I mean this sincerely. Everyone in attendance is doing their part in supporting our charitable efforts. And it couldnt be done without you or without the amazing support of the many devoted catholics on stage. You know, catholics like henry kissinger, howard rubenstein, mort zuckerman. Before we turn this over to our speakers, i want to address the elephant in the room. I was talking to Cardinal Dolan no, no, that was not a planned that was not a bear with me i wish id thought of that. It just happened to fall in that way. Earlier want the wikileaks emails that said certain members of the Clinton Campaign wanted to incite a revolution in the Catholic Church. I was pretty concerned. But we had a very constructive conversation with the Clinton Campaign and Cardinal Dolan said, if the cardinals and the clergy havent destroyed the church in the last 2,000 years, the democrats dont stand a chance. Of course, the donald got in a very public tiff with the pope last year. I know you discussed
He was running for president at the time, but he nevertheless responded to that question by singing bomb, bomb iran to the tune of barbar. Barbarbara ann. People were listening and it was hilarious. When john mccain ran for president in 2008 and this is years into the war in iraq 2007 2008 and there was anxiety about how the war in iraq was going and how long it had been and how long we were going to stay and why were we there in first place . And john mccain said during that campaign that as far as he was concerned, war in iraq that went on 100 years, that would be okay with him. He was asked a clarifying question on that. He revised that to say actually hed be okay with a thousand year war in iraq. When john mccain was running for president in 2008, Russian Troops crossed the border into a tiny eurasian nation called georgia. John mccain responded to that little war there by saying that he knew he spoke for every american when he said, about that russian war in georgia, quote, i know
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Phobia. Its what we heard days ago, Hillary Clinton speaking saying many, half of Trump Supporters are islamaphobic. Look at what she said. You could put half of Trump Supporters into the basket of deplorabl deplorables. Right . The racist, sexist, homophobic, you name it. There it is, basket of deplorables. It is a phrase that will be with us for the rest of the campaign and beyond. Its a fight clinton and trump want to have. It sparked an uproar from republican Vice President candidate, mike pence. All right. We dont have it. We will get to that. He, of course, said this was a very offensive comment. Clinton called it grossly never a good thing. Half of his supporters are deplorable and will continue to speak out about bigotry. Did the press rush to talk about whether clinton was right to talk about Trump Supporters . Did they talk about whether she was smart instead of being right . Is she getting treated differently than trump with statements he makes . Well talk about it with an e
The democrats dont stand a chance. Of course, the donald got in a very public tiff with the pope last year. I know you discussed that with the cardinal last week and it should be easy to mend that relationship. Because donald and pope francis have so much in common. They lead lives of humility. So for this evening, all is forgiven. It is now my privilege to introduce the first of this evenings speakers. We determined tonights order backstage. Im happy to report no matter how the coin toss ended, our next speaker was going to say it was rigged. [ cheers and applause ] im speaking, of course, about the republican nominee, donald j. Trump. There were actually some rumors going around that he wasnt going to show up tonight. You could say he wanted to keep us in suspense. We considered having a donald trump cutout on the dais. But if we wanted someone still, lifeless, we could ask charlie rose to speak again. It is historic that donald is here tonight. Thats right, for the first time the Ca