c-span networks, the senate energy committee looks at federal development -- development on federal lands. at 1:00, mike pence will speak at the politics and eggs event in new hampshire. at 10:00, the senate resumes theideration of a judge for eastern district of arkansas. the library of congress testifies before the senate administration committee on efforts to modernize the library. president trump held a rally in monroeville, louisiana campaigning for the candidate for governor who will face incumbent democrat john bel edwards in the december 16 runoff election. the president was joined by u.s. senator's bill cassidy and john kennedy. he addressed the impeachment agree, the economy, and the border.

>> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the president of the united states, president donald trump. >> ♪ and i'm proud to be an american, where at least i know i'm free, and i won't forget the man who died who gave that right to me and i gladly stand up to defend her still today cause there ain't no doubt i love this land god bless the usa from the lakes of minnesota to the hills of tennessee

across the plains of texas from sea to shining sea from detroit down to houston and new york to l.a. where there is pride in every american heart and it's time we stand and say that i'm proud to be an american where at least i know i'm free and i won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me and i gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today 'cause there ain't no doubt i love this land god bless the usa and i'm proud to be an american

where at least i know i'm free and i won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me and i gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today 'cause there ain't no doubt i love this land god bless the usa ♪ [applause] [applause and cheers]

pres. trump: you have spirit. hello, louisiana. thank you very much. incredible. what a crowd. and you have got thousands of people outside right now, so if anybody wants to give up their seats. [applause and cheers] thank you very much. so i'm really thrilled to be back. it has been an incredible state for trump and it is really incredible. you remember what happened? that was not even a close election, was it? that was not too close. but it is great to be with thousands of hard-working, freedom loving american patriots. that is what you are. [applause and cheers]

and soon the people of louisiana will head to the polls. i am here for a different reason. it is called early voting. do you believe it? that is how much i like eddie. i am here for early voting. you can go out and vote. i said not a lot of people do that. they say in louisiana 40% of the vote is early vote. i said i think i will come. i will come. but you are going out to replace a radical liberal democrat as your governor. >> [booing] pres. trump: john bel edwards has not done the job. you are going to have a great, new, republican, tremendously successful man. eddie, so early voting is already underway. and i think i am coming back

here on thursday. do you b eddie, so early voting is already underway. and i think i am coming back here on thursday? i am doing a double. one of your really good anchors just interviewed me. the locals treat me good. the fake news does not treat me good but the locals do. >> [booing] pres. trump: he said you have been to louisiana like four times. i said that is good because i happen to like it. if i can't like it, i can't do it. [applause and cheers] pres. trump: but early voting ends on saturday, then you go out next saturday and you vote and i want you to do it early so you can do -- watch your football games. saturday i amis going to be in a certain game. [applause and cheers]

pres. trump: this saturday i will be at a certain game, lsu versus a pretty good team from alabama. >> [booing] pres. trump: i am a football fan, i hear you have a great quarterback. we will see. i am actually going to the game. i said that is the game i want to go to. that will be tremendous. two great teams. i look forward. so i came to get you for early voting. [applause and cheers] pres. trump: going to be a great governor. under republican leadership the economy is booming, wages are rising, confidence is soaring, and america is stronger than ever before, and you know it.

we are setting new records every day and with the help of louisiana energy workers, the united states is now -- you have some of the greatest energy workers anywhere in the world. anywhere in the world. the united states is the number one producer of oil and natural gas anywhere on planet earth. and we are supporting law enforcement and we are supporting our police. [applause and cheers] pres. trump: we are rebuilding our military, and you know what this beautiful new equipment, the rockets, jet's, ships, everything made in america. don't we love that? and we are defeating radical islamic terrorists.

we are defeating them. and you saw last week the monstrous animal known as al-baghdadi is dead. [applause and cheers] if somebody else did that, they would be talking about it for months. me, i got about a day, but that is ok. that is ok. look at how many there are. they have a lot of people. they have a lot of people. it is true. i will tell you the greatest hero, forget about trump. we did a lot of good work together. the dog was the great hero. conan. conan is coming to the white house very soon. i said bring him now.

said bring him now. they said he is on a mission. i said you have to be kidding. give them a couple of days rest, please. conan is coming to the oval office shortly. [applause and cheers] our message to these bloodthirsty savages is clear. you don't stand a chance against the righteous might of the united states military. [applause and cheers] because america is winning again and america is respected again. [applause and cheers] but while we are delivering safety and prosperity for americans, the radical left democrats are trying to rip our nation apart. [booing] they want to eradicate the rule of law, punish religious believers, silence you online, indoctrinate your children, and thereafter your second amendment, don't ever forget it. they are after your second amendment. [booing]

with the republicans i can tell you one thing, nobody is going to hurt your second amendment, nobody. in their campaign could transform america, democrats are becoming increasingly totalitarian, suppressing dissent, defaming the innocent, eliminating due process, staging show trials and trying to overthrow american democracy to oppose their socialist agenda. make no mistake, if the democrats get back in, you will have a depression the likes of which you have never seen before. you are doing well. how are your 401(k)s doing? [applause and cheers] you would not feel at all angry if they went down in half and

then in another year half of that? that is what is going to happen. first it was the russia hoax, that was mueller. remember that hoax? hoistedest lie ever upon the american people, but everybody stuck with us. if anything, we became more popular. may be more popular. last week hillary clinton, crooked hillary as we affectionately call her. [booing] up, lock her up, up. her up, lock her pres. trump: so is there any place you would rather be than at a trump rally on a beautiful, wonderful evening in louisiana?

[applause and cheers] i don't even know, would you rather be at lsu versus alabama or a trump rally? let's take the trump rally. [applause and cheers] the democrats must be accountable for their hoaxes and their crimes. corrupt politicians, nancy pelosi and shifty adam schiff. [booing] pres. trump: and the crooked media have launched the deranged delusional, disruptive, and hyper-partisan impeachment witchhunt. now we go again. a lot of things have happened. i don't know if you saw, i just got off of the plane and look at this character. they just headed be this story.

2017, thater syed was a long time ago. it is all a hoax. they say january 2017, a coup has started, and the impeachment will follow ultimately. it is all a hoax. it is a scam. you know who helps them? these people. the media. [booing] and then it said the light is going to go off, cnn light is going to go off, it said from the lawyer, a sleaze ball, it will playict that cnn a key role in donald trump not finishing out his first term. can you believe this? this is a hoax and it was done a long time ago. then he goes, as one falls, two more will take their place, referring to outgoing trump administration employers who by

the way have been put through hell by the sleaze back there and by crooked politicians. it just came out, that is the whistleblower, the one who came out with trump said this or trump said that. then when they heard my real phone call, the whistleblower disappeared. schiff, he is a corrupt politician. adam schiff didn't want to have the whistleblower anymore. no one thought i would release the phone call. as soon as i release the phone call, and you don't like doing that with a foreign leader because you have to deal with foreign leaders, you do not want them to think, today i spoke to the president of turkey, is he worried we will release them all over the world because somebody said something that could have been a little bit wrong? you can't do that. in this case i had a perfect phone call. totally perfect phone call.

anybody that can read, you saw that on mark levine. but the whistleblower before they knew i was going to release , he came out with the whistleblower like he is some wonderful person. look at the whistleblower. the whistleblower came out with this horrible statement about this call. i had no choice. i said immediately -- talk about transparency -- i said release it immediately. the whistleblower saw it. adam schiff sought, he is a total plug -- he is a total crock, nancy pelosi sought, and they said we have a problem. we don't want anything to do with the whistleblower and they disappeared. noel's disappeared? the second whistleblower. and the informer to the whistleblower if there was such a person which i doubt, which i doubt. [applause and cheers] here it is. just came out. just came out.

a disgrace. it is so bad. these people are bad people, and it is so bad what they do our country, they ripped the guts out and it is a shame. people should stop. maybe go to the supreme court. they got to stop it. we have a country to run and these people, in order to do things are willing to do illegal acts, an illegal act as far as i'm concerned. last week the democrats voted to nullify the balance of tens of millions of americans, disgracing themselves and dishonoring their oaths. the good news is republicans were unanimous. they stood together. [applause] the democrats are lousy politicians, lousy. they have open borders.

how do you like have again open border with mexico? do you like that? the democrats want open borders, they want sanctuary cities. you not big into sanctuary cities. with john bel edwards, you will soon have a sanctuary city. democrats -- they want open borders, which beads crime. look at what is going on in mexico. i have to thank the mexican government in one way. 27,000 soldiers. but they have other problems. these cartels are a tremendous problem. we are building a wall. that wall is going up. it is going up. [applause] our military is now building the wall and it is going up fast. the army corps of engineers says it is going up and it is doing great. should have been built years ago. that wall should have been built

many years ago. never did. they never could figure it out. i figured it out. it was not easy. i had 100% of the other party fighting me. do you think that is easy? we had a majority of a few people. very little. we needed democrat votes, but we had 100% of the people. i made a mistake. i should have said i do not want the wall and the democrats would have insisted i build one. i should have said that. [applause] ago they allears wanted the wall. it was only when i came along and said we have to build the wall, you wanted it, but you never had the vision or talent to get it built. we have to build it. instead they said we do not want the wall anymore. they said we can have drone technology. that's great, people are pouring across, you have drones flying all over the place.

that is great. we should have said we want to never build the wall and they would've insisted it gets built immediately. i call them the do-nothing democrats. we have loopholes they can solve in 15 minutes. we could sit down. loopholes. catch and release, chain migration. then everyone in the history of the world comes in with you. your mother, your cousin, your brother, your aunt and your uncle. any person who ever met you. come into our country. we had a man on the west side highway, i do not call him a man, i call him an animal. he ran over people. he killed, i think eight people. they never talk about the people that lost their legs and lost their arms that are permanently disfigured. they never talk about that. they say eight people were killed. these are people that want to keep themselves in shape and

they are running, and then this maniac turns to the right, going get an unbelievable speed, and he kills people, and he horribly injures people. we cannot let this happen. we cannot let it happen. unhinged extremists, the democrats, have been plotting to illegally overturn the election that we won -- i did not win it, we all wanted together. they came from all over the -- we all won it together. they came from all over the place. your state is not that republican and yet we are so far up. you could say focus on a couple of the closer ones, but we are going to come here anyway because we love it. 19 minutes after i took the oath horrible, the

disgusting washington post, which is a terrible paper, declared the campaign -- i just the campaignice -- to impeach president trump has begun. that is nice. thank you very much. the reporter is over there. during the term, sleepy joe biden, who is as dumb as a rock said he fire the guy, you get $1 billion, you do not fire the guy, you get nothing. it is on tape, and the press refuses to predict. you talk quid pro quo, you fire the guy you get $1 million, you do not fire the guy, you get nothing. that is called quid pro quo. not here. that was said by joe biden to get rid of the prosecutor of ukraine, who was looking at his son, who just got thrown out of the navy, who was paid millions

and millions of dollars, even though he had absolutely no energy experience. in louisiana, he would not have hired him and your energy companies. they would've paid to keep him out. he had no experience. [applause] how old is your son? how old is that young man? how old are you? eight. he knows energy than joe biden son. applause]d then joe biden flies to china. he obviously met with different people that i deal with because we are doing well with china.

he flies with his father, who was then vice president, and in 10 minutes, he picks up $1.5 billion for his son. these are different chinese people that i've been working with. i called up one of the top guys on wall street and i said can you do that? he said i've been trying for years. i cannot do that. he is the smartest guy on wall street. now the democrats are covering up for sleepy joe and they are trying to steal your votes and silence your voice. i am looking at pocahontas. can you imagine? [booing] pocahontas is starting to emerge from the ashes. i thought she was gone. i hit her very hard. she is emerging from the ashes. not a very nice person. i have more indian blood than she does, and i have none.

but i have more than she does. [applause] i would love to have some, i just happen to have none. i believe i have more than she does. generations of american patriots sacrificed everything they had to secure this republic and your sacred right to vote. we will not let the democrats take that incredible privilege away. [applause] the american people are fed up with democrat lies, hoaxes, fears, slanders, and scams. ' shameful conduct has crated an angry majority. we are angry. we will vote the do-nothing

,emocrats out of office in 2020 especially we will take back the house. on the 36cus democrats in areas i one by a lot. i did not run in 2018. they keep forgetting. i did not run. i said go out and vote, and a lot of people said i will not vote until trump runs. that is all right. i love those people. they see will we are doing -- they see what we are doing. i did not run in 2018. but people forget. we picked up two seats in the senate. they never talk about it. i try to get them to talk about it. what we have done with judges in different appointments. are going top, we drain the swamp, and that is what we are doing. louisiana has sent

the radical left a message they can never ignore. do not forget, in 2016, people came from the mountains and the valleys and the rivers and the oceans. they came from all over. the democrats said what the hell is happening? where are these people coming from. these are people who were great americans, worked hard, made a lot of money. much smarter. they call them the elite. we are the elite. i know this. i went to better schools they did. i have nicer houses than they do, i have nicer apartments. they are elite. we are not elite. you people work your assets off. ss you people work your asse

off. they are smarter -- you are smarter. starts hitting a single reporter, a conservative reporter. they start battering a witness. they say they do not want to vote for the people that were running for president. they did not want to vote for obama. they did not want to vote for people running for president. when i ran, something that happened was amazing. the lines were miles long. they started something that said what is going on. they said what was going on was probably the greatest election in the history of our country.

now these people illegally, through corrupt people like adam schiff gets up in front of the united states congress and the american people and he reads my statement, but i do not say it. he made it up and then we called him on it. thought i was going to release the conversation because you do not do that. ukraine was great. we called them up, do you mind if we release the conversation? no, we don't. we will release it. we caught them in the middle of a giant live. they are scammers. heers and applause] so you're going to fire your liberal democrat governor. i don't know how he got there. this is louisiana, right?

how did you get a liberal democrat to be your governor? can you explain that please? . actually know it was a convergence of a lot of things. congratulations. your car insurance is the highest in the world. your taxes are horrible. [booing] pres. trump: you are rated number 50 in economic development. can you believe that? governor --to send i have known this man for a long time. he is an incredible talent. he does not need the money. he is a wonderful person. of ralph, andking i tell you what, ralph is a winner. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: he has the backing of ralph. i spent a lot of time with

ralph. ralph is an incredible man. an incredible man. he respects eddie and eddie respect him. they had a hard-fought deal, but they respect each other and like each other a lot. that's where, i will tell you what, if i am against somebody, i don't know. but ralph is a better man than me. he is a better man. they are going to put that all over television tonight. ralphe going to say, should run for president if that's the case. and that's ok. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: he is a great man. so eddie is not a career politician. he is highly respected. a man of faith and a lifelong louisiana patriot. many of you know eddie through

his success. eddie will cut your taxes and regulations. he will cut your car insurance in half. [cheers and applause] we have the highest car insurance in the entire nation by far. it autople call insurance. call it whatever you want. you have the highest in the country. he is going to cut it in half or more. turn this state into a giant magnet for great paying jobs. that's what he wants to do. [cheers and applause] eddie is tough on crime, strong on borders. he will work with ice and border patrol to get violent criminals off the streets. bring them back to their country. or we will put them in jail where they belong. eddie is pro-energy, profamily,

pro-life, and pro-second amendment. [cheers and applause] eddie will defend your values from the all-out assault by the extreme left. they are the extreme left. aoc plus three. aoc, that's a real beauty. you only have 11 years to live because climate change is coming up so fast. but today i heard one of these crazies say, down to 11. they arrested jane fonda. nothing changes. i remember 40 years ago. she always has handcuffs on. she's waving with her handcuffs. remember that? to find outvietnam how nice they were. they were not too nice to her, by the way. they arrested her today. jane fonda. nothing changes. they arrest her every 25 years.

eddie's opponent is a radical liberal, and you did not know that. he will never vote for me. you know why he says good things about me? he thinks you like me. otherwise he'd say bad things. he will say good things. i said he must be republican. he sometimes says better about me than most republicans. here is the problem. he will never vote for us. he will never support our second amendment the we need to support. he has never going to reduce your car insurance. he is never going to cut your taxes. i got you a big tax cut. the biggest ever. [cheers and applause] democrats have this crazy theory, i don't think i could be a successful democrat. we are going to raise your taxes. how does that work? i'm always saying we are going to get you a bigger -- we are going to cut your taxes. they are saying -- what do i

know? i have only been doing this three years. they say we are going to raise your taxes. i'm saying, excuse me, does not work? that's what they say. i'm going to cut your taxes even further. you see what it has done for us. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: you have a letter -- a radical liberal. an ardent supporter of crooked hillary clinton. edwards broke his promise to the people of rammed throughhe the largest tax hike in louisiana history. does everybody remember that? [booing] pres. trump: he gave you the largest tax hike. then he says i raise your taxes, vote for me. i lower your taxes. i give you the greatest tax reduction in the history of our country.

greater than ronald reagan's reduction. [cheers and applause] work with does not modern-day politics, but you know what? i'm going to stick with it. whether it does or not, i'm sticking with it. you see what has happened. billions and billions and trillions of dollars is coming back into the country. we are the hottest economic force anywhere in the world. taking in more with a lower rate. we are taking in much more money than a higher rate. sacred trustour and can never be trusted again. he raised her taxes. he has done nothing about your car insurance. one of the big things here is car insurance. i want to pinpoint it. i kept seeing car insurance. that's very unusual. i've never heard that with a state. your car insurance is the highest in the nation. it's out of control. it is so easy to do.

herhe is trying to demolish state's economy by shutting down louisiana energy on behalf of the crazy, ladder -- radical far-left. [booing] pres. trump: edwards is owned by the liberal trial lawyers who is causing the insurance rates and car insurance to skyrocket through the roof. edwards has allowed illegal aliens to steal millions of dollars in health care from hard-working louisiana citizens. he cares more about illegal aliens that he cares about louisiana citizens. i love our military. eddie loves our military. they care more about illegal aliens then taking care of our veterans and taking care of our military. soft onis dangerously crime.

you know that. louisiana has the highest murder rate, i hate to say this. but youwant to say it, have the highest murder rate anywhere in the united states. i did not want to say it. edwards is backed by his fellow open border extremists and pro-abortion lobby. edwards is a complete disaster for the state of louisiana. you cannot afford four more years of this far-left travesty. it is time to replace your failed governor, john bel responding,h eddie who is going to do an incredible job. [cheers and applause] everybody needs to get out and vote early.

40%. i never heard 40%. usually it's like 2%. started.ing has get out and vote for any and do it right away -- for eddie and do it right away. let's go to the football game, let's do lots of things. do it before the game or just make sure you get it done. you know the election itself is going to be taking place saturday, so get out early. get out early. i want to bring up a man i have gotten to know well, but i know him through reputation. he is a business legend and he is going to put that genius to work for you. eddie rispone, please come up. [cheers and applause] [chanting eddie]

>> thank you. thank you. thank you so much. before i get started, i want to say this. congressman abraham, i would not be here. congress abraham working hard, traveling this state to make and letgot the vote out the state of louisiana know we can do better. let's give him another round of applause. [cheers and applause] >> louisiana is trump country. isn't that right? [cheers and applause] we are so grateful for the

president to come down here more than once now, to get out the make to mobilize, to louisiana great like it deserves to be. we need something different if we want to be different. we don't deserve to be last. we are last, folks. we have to do something different. it starts by letting a different kind of governor -- electing a different kind of governor. [cheers and applause] >> we need a pro-trump, conservative, outsider, someone with serious business skills, someone who is not beholden to whoial interests, someone will go against the status quo, someone like trump. [cheers and applause] >> that's what we need.

we want to thank the president for coming here and exposing john bel edwards as the liberal he is. thank you. john bel edwards would want you to believe he is not one of those liberal lunatics trying to impeach our president. we can send a message to them by voting me in in voting and supporting our president donald trump. listen. i did not think they could go any lower, folks. just this saturday, they are stateg ads all over this accusing our president of being a racist and me being a racist and you being a racist. [booing] >> it is disgusting how low they

will go. that is there ammo. m.o..ir they play the race card. we have a president who has had the lowest on for minorities in the history of the united states. call him a racist. [cheers and applause] >> we need to send a message. louisiana is conservative. we are going to have a conservative governor. an outsider, a businessman, someone who will make us number one in the nation. we can do that with your vote. [chanting eddie] >> that is amazing. this man can get the crowd fired

up so we can go out in early and turn this state around. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> i need your support. i need your vote. my wife and my family could use your prayers. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> i'm going to take one more liberty. go tigers. [cheers and applause] >> beat bama. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: thank you, eddie.

great job. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: thank you very much. thank you, eddie. going to be a great governor. we are thrilled to be doing byight -- joined tonight many of your wonderful leaders. , they aresay incredible warriors. i will ask them to come up. they don't stop. very different type personalities. both unbelievable. they fight so hard for me, for you. they love this state. senator bill cassidy, senator john kennedy. come up. [cheers and applause]

>> let me just echo what eddie rispone said. this is trump country. [cheers and applause] let me add to what he said. with your help, but only with ris help, we can make this pone country. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> hello louisiana.

thank you, mr. president, for visiting our state. [cheers and applause] years,hree short president trump has doubled growth in the greatest economy in all of human history. [cheers and applause] and you know what our democratic friends have done? [booing] >> speaker nancy pelosi is trying to impeach him. [booing] >> i don't mean any disrespect. it must suck to be that dumb. [cheers and applause]

>> let me tell you one other thing. the same people backing speaker pelosi are sending tens of millions of dollars to support governor edwards. [booing] us, allll he has given governor edwards has given us is uncertainty and decline. [booing] happy, unless you are with crappy, i want you to vote for eddie rispone for governor. [cheers and applause] for want you to vote secretary of state. [cheers and applause] >> and this is important. mills you to vote robert

for the louisiana state senate. god bless louisiana, god bless our president, and god bless the united states of america. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: two great guys. people that love your state, they love your country, and i appreciated it very much. two great senators. who isto bring up a man an incredible campaigner, incredible congressman. you talk about loving our country.

he loves the people of this state. he did really well. it was a tight race. all in for eddie. that is ralph abraham. come on up. [cheers and applause] >> thank you so much. mr. president, thank you for coming to monroe, louisiana. [cheers and applause] for making america great again. president, this crowd and

all of louisiana loves to win. we are going to celebrate again when the saints win the super bowl. [cheers and applause] >> we are going to celebrate again when lsu wins a national championship. president trump, we are going to celebrate you when you once world of the terrorists like al-baghdadi. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> we are dead last. we must do better. our veterans here whose shadow we stand in everyday, to our farmers and ranchers that heard cattle from dawn to dusk. our oil and gas industry that

.as made us energy dominant our law enforcement. [cheers and applause] fill the of us that church pews on sunday morning. [cheers and applause] a loving ando thisg god, we will win race. president, mr. president, you have shown the world what america could do. you have shown the world what america can do. more importantly, you have shown the world what america will do when we are challenged. [cheers and applause] >> we are going to win this race. go vote saturday.

let's get this done. go the horse in the barn and win a ballgame. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> thank you very much. he is a great guy. he is a great guy. i call ralph, i said, ralph, i would love to have you. he said, if you need me, i'm here. thank you very much. that's a real man. they are real friends. you know, ralph said -- mason, where are you mason? what a job he did. was it you do, fly around is the youngest person ever or something? you. said, have to mention thank you very much.

very important to ralph. incrediblehank other -- i call them warriors because that's what they are. they have to be today. garrett graves. great congressman. thank you great job. they fight hard. it should not be tough at all, but they made it tough. people made it tougher than it is supposed to be. these are incredible people. clay higgins. thank you, clay. and mike johnson. [cheers and applause] thanks, mike. great job, all of you. your state's attorney general is terrific. jeff landry. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: two terrific men on

the ballot with eddie. john mentioned that. your next state senator, robert mills. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: we are also joined by louisiana's own phil and willie robertson. i love that. [cheers and applause] could learn i plenty from these two. come up. come up here. come up. great people. they have been with us right from the beginning. smart as can be. wonderful people. they hit big. they hit big.

you don't hit big unless you have it. come on up, fellas. [cheers and applause] >> i got it down to this. pro-god and pro-america and pro-gun and pro-duck hunting , that's all i want. i don't know what else to say after following phil. and the president and eddie. thank you guys so much. such a great community to share life with. to worship with. i'm so tickled to be here with the president that he actually came down to our community. let's go, eddie.

pres. trump: thank you. great guys. they were with me at the beginning. i said, who are they? they said, they are television stars. a lot of wisdom there. republican policies are lifting up americans from every background and every walk of life. america is an economic powerhouse. before,ike never actually. like never before. we eliminated a record number of job killing regulations. $3000 perestimated household. we also passed the largest package of tax cuts and reforms in american history, saving a typical family of four another $2000. we are boldly adopting a policy

of american energy independence. we don't have to go to faraway places anymore. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: i was at the opening of the $10 billion camera lng export facility in louisiana employing thousands and thousands of louisiana workers. they could not get their permits for years. i got them real fast. i said, let's go get them that permit. years and years, they tried to get those permits. i got them very fast. we cut a ribbon a couple months ago. it was incredible. i've never seen a building like that one. more pipes than i have ever seen before. every top democrat running for abolisht has pledged to all american production of oil and national gas, shipping thousands of your state's energy

jobs overseas. that's all they are doing. [booing] pres. trump: but louisiana will not give them that chance. we are reversing decades of disastrous trade policies. in foura lost one manufacturing jobs after the of china'sers entrance into the world trade organization. past leaders did not care one bit what happened to those louisiana communities because they were getting rich by sacrificing your wealth to other countries. we talk about it all the time. administration, the great betrayal is over. america is no longer for sale. thanks to my tariffs, we are taking in billions and billions of dollars from a country that never gave us $.10, china.

if we ever letne the radical democrats take over negotiations with china? it would not be good. let's get hunter to do it, right? come on, hunter. let's see how you do. china would love it. more than anything else, they would love to be dealing with a different president. they actually do like me, but they don't like me -- they are having the worst year they have had in 57 years. it's not going to happen that way because we cannot let our country go back to the days of being ransacked and plundered the other nations. we will not be taken advantage of any longer. before my election, our leaders used the great american middle-class as a piggy bank to projects. delusional they decimated american

factories. american manufacturing was broken and decimated to promote -- they promoted economic growth in foreign countries. they did not promote economic growth in our country. to defendour military wealthy nations, subsidizing their welfare states with your money. precious american blood and treasure into the middle east while our great cities fell into disrepair. $8 trillion was spent in the middle east, and you want to fix a highway, they say, that's pretty expensive, right? not anymore. but i was elected to be the president of the united states, not the president of the world. [cheers and applause] after years of rebuilding other nations, we are finally rebuilding our nation. [cheers and applause] and we are finally putting america first.

you haven't heard that for a long time. past leaders transform faraway nations into chaotic war zones. then they demanded that american citizens accept unlimited migration from those terror-afflicted regions, stamping their visas for travel straight into your communities. not anymore. my administration implemented the travel ban to block migration from some of the world's most dangerous and deadly places. [cheers and applause] and we are keeping terrorists, criminals, and violent extremists the hell out of our country. that's what we are doing. on no issue have democrats more totally betrayed you than immigration. they threw open -- all through

the years, they threw open your borders to drug dealers, and to vicious ms 13 gang members, and now, we are getting them out of the country by the thousands. [cheers and applause] thanks to our tireless efforts to secure our southern borders, illegal crossings have now dropped 70% since may. [cheers and applause] and when you look at what is happening over there, there's a good reason for what we are doing. we are building that wall faster than anyone thought it was possible to build. the army corps of engineers. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: we are also confronting the deadly menace of sanctuary cities, which release dangerous criminal aliens into your neighborhoods, school zones, and city streets. republicans believe our cities should be sanctuaries for law-abiding americans, not criminal aliens. [cheers and applause]

and republicans will always stand with the heroes of ice, border patrol, and law enforcement. [cheers and applause] in the last administration, vile slanders of our police went unanswered and unchallenged. now we are once again condemning anti-police bias and giving our officers the respect that they so rightly deserve. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: if you want to show your love and support for american law enforcement and just plain success of your state and your country, then vote early for eddie rispone. democrats are becoming more extreme by the day. the democrats' planned government takeover of health care would demolish your medicare. i will always protect medicare

for our nation's seniors. we will always protect patients with pre-existing conditions and we will also protect patients with pre-existing physicians. [cheers and applause] democrats want to take away our doctors. republicans will strongly defend your right to keep your doctor. you remember that with president obama -- you keep your doctor, you keep your plan. 28 times. it was a lie. our ambitious campaign to reduce the price of prescription drugs has produced the largest decline in drug prices in over 50 years. virtually every top democrat now supports late-term abortion, ripping babies straight from the mother's womb right up until the month -- [crowd booing] right up until the moment of birth. that is why i have asked congress to prohibit extreme

late-term abortion, because republicans believe that every child is a sacred gift from god. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: democrats are now the party of high taxes, high crime, open borders, late-term abortion, socialism, and blatant corruption. the republican party is the party of the american worker, the american family, and the american dream. it is also the party of the late, great abraham lincoln. people forget. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: we have confirmed already 158 incredible judges to interpret the constitution as written, including two great supreme court justices, neil gorsuch and brett kavanaugh. [cheers and applause]

pres. trump: our historic investment in rebuilding the military has included more than to barksdale. do you know where that is? barksdale. where's barksdale? nice? good? barksdale air force base right here in louisiana and $20 -- $40 million to naval air station joint reserve base in new orleans. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: i withdrew from the horrible, one-sided iran nuclear deal. i recognized israel's true capital and opened the american embassy in jerusalem. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: and we recognized israeli sovereignty over the golan heights.

after 52 years. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: for years, you watched as your politicians apologized for america. now you have a president who is standing up for america and we are standing up with the people of louisiana. [cheers and applause] the next step to victory begins in this state and it begins with you right now. with your support, we will show the corrupt democrats -- and they are corrupt, do-nothing democrats -- that the american people are not backing down. we need you to get your friends, get your family, get your neighbors, and get out to vote early for eddie. if you don't vote early, i will be back on thursday to get you to vote on saturday, ok? [cheers and applause] pres. trump: with your help, we will lift millions of more of our citizens from welfare to

work, dependence to independence, and property -- poverty to prosperity. with your help, we will elect a congress to create a fair, safe state and lawful system of immigration and many other things. we will enact trade deals that result in more products proudly stamped with that beautiful phrase -- made in the usa. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: we will achieve new breakthroughs in science and medicine, finding new cures for childhood cancer and ending the aids epidemic in america. did you know that? within 10 years. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: i never knew we could do it until recently, and we put up the money. we will have the aids epidemic ended. who would have thought we could have done that? we will chart a new era of discovery in space and someday very soon, we will land an american astronaut on the surface of mars.

[cheers and applause] pres. trump: we will defend privacy, free speech, free assembly, religious liberty, and the right to keep and bear arms. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: above all, we will never stop fighting for the sacred values that bind us together as one america. we support, protect, and defend the constitution of the united states. [cheers and applause] we stand with the incredible heroes of law enforcement. we believe in the dignity of work and the sanctity of life. we believe that faith and family, not government and bureaucracy, are the true american way. we believe that children should be taught to love our country, honor our history, and to always respect our great american flag.

[cheers and applause] pres. trump: and we live by the words of our national model -- national motto, and they will never, ever change as long as we are here. in god we trust. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] pres. trump: and it may be 120 degrees in this room, and i don't know about you, but i'm having a good time. [cheers and applause] it's a little hot. it's a little hot. somebody is saving on air conditioning. that's all right. we've got to save a little money. you go home, you lose about nine pounds, you say what happened? well, i went to louisiana, we -- with some great friends and i lost about nine pounds. we stand on the shoulders of

american patriots across oceans, -- who crossed oceans, settled the continent, tamed the wilderness, revolutionized industry, pioneered science, won two world wars, defeated fascism and communism, and made america the greatest nation in the history of the world, and we are making it greater every single day. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: proud citizens like you helped build this country, and together, we are taking back our country. really, i mean, do you believe what is going on in washington with these do nothing, somewhat evil and in some cases very evil people? but that's the way it is, and here's the story -- we are winning. we are winning like never before. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: if we were not winning, they would not care. life would be a lot of fun in washington, probably, but we have to do what we were sent to

do, right? we have to do it. we are returning power to you, the american people. with your help, your devotion, and your drive, we are going to keep on working. we are going to keep on fighting, and we are going to keep on winning, winning, winning. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: let me ask you this. are the people of louisiana getting tired of winning? is anybody getting tired of winning? because i could go to john and bill. i could say, look at that. you,will come in, told by senators, we are winning too much. we cannot take it anymore. there's too much winning. we liked our old way of life. we had lousy jobs. we got paid very little. there was no business. there was no nothing. please go to washington and see the president and tell the president please stop winning so much.

we are working too hard in louisiana. we are winning too much. i will look at them and i will say sorry, fellas, we are going to keep on winning. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: because we are one movement, we are one people, we are one family, and we are one glorious nation under god. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: america is thriving like never before, and, ladies and gentlemen of louisiana, the best is yet to come. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: together we will make america wealthy again. we will make america strong again. we will make america proud again. we will make america safe again. and we will make america great again.

thank you, louisiana. thank you. thank you. [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ you can't always get what you want you can't always get what you want you can't always get what you want sometime you find you get what you need

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cable satellite corp.2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> thursday on the c-span networks, the senate energy committee looks at energy development on federal lands at 10:00 a.m. on c-span. at 1:00, vice president mike pence will speak at the at st. ansum college. and on c-span 3 at 10:00 a.m., carla hayden, library of congress, testifies before the senate administration committee on efforts to modernize the library. k.c. up in an hour, discusses the impeachment inquiry ahe