democrats. he didn t like that programming. he wants the spotlight back. he ll get it this evening. this is his kick off rally. as you point out, he s been rallying since the day he s got elected and raising money since the day he got elected during the midterm elections, there were a lot of candidating complaining that the president was out raising money for his own reelection. again, we re watching this live as we speak. the president comes up and speaks we will take that. senator santorum, do you ginning up the base is something you need to energize the base pleasing the president that s something also. you want the candidate in a good mood and the campaign wants to do that but persuading more how does the president reach more voters than the ones he already has? he can talk about his record of success and helping americans, people who he said he was going to help. if you look at wages in this country, they have grown now for lower wage workers,
disproporti disproportionally, that hasn t happen in decades. if you look at poverty, the lowest recorded, i mean, look at employment levels, the highest recorded. the president s job on the economy has been extraordinary. he can go out and talk about how he reached out and help ted the working men and women and pennsylvania who relied upon him by going out and changing nafta to try to be more responsive to the needs of the communities. the president has a great message. he just hasn t done a good job articulating that. he has a chance to do it tonight if he wants to deliver the message but the message he chose to hit on today as he woke up or went to sleep throughout the day was this message bakari of undocumented immigrants and the notion there will be some massive roundup of undocumented immigrants in this country.
all right. let s listen. [ applause ] usa! usa! usa! usa! usa! good evening, orlando. usa! it has been my honor to serve as first lady of this incredible country for the past two years. and i m excited to do it for six more. i m proud of all that my husband, this administration and our entire family have done on behalf of the american people in such a short time. [ cheers ] he truly loves this country and will continue to work on your behalf as long as he can.
jail. look, donald trump tonight started out on the teleprompter doing what his campaign advisors wanted him to do talking about how he changed the system, talking about how he changed the coup t country, talking about the good economy. that is what he should be talking about. he should say i ve changed the country for the better but can t keep himself from talking about his grievances. and i m sure later in his speech he ll get to his grievances with the democratic candidates when he wonders off but his first grievance as always was against the press and he couldn t help himself by going there after, what, four or five minutes? yeah, it was starting at 8:14. it was four minutes in. exactly. two minutes in with the economy and four minutes in was that other. you could probably see his speech writers holding their head in their hands going oh my god, just read the prompter. jeffrey toobin, your take?
mains has she been up at all of them since then as we re watch thing walkup, jeffrey toobin, give me your thoughts. i want to talk away from the politics but to the policy. remember the president s tweet today, he says millions of people are going to be deported in the near future. it s worth pausing to consider what that would mean to actual human beings. there are millions of people in this country without documents who have families, jobs who are have kids that are american citizens and the idea mass deportations could take place in this country, millions of people, that s what the president said is something that has never happened in american history. jeffrey? and only happened in authoritarian countries. again, we re waiting to see if he brings up that policy tonight when he speaks. let s listen to some of this as the president gets ready to speak. i don t know if we ll hear from the first lady prior to that.