And congratulate steve, you have done an amazing job. Steve called me up the day after the election, might have been the same night to be honest with you. Maybe one minute. And he said id like to put together a group, world class heeders thats what he has done so good job, steve. A couple of things happened this morning. 227,000 jobs, great spirit in the country right now. So were very happy about that. Think that its going to continue big league. We are bringing back jobs and bringing down your taxes and getting read of regulation and exciting times ahead. Were going to be coming up with the tax bill very soon, healthcare bill even sooner, and its really working out. Sophie from the Cleveland Clinic has been helping with the veterans and we appreciate that. You have been amazing, and we really appreciate it. One of the things i heard this morning in watching the news was that amazingly its never happened before, that politics has become a much big are subject than the super bowl, were
Youve never seen before, and we are going to protect it. You know in paris, which has the toughest gun laws of the world, the world, no tougher gun laws than paris, france. Tough. Guess what . 130 people dead, no bullets were going in the opposite direction. It was just boom, boom, boom. Same thing happened in california. 14 people, radicalized people, she probably radicalized him. They went in and killed 14 people that they worked with, supposedly that they liked. Its not going to happen anymore, folks. Its not going to happen. Were going to be smart. Were going to be vigilant. Were going to be the smart people. Were going to know what were doing. Were going to be proud of our country again. [cheers and applause] our military is depleted. Our military is exhausted. We dont replenish. We take, we dont replenish. We send the best equipment in the world over to wherever were sending it. We dont even know i dont even think we know where were sending it. And a bullet gets fired in the air,
Always speak fishily for the president in term of when hes going to do something and not. We have eyes on that. It would be a major controversy. We have news on a Corruption Scandal having to do with the new administration that may be getting pursued now by a unlikely investigator. We have that coming up just in a few minutes. We have a couple, a pair of National Security stories, one of which may raise your spirits in a way. And one which probably will flip your stomach over several times. Theres a lot going on. I want to start with something different. Before we get to that news tonight. I want to start with something a little off the path. Something that as far as i can tell is basically a open question and that is how i am raising it on the air tonight. I want to explain this thing that we as a country have all been able to figure out recently within the last couple days because of good investigative reporting by the New York Times. The reason i want to talk about this part of it h
any minute we ll hear from the president expected to speak live on the tragedy in terms of the severe, the tornadoes, fatalities across the country. we are told he will visit parts of the south tomorrow specifically traveling to alabama where the deadly storms hit the hardest. also, the governor of alabama, and the state s emergency management director, are also scheduled to hold a news conference just about an hour from now, amid a tour of the hardest hit areas there. we ll bring both events live on the show. but first, the latest number we have. i have to be honest, this keeps going up and up today, 268. at least 268 people are confirmed dead from the storm that assaulted the south. i want to begin with this image. take a look with me. this is central alabama, mile after mile after mile of utter devastation. here s quote we ve heard many, many times today. there s nothing left. many, many people today are reassessing their lives because they have no other choice. the hear