Former president joins Sean Hannity for an exclusive interview from the southern border
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At 1000, thank you so much.
Thank you. So much
welcome to Hannity.
We are broadcasting from the
South Texas Airport, and only a
few miles from the U dot Smexico
border. For the entire hour,
we will be joined by 45th
president of the United States,
Donald J Trump with Texas,
Governor Greg Abbott, and we will
also asked president about
questions of the day,
of course, Donald Trump. No
stranger to the southern border.
After predecessor, Barack Obama
left a mess.
President Trump made it a
priority to restore the nations
borders.
That means enforce laws, protect
sovereignty, protect the
borders,
restrict ohmic, restrict asylum
cases, stopped Obamas catch and
release program.
He instituted what was known as
the state and Mexico policy for
new migrants and negotiated
deals with several american
countries to expedite the
deportation of illegal
immigrants.
He successfully built nearly five hundred
here. This is important because
he told migrants around the
world do not come to America
illegally.
He was very clear
and he will make this dangerous
trip.
Dont, send your children,
unaccompanied through Mexico,
come across the Rio Grande and
the desert into the border.
Make no mistake, President Trump.
President trumps actions are
rhetoric or as effective as they
have ever been a purity. For
example, look at this headline
Trump immigration policy
showing results with illegal
border crossings. Plummeting
another from Axios illegal
border crossings fall as U Dot, s
enforces asylum agreements
in another quote like him or
not it trump policies are
reducing illegal immigration.
Sadly, after Joe Biden sworn in
them, he reversed almost all of
president trumps border
policies.
Now you might remember this
Biden and Harris told migrants
come to America and seek asylum
in America on the campaign.
Trail Biden literally telling
migrants to search the border
lets roll the videotape.
What I would do, as president
is things would change.
I would in fact make sure there
is a surge to the border.
All of those people seeking
asylum deserve to be heard.
That is who we are
and nations. As you want to flee
and fling depression, you should
come.
President Sippy CUP
seemed a little more alert in
two thousand and nineteen.
The results of the border surge
have been catastrophic
in February illegal immigration,
more than tripled
one hundred thousand and illegal immigrants
apprehended in February.
One hundred and seventy thousand in March,
one hundred and seventy eight thousand in April
and a whopping one hundred and eighty thousand inmates,
by the way that is only the
number of people we caught
record setting numbers a
30 year high for illegal
immigration
and get this more unaccompanied.
Minors are now crossing the
southern border than ever
before.
It is a crisis of a monumental
scale,
border patrol agents. I spent a
lot of time with them here. They
are overwhelmed, overworked
dangerous cartels and making
millions in human trafficking
and taking advantage of the fact
that all the resources are being
used, two basically processed
people illegally into the
country
that gives free reign to the
drug dealers, the human
traffickers.
We know where ninety percent of Americas
Heroin comes from our southern
border.
We know the fentanyl crisis,
the number of deaths that happen
each and every week about three hundred
all across America because of
these drugs
migrants facilities now
operating at over three hundred percent capacity.
With the help of the Biden
administration, illegal
immigrants are being relocated
all over the: U Dot S in exchange
forfor in your promise. To show? U
to a court date if that date is
even given out.
This crisis has no end in sight,
but instead of reinstating, the
successful policies have
Donald Trump Joe Biden with
whole border duties. He punted to
Kamala Harris for months and
months flat out refused to
visit.
She finally decided to make a
stop in Texas.
She had time to stop by El Paso
for a couple of hours on her way
to LOS Angeles
one big problem: El Paso is not
where the current crisis is
happening.
It is happening right here where
we are
according to a new Harvard
Harris Poll. They rate
Kamala Harris performance as
poor on immigration and a poll
sixty eight percent of voters believe the Biden
administration are to blame for
this urge
sixty one percent also blaming Biden, the
surge of unaccompanied minors,
a fifty five percent Think Donald trumps
border policies never should
have been undone.
Eighty percent think illegal immigration is
a serious issue, but its not
clear at the Biden
administration is able or
willing to secure our southern
borders.
Actions speak louder than words
to that end. During his
presidency, Donald Trump visited
the southern border all by
himself six times
Joe Biden has never visited not
once
lets. Think about that
tonight. Im a we are here with a
crowd of great Americans,
including many friends of
president Trump.
I see my friend is in the crowd.
Congressman Billy long is
because purity, Governor Abbott,
will join us on the stage,
but first joining us right here
in South Texas, the 45th
president of the United States,
Donald J, Trump
cheers and applause
wow
wow,
what a crowd
chanting former president Trump.
Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you, everybody!
Thank you.
What a group
thank you! Everybody
cheers and applause
grab a seat. Sir
okay, I have one minor
complaint.
I did not get that reaction when
I came out
laughter.
Thank you, Mr President.
Cheers and applause
nice Sean boy come. I guess one
boy come. I guess one
question my asked this crowd com.
Are you missing me yet?
I think I know the answer:
cheers and applause
from day one the day you and
Melania Trump came down the
escalator. You talked about
securing the countrys borders.
You had a fight hard to get the
money to build five hundred miles of wall
to stay in Mexico policy.
You built the wall,
you ended catch and release.
Now we see what is happening.
Your reaction to all of it
well theres, never been a
better time six months ago and
never a worse time.
We had the tightest security and
you could come to our country
illegally.
You know what else massive
amounts of drugs human
traffickers commit bad, bad
people, criminals emptying their
tails into our country.
Other countries are emptying
their jails into our country.
We never had it better and now
weve never had it worse. In the
history of the country.
I just saw the governor
Lieutenant Governor a whole
group come, I think, the largest
contingent of congresspeople Eve
at the border. From what I
understand.
I think they are mostly here
too. By the way
I see a lot of them
cheers and applause.
We had the largest. We even
have dock the doctor in the
White House, who became a
congressman
by the way Ronnie.
Would you give Joe a cognitive
test,
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resident sippy cup? Come I dont
know how well he will do, but I
wont get you in trouble.
I think I can say I a state
he didnt get one
question wrong: thirty out of thirty
wow
cheers and applause
and
they are getting a little more
difficult.
I heard the first
three questions. Are
they take the first two or three
questions and they put them in,
but let me tell you they would
not get those last fifteen right,
certainly not the last ten. I can
tell you, but anyway
we have a border that is very
bad right now and dangerous for
our country.
Fortunately, we have a lot of
great people in Texas,
cheers and applause.
You know what is
fascinating. All of a sudden
Biden is blaming you for the
current crisis.
I
know
a little misinformation,
they have done it for five
years. Six years: Russia,
Russia, Russia,
I told Shawn, the story
I go around and people are
saying. Sir, do you know
anything about Russia?
And this was years ago, when I
was running
months ago, do you know anything
about Russia?
Another guy? Do you know anything
about Russia?
What is going on with Russia
a russian hoax misinformation?
Now they say the Republican
Party want to defund the police.
Do you hear that im a bill? Lee
Billy is not a big defender of
the police.
The republican party want to
defund the police
that started yesterday.
I dont know how they get away
with that one.
The good thing with you, you
take the old eclipse clips
its been when I all
when you look at what else is
happening too,
and it is interesting in states
like Florida, South Dakota, many
others. They are offering Texas
and Arizona Support Health,
and there are law enforcement in
the dark of night. They are
taking illegal immigrants
flying them into the states.
Now the states are responsible
for food and shelter and
health care and education
and
the states dont even know they
were coming.
They bring people into in the
states. Dont even know it
take this commit is an
allotment.
It is called an allotment
and the republican governors.
By the way you look at the
well run states. It is all done
for the most part republican
governors,
all of them
cheers and applause.
There is a crime in terms of
everything else.
We have great republican
governors, we really do.
The policy is to has
been reversed.
Joe hasnt come to the border,
you have been here many times
and Kamala Harris didnt come to
the border, but it seem like a
photo up to me.
What would you want them to know
that they dont know, or maybe
they do know, but dont seem to
care about
speak to wouldnt come.
I was invited by the governor,
and I said yes and very proud
weve built over now. I guess five hundred
build an extra two hundred.
We would do an extra two hundred
and Nobodys ever done this,
and all they have to do is go
another two months and the wall
would be totally completed
by the way they have to paint
the wall.
I will give that job to Brian.
You have to paint congressman.
You have to paint the wall
because it is starting to rust.
It is supposed to be painted.
They dont even want to paint
the wall,
its so disgraceful.
Two more months. Everything
would be completed and just like
the Keystone pipeline, they will
not do it.
Forty eight thousand jobs and an environmental
pipeline much better than other
forms of transportation for the
product.
When you look at what is
happening, inflation is going to
be the killer of them. All
inflation will destroy our
country.
The border will destroy our
country, and you know what else
will destroy our country.
Predilections come up on,
elections will destroy our
country,
cheers and applause.
I want to talk about
all of that if Donald Trump and
we had a hard time getting,
videos congressman- and I know
louis- was part of it- TED Cruz
and many others and im
ignoring a lot of you.
I know if it wasnt for them.
They wouldnt allow cameras in
the new cages for kids, but in
two thousand and eighteen they accused you of putting
children in cages.
It turns out the video was from
two thousand and fourteen.
You were not president.
Now Joe Biden is building these
pages in the middle of a
pandemic, high rate of positive
cases of covid
and kids living on top of each
other.
Imagine for a second what with
the press have been like and
that Democrats have been saying
that these new cages,
but
I really had that because in
two thousand and eighteen and even after two thousand and eighteen, they
came out with these horrible
pictures.
Somebody came up and said:
well, who is the contractor?
I built those cages in twenty fourteen
during Obamas administration,
it wasnt trump.
It was Obama that built those
cases.
I got a little bit lucky
after he said that come all of a
sudden. The cage went away.
They are building them again
because so many kids are coming
in and you know many of the kids
are on suicide watch, something
we have never heard.
Think of it. It is so miserable
it is so hard.
It is like
I will say, come, although right
now, I think it is harder in
New York than Texas, one hundred and one degrees
New York,
but the kids are on suicide
watch.
Eighty percent of the hero one
crosses the southern border.
Now fentanyl two big fentanyl
boast in the history of the
country.
We are losing three hundred Americans a
week and some cases more
and
Sheriff Joe said in a meeting
with a round table. The sheriffs
are incredible:
the law enforcement in Texas and
other places
cheers and applause.
He said, and I didnt even know
this- he said towards the end
of my administration. We had
fentanyl virtually stopped
now, he said is coming in at
levels hes never seen before
it was nasty
getting through the border,
especially with five hundred miles of
wall. It was nasty
and these people I gave them
the right to stop people.
Now they are not allowed to
talk to people.
You are not allowed to talk to
people,
but again, people coming in is
bad
prisoners in real, serious
criminals, murderers walking in
it.
I will never forget im
watching of all places: CNN,
okay,
this was a short term watch and
they had a reporter. No, this
was
I cant hear you
now.
The ratings are down. Seventy nine percent
cheers and applause
im watching CNN and a woman
reporters asking: what did you
do? What did you do?
A very famous clip and murder?
She said what
murder
she immediately: they cut off
the camera, and that was the end
of that,
but we have thousands of
hardened criminals
like we dont even have in this
country, practically
MS 13.
We took them out by the
thousands.
You know my told the story. Just
now. He had the border
three countries, primarily
Guatemala, Honduras,
El Salvador,
MS 13 and other criminals- were
coming up and they wouldnt take
them back in the Obama
administration.
They refused to take them back,
they would have planes on the
runway. So when the planes want
to run they couldnt land and
they would stop the buses
to be paid these countries any
money
they wouldnt take them back.
The three countries- and I know
the heads of the three countries
are very street. Smart dictators
come okay,
but they are very street smart
people,
I like them, and we get along
here and spit on. You know they
are evil, but they are not dumb.
Look. We got along
how much to repay those
countries.
What is I have to do with it,
sir?
Everything
we didnt pay any more,
we didnt pay
and then I was called
we stopped payment,
we stopped payment and then the
next day I get a call from all
three
president. You stop payment,
no more money coming into the
three countries.
I said that is right.
You are not taking criminals
back, but we would love to.
We would love to take MS 13
back.
They are wonderful people.
I said fine.
We sent them back by the
thousands
they took them
by the thousands
cheers and applause,
but nobody has ever done that
before
nobody did that before.
Do you have a theory
and an idea, because I cant
really think of one except that
you know come in years gone by.
I would argue, Republicans wanted
illegal immigration because they
get cheap and Democrats want
great work, which would be
amnesty citizenship.
You
do have rhinos
a lot of rhinos out
there
boos
these people. You dont, have any
rhinos in this
about forty five congressman here and
women.
You dont have any rhinos,
but you have rhinos come. I
called him weak Republicans.
They walk into the White House,
ive been watching for four
weeks now
they walk in and they meet
Biden.
He doesnt know what the hell is
happening.
They are sitting and talking
about infrastructure
and then finally, they walk out
and they have a deal.
The deal is a terrible deal, but
it is a deal
it sort of reminds me of being
in there a long time ago.
We have a deal, we have a deal
and you remember the deal with
german question work. It did not
work out too well,
it reminds me we have a deal. We
have a deal and typical come a
couple of good ones. In there
I dont know how they got roped
in
they have a deal and Biden
canceled the deal, because a
radical left said you cant make
that deal
no good.
We want to spend six dollars trillion
spirits be when they would back
door for think they didnt get
in the deal.
They would back door through the
reconciliation process.
You
need better leadership.
Mitch. Mcconnell can no longer
do the job.
It was a very typical
process because I was covering
it every night
that was, Congress was not
assisting you for the money for
the border wall, which was a
signature promise you made in
two thousand and sixteen,
but you found a way to to get
the money and build the wall.
So
what I did is I got a big lead,
Terry Budget, and I took it out
of the military.
The way I look at it, this fence
I spent two and a half years
winning lawsuits.
We won all of the lawsuits eleven
every one of them.
I started building the wall.
It is two months for completion.
Transcript generated on 2021-08-06.