kellyanne conway has been by the
president's side
through thick and thin
she will not go into when my men are
petrified to go on a certain
network i said kellyanne would you do
absolutely no problem
then she gets honored she just destroys
them
tonight she will address the convention
before leaving her post at the white
house she's here to talk about that
publicly tonight for the first time she
was the campaign manager in 2016
the first woman to lead a successful
presidential campaign
and she had a long and successful career
in conservative politics and polling
before that i think you need to do is
get ready for a chiron that says
president-elect donald j trump and
i'll tell you what he told me to tell
you something on your show as soon as
you can
one piece of advice i would give is
don't pay attention to each other don't
pay attention to the politicians don't
pay attention to the elites
pay attention to the people this is a
victory by the people
we don't need ukraine to help beat joe
biden or any of the rest of them any
more than we need in russia to beat
hillary clinton
two new trade deals two supreme court
justices
two dead terrorists that's two terms
[Applause]
kellyanne conway welcome good to have
you here tonight kellyanne
so i want to start with your thoughts on
your departure and also
what your message will be to the
convention tonight
thank you so much for having me martha i
wasn't aware we were going to talk about
me but let's do it i
i have posted my message publicly and
have gotten
tremendous support from people right
left and center and non-political people
because they understand
that we're mothers first most important
best job most wonderful job ever
and it has been such a wonderful ride
for a boss and a president that's been
so good to the women you know he's been
elevating women in business and
government on his campaign and his
corporation in his cabinet for decades
and it's just been very natural he lets
us
uh he confides in us consults us and
whether the men knew it or not or liked
it or not
president trump has always made sure
that i and the other women here have
been equal footing
with the men but i told him on sunday
night in the oval office
uh what i was doing and and i said you
know for the next two months you have to
focus on winning
and i have to invest in leisure wear and
hover over my kids as they hover over
those computers doing school from home
so what i'm doing is what millions and
millions of parents across this country
are doing martha
which is trying to navigate this new not
so normal where the kids are learning
from home
and i and i want to be there for them
you know during the spring
i was here every day seven days a week
when coveted 19
first hit and when we were you know
working around the clock
and i didn't have the same opportunity
that i want to have now to be there for
them
but when the history books are written i
want people to remember it's donald j
trump who plucked me out of plain sight
i had been working for decades at this
and it was passed over by many people in
the old boys network and
frankly the new boys network and lots of
those candidates lost
but he saw in me somebody who he wanted
to help
with his team and it was a big team
effort and he and vice president pence
won that election
by going all across this country but
when people you know we have these
handbooks that say women's empowerment
but it's only real if somebody lives it
if they walk it if they actually promote
women not just talk about it and he has
done that
i think it's a great point you know when
i look back at the administration thus
far
i think of you you have outlasted every
single wave of people
leaving and i think you know people want
to know
what why is that how did you outlast
everyone
and you know what does that say about
the relationship that you have with the
president
your boss i do have a great relationship
with the president and
it's one that is a very
uh personal and hands-on meeting i see
these people leave the white house and
write books about
they were in this meeting and the
president said sabad and they said and
they now they believe this
the time to do that is when you're here
because the president not just accepts
but expects
dissenting opinions and different
backgrounds he
once said two years ago and it's
absolutely true i like to watch them
fight it out right in front of me
and we have done that because this is a
man who wants people in front of him who
come
from different points of view but then
he weighs the consequences and the
advice and eventually makes the decision
so for me i think i've just always known
that first of all i'm a staffer
i'm not the principal not everybody
understood that and also there are two
people in the building whether name on
the ballot it's donald trump and mike
pence they ultimately will make the
decisions
but also i think that in washington d.c
martha that
people often overestimate how much you
can or should get done by this friday
and they totally underestimate how much
you can
and could get done in the next two weeks
or two months so
i've also tried to be organized and plan
that out also i know this sounds
very simple but the truth is i love my
job and i always thought it was a
blessing not a burden
to work for this great nation this
country you don't come here for the
money
i i used to make what i make here to
your used to making a few speeches
you don't come here for the money you
come here for the love of country to
think that you can be one
tiny molecule that's a positive force
for change
i did put in my statement that um i
wanted to thank
you know the right people the president
the first lady the vice president mrs
pence but i also want to thank the
people i met
along the way because this is a
beautiful country filled with amazing
people for all of our political
differences and cultural cleavances
cleavages this the promise of america
belongs to us all and what i put in
there
is that the people have reaffirmed my
later in life
belief that public service can be
meaningful and consequential i entered
this job
on my 50th birthday literally turned 50
the day he was inaugurated
and to later in life and i've told young
people you can put public service as
part of your vocation your career
i highly recommend it boy the president
did it in his seventies i think it's for
sure
that's for sure i think it's made a
difference i want to play something that
you said to me
on january 30th 2017. watch this
i do feel like i have a vaulted platform
if you will and a special responsibility
to america's women particularly those
who write to me email me call me text me
stop me on the streets or anywhere i
really am martha just to say thank you
so
much for standing up to standing up for
women and standing up to other women and
other people who are trying to diminish
the president of the united states so
kellyanne i
have to ask you know one of the people
who has diminished the president very
very publicly
is is your husband george conway and i
know he has said he's also stepping back
from the public
uh statements that he makes so i think a
lot of people who feel like they've
gotten to know you
over the years just want to know you
know what you want to say
about that well i'm going to say very
little about that but we did i did
release my statement and and george
released a tweet as well saying he was
going to step back and we're doing that
for our kids
there's no question you know martha for
all my public facing
responsibilities and roles i've worked
on policy here most of all but i will
say this
i really very rarely mentioned my kids
um i kept our lives very private that's
why
people usually use the picture of the
six of us from a yankees game
five years ago because i've never had a
facebook account or instagram account
believe it or not
i don't post pictures of my kids every
day um i
i want them to think i'm a good mom i
don't need the whole world to think i am
because i'm posting pictures and
and maybe one day i'll get an instagram
account and you'll see you know
kellyanne and their kids after the white
house but
uh i've been pre i've tried to keep them
out of the spotlight and out of the
limelight quite a bit
all the while showing them the value
program service and i've tried to teach
them also as they've matured they're now
in middle school
in high school four of them that this is
what mommy does at work this is what i'm
working on i try to tell them
i'm doing adoption and foster care we're
working on health care today or i was
just in
in a meeting about the economy or i
can't believe missing and murdered
indigenous women has been ignored for so
long with a drug crisis or people are
languishing in prison long after they
pay their debt to society
so i've tried to bring them along as
best i can all the while letting them
just be kids
but what i would say is that uh i don't
let anybody define me and nobody can
make you feel badly without your
permission that is my message to people
and i think that um americans couples
can disagree
and all of that but um i've i preferred
to you know be made much more private
about that and try to use my
social media platform um to to not
attack people to not attack me i you
know my speech tonight
to the rnc to the country is much like
the first ladies last night in that
she said hey if you haven't noticed i
didn't use my precious time here tonight
to attack the other side
boy we had two former first ladies last
week do exactly that
attack attack attack and i think for all
the talk of unifying the country and
coming together there is so much more
that unites us and divides us
and some of us are trying and have tried
to appeal to those better angels but
i've been very consistent about coming
here and doing the job
um i didn't change my mind and i haven't
changed
you know my beliefs at all i have grown
tremendously
and i didn't win every debate with you
president i want to ask you
one other thing you know he did i know
that um
you know i i don't want to press you on
the personal thing so much of it has
been so public
and i think that you know i as a mom
i believe that your family is
off limits and whatever's out there is
out there but you
are a mom and i am a mom and i don't i
don't think that that would be right of
me
as a person but i do want to ask you do
you think
that you should be getting more support
from some women out there who might be
giving someone in your shoes making the
incredibly difficult decision that you
have just made
who's on the other side of the aisle do
you think that person would be treated
differently
i've gotten a ton of support from people
on the other side of the aisle i have to
tell you
and people in the media who otherwise
weren't very nice to me
or my boss and they they really see this
for what it is
which is that we all make our decisions
and we can't we can't
have everything all at once and i also
told the president
on sunday night you are really well
positioned
for in this white house and at your
campaign
to win a second term and i think that's
uh because of all the stuff that he's
done while he's been here the progress
report the vision piece for the future
um but also i mean i have to say mother
first
us as mothers aren't term limited and
i've always been there
for my kids but now i can be there more
with them you know what i only went on
one foreign trip martha
because i really didn't want to go away
for six days seven days eight days at a
time
five days at a time and leave the kids
here well i did that so i did put limits
i just didn't run around and say and i
didn't go on the farm
you just make your decisions quietly but
uh we
i'm not leaving the arena forever i will
announce my plans in the future
but as i said and i see it's also a
t-shirt now somebody made it
selling it on etsy it says less drama
more mama i only comes in kid sizes so i
think that that is pro somebody probably
took that and said you know what kids
like that slogan
and but you're right i do want to say
you know george had sent out a tweet a
while ago saying our kids are off limits
stop we don't give you consent to speak
to our minor children
who are 15 15 12 and 10 and most people
did lay off but some didn't
and uh they should not have done that
martha
for lots of reasons and they should
respect you know for kicks and clicks
you got to think about this
a minor is a minor and you got to think
about that and you're absolutely right
that that things are off limits but
thank you thanks so much i didn't
realize you were doing that tonight
thank you so much
thank you very much we'll be watching
tonight take care
god bless