Tonight, we will mark the tradition by showing speeches from past years, including those from president hill clinton, george w. Bush and barack obama. But first, remarks by president ronald reagan, delivering his last speech to the dinner in 1988. [applause] you. Pres. Reagan thank thank you. [applause] fmr. Pres. Reagan thank you. Thank you very much. Please. Thank you all. I am delighted to be here. My, what a crowd. It looks like the index of larrys book. [laughter] [applause] its good toagan see norm and your incoming senator kerry oleary. In his book, larry said that jerry filled his coat pockets with pastries. Earlier tonight, just to be safe, i told him, keep your hands off my dinner roll. Said repairing me for a press conference was like reinventing the wheel. Its not true, i was around when the wheel was invented, and it was easy. [laughter] [applause] fmr. Pres. Reagan even howard baker is writing a book about me. Five, thed three by measure of a president. [laughter] mike sa
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Done legislatively will be done in september. All of that ball is up in the draftedls are being with some markups, but the wildcard is what is Mitch Mcconnell going to bring to the floor . He made it clear he is not going to bring anything up to a vote without President Trump support. Trump has been all over the board. You go back to decades and two weeks, he seems to contradict himself on what he supports. He used to support assault weapons bans and background checks and all of these things, and sometimes he says he does not support those things anymore and seems to be adopting an ra points, claiming Mental Health and violent video games and all of these things. The white house is putting together a package on all of these things. We will have to see what will be in there. Democrats will say that is insufficient and of course nancy pelosi and House Democrats have passed a background check bill and they are trying to keep the pressure to bring it up for a vote. If it does come up for a
And pleasure being field direct for our campaign in South Carolina that will lead the Political Revolution that will change the nation for the better. [cheers and applause] when we come to events like this and see enthusiastic supporters i cant help t but fl hopeful for our nations future because 2017 weve had some dark days in this country, weve had some days that felt hope and day that is we have felt there but because of people like you, but people who demand campaign, because of people like our candidate Bernie Sanders on january 20th, 2021 this nation is going to change for the better, for the better. [cheers and applause] we take the revolution in South Carolina that burn goes all the way to the oval office. [cheers and applause] but im here today rock hill to tell you that why we come to rallies and they are great, what we need so more than anything in this time of year energy and your dedication, we need you to sign up and volunteer for this revolution, we need you to go out an
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