Who have the courage to say what they mean, to do what they say, and never, ever to back down. As your attorney general, luther helped you lead the fight in court against the Obama Administrations big power grabs. That includes challenging the epas Clean Power Plan which, by the way, did you see what i did to that . Boom, at dawn. Look at that guy. He knows. Gone. And i did that one without luther. But he defended it and got rid of a lot of things. And also, i have defended and luther has defended so vigorously religious liberty from obamacare and the fighting of obamas glues in the administration s dangerous, dangerous, really, you could say, inhumane plan. It is inhumane. When i open my election, i talked about what was happening, the viciousness. A lot of people thought it was tough. It turned out to be true. It turned out to be understated, not overstated. And that was a big part of our success. Since the date luther arrived in the United States senate, luther has always been for us. Hes always been for us. He is not a friend of Mitch Mcconnell, he doesnt know Mitch Mcconnell until just recently, and i dont say that badly about mitch at all. Im not saying that badly. He just got there. I said, how will you know him . I said, i just met him, because he just got there. Hes been there for a very short period of time. In fact, he just came out again, and he was against it before, but he just came out against that totally ridiculous rule, the filibuster rule. Its ridiculous. So we have 52 senators, and on a lot of legislation, you need 60 votes. That means we have to get eight democrats. Then they get upset with me when i go go to see nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, who are very nice. They get upset. Why did you see them . I said because this rule is crazy. We have 260 pills. Many of those bills, not all of them, because they can use reconciliation for those of you that are interested in that, but that is a trick. Thats just a trick. Many of those bills will never get past because you cannot get 60 votes. You cannot. It means that eight democrats can control the senate. I think were going to pick up seats in 18, and im going to work very hard. I think were going to pick up democratic seats. I believe that. We are going to pick up democratic seats, but they have to get rid of the filibuster rule. Basically, we cant go to 60. We want 51. Thats how we have judge gorsuch. If we did not have that, you would not have judge gorsuch right now on the supreme court. Luther was with us on withdrawing the United States from the deeply unfair jobkilling paris climate accor accord. Okay . You know, it sounds so nice, but it was a killer. It was a killer for our country, and it was very unfair. As an example, china, who i love right now, this week. Dont forget, that was a big thing. 150 vote twice, and i must say, russia and china both came along. They both came along. That was a great thing. And may be, more importantly, maybe its more important, but maybe more importantly that when china did this banking thing. That is so big. Ill let you know if its big in a little while. But certainly its never been done. I think you are going to see some good things. I think china wants to get this over with. Thats the part of the world. They do not need this problem. They are very smart and they are good people and the president is a really, good man. He loves china. Its good for china, getting rid of that menace. Its really good for china. Believe me. Luther is with us on cracking down on dangerous sanctuary cities that release criminal aliens into our communities. What is that all about . By the way, Jeff Sessions is working very hard on that. Really hard. Really hard. And effectively. Very effectively. Luther is with us on cutting taxes and bringing jobs back to america. He is with us on giving our military the tools unlimited he wants the military taking care of and funding the fight so that we win back without question and that is where we are going. 700 billion. She not only has my endorsement remember this he also has the endorsement of my great friend and Vice President mike pence. He has the endorsement of the National Rifle association. The nra. Thats a biggie. Thats a big one. Luther, thats big. Hes got the endorsement of the national right to life and the alabama farmers. Thats big stuff. Thats a big endorsement. That nra endorsement is a powerful endorsement. With luther you dont just send a message to washington, you send a fighter to change washington the way we all know it can be. Since election day of november 8th, weve already achieved historic wins for the American People but stock market has reached its highest point in history. They hate it. They hate to hear that. Oh, up by 22 since november. 22 since the election day. I think its even more than that. It has reached the highest point think of it, the highest point and unemployment is at the lowest level its been for 16 years. Close to 17. Most important for me and have to see it to say it and i will say it again, i have to wrap it up and say it again. Companies are flowing back into our country. They want to be here. I was with one of the great gentleman that i became friendly with the leader of a major, major country i wont tell you because i said it would keep it private. There are a lot of people watching television. Look at all those red lights. Ay yi yi. Its always fun to see a red light. Like cnn and then i say its fake news and you see the red lights go off so fast. By the way, do you think they do you think they showed up with the little nooks and crannies . Do you think they showed the room . I dont think so. There is an empty seat, they will show that empty seat. Two people. They got up and went to the bathroom. They are coming back in five. They show those empty seats every single time. Fake news. So, im really proud because of a record in the history of our countrys stock market tremendous gains. People that run companies, that truly hate me, they now love me. They are coming up and saying mr. President , sir. Im making them all everybody that means jobs, everybody. Im serious, people that truly dislike the president , the heads of these companies are coming up and hugging me and kissing me. But im not doing it for them. Im doing it for jobs in the country. That, i can tell you. Im doing it for the country. I told you many times during the campaign but i told you many times and this is not even a choice, we are renegotiating nafta and we will get a fair deal or we are going to terminate nafta. Its very simple. All right . One of the worst deals ever, ever negotiated. One of the worst deals ever negotiated. Every day, i am keeping my promise. We have done so much. You know, they dont like to say it but we pass over 50 pieces of legislation. That means going through congress. Getting approved by the house and the senate and signing. Not including all of the executive orders ive signed and the fact that we have reduced unnecessary regulations to a point that this country has not seen in years. We are not finished yet. But one of my biggest promises has been to our great veterans and we are doing one of our best jobs there. We are doing one of our best jobs with our veterans. We published online wait times at every va facility, opened the va hotline, extended veterans choice do you know what that is . The veterans, our greatest people. Our greatest, our most wonderful people. And in some cases, they get older and things happen. They are waiting on line for seven days, nine days, 16 days. In some cases, they die. In some cases, they can have a simple procedure. A simple prescription and it takes 11 or 12 days to get off line to see the doctor. By the time they get to the doctor, its terminal. So i said without knowing much but having a lot of common sense very good up here, always. Always. I said like you people that doesnt make sense. If they are waiting in line, can you imagine we have a lot of people that are very successful people. Can you imagine going to your doctor and having him say you have to wait for 11 days . If i have to wait for two seconds, i go crazy. Hopefully we dont want to see too many doctors, thats even better, right . Lets not see the doctor but they wait for days and days and no, they go right outside, they go to a doctor in the area, we pay the bill, and its the least expensive thing we can do and we save everybodys life and everybodys happy. Everybodys happy. And when i first heard because ive only been doing this for a little while, when i first heard of the problem, thats what i said. Why arent they going to see a doctor and weve got to negotiate with the doctors pretty carefully because they charge a lot of money. Gotta be a little careful. Now the people are happy. We are doing so many things. We have va worker accountability. For 40 years, theyve been trying to get it passed. They couldnt. I will not blame the unions. And i will not blame civil service. But that was the problem, okay . You have the unions. For 40 years, they could not get it passed. So you would have people working in the va who were sadists, who would abuse our people our great veterans. 25 years before, they would have had their kicked by the same person they were abusing. They would have been in trouble. They would have been in trouble. 25 years earlier, they wouldnt be doing it. Thats the way it is. Or they were doing a bad job or not working and you can fire them. I had passed the va accountability act. We have a great man, dr. David running the va hes done more in eight months and theyve done at the va for years and years and years. Its really getting good over there. Very proud. I made that promise. In the best tradition of americas greatest leaders, we are standing up for American Workers and defending american jobs and american industry we are building our future with american hands. American labor, and american iron, aluminum, and steel. We will buy american, we will hire american, and in my fourth month in office i withdrew the United States from the disastrous and job killing it would have been a disaster the transpacific partnership. Great ripoff, do you want to see jobs leave the country . Find that. They were going to sign not as fast as they could. That was a disaster for this country. So we can create more jobs and wealth right here in america. I ended the Obama Administration war on coal and we are putting our wonderful coal miners back to work, producing beautiful, clean coal. Heres one that nobody had the guts to do and i did it in my first very few days in office, i authorized the construction of the Keystone Pipeline and the Dakota Access pipeline, over 50,000 jobs. 50,000 beautiful construction jobs. And environmentally better, much better. Weve increased our military and Defense Budgets to the highest level its been probably after customer effort . We are going to rebuild it. We are reordering new fighters, new jets. You know whats been happening. The jets are so old that the father flew them in the sun goes into the air force and he flies the same plane. Its true. We committed to expanding and improving a stateoftheart Missile Defense system. Thank you very much. Huntsville, alabama. Thank you. Thank you, huntsville. [applause] its amazing the way all of a sudden Missile Defense system sound so good. By the way, these systems, i watch them and i see with being developed. I mean, they are taking out rockets that are going so fast, the percentage of success is so high, so brilliant what we can do. So that we can do what we have to do to have a safe country. I want to thank you, huntsville, because you are a big part of it. We just brought back the National Space council to restore americas legacy of leadership in space. It leads to so many things. The council will be chaired by Vice President pentz who is visiting your nasa facility in huntsville on monday to get you out, thats right to get you out to vote. And we are making our Community Safe again by going after violent criminals and putting dangerous offenders behind bars, they are going in fast. They are going in fast. We have the backs of our police officers. Our i. C. E. Officers, and our Border Patrol officers and we have their backs 100 just like they take care of us. One by one, we are finding and i mean in large numbers and our guys are much tougher than their guys we are finding the gang members, the drug dealers and the criminals who prey on our people. We are throwing them the hill out of our country and we will not let them back in. They dont come back in anymore. Its a different age. They dont come back in. We also understand that immigration security is a national its really a National Treasure but its a National Security. We need National Security for safety. We are going to keep radical islamic terrorists out of here. Sorry, sorry. Call up some of the other countries in the world saying how you doing, folks . Not so good. We are creating an immigration system that puts American Workers and American Families first. We are moving quickly to pass a massive tax cut and simplification for the middle class. We want new tax returns, we want simplification. We want reform. And you know what we really want . We want massive tax cuts. Thats what we are doing for business, thats what we are doing for the middle class. If we want to restore american prosperity, we need tax reform that is progrowth, projobs, proworker, profamily, and proamerican. The United States currently has the highest business tax rate anywhere in the world. 60 higher than other developed countries. This is a massive economic disadvantage for america. Costing us millions and millions of jobs and trillions of dollars. Under our plan that you are going to see next week, enjoy it, okay . Enjoy it. You are going to love it. It will be the biggest tax cut ive gotta get it approved by richard and luther but i have a feeling youll be okay with her, you promise . If you dont vote for it, im leaving right now. If you dont vote for it, im taking away the endorsement. Under luther, and under richard, we will have one of the lowest tax rates in the developed world bringing back our jobs, our companies, bringing it back to our shores. With luthers help, we will reform our tax code to make American Business competitive again so that American Workers and American Companies can win again. We are going to bring back to our country three, four, maybe five nobody knows what the number is that many trillions of dollars that is currently parked overseas and it will be invested in the good old usa. Its coming back into our country. Its impossible to get back right now. We are committed to protecting Small Businesses and family farmers by ending the death tax on the states. You lose your farm, you lose their business, you cant pay the tax . We are getting rid of the death tax. In addition to passing historic tax reform, luther and i are totally dedicated to repealing and replacing obamacare. I have to tell you, maybe its a little tougher without mccains vote, i will be honest. As a little tougher but weve got some time. We are going to go back. Like a boxer, you get knocked down, get up. You get knocked down, get up. You get knocked down and then the bad ones stay on the stool and they say we quit, we quit. The great ones get up in the end up winning. Thats what we are going to do. We might have to go back again and again. I mean, like, we may make it this time. The most we will be is one or two votes short. You cant quit when you have one or two votes short. You cant do it. Those people are not going to be liked by the communities they come from. Because in most cases, i think almost all the cases, they got elected on the basis of repealing and replacing and they are not doing the service to the people that they represent. Luther fought against obamacare as attorney general for alabama and hes doing it well. Hes fighting against obamacare in the senate. Hes going to keep fighting because we are going to win. Its going to be gone. We are going to have Great Health Care in this country. Your premiums are surging. Your deductibles are through the roof. Alabama is way up. We have one state, the state of alaska, its up more than 200 . Im having a hard time getting a certain vote but shes a good person and i think shes very if you look, alaska is up over 200 . That means obamacare is no good. We should not have a hard time getting the boat and i think shes going to come through. I hope so. Doctors are quitting, insurance is leaving, choices are disappearing. Congress must do its job by ending the obamacare nightmare. So. So. To deliver for American Families, we are also working to pass the raise act. Legislation that would end chain migration and switch our country to a merit based immigration system. People that would help our country. People that will help our country. We have tom caught, david perdue, two great senators. The raise act with keep immigrants from going on welfare for five years. Isnt that nice custom like they dont walk over and they im going to welfare. Maybe it will keep them from ever going on welfare and it would require them to support themselves and their families financially. Its time to create an immigration system that serves the interests of the United States of america. We also want an infrastructure bill that generates 1 trillion of investment in rebuilding our country with american hands and steel and grit. We want to lift americans from welfare to work. From dependence to independence. And from poverty to prosperity. We want every american child to grow up learning the dignity of work, the pride of a paycheck, and the satisfaction of a job well done. We want our citizens to go to work every morning in a job they love, supporting their families and lifting up their communitie