Lets get this thing on. Can you hear me . Perfect, perfect. You know, i walked in with one of these big i dont know what you call them a satchel with a big speech im going to do. And im just going to wing it because when youre with friends and family thats what you do, right . I wasnt going to sit here and bore you all with a 20, 25 minute wellrehearsed speech because thats not my style, not the style of my former boss that we all love here, right . Donald trump. [applause] so what i came out here, first of all, i want to thank the organizers of this because this is wonderful. This is exactly what america needs. We need this all around america, but of course, this is the nations biggest and beautiful city of West Palm Beach and i love it here. [applaus [applause] you know, ive come a long road, ladies and gentlemen. Its been a long two years. A very, very long two years. Im going to start by telling you that things werent easy. Initially we were in this chaotic moment, this coup that i lived from the beginning and unfortunately, i couldnt speak loudly. I had no voice except for my wife simona who is here that i think that everybody should applaud. [applaus [applause] you know, i remember it like yesterday. It was the summer of 2015. I was working in the swamp in d. C. I was one of these young up and coming Energy Analyst fortune policy guys who was tired of the establishment. You know, i was working with all of the establish pt types, scooter libby, doug fyte, and running an administration the americans didnt want. They didnt want another bush, i knew jeb was finished. Hes a good guy, but he is a little low energy, am i right . We were in a moment, ladies and gentlemen, when isis was going around cutting peoples heads off, christians and jews were being persecuted unlike any time in this millennia, and illegal immigration was running rampant around this country. We did not feel it was the america we grew up to believe it was. Im 32, there are some people younger here, and some people older here. We didnt feel under obama that was the america that we recognized, right . [applause] so i said to myself, you know, my colleagues over at the Hudson Institute told me, go get your feet wet, were going to get you in with one of those establishment campaigns, youre going to do great. Youre 28, youre going to move up the rings and then, obviously, people for predicting clinton might have won and get your feet wet and come back and continue working in the swamp. That would have been the safe choice, ladies and gentlemen, not the choice to victory so what i did was, i told them im not interested in that im getting out of here, im going to have and join the Ben Carson Campaign and thats exactly what i did. Who loves ben carson here . [applause] if theres one man who represents the american dream, its ben carson and ill just give you a little story about dr. Carson. I remember i was living in london. I was working over there in the Energy Business and i got a call from a guy called larry bennett. He was a Campaign Manager at the time. Hes like, look, we need some help out here, why dont you come out here. I said look, im living in london. No problem youre on the next flight to bethesda. I bet over there, i move to alexandria, virginia, i help dr. Carson out, he tells me and he tells the group, Christian Judeo values, thats the heart of the American Social fabric. [applause] and it struck me, as somebody who is im a christian myself. I was raised in the suburbs of chicago, but for somebody who had his beliefs at the root of his heart and how he acted every single day, made a great impression on me. Before every meeting we prayed. At the end of every meeting, we prayed. And it was dr. Ben carson who explained how important education is and the family structure. While he did not have a twoparent household, his mother was his rock and his mother instilled in him the belief that you had to be educated to move up in this world and you shouldnt look at each others colors, or beliefs and you should all want to make a positive impact on society and he ended up becoming one of the worlds greatest renowned surgeons in history. So [applause] so dr. Ben carson taught me a lot about america. You know, that moment when i say americans ive never seen before. I saw great patriots there. I saw people evangelicals, i saw, whites, blacks, latinos, standing up saying this is a man who represents me and i love that about dr. Ben carson and it was one of the greatest experiences of my life. Shortly after he dropped out of the race, i looked around and i saw that if he endorsed donald trump, he was going to take away ted cruzs votes and then donald trump was going to end up becoming both the nominee and the next president. So i contacted Corey Lewandowski and i saw him a couple of days ago in miami and we kind kind of laughed about it a bit and i havent seen him in three years. I was a persona nongrata for so long and it was nice to see my old colleagues once again. And i told him and i mentioned it during the conversation, i was peststering you, cory, i knew you had a winner and i joined carsons campaign and you brought me on, thats exactly what happened. I joined Donald Trumps campaign in march of 2016 when he was going to be the nominee. I think he became the nominee around that time or the next month. The moment i joined this campaign, ladies and gentlemen, i saw the setup. I saw what was going on. I saw the foreign governments involved, the media detested this guy and they were going to do Everything Possible to stack the deck against him and thats exactly what happened. So what youre starting to see now, when people like the New York Times or the washington post, and have written some good articles about me, too, and some bad ones, theyre shocked at what william barr and what john durham are up to around the world. Okay . This investigation by john durham and william barr is going to change american histo history. [applaus [applause] and the proof of the results of this investigation, im telling you, im marking my entire reputation on it in front of all of my friends here, that it will also change world history. [applaus [applause] the Mainstream Media wants to call us all extreme right conspiracy theorists, we believe our president was not colluding with russia. They want to call us fringe people because we were not working for the russian, probably working for the cia, people like joseph mittsa, alexander downer, stephen, charles towwell and some read my book and youre familiar fa many and some of you havent, probably some of my interviews. These people were not there ever to root out or find out if donald trump or his campaign was colluding with russia because these people, ladies and gentlemen, know what you had for breakfast before you even had it, okay . They were tailing us for months and months and months. There were fisa warrant issued. Michael flynn, the great Michael Flynn, right . [applause] seven months before i had this bizarre stephen halper, the guy they called the walrus from cambridge, he was targeting and spying on him. Seven months before i ever met Michael Flynn and then theyre start to go say that this was all just because we believe that the Donald Trump Campaign and associates of his were in the pocket of putin. This was a setup. This was preplanned. This was orchestrated and this came from the top of the Obama White House. Okay. I dont [applaus [applause] and you know, i hear a lot of pundits go on tv, yeah, yeah, yeah, it came from the white house. Theyre just saying it. I know it did because these foreign governments that were involved in my case, which william barr and john durham are going around the world, whether its australia, the u. K. , italy, ukraine, these governments and representatives of these governments wouldnt even go near an american let alone spy on him unless the u. S. Government told them to. Okay . Thats just how things happen. I was in d. C. A long time, i worked in the middle east. No one goes near you when they know youre politically involved and an american unless youre being told to go after this person. Who told people like joseph, alexander downer, stephen halper, others to target the campaign . Brennan, exactly. I think comey was the errand boy. I dont think that he even knew what was going on. This came up from brennan and the Obama White House and the heads of the doj and then they used comey to get these illicit fisa warrants which were now starting to understand much more of. So when carter pages fisa warrant came out. Why would he have a fisa warrant on him, why was he never charged. We later learned that the fisa warrant allows the doj to snoop within everybody in the campaign. They werent looking for individuals, they wanted a back door into donald trump ap thats what was happening. They wanted to assure that if donald trump did end up winning, and i guarantee you they thought he had a much better chance of winning than the pollsters thought he did, and thats why he was targeted the way he was. They wanted to handcuff him. They wanted to try and humiliate him. They didnt allow him to properly govern this nation. Im surprised the nation is doing as incredible as it is, considering how much hes been handcuffed. [applaus [applause] historic unemployment rates, africanamerican unemployment rate, hispanics, women in the work force. The world respects us. These are not fallacies. This is reality. I know the media wants to tell all of us that its not happening. It is happening. The world does respect us. What donald trump said during the campaign about promises, hes keeping them. How many politicians have done that in the past . None. Promises made, promises kept. Thats something that what he said he was going to do, hes doing it. He moved the embassy to jerusalem. Great choice, right . [applause] as somebody who worked in israel for a long time in the Energy Business over there, that was one of the most beautiful things i ever saw because you had so many president s who were determined, in quotes, to move the embassy to jerusalem, but they never did it. You had other president s like obama who were hostile to our greatest ally in the middle east, who was spying on Bebe Netanyahu and tried interference in his election because he didnt like him. Dont be surprised if he was trying to interfere in our election, too. Thank you. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, we are at the precipice, and i dont say that lightly, we are finally going to get to the bottom of what happened in 2016. [applaus [applause] if i if i, somebody who went through hell and back with my wife, am fighting and standing up and going public with my story and bringing more attention and more heat on me from these people who would rather see me, you know, disappear than talking to groups like you, if im out here doing it, if im vigilant, if im talking and being active, i really hope all of you are remaining active, too, for our democracy. [applaus [applause] i said 2016 was the most consequential election in u. S. History, i really think 2020 is. [applaus [applause]. [inaudible] thats right, thats right sorry . Winning. [laughter] i like to win, everybody. I dont know, are you all winners in here . [cheers and applause] i dont like to see scams against my country. I dont like to see scams against my president and i dont want to see my name run through the mud for nonsense. If i was a guilty guy, and harm my country the last thing id do is be talking in front of patriots like you tonight. [applause] the coward is the one that hides. Thats why all of these cowards who went after us that brennan sent after us, who is trying to spread disinformation against america and trying to cause chaos and division and create this bizarre impeachment issue were going through right now. These people hate america, these people dont respect your votes. They dont respect what you all believe in, what you stand for, thats what the deep state is. Its not a euphemism. People use that word so loosely. I dont. I saw what these people like muellers team wanted to do. They wanted to crush me. They wanted to crush Michael Flynn, roger stone, to make us sing or compose, to Say Something that wasnt true in order to harm our president and to change the direction of this country for the worst. Id rather go to jail for life than be a traitor to my country. [cheers and applause] so with that, ladies and gentlemen, i just wanted to thank you so much for giving me this opportunity to come out here to share some of whats going on, where i see things going. Keep faith in william barr and john durham, these people are patriots. They love america, and it is the year of the boomerang. These people are going to get it back. Thank you. Usa usa usa usa usa well take just two questions and then hes going to head up and sign some books. Any questions . Where is i think a lot of people have the question where is joseph mittsa. Well, thats one of them, but could you i dont know if you can share about this bribe that you were given and what happened with that and where it is and a little bit of the background and so forth. Thank you. Sure, sure, this is a part of the story that not even the media has covered. Probably willfully because it changes the narrative. As i explained earlier in this conversation, there was one country that i knew inside and out, it was israel. It wasnt russia. Because thats where all of my business ties used to be and thats where all of my work used to be. So what happened was, after the fbi comes to my house, and they start to question me, where im happy to answer all of these questions, i find out that theyre looking for some sort of perjury trap. Thats what it seemed like. It seemed like they knew exactly who joseph was and i get caught up mixing up dates and get some sort of charge for that. So what happened was after i thought i was helping them, i guess they didnt think i had enough, they didnt have enough on me to bring me in for whatever they were trying to do. So all of a sudden, i notice in my email gets hacked. The week after im meeting with these people. Two weeks later, i meet this bizarre man named charles t touwell who characterizes himself as an israeli business man who knows exactly everything that goes on in israel, where i am in my life. He didnt know what he was talking about and [inaudible]. Exactly like a hunter biden kind of guy. Telling me hes the most wellnetworked guy in the world and knew everybody. I looked around, i didnt know who he was, and never heard of him. Anyway im on my vacation with my then girlfriend and now wife in 2017, the time when theres the fourth fisa issue on carter page and this is going to get interesting. A fisa warrant issued on carter page and rumors, i was actually told by abc news there was one on me and i cant wait to see the fraudulent stuff in there thinking of suing. They told talk business, flight to israel the problem was we werent talking about business. The moment i get there, bizarre introduced to people that i should not have been introduced to and i felt like i was being entrapped. He tells me, here is 10,000, why dont you keep this as a retainer for our future business dealings and i kept thinking to myself and my girlfriend at the time and now wife warned me, this guy is up to no good. Women are a little wiser than us men, you know . [inaudible] you know, she saved my life a lot of times. You know . So, i definitely do, so i take this money right away, take it, i give it to my lawyer because i said this guy, theres nothing no one gives you 10,000 in cash unless theyre in the mafia or setting you up. So i give it to my lawyer, i contacted this individual, dont ever contact me again, take your money. I fly back to d. C. , two days later i have eight fbi agents waiting for me. Where is the money, george, what money . Looking for my bags, all this, this is a setup and this money is under intense scrutiny by congress and by the department of justice. [applause] guys, give it up for george papadopoulos. Thank you for coming out with him and protecting him through this process. Our wives happen to have a sixth sense about these types of things. [applaus [applause] there you go, thank you. Thank you so much. Sunday night on q a, American University distinguished professor of history, alan crowd looks back on managing immigration. I would the sentiment of xenophobia is not different from what weve seen in the past and while it seems to us to be peppered with acts of violence and ferocity, there have been other acts of violence, other antiimmigrant riots in the period before the civil war. Antiimmigrant riots in the 1880s. There have been a lot of moments in American History when the antiimmigrant sentiment has been translated into true ugliness. Watch sunday night at 8 p. M. Eastern on cspans q a. Well, the u. S. Senate is about to gavel in to start the day. More work is expected on executive and judicial nominations. The first votes are scheduled for 11 a. M. Eastern today. Lawmakers will break between 12 30 and 2 15 eastern for their weekly party caucus lunches. When they come back the senate will complete work on the nomination of Barbara Barrett to be the next air force secretary, with a final vote on her scheduled for 4 15 eastern. And now to live coverage of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. Todays opening prayer will be offered by Giani Sukhvinder Singh of milbourne, pennsylvania. The guest chaplain good morning. Let us pray. One universal creator god, by the grace of the true guru