An article that i tweeted out last night that really compliments you as a student body. Its from virginia business magazine, and its, its about how liberty, about how you as students have gone the extra mile to serve others and to fulfill the Christian Mission of the school. I really think youll enjoy it if you take time to read it. Its by heather hayes, a local reporter here, who wrote for that magazine. So if you get a chance, take a look at that. Youll be proud of yourselves. First of all, steve strang is here. Hes the founder of charisma magazine. Hes an awardwinning journalist, entrepreneur, businessman and author. Hes also his newest book is god and donald trump. Steve is charisma magazine, ive always heard, has a bigger circulation than christianity today. I believe thats still true, and hes just doing incredible work in the christian world in so many ways. Thank you for being here, steve. And also we have corey lewandowski. He was, hes a political operative, a comment commentator for one america news network, fox news, cnn. He and i became good friends last year during the campaign because he was the former Campaign Manager for Donald Trumps 2016 president ial campaign. Hes coauthor of the book let trump be trump, because everybody thats ever been around him knows if you dont let him be him, youre going to get kicked out. So i think thats a good title. David bossies also here. David and corey have been on news shows all week, fox and other networks, talking about their book. But david has served as president of Citizens United since 2001, as deputy Campaign Manager for trumps 2016 campaign. He was ranked number two in politicos top 50 most influential people in american politics. Hes coauthor of the book i just mentioned, let trump be trump. David has produced 25 documentaries since 2004 and coproduced six featurelength films. And so were going to please welcome all three of our guests to liberty university, steve, corey and david. [applause] we know youve got exams coming out, so well try to get you out early today. [cheers and applause] all right. Robert, is in the second convo that youve done with center for law . Suspect for law and center for law and government. This is the second convocation that robert heads the center for law and government. Hes a former congressman from southern virginia. And he only stayed in, what, four years . Six years. Six years and he got out. I wish theyd always get out after six years. [laughter] anyhow. Where do you want me to sit . [inaudible conversations] all right. Ill let you guys lead off and just tell us, steve, start with you, tell us what youve, what youve been doing with charisma magazine and what tell us about the new book and just anything youd like well, charisma magazine is a spiritual magazine that i, weve devoted our entire october issue to donald trump. And we published articles from christian prophets, modernday prophets who predicted hed win against all odds, and he did. And that led, one thing to another, until i wrote this book because i thought it was important to talk about the spiritual aspect of whats going on, not just the politics. Well, you supported cruz first, right . Boo. [laughter] ive had so many, so many christians come up to me and tell me recently i supported cruz, i thought you were crazy when you supported trump, but you turned out to be right. You were right. And things like david, Like Supreme Court justice gorsuch, and you see trump recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel, what many prime ministers have [cheers and applause] what many president s have promised to do but never had the guts or the integrity to follow through, you know, you have to mike evans, who is a big supporter on that issue, is calling trump the modernday equivalent of king cyrus from the old testament. Do you want to comment on that . Well, i agree with that. In fact, for me that was kind of what made me vote for trump, because, you know, hes not the kind of person that evangelicals would normally look, you know, someone more like Mike Huckabee is more my speed. But a friend of mine said that he believed that god was raising him up like cyrus. And the bible says in isaiah 45 i have called you even though you did not know me. And it was like, you know, the people in the bible were not perfect at all, but yet god used them, and he used a pagan king from persia to send his people back to egypt. And so many people have like jesus said, may clean the outside of the platter, but inside are ravenous wolves. I keep going back to that passage youre absolutely right. They seem like good, decent people, good family people, but when it comes down to look how they acted when trump won. I mean, theyve been trying to sabotage him ever since, and they just dont act anything but christian. You know, the amazing thing is he has championed the values that you and i would, and most of these student, would believe in better than people that had better credentials like george w. Bush who was a good man, but he just didnt come through on a lot of stuff. Trump is coming through again and again and again, and i believe that gradually the people who dont like him are going to come over thats why i say when it comes to politics, jesus separated. He said render unto caesar the things that are caesars, and to i always say that, i know. [laughter] [applause] you cant judge somebody according to how good they are and decide on who youre going to vote for based on that, because were all sinners. And jesus said if you ever lusted after a man, after a woman in your heart, then youre just as guilty as guy that had adultery. Theyre all the same. You vote for the one who you think the going to vote the best for your country, and i think thats what evangelicals did. Youre absolutely right. Theres so much hypocrisy where people who have things in their own past the only difference is they never got caught. Thats right. As christians, we believe people can change. And in my book i document that about ten years ago something happened in Donald Trumps life. He started cleaning up his act, he started watching christian television, and i believe that hes a very different kind of man than some of the bad stereotypes that were familiar with. I do too. I was the only one willing to go on tv and say that after the access hollywood videotape came out. But, corey, welcome to liberty welcome back to liberty. You were here with President Trump last year . Mr. President , i was here, and i was here with what is now to our president of the united states, and its such an honor and privilege to be here. Thank you for having us. Has the campus changed a little bit since you were here . Its amazing. The growth from a year ago when i was here, you know, the dorm back behind us wasnt completed. What youve done at this school and across the country is just amazing, and thank you. If it werent for the studentses and their attitude, you and i were talking backstage about how you were at harvard recently. Tell us about that. You know, i grew up in a town called lowell, massachusetts, which is not a town of privilege [cheers and applause] im a blue collar guy who had the opportunity to be on an amazing ride with the most extraordinary candidate in the world. And Harvard University called me and said would you come up and be one of our visiting fellows. And i went up there, and the difference between what president falwell has done here and what they do at harvard is night and day. Its amazing how you understand what the real america is like. And when you go to cambridge, massachusetts, they live in a fantasy world. They are so entitled up there. They think that everybody owes them, that they are the smartest, the greatest, the best. And what happened and what you guys have here is so different. And let me just give you one example. You know, about five years ago they wouldnt let me slow my truck down in front of cambridge, massachusetts, because they hate everything that trump stands for. They hate the fact that hes a populist, that he wants to make America Great again, that hes not a globalist, that he wants to make sure the promises he made on the campaign trail are fulfilled as a president. Thats not what they want up there. They want rhetoric, they want things that make other countries great again, and its so refreshing to come to a university where people care about their country again and its okay to say merry christmas. [applause] you know, ive got to tell you about your president. Ive got to tell you, because this is the honest to god truth, and jerry knows, the president knows im a truth teller. The day the access Hollywood Tape came out on donald trump, i made one phone call. The only one i made. Because cnn, the president of cnn called me and said, corey, i need you to come on tv right away. I called president falwell, and i said, jerry, i need to go on television in the next three minutes, what do you want me to say . Because every time as a Campaign Manager to donald trump i called the falwells, and the Falwell Family showed up. They were there as a steadfast supporter of this president when nobody else was, and jerry and becky came out, and they helped campaign. And they saw in donald trump before anybody else did what this country needed. And he said to me and i repeated it verbatim, he said my father always said were not electing a sunday schoolteacher, were electing the next president of united states. And i went on television and i said that, and that hit home to so many people. Because what president falwell just talked about is the hypocrisy of the left. All these people who make accusations against other candidates only to find out that their own house is not in order. And what we have finally seen is some of those things are coming back to haunt those very same people. I am so blessed and so privileged to be here at liberty university. Thank you, president falwell, for the invitation. Thank you, corey. [applause] i did notice that the only time the president calls me to go on tv is when hes in real trouble. [laughter] true. He says im a warrior. I dont know, i dont know where he gets that from, but our students are the ones that deserve the credit for whats happened here at liberty. Its them that makes liberty a special place. [applause] we thank you guys for that. Thank you. [applause] en randall wallace, who is from lynchburg, he made the movies braveheart, parallel harbor pearl harbor, secretaryuate, he went to his sons graduation at duke the next day, and he said he couldnt believe the difference in the attitude of the students. He said the same thing, it was were entitled, were the elite, we deserve the best in life. He said at liberty it was all about what can we do to serve others. And i think thats whats going to make you guys much more successful when you get out of here and you get in the real world because those are the attributes that really lead to true success. And i just, i just have to believe that those guys at duke and harvard are going to be working for you guys one day. [cheers and applause] thats the truth. Look, president falwell is so right, and hes so smart, and ive had the privilege of going to many of the socalled Ivy League Schools. I spoke at stanford, i spoke at oxford. Its the same sense of into entitlement that harvard had. What you have here are servants hearts, something so very special that you dont have a sense of entitlement, and what you will achieve here because of your education at this institution and the values that you come out of here with are so much smear your than superior than all those entitled individuals at those Ivy League Schools who think that the world owes hem. Thats because of the owes them. Thats because of the leadership of president falwell. I am so thankful that you are here. I have an 11yearold daughter, and she said to me, daddy, i want to go to harvard someday. I said, baby, youll never go to harvard, right . [laughter] we dont care about those ivy league freaks. Its never going to happen. [laughter] i said what youre going to do, youre going to go to the greatest school that ive ever known, which is liberty university. And i was here [cheers and applause] someday when my 11yearold, who i love more than life, is going to apply for a school, im going to call president falwell and say, baby, please let her in, because i love her. [laughter] and shes going to sit in these very same seats that you do and get the faith and the love and the blessings that you guys have here every day. Because without that, you cannot be successful. And thats what you get at this university, so thank you. [applause] i agree. You know, corey called me last january on a saturday. Im not sure who called, but at 11 00 in the morning, said can you be in iowa at 5 00. So we jumped on a plane. I said youve got to pay for the plane. The lawyer says liberty cant pay for it. So they paid for the plane. And we were there, we showed up for the rally, full auditorium like this, and i said what am i here for . They said, youre the moderator. I said, whoa, okay. So it was just trump and me went out on stage, and i asked the questions. Luckily, id been texting sean hannity, he gave me some ideas. We went on the plane that night, and i think i never told you this, corey i think i talked too much about liberty when i introduced him, because the next morning when we were in another city and we were getting ready to do another rally, he said, jerry, im going to send you out to des moines to do some interviews. I said, oh, i must have talked too much about liberty. Then we did the second rally, and i toned it down a little bit, and afterwards he was like, who the hell needs trump . Jerrys the smartest guy i know. Thats what he said. Excuse my language. [laughter] but he said, after that [laughter] after that he said i want you to do the rest of the rallies now. So i learned my lesson after that first one. I never told you that story. Anyhow, david, welcome to liberty. Thank you for having me. Yep. You and i have not gotten to know each other that well, but tell me a little bit you were here a few weeks ago. I was just here, down for constitution week about a month or so ago, and enjoyed my time here. I actually came here the first time in 1987 when i was just a kid. I was in my early 20s, i was working for Senate Majority leader bob dole when he was running for president. Came here and that weekend we had Pat Robertson with your dad, and it was an amazing experience, and ive been blessed to be back many times since. I actually have a swriewrn in high school a junior in high school, so were going to need a little help next year ourselves. Shes actually a tremendous student, much better than her dad. And were, were going to be look to send her down here. We have, were blessed with four kids. We live right outside of washington, d. C. In montgomery county, maryland. [cheers and applause] maryland usually doesnt get that big of a round of applause, ill be honest with you. Its a fairly liberal state, but thank you. And so i had the distinction honor and privilege of being do the deputy Campaign Manager. I came in with steve bannon and Kellyanne Conway at the end of the campaign in august and ran the general election. And then i was the deputy executive director for the president ial transition team, is so i helped in my little way of building the cabinet and recommending a lot of the folks for jobs and trying to build out the white house. So it was a tremendous experience. I was there, i walked into the president s office in trump tower the night that the billy bush tape came out. And i believe the first phone call he made after he spoke to governor pence was to you. He was on the phone with you when i walked into the office. And so i know what a special person and a special relationship you have with the president. And it is, youve been a rock the to him. And it has been a blessing to him, your relationship with him. So i just want to say thank you for that, because he youve seen him and helped him through a lot of issues over the years. And you can see his courage just this week with recognizing jerusalem as the capital and what he has done. He is the 13th president to say he would recognize jerusalem, but hes the first president to actually do it. And so its been an amazing week of leadership coming from the white house. [applause] so ive had, ive had the privilege of knowing the president a long time. Maybe well get a chance to visit about that. But thank you. [inaudible] so, dave, youve known among the three guests, youve known the president longer than anyone. You got to know him in 2010 through steve wynn and ended up kind of being an adviser to him as he approached the 2016 election. I guess my question is, is the message of nationalism, america first, is that finish was that sincere . Is that something that because a lot of people say, oh, trump is just about making money for himself, about his brand. How sincere is he in that message . Has he been talking about that message from the beginning . And then, obviously, it carried out into success. You know, it thats a great question. And if you look back throughout 20 or 30 years of videotape thats out there videotape is what we used to use [laughter] its a, and you watch Oprah Winfrey interviews from 20 years ago, you see this president talking about bad trade deals and what it, what it takes for america to succeed economically around the world, and you see him talking about these blue collar issues. And we called him the blue collar billionaire because he connected with people. And so this has been something thats been true to him for a long time. Youre right, i got to know, i got to know President Trump not politically. And thats one of the things in our book, let trump be trump, we try to talk about. We try to talk about the man and his incredible kindness and how generous he is to all those around him. Im just going to share a personal story. I got a chance to know him, steve wynn is a friend of mine, is a famous Las Vegas Casino magnate and a successful businessman and another marylander, i might add. And he was helping me raise money for Childrens Hospital in washington washington, d. C. Where my son not just at that hospital, but many hospitals had a series of surgeries for a brain aneurysm and two open heart surgeries. And he struggled for life as a baby. And i wanted to be able to help other children and other parents t