we re doing something special. this is a movement. we re going to make our country great again, believe me. we will make our country great again. i love you all. thank you very much. i love you. thank you. thank you. donald trump giving what was supposed to be a foreign policy speech tonight from the deck of a battleship. moored in southern california. there s more to come tonight. there is something important about this event tonight as donald trump throws baseball hats to the crowd. there s something to this event in terms of who organized it. the organization that explicitly endorsed him at the start of it. mr. trump referred to it as an organization of hundreds of thousands of veterans for which this was actually a fund-raiser tonight, not a presidential fund-raiser, a fund-raiser for that, quote unquote, group. and that back story to what just happened here tonight, this fiasco that was supposed to be a foreign policy speech but yeah, right, that back story is even
donald trump just wrapped up what was suppose to be a major foreign policy speech tonight on the deck of a battle ship, decommissioned battle ship the uss iowa. it was not at all a major foreign policy speech. it wasn t even a major donald trump saying nothing speech. but one of the features of that event tonight was the number of protesters who were outside the event both before and during and now that the event is over peeling off, joining us now is correspondent katie tour who has been following mr. trump and at the event tonight in l.a. thanks for being here. thank you, rachel. good to see you, as well. tell me who turned out because they weren t weren t a fan of donald trump tonight. a lot of local people from the area actually came out here to say they did not agree with donald trump s policies and did not agree with him standing on top of the uss iowa.
unquote, group, that group is going to be the recipient of the funds raised tonight from this night on a battle ship with donald trump. it was supposed to be his big foreign policy speech. it was a fund-raiser for that guy. i mean, biggest juggernaut in republican politics tonight, raising money at that event. tickets were up to $1,000 a pop. that alone would be more than 300 i mean, how it s weird enough to see a candidate like donald trump be the front-runner for the republican nomination. . it is weird enough to see him campaigning for president standing 0 and a decommissioned battle ship when his only connection is he went to a military prep school in the 60s. even though he got multiple deferments to avoid service in the vietnam war, he told his biographer he believes he did be in the military because of that expensive prep school
breaking tonight. donald trump has just wrapped up a speech that had been billed a major national security address on board the uss iowa. it wound up being 10 minutes long. hundreds of supporters were on the battle ship to listen while protesters were picketing outside the vent. mr. trump spent part of time talking about the president s deal with iran and promised the crowd he would do better job on veterans issues especially when it comes to healthcare. i will say this, i am with the veterans 100 percent. [cheers] they are our greatest people. they are being treated terribly. the not only the number of deaths which are obviously that s tantamount. that s what s going on is incredible. but, as of two weeks ago on wednesday, the vets had the longest wait in the husband industry of the veterans
people are that are here because we re doing something special. this is a movement. we re going to make our country great again, believe me. we will make our country great again. i love you all. thank you very much. i love you. thank you. thank you. donald trump giving what was supposed to be a foreign policy speech tonight from the deck of a battleship. moored in southern california. there s more to come tonight. there is something important about this event tonight as donald trump throws baseball hats to the crowd. there s something toing this event in terms of who organized it. the organization that explicitly endorsed him at the start of it. mr. trump referred to it as an organization of hundreds of thousands of veterans for which this was actually a fund-raiser tonight, not a presidential fund-raiser, a fund-raiser for that, quote unquote, group. and that back story to what just happened here tonight, this