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Trump Speaks at Freedom and Faith Summit; Shooting at Dallas Love Field Airport. Aired 1:30-2p ET

Aired June 10, 2016 - 13:30   ET

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[13:30:00] DONALD TRUMP, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & CEO, TRUMP ORGANIZATION: Crooked Hillary Clinton, she's just crooked as they come, refuses to even say the words radical Islam. Refuses to say the words. This alone makes her unfit to be president. In fact --

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TRUMP: In fact, she wants a 500 percent increase in Syrian refugees to come into our country.

(BOOING)

TRUMP: No good. No good. No good. Can't do it. We don't know where they come from, where they are.

(SHOUTING)

(CHANTING)

TRUMP: OK, thank you, everybody.

It's amazing. Amazing what goes on.

(CHANTING)

TRUMP: Thank you. Thank you. All right.

(SHOUTING)

(CHANTING)

TRUMP: All right, thank you. Little of freedom of speech, please. Freedom of speech, thank you. Very rude, but what are you going to do?

Thank you, thank you, darling. I appreciate it.

Very sad. Very said what is happening. Very, very sad. What's happening in our country is so sad. We are so divided. It's such a shame.

And by the way, these are professional agitators, folks. They come in. They're sent here by the other party, believe me.

(APPLAUSE) TRUMP: So where we left off, 500 percent increase in Syrian refugees. Without documentation, we don't know where they come from. Hillary will bring hundreds of thousands of refugees, many of whom have hostile beliefs about people of different faiths and values, and some of whom absolutely and openly support terrorism in our country. We don't need that. We have enough problems. We have enough problems right now.

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TRUMP: Here is some of what we can accomplish together. Appoint judges, so important, so important --

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TRUMP: -- who will uphold our laws, protect our constitution, and protect the rights of all Americans.

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TRUMP: And as you know, I put a list together of highly, highly respected judges and you will see, and I think you've seen it and I'm pretty sure you did, but a lot of people have really come together over that list. That's one of the most important reasons why we have to win the presidency. If we don't, it's going to be a whole different country.

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TRUMP: And by the way, these judges are all pro life.

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TRUMP: We will restore respect for people of faith, who dutifully raise their children, follow our laws and rules. And we have to really take care of ours, because right now, our neighbors are not being taken care of. We have to restore the rule of law on our border, in our government, no matter where it is. It has to be restored.

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TRUMP: And by the way, we have to pay great respect to our police and law enforcement in this country. Believe me.

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TRUMP: They're not being treated properly.

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TRUMP: So all of this includes tough new ethics rules to restore dignity to the office of the secretary of state, which it hasn't had in a while, folks.

(APPLAUSE) [13:35:12] TRUMP: Among being one of the worst dealmakers I have ever seen. If you look at the Iran deal, truly one of the worst deals I've ever seen negotiated.

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TRUMP: We will protect the right of churches to speak their minds on political matters, free from intimidation.

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TRUMP: New immigration controls to keep us safe from radical Islamic terrorism.

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TRUMP:

Here is what Hillary Clinton would do to our country. She'll appoint radical judges who will legislate from the bench overriding Congress and will -- I'll tell you, the will of the people will mean nothing, nothing. Her judges will abolish the Second Amendment and destroy the rule of law. She wants to abolish the Second Amendment. And I will tell you, the National Rifle Association, the NRA, two weeks ago, endorsed Donald Trump.

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TRUMP: So I think it's the earliest endorsement they've given to a presidential candidate. I was very honored. They're great people. Great people.

She will keep Obamacare in place, which puts medical decisions in the hands of government. Not good. Obamacare, we will repeal and replace.

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TRUMP: She'll restrict religious freedom with government mandates. She'll push for federal funding of abortion on demand up until the moment of birth, which is where she is, as you know.

She'll undermine the wages of working people with uncontrolled immigration, creating poverty and income insecurity. Hillary Clinton's Wall Street agenda will crush working families. She'll put bureaucrats, not parents, in charge of our lives, and our children's education. Can't have it. She'll be trapping kids in failing schools. She'll plunge our inner cities into even deeper poverty, if that's possible.

Hillary's agenda of taxation -- and she wants to raise your taxes, big league, folks, big league. Get used to it. Hear it. She wants to raise your taxes tremendously. Regulation, bureaucracy, government control, and open borders have economically destroyed our inner cities. Her policies will be a crushing blow to all poor people in this country. Her education policies, her economic policies, her immigration policies, and her trade policies will plunge our poor African-American/Hispanic communities into turmoil and even worse despair. Believe me. You look at what's going on.

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TRUMP: The Democrat party has run the school boards and the police departments and the city councils and the mayor's offices in most of our inner cities, almost all of our inner cities. They've run congressional offices. They've horribly failed in almost every single community. In fact, you could actually say in every community. I'm going to turn things around.

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TRUMP: Hillary Clinton has jeopardized, totally jeopardized, national security by putting her e-mails on a private server, all to hide her corrupt dealings. This is the reason she did it, folks. It's to hide her corrupt dealings. Criminal investigation. That was announced yesterday by the White House. I mean, it's a criminal investigation.

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TRUMP: First time ever, by the way, a president of the United States endorsed somebody under criminal investigation. Interesting.

She even appointed to the National Security Board someone with no national security experience. Instead, he was a donor, a recent donor to Hillary Clinton's campaign, and also gave as much as $250,000 to her foundation. They all looked at him and said, where did this guy come from? He made a contribution of $250,000, and, all of the sudden, on this important and vital board. This position dealt with tactical nuclear weapons and had top-secret clearance. And he knew nothing about it.

[13:40:23] Bill and Hillary made $153 million giving speeches to special interest groups since 2001. It's a lot of money. That's a lot of money. These donors own Hillary Clinton. They own her. And Bernie Sanders was right about that.

I have to tell you. If you work -- it's true.

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TRUMP: And the bottom line is I will be working for you. I just spent $55 million running on my money.

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TRUMP: I don't know. Not easy. But I just spent $55 million of my money running in the primaries. Other people spent many times that amount and they didn't do so well. OK. But I work for you. I'm working for you. I'm doing this because I want to put back, I want to give back, I want to give back to our country.

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TRUMP: Together, friends, we will chart a new optimistic course for America. We will put America first.

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TRUMP: When you look at our deals, our military deals, trade deals, we don't put America first. I don't think anybody negotiating these deals even knows anything about what they're doing. And I don't think they care about America being first. I care. You care. That's the way it's going to be.

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TRUMP: And that's a big, big part of why I am challenging Hillary Clinton today to replace her support for increased refugee admissions -- we have to do it -- for a new jobs program for our inner cities. We have to take care of the people that are here.

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TRUMP: We have to temporarily stop this whole thing with what's going on with refugees where we don't know where they come from. But we have to take a rest. We have to take a time-out. We have to use the money to take care of our poorest Americans and work with them so they can come out of this horrible situation that they're in.

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TRUMP: We will restore faith to its proper mantle in society. That's what we have to do and we have to do it soon.

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TRUMP: We will respect and defend Christian Americans. Christian Americans.

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TRUMP: We will give parents control over their schools. So important.

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TRUMP: We'll uphold the values our founders gave us, which we're not doing now.

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TRUMP: We will work together to rebuild and restore and lift up everyone, not a certain group, everyone, the whole country. We're going to lift up.

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TRUMP: We will make America great again for all Americans. And we'll do it together.

I want to thank you. This has been a great honor. Amazing friendships I have in this room. Thank you all very much. Appreciate it. Thank you.

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TRUMP: Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you.

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TRUMP: Thank you, everybody. Thank you very much.

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JIM ACOSTA, CNN ANCHOR: OK. There you go. Donald Trump, wrapping his speech there at the Faith and Freedom Summit here in Washington. And he went right after Hillary Clinton. I think this was just the setting for a preview of his speech targeting the Clintons that is coming up on Monday.

So that is very interesting, David Chalian, what we just heard there. Obviously, much of that speech was geared towards appealing to Christian conservatives. Donald Trump started the speech that way but then went in depth after the Clintons and Hillary Clinton pretty specifically time and again.

DAVID CHALIAN, CNN POLITICAL DIRECTOR: There's no doubt. On her call to increase Syrian refugees -- I don't know he has all his facts and figures right about exactly but she has called for an increase above and beyond what the Obama administration has done, and said he wants to take the money and apply it to a jobs program. He went after, again, as he's done throughout the whole campaign season, not using the term radical Islam. I was surprised how much foreign policy was in this speech. But a bit professing how important Israel's security is, is something that evangelicals have rallied around for some time, so it makes sense to go there but he did spend a lot of time here attacking her on foreign policy.

[13:45:33] ACOSTA: Yeah. And on the Syrian refugee issue, we've heard that a lot, Fredreka, out on the campaign trail with Donald Trump. That is a go-to line for Donald Trump.

FREDREKA SCHOUTEN, CAMPAIGN FINANCE REPORTER, USA TODAY: It is. And you know what's interesting he decided to do so before the evangelical audience is one thing we heard is we don't think of Donald Trump sharing all of our views, or he's been married three times, et cetera, we're going to look past that because we want strength, someone to protect us, and I think that's why he comes back to the theme over and over again.

ACOSTA: Julie, he was on the teleprompter. He ad-libbed a few times. He was interrupted by Code Pink protesters. But what did Mitch McConnell say, being on a teleprompter is not a bad thing.

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ACOSTA: Prepared remarks are not a bad thing.

JULIE PACE, WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT, ASSOCIATED PRESS: When you watch Donald Trump read off a teleprompter, you can almost feel him desperately wanting to get away from the script and bounces back and forth between what he's supposed to say and wants to say. I think the real test in terms of whether Trump is going to take this more scripted approach will come when he starts doing his rallies again. He is someone who feeds off the crowd. And in these settings, I think he's shown he's able to give the talking points that the crowd wants to hear from him, say all the messages that are appropriate for these audiences. But when he gets back out in the big arenas and eggs him on, I think we'll see the direction he'll take in this general election.

CHALIAN: The note with the protesters, you didn't hear him say get them out.

PACE: That's true.

CHALIAN: He did not. Even though he stepped away from the teleprompter in that moment and was having an unscripted moment, it wasn't what we normally hear in that moment. So he seemed to me somebody who is trying very hard to stay within the lines.

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ACOSTA: We should mention though during the course of that speech, there's a couple of things, and we fact checked these things, when he says Hillary Clinton wants to abolish the Second Amendment, the Clinton campaign said, no, that's not the case, and Hillary wants to increase the number of Syrian refugees by 500 percent, we should point out and CNN reported this extensively, the Obama administration is well behind its own goals of bringing in Syrian refugees. So it's not something you can start bringing them in droves.

But, Fredreka, this is where we're going to be for the next five months. If you don't like the national conversation we're having, you're not going to like the next five months.

SCHOUTEN: We got a preview of it. Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were speaking to bases. He really needs to get evangelicals to support him. Some of his comments have proved problematic with lots of diverse minority populations. So he needs to make sure those people who came out for him in South Carolina and Georgia and places like that show up at the general election. And he was hitting her hard. I mean, like a bullet point, everything from taxes to speeches she's given. It was just a very quick preview.

ACOSTA: Thank you.

We have to stop right now because we do have some breaking news to get to. ANNOUNCER: This is CNN breaking news.

ACOSTA: We want to thank our panel for being with us on the politics of the day.

In the meantime, we have breaking news out of Texas, a shooting at Dallas Love Field Airport. Right now, we know the shooting happened outside of the baggage area, according to our initial information. No information on victims at this point and don't know what led to the shooting. Once again though, we are hearing from authorities there in Dallas in Texas, that a shooting occurred at Dallas Love Field airport. We are gathering information and we'll bring that to you as soon as we can.

But in the meantime, we do want to turn to Bryan Armstrong, a witness, we are told, to what occurred there at Love Field in Dallas. Dallas Love Field, of course, right there in the middle of the city. It is not DFW, which is between Dallas and Fort Worth.

Brian Armstrong, you were there. There's some live pictures from KTVT. It's like a tower cam looking over Love Field.

Brian, what can you tell us about what you've seen?

BRYAN ARMSTRONG, WITNESS (voice-over): I came outside. And a guy had like walking to police and tell them to put the rock down and he just wouldn't listen and kept walking towards them and then shot by a couple of warning shots. Probably two and then

[13:50:00] ACOSTA: Bryan, you're saying there was somebody at the airport and is it true it was outside of the baggage area of the airport.

ARMSTRONG: Yeah.

ACOSTA: And approached officers and not heeding instructions?

ARMSTRONG: Say that again.

ACOSTA: Was the man who was shot not heeding instructions? Was he armed? Was he showing officers a weapon of some sort?

ARMSTRONG: He had a rock in his hand.

ACOSTA: He had a what? Say that again.

ARMSTRONG: A rock.

ACOSTA: He had a in his hand? Are you saying a rock?

ARMSTRONG: Yes. A rock. He had a rock.

ACOSTA: And the police officers asked him to put the rock down? Is that what you're saying?

ARMSTRONG: Yeah. They told him to drop the rock and stop walking towards them. He was coming outside the door. I don't know what he was walking towards but he was walking towards people and the police -- told him to stop walking.

ACOSTA: And which part of the airport was this at? I know Southeast Airlines is a big carrier there at Love Field. Was it the Southwest Airlines, part of the terminal, outside of baggage? Can you describe for us exactly where it happened in. ARMSTRONG: By baggage claim where people arriving, people come in,

they get the bags and finally arrive and happened towards the end of the airport.

ACOSTA: OK. And how many officers were involved would you say? Was it just one officer?

ARMSTRONG: Including -- it was one with the gun and one with the taser an then, like, I think some undercover police that came, a few seconds after.

ACOSTA: And was this person -- so this person was shot by the officer with the gun is what you're saying is that correct?

ARMSTRONG: Yes.

ACOSTA: And the person who was shot, all he had was on a rock on him? How close were you to all of this?

ARMSTRONG: Say it again.

ACOSTA: How close were you to all of this?

ARMSTRONG: Well, I don't know if you have the video. I put a video on my social media. It's a flashy films underscore. And I have the full video on Instagram.

ACOSTA: OK. All right. And so this all unfolded pretty quickly it sounds like.

ARMSTRONG: Oh yeah, yeah. As soon as I came out the door. Happened right then and there. I didn't see the beginning or where it transpired before that but I recorded what I seen.

ACOSTA: OK. And were any other people hurt you can tell?

ARMSTRONG: No, no. Just him. I'm not sure if he died because they put him in the ambulance but I'm not sure if it was rubber bullets or real bullets.

ACOSTA: Was the person, did he harm anybody? Was anybody hurt with this rock that he was apparently carrying you're saying?

ARMSTRONG: Not before -- not before they fired upon him, no.

ACOSTA: No. And nobody else was injured as far as you know?

ARMSTRONG: I don't know if he was like going towards the police or towards somebody getting off the plane or what. But he didn't -- he didn't hit anybody with the rock.

ACOSTA: We don't know who this person was threatening, is what you're saying?

ARMSTRONG: No, not at all.

ACOSTA: OK. Anything else that you want to add that would be notable as far as you're concerned?

ARMSTRONG: No. Not really. I mean, I didn't see the very beginning so I don't know what happened before that but, I mean, it sounded like -- it looked like the police did what they had to do to deescalate the situation and protect everybody else coming off the plane.

ACOSTA: And my understanding, Bryan, you have the video posted on the social media account. And we've looked at this and we're going to play it for our viewers now.

We want to caution our viewers now what they're about to see may be disturbing. Let's go ahead and show that.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

(GUNFIRE)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Man.

UNIDENTIFIED POLICE OFFICER: Get down! Get down! Get down! Get down!

(GUNFIRE)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, no.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Really? What was all that for? What was all that for?

(SCREAMING)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, my god. Oh, my god.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thanks, guys.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, my god.

UNIDENTIFIED POLICE OFFICER: Stay down! Stay down! Stay down!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Back inside! Back inside!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get inside. Get inside.

UNIDENTIFIED POLICE OFFICER: Y'all go.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Guys?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get back.

UNIDENTIFIED POLICE OFFICER: That way. Go. Go!

UNIDENTIFIED POLICE OFFICER: Stay down.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Everybody needs to go this way.

(GUNFIRE) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get down! Get down!

(GUNFIRE)

(END VIDEO CLIP)

ACOSTA: OK. So you've seen that video a few times now, posted by Bryan Armstrong who was just on the phone with us, an eyewitness to the shooting. Looks like a police-involved shooting at Dallas Love Field Airport in Dallas, Texas.

[13:55:] According to Bryan Armstrong, who was a witness, with us on the phone a few moments ago, the person who was shot was apparently threatening the officers or somebody in the area with what appeared to be a rock, according to that last witness on the phone.

Let's talk to Susan Haydel on the phone right now, and witnessed the shooting and still at Dallas Love Field.

Susan, what can you tell us in terms of what you saw?

SUSAN HAYDEL, WITNESS (voice-over): I was at the Dallas Love Airport and I walked out the door and I saw a damaged vehicle with the windshield broken out. And I witnessed a man, a large African- American man, approaching the police and them asking him to get down. And he kept moving forward. And at that point, I went back in the building, and shortly after that the shots were fired.

ACOSTA: And, Susan, as far as you know, anybody else hurt or the man who would not stop approaching the officers?

HAYDEL: My understanding is that it's just the gentleman that was challenging the police.

ACOSTA: And Bryan Armstrong, who was on the phone with us earlier, he said he thought it looked like the man had a rock approaching the officers with a rock. Is that what you also saw?

HAYDEL: I did not see what the man -- I just heard him use profanity and he was stepping toward the police. And they had their guns drawn.

ACOSTA: And that's when you decided to go back inside the terminal.

HAYDEL: That is correct.

ACOSTA: Probably a very good idea. And, ma'am, from what we understand from talking to the other witness, the man who was shot was transported by authorities to the hospital or by ambulance to go seek medical attention. Is the area pretty contained now, pretty clear? Is calm being restored to the area, would you say?

HAYDEL: Yes. There is a lot of police presence at the time.

ACOSTA: There was a lot of police presence at the time. How about now? Or do things seem like they've settled down?

HAYDEL: They have a lot of police around and I don't see traffic slowing at all.

ACOSTA: So you don't see cars moving through the area as we can see in the video, cars parked outside the terminal, people picked up, obviously, outside of baggage and so forth, those cars are not moving? It does appear traffic is stopped around the airport?

HAYDEL: That is correct.

ACOSTA: OK. So if our viewers are in the Dallas area thinking about heading to Dallas Love Field, they may want to take into consideration that authorities appear to have at least stopped traffic temporarily dealing with the situation.

We have an eyewitness on the phone, Susan Haydel talking to us about what happened at Love Field.

Can you give us a time stamp on what happened? Central time for you. When did this happen?

HAYDEL: My plane arrived at close to 11:00 central time but 12:00 my time. And at that point, I have no idea. I've just lost count of time at this point.

ACOSTA: It would have been a few minutes, several minutes after you got off your plane and went down to the baggage area?

HAYDEL: That's correct.

ACOSTA: That's right. OK.

All right. Thank you for your time. We appreciate you talking to us.

I want to go back to the viewer video, the video sent in by an eyewitness on the phone with us, Bryan Armstrong.

Let's listen to that one more time. You can see in the video what unfolds. There are police officers in the back of the video appear to be talking to this gentleman to get him to stop doing what he was you a map of Dallas Love Field which is where this occurred in Dallas, Texas.

Let's go back to the video and show it one more time to our viewers.

Cautioning the viewers, it is disturbing.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

(GUNFIRE)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Man.

UNIDENTIFIED POLICE OFFICER: Get down! Get down! Get down! Get down!

(GUNFIRE)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, no.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Really? What was all that for? What was all that for?

(SCREAMING)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, my god. Oh, my god.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thanks, guys.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, my god.

UNIDENTIFIED POLICE OFFICER: Stay down! Stay down! Stay down!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Back inside! Back inside!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get inside. Get inside.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

ACOSTA: OK. You can hear at the end of that video those officers instructing the man who was apparently shot --