Lawrence: 'Stupidest' candidate Trump did not answer reporters' questions

Published: Aug 08, 2024 Duration: 00:24:35 Category: News & Politics

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REPORTERS WERE ALLOWED TO THROW QUESTIONS AT HIM TODAY ABOUT HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY FLIP FLOP LIKE THAT? WELL, IT WAS 2016 ALL OVER AGAIN TODAY. DONALD TRUMP SPOKE AT HIS HOME IN FLORIDA FOR OVER AN HOUR AND ALL OF THE CABLE NEWS NETWORKS INCLUDING THIS ONE CARRIED IT LIVE. JUST LIKE THEY ALL DID REPEATEDLY IN 2016. IT WOULD BE HARD TO FIND A SENTENCE IN WHAT DONALD TRUMP SAID TODAY THAT DID NOT INCLUDE AT LEAST ONE LINE. SOME OF THE NETWORKS TRIED TO PAY -- PLAY FACT CHECKING AFTER DONALD TRUMP FINISHED SPEAKING, BUT THAT IS WAY TOO LATE AND UTTERLY USELESS. NO NETWORK EVEN ATTEMPTED TO FACT CHECK EVERY LIE DONALD TRUMP TOLD. EVERY NETWORK HAS THE CAPACITY, ESPECIALLY WITH THESE WIDE SCREENS WE NOW HAVE AT HOME, TO RUN A LIVE SCROLL AT THE SIDE OF THE SCREEN, FACT CHECKING MANY OF DONALD TRUMP'S LIES. NOT ALL OF THEM. THAT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE, BUT MANY OF THEM. AS SHE SPEAKS. WHEN DONALD TRUMP SAID KAMALA HARRIS IS NOT SMART ENOUGH TO DO A NEWS CONFERENCE, THE NETWORKS COULD'VE PUT ON THE SIDE OF THE SCREEN, KAMALA HARRIS IS A GRADUATE OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY AND UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA HASTINGS. OF COURSE DONALD TRUMP PROVED ONCE AGAIN TODAY THAT HE IS NOT SMART ENOUGH TO DO A NEWS CONFERENCE BY SAYING SOMETHING WHICH IS PROVABLY FALSE AND EVERY RESPONSE HE GAVE TO EVERY SINGLE QUESTION. MOST OF THOSE WERE KNOWING LIES BY DONALD TRUMP, BUT MANY OF THE FALSEHOODS DONALD TRUMP SPREAD TODAY IN HIS RESPONSES CAME FROM THAT VAST WELL OF STUPIDITY THAT TAKES UP MOST OF HIS BRAIN. THE STUPIDEST PERSON WHO HAS EVER WON A NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT STOOD BEFORE THOSE REPORTERS AND SAID HIS OPPONENT ISN'T SMART ENOUGH TO DO IT HE WAS FAILING AT RIGHT IN FRONT OF THOSE REPORTERS AND TO MAKE A BAD NEWS COVERAGE SITUATION WORSE NONE OF THE NETWORKS, NONE OF THEM, CARRIED KAMALA HARRIS'S SPEECH LIVE AFTER THE TRUMP APPEARANCE. NONE OF THEM. THIS NETWORK BROUGHT TO THE LAST FEW MINUTES OF THE SPEECH LIVE. BUT WAS ACTUALLY DOING OLYMPICS COVERAGE WHEN THE SPEECH BEGAN AND KEPT DOING IT. AND SO AS A FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS IN THIS HOUR TONIGHT, WE WILL CORRECT THAT MISTAKE BY PRESENTING TO YOU, IN FULL AND UNEDITED, AS IF LIVE, EVERYTHING THAT KAMALA HARRIS SAID TODAY IN HER SPEECH IN MICHIGAN, WHICH ALL OF THE NETWORKS KNEW WAS COMING. THEY KNEW WHAT TIME IT WAS COMING. THEY KNEW HOW TO COVER IT LIVE AND THEY DIDN'T. AFTER GIVING DONALD TRUMP MORE THAN AN HOUR OF LIVE COVERAGE ON ALL OF THEIR NETWORKS. IT IS 2016 ALL OVER AGAIN. THE SAME MISTAKES ARE BEING MADE. I HAVE NEVER SEEN AN INDUSTRY SLOWER AT LEARNING FROM ITS OWN STUPID MISTAKES THAN THE AMERICAN NEWS BUSINESS AND YOU CANNOT EXPECT IN THE NEXT 89 DAYS TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO FIGURE OUT IN NINE YEARS. HOW TO COVER A TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT CAMPAIGN. ONE OF THE HARRIS-WALZ CAMPAIGN SLOGANS NOW IS WE ARE NOT GOING BACK, BUT WE JUST WENT BACK TODAY. WE WENT BACK NINE YEARS IN THE PRESS COVERAGE OF THE CAMPAIGN. THE MEDIA COVERAGE. DONALD TRUMP GETS CREDIT FROM THE PEOPLE HE LIED TO TODAY FOR LYING TO THEM. THEY APPRECIATE IT. REPORTERS UNDERSTANDABLY AND INCORRECTLY BELIEVE THAT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING A CANDIDATE CAN DO IS ANSWER THEIR QUESTIONS, BUT THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT AN ANSWER ACTUALLY IS. WORDS SPOKEN AFTER THEIR QUESTIONS ARE NOT NECESSARILY ANSWERS AND ARE NEVER ANSWERS WHEN THEY COME FROM DONALD TRUMP. THERE ARE RUMBLINGS IN THE NEWS MEDIA NOW ABOUT KAMALA HARRIS AS A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE NOT DOING WHAT DONALD TRUMP DID TODAY. STAND UP IN FRONT OF REPORTERS AND TAKE THEIR QUESTIONS AND SOME OF THE TINY MINDS IN THE NEWS MEDIA CONTINUE TO GIVE CREDIT TO DONALD TRUMP FOR STANDING UP AND LYING IN RESPONSE TO EVERY SINGLE QUESTION THEY ASK. A LIE IS NOT AN ANSWER. DONALD TRUMP NEVER ASTERS -- NEVER ANSWERS REPORTERS QUESTIONS. ANYONE IN THE NEWS MEDIA THAT TELLS YOU DONALD TRUMP HAS ANSWERED REPORTERS QUESTIONS AND KAMALA HARRIS HASN'T IS LYING TO YOU AND THEY ARE TOO STUPID TO KNOW THAT THEY ARE LYING TO YOU BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT AN ANSWER IS. DONALD TRUMP ANSWERED NO QUESTIONS TODAY. NONE. HE STOOD UP IN A ROOM WHERE HE MADE SURE REPORTERS QUESTIONS COULD NOT BE HEARD BY THE TV AUDIENCE AND SO WHEN HE SPOKE THE TV AUDIENCE HAD NO I -- NO IDEA WHAT THE QUESTION WAS. MOST OF THE QUESTIONS WERE TERRIBLE. THE SILLIEST QUESTIONS YOU COULD ASK. QUESTIONS ABOUT CAMPAIGN STRATEGY. WHAT A WASTE OF A MOMENT WITH A CONVICTED FELON FORMER PRESIDENT WES QUESTIONS LIKE THAT. HERE'S ONE. MISTER PRESIDENT, CAN YOU TELL US A BIT MORE ABOUT YOUR UPCOMING INTERVIEW WITH ELON MUSK? THAT WAS AN ACTUAL QUESTION TO DONALD TRUMP TODAY. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF KAMALA HARRIS NOT PICKING JOSH SHAPIRO AS VP? MOST OF THE QUESTIONS WERE WASTED QUESTIONS LIKE THAT, SO DONALD TRUMP COULD RAMBLE ABOUT ANYTHING THAT CAME TO MIND, INCLUDING LYING OF COURSE ABOUT THE SIZE OF HIS CROWDS AND THE BIGGEST LIE HE NOW TELLS ABOUT THE SIZE OF HIS CROWDS IS THE LIE ABOUT WHICH OF HIS CROWDS WAS THE BIGGEST CROWD. HE NOW CLAIMS THAT THE CROWD THAT GATHERED TO HEAR HIM AND TRIED TO OVERTHROW THE ELECTION ON JANUARY 6 WAS HIS BIGGEST CROWD EVER. IT WASN'T. INVESTIGATIONS ESTIMATED THAT CROWD WAS ABOUT 53,000 PEOPLE. TODAY DONALD TRUMP SAID THAT THE BIGGEST CROWD HE HAS EVER SPOKEN TO, THAT THAT WAS IT. HE ACTUALLY HAD A MUCH BIGGER CROWD ON INAUGURATION DAY, BUT THAT WAS A SMALLER CROWD THAN BARACK OBAMA'S INAUGURATION DAY SO HE HAD TO LIE ABOUT THAT, TOO. TODAY HE SAID THAT HIS JANUARY 6 SPEECH ATTRACTED A BIGGER CROWD THAN MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.'S I HAVE A DREAM SPEECH IN 1963, THE MOST FAMOUS SPEECH EVER DELIVERED IN WASHINGTON BY SOMEONE WHO IS NOT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. THE CROWD WAS FIVE TIMES THE SIZE OF DONALD TRUMP'S CROWD ON JANUARY 6. I KNOW I CAN SOUND ALMOST TEDIOUS THAT I AM FACT CHECKING DONALD TRUMP'S CROWD SIZE LIES TODAY, BUT THAT IS THE WAY DONALD TRUMP ONCE AT THE FIELD. HE HAS BEEN TELLING CROWD SIZE LIES FOR NINE YEARS AND WANTS TO WHERE THE NEWS MEDIA DOWN TO THE POINT WHERE THEY ACCEPT IT AND HE HAS ONE BECAUSE NO ONE IN THAT ROOM FOUGHT HIM ON THAT IN ANY WAY TODAY OR ON ANYTHING ELSE. THEY DID NOT FIGHT A SINGLE LIE THAT HE TOLD HIM THAT ROOM TODAY. IT WAS THE MOST TAME COLLECTION OF REPORTERS ASKING QUESTIONS THAT YOU COULD EVER SEE. ARE THEY AFRAID OF DONALD TRUMP? ARE THEY AFRAID OF THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN BANNING THEM FROM OPPORTUNITIES TO HAVE DONALD TRUMP LIE TO THEM IN THE FUTURE? NOW I AM NOT ADVOCATING THAT REPORTERS BE COMBATIVE WITH DONALD TRUMP OR ANYONE. I DON'T SEE THE NEED FOR THAT, I REALLY DON'T. EVEN WITH DONALD TRUMP. BUT HOW CAN YOU BE SO TAME? TIMID. IN THE PRESENCE OF DONALD TRUMP WHEN YOU DO THIS. >> Reporter: MISTER PRESIDENT, WHY ARE YOU CONFUSING THE NAMES OF WORLD LEADERS? >> I DID NOT SHARE CLASSIFIED INFORMATION. I DID NOT. I GUARANTEE YOU I DID NOT. I DID NOT SAY THAT. LET ME ANSWER YOUR QUESTION. THE FACTOR OF THE MATTER IS THAT I DID NOT WANT IT REPEATED. I HAD WRITTEN A LONG MEMORANDUM TO PRESIDENT OBAMA, WHY WE SHOULD NOT BE IN AFGHANISTAN. MULTIPLE PAGES. WHAT I WAS REFERRING TO I SAID CLASSIFIED. I SHOULD'VE SAID IT SHOULD BE PRIVATE BECAUSE IT WAS CONTACT BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT AS TO WHAT WAS GOING ON. THAT IS WHAT IT WAS REFERRING TO. IT WAS NOT CLASSIFIED INFORMATION IN THAT DOCUMENT. THAT WAS NOT CLASSIFIED. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH, YOU GUYS. >> DONALD TRUMP DID NOT HEAR THAT SOUND TODAY. HE DID NOT HEAR THAT SCREAMING. IF DONALD TRUMP GETS BACK IN THE WHITE HOUSE, HE WILL NEVER HEAR THAT SOUND, NEVER. IF VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS STANDS IN FRONT OF THOSE SAME REPORTERS, DO YOU THINK THEY WILL BE AS TAME AND RESERVED AND POLITE AS THEY WERE WITH DONALD TRUMP TODAY? OR WILL IT LOOK LIKE THIS? >> THE PRESIDENT I CAN TELL YOU HAS SEEN A NEUROLOGIST THREE TIMES AS CONNECTED TO A PHYSICAL THAT HE GETS EVERY YEAR. HOLD ON, HOLD ON. WAIT. WAIT A SECOND. >> Reporter: AT LEAST ONCE IN REGARDS TO THE PRESIDENT SPECIFICALLY. >> HOLD ON A SECOND. NO, WAIT A MINUTE. ED, PLEASE. A LITTLE RESPECT HERE, PLEASE. SO, EVERY YEAR AROUND THE PRESIDENT'S PHYSICAL EXAMINATION, HE SEES A NEUROLOGIST. THAT IS THREE TIMES. SO I'M TELLING YOU HE HAS SEEN A NEUROLOGIST THREE TIMES WHILE HE HAS BEEN IN THIS PRESIDENCY. THAT IS WHAT I AM SAYING. >> WE SHOULD'VE KEPT THAT VIDEO ROLLING BECAUSE THEY KEPT YELLING AT HER. YOU ARE NOT ANSWERING THE QUESTION. THEY WERE OUTRAGED, BUT SHE WAS ACTUALLY ANSWERING THE QUESTION. THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT AN ANSWER IS AND WHAT THEY WERE PURSUING TURNED OUT TO BE ALIVE. THE NEXT DAY NOT ONE OF THEM HAD A SINGLE QUESTION ABOUT WHAT THEY WERE JUST SCREAMING ABOUT IN THE PRESS BRIEFING ROOM BECAUSE THERE WAS NOTHING TO THE STORY THEY WERE PURSUING. IT TURNS OUT A DOCTOR WHO IS A SPECIALIST VISITED THE WHITE HOUSE A FEW TIMES, AS THE DOCTOR HAD BEEN DOING FOR YEARS BEFORE THE BIDEN PRESIDENCY AND THAT DOCTOR NEVER ONCE VISITED THE WHITE HOUSE TO TREAT PRESIDENT BIDEN. ALL OF THE WRATH OF THE REPORTERS IN THAT ROOM THAT YOU JUST SAW, ALL OF THE WRATH THAT THEY PUT INTO THOSE QUESTIONS JUST EVAPORATED BECAUSE THEY WERE COMPLETELY WRONG AND THEY NEVER APOLOGIZED FOR THE MISPLACED ANGER IN THE TREATMENT OF PRESS SECRETARY KARINE JEAN-PIERRE. NOT ONE OF THEM DARED TO YELL AT DONALD TRUMP TODAY, NOT ONE OF THEM. NOT ONE OF THEM DARED TO YELL, YOU ARE NOT ANSWERING THE QUESTION. SO THE SPECIAL TREATMENT DONALD TRUMP GETS FROM THE SUPREME COURT AND ELSEWHERE EXTENDS TRAGICALLY AND HARMFULLY AND ALWAYS HAS TOO MUCH OF THE PRESS CORPS. HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED WHEN DONALD TRUMP WAS ASKED A GOOD QUESTION BY NBC'S GARRETT HAAKE. QUESTION, WOULD YOU DIRECT THE FDA TO REVOKE ACCESS TO MIFEPRISTONE? HERE IS WHAT DONALD TRUMP SAID TO THAT YES OR NO QUESTION, WHICH NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES YOU READ THIS ANSWER, IS NOT AN ANSWER. TRUMP, SURE, YOU COULD DO THINGS THAT WOULD SUPPLEMENT, ABSOLUTELY. THOSE THINGS ARE OPEN AND HUMANE, BUT YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO HAVE A VOTE. AFTER ALL, ALL I WANT TO DO IS GIVE EVERYBODY A VOTE. VOTES ARE TAKING PLACE RIGHT NOW AS WE SPEAK. IT IS VERY GOOD. THERE ARE MANY THINGS ON A HUMANE BASIS THAT YOU CAN DO OUTSIDE OF THAT, BUT YOU ALSO HAVE TO GIVE A VOTE AND THE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO DECIDE. THE WORDS DONALD TRUMP SPOKE TO REPORTERS IN RESPONSE TO THAT CLEAR, SIMPLE, AND IMPORTANT YES OR NO QUESTION WERE AN INSULT TO EVERYONE IN THAT ROOM AND THEY TOOK THE INSULT. NOTHING IN THOSE WORDS WAS AN ANSWER, NOTHING. DONALD TRUMP DID NOT ANSWER QUESTIONS TODAY. DO NOT LET ANYONE TELL YOU THE LIE THAT DONALD TRUMP ANSWERED QUESTIONS. HE DID NOT, HE NEVER DOES. ANYONE WHO TELLS YOU DONALD TRUMP ANSWERED REPORTERS QUESTIONS IS LYING TO YOU AND ANYONE WHO TELLS YOU THAT IS NOT SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW WHAT AN ANSWER IS. DONALD TRUMP IS NOT SMART ENOUGH TO ANSWER QUESTIONS. ANYONE THAT TELLS YOU KAMALA HARRIS HAS TO ANSWER QUESTIONS FROM REPORTERS BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP ALREADY ANSWERED QUESTIONS FROM REPORTERS IS LYING TO YOURSELF AND TO YOU AND YOU MUST NOT ALLOW THEM TO DO IT. PLEASE CRUSH THEM ON SOCIAL MEDIA WHEN THEY DO IT, BECAUSE THEY WILL DO IT. NOW I HOPE KAMALA HARRIS ANSWERS QUESTIONS FROM REPORTERS BUT SHE HAS NO GREATER OBLIGATION TO DO SO BECAUSE OF WHAT DONALD TRUMP PRETENDED TO DO TODAY. THE FIRST TIME KAMALA HARRIS DOES A PRESS CONFERENCE AS A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, THE REPORTERS THAT WERE ASSEMBLED TODAY SHOULD ALL AGREE AMONG THEMSELVES. NO SHOUTING. NO FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS AND NO INTERRUPTING EACH OTHER AND NO INTERRUPTING THE CANDIDATE. NO SCREAMING. NOW I WOULDN'T SUGGEST TO THOSE RULES OF THE REPORTERS HAD NOT JUST IMPOSED THEM ON THEMSELVES TODAY IN THEIR PARTICIPATION IN WHAT DONALD TRUMP TURNED INTO A CHARADE. NOW TO WHAT THE NETWORKS DID NOT SHOW YOU TODAY. VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS IN MICHIGAN TODAY AT A UNITED AUTO WORKERS HALL WHERE THE UNION PRESIDENT, SHAWN FAIN, REPEATED THE WHOLEHEARTED ENDORSEMENT AND THE UNION'S WHOLEHEARTED ENDORSEMENT OF THE HARRIS-WALZ TICKET FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT. AS USUAL VICE PRESIDENT CANDIDATE TIM WALZ SPOKE FIRST AND INTRODUCED THE PERSON HE CALLED THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, KAMALA HARRIS. HERE IS WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO WATCH AS IT HAPPENED, LIVE THIS AFTERNOON. >> THEY WILL BAN ABORTION ACROSS THIS COUNTRY NO MATTER WHAT CONGRESS SAYS. NOW LOOK, I DON'T KNOW WHY IT IS SO DIFFICULT FOR PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND. THINGS THAT WORK REALLY WELL IN LIFE AND WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS AND AND COMMUNITIES. WHEN YOU MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS THINGS WORK BETTER. STAY OUT OF OUR BUSINESS. STAY OUT OF OUR BUSINESS. HE'S NOT FIGHTING FOR YOU. HE DOESN'T KNOW YOU. HE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT YOUR FAMILY AND HIS RUNNING MATE IS JUST AS DANGEROUS AND BACKWARD AS HE IS. SO LOOK, WE KNOW WHO THEY ARE. THE CHOIR IS READY TO SING. THIS CAMPAIGN IS ABOUT THE FUTURE, YOUR FUTURE. VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS KNOWS THAT. SHE GREW UP IN A MIDDLE-CLASS FAMILY. SHE GOES TO WORK EVERY DAY MAKING SURE FAMILIES CAN GET AHEAD AND GET INTO THE MIDDLE CLASS. SHE BELIEVES IN SOMETHING SO SIMPLE AND SO BEAUTIFUL AND WHEN WE GO TO THESE RALLIES, PEOPLE DRIVE, THEY SIT IN THE SUN. THEY STAND NEXT TO THEIR NEIGHBOR FOR ONE SIMPLE REASON AND JUST LIKE THE VICE PRESIDENT SAYS, THEY BELIEVE IN THEIR HEARTS AND THE PROMISE OF AMERICA. THEY BELIEVE IT. THEY BELIEVE IT. SO SISTERS AND BROTHERS IN THE UAW, HOW GREAT IS THIS GOING TO BE? PLEASE JOIN ME IN WELCOMING THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, KAMALA HARRIS. >> GOOD AFTERNOON, UAW. GOOD AFTERNOON. GOOD AFTERNOON. IT IS GOOD TO BE IN THE HOUSE OF LABOR. IT IS GOOD TO BE IN THE HOUSE OF LABOR. THANK YOU, PLEASE HAVE A SEAT. LET ME SAY FIRST OF ALL, CAN WE HEAR IT AGAIN FOR TIM WALZ? ISN'T HE SPECTACULAR? PEOPLE ASK, WHAT DO YOU AND TIM WALZ HAVE IN COMMON? I SAID YOU KNOW, A WHOLE LOT. A WHOLE LOT. WE GREW UP IN A COMMUNITY OF PEOPLE. YOU KNOW, HE GREW UP IN NEBRASKA. ME, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA. SEEMINGLY WORLDS APART, BUT THE SAME PEOPLE RAISED US. GOOD PEOPLE. HARD-WORKING PEOPLE. PEOPLE WHO HAD PRIDE IN THEIR HARD WORK. YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WHO HAD PRIDE IN KNOWING THAT WE WERE A COMMUNITY OF PEOPLE WHO LOOKED OUT FOR EACH OTHER. YOU KNOW, RAISED BY A COMMUNITY OF FOLKS WHO UNDERSTOOD THAT THE TRUE MEASURE OF THE STRENGTH OF A LEADER IS NOT BASED ON WHO YOU BEAT DOWN, IT IS BASED ON WHO YOU LIFT UP. AND YOU KNOW THERE IS SOME PERVERSION THAT HAS HAPPENED IN OUR COUNTRY IN THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, WHERE THERE IS THE SUGGESTION THAT SOMEHOW STRENGTH IS ABOUT MAKING PEOPLE FEEL SMALL. MAKING PEOPLE FEEL ALONE. BUT ISN'T THAT THE VERY OPPOSITE OF WHAT WE KNOW? UNIONS KNOW TO BE STRENGTH. IT IS ABOUT THE COLLECTIVE. IT IS ABOUT UNDERSTANDING NO ONE SHOULD EVER BE MADE TO FIGHT ALONE. AND WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER. YOU KNOW WHY I FOUGHT MY ENTIRE CAREER FOR UNIONS AND LABOR? BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT AND THE NOBLE CONCEPT BEHIND COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AND HERE IT IS. HERE IT IS. FAIRNESS. FAIRNESS. IT'S ABOUT SAYING, HEY, IN A NEGOTIATION DON'T WE ALL BELIEVE THE OUTCOME SHOULD BE FAIR? WHO CAN DISAGREE WITH THAT. IT SHOULD BE FAIR, RIGHT? WHEN YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT THE INDIVIDUAL AND A BIG COMPANY AND THEY REQUIRE THAT ONE INDIVIDUAL TO NEGOTIATE AGAINST A BIG COMPANY, HOW IS THAT OUTCOME GOING TO BE FAIR? SO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING IS ABOUT SAYING LET THE COLLECTIVE COME TOGETHER AROUND A COMMON EXPERIENCE. WHICH AT ITS CORE IS ABOUT DIGNITY AND THE DIGNITY OF LABOR AND LET THE PEOPLE COME TOGETHER. TO NEGOTIATE SO YOU MAKE THE BALANCE. AND THEN THE OUTCOME WILL BE FAIR. AND ISN'T THAT WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT IN THIS ELECTION? WE ARE SAYING WE JUST WANT FAIRNESS. WE WANT DIGNITY FOR ALL PEOPLE. WE WANT TO RECOGNIZE THE RIGHT THE PEOPLE AFTER FREEDOM AND LIBERTY, TO MAKE CHOICES ESPECIALLY ABOUT HEART AND HOME AND NOT HAVE THE GOVERNMENT TELLING THEM WHAT TO DO. OUR CAMPAIGN IS ABOUT SAYING WE TRUST THE PEOPLE. WE SEE THE PEOPLE. WE KNOW THE PEOPLE. YOU KNOW ONE OF THE THINGS I LOVE ABOUT OUR COUNTRY? WE ARE A NATION OF PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN THOSE IDEALS THAT WERE FOUNDATIONAL TO WHAT MADE US SO SPECIAL AS A NATION. WE BELIEVE IN THOSE IDEALS AND THE SISTERS AND BROTHERS OF LABOR HAVE ALWAYS FOUGHT FOR THOSE IDEALS. ALWAYS FOUGHT FOR THOSE IDEALS AND WE KNOW WE ARE A WORK IN PROGRESS. WE HAVEN'T YET REACHED ALL OF THOSE IDEALS, BUT WE WILL DIE TRYING BECAUSE WE LOVE OUR COUNTRY AND WE BELIEVE IN WHO WE ARE. AND THAT IS WHAT OUR CAMPAIGN IS ABOUT. WE LOVE OUR COUNTRY. WE BELIEVE IN OUR COUNTRY. WE BELIEVE IN EACH OTHER. WE BELIEVE IN THE COLLECTIVE. WE ARE NOT FALLING FOR THESE FOLKS WERE TRYING TO DIVIDE US. TRYING TO SEPARATE US. TRYING TO PULL US APART. THAT IS NOT WHERE THE STRENGTH LIES. AND THERE IS THAT. AND SO I SAY TO ALL OF THE MEMBERS OF UAW AND SHAWN FAIN IS THE FIRST I TALKED TO ABOUT THIS. I AM SO DEEPLY HONORED AS A LIFELINE -- LIFELONG SUPPORTER, FOR TIM AND I TO HAVE THE ENDORSEMENT OF THE UAW. SO DEEPLY HONORED. BECAUSE YOU WALK YOUR WALK. YOU WALK YOUR WALK AND WHAT WE KNOW, LIKE WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT, WE HAVE 89 DAYS TO GET THIS DONE. YOU KNOW THE ONE THING ABOUT ALL OF US IS WE LIKE HARD WORK. HARD WORK IS GOOD WORK. HARD WORK IS GOOD WORK. THE THING THAT WE LIKE ABOUT HARD WORK IS WE HAVE FUN DOING HARD WORK. BECAUSE WE KNOW WHAT WE STAND FOR. AND THAT IS A BIG PART OF THIS CAMPAIGN. YOU KNOW WHEN YOU KNOW WHAT YOU STAND FOR, YOU KNOW WHAT TO FIGHT FOR. WE KNOW WHAT WE STAND FOR AND WE STAND FOR THE PEOPLE AND WE STAND FOR THE DIGNITY OF WORK AND WE STAND FOR FREEDOM. WE STAND FOR JUSTICE. WE STAND FOR EQUALITY. AND SO WE WILL FIGHT FOR ALL OF IT. AND THE BOTTOM LINE, I WILL SAY IT WHILE THE FRIENDS WATCHING. LOOK, EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT A MEMBER OF THE UNION, YOU BETTER BANK UNIONS. THE FIVE DAY WEEK. YOU BETTER THINK UNIONS FOR THAT EIGHT HOUR WORKDAY. YOU BETTER THINK UNIONS FOR THAT VACATION TIME. SO I AM HERE TO SAY THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU TO THE SISTERS AND BROTHERS OF UAW FOR ALL YOU ARE AND ALL WE WILL DO ON THESE NEXT 89 DAYS. GOD BLESS YOU. GOD BLESS YOU. >> WE CAN'T LET IT BE 2016 ALL

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