Rallies. I dont think theres been an empty seat since we came down in the escalator, with the first lady. I was with the future first lady at that point, and its been an amazing thing to behold. The first one, were probably starting to call up, will be in oklahoma, in tulsa, oklahoma. A beautiful new venue, brand new and theyre looking forward to it. Theyve done a great job with covid as you know, in the state of oklahoma. Were coming into florida, a big one in florida, a big one in texas theyre all going to be big. Were going to arizona, to North Carolina, at the appropriate time and the governor is a little backward there, a little bit behind and unfortunately, were probably going to be having no choice, but to move the Republican Convention to another location. That will be announced shortly, but well have no choice. We wanted to stay in North Carolina very badly. We love it. Its a great state, a state i won. Many, many friends, many relatives, frankly, that live there and well see how it all works out, but the governor doesnt want to give an inch and what hes doing is losing hundreds of millions of dollars for his state, but well probably have no other recourse, but to move it to another state. We have a lot of states that want it. Texas, georgia, florida, many, many states that want it, but weve given them everything we can. North carolina, a special place, but i think we are probably going to end up giving you an announcement pretty soon. We are doing well in so many ways. You see whats going on with nasdaq. We just broke another record yesterday. Some good news came out of the Federal Reserve today. I think some very good news. Were really doing a financial comeback. The jobs numbers were fantastic. Now well have some other job numbers come up the next few weeks and well see how that goes and i think its good and were on our way to a very big comeback. Id like to ask some of the folks today to say a few words. Theyve been supporters and friends of mine and they understand life. They understand, i think, the black Community Better than anybody i know and i will tell you, ben carson is an example of exactly what im talking about. Hes been my friend from the first day we met, i think. And we met, we were opponents, but we were never really opponents. Ben is a very exceptional guy, done a fantastic job at hud, but id like to maybe start with ben to say a couple of words and then go to darryl and the rest of us, lets say a few words to the press, if you would, ben. Thank you, mr. President. Were here, obviously, to talk about some of the concerns in the black community that have risen to a point that, you know, people all around the world are making their voices heard. This is a opportune time to do something about it because this administration has already established a record of actually solving problems, problems that other people just faulk about and have talked about for many years. And i am delighted, mr. President , that you have made it a priority to solve this problem and were all going to be helping with that process. There are many others out there. People of goodwill, you know. There are some who just wait for anything to criticize it, but there are actually some people who actually want to see a solution and ive had a chance to talk to many of them. Well continue to do that and put forth the kind of programs that actually get people out of poverty. Not saying such as keep people stable in poverty and happy in poverty. We want to change that whole dynamic and i think some of the things that have already been done, we will get back to those quickly, you know. This was an intentional stopping of the economy of an amazing economy. The fundamentals of that economy are still in place. We will recoup that and we will move further on and your philosophy, of course, has been that a rising tide floats all boats and thats why you dont spend a lot of time with identity politics. We want everybody to be successful and were going to do everything we can to help do that. Ben, i think that the economy will be next year will be maybe the best it has ever been. You can see with the stock market how its been going up, you have a lot of smart people betting on what im saying, the stock market is almost as high as it was prior to the plague floating in from china. It was a plague that floated in from china and now theyre learning that it may have been much earlier which bears out exactly what ive been saying. You saw that word yesterday that it may have come in a lot sooner than we were told. A friend of mine is darryl scott and hes a great guy and hes a got tremendous heart. At the same time hes a tough cookie. I think that may be what is attractive to him, unfortunately not afacted to the parts, but thats a good part. Thank you, mr. President for allowing us to come. Our nation is at a juncture where were facing another challenge, but this administration has become used to challenges. Its been one challenge after another and weve pressed pause, but were ready to press play now and continue in the positive initiatives regarding the black community. Now, mr. Trump called me in november of 2016, right after the election, right after he won, and he said to me, what do you want . And i said what do you mean . Youve been working real hard. Is there anything that you want . I said i want to be a liaison from the black community to the Trump Administration and a liaison to the black community to the Trump Administration. And since then weve worked on Justice Reform, worked on urban revitalization, prison reform, a number of initiatives, hvcu, and proactive towards the black community. Here we are now and another situation and well come up with solutions im glad to have a seat at the table and have my input received. Your input is important, darrell, ive known darrell a long time. All he wanted was a voice to make certain positions known and hes done that very well. Better than anybody i could think of. Another great voice in the black community, wayne, wayne, youve been my friend for a long time. Wayne dupuis, a show is phenomenon and people listen to what you have to say. Go ahead, please. My name is wayne dupuis and i met President Trump when he with as a businessman. Hed given me five interviews, two of them in person, three on the phone, and when youre talking about somebody who is not with the mainstream media, somebody who just has a small voice, but has a desire to make changes with his voice to reach out to a billionaire in new york and without hesitation, he gave me those interviews and i think hes a natural leader. And i mean, honestly, i have supported him ever since he decided to run for president. As a matter of fact, we interviewed him the month before he came down the escalator and he said, well, wayne, were going to have a big announcement next month and i said well, you you can do it here on the show, if you really want to. [laughter] but. But im glad that he has changed things here in d. C. I just but my daughters, my son and my family, they want to see a lot more positive things coming from the white house. They want to see your leadership and they also want to see things change for the better in this country. I know you can do it. I know you can do it. Well do it. Well do it, wayne. Go ahead, please. My name is reynard jackson, thank you, mr. President and thank you darrell, for inviting us to this round table herement im from st. Louis originally, live here in virginia. What id like to say to you, mr. President , is kind of off the beaten path. Id like to say to the media assembled here, i wish theyd quit lying about what youve done specifically for the black community. So you got radical liberal journalists like joi reed from, don lemon cnn and Roland Martin putting more poison into the black community than any drug dealer, killing more black folks than any white person with a sheet over their face, spreading lies about the economy before the virus was a continuation of obama, thats just factually not true. I have a degree in accounting. I keep up with the economy, theyre lying. To all of those folks on msnbc, cnn, reroland are you afraid to have black republicans who know what the hell theyre talking about . If you want to dissect the obama economy, mr. President , your record would win the debate, thank you. Thank you very much, its interesting you say that, but you go down a list of criminal Justice Reform and all of the things weve done, Opportunity Zones, the best Unemployment Rate in the history before the plague came in and its going to be back again soon. I think its going to be back sooner than people think. I think last week was a reflection of that, the jobs numbers, but you look at all of the things weve done, weve now worked on prison reform, so important. And so many other things. But when you look at the economics, when you look at how well the black community has been doing under this administration, nobodys done anything like weve done, and a big thing is criminal Justice Reform, i keep hearing about oh, criminal Justice Reform and everyone tried to take the credit and that one, i will say we will take the full credit because they couldnt have done it without us and im not sure that the Previous Administration tried and they may have, but they couldnt get it done and the people that came into my office really asking very nicely for help. These are not people that are supporters of mine, but once we got it they took the full credit for themselves and thats okay, too. We got done criminal Justice Reform and all the other things. I think that one of the elements that people arent talking about are the Opportunity Zones that we did with a great senator, your friend from south carolina, right . Did it with him. And it was his idea and it was a big idea, it was a bold idea and its worked much better than in our wildest dreams, we couldnt have thought that that was going to happen. So, we did many, many things and well continue to do many things. One of the elements that i talk about is and i was telling this to darrell before, that 42, 44 people would come to see me every year, the heads of the historically black colleges and universities and they would come up here and i got to actually know them and the first year they came i thought it was a normal meeting. They were asking for a lot of money, which they were having a hard time getting from Previous Administrations. And we got it for them. The next year they came back, i said what are you guys back for . He said we want the money again. I said arent we working longterm deals . No, got the money. The third time, for many years, for decades they had to come back, keep coming back, keep coming back, not like a lot of others where they get it and they kept coming back and asking for money and i said, whats this all about . What do you have to come every year . Why dont we make a longer term deal . I think we made a 10year deal and all funded up and all set and thats historically black colleges and universities and i got to be friendly with some of them. I wont tell you how bad some of them said about the past administration or administrations, but treated very, very badly and i treated them very good. They dont have to come back. The only bad thing, i wont see you for a long time. And they can now focus on what they really do, which is education. So weve done a lot for the black community and all communities and its a great honor to have you with us. Do you have anything to say, by the way . Right down here, go ahead. Please, go ahead. My name is johnson, and the black community is not going okay,en i understand the desire to put ott the talking point and its not. One of the first things you did when you came into the presidency, very first things you did was remove regulation and taxation at high levels. Think about the black community that has been under democratic rule, progressive rule for 60 years. How many rules, how many regulations, how many different forms of taxation in the books in those areas preventing the areas for seeing Sustainable Growth that we can keep and get us out of this generational poverty. Were not okay when it comes to things like education because were not able to get quality choice into our communities because we dont have any position or power on our School Boards to be able to fight for those things and not just to get charters in, but to also bring some kind of reformmation to the Public School system as it stands, too, as well as criminal Justice Reform and a lot of other things, as well as health and other things we can put down the list. All of these things have been under democratic control for 60 years and they are not going to change until we have a Republican Party that is willing to go into these communities and actually offer a choice to these people about how we can do things differently. Because the way this is structured now, the only choice we get is left or further left and were not getting the opportunity to vote on what we look at conservativism equally applied. The very basic economic principles that we on the right say are significant in our success and seeing the success in our country, those are not being offered at the local level in black communities. So basically were asking to grow out of concrete because we dont have the fertile soil in these areas to make things flourish and bloom the way my generation would like to see it. So i think the numbers and statistics about my generation are not going to be out for 20 years. Youre not going to see that we have started to change the dynamic within families. We started to change the dynamics in marriage and the dynamics in statistics involving us. Our generations is working on making things change. No one looks at us and seeing the power that we have to make for this generation and not just waiting for the next layer of statistics come out. Until we can get an honest dialog on the right out into the ether, then youre going to keep on having, you know, Fake News Media spread lies because we are there giving another choice how these things could be done. And its going to continue to go left if we arent there giving an option to make it go right. And thats like the biggest thing that were having trouble with on the right is like, understanding how government works. We are a republic, that means local government has the most power over citizens lives as well as how to take that and put it into a cohesive message that can be spread to the black community that will already engage upon what we already know. If we look at like the photos of you before you became president and you were taking pictures with snoop and the icons of hiphop and you do that, tell me if im wrong, you did that because you say capitalists, branders, entrepreneurs, you saw people that were willing to take the chance and make things grow. That is us. That is the black community and i would like to see a challenge from you to see how many in the black community can put their names on the side of the building coming out of this. And were really going to reshape and reform the way that we do this, issue that challenge because thats what we need more now than ever and we need it to be focused on the black community and not for people coming in and gentrify areas that are generally ours. And you dont need closed police departments. No, we need the police, but if you take and look at what happened in ferguson because ferguson is like where black lives matter came out and i aint going to say it was born because people will fight about that, but when you go back and look at ferguson, the doj did a report on ferguson and what came out of that report was that the Mayors Office was using the police force as a taxation unit. So they were forcing interactions between police and the citizens as a way for them to raise money and bring money into the Mayors Office, that was causing overpolicing, so its not the fault of the police nor is it the fault of the citizenry what the legislator and the executive branches of City Government are putting into legislative practice. Well stated. Wayne, what do you think, a good job . Good job, great job. Sonnie. Fellas, go ahead. I dont know if i could say it better than that, but just that a lot of these things are systemic. What we have done through your leadership is fight back Opportunity Zones, hvcus, criminal Justice Reforms and thats through your leadership now were looking at other layers of that because we just saw what covid shined the spotlight on on the capital, it shone on health disparities. And how can we create better policing relations and the one thing we did over the last weeks is listen to individuals and now we have solutions and those are things we are going to continue it work through as an administration. And a lot of people are leaning on you because youre results oriented and not just talking here and and here is the thing, that a lot of people that listen to the show or call in on the show they want to see those results. If you go into the black community and you tell people a type of statistics, okay, great. But if you show ground moving, ground shaking, things, things growing out from the bottom, you know, thats those Opportunity Zones, more jobs or more jobs than what they are right now, but if you start showing those things and, you know, a little friendly drive through, hey, President Trump here, believe me, there are many people that are on these online boards and like i said the callins and whatnot they do support President Trump. They know what happened in the obama administration. They know what youre doing. They also see what the media is doing to you. So dont think that you are alone. Its just that they need to hear more from you. I agree with you. Thats the only way you get through the media is because the media is almost 100 negative. Its incredible. But thats not the only thing thats impe