the lone star state embodies the spirit of independence like maybe no other place anywhere in the world. and you have always embraced the cause of american freedom like no one else. this is the state where william travis, james bowie, and davy crockett made their last stand at the alamo. this is the state where a small band of patriots half the battle of gonzales, armed with a single canon, stared down a four and powerful army and declared, and take it. come and take it. come on. take it.
if i would ve stayed with those numbers, we would ve had in the economy that would be going in reverse. we got rid of unnecessary regulations, the biggest tax cut we ve ever done. we open up the oil. where the largest oil exporter. we are the largest oil and gas in the world right now. nobody thought that was possible this quickly. we opened up our country. we are letting people work again. we have more people working today, almost 160 million people. we are more people working today than i ve ever worked in the united states. it s great. laura: we didn t have some people stand for that at the state of the union. what does that tell you? i got lots of texts. they are trying to paralyze our economy with investigations, oversight, you re getting hammered with requests for documents and so forth which is part of the oversight. what s going on there? president trump: what happened to me should never be allowed to happen to another president with investigations on things that never took
cases. 900,000. how many judges are going to take care? we are going to have to hire tens of thousands of judges to do that. 900,000 cases. how stupid is this? this was a system put in place by really dumb people or people of the did not have the best interests of our country at heart heart. and there s no place better to talk about border security, whether they like it or not. i ve been hearing a lot of things. oh, the wall didn t make that much of a difference. do you know where it made a big difference? right here in el paso. [cheers and applause] and i ve been watching where they ve been trying to say oh, the wall didn t make that much. well, you take a look at what they did with their past crimes and how they meet them from very
i also live behind walls, okay? the live behind walls and gates and they have guards all over the place. me too because i want to be safe and i want to make america safe, if you don t mind. [chanting usa, usa, usa ] president trump: security should not belong only to the rich and to the powerful. safety is the birthright of every american, which is why we must finish the wall. because walls are not immoral, as it was said. human trafficking is immoral. drug peddling is immoral.
i did. we were are talking and we will see what happens. laura: there is an opposing rally kind of going on this the same time as this rally. beto o rourke, young kind of up-and-comer they say in the democratic party. he says that wall is really about hate and racism. to that, you say what? president trump: very few people showed up to his rally. this place is packed with thousands and thousands outside. i guess he challenged us to an event, so maybe this means he s going to have to drop out of the race because this was not a good situation for him. i don t know why he didn t. it has nothing to do with anything other than safety for the americans, safety for our people, safety for our country. and a wall is a very good thing, not a bad thing. it s a moral thing, to put it in the opposite terms. we don t even say build the wall anymore. we say finish the wall because we built a lot and we are