build the wall because the wall is a fraction of that.
	So, you know, right there.
	Here we go.
	We lose.
	We lose a fortune on trade.
	And that doesn't include the drugs that are pouring across the border, which is probably double or triple or something.
	All right, 25 now till the top of the hour.
	Toll-free telephone numbers, 800-941-Sean.
	That was part of my town hall with Donald Trump.
	That was from last week in Austin, Texas.
	We did two hours on the issue of immigration.
	We are anticipating his big speech on this topic tonight.
	Obviously, an issue that impacts the entire country.
	It's now estimated that American taxpayers fork over $113 billion a year when you look at the cost to our educational system, our health care system, our criminal justice system.
	By the way, in 2015 alone, 36.6% of the 70,225 federal sentences that were given out were given to illegal immigrants.
	And then, of course, we have this other little problem, which is that, well, we've got criminal aliens that are released.
	If you look back just to the year 2013, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Center, ICE, has released 36,007 convicted criminal aliens, 36,007, all that had records, including 193 homicide convictions, 426 sexual assault convictions, 303 kidnapping convictions, 1,075 aggravated assault convictions.
	By the way, released right back into the streets for you and your family to have to deal with.
	Joining us now is Eric Trump.
	He's with the Trump organization, obviously the son of Donald Trump.
	How are you, sir?
	Hey, Sean, great to be with you.
	69 days to go.
	How you feeling?
	It's amazing.
	We feel great.
	We've had such an unbelievable couple weeks.
	And quite frankly, Hillary's last couple weeks have been a total disaster, right?
	More emails, more Benghazi, more Clinton Foundation mess, more pay-to-play.
	It's been a real disaster for her.
	And I'm incredibly proud of my father.
	I mean, I think he showed tremendous leadership today going down to Mexico.
	It's not easy.
	It's probably not even comfortable.
	But to go down there, if you get invited by the president of a country that's obviously on your southern border, you go.
	And I think my father will lead peace through strength.
	And I think he's showing that today.
	Listen, let's try and have a great relationship.
	Let's work at a great relationship.
	But we also need strength as a country.
	And we need to have a solid border.
	And we need to know who's coming into this country.
	And we need to protect American values and American jobs.
	And quite frankly, our taxpayer dollars that are paying for so many of the issues that you just talked about.
	And I think today is an amazing step in making that happen.
	You know, in 2014, with then-Governor Rick Perry of Texas, I actually sat through a security briefing that he had invited President Obama to go see.
	And President Obama said no.
	And I called up Governor Perry, and I said, I'll come.
	Invite me.
	I'll be there.
	And I actually sat through this briefing.
	I've shown it on my television show numerous times.
	As a matter of fact, when Governor Perry joined me and your dad on stage in Austin, Texas, we actually played a part of it.
	But 26%, this was a seven-year period of time from 2008 to 2014.
	642,000 criminal offenses were committed by illegal immigrants, including over 3,000 homicides committed by criminal aliens.
	I learned that during that briefing, that border briefing.
	And the question I have is, and I don't think the media is asking Hillary the question.
	She never makes herself available, hasn't had a press conference all year.
	Your dad has had 17 to her zero.
	But I'd like to know, what do you say to the families of those loved ones that have lost their sons and daughters to criminal aliens or those that have committed crimes in the past?
	There was a father I had on a number of weeks ago, Eric, and his son was working 21 years old in a quick mart type of place overnight to make money to go to school.
	And 4 o'clock in the morning, a guy comes in and he robs him, and he wasn't getting cigarettes fast enough, and he shot and killed this young man at 21 years of age.
	It turns out this guy had raped and kidnapped a woman for a week, spent time in prison, and they just let him out.
	It's amazing.
	It's incredible.
	And listen, I'm a civilian.
	I'm not a politician.
	It's not what I do every single day.
	But I'm telling you, I've obviously been next to my father for the last 13, 14 months since he announced his presidency.
	And I can't tell you how many families we've come across who've dealt with exactly this.
	The Shaw family, Jamil Shaw, an amazing young man who was killed by an illegal immigrant.
	Kate Steinley, everybody knows Kate's story and really sparked so much of this conversation.
	But her family, I mean, you meet these families and your heart rips out of your body because what they've gone through, what they've gone through because of our failed policies is just, it's unimaginable.
	It's unthinkable.
	Beautiful lives ripped from their families based on the fact that we have sanctuary cities, that the laws aren't followed.
	The laws of this nation aren't followed.
	It is so tragic and we must do something about it.
	And listen, my father has been so strong on this.
	He wants to close the border.
	wants to know who is in our country.
	Again, I'm a product of immigration, Sean.
	My mom's an immigrant, as you know very, very well.
	The difference is she came here legally and she assimilated into a country and she learned how to speak English.
	She learned how to speak our native tongue.
	And that is so important.
	I mean, we are a melting pot in the United States.
	There's no question about that.
	But we need to know who's coming into our country.
	And we need to make sure that the bad people are no longer in our country, leave our country, and can no longer inflict harm to great American families.
	And my father's message is very American first.
	We have to put the citizens of this country first.
	And I'm so proud of him.
	The last couple weeks, he's been spending a lot of time talking about African American youth and Hispanic youth in the inner cities where they have awful unemployment, you know, close to 60% unemployment in many of these communities.
	The educational system is failing these communities.
	You know, it's doing a massive disservice to our youth.
	We have to put those individuals who are Americans first before we can take care of others.
	And really, that's my father's message.
	And it is so sad.
	Have you had a chance to preview his speech tonight that he's going to give after the meeting with the president in Arizona?
	Yeah, no, I've seen parts of it.
	I've seen parts of it, and it's something that he's worked on tremendously.
	And I think he's going to talk about many of these issues.
	I mean, he's going to speak about the wall.
	He wants a very, very secure wall, and he wants to allow the ICE agents to do their job as opposed to being dictated by politicians, what they do.
	And he wants to eliminate sanctuary cities.
	He's going to be very, very tough on these issues.
	And by the way, there's no man in the world, there's no person in the world who will keep our nation safer than he will.
	He will keep this country safe, and he will restore jobs and prosperity of this nation.
	You know, I want to ask you this question because I did the time with him, and your dad, you know, you know your dad.
	He took over the show.
	And at one point, at the beginning of the second hour, he said, well, let me poll the audience here.
	What do we do?
	Because I was asking him.
	I said, all right, what do you do with the 11 million people that are here illegally at this point?
	And then he said, well, you enforce the law.
	And he repeatedly said, enforce the law.
	And we know what the laws are.
	And I said, is there any part of the law you would want to change?
	And he said, no.
	And then he went on to explain why it's important to enforce the law.
	And then we talked about, you know, I said, well, are you softening as it relates to having the 11 million people have to go back and then maybe they can reapply and come back in the country?
	And he polled the audience, and it was very interesting, the reaction.
	And then people, because he made the poll, interpreted it that he had changed his position.
	I didn't hear it that way.
	Well, listen, I think it's incredibly refreshing.
	I've seen it my whole life, Sean.
	You know, I mean, he will ask everybody their opinions, and he'll make his own judgment.
	And, you know, the nice thing is he actually asks people, right, common people, their opinion, not just the people who walk the marble halls of Washington, D.C. You know, he asked common people, you know, their opinions on things, and he takes great feedback from people.
	And I think that's very much what he did during that town hall.
	And listen, what's the point of laws if they're arbitrary?
	A law isn't a law if it's arbitrary.
	I mean, a law is a law because it's something that's written in stone.
	And so for people to arbitrarily decide which laws they want to follow versus which laws they don't, it's very sad.
	And listen, you're seeing that right now with the Clinton email scandal, right?
	You're seeing that with the Clinton Foundation.
	You know, people are, I mean, it's clearly a crime.
	It was clearly pay-to-play.
	It was clearly reckless and hampered national security.
	But it doesn't seem like anybody wants to enforce a law upon her.
	And that's a very, very dangerous level of thinking because it creates an uneven playing field for all citizens across this country.
	Hey, you're going to enforce a law on somebody on a certain person, but you're not going to enforce it on others.
	You're going to enforce it in X City, but you're not going to enforce it in Y City.
	That's not the United States of America.
	That's not how our government was built.
	I mean, we have laws of the land, and they have to be followed.
	And you can't just have politicians which want to go their own way for their own agendas or their own motives that totally dismiss them.
	I mean, that's where you actually have lawlessness and chaos in society.
	And we simply can't have that.
	So I really applaud my father's view on this, and I think he's spot on.
	Let me ask you about the polls and the state of the race.
	Your father had a post-convention bump, and Hillary got a post-convention bump.
	But in the last two weeks, things have settled down.
	And right now, if you look at the real clear politics average, it's Hillary plus four.
	If you look at some swing states, there's one poll that has your dad plus one in Florida.
	Another one has him down one in Florida.
	It's dead even in Ohio.
	It's very close within the margin in Pennsylvania.
	I thought Michigan was fairly close at plus five, Hillary.
	What do you think about the state of the race?
	And what would you advise your father going forward in terms of what you think he needs to do to get over the top?
	Listen, North Carolina, we're plus two, and we're doing great.
	I mean, the LA Times poll, which is actually the poll that's almost most statistically relevant.
	It's got the largest sample sizes, is plus three.
	So, listen, I'm proud of my father.
	It's interesting.
	If you look at Hillary, she's been a politician for the last 30 years.
	She hasn't run a single ad, Sean.
	She hasn't run a single ad talking about her accomplishments over the last 30 years.
	I mean, I could run an ad talking about my accomplishments over the last six months, as could you, as could most people.
	She hasn't run a single ad talking about her accomplishments in 30 years of being a politician.
	All she does is attack my father.
	And I find it so ironic.
	Yet, my father's out there talking about exactly how he's going to defeat ISIS, talking about immigration.
	He's down in Louisiana.
	I mean, when the president himself is playing golf in Martha's Vineyard and can't even be bothered to show up, my father is down in Louisiana where, you know, I mean, it is so sad to see what's happened to that part of the country.
	I went down there right after he did it.
	And I got to tell you, it is so devastating.
	And let me tell you, TV images have not captured the amount of devastation that exists there.
	I mean, it is, Eric, it's street after street, block after block after block, neighborhood after neighborhood.
	And I went inside these homes.
	These homes are done.
	They cannot all be redone.
	So, Sean, where are our quote-unquote finests?
	Where are our politicians during this whole thing?
	I mean, Obama's playing golf in Martha's Vineyard, certainly a community that doesn't need help, right?
	I mean, there's 2,600 shootings thus far alone this year in his hometown of Chicago.
	He hasn't been there once.
	Guys, we need to do better.
	We need to be Americans.
	What are you doing?
	You've got to stop these shootings.
	I mean, he hasn't gone to his own hometown once to try and stop the anarchy that's happening there.
	He didn't go down to Louisiana until, quite frankly, my father, quite frankly, shamed him.
	Shamed him into it.
	Yeah, I saw that.
	He had to go there.
	Hillary still hasn't been there.
	I mean, these are the things that I've been doing.
	By the way, you want to know one of the reasons I went is because I started getting calls from people that went with your dad.
	And then I had friends of mine from down there that had been telling me this is worse than you can ever imagine.
	And at one point, I talked to your dad and I said, how bad was it?
	He goes, you can't believe it.
	You've got to go down there.
	And so we went down.
	We were the only national news show to actually go down there and show that.
	I mean, it's so incredible.
	You have coffins that were floating down streets.
	You have people's houses that were totally underwater.
	The deaths and devastation and destruction.
	Let me ask you this because we're running out of time.
	Hillary Clinton played the race card big time against your dad.
	Now, it happened on the week where it was revealed that more than half of the people that got access to her when she was Secretary of State ended up being donors.
	55% of the people outside government she met with had contributed or pledged money to the Clinton Foundation.
	And then we also learned that 30,000 more emails and apparently more even today that are being discovered that, well, we're finding out a lot of things about Hillary Clinton that they use bleach bit to actually wipe the server clean.
	She's asking my colleague at Henry, you mean like with a cloth?
	No, with bleach bit, which basically is to wipe anything clean, as Trey Gowdy said, so God can't find it.
	What do you make of these revelations?
	Listen, they also used burn bags.
	A burn bag is a bag you put things in and you set it on fire to burn her schedules, right?
	So there was no proof of her schedules.
	Who in the world uses burn bags?
	Hey, if anybody wants my schedule, by all means, take it.
	I mean, it's really unbelievable.
	Why would you have to burn your schedules?
	What is it that you have to hide?
	And I mean, Yuma, quite frankly, she under deposition, she admitted the whole burnbag thing.
	I mean, it's really, it's really unbelievable.
	If you look at it, since Bill Clinton left office, they made $250 million as a couple.
	$250 million.
	Sean, we sell apartments, we sell hotel rooms, we sell wine and other products.
	What product are the Clintons selling?
	What product are the Clintons selling?
	They're not making widgets.
	They're not making light bulbs.
	They don't own a car wash or a restaurant.
	I mean, what product are they selling?
	They're selling influence, and it's really terrible.
	And it's costing our country billions and billions of dollars in poor judgment.
	And you see it every single night as she's at a $36,000 a-plate dinner.
	Last question.
	Have you read the speech tonight?
	I've seen parts of it.
	And anything new or earth-shattering, or is it going to be basically him just consolidating what he's been saying?
	No, listen, I think you'll certainly learn a lot from it, and I won't steal his thunder.
	But listen, you're going to hear a consistent message about needing very secure borders and needing to protect this country and needing to return jobs to this country and keeping America first and the American people first.
	And quite frankly, serving the 320 million people who are in this country legally.
	And that's really my father's message, and it's been very consistent all along.
	All right.
	Eric Trump from the Trump Organization will be watching, and Hannity will have full reaction at 10 Eastern right after the speech.
	If you'd like to come, you're always welcome.
	I know you're busy, but if you'd like to join us, you're very welcome any night you want to come.
	Thank you, sir.
	Hey, thank you, Sean.

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