An article that i tweeted out last night that really compliments you as a student body. Its from virginia business magazine, and its, its about how liberty, about how you as students have gone the extra mile to serve others and to fulfill the Christian Mission of the school. I really think youll enjoy it if you take time to read it. Its by heather hayes, a local reporter here, who wrote for that magazine. So if you get a chance, take a look at that. Youll be proud of yourselves. First of all, steve strang is here. Hes the founder of charisma magazine. Hes an awardwinning journalist, entrepreneur, businessman and author. Hes also his newest book is god and donald trump. Steve is charisma magazine, ive always heard, has a bigger circulation than christianity today. I believe thats still true, and hes just doing incredible work in the christian world in so many ways. Thank you for being here, steve. And also we have corey lewandowski. He was, hes a political operative, a comment commentator for one america news network, fox news, cnn. He and i became good friends last year during the campaign because he was the former Campaign Manager for Donald Trumps 2016 president ial campaign. Hes coauthor of the book let trump be trump, because everybody thats ever been around him knows if you dont let him be him, youre going to get kicked out. So i think thats a good title. David bossies also here. David and corey have been on news shows all week, fox and other networks, talking about their book. But david has served as president of Citizens United since 2001, as deputy Campaign Manager for trumps 2016 campaign. He was ranked number two in politicos top 50 most influential people in american politics. Hes coauthor of the book i just mentioned, let trump be trump. David has produced 25 documentaries since 2004 and coproduced six featurelength films. And so were going to please welcome all three of our guests to liberty university, steve, corey and david. [applause] we know youve got exams coming out, so well try to get you out early today. [cheers and applause] all right. Robert, is in the second convo that youve done with center for law . Suspect for law and center for law and government. This is the second convocation that robert heads the center for law and government. Hes a former congressman from southern virginia. And he only stayed in, what, four years . Six years. Six years and he got out. I wish theyd always get out after six years. [laughter] anyhow. Where do you want me to sit . [inaudible conversations] all right. Ill let you guys lead off and just tell us, steve, start with you, tell us what youve, what youve been doing with charisma magazine and what tell us about the new book and just anything youd like well, charisma magazine is a spiritual magazine that i, weve devoted our entire october issue to donald trump. And we published articles from christian prophets, modernday prophets who predicted hed win against all odds, and he did. And that led, one thing to another, until i wrote this book because i thought it was important to talk about the spiritual aspect of whats going on, not just the politics. Well, you supported cruz first, right . Boo. [laughter] ive had so many, so many christians come up to me and tell me recently i supported cruz, i thought you were crazy when you supported trump, but you turned out to be right. You were right. And things like david, Like Supreme Court justice gorsuch, and you see trump recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel, what many prime ministers have [cheers and applause] what many president s have promised to do but never had the guts or the integrity to follow through, you know, you have to mike evans, who is a big supporter on that issue, is calling trump the modernday equivalent of king cyrus from the old testament. Do you want to comment on that . Well, i agree with that. In fact, for me that was kind of what made me vote for trump, because, you know, hes not the kind of person that evangelicals would normally look, you know, someone more like Mike Huckabee is more my speed. But a friend of mine said that he believed that god was raising him up like cyrus. And the bible says in isaiah 45 i have called you even though you did not know me. And it was like, you know, the people in the bible were not perfect at all, but yet god used them, and he used a pagan king from persia to send his people back to egypt. And so many people have like jesus said, may clean the outside of the platter, but inside are ravenous wolves. I keep going back to that passage youre absolutely right. They seem like good, decent people, good family people, but when it comes down to look how they acted when trump won. I mean, theyve been trying to sabotage him ever since, and they just dont act anything but christian. You know, the amazing thing is he has championed the values that you and i would, and most of these student, would believe in better than people that had better credentials like george w. Bush who was a good man, but he just didnt come through on a lot of stuff. Trump is coming through again and again and again, and i believe that gradually the people who dont like him are going to come over thats why i say when it comes to politics, jesus separated. He said render unto caesar the things that are caesars, and to i always say that, i know. [laughter] [applause] you cant judge somebody according to how good they are and decide on who youre going to vote for based on that, because were all sinners. And jesus said if you ever lusted after a man, after a woman in your heart, then youre just as guilty as guy that had adultery. Theyre all the same. You vote for the one who you think the going to vote the best for your country, and i think thats what evangelicals did. Youre absolutely right. Theres so much hypocrisy where people who have things in their own past the only difference is they never got caught. Thats right. As christians, we believe people can change. And in my book i document that about ten years ago something happened in Donald Trumps life. He started cleaning up his act, he started watching christian television, and i believe that hes a very different kind of man than some of the bad stereotypes that were familiar with. I do too. I was the only one willing to go on tv and say that after the access hollywood videotape came out. But, corey, welcome to liberty welcome back to liberty. You were here with President Trump last year . Mr. President , i was here, and i was here with what is now to our president of the united states, and its such an honor and privilege to be here. Thank you for having us. Has the campus changed a little bit since you were here . Its amazing. The growth from a year ago when i was here, you know, the dorm back behind us wasnt completed. What youve done at this school and across the country is just amazing, and thank you. If it werent for the studentses and their attitude, you and i were talking backstage about how you were at harvard recently. Tell us about that. You know, i grew up in a town called lowell, massachusetts, which is not a town of privilege [cheers and applause] im a blue collar guy who had the opportunity to be on an amazing ride with the most extraordinary candidate in the world. And Harvard University called me and said would you come up and be one of our visiting fellows. And i went up there, and the difference between what president falwell has done here and what they do at harvard is night and day. Its amazing how you understand what the real america is like. And when you go to cambridge, massachusetts, they live in a fantasy world. They are so entitled up there. They think that everybody owes them, that they are the smartest, the greatest, the best. And what happened and what you guys have here is so different. And let me just give you one example. You know, about five years ago they wouldnt let me slow my truck down in front of cambridge, massachusetts, because they hate everything that trump stands for. They hate the fact that hes a populist, that he wants to make America Great again, that hes not a globalist, that he wants to make sure the promises he made on the campaign trail are fulfilled as a president. Thats not what they want up there. They want rhetoric, they want things that make other countries great again, and its so refreshing to come to a university where people care about their country again and its okay to say merry christmas. [applause] you know, ive got to tell you about your president. Ive got to tell you, because this is the honest to god truth, and jerry knows, the president knows im a truth teller. The day the access Hollywood Tape came out on donald trump, i made one phone call. The only one i made. Because cnn, the president of cnn called me and said, corey, i need you to come on tv right away. I called president falwell, and i said, jerry, i need to go on television in the next three minutes, what do you want me to say . Because every time as a Campaign Manager to donald trump i called the falwells, and the Falwell Family showed up. They were there as a steadfast supporter of this president when nobody else was, and jerry and becky came out, and they helped campaign. And they saw in donald trump before anybody else did what this country needed. And he said to me and i repeated it verbatim, he said my father always said were not electing a sunday schoolteacher, were electing the next president of united states. And i went on television and i said that, and that hit home to so many people. Because what president falwell just talked about is the hypocrisy of the left. All these people who make accusations against other candidates only to find out that their own house is not in order. And what we have finally seen is some of those things are coming back to haunt those very same people. I am so blessed and so privileged to be here at liberty university. Thank you, president falwell, for the invitation. Thank you, corey. [applause] i did notice that the only time the president calls me to go on tv is when hes in real trouble. [laughter] true. He says im a warrior. I dont know, i dont know where he gets that from, but our students are the ones that deserve the credit for whats happened here at liberty. Its them that makes liberty a special place. [applause] we thank you guys for that. Thank you. [applause] en randall wallace, who is from lynchburg, he made the movies braveheart, parallel harbor pearl harbor, secretaryuate, he went to his sons graduation at duke the next day, and he said he couldnt believe the difference in the attitude of the students. He said the same thing, it was were entitled, were the elite, we deserve the best in life. He said at liberty it was all about what can we do to serve others. And i think thats whats going to make you guys much more successful when you get out of here and you get in the real world because those are the attributes that really lead to true success. And i just, i just have to believe that those guys at duke and harvard are going to be working for you guys one day. [cheers and applause] thats the truth. Look, president falwell is so right, and hes so smart, and ive had the privilege of going to many of the socalled Ivy League Schools. I spoke at stanford, i spoke at oxford. Its the same sense of into entitlement that harvard had. What you have here are servants hearts, something so very special that you dont have a sense of entitlement, and what you will achieve here because of your education at this institution and the values that you come out of here with are so much smear your than superior than all those entitled individuals at those Ivy League Schools who think that the world owes hem. Thats because of the owes them. Thats because of the leadership of president falwell. I am so thankful that you are here. I have an 11yearold daughter, and she said to me, daddy, i want to go to harvard someday. I said, baby, youll never go to harvard, right . [laughter] we dont care about those ivy league freaks. Its never going to happen. [laughter] i said what youre going to do, youre going to go to the greatest school that ive ever known, which is liberty university. And i was here [cheers and applause] someday when my 11yearold, who i love more than life, is going to apply for a school, im going to call president falwell and say, baby, please let her in, because i love her. [laughter] and shes going to sit in these very same seats that you do and get the faith and the love and the blessings that you guys have here every day. Because without that, you cannot be successful. And thats what you get at this university, so thank you. [applause] i agree. You know, corey called me last january on a saturday. Im not sure who called, but at 11 00 in the morning, said can you be in iowa at 5 00. So we jumped on a plane. I said youve got to pay for the plane. The lawyer says liberty cant pay for it. So they paid for the plane. And we were there, we showed up for the rally, full auditorium like this, and i said what am i here for . They said, youre the moderator. I said, whoa, okay. So it was just trump and me went out on stage, and i asked the questions. Luckily, id been texting sean hannity, he gave me some ideas. We went on the plane that night, and i think i never told you this, corey i think i talked too much about liberty when i introduced him, because the next morning when we were in another city and we were getting ready to do another rally, he said, jerry, im going to send you out to des moines to do some interviews. I said, oh, i must have talked too much about liberty. Then we did the second rally, and i toned it down a little bit, and afterwards he was like, who the hell needs trump . Jerrys the smartest guy i know. Thats what he said. Excuse my language. [laughter] but he said, after that [laughter] after that he said i want you to do the rest of the rallies now. So i learned my lesson after that first one. I never told you that story. Anyhow, david, welcome to liberty. Thank you for having me. Yep. You and i have not gotten to know each other that well, but tell me a little bit you were here a few weeks ago. I was just here, down for constitution week about a month or so ago, and enjoyed my time here. I actually came here the first time in 1987 when i was just a kid. I was in my early 20s, i was working for Senate Majority leader bob dole when he was running for president. Came here and that weekend we had Pat Robertson with your dad, and it was an amazing experience, and ive been blessed to be back many times since. I actually have a swriewrn in high school a junior in high school, so were going to need a little help next year ourselves. Shes actually a tremendous student, much better than her dad. And were, were going to be look to send her down here. We have, were blessed with four kids. We live right outside of washington, d. C. In montgomery county, maryland. [cheers and applause] maryland usually doesnt get that big of a round of applause, ill be honest with you. Its a fairly liberal state, but thank you. And so i had the distinction honor and privilege of being do the deputy Campaign Manager. I came in with steve bannon and Kellyanne Conway at the end of the campaign in august and ran the general election. And then i was the deputy executive director for the president ial transition team, is so i helped in my little way of building the cabinet and recommending a lot of the folks for jobs and trying to build out the white house. So it was a tremendous experience. I was there, i walked into the president s office in trump tower the night that the billy bush tape came out. And i believe the first phone call he made after he spoke to governor pence was to you. He was on the phone with you when i walked into the office. And so i know what a special person and a special relationship you have with the president. And it is, youve been a rock the to him. And it has been a blessing to him, your relationship with him. So i just want to say thank you for that, because he youve seen him and helped him through a lot of issues over the years. And you can see his courage just this week with recognizing jerusalem as the capital and what he has done. He is the 13th president to say he would recognize jerusalem, but hes the first president to actually do it. And so its been an amazing week of leadership coming from the white house. [applause] so ive had, ive had the privilege of knowing the president a long time. Maybe well get a chance to visit about that. But thank you. [inaudible] so, dave, youve known among the three guests, youve known the president longer than anyone. You got to know him in 2010 through steve wynn and ended up kind of being an adviser to him as he approached the 2016 election. I guess my question is, is the message of nationalism, america first, is that finish was that sincere . Is that something that because a lot of people say, oh, trump is just about making money for himself, about his brand. How sincere is he in that message . Has he been talking about that message from the beginning . And then, obviously, it carried out into success. You know, it thats a great question. And if you look back throughout 20 or 30 years of videotape thats out there videotape is what we used to use [laughter] its a, and you watch Oprah Winfrey interviews from 20 years ago, you see this president talking about bad trade deals and what it, what it takes for america to succeed economically around the world, and you see him talking about these blue collar issues. And we called him the blue collar billionaire because he connected with people. And so this has been something thats been true to him for a long time. Youre right, i got to know, i got to know President Trump not politically. And thats one of the things in our book, let trump be trump, we try to talk about. We try to talk about the man and his incredible kindness and how generous he is to all those around him. Im just going to share a personal story. I got a chance to know him, steve wynn is a friend of mine, is a famous Las Vegas Casino magnate and a successful businessman and another marylander, i might add. And he was helping me raise money for Childrens Hospital in washington washington, d. C. Where my son not just at that hospital, but many hospitals had a series of surgeries for a brain aneurysm and two open heart surgeries. And he struggled for life as a baby. And i wanted to be able to help other children and other parents through raising money for Childrens Hospital so that others could have what my son had, which is the best health care in the world. And it is, it is through that that steve wynn said, dave, im going to introduce you to donald trump who owns the property where you hold that charity event. He just bought it, by coincidence. So he introduces me to thenmr. Trump, and i go meet with him. He is so kind. And in the first meeting, he gave so much and allowed me to become part of his family really. And it was an amazing thing that he has befriended my children over the years and helped me raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for Childrens Hospital. Why do you think that the media doesnt give him more credit for that . The Mainstream Media wants to build him into this character, right, this caricature of somebody that they want, which is somebody who, you know, is a kind of a figure that people will dislike. And so i through this book, and corey and i through let trump be trump, really tried to connect the people with the man. Its the behind the scenes stories of the campaign. He, you know, he does we say it, in the book, he says we tear our faces off on the airplane. With or without a parachute, we would have liked to have got off the plane a few times. But we had an amazing experience with this man, and he is just so kind and generous. Its one of the things that we wanted to and i talk about my sons journey in the book. Corey, talk about the media, you know . He, i think its safe to say he has an antagonistic relationship with the media. I dont think it has always been that way, you know . Hes been the master of the media. How much has trump been able to take thismedia sentiment that is shared, i think, by so many of his supporters and so many of americans, has he been able to turn that into an advantage, and can you talk a little bit about the tweets, you know . And what that was like from january 15 for 18 months as sort of trump established himself as the frontrunner. Well, look, someday theyll come out, therell be a book that comes out that says the tweets that were never published, okay . Itll be the greatest book ever written [laughter] because if you think the ones hes put out already are good, you should see the ones we never put out. Wow. Its amazing what candidate trump had the opportunity to do with the fake news. He held them accountable. For the first time in our lifetimes, we had a fighter who through his social media activity facebook, twitter, instagram has 100 plus million followers, and he can bypass the fake news. And just this week, not just during the campaign where he fought back every time and said, hey, theres a beauty from npr, youre a real beauty, give me a question, right . He did it all the time. What he did and what he has done is hes called out the fake news. This week we saw an abc reporter give a false story about donald trump and general flynn. And only through Donald Trumps sheer ferocity of attacking the media did abc recant that story and suspend that journalist. This week we saw a story that bob mueller has subpoenaed Deutsche Bank records. Six hours later after donald trump said that is not true through his social media activities did they recant the story. But never in our lifetime have we had such a fighter in the to oval office. And what the American People saw and many of you were here last year when candidate trump was here, was a man who wakes up every day and fights for what he believes in. But i have to tell you one story because its so important. Its probably one of the greatest things thats ever happened in my life. President trump is elected, and he gets sworn in on january 20th, and he calls me and he says, corey he says, corey . I said, yes, sir. He says, you never come visit me. This was february of this year, and he says would you come see me in the oval office . I said, absolutely. Id never been to the oval office because im a poor kid from lowell, massachusetts. And i walk into the oval office, and theres the leader of our free world sitting behind a resolute desk. And to his far right, my left, is the Vice President of the united states. And i stand at the precipice of the oval, right outside. And he looks at me and sees me and says, fete in here. Get in here. I walk into those hallowed grounds, the oval office. And he says, my man. Come here. [laughter] and he stands up and he gives me a hug, and he turn toss the Vice President of the united states, and he says, mike, do you know who this is . And the Vice President says, yes, sir, thats corey. And he says, mike, do you know who this is . And the Vice President says, yes, sir, thats corey lewandowski. He says, mike, this is the guy who said you could be the Vice President of the united states. And i said, well, sir, 60 Million People said that, but im with you. And mike pence, because i was the chairman of the Vice President ial selection committee, stood up, and he said, corey, will you take my chair. I said, mr. Vice president , i cannot do that. And he said, would you do me a favor . I said ill do anything you ask, sir. He said would you pray with me . As we sat in the oval office, our leaders asked for gods help and forgiveness as they lead this great country. And i have never been so humbled of anything in my life. [applause] and mike pence and donald trump are such great leaders. Mike pence sat there, and we prayed together, the president of the united states, the Vice President of the united states, myself and nobody else in the room. And then after the Vice President finished praying, because he was going to go represent our country at a speech, trump hit him on the shoulder and said, get the hell out of here, which was the greatest. [laughter] but ill tell you, its so amazing. Thats so uncanny, because we experienced almost the same thing. We went up there in february, and we went in Vice President pences office first. What struck me is he has an open bible on his desk all the time. And he reads it every day. And he was so warm and welcoming and personable. Then we go into the president s office, and the president was the same way. Hes just he had a red button on his desk in a box, and i said whats that for right there . He said, oh, everybody thinks thats the nuclear button. He reached over and pushed it, and a butler came in and brought him a dr. Pepper. [laughter] and we, and my daughter the most important button in the office. My daughter caroline said, mr. President , you look like youve lost weight. He said, yeah, i dont know if ive lost weight or not, but theres no scale in the white house. I dont know. And he said they only i used to snack all day long, but he said now theyre giving me remember on the plane he ate three cheeseburgers and a large fry . Yes, sir. I remember on the plane president he was the Campaign Candidate then. Hed ask me what i thought of president obama. I said, well, it just seems like hes trying to bring america to its knees. He stopped and he said, corey, he yelled back for you, jerry thinks obama wants to bring the country to its knees. I dont know if you remember that, but im getting off the subject. [laughter] but anyway, at the end of our meeting with trump after about 30 minutes, he said the same thing. Yall get out of here, go on. But thats just the way he is. He makes everybody feel like hes their best friend. But, jerry, the fact that they pray in to to oval office, they ask for goods blessing and gods forgiveness should never be understated. Thats the side of our leaders that the media doesnt want to show. That is the side where they ask for the strength of god to give them the ability to lead our great country into a path which it has not been led in for the eight years of the previous administration. The media doesnt want to talk about that, but donald trump and mike pence are men of faith, and they have god in everything they do, and it is never reported how important that is for this administration. [applause] thats right. The faith, our faith in christ is really what, is really what unites us across all political lines. You were talking about redemption earlier. I was with pat caddell a few weeks ago down at maralago, and he said that Martin Luther king was asked back in the 60s why are you a Southern Baptist after the Southern Baptists had been for segregation and havent been your with side. And he said i am and i always will be because its a redemptive religion. It really is what unites us all. And i think thats what we the media tries to divide us, tries to divide blacks from whites, rich from poor, you know, name it, just every category, women from men. And its something be we as christians can get past that and love each other, love everybody, then i think then well see our country really change. And i just truly believe that. But, steve, tell us about your book. Well, first let me say that let trump be trump is a great book. Im about a third of the way through it thank you. And some of the stories that youve heard today are in the book. Youll want to get it. Their book is really more a lift the hood and look under and see whats going on. Mine is more of an overview. And Hillary Clinton wrote a book called what happened, and my book answers the question. And that is that god intervened in this election. [applause] in the direction that our country was going. There were millions of christians praying, and god answered our prayers in a way we did not expect without with a person we didnt even necessarily like initially until we got to know him more. And, you know, im trying to say that god is sovereign, you know . This is you talk about the Mainstream Media, they dont talk about god at all unless it has something to do with, you know, rightwing politics. But god is sovereign no matter whos in the white house. He lifted people up. He lifts people up. The bible says that. And i believe god put him in the white house. In fact, former congressman bob mcewen said this week, i was at a meeting, and he got up and said if you cannot see gods hand on donald trump, you are deaf, dumb and blind. And i believe that. Bobbook uni, you know the yeah. Hes one of our favorite speakers here. I guess this is for both of you all, corey and dave. Its been said that trumpism is bigger than trump. And i wonder what you think about that. You know, this president will be up for reelection in 2020, and you see what is happening to him in the Approval Ratings and those sorts of things. Remains to be seen what happens between now and then. But my question is, is after hes gone whether he runs again and serves out a second term or not, does what his message, does it go beyond, go beyond him . Is it bigger than he is . Im going to go quickly, and then maybe you can. Donald trump was elected as a change agent. And i think thats going to continue to be that movement, the trump movement, is that washington, d. C. Has been broken for a long time. And it is, doesnt work for the American People, and i think we can all see that no matter what age you are. You can be just as frustrated as anybody else that washington, d. C. Is not working for us. And donald trump told the American People during the campaign that i am a change agent, and im going to go and fix the broken status quo. And i am going to kick in a couple of doors, and is im going to flip over a couple of desks, and im going to make the establishment uncomfortable. And we can see that thats the pushback that he gets around washington, d. C. For the last ten months. Theyre a little bit afraid of him and what he will do. And so i believe this tax reform package which just passed the Senate Last Week is really the first big legislative victory of the president s, but its kind of the straw that might break the camels back. Maybe with one wig victory big victory, the president is going to be able to succeed in very big ways over time. And i think that the trumpism continues well after President Trump is gone. Look, i talk about this, we talk about this a lot in the book, right, let trump be trump. What he did during that election was unparalleled. The way he saw the pulse of the American People, the way he tapped into that not just here at convocation which he came to, but across the country. People would turn out in droves. And in the book we talk about how the Mainstream Media never gave him the credit. I heard this all the time as the Campaign Manager. People would wait in line for eight hours in a blizzard to get into a donald trump rally in kingsboro, massachusetts, and say those people arent going to show up on the polls, these people arent real, jeb bush is a little rusty because he hadnt run for office in eight years. Well, donald trump hadnt run for office in 70 years. Hed never been part of the system. And what we talk about in the book is how he completely disemboweled the republican establishment, how he destroyed all the gene juses geniuses by the veer ve processty of his schedule. Six, seven, eight stops a day in four time zones. And what that did was it ignited people who had not been involved in politics for 30 years. You go to michigan, you go to pennsylvania, you go to wisconsin, places where republicans dont win anymore, and you know what they said . They said were tired of the lies in washington. And what we write about in the book is exactly what dave said, washingtons been so broken that donald trump saw it and said i will fix it. And for the first time in my lifetime and yours as well, we have a businessman the oval office who is not stymied by 30 years of washington, d. C. Dogma of the way its always been done. And one quick story is we have this great trading partner, its called taiwan. Maybe youve heard of it, right . And the president of taiwan, she calls up the white house. She calls donald trump in trump tower right after hes elected. And hes sitting at his beautiful desk on the 26th floor. President falwell knows it, and ive been there many, many times. The woman from the front desk says thats the president of tie won on taiwan online one. Nineteen other guys said, sir, you cannot take that phone call, we to not recognize taiwan. And he says, excuse me . What do they want . Sir, shed like to congratulate you on your election win. Sir, please do not take that phone call. We cannot have you speak with the president of taiwan, it will destroy our relationship with china. Hello, bing [laughter] he doesnt care. Hes not beholden no those special interests in washington, thats what we write about. He is the but collar billionaire. Hes a man who funded his own campaign, and he wants to do whats right for america, and thats what the weeks all about the books all about. Another example of that is when he was meeting with a group of evangelicals early last year, maybe late 2015, and they said, we like you, mr. President , but we cant support you because of the Johnson Amendment. Were not allowed because of the irs, we all held taxexempt organizations, he said, what are you talking about . They explained to him the Johnson Amendment. I guess Lyndon Johnson added it to another bill in the 50s, and it basically took away the free speech rights of people like me and pastors, and he said, well, im going to get rid of that. And sure enough, he kept his promise, and its another big thing he did for evangelicals, is he gave pastors and heads of nonprofit organizations like this one the right to speak, to have political free speech. You might have something to comment about that. You know, this is significant because ive never even heard of a politician talking about the Johnson Amendment, yet its very and when youre in the nonprofit world, you know about it. And isnt it interesting how fast that donald trump got it. You didnt have to draw him a picture. He figured it out real quick and said its wrong. And he fixed it with executive actions, but he also says hes going to get legislation through, and i believe that he will, to fix it permanently. This is just an example of the leadership that he is giving this country which just confounds everybody. But it gets back to what aye said in my book is that god ive said in my book which is that god had a plan, and he raised him up for such a time as this, and hes continuing to bless him. The Johnson Amendment was one of the first things he talked about when he came hear last time. Did you want to add something . Other than two corinthians. [laughter] other than two corinthians. Actually, thats a lot of people say it that way. By the way, i dont know if john luke robertsons here, but his family influenced the president s thinking on the Johnson Amendment a lot. Phil robertson, his grandfather, spent a lot of time in his ear about it. And it was a, i was there a lot when they were talking about it. It was always a wonderful thing to have that family around him. Well, and back to something you said, corey, about career politicians. You know, i think the American People have figured those guys out, and they dont want them anymore. But the question is whether the republican partys going to get smart and stop running them against democrats. In this virginia they ran one against the democrat, and he lost. And i think its going to keep happening over and over. We need some more nontradition allocates. How are we going to the recruit people from the private sector to come in, serve for six years and get out of there . Well, i can tell you, first of all, thats a greated idea, robert. [laughter] get you off this campus maybe again one day. But, look, i actually got my start in politics on a College Campus in 1984. Which makes me really old, i know. But it is, i was there for Ronald Reagans reelection campaign. At the university of maryland. And it was a tremendous, tremendous thing to cut my teeth and get interested in the conservative movement. And i hope that each of you will consider getting involved in your communities, getting involved it doesnt have to be, you know, in politics, but figure people out. Think about it. Ask questions. Thats the most important thing you can do as young folks and be active and engaged. And so, look, you know, corey im just going to wrap up. You know, corey and i talk about in our book the ferocity of the campaign and the schedule, but it was run by about, well, it was six or ten of us that were the core group. And the president was 70 or 71 when he was running. And he drove us into the ground. His physical stamina, his motor ran at an unbelievable speed. And it was fed by fast food. I dont know if any of you have seen the media explosion over his diet of mcdonalds we had four food groups on the plane, basically, mcdonalds, kentucky fried chicken, pizza and diet coke. That was [laughter] thats basically the fuel for the campaign. And we, you know, look, we have a lot of really funny stuff in the book about whether its us pressing the president s pants on plane while hes still wearing them [laughter] you know . Which you had to be very careful. Or our diets or just how we would fill five or six stadiums a day, 10, 15, 20,000 people a day, three different time zones across the country, day in and day out, and Hillary Clinton was having trouble filling a high school cafeteria. And that was when we knew, we knew we had the finger on the pulse of the American People and what election day might behold when we saw those types of things. Thats great advice, david. All of you should take note. Get your careers established, do something outside politics, and then when youre ready, try to go in and serve for just a short time, then go back to what youre doing because youll have a better perspective for whats needed for the country than anybody who spends their whole lives in politics. I believe that. President falwell, youre so right. Look, career politicians have over destroyed our country. It was never meant to be a lifestyle. You know, we just saw, you know, congressman conyers resign in disgrace. He was elected in 1962 or something, right . 1965. I mean, this is insane. This is not what its supposed to be. Go out, have a productive career, create jobs, do something of value. Dont go to washington and say this is the best job ive ever had, because thats what happens. And they take these guys out of washington in pine boxes because they leave when theyre 97 years old if theyre lucky, right . All they want to do is be career politicians, and theyve done nothing. And what the donald trump revolution has showed us is that when you create jobs and you create value and you create a business and you employ people, the American People respect that, and thats what they want in washington. So go out and do Something Different than spend your life in politics. [applause] and i just [applause] thats exactly right. And one of my colleagues up in washington who is a true hero of the conservative movement and a 25year friend of mine is amy paul in and i dont know if maggie is in the audience, shes a sophomore here. Your mom is one of the greatest leaders of the conservative movement and a tremendous patriot. And if youre here, but id love to say hi to you afterwards if possible. Yeah, okay. Also hannah lankfords a student here. Her dad, senator James Lankford oh, yeah. Was in the ministry. He ran in oklahoma, and my guess is he probably will go back to what he was doing before. I just realized were completely out of time, and i promised them wed get them out early. I was having too much fun, sorry. But both of the books, steves and daves and coreys, were winning to give a special deal for students, or 5 apiece or, no, no, 6 apiece or two for 10, okay . I came up with that idea before convo to. [laughter] anyhow, its just the books are great were going to be here to sign them, i hope, if you like. Well be here to sign them. Theyll be on both sides, right . Maybe all over there. Anyhow, god bless. Youre dismissed. Thank you. Thank you, . Thank you. [applause] heres a look at some of the best nonfiction books of 2017 according to bloomberg. Former reddit Ceo Ellen Pao details her fight against the tech industrys discrimination of women in recess. Historian david to shin sky reports on the history of new york citys bellevue hospital, and jason fagone recalls the life of elizabeth senate who helped invent the modern science of cryptology in the woman who smashed codes. In hit refresh, microsofts ceo weighs in on the reinvention of microsoft. And also on bloombergs best nonfiction books of 2017 list, Amy Goldstein looks at the effects on a community caused by the closing of a gm plant in janesville. It was two days before christmas of 2008 that this General Motors plant closed down, something that was just unprecedented in this town and very hard for people to get their heads around, that this time was going to be different. And i knew that no place i was going to pick would be exactly like every place in the country, but as much as possible it seems to me a good idea to pick a community in which the pattern of job losses matched the broad pattern of job losses in the great recession. So nationally and in janesville, a lot of the jobs that disappeared were ones that had paid pretty well, but had not required much formal education. That was certainly true of these auto worker jobs. And in this recession broadly and . Janesville, more men than women lost jobs. So i could go on. But theres a sense that the kind of job loss that happened in this small wisconsin city was typical of the country. That appealed to me. I also had a sense when i started to research this place that janesville fit nicely into the sweep of u. S. History. On that first reporting trip where i met stan malem, somebody else told me i should find a Youtube Video of a speech that thensenator barack obama had given in the Janesville Assembly plant in february of 2008 when he was campaigning to try to win the wisconsin primary. And this was, it turned out, a very big, important economic speech in his campaign in which he lays out his agenda. And in that speech he says two things that when i discovered the speech on my just watching it on my laptop in my own office at home, it just gave me goose bumps. He said, first of all, basically, if the country elected him and followed his economic prescription, he said this plant will be here for another hundred years. The other thing he said was the promise of janesville is the promise of america. Of these authors have appeared on booking tv. You can watch them online on our web site, booktv. Org. I was up here on the side, and they were here. Obviously, the president , President Trump is giving his address. Hes sworn in, sworn into office, hand up, then he speaks. Hillary said that she was sitting there, and donald trump was talking about what had happened to the country and how things had, you know, flatlined. Median income had actually declined in real dollar terms and that people wanted a new approach to the border, to these trade deals, etc. And hillary says that george w. Bush looked at her and said, this is the craziest, weirdest bunch of horse hockey that ive ever heard, like that, like laughing. To hillary. And, you know, the media loved that. You know, they love when a republican like george w. Bush or pick your republican, john mccain, lindsey graham, jeff flake, go on and on. They love it when a republican trashes a conservative populist, especially a republican president in office like donald trump. And i thought to myself that kind of really because, that little vignette of bush snickering with hillary, laughing at donald trump, that explains this. Trump didnt come out of nowhere. He didnt kind of just pop out of a, you know, a vacuum, and he didnt win, by the way, because of jim comey or the russians. He didnt win because hes a celebrity. He didnt win because he was selffinanced. He didnt win because of facebook ads. Donald trump won this election because americans in the critical states that make up our Electoral College were kind of sick of being snickeredded at. They were kind of tired of being laughed at. They were tired of being told one thing in the Campaign Season and having governance as another thing. [applause] you can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org