incompetent. low energy. they can t make deals. right. they don t know how to do anything there for the system. right. exactly and as he says, he used to be a part of that system. now he understands it. he s outside of it. so i think that is what we are going to hear tomorrow night. and he said, also, people are disgusted with our politicians. and he represents that. i represent you because i am disgusted with them. john, you covered a lot of campaigns. both of you have covered a lot of campaigns. it is a long slog between now and the first caucus the battles in iowa, in new hampshire. when does the elect toreate start to demand greater details? if you go back to this point four years ago, most republicans thought rick perry would be their nominee. romney was working in 2nd place. this race had structure. we have to give trump credit and structure. we thought this was a wave. he would implode.
donald trump just wrapped up what was suppose to be a major foreign policy speech tonight on the deck of a battle ship, decommissioned battle ship the uss iowa. it was not at all a major foreign policy speech. it wasn t even a major donald trump saying nothing speech. but one of the features of that event tonight was the number of protesters who were outside the event both before and during and now that the event is over peeling off, joining us now is correspondent katie tour who has been following mr. trump and at the event tonight in l.a. thanks for being here. thank you, rachel. good to see you, as well. tell me who turned out because they weren t weren t a fan of donald trump tonight. a lot of local people from the area actually came out here to say they did not agree with donald trump s policies and did not agree with him standing on top of the uss iowa.
it wasn t even a major donald trump saying nothing speech. but one of the features of that event tonight was the number of protesters who were outside the event both before and during and now that the event is over peeling off, joining us now is correspondent katie tour who has been following mr. trump and at the event tonight in l.a. thanks for being here. thank you, rachel. good to see you, as well. tell me who turned out because they weren t weren t a fan of donald trump tonight. a lot of local people from the area actually came out here to say they did not agree with donald trump s policies and did not agree with him standing on top of the uss iowa. they didn t like what that symbolized him being on a u.s. historic boat here. and saying the things that he says. they don t agree with his immigration policy. when he starred speaking about immigration, he got really loud boos from the protesters out here, screaming, booing. so much so you could very much hear it up there on th
reimburse those doctors and those hospitals and you re going to get the greatest service of any veterans in any country because you deserve it. and that s going to be that s going to be broken down into something that s going to be very special. right now, and you know it, we have illegal immigrants that are treated better by far than our veterans. that s not going to happen anymore. it s not going to happen. so, joe, i just really appreciate it. so unexpected to be here as an honor. they don t build ships like this anymore, folk, you know? we don t do this way anymore. i actually said what about recommissioning? look at this thing. the largest guns in the world, most powerful guns. i learned a lot about the iowa. by the way, iowa s a great place for a lot of reasons. you know? we have been treated so well in the state of iowa. it s been incredible. number one on the polls. and we love those people.
randy, what else struck you about what the group had to say? reporter: well, anderson, we know trump is polling well among eadvantage gel cals and not only in iowa, nationwide. we had one supporting ben carson, another rick santorum. another supporting mike huckabee. of course, they said in the end they would vote for donald trump if he was the nominee as you heard them say. he is not their top choice. i asked them why they think he is polling so well. they told me it s the same reason, he s bold, he s brash, he doesn t back down. they like that. the only. they re requesting from him right now is that he start reading the bible from cover-to-cover, anderson. randy, thank you very much. with that on the table, let s get some perspective from the president of the southern baptist convention ethics commission and trump supporter, cnn political commentator and political director jeffrey lord.