| 00:00:01 | Election in our lifetime.
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| 00:00:04 | We have been given an amazing
opportunity.
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| 00:00:11 | We have been given an
opportunity to give the american
people a choice so clear, a
choice so vivid, that we could
win a cataclysmic election which
would end the 80-year rule of
the left in the united states.
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| 00:00:30 | [Applause]
as an historian, as a speaker of
the house, as a candidate, and
what is important is the
citizen.
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| 00:00:46 | This is a center-right country
with a left-wing governing
mechanism.
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| 00:00:51 | If you go as the values, over
90% of the american people
believe that students should be
allowed to have a moment of
silent prayer in school.
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| 00:00:59 | And yet we have a judge in texas
judge
who said if any student at the
high school graduation uses the
word prayer they could go to
jail.
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| 00:01:17 | The gap between 90% of the
american people who think it is
perfectly reasonable if a
student who voluntarily want to
explain that their success came
from god and the very nature of
freedom should give them the
right.
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| 00:01:32 | I thought that's what free
speech was all about here you
have a judge who is so anti-
american that he is saying he
will throw you in jail if you
tell the truth about how you
feel.
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| 00:01:45 | My answer to that, frankly,
requires the way big majority in
the house and senate.
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| 00:01:51 | My answer to that judge is the
judicial reform act of 18 02.
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| 00:01:57 | That's the virtue of being story.
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| 00:02:00 | In 1902, thomas jefferson and
james madison who knew a fair
amount about the constitution,
[laughter]
probably more than the current
supreme court.
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| 00:02:12 | --
[applause]
they passed the judicial reform
act of 18 02 which eliminated 18
of the 35 federal judges.
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| 00:02:33 | Think about that.
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| 00:02:36 | They did not in peaks that are
going through some complicated
thing.
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| 00:02:40 | This at your office does not
exist, you're not getting paid,
go home.
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| 00:02:43 | [Laughter]
[applause]
several of those judges tried to
file suits and the grounds it
was unconstitutional.
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| 00:02:54 | They went to the judges who wmes madison.
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| 00:03:18 | I am not recommending that we
abolish over half of all u.s.
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| 00:03:22 | Judges.
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| 00:03:23 | >> Why not?
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| 00:03:26 | [Applause]
>> because -- that is clearly a
person who is an activist but
may not be ready to be
president.
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| 00:03:43 | [Laughter]
you have to be reasonable.
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| 00:03:49 | I would limit it to the judge
from texas who if you read his
ruling is so outrageously
dictatorial and anti religious
he does not understand america
and we don't need judges who
don't understand america.
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| 00:04:01 | [Applause]
in order to create a
demonstration effect, I would
eliminate the ninth circuit.
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| 00:04:12 | [Applause]
by the way, for my friends and
the intellectual and news media
communities to find this a
horrifying thought, I recommend
they read the federalist papers
by madison, hamilton and jay,
the mostitten to explain the
constitution so people would
vote for it.
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| 00:04:47 | They said the judicial branch is
the weakest, not the strongest.
|
| 00:04:52 | Severs and wrote in a letter
that the idea of the
court -- jefferson wrote in a
letter of some pork that the
supreme court being superior
would make an oligarchy.
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| 00:05:04 | We need to reset the judiciary
and explain to the dilemmas of
the american constitution and
prove to the judges
appointed for life cannot be
dictators and they cannot
threaten our children with jail
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[applause]
the key point I am making here
is that you cannot achieve that
positive outcome just by winning
the presidency.
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| 00:05:35 | Obviously, we want to win the
presidency.
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| 00:05:37 | I want to win the presidency.
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| 00:05:39 | We want to win it as a team in
which we have house and senate
candidates who are on the same
page going in the same direction
and the team arrives in
washington and on january 20,
2013, the team begins to change
everything.
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| 00:05:54 | [Applause]
how fast can we change things?
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| 00:06:05 | Let me suggest the following --
immediately after the inaugural
address, we will take a one-hour
break.
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| 00:06:15 | [Laughter]
during the one-hour break, we'll
go to an office in the capital national television
we
will sign somewhere between 50
and 200 and executive orders
effective as of that minute.
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| 00:06:30 | [Applause]
now,in a week or two at
org we will have a project
called on the first day.
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| 00:06:46 | That project will let any
american who wants to submit
what you think would be a good
executive orwe will experts review them and
people who have been in the bush
and reagan white house is right
them.
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| 00:06:58 | About october 1 of next year, we
will post the executive orders
to be signed on inauguration
day.
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| 00:07:06 | The will be out there in public
and available for everyone and
they will be a big part of the
last 30 days of the campaign.
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| 00:07:12 | We end up in a debate with
president obama and he says he
is for that, too, we will say to
sign it now.
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| 00:07:19 | [Applause]
I don't know tonight what most
of the executive orders will be
by now with ththe first executive order i
will
sign eliminates all of the white
house guards as of that moment.
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| 00:07:44 | [Applause]
I knew you would get it.
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| 00:07:56 | [Laughter]
the second executive order
reinstatesonald reagan's
mexico city policy that no u.s.
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| 00:08:06 | Taxpayer pays for abortions
overseas.
|
| 00:08:08 | [Applause]
the third executive order
reinstates president george w.
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| 00:08:22 | Bush bus constant provision
which says that no person, no
doctor, nurse, and a pharmacist,
no hospital can be forced to
perform at a medical procedure
against their religious beliefs.
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| 00:08:35 | [Applause]
the fourth executive order i
will sign says quite simply that
as of that date the united
states accepts and recognizes
the capital of countries as
defined by their government and
embassy to
the capital as defined by that
government.
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| 00:09:04 | The only country in the world
that affects is israel.
|
| 00:09:09 | state
department has consistently
refused to move themerican
embassy from tel aviv to
jerusalem which I believe is an
insult to a country which is a
democracy that is our ally.
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| 00:09:21 | [Applause]
for those of you concerned about
the survival of israel, I gave a
speech last sunday night which
org which
outlines nine majopolicies
in the middle east.
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| 00:09:46 | There is no moral equivalence
between a self-governing rule
all block, a free society, and a
terrorist organization that in
its evil acts and no american
president should force the
israelis to negotiate with
people who are trying to kill
them.
|
| 00:10:00 | [Applause]
being in new orleans, I think we
should talk a little bit about
jobs, housing, energy, and the
obama depression.
|
| 00:10:23 | Let me be quite -- i
commend the democratic national
chairman who said yesterday that
they own the economy.
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| 00:10:37 | It was more honesty than we have
gotten out of the obama white
three years and she
deserves some credit before she
is fired by obama.
|
| 00:10:45 | [Laughter]
how can the president of the
united states say to the country
that he isot concerned about a
second dip recession?
|
| 00:10:58 | How can he not be concerned when
40 million americans are out of
work?
|
| 00:11:02 | How can he not be concerned when
one out of every four american
families is in a house which is
currently worth less than their
mortgage?
|
| 00:11:10 | How can he not be concerned
when his anti-american energy
policy has been driving up the
price of gasoline and pouring
money outside the united states
while killing jobs in louisiana?
|
| 00:11:22 | [Applause]
he made this a joke where he
said that it turned out that
shovel-ready printer sort of
shell-ready.
|
| 00:11:37 | president, it was not
funny to the 40 million
unemployed americans to learn
that you did not know what you
are doing and your plans did not
work.
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| 00:11:46 | [Applause]
we have been here before.
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| 00:11:59 | Jimmy carter made a total mess
out of the economy.
|
| 00:12:02 | Ronald reagan carried more
states in 1980 than franklin
delano roosevelt carried in
1932.
|
| 00:12:09 | Reagan had a simple phrase -- he
said when your brother in law is
unemployed, is called a
recession.
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| 00:12:16 | When you are unemployed, it is
called a depression.
|
| 00:12:20 | When jimmy carter isd,
it is called the recover-- it
is called a recovery.
|
| 00:12:27 | [Applause]
some of you might expect to hear
this next year with one name
change.
|
| 00:12:34 | [Laughter]
let's talk about how destructive
the energy policy is.
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| 00:12:44 | We have 20% less production in
the gulf of mexico today than
was projected because his
moratorium and his regulatory
policies are anti-american
energy and he is killing jobs
and louisiana.
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| 00:12:57 | [Applause]
-- in louisiana.
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| 00:13:01 | [Applause]
is not just killing jobs here,
he is forcing americans to send
money overseas.
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| 00:13:13 | 70% Of our net deficit in trade
is oil.
|
| 00:13:16 | This makes no sense at all.
|
| 00:13:21 | The president goes to brazil.
|
| 00:13:24 | He says to the brazilians -- you
will see this as a commercial
-- I want to show it to you
don't want you to
think I am making these things
up.
|
| 00:13:37 | The president goes to result and
he says to the brazilians that i
am glad that you are drilling
offshore.
|
| 00:13:46 | He says to the brazilians that
he is glad we can guarantee $2
billion for loans for equipment
from a george soros-financed
company.
|
| 00:13:57 | [Boos]
and then the most amazing thing.
|
| 00:14:01 | He says to the brazilians, i
want us to be your best
customer.
|
| 00:14:08 | The about this.
|
| 00:14:10 | This is a guy who has his job
exactly backwards.
|
| 00:14:16 | The don't ask the president of
the united states going around
the world to be a purchasing
agent.
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| 00:14:21 | You want him to be a salesman
for american products.
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| 00:14:23 | [Applause]
when we get to the general
election, one of our themes will
be simple -- you like brazilian
oil, both for obama, you like
american oil, both for us.
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| 00:14:42 | You like a purchasing agent
president?
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| 00:14:44 | Vote for obama.
|
| 00:14:45 | You like a salesman president,
both for us.
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| 00:14:48 | Let's make the choice clear.
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| 00:14:48 | [Applause]
by the way, I get criticized in
the elite media who are not as
fond of me as they could be --
they said that obama is the most
successful food stamp president
in american history.
|
| 00:15:11 | Guess what?
|
| 00:15:12 | Obama is the most successful
photostat president in american
history.
|
| 00:15:16 | I would like to be the most risk
-- the most successful paycheck
president in american history.
|
| 00:15:22 | [Applause]
I believe you c go into every
neighborhood of every ethnic
background in every state in the
united states and say to people,
would you rather have food
stands for your children or
paychecks for your children and
in virtually every neighborhood they would
say it would like
their children to have a job and
a paycheck and not be dependent
on washington for a food stamp.
|
| 00:15:48 | [Applause]
I want to suggest something very
daring to all of you.
|
| 00:16:02 | , W
have the courage to run a
campaign that says you should be
free to work with your doctor
and therefore you and your
doctor should worry about your
help and we should repeal obama
care which has a bureaucrat
dictating what your do do.
|
| 00:16:15 | [Applause]
freedom requires you to be able
to work for a living and a
paycheck and take care of your
family and servitude to the
you to
for
food stamps and medicaid.
|
| 00:16:33 | Go down the list print what i
predict to you is that there
will be virtually no state in
the country which is a lock for
obama.
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| 00:16:42 | We will be able to
everywhere in america because
everywhere in america people
will be tired of bad policies
killing jobs, bad policies
killing american energy, bad
policies crippling housing
prices, and we should have the
courage as a party to say no
neighborhood will be off limits.
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| 00:17:00 | We will give every american a
chance to have a better future
by voting for freedom and
republican party instead of
servitude in the democratic
party.
|
| 00:17:07 | [Applause]
in washington, people seem very
confused [laughter]
they don't understand what the
problems of the country are.
|
| 00:17:27 | The only metropolitan area of
the country where housing prices
have gone up.
|
| 00:17:32 | People worry about unemployment.
|
| 00:17:36 | They cause your unemployment to
make sure they have the money
for their housing.
|
| 00:17:42 | This is why this will be an
unusual campaign.
|
| 00:17:45 | If we do it right and have a
contract with america next
september and 18 campaign and if
we are bold and our commitment
to better policies and our
commitment to explain in
principle what is american
exception was and why do free
markets work and why does the
work ethic matter and why is
patriotism important and what is
a matter you have been in doubt
by your creator with certain
unalienable rights?
|
| 00:18:14 | This is one of the magic moment
in american history.
|
| 00:18:17 | In the next 18 months, because
obama will fail in practice and
in radicalism, we are in a
position w we can say that
reason the practice failed is
because the radicalism is
hopeless.
|
| 00:18:30 | You think that people would have
figured out the socialism does
not work.
|
| 00:18:34 | As margaret thatcher wants said
it is the problem w socialism
is you run out of other people's
money to spend.
|
| 00:18:41 | [Applause]
we need to be prepared to go to
the country both with principles
of freedom, principles of
american and sectionalism,
principles of national safety,
and with very practical steps of
the proposals would grow out of
those principles.
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| 00:18:59 | It is that combination that will
enable us to have one of the
great decisive elections and in
the process to educate two
generations of americans who the
school systems have failed to
educate.
|
| 00:19:10 | [Applause]
margaret thatcher said you win
the argument first and then you
win the votes.
|
| 00:19:21 | You need to have an argument.
|
| 00:19:25 | Some people in politics find
this confusing.
|
| 00:19:29 | I just wrote a new book.
|
| 00:19:31 | The purpose of the book is to
explain american exceptionalism.
|
| 00:20:19 | Re bger and stronger and
smarter.
|
| 00:20:21 | It is about the need magic
moment when the founding fathers
met at independence hall and
wrote a declaration of
independence which says iwords
that alienate academic left with
is an alien much of the news
media and drives the judge is
crazy.
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| 00:20:39 | It said we hold these truths to
be self evident.
|
| 00:20:43 | Does the word truth.
|
| 00:20:44 | The didn't say theory or
ideology very basic truth.
|
| 00:20:47 | There were trying to divide what
is at the heart of humans
governing themselves.
|
| 00:20:53 | They said we are all created
equal.
|
| 00:20:56 | That is important.
|
| 00:20:58 | It means the rule law matters.
|
| 00:20:59 | That is why you cannot have
centralize power in washington
because that becomes the rule of
bureaucrats.
|
| 00:21:05 | [Applause]
then they said -- we are endowed
by our creator with certain
unalienable rights among which
are life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness.
|
| 00:21:27 | This is the core of my argument
with barack obama.
|
| 00:21:30 | He is a natural secular european
socialists.
|
| 00:21:33 | He believes in big government.
|
| 00:21:35 | He believes in centralized
power.
|
| 00:21:37 | He believes he is a politician
who knows or -- more than we do
and he should help us redesign
our laws that letting him and
his bureaucrats us.
|
| 00:21:45 | It is the opposite of freedom.
|
| 00:21:48 | First of all, this is the only
country in history which says
the power comes from god to each
one of you personally.
|
| 00:22:00 | We are endowed by [applause]
our]
-- by our creator or.
|
| 00:22:06 | [Applause]
our rights are unalienable.
|
| 00:22:11 | This is what the judge in texas
should be fired.
|
| 00:22:13 | By what right does a texas just
tell an american that if they
use the word prayer, they will
go to jail?
|
| 00:22:19 | That alienated them from their
right of free speech.
|
| 00:22:24 | No judge, no president, no
politician, no bureaucrat can
come between you and the rights
that god gave you.
|
| 00:22:30 | [Applause]
then what does it say?
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| 00:22:51 | Among which are life -- that is
pretty straightforward.
|
| 00:22:56 | Liberty which is what freedom is
all about.
|
| 00:23:02 | And notice how it said, the
opposite of liberalism, the
right to pursue happiness.
|
| 00:23:07 | I want to make two points here.
|
| 00:23:10 | The first is the word happiness.
|
| 00:23:15 | In that year, happiness meant
wisdom and verse.
|
| 00:23:19 | It did not mean hedonism and
acquisition.
|
| 00:23:22 | [Applause]
I have written a number of books
on this topic.
|
| 00:23:28 | The founding fathers all believe
the it was people would remain
free of a foolish people would
end up in a dictatorship.
|
| 00:23:35 | We have a challenge in this
campaign.
|
| 00:23:37 | I believe in the american people
to believe we can have
the most educational serious
thoughtful campaign in american
history since 1860 and we will
have people in united states
given this kind of pain and
problems look up and say that
this is a discuss want
to be a part of and they want to
understand what makes america
unique and want to understand
how we apply to our generation.
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| 00:24:01 | That is the heart of the
idealism which should be behind
a campaign this year, to list
everybody in a discussion about
what kind of ameriwe.
|
| 00:24:13 | The second part says the right
to pursue happiness.
|
| 00:24:20 | That implies the work ethic.
|
| 00:24:21 | We have to do something.
|
| 00:24:24 | Notice what else, there is no
right to happiness.
|
| 00:24:28 | It does not provide for a
federal department of happiness.
|
| 00:24:30 | [Laughter]
it does not suggest that we
need happiness stands for the
under-happy.
|
| 00:24:48 | It does not propose that lawyers
have the right to sue on behalf
of the uny.
|
| 00:24:51 | [Laughter]
if you had said to the founding
fathers that there was some
politicians so arrogant that he
was going to walk in here and
tell you that I will take from
the overly happy and
redistri
underly happy --
[applause]
have said that was a
fundamental violation of your
rights as giving you by your
creator and that person should
be fired immediately because
they are out of touch with
reality.
|
| 00:25:32 | By what right does aolitician
decide what you are allowed to
do?
|
| 00:25:36 | That is the opposite of freedom.
|
| 00:25:40 | I'll talk briefly about policy.
|
| 00:25:43 | This will be a philosophical
campaign that will shock the
news media.
|
| 00:25:47 | It will be longer than nine-
second sound bites.
|
| 00:25:51 | It will not be filled with
attack ads for you don't need to
attack obama.
|
| 00:25:56 | All you have to say is look at
reality.
|
| 00:25:58 | It attacks you every day.
|
| 00:25:59 | [Applause]
with a chance to talk with the
american people but it has to
come down two proposals.
|
| 00:26:11 | One interviewer asked me about
my first week in office.
|
| 00:26:18 | I said that if we pick up 12
senate seats and we pick a 30-40
house seats this is what I would
do in the first week.
|
| 00:26:27 | Bill whole goal is to run the
whole campaign so you know whatyou will do
the first weeks.
|
| 00:26:33 | You are not arriving to plan.
|
| 00:26:35 | You are writing to execute
because you have already had the
conversation and the country has
voted and you know what you are
doing.
|
| 00:26:41 | [Applause]
here's a brief overview that
newt.org will close.
|
| 00:26:58 | We will star with tax policy.
|
| 00:27:02 | This is a country that kills
jobs.
|
| 00:27:04 | Job killing policies killed
jobs.
|
| 00:27:06 | [Laughter]
I know it is complicated.
|
| 00:27:10 | [Laughter]
job killing policies do kill
jobs.
|
| 00:27:19 | Tified.
|
| 00:27:20 | I was part of a group in the
1970's with jack kemp and
others to develop supply side
economics.
|
| 00:27:28 | If you encourage people to
prejudge, there will create
h tax cuts, deregulation,
an american energy policy and he
praised and entrepreneurs and
innovators and job creators so
they felt good about doing it.
|
| 00:27:44 | [Applause]
revery from november of 1982
to the end of his term, that
seven-year recovery, translated
into the size of our current
economy and the size of our
current population, it would that seven years
after we
take over, eight years at the
outside but he did not pass the
tax cut until august but we
would try to pass it the fourth
week of january after theinaugural.
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| 00:28:22 | We would create 25 million new
jobs.
|
| 00:28:28 | The economy at the end of seven
years would be four trillion
dollars per year bigger.
|
| 00:28:34 | Federal revenues would be of
$800 billion per year because so
many more people would be at
work paying taxes so you have a
huge step toward a balanced
budget if you just control
spending.
|
| 00:28:45 | The sheer momentum of the
economy would start ly happenein history.
|
| 00:28:53 | That is not an abstract theory.
|
| 00:28:55 | That is what happened.
|
| 00:28:57 | How would you do that?
|
| 00:29:01 | There with me -- this is a big
deal -- you have 14 million
unemployed, you have housing in
a mess, you have an economy
spending too much money on your
enemies,
the present obama model is to
borrow from the chinese to pay
the brazilians.
|
| 00:29:19 | There's not a 16-year-old in the
country who could not look at
that equation and figure out
that that will not work.
|
| 00:29:24 | [Laughter]
5 quick tax changes o --ne, make
permanent the current tax rates
of their attacks increases in
2013.
|
| 00:29:35 | [Applause]
t, go to zero capital gains
so everywhere on the planet
people shift money.
|
| 00:29:47 | [Applause]
5% corporate tax
rate.
|
| 00:29:55 | You will bring home from
overseas $1 trillion in capital
which is currently locked se we have the
highest
corporate tax rate in the world.
|
| 00:30:04 | Companies will not bring a home
because they don't want to give
the government 1/3 of the money.
|
| 00:30:10 | What is ironic is that at 35%,
general electric hires tax
lawyers and pays zero.
|
| 00:30:17 | 5%, there will fire at the
lawyers and a tax is [laughter]
.
|
| 00:30:21 | [Applause]
we'll get more money for the
government out of general
5% than obama
is getting at 35%.
|
| 00:30:33 | Two other tax changes, one
hunter% expense and for all
equipment so every american
worker has the most modern
equipment and the world.
|
| 00:30:41 | [Applause]
I have been in two machine shops
in new hampshire with
multimillion-dollar pieces of
equipment and when I talk to the
owners of the shops about how
rapidly they could modernize to
pick it right the investor and
often when your, you would have
an explosion of productivity in
the united states.
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| 00:31:03 | We could take the chinese had on
and we would win because our
workers would be the most
productive in the world.
|
| 00:31:08 | [Applause]
finally, permanently abolish the
death tax which is an anti-work
--
[laughter]
[applause]
[applause]
I look forward to debating
present obama on this issue
because it is straightforward.
|
| 00:31:30 | It is immoral for the government
to say that you can work all
your life, save all your life,
do everything right your entire
life, and some politician can
take half your money when you
die.
|
| 00:31:41 | There is no right for a
politician to take away our
lifetime work.
|
| 00:31:45 | [Applause]
president obama may think it is
ok for people to have to visit
the undertaker and the irs the
same way.
|
| 00:32:00 | I think it is fundamentally
wrong.
|
| 00:32:03 | We did permanently repeal it.
|
| 00:32:04 | [Applause]
so, that is t.
|
| 00:32:11 | Already also be regulated.
|
| 00:32:12 | The very first week we should
repeal the sarbanes oxley bill
which kills small business,
kills venture-capital.
|
| 00:32:20 | We should repeal the dodd-frank
bill which is killing small
business.
|
| 00:32:25 | [Applet me just say that if you are
a conservative and I mentioned
the phrase dodd-frank build
[laughter]
and you can't figure out
automatically it is probably
worth repeating on principle --
[laughter]
we should replace the
environmental protection agency
with a brand new environmental
solutions agency that is
fundamentall
[applause]
we should modernize the food and
drug administration said that it
has the job of being in the
laboratory cooperating in order
to get new scill the way
to the patient as rapidly as
possible, not as slow as
possible.
|
| 00:33:13 | [Applause]
a 21st century food and drug
administration means better
health, lower costs, longer
lives, greater independence
living, and more american jobs.
|
| 00:33:27 | It is a big deal.
|
| 00:33:31 | We should audit the federal
reserve and find out who got our
money?
|
| 00:33:35 | [Applause]
we should reform the federal
reserve to take away the power
to give money to banks and
return it to the treasury where
it can be inspected andd
at in public because no single
person should have that level of
power in a free society.
|
| 00:33:59 | [Applause]
in addition, we should amend the
law to say to the federal
reserve that your job is to
protect the value of the dollar.
|
| 00:34:11 | It is the president and the
congress that should focus on
employment and economic growth.
|
| 00:34:17 | You protect the dollar.
|
| 00:34:18 | [Applause]
inflation is a terrible tax on
the middle-class and on working
and saving americans and is
profoundly wrong to have your
government cheap you by
devaluing the dollar.
|
| 00:34:32 | [Applause]
finally, if you want this
economy to grow again and you
want to grow rapidly, you need
an american energy policy and
louisiana is the best case
study.
|
| 00:34:47 | [Applause]
|
| 00:00:03 | How you plan to prevent illegal
immigrants from using our our
health care and educational or
welfare systems.
|
| 00:00:18 | >> I am the son of a legal
immigrant in this country.
|
| 00:00:28 | S brought a great strength to
our country.
|
| 00:00:32 | The federalovernment should
not require states to provide
government services.
|
| 00:00:37 | I believe -- my grandfather came
to this country because he
wanted freedom.
|
| 00:00:51 | People who come here, for the
opportunities.
|
| 00:01:01 | Hould not be offering
government benefits for those
that overstay their visas.
|
| 00:01:06 | >> Compassion sometimes comes up
against law.
|
| 00:01:22 | If a child came in, would that
child care?
|
| 00:01:28 | >> We should think about
protecting our borders.
|
| 00:01:40 | There was a time when we did not
depend on government for
everything.
|
| 00:01:46 | >> Should taxpayers get care?
|
| 00:01:54 | >> The catholic church is
trying to fulfill their role.
|
| 00:02:07 | People are not coming over as
much because our economy is
weak.
|
| 00:02:15 | Meza is an economic issue here
as well.
|
| 00:02:22 | You want to believe in freedom.
|
| 00:02:24 | It has solved these kinds of
problems before.
|
| 00:02:36 | >> Another issue that has come
up is the birthright
citizenship.
|
| 00:02:45 | Two immigrants that came in this
country illegally, should they
be a citizen of the united
states?
|
| 00:02:53 | >> Immigration is four problems,
not one.
|
| 00:03:01 | Secure the borders.
|
| 00:03:04 | Enforce the laws that are
already there.
|
| 00:03:12 | Clean of the bureaucracy.
|
| 00:03:17 | Imparities states to do what the
federal government has not done,
will not to do, and cannot do.
|
| 00:03:25 | We are a compassionate nation.
|
| 00:03:26 | Of course we will get care.
|
| 00:03:29 | Let's face a problem -- face the
problem.
|
| 00:03:33 | >> Part of the employee
forssmann the law has been
upheld.
|
| 00:03:46 | -- Enforcement law has been
upheld.
|
| 00:03:52 | >> If the federal government
will not do its job, securing
our borders, but others do it.
|
| 00:03:58 | , The state, and they will.
|
| 00:04:04 | When asked governor's to
volunteer their national guard
to go to the borders toreinforce operation
jumpstart
our border, and was one of the
few that did it.
|
| 00:04:15 | Reinforcing the border works.
|
| 00:04:16 | That is what we need today.
|
| 00:04:20 | This brings up the importance of
conservative justice.
|
| 00:04:29 | We have standing language in the
constitution.
|
| 00:04:38 | >> Precedent bush said this.
|
| 00:04:44 | There are millions of illegal
immigrants in this country.
|
| 00:04:47 | If you were to round of them all
up, one person would have said,
kick them out.
|
| 00:04:57 | But I do not know where the
money would come from in this
environment to do that.
|
| 00:05:07 | Should we have some past the
status for those willing to
admit they are in the shutters?
|
| 00:05:15 | >> One reason the country is in
the trouble is we are determined
among our political elites to
draw a catastrophic
alternatives.
|
| 00:05:28 | We cannot legalize all of them.
|
| 00:05:30 | That is nonsense.
|
| 00:05:34 | Obama cannot get a comprehensive
bill passed through with nancy
pelosi and harry reid.
|
| 00:05:43 | You control the border.
|
| 00:05:44 | We can ask the national guard to
go to iraq, kuwait, afghanistan.
|
| 00:05:51 | We would have done more for
american security if we had the
thumb of the border.
|
| 00:05:58 | You do not want to use the
national guard.
|
| 00:06:02 | Take half of the carrot to
permit of homeland security
bureaucracy, a transplant to
texas, arizona, new mexico.
|
| 00:06:11 | You would have more than enough
people to deal with it.
|
| 00:06:14 | [Applause]
no serious citizen concerned
about solving this problem
should be trapped into a yes no
answer.
|
| 00:06:31 | They are a humane and practical
steps to solve this problem, if
we can get the politicians to
deal with that honestly.
|
| 00:06:42 | >> This is where you,
congressman paul.
|
| 00:06:49 | It relates to a specific new
hampshire issue.
|
| 00:06:55 | There is a popular bill that is
being considered by state
legislature to seize private
land to build a power plants.
|
| 00:07:09 | Should government at any level
be able to use any their main
for major projects that would
reduce america's dependence on
foreign oil?
|
| 00:07:23 | >> The loss will vary in
different states.
|
| 00:07:32 | It was never meant to take it
and give it to corporations.
|
| 00:07:46 | This goes back to property
rights, but should be supported
by people.
|
| 00:07:55 | -- The courts should get out of
the way as well.
|
| 00:08:02 | They should not have this rate
-- right to take land to provide
privileges for other groups.
|
| 00:08:10 | [Applause]
>> you are a property owner, but
her up for reducing dependence
on foreign oil.
|
| 00:08:22 | How do you feel about that?
|
| 00:08:30 | >> It is a right used to foster
a public purpose, ownership.
|
| 00:08:44 | The right answer for us to have
energy independence is develop
our own energy in this country.
|
| 00:08:50 | We are not doing that.
|
| 00:08:57 | We have clean -- we have coal in
great abundance.
|
| 00:09:02 | It is time for us to have a
president that cares about it in
america on track for energy
security.
|
| 00:09:11 | >> The senate is going to vote
on abolishing the ethanol tax.
|
| 00:09:25 | This move would remove tax
credits worth $6 billion.
|
| 00:09:33 | Do you support abolishing?
|
| 00:09:36 | >> I think we can oppose the
credit.
|
| 00:09:46 | I also proposed in terms of
helping in that transition.
|
| 00:09:54 | One of the issues is
distribution.
|
| 00:09:59 | Of a take-out of the credit
every year and use it to expand
distribution in various parts of
the country.
|
| 00:10:06 | It would be shut down.
|
| 00:10:14 | The ethanol industry has matured
greatly.
|
| 00:10:22 | We have done well going forward
underneath that plan.
|
| 00:10:33 | We have a category called this
or that.
|
| 00:10:37 | Coke or pepsi?
|
| 00:10:38 | >> Coke.
|
| 00:10:40 | Before we go to break, show us
what you think the opinions are.
|
| 00:10:53 | Seven republicans want to be
your next president and are
debating.
|
| 00:10:57 | Keep it here.
|
| 00:11:00 | [Applause]
>> osama bin laden is dead.
|
| 00:11:50 | We have been in afghanistan for
years.
|
| 00:11:55 | Isn't it time to bring of troops
home?
|
| 00:11:58 | >> It is time for us to bring
them home as soon as we can,
consistent from the board of the
original that we can hand the
country over to the afghan
military.
|
| 00:12:16 | Thanks for the sacrifice of your
family in your son in defending
the liberty that we have and of
our friends around the world.
|
| 00:12:23 | Thank you for what you have
done.
|
| 00:12:30 | I thinke have learned an
important lesson in our
experience in a can stand.
|
| 00:12:37 | Of what ever troops to come home
based on the conditions on the
ground determined by the
general.
|
| 00:12:44 | Albert troops should not fight a
war of independence for another
nation.
|
| 00:12:51 | Only afghanis can win
afghanistan independence from
the taliban.
|
| 00:13:01 | >> I served in the military, so
I have a little bit experience.
|
| 00:13:07 | I would not wait for the
general.
|
| 00:13:10 | I am the commander in chief.
|
| 00:13:11 | I make the decisions.
|
| 00:13:14 | I tell them what to do.
|
| 00:13:16 | I bring them home as quick as
possible.
|
| 00:13:19 | I've would quit bombing yemen.
|
| 00:13:22 | I would quit bombing pakistan.
|
| 00:13:24 | I would start taking care of
people here at home.
|
| 00:13:28 | We would save hundreds
billions of dollars.
|
| 00:13:33 | We have no purpose there.
|
| 00:13:35 | We should learn the lessons of
history.
|
| 00:13:38 | The longer we are there, the
worst -- the worse things are.
|
| 00:13:46 | Our presence there is not making
friends.
|
| 00:13:50 | >> A growing number of
republicans are skeptical of
these foreign involvement.
|
| 00:13:55 | >> He said no bombing in yemen.
|
| 00:13:59 | The strikes in yemen have been
targeted at al qaeda operatives.
|
| 00:14:08 | They are viewed as serious a
threat against this nation.
|
| 00:14:11 | D you agree with paul or obama?
|
| 00:14:20 | >> Thanks to the sacrifices you
have made, and the burdens you
beer.
|
| 00:14:26 | Everyone across this country is
grateful to you.
|
| 00:14:29 | Thank you very much.
|
| 00:14:34 | [Applause]
on september 11, 2001, 3000 of
our fellow americans were
killed.
|
| 00:14:45 | They would have killed 30,000 or
3 million, or 30 million if they
could have or had the capability
to do that.
|
| 00:14:54 | As soon as they get it, they
will try.
|
| 00:15:00 | Our job is to make sure this
nation is safe.
|
| 00:15:03 | If there is an individual that
we have intelligence on in
yemen that present a threat, we
will continue those bombings.
|
| 00:15:22 | [Unintelligible]
>> I but like to know your
opinion on the involvement with
libya?
|
| 00:15:35 | >> Should the president have a
more the u.s. presence?
|
| 00:15:43 | >> I do not believe that is
right.
|
| 00:15:53 | He could not identify the vital
national american interests in
libya.
|
| 00:15:58 | Of policy is substantial.
|
| 00:16:03 | President obama's own people
said that he was bleeding from
behind.
|
| 00:16:09 | The united states does not --
leading from behind.
|
| 00:16:14 | The united states does not lead
from behind.
|
| 00:16:16 | We are the head, not the tail.
|
| 00:16:19 | The president was wrong.
|
| 00:16:24 | The president was not leading
when it came to libya.
|
| 00:16:29 | We were not attacked or
threatened with an attack.
|
| 00:16:32 | There was no vital national
interest.
|
| 00:16:40 | We do not know who the rebel
forces are that we are helping.
|
| 00:16:45 | There are some reports that they
may be al qaeda or north africa.
|
| 00:16:50 | What vital american interest do
we have?
|
| 00:16:58 | The president was wrong in his
decision.
|
| 00:17:03 | >> The governor said he did not
think so.
|
| 00:17:10 | He said, we cannot afford it.
|
| 00:17:14 | Should the price tag of be a
factor when you are commander of
the united states?
|
| 00:17:19 | >> Shore.
|
| 00:17:25 | Abraham lincoln and reachsure --
sure.
|
| 00:17:35 | Abraham lincoln and george
washington understood this.
|
| 00:17:40 | After 9/11, our intelligence was
so inadequate that we did not
know how many libyan rebels were
al qaeda.
|
| 00:17:54 | We need to rethink fundamental
way about our strategy in the
region we better find new and
different strategies, because
this is too big a problem for us
to deal with american ground
forces in direct combat.
|
| 00:18:17 | W strategy for the
region.
|
| 00:18:29 | >> How would you like a deer
responsibilities?
|
| 00:18:33 | , But -- at your
responsibilities?
|
| 00:18:39 | >> Look at the intelligence.
|
| 00:18:43 | Is it in the vital interest of
america?
|
| 00:18:46 | If the answer is no, then we do
not go in.
|
| 00:18:55 | The these are not simple
situations.
|
| 00:18:57 | It is a mess.
|
| 00:19:00 | There is more that we do not
know then we do know.
|
| 00:19:05 | It would be very difficult to
know exactly what we do until we
learned from the commanders in
the field.
|
| 00:19:16 | >> Greg lives near manchester.
|
| 00:19:22 | What a short question?
|
| 00:19:23 | >> We are in debt up to our
eyeballs.
|
| 00:19:30 | We have nation-building going on
around the world.
|
| 00:19:37 | We have military bases all over
europe, asia -- 900 military
bases all of the world.
|
| 00:19:45 | Is there a candidate willing to
shut down these bases that are
not vital to our national
security and use that money to
pay off our national debt?
|
| 00:19:57 | >> What we are dealing with is a
failure of leadership on the
part of the administration, to
confront our enemies.
|
| 00:20:16 | They are round the world.
|
| 00:20:18 | We must have the ability to
confront those threats around
the world.
|
| 00:20:25 | We need the base.
|
| 00:20:28 | We have to be able to attack
when we are attacked.
|
| 00:20:32 | It is not just due to a threat.
|
| 00:20:38 | We have to engage our allies the
president has not done that.
|
| 00:20:51 | He has turned his back on
american allies.
|
| 00:20:55 | He has embraced our enemy.
|
| 00:21:00 | We have a foreign policy that we
will need more of a presence
for.
|
| 00:21:11 | It is a result of america's
sexless less.
|
| 00:21:15 | >> We have to take our last
break up the evening.
|
| 00:21:20 | You can see the conversation on
facebook and twittered.
|
| 00:21:29 | We would be right back.
|
| 00:21:35 | [Applause]
>> we are in the closing moments
of our presidential debate in
them -- new hampshire.
|
| 00:22:02 | Let's go down to the floor.
|
| 00:22:04 | >> Public opinion polls
consistently result in low
approval ratings where congress
as a whole.
|
| 00:22:13 | It shows a lack of enthusiasm
for some candidates.
|
| 00:22:19 | Shouldn't you pay attention to
public sentiment, and aren't
these a direct reflection of
what the voters are and are not
looking for?
|
| 00:22:28 | >> I believe that they do
represent a barometer, because
it is way too early.
|
| 00:22:36 | Many of the people do not know
as yet.
|
| 00:22:39 | It is still really early in the
process.
|
| 00:22:44 | I think they will find this is a
good field of candidates.
|
| 00:22:53 | [Unintelligible]
[applause]
>> and is likely that if you win
the nomination, you have to make
a choice and pick a running
mate.
|
| 00:23:07 | Looking back at 2008, senator
mccain made a pick and so did
obama.
|
| 00:23:14 | Who made the best choice?
|
| 00:23:18 | [Laughter]
>> senator biden has been wrong
on every major strategic
decision.
|
| 00:23:28 | Look at his judgment about
partitioning iraq?
|
| 00:23:36 | If vice-president biden would
have had his way, we would have
had more mayhem in the middle
east.
|
| 00:23:43 | I think governor palin is a
remarkable leader.
|
| 00:23:46 | She is qualified to be president
of the united states.
|
| 00:23:50 | She is equally qualified and
would have been stronger than
joe biden.
|
| 00:23:55 | He is wrong on everything.
|
| 00:23:58 | [Applause]
>> any one of the people on this
stage would be a better
president than president obama.
|
| 00:24:08 | He failed in getting the
can
the government, and having a
coherent and consient foreign
policy.
|
| 00:24:23 | This hit or miss approach has
met some successes such as
getting osama bin laden, but a
richardmisses --
misses.
|
| 00:24:43 | >> If you could only hire one of
the candidates on this stage,
which would it be and why?
|
| 00:24:53 | >> We may have to have another
to attack american I a" contest
and let the audience decide.
|
| 00:25:01 | -- Maybe we could have a
"american idol" contest and let
the audience decide.
|
| 00:25:23 | [Unintelligible]
>> they have not told me how
they feel about the federal
reserve yet.
|
| 00:25:35 | >> [Laughter]
>> what have you learned in the
last two hours?
|
| 00:25:45 | >> I was very impressed and we
have a great field of candidates
to pick from.
|
| 00:25:52 | >> I have learned more about the
goodness of the american people
from the questions of john, his
three sons serving in the navy.
|
| 00:26:05 | >> I do not mean to interrupt,
but we have to move along.
|
| 00:26:09 | >> [Unintelligible]
[applause]
>> new hampshire is proving
that the issues people care most
about is getting this economy
growing again so we can have a
rise in housing prices.
|
| 00:26:32 | >> I have learned some disagree
on some issues, and we can talk
about it and be civil with each
other.
|
| 00:26:40 | [Applause]
>> if you trust the people, you
can have a bright future.
|
| 00:26:51 | >> All of these candidates share
one thing in common.
|
| 00:26:58 | It is not about us, but the
children and grandchildren.
|
| 00:27:05 | >> I want to thank our
candidates and the union leaders
for having us.
|
| 00:27:11 | I want to thank everybody here.
|
| 00:27:16 | Anderson cooper continues our
coverage right now.
|
| 00:27:26 | [Applause]
>> it tomorrow, our live
coverage of the 2011 republican
conference in new orleans.
|
| 00:27:42 | It wraps up with buddy roemer,
marcia blackburn, and others.
|
| 00:27:52 | eastern
here on c-span.
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| 00:27:57 | [Captioning performed by
national captioning institute]
[captions copyright national
2010]
--2011.
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| 00:28:08 | On to attack washington
journal", -- on "washington
journal" we will speak with erik
telford.
|
| 00:28:28 | It begins live at 7:00 a.m.
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| 00:28:30 | Eastern on c-span.
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| 00:28:34 | >> C-span has launched a new
easy to navigate web site.
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| 00:28:40 | You can see the latest events
from the campaign trail,
twitter feet and campaign
updates.
|
| 00:28:52 | Visit us at c-span dot org/cam
paign2012.
|
| 00:29:09 | We want to focus on the
succession of the ninth
congressional district leader.
|
| 00:29:17 | Is david wasserman.
|
| 00:29:19 | But we appreciate your time on
c-span.
|
| 00:29:22 | for having me --
guest: thanks for having me.
|
| 00:29:29 | I know it is early, but
what names have been mentioned
to replace him?
|
| 00:29:36 | amazingly enough, this
will be the third special
luncheon in new york state in
recent years.
|
| 00:29:47 | To we have had two scandals
that have already created a
special alexians in republican
leaning seats in -- specialty
elections in republican-leaning
seats in upstate.
|
| 00:30:04 | Now it is a democrats turn to
defend a seat in queens.
|
| 00:30:09 | Interestingly enough, this will
be more of a tribal election
than the of state elections we
have seen, which is, the
partisan policy dictates of the
chair of the political party of
the democratic party in queens
will be selecting nominees.
|
| 00:30:32 | There will be no primar
election.
|
| 00:30:37 | And governor cuomo will be
setting the date for the special
election.
|
| 00:30:42 | Everyone is watching joseph
crowley.
|
| 00:30:45 | He is share of the queens
democratic party.
|
| 00:30:47 | He gets the call on who the
democratic nominee will be.
|
| 00:30:50 | They will start out with an
advantage.
|
| 00:30:53 | But keep in mind, this is the
least democratic district in
nyc.
|
| 00:30:59 | This is not a foregone conclusion and democrats
cannot
take the race for granted.
|
| 00:31:08 | and his cousin, elizabeth
crowley is a councilman.
|
| 00:31:13 | Guest: that is true.
|
| 00:31:16 | And there are other names in the
house as well.
|
| 00:31:19 | One thing we will be watching is
whether, crowley -- is whether
crowley has the credibility to
mount a campaign.
|
| 00:31:34 | It is a very diverse district.
|
| 00:31:42 | Here is the ranch in this, n.y.
|
| 00:31:47 | Is losing a few seats in
redistricting, and this is a
district that everyone has been
looking at since the scandal
bre as one district in the
city, will most likely have to
go.
|
| 00:32:02 | Crowley would like to take on
more of queens.
|
| 00:32:07 | Currently, his district is in
the bronx.
|
| 00:32:09 | He would like to take on more of
his home base near el morris to.
|
| 00:32:13 | He would benefit from -- neera
elmhurst.
|
| 00:32:18 | He would benefit from
redistricting.
|
| 00:32:24 | Many speculate that he would
move into wiener's territory.
|
| 00:32:29 | We do not know of the names that
have been mentioned -- you know,
linda calves, it for more city
councilwoman, or his cousin.
|
| 00:32:43 | Of the names that have been
mentioned, we do not know who
would be willing to be a
caretaker of the seat, but also
led a vigorous campaign in a
special election against
potential republicans.
|
| 00:33:00 | you indicated that the
governor has wide latitude when
it comes to determining when he
will hold the special election.
|
| 00:33:08 | When will he know about the
newly drawn lines in new york
state?
|
| 00:33:16 | we will now know about
the lines, most likely, until
run against the filing
deadlines of the summer of next
year.
|
| 00:33:33 | Governor cuomo, shelley is over,
the assembly speaker who is a
democrat, and the miny
leader -- or rather, majority
leader in the state senate will
all have to hammer hard a deal
on redistricting.
|
| 00:33:51 | -- Hammered out a deal on
redistricting.
|
| 00:33:55 | It will be a situation where
most people would expect to run
for a seat for a lame duck
session as a member of congress
before it may be eliminated.
|
| 00:34:08 | As we found out in new york's
26th district, the last time the
scandal broke, drawing
conclusions about the special
election at the outside --
outset of the elections can be
hazardous.
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| 00:34:28 | I do not think that the county
clerk what ultimately win that
race and how the county can be
preserved by redistricting.
|
| 00:34:37 | There is a greater chance that
will be eliminated, but we will
have to see whether republicans
can mount a credible campaign
that puts the democrats in a
tough spot.
|
| 00:34:56 | david wasserman, who
tracks the house of
representatives and the politics
of congress for the "cook
"
the headlines outside of
putting him the
winner on the front page.
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| 00:36:31 | >> We will look at some of the
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and a month.
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| 00:36:39 | You will hear from ron paul
first.
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| 00:36:45 | [Applause]
>> thank you.
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| 00:36:58 | Thank you.
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| 00:37:05 | Thank you very much.
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| 00:37:09 | Thank you.
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| 00:37:17 | [Crowd chanting "ron paul"]
thank you.
|
| 00:37:27 | I have great news for the cause
of liberty, the country is
coming our way.
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| 00:37:33 | [Applause]
I have always been an optimist.
|
| 00:37:39 | I have always believed the cause
of liberty would win, but three
or four years ago I would never
have predicted that we would
have made as much strides
dybbuks and we have today.
|
| 00:37:50 | If there is reason for us to be
encouraged and keep the fight,
because that is what america is
all about.
|
| 00:37:58 | The loss of the land can be
found in our constitution and we
demand respect for them.
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| 00:38:03 | [Applause]
there are four categories i
would like to mention in my
opening remarks.
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| 00:38:13 | These are where we have made
strides.
|
| 00:38:19 | Probably where we have missed
the least amount of strides is
in our civil liberties.
|
| 00:38:24 | The american people are sick and
tired of losing their privacy
and being prodded by the gsa at
airports -- tsa at airports.
|
| 00:38:39 | Another area where we have made
a lot more strides, and you can
see it in the recent debates as
well as the recent votes in
congress, they are coming our
way because the american people
are sick and tired of the
analysts note win wars around
the world-win wars
and around the world.
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| 00:39:08 | There can be no doubt that there
is too much spending, too much
debt, too much borrowing, and it
is time to stop the spending
brigid's -- stop the spending.
|
| 00:39:23 | [Applause]
how did you know that was my
fourth item?
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| 00:39:45 | I do not know how you knew it.
|
| 00:39:47 | This is wonderful.
|
| 00:39:49 | This is where we may have made
our greatest strides, for the
american people to realize you
can not print money in secrecy
by the federal reserve and
pretend it is a creation of
wealth.
|
| 00:40:02 | We have gotten the attention of
the people dealing with our
monetary system.
|
| 00:40:06 | It is time we not only on that
the federal reserve, but also
get rid of the federal reserve
in due time.
|
| 00:40:15 | [Applause]
a few years ago it was very
evident there was a financial
bubble, especially the housing
bubble.
|
| 00:40:36 | The bursting of the bubble was
on our doorstep.
|
| 00:40:39 | The free-market economist
predicted it and it did arrive.
|
| 00:40:43 | This has given a lot of
credibility to the views of us
who look at the federal reserve
as the culprit in creating the
financial bubble.
|
| 00:40:53 | When the bailout came, congress
intervened, of course, and spent
nearly $1 treen bailing out the
people who were making a lot of
money that we're bankrupting the
reserves.
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| 00:41:08 | They should not have been bailed
out.
|
| 00:41:10 | [Applause]
what a lot of people did not
know and a few have difficulty
understanding, it was a much
bigger bailout by the federal
reserve.
|
| 00:41:25 | They created about $5 trillion
out of thin air and then they
bailed out the banksnd big
corporations in total industry
-- in total secrecy.
|
| 00:41:38 | Guess what?
|
| 00:41:40 | All of those derivatives and
assets that were worthless that
nobody could sell on the
marketplace -- guess what?
|
| 00:41:48 | We, the taxpayers, but those
with money printed out of thin
air to the tune of about $2
trillion.
|
| 00:41:57 | The federal reserve during that
time -- and the reason we have
to address this subject --
making create and spend more
money than the entire congress.
|
| 00:42:07 | Curtailing congress is one
thing, but it the people in the
congress do not curtail the
federal reserve, you will not
touch the problem.
|
| 00:42:15 | That is why it is so important.
|
| 00:42:18 | [Applause]
we have had some hearings.
|
| 00:42:26 | My subcommittee on the financial
services -- we have got more
information than ever before.
|
| 00:42:34 | We have found out that all those
trillions of dollars created by
the fed -- guess what?
|
| 00:42:42 | One-third of those funds went to
foreign banks.
|
| 00:42:47 | It makes no sense.
|
| 00:42:50 | We find out that some of those
funds actually went to banks
partially owned by gaddafi.
|
| 00:42:58 | Yet that makes any sense, I do
not understand it, but I think
the people, once they know about
this, will be outraged and are
outraged with what has been
going on with our monetary
system.
|
| 00:43:12 | But today we are facing another
crisis.
|
| 00:43:15 | The next crisis is a result of
the veterans are creating all
this money.
|
| 00:43:20 | That will be the inflation tax.
|
| 00:43:21 | When they create money they
inflate the currency.
|
| 00:43:25 | Prices will rise.
|
| 00:43:26 | That is a tax.
|
| 00:43:28 | That will come.
|
| 00:43:29 | It has started and it will be
much worse next year.
|
| 00:43:33 | It will be a big issue in next
year pottery campaign.
|
| 00:43:37 | Some of you might remember the
stagflation of the '70s.
|
| 00:43:39 | It will be worse because the
economy is weaker now than it
was.
|
| 00:43:46 | For us and for the sake of
america, we have to deal with
this problem.
|
| 00:43:51 | I have said many times we have
to do something.
|
| 00:43:55 | We cannot dump this on our
children and our grandchildren.
|
| 00:44:01 | I address it slightly
differently now because it is
the current generation -- it is
us today who are suffering.
|
| 00:44:09 | We do not have jobs.
|
| 00:44:11 | We are getting hit with
inflation.
|
| 00:44:14 | We are suffering from the
overextension of the wars around
the world.
|
| 00:44:19 | It is today -- we are suffering
from this and, therefore, not
only should we worry about the
next generation, but we have to
worry about today's generation.
|
| 00:44:29 | The most precious thing we can
do for our next generation --
the debt is a concern, but the
most valuable thing we can get
the next generation and allow
this generation to have is to
have our freedoms back.
|
| 00:44:43 | [Applause]
I have talked a lot about
foreign policy for a good many
years.
|
| 00:45:05 | It is very important.
|
| 00:45:08 | The foreign policy originally of
the republican party of nine
intervention, a battle of
neutrality, minding our own
business.
|
| 00:45:18 | What the founders taught and
what the constitution says -- do
not get involved in entangling
alliances or internal affairs of
other nations.
|
| 00:45:27 | Do not get into the business of
nation-building.
|
| 00:45:31 | Besides, we do not have the
money.
|
| 00:45:33 | If somebody is interested in
looking at this in detail, one
of the most significant pieces
of writing about this subject
came from ronald reagan.
|
| 00:45:44 | Everybody knows how he stood up
-- stood out in standing up to
the soviets.
|
| 00:45:50 | But in the early '80s, reagan
put some troops into beirut.
|
| 00:45:56 | 241 Marines were killed.
|
| 00:45:57 | It was a real tragedy.
|
| 00:45:59 | It bore heavy on ronald reagan.
|
| 00:46:02 | Read what he said in his
memoirs.
|
| 00:46:05 | What he said was, "i would not
"
but when he found out how
irrational politics was in that
region, he decided it was
necessary to get out.
|
| 00:46:22 | He said, "if I had followed a
policy of neutrality," he is
admitted, "those 241 marines
"
he was courageous enough to
admit the mistake.
|
| 00:46:49 | Robert mcnamara, he was the one
who built up the vietnam war,
what a tragedy.
|
| 00:46:58 | I was in the military for five
years in the 1960's.
|
| 00:47:02 | I did not have to go to vietnam,
but I was in the service.
|
| 00:47:06 | It was such a tragedy.
|
| 00:47:08 | Republicans wanted to stop the
war in 1968.
|
| 00:47:13 | 30,000 Americans died after we
were elected to stop the war.
|
| 00:47:17 | We lost over 60,000 americans
and a mcnamara was the champion
of the war.
|
| 00:47:25 | Before he died he wrote a book.
|
| 00:47:28 | He was interviewed.
|
| 00:47:30 | The interviewer said, "mr.
|
| 00:47:33 | Mcnamara, would you like to
apologize to the american people
"
he said, "what good is an
apology?
|
| 00:47:41 | The only thing that counts is
that we look at policy and
"
that is what we have to do.
|
| 00:47:48 | How long will we allow our
presidents to go to war in an
improper manner?
|
| 00:47:53 | How long will we let our
governments go to war and the
congress be derelict in their
duties?
|
| 00:47:59 | We have not declared war since
world war ii.
|
| 00:48:05 | I say if we have to go to war,
declare it a war, when it, and
get over with.
|
| 00:48:12 | -- Win it, and get it over
with.
|
| 00:48:19 | [Applause]
>> right now we are in libya.
|
| 00:48:30 | Congress was not ask for
informed about it.
|
| 00:48:34 | Republicans and democrats got
together.
|
| 00:48:41 | In the war powers resolution was
meant to restraint presidents
from going to war like this.
|
| 00:48:46 | But our current president
explain to us that this was not
a war.
|
| 00:48:52 | This does not qualify as being
controlled by the constitution,
the congress, or the war crimes
resolution.
|
| 00:49:00 | He said they are not shooting
back and we have not been
killed.
|
| 00:49:04 | Evidently if we go embalm people
and they do not shebat it is not
a war.
|
| 00:49:10 | That is how silly -- if we go
and bomb people and they do not
shoot back, it is not a war.
|
| 00:49:22 | [Applause]
a lot of people will ask us as
candidates, what would be the
first thing you would do?
|
| 00:49:39 | There is always a limit.
|
| 00:49:42 | Everybody knows my opinion on
monetary policy.
|
| 00:49:46 | The president cannot get rid of
the federal reserve.
|
| 00:49:49 | He might legalized competition
like the constitution says.
|
| 00:49:54 | [Applause]
but the president has a lot to
do with foreign policy.
|
| 00:50:03 | He is in charge of the troops.
|
| 00:50:04 | He is in charge of the navy.
|
| 00:50:08 | I bet there are not too many in
this room that read a recent
story this week of where our
navy just went with a missile
cruiser.
|
| 00:50:16 | They went up into the black sea
and right up on the borders of
russia.
|
| 00:50:24 | Russia is on the way.
|
| 00:50:26 | What would we say of china came
into the gulf of mexico right up
to the shores?
|
| 00:50:33 | I know what the texans would say
or the people in louisiana would
say -- we do not need you here.
|
| 00:50:41 | Oneng I encourage people to
do, especially when they
questioned some of the things i
say, always put it in light of a
foreign policy golden rule --
what would we think if people
did that to us?
|
| 00:50:58 | [Applause]
although many reasons have bn
given for why people hate us and
what to come here to kill us,
the truth is, they tell us the
truth.
|
| 00:51:18 | They tell us why they hate us.
|
| 00:51:20 | Bin laden told us the truth.
|
| 00:51:23 | The truth is, they can stand
occupation and control of their
land as we would not either.
|
| 00:51:29 | [Applause]
bin laden had a plan.
|
| 00:51:41 | He was going to get us very
angry and he was going to drag
us into a war.
|
| 00:51:47 | He wrote this.
|
| 00:51:48 | He said, "i am going to drag the
americans into a war just as we
agged the soviets into a war
"
if we were one of those who said
the soviets did not have a right
to be in afghanistan.
|
| 00:52:05 | Bin laden says he is more to
drag us int the war, bond us
down into an endless war.
|
| 00:52:13 | He said, "you know what?
|
| 00:52:15 | We will drive them into
"
this is serious stuff.
|
| 00:52:20 | We are bankrupt and we are
bogged down.
|
| 00:52:23 | We are in five wars.
|
| 00:52:26 | You have to remember what was
said many years ago about war --
war is the health of the state.
|
| 00:52:33 | It the state is the enemy of
liberty, the bigger of government to run
your life and
run the economy, the last
liberty you have.
|
| 00:52:44 | We have endless wars and they
are continuously going on.
|
| 00:52:47 | They have ended up because a
military confrontation.
|
| 00:52:51 | We did not have to confront the
soviets.
|
| 00:52:53 | We let them self-destruct
because they spent too much and
got bogged down.
|
| 00:52:58 | I would say it is time for us
to give up that obligation of
being bogged down against the
many countries of the world.
|
| 00:53:05 | [Applause]
we are now in over one of the 30
countries.
|
| 00:53:20 | -- 130 Countries.
|
| 00:53:25 | We have over 900 military bases.
|
| 00:53:28 | We will not be leaving iraq,
afghanistan, or pakistan.
|
| 00:53:32 | We are going to expand our
presence there.
|
| 00:53:35 | We are going to build embassies
in all those countries.
|
| 00:53:39 | The embassy in iraq is bigger
than the vatican.
|
| 00:53:42 | Do you think we are going to
leave and leave all of those
bases?
|
| 00:53:46 | No.
|
| 00:53:48 | We are there because we are
going to argue the case, at
least behind the scenes, that we
have to protect our oil.
|
| 00:53:55 | What are our political enemies
of recent years doing?
|
| 00:54:01 | The vietnam -- the vietnamese as
well as china?
|
| 00:54:04 | China has become the
manufacturer of the world,
selling of students, and we
borrow the money -- selling us
goods, and we borrow the money.
|
| 00:54:17 | The chinese and money in the
bank.
|
| 00:54:21 | Or the invading countries and
having their people get killed?
|
| 00:54:24 | No, they are making money.
|
| 00:54:26 | They are buying up oil
interests.
|
| 00:54:28 | They are making deals.
|
| 00:54:32 | Unfortunaty, our foreign
policy has driven so many
countries into the hands of the
chinese, the coalition has
gotten to be india, russia,
china, and iran.
|
| 00:54:44 | To is the close but the knell of
iran?
|
| 00:54:47 | Iraq.
|
| 00:54:47 | We toured iraq over to the
shiites.
|
| 00:54:53 | Our policies, no matter what the
argument may have been, have
totally backfired on us.
|
| 00:54:58 | We need to change the foreign-
poli
we need a pro-american foreign
policy.
|
| 00:55:04 | [Applause]
[crowd chang "ron paul")
we are steadily losing our
liberties.
|
| 00:55:30 | Use our property
unless we pay our taxes and
follow the regulations from not
only the government, but the un
coming down and telling us what
we can do with our land.
|
| 00:55:43 | It is a very reason that
would support our bill to get us
out of the un, the imf, and the
world bank.
|
| 00:55:50 | [Applause]
the good intentions always get
out of control.
|
| 00:56:03 | There is a good intention done
by the food and drug
administration.
|
| 00:56:07 | Make sure your food is safe.
|
| 00:56:09 | Everybody is for safe food.
|
| 00:56:12 | What the fda is doing and what
they feel so compelled to
protect you, they will arrest
you if you start drinking all
milk.
|
| 00:56:23 | What is so dangerous about you
making your own choice about
whether or not you can drink raw
milk.
|
| 00:56:28 | I think we ought to vote for the
right to drink raw milk.
|
| 00:56:33 | [Applause]
there is another good intention.
|
| 00:56:42 | The good intention that people
not use drugs stupidly.
|
| 00:56:46 | There is a lot of that that goes
on, but there is a lot of stupid
use up research in drugs -- use
of prescription drugs.
|
| 00:56:57 | Up until 1937, smoking marijuana
was legal.
|
| 00:57:00 | It was still stupid, it was
legal, but all the sudden we
decided we would outlaw it.
|
| 00:57:10 | More people smoke it now than
ever before, but some states,
and I am not familiar with this
state, but some states have
legalized the use of marijuana
for medical reasons.
|
| 00:57:22 | How compassionate -- should
people be allowed to make that
choice?
|
| 00:57:31 | As a physician, I can tell you
there have been people dying
with cancer, they cannot hold
their food down, and they are
taking chemotherapy, and they
get benefits.
|
| 00:57:42 | But we should not be afraid of
people making their own choices.
|
| 00:57:47 | Let's disregard that for a
minute.
|
| 00:57:48 | [Applause]
but because marijuana is
illegal and because the plant
looks a little bit like hemp, we
are not allowed to raise hemp in
this country.
|
| 00:58:11 | If you want to get high on hemp,
you have to smoke a cigarette as
big as a telephone pole.
|
| 00:58:17 | [Applause]
yet, they are hysterical about
it.
|
| 00:58:22 | Hemp is a fantastic product.
|
| 00:58:26 | It makes better alcohol -- it
makes better ethanol than corn.
|
| 00:58:32 | It makes clothes.
|
| 00:58:35 | It was very helpful in world war
ii.
|
| 00:58:40 | So many of these jobs went to
canada.
|
| 00:58:43 | They make these products and
sell them back to us.
|
| 00:58:46 | Then we wonder where our jobs
are going.
|
| 00:58:49 | Let's legalize hemp as well.
|
| 00:58:52 | [Applause]
because of the over bordon of
laws in this country, always
tell -- overburden of laws in
this country, always telling us
what to do, we have more
prisoners than anyone else in
the world.
|
| 00:59:11 | 1% Of our population is in
prison.
|
| 00:59:15 | We have 5% of the population,
but we have 25% of all of the
world's prisoners.
|
| 00:59:24 | I do not think the american
people are that bad.
|
| 00:59:27 | I do not think we need that many
prisons.
|
| 00:59:30 | I think we have too manaws is
what the problems are.
|
| 00:59:37 | [Applause]
today in the economy, that is
what people concentrate on.
|
| 00:59:51 | We cannot separate that from
foreign policy, but 48% of the
american people say they expect
we will very likely have a
depression.
|
| 01:00:02 | Those people are unemployed for
three years already have a
depression.
|
| 01:00:07 | We have been in a severe swap --
slop for 10 years.
|
| 01:00:15 | Our population has grown by 30
million people, but we have not
added any new net jobs.
|
| 01:00:24 | That is that it is.
|
| 01:00:26 | We are slipping and sliding.
|
| 01:00:28 | It is always moderated by more
handouts and more entitlements
to make people feel a little
better.
|
| 01:00:35 | It looks like we will be doing
that for a long time, but it
eventually ends up in
bankruptcy.
|
| 01:00:41 | What are we going to do with all
this debt?
|
| 01:00:43 | We have a pretty good history to
know what will happen to the
debt.
|
| 01:00:47 | Our debt, gris's debt,
everybody's debt -- greece's
debt, everybody's debt -- it
is easily liquidated by the debt
-- by the government.
|
| 01:01:06 | He gets 50 cents on the dollar
or 25 cents of the dollar.
|
| 01:01:09 | That is what is happening today.
|
| 01:01:12 | We are fast liquidating our
debt, but the economy has not
picked up in these last two
years.
|
| 01:01:21 | We got into trouble because we
believed we could spin.
|
| 01:01:24 | We had the reserve currency.
|
| 01:01:26 | The world would take our money.
|
| 01:01:28 | We would get the goods and our
debt would go up.
|
| 01:01:31 | We spent too much, we borrowed
too much, we regulate too much,
we printed too much, and we got
into predictable trouble.
|
| 01:01:39 | Guess what we have been doing
for three years?
|
| 01:01:42 | We are regulating more, we are
spending more, we are borrowing
more, and the federal reserve
has unlimited amounts of money
flowing into the system and they
think it will call -- it will
solve the problem.
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| 01:01:54 | It will not solve the problem,
let me tell you.
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| 01:01:57 | [Applause]
we need to restore our
confidence and belief in a free
society at how markets work.
|
| 01:02:08 | We as conservatives are supposed
to believe in the free
enterprise system.
|
| 01:02:12 | That means we want to get the
government out of the business
of regulating the us.
|
| 01:02:17 | -- Regulating us.
|
| 01:02:22 | If I had my way, the federal
reserve would quit printing
money because it only benefits
the rich at the expense of the
port.
|
| 01:02:32 | The money fro investment has to
come from savings.
|
| 01:02:35 | Will there have enough savings?
|
| 01:02:37 | Yes, if we change our tax code.
|
| 01:02:39 | We should not be taxing savings.
|
| 01:02:41 | We should not be taxing the
elderly saving money.
|
| 01:02:45 | [Applause]
we should not under current
condition today because the
banks get the money for free and
they make 2% or 3%.
|
| 01:03:01 | If you are elderly or retired,
you get 1% or 2% when the market
rate is 6% or 7%.
|
| 01:03:11 | It is criminal.
|
| 01:03:12 | It is really bad.
|
| 01:03:13 | [Applause]
we should not tax savings.
|
| 01:03:17 | We should not tax dividends.
|
| 01:03:19 | That is where capital comes
from.
|
| 01:03:20 | Over $1 trillion worth of
capital is sitting overseas
because companies are global and
they are able to channel the
funds all.
|
| 01:03:30 | They pay other taxes, which are
lower.
|
| 01:03:34 | If you want to repatriate that
money, they do not ask you
again.
|
| 01:03:39 | But we do.
|
| 01:03:41 | There is over $1 trillion
overseas that a loss our
companies, but they will not
bring it home.
|
| 01:03:49 | Let's stop taxing repatriated
money and let them bring their
capital home brigid's -- bring
their capital home.
|
| 01:03:58 | [Applause]
then you have to change the
environment brigid's you have --
you have to change the
environment.
|
| 01:04:08 | The corporate tax is not a
corporate tax.
|
| 01:04:11 | It is a failed tax.
|
| 01:04:14 | Corporations and cannot function
unless they pass it on to the
consumer.
|
| 01:04:17 | The sales tax, we should stop
best of the they put the money
into investment.
|
| 01:04:26 | The corporate tax rate should be
as low as possible.
|
| 01:04:29 | The regulatory burden should be
lifted from their shoulders.
|
| 01:04:32 | One thing I have promised, it by
was president of the united
states, -- [applause]
my goal would be to freeze the
federal register and then stars
-- and then start shrinking it.
|
| 01:04:57 | No new regulations.
|
| 01:04:58 | [Applause]
when did we as a country
capitulate and say the executive
branch in the form of the
bureaucracy has the right to
write laws?
|
| 01:05:10 | The courts do not have the right
to write laws, neither should
the executive branch.
|
| 01:05:17 | [Applause]
when you allow courts to write
, even at that legislation
wade which tells
states what they can do to
protect human life.
|
| 01:05:39 | wade as
much as possible.
|
| 01:05:42 | [Applause]
let me close by talking a little
bit about what a free society
should be all about.
|
| 01:05:57 | A lot of people do not quite
understand when I talk about
people being allowed to make
choices on their own lifestyle.
|
| 01:06:04 | That worries them because they
might make a bad choice, which
is quite possible, but what
happens when government makes
the choice for you?
|
| 01:06:13 | They get involved in your
education.
|
| 01:06:18 | I want that responsibility to be
put back to the parents in
charge of their kids and their
education.
|
| 01:06:24 | [Applause]
but the thing -- you are
challenged on this, what you
should think about is the first
amendment.
|
| 01:06:36 | We have a first amendment and
hardly anybody argues with me
about the first amendment.
|
| 01:06:42 | It legalized freedom of thought.
|
| 01:06:45 | Even communist teachers or
allowed to exist because it is
political free-speech.
|
| 01:06:52 | We do not have a first amendment
so that we can talk about the
weather.
|
| 01:06:58 | It is not that.
|
| 01:07:00 | It is to legalize freedom of
speech, but nobody says that if
you legalize freedom of speech,
you endorse the speech they use.
|
| 01:07:14 | You do n endorse what they
say, you endorse the principle
that they have the right to say
it.
|
| 01:07:19 | [Applause]
this is what responsibility is
like when it is on the
individual.
|
| 01:07:28 | You have a responsibility
printed it is your life and your
liberty.
|
| 01:07:32 | It comes to you from your god,
not your government.
|
| 01:07:36 | [Applause]
where is the responsibility on
good behavior?
|
| 01:07:44 | It is with the individual, it is
with the family, it is with the
parents, it is with the church.
|
| 01:07:51 | Believe me, the government is
not a very good source of
teaching good values.
|
| 01:08:00 | But freedom, freedom is
something that america's --
america has been well known for.
|
| 01:08:07 | In the last several decades we
have lost our way.
|
| 01:08:10 | We care less about freedom than
we do the government
taking care of us from cradle to
grave.
|
| 01:08:17 | They will protect us.
|
| 01:08:18 | It is ok to sacrifice a bit of
your liberty for security
especially cents 9/11.
|
| 01:08:24 | I did not buy that.
|
| 01:08:26 | I do not think he said sacrifice
any liberty for your security.
|
| 01:08:31 | -- I do not think you should
sacrifice in the liberty for
your security.
|
| 01:08:37 | [Applause]
freedom brings people together
with different values because it
is not confrontational.
|
| 01:08:48 | People are not allowed to force
anything on you and government
should not be allowed to force
anything on you as well freedom
brings people together.
|
| 01:08:56 | That is the magnificent part
about a free society, it is not
authoritarian.
|
| 01:09:03 | Whether it is personal habits or
economic habits, the liberals
love to tell you what is fair or
equal economically, but the
principle states the same if
someone comes along and says
they do not want you to do this
or that.
|
| 01:09:22 | A free society -- the great part
about a free society that we
have forgotten about, it is the
most productive society.
|
| 01:09:32 | Yet we are not productive if we
are not wealthy.
|
| 01:09:35 | [Applause]
which means that we are less
free and that is one of our
major problems.
|
| 01:09:43 | The ideas of liberty lardon
need.
|
| 01:09:47 | We have had the greatest
experiment in all of history,
but I get a thousand years of
history, we have only had a
couple hundred years of testing
it.
|
| 01:09:57 | 95% Of economic growth and well-
being for the people have come
with the advancement of the
freedom of people.
|
| 01:10:05 | We are about to give up because
we have lost our convictions and
understanding of health freedom
works nl it depends on you as an
individual.
|
| 01:10:14 | Everyone of us is unique.
|
| 01:10:15 | We do not get our rights because
we belong to a group.
|
| 01:10:18 | If we get our rights because we
are individuals.
|
| 01:10:23 | Individuals or the one to claim
rights, not groups.
|
| 01:10:26 | -- Are the ones who claim
rights, not groups.
|
| 01:10:37 | When you live in a free society,
there are restraints on the use
of force, but -- you do not have
a tremendous growth and
prosperity in a communist
society.
|
| 01:10:50 | It's oppresses everything.
|
| 01:10:51 | We are being overburdened l more
than ever before with big
government at all the rules and
regulations, but we are less
productive.
|
| 01:11:00 | A free society allows
creativity.
|
| 01:11:02 | On a personal basis, it gives
you the opport do what
is your personal responsibility.
|
| 01:11:11 | From my viewpoint, the purpose
of life is to strive for virtue
and excellence.
|
| 01:11:15 | That should be the goal.
|
| 01:11:16 | [Applause]
now, there will be many on both
ends of the spectrum but will
say, "yes, but government should
"
when government tries to make
all the definitions and say what
is fair, economic distribution
is they cannot do it without
undermining your liberty.
|
| 01:11:42 | The key is to understand the
value of the individual life and
to take that responsibility.
|
| 01:11:48 | Without the responsibility
being assent, it does not work.
|
| 01:11:53 | John adams warned us about that.
|
| 01:11:54 | He said, "you have a free
society.
|
| 01:11:57 | You have republic.
|
| 01:11:59 | But if you not assume these
responsibilities, it will not
"
we are not willing to assume
its, but we are certainly moving
in that direction, which makes
me very happy about it.
|
| 01:12:14 | Samuel adams said that -- a lot
of people worry about how we get
a majority to agree.
|
| 01:12:23 | We do not need a majority.
|
| 01:12:25 | We need what he said was an
irate minority willing to start
the brush fires of freedom in
the minds of man.
|
| 01:12:35 | [Applause]
and this --
[crowd chanting
and this I report to you is
where we're making great
progress.
|
| 01:13:14 | There are m many thousands
of brushfires going on in this
country.
|
| 01:13:18 | I would like to think i
contributed a little bit.
|
| 01:13:21 | One thing I can't tell you is
that I -- I cannot -- I cannot
tell you that I know how many
there are because every place i
go, I find out there is another
brushfire here and here and more
organizations and individuals
who have caught on.
|
| 01:13:42 | Samuel adams hat of
advice about this fight and he
was in a much tougher fight than
we are today.
|
| 01:13:51 | He gave us one advice, he said
no long faces.
|
| 01:13:54 | They were in tough times and
they were very pessimistic and
he said, yes, no long faces.
|
| 01:13:59 | Which meant if you come and say
oh, what are we going to go?
|
| 01:14:02 | It's not going to work.
|
| 01:14:08 | But there's every reason not to
have a long face.
|
| 01:14:10 | Let us join ourselves.
|
| 01:14:13 | We know what america is all
about.
|
| 01:14:15 | We know what freedom can deliver
for us.
|
| 01:14:18 | And we know momentum is with us.
|
| 01:14:20 | One way we know momentum is with
us, all of a sudden I notice
others running for leadership
are starting to use our
language.
|
| 01:14:29 | Great.
|
| 01:14:29 | Good to see everybody!
|
| 01:14:30 | [Applause]
>> ladies and gentlemen,
pennsylvania senator rick
santorum!
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| 01:53:55 | [Applause]
>> thank you
thank you.
|
| 01:54:06 | Thank you very, very etch.
|
| 01:54:08 | I appreciate that.
|
| 01:54:09 | And appreciate all of you being
here.
|
| 01:54:11 | It is nice to be back in new
orleans.
|
| 01:54:13 | I was here the last conference,
and it was the energy and
enthusiasm in that room.
|
| 01:54:18 | Obviously carried over all
across this country and we had a
great election victory.
|
| 01:54:23 | But our job, I remember saying
at that time back in 2010, that
this was the most important
election of our lifetime.
|
| 01:54:31 | But now I have to say that, that
is no longer true.
|
| 01:54:37 | Because even then I said it was
the most important election
because it was going to stop if
we were successful, stop more
bad things from happening.
|
| 01:54:46 | But if we really wanted to
change things, we really wanted
to make a difference, then we
had to elect a new president in
2012, and that's our job this
election.
|
| 01:55:00 | [Applause]
this is a very, very serious
time.
|
| 01:55:05 | I spoke here last year and i
have been speaking around the
country.
|
| 01:55:09 | I just came from new hampshire,
just flew in from new hampshire.
|
| 01:55:15 | It was my 20th visit to new
hampshire.
|
| 01:55:18 | Have I been to all of the other
early primary states.
|
| 01:55:21 | South carolina.
|
| 01:55:21 | I know we have some south
carolinians here today.
|
| 01:55:25 | Thank you.
|
| 01:55:25 | Have I been there many, many
times.
|
| 01:55:27 | And iowa.
|
| 01:55:27 | My kids have been watching me
more unfortunately on television
than they have across the table
at the dinner table.
|
| 01:55:33 | The other day I was home, and my
son patrick, who's 9, karen and
I have a very, very blessed to
seven children, and so if you
don't think I have experience on
balancing budgets, you don't
know what having seven children
means.
|
| 01:55:58 | Anyway, our sixth, patrick said
to me, dad, you're awfully
serious.
|
| 01:56:03 | When I see you, you're always so
serious.
|
| 01:56:06 | I said patrick, this is a very
serious time for our country.
|
| 01:56:09 | He said you know, you should try
to tell a joke.
|
| 01:56:15 | I said, patrick, I'm not good at
telling jokes.
|
| 01:56:17 | He said, well I heard a good
joke.
|
| 01:56:20 | Tell this joke.
|
| 01:56:21 | I said ok, patrick, I'll tell
your joke.
|
| 01:56:23 | What is it?
|
| 01:56:24 | He said, what goes ha, ha,
thump?
|
| 01:56:27 | Now, he's a 9-year-old remember.
|
| 01:56:31 | What goes ha, ha, thump.
|
| 01:56:33 | I said, I don't know patrick,
what goes ha, ha thump.
|
| 01:56:38 | He said, someone laughing their
head off.
|
| 01:56:46 | Jay leno, there you go.
|
| 01:56:49 | I don't know about you, but i
don't watch either.
|
| 01:56:57 | But we do have serious problems.
|
| 01:56:59 | Someone around the country i
have noticed and recognized and
felt from people this enormous
amount of anxiety.
|
| 01:57:06 | We saw it percolate up in
america from the tea party.
|
| 01:57:10 | And god bless the tea party for
what they did in this last
election.
|
| 01:57:13 | We would not be where we are
today without them.
|
| 01:57:23 | We saw it percolate up.
|
| 01:57:25 | We saw in energy.
|
| 01:57:27 | We saw this anxiety, and almost
fear and resolve as we face the
problems of the country.
|
| 01:57:32 | I tried to put my finger on it.
|
| 01:57:33 | What was it, what was it that
really was going on here?
|
| 01:57:37 | I felt maybe it's the economy.
|
| 01:57:38 | Maybes the fact the economy
is horrible and, of course, as a
result of the policies of this
administration, they have gotten
worse and worse and worse.
|
| 01:57:49 | They're saying it won't be a
double dip but certainly will
t be any v-shaped recovery.
|
| 01:57:55 | It's an almost flat-lined
economy.
|
| 01:57:58 | No jobs are being created.
|
| 01:57:59 | Why is that?
|
| 01:58:01 | Try to climb a hill with barack
obama and the rest of the
democratic caucus on your
shoulder.
|
| 01:58:08 | It is incredibly, unbelievable
how much this administration has
done in a very short period of
time to just crush the amerin
entrepreneurial spirit, crush
innovation and growth.
|
| 01:58:25 | I can tell you as someone who's
been in congress, I spent two
terms in theouse and two terms
in the united states senate.
|
| 01:58:34 | Every time I was there, I voted
for lower taxes, pro growth,
less regulation, less
litigation, because we know in
america that's what works.
|
| 01:58:47 | What have we learned from this
administration?
|
| 01:58:50 | We have seen bill after bill,
the trying to put more controls.
|
| 01:58:56 | Throw everybody how to run their
lives.
|
| 01:58:58 | It's destroying america.
|
| 01:59:00 | Maybe that part of it.
|
| 01:59:00 | Maybe it's what we see here in
louisiana.
|
| 01:59:03 | As michele just said, you have
survived the regulations that
this president is putting on you
in the oil and gas industry.
|
| 01:59:11 | They're trying to now start --
they're starting talking about
it up where we are in
pennsylvania.
|
| 01:59:17 | We have something in common.
|
| 01:59:18 | We're drilling a lot of gas and
oil wells in pennsylvania these
days.
|
| 01:59:22 | We found the second largest
reserve of natural gas in the
world underneath pennsylvania.
|
| 01:59:27 | Yeah.
|
| 01:59:33 | And we're drilling thousands of
wells, thousands of wells, oil,
mostly gas wells, marcellus
shales but eunuchia which is oil
wells.
|
| 01:59:47 | We're doing it in people's
backyards.
|
| 01:59:49 | I want to remind everybody what
we're drilling in pennsylvania,
pennsylvania has the second
largest rural population in the
country.
|
| 01:59:55 | We have people all throughout
pennsylvania -- we're drilling
in people's backyards, ladies
and gentlemen.
|
| 01:59:59 | We have a president who's
allowing, thankfully for now,
drilling in people's backyards
but we can't drill thousands of
miles from everybody in alaska.
|
| 02:00:11 | That's too dangerous but we can
drill in backyards.
|
| 02:00:14 | That is just sick ideology.
|
| 02:00:20 | Ideological agenda that makes no
sense for the health and safety
of people.
|
| 02:00:25 | [Applause]
we have a huge mountain of debt.
|
| 02:00:34 | 40 Cents of every dollar we
borrow.
|
| 02:00:37 | President obama, how can you
justify, how can you justify 40
cents of every dollar to prop up
your sick policies, your sick
economic policies and putting
those on the back of future
generations for the rest of
their lives, how do you justify
that?
|
| 02:00:53 | [Applause]
I am something who's done
something.
|
| 02:01:02 | I'm the only person who
announced for president who said
I immediately supported the ryan
plan.
|
| 02:01:07 | Stood by paul ryan when others
were walking away and
equivocating.
|
| 02:01:11 | [Applause]
there's a reason I did, because
when I was in the united states
senate, I actually fought for
entitlement reform.
|
| 02:01:20 | When I was in the united states
senate, when I was in the house,
I actually wrote the contract
with america welfare reform
bill.
|
| 02:01:27 | It was the first time in the
history of our country that we
ended a broad-based federal
entitlement.
|
| 02:01:33 | I fought daniel patrick moynihan
and ted kennedy and all of the
liberals in the united states
senate and was able to end
federal entitlement.
|
| 02:01:46 | They were screaming people are
going to be out on the streets.
|
| 02:01:48 | We couldn't trust people to be
able to provide for themselves.
|
| 02:01:51 | I said no, welfare, poverty.
|
| 02:01:54 | Poverty is not a disability.
|
| 02:01:56 | It's a temporary condition.
|
| 02:01:57 | We need to believen people
again.
|
| 02:02:01 | Just like what paul ryan
suggested for medicaid.
|
| 02:02:04 | We had income support, aftc it
was called at the time.
|
| 02:02:10 | We put time limits, with we put
work requirements.
|
| 02:02:14 | We said you shouldn't have a
government that supports people
in dependency.
|
| 02:02:18 | We shouldn't tell people they
can't.
|
| 02:02:20 | We should tell people that you
can and we believe in you.
|
| 02:02:23 | That's what we need to do for
medicaid.
|
| 02:02:25 | That's what we need to do for
food stamps.
|
| 02:02:27 | That's what we need to do for
all of the welfare programs.
|
| 02:02:31 | We can save money and tell
people again, we believe you.
|
| 02:02:35 | We believe in the american
spirit and can-do attitude of
the american public.
|
| 02:02:39 | That's what paul ryan pleans
does.
|
| 02:02:40 | That's what I suppor
I also was someone who fought on
social security.
|
| 02:02:47 | Tpwhack 1998 I actually traveled
-- my only trip on air force one
with bill clinton, but i
traveled to missouri and did a
town hall meeting where i
represented the republicans
calling for reforms of social
security when no one else on our
side was willing to do that.
|
| 02:03:01 | I stood tall, had the courage to
go out and talk about the
problems that we were going to
confront here in america in a
very short period of time.
|
| 02:03:09 | There's an article in "the wall
street journal" and they talked
about it 1990 when I first got
to congress, there were four
workers for every one retiree.
|
| 02:03:17 | 20 Years ago.
|
| 02:03:19 | 20 Years from now there will be
less -- almost just above under
two people.
|
| 02:03:23 | Almost cut in half.
|
| 02:03:24 | Ist something new?
|
| 02:03:25 | Did we not know that?
|
| 02:03:26 | Of course we knew that.
|
| 02:03:29 | We knew that was coming but only
a few, very few in washington
had the courage to stand up and
fight for what we knew was
coming, which is a fiscal
disaster for this country.
|
| 02:03:42 | I did.
|
| 02:03:43 | I stood up and when george bush
in 2005 said, let's take on
social security, in my election
cycle, I stood up with jim
demint and we went to the floor
and we carried the debate.
|
| 02:03:56 | We lost but I learned from my
2006 election, which I lost,
that losing isn't the worse
thing that can happen.
|
| 02:04:04 | Not standing up for your
principles and what's right for
america is the worse thing that
can happen.
|
| 02:04:16 | And I was out there before
anybody else.
|
| 02:04:19 | When I was on the armed services
committee talking about
something we termed at the time
asymmetric threats.
|
| 02:04:25 | Talking about this group of
people who hated us not because
of what we were -- excuse me,
not because of what we did but
because of who we were.
|
| 02:04:37 | Radical jihaddists.
|
| 02:04:37 | When they attacked us on 9/11,
they changed the term from
asymmetric threats to terrorism.
|
| 02:04:43 | But I had been working on it,
trying to shape our military, to
respond to those threats before
-- before we were attacked.
|
| 02:04:53 | After we were attacked i
confronted, yes, even the
republican president, george w.
|
| 02:04:57 | Bush, because he didn't have, in
my opinion, the courage to go
out and tell the american public
the truth tooze who we were
fighting.
|
| 02:05:06 | We weren't fighting terrorists.
|
| 02:05:09 | Terrorism is a tactic.
|
| 02:05:12 | Doesn't describe the enemy and
who they are.
|
| 02:05:15 | Who they are are radical
islammists.
|
| 02:05:18 | They are people who follow an
ideology that is both a religion
and a political doctrine.
|
| 02:05:30 | And I gave a speech five months
before my election at the
national press club calling out
the president, calling out the
people of the republican party
to be honest.
|
| 02:05:41 | This is not just a war of
tactic.
|
| 02:05:44 | It's war of idea.
|
| 02:05:44 | It's a war of cultures.
|
| 02:05:47 | We need to be clear we can't
motivate people to defend
america unless they understand
what the threat is.
|
| 02:05:58 | And I did and I stood for our
closest ally.
|
| 02:06:01 | I know a lot of people have come
up here and said, I'm for
israel.
|
| 02:06:08 | I did and performed and fought
and passed bills that made
israel secure when I was in the
united states senate.
|
| 02:06:20 | Two major pieces of legislation,
the syrian accountability
account and iran support act i
augesered.
|
| 02:06:29 | The president of the united
bush, opposed
both.
|
| 02:06:33 | Thought they were too tough.
|
| 02:06:34 | Even though I did it because i
wanted to get syria out of
lebanon and to quit harassing
through hezbollah another israel
and I wanted to put a stop to
the iranian nuclear program.
|
| 02:06:47 | And to help fund pro democracy
movement in iran because I knew
that the existential threat to
israel was in fact iran.
|
| 02:06:57 | So I fought president obama --
president bush, and eventually
he came to my side and signed
those bill and we had a safer
israel as a result.
|
| 02:07:12 | And I've also led the charge on
the culture.
|
| 02:07:14 | The debate was the otheright.
|
| 02:07:15 | I happened to notice the that
john king asked all of the
cultural moral questions to me.
|
| 02:07:21 | But that's ok.
|
| 02:07:24 | Because I'm used to that and I'm
proud of it.
|
| 02:07:27 | I'm proud to stand up for lif.
|
| 02:07:30 | I'm proud to stand up for the
family.
|
| 02:07:35 | I'm proud to stand up for those
at the end of life.
|
| 02:07:43 | Because someone in this party,
someone who wants to lead this
party, needs to stand up and say
that they are just as important
an issue as the economy and
national security of this
country, if america is not a
moral enterprise and blessed by
god, we will not be a country
that can continue far.
|
| 02:08:09 | And so I heard all of these
things as I traveled around and
I thought, well, maybe it's all
of these things that were going
on, all of the fact that the
president of the united states
was apologizing for america as
he traveled around or he funded
embryonic stem cells refused
to defend doma are whether it
was the economy or the debt, all
of the things the president has
done, you heard the litany since
we've been here.
|
| 02:08:35 | I realized after being out there
a while it was in fact all of
these but yet it didn't quite
capture what was really going on
in america.
|
| 02:08:43 | The fear in america is something
deeper.
|
| 02:08:45 | When I announced for president
just a little over a week ago, i
went to summerset county,
pennsylvania.
|
| 02:08:51 | I went there for a reason.
|
| 02:08:53 | It's where my grandfather came
to thisountry in 1927.
|
| 02:08:57 | And a couple years later brought
my father, who was at the time 7
years old.
|
| 02:09:03 | He came from mussolini's italy.
|
| 02:09:06 | He came not because he had a
good job that he was promised.
|
| 02:09:09 | He actually a great job
where he was.
|
| 02:09:12 | Not because he was promised
government benefits and to be
taken care of.
|
| 02:09:17 | They were doing that in a major
way in italy.
|
| 02:09:22 | In fascist italy under
mussolini.
|
| 02:09:24 | E came, left a good job,
beautiful little town in
northern italy.
|
| 02:09:28 | He came to america, to northern
somerset county, the cole
fields, the deep mines.
|
| 02:09:34 | And from 1927 to 1958 until he
was 72 years old until the year
I was born, he worked in those
coal mines.
|
| 02:09:45 | He worked in those coal mines
for one reason he used to tell
me all the time, so his son and
his grandchildren could be free.
|
| 02:09:53 | That is the reason he came.
|
| 02:09:55 | And I believe that is the reason
people in america have this
angst, have this sense that
something big is happening to
this country.
|
| 02:10:08 | Let me tell you exactly what it
is, we have a president of the
united states who doesn't
believe in the founding
principles of this country.
|
| 02:10:18 | He said it -- he said it in a
speech recently where he was
giving a rebuttal to paul ryan
and the budget.
|
| 02:10:27 | He talked about social security
and medicare and medicaid and
unemployment insurance.
|
| 02:10:30 | And he said this, he said
america's a better country
because of these proposals.
|
| 02:10:34 | I will go one step further, he
said, america was not a great
country until these commitments
were made.
|
| 02:10:44 | The president of the united
states said, until government
took your freedom and yourey
and redistributed it and gave it
to those that they chose who
were worthy, america was not a
great country.
|
| 02:10:59 | president, america was born
a great country.
|
| 02:11:02 | [Applause]
I love our tea partyers.
|
| 02:11:19 | They carry their pocket
constitutions and hold it up at
their meeting at town meetings,
god bless them.
|
| 02:11:24 | The constitution is an
incredible document, vital
document.
|
| 02:11:27 | It is the owner's manualor
erica.
|
| 02:11:31 | It is how we are to operate the
inery of government, and we
need to abide by that owner's
manual and quit trying to amend
it by actually doing through the
courts and through executive
orders and through regulations.
|
| 02:11:48 | There's one way to amend the
constitution, and it's actually
in the constitution how you do
it.
|
| 02:11:57 | The second thing, though, that
is printed on these documents,
almost every single one of these
pocket constitutions is another
document.
|
| 02:12:03 | You ever ask yourself, why is
this document also here, the
declaration of independence?
|
| 02:12:07 | We had many other documents that
were important documents, but
why do they put these two
together?
|
| 02:12:15 | The
constitution is the how and the
ation is the why.
|
| 02:12:19 | [Applause]
it's who we are.
|
| 02:12:30 | And it's found in that sentence
that all of you know, that
critical sentence that gives the
exceptionalism to american
exceptionism.
|
| 02:12:41 | We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are
created equal and that they are
endowed by their creator with
certain unalienable rights.
|
| 02:12:51 | Among these, life, liberty and
pursuit of happiness.
|
| 02:12:55 | That phrase is a phrase that
transformed the world.
|
| 02:12:58 | It's the basis upon which our
government res.
|
| 02:13:03 | It is the why, it is the
foundation that the constitution
was created to protect.
|
| 02:13:12 | You see up until this time, up
until this document, no
government had ever been
instituted that recognized that
rights came from god to every
man and woman.
|
| 02:13:26 | Never before had happened.
|
| 02:13:32 | They went to the king.
|
| 02:13:34 | They did not go to every person.
|
| 02:13:36 | The people were the subjects of
the crown or the emperor.
|
| 02:13:41 | In this country, the government
was there to serve the people,
not the other way around.
|
| 02:13:47 | We created this constitution, in
my opinion, to do one thing, and
that is to keep america free.
|
| 02:13:58 | Is the one thing that our
government is there to do.
|
| 02:14:01 | That is why we say we need
limited government.
|
| 02:14:06 | Government is there to protect
the life and liberty as a
foundation for this country.
|
| 02:14:13 | [Applause]
I got involved in this race, i
got involved in traveling the
country, because I believe there
was one moment, one bill, that
will take this sentence and
erase it from the minds of
america, that will do more to
erase the constitution from its
relevance to political
discourse, and it is obamacare.
|
| 02:14:50 | Why do I say it is that big of
an issue?
|
| 02:14:53 | Because it is the first time
that we have passed a piece of
legislation to try and enact an
entitlement for every working
man and woman.
|
| 02:15:02 | They are not to help the poor,
the disabled, the elderly.
|
| 02:15:09 | This would connect an ivy -- iv
to every person in america.
|
| 02:15:18 | Everyone in america will be
connected and dependent on
washington for their health
care, for their children's
health care, for their parents'
health care.
|
| 02:15:33 | And the government will be able
to withhold or pump up more or
less in that depending on how
compliant you're going to be.
|
| 02:15:41 | Margaret thatcher said when she
left the prime ministership of
england, after having
transformed england from the
socialist country to one that
was privatizing their industries
and embracing capitalism again
-- she said at the end she was
never able to do for england
what reagan did for america.
|
| 02:16:06 | Remember in the 60's and 70's
liberal was not a bad word.
|
| 02:16:10 | We were going to go the way of
europe.
|
| 02:16:13 | And then reagan said no and
change america.
|
| 02:16:16 | Thatcher was never able to do
that, never.
|
| 02:16:21 | She said what.
|
| 02:16:22 | She said because of the british
national health care system.
|
| 02:16:27 | As brave as paul ryan is, look
at what he has proposed.
|
| 02:16:33 | It does not touch anybody with
an entitlement.
|
| 02:16:38 | All of his changes are for
people in the future, far into
the future.
|
| 02:16:43 | He would not there.
|
| 02:16:46 | No one cares.
|
| 02:16:50 | Talk about taking anything from
anybody who has something from
the government.
|
| 02:16:56 | Look at what is going on in
greece.
|
| 02:16:59 | This is the future of america if
obama care is put into action.
|
| 02:17:07 | This is the future of america.
|
| 02:17:11 | When I was 16 years old, it was
the first time I had ever been
to a funeral with an open
casket.
|
| 02:17:20 | It was my grandfather.
|
| 02:17:21 | I knelt next to his casket and i
looked at his hands.
|
| 02:17:26 | They were enormous hands, click,
a beefy hand.
|
| 02:17:38 | They had done work for 30 years.
|
| 02:17:41 | I looked at those hands, and
those hands clawed and scraped
and grabbed their way for
freedom for me.
|
| 02:17:49 | You think about the men and
women across america now, in
uniform.
|
| 02:17:54 | You think about the sacrifices
of those in the past two fought
for freedom, who were willing to
do whatever it took to make sure
that they were going to hand off
and america as free as we were
given it, and here we are.
|
| 02:18:15 | Yes, we are at war.
|
| 02:18:18 | But very few are participating
in that war.
|
| 02:18:21 | Thank god for their coverage.
|
| 02:18:23 | Thank god for their sacrifice.
|
| 02:18:26 | But most of america is working,
playing, doing what they do, and
watching america slowly slipped
away.
|
| 02:18:48 | One of my favorite quotes is
from a man by the name of
christopher latch, who says
every day we get up and tell
ourselves lives -- lies so we
can live, and the like americans
are telling themselves now, as
40
trillion debt -- 100 trillion
dollars of unfunded
liabilities, a worse condition
than in greece is in from a debt
standpoint in the long term.
|
| 02:19:19 | And we deny ourselves.
|
| 02:19:23 | More government, obama care, and
more dependency.
|
| 02:19:28 | It is just part of the process.
|
| 02:19:30 | It is nothing really new.
|
| 02:19:33 | It is more of the same.
|
| 02:19:35 | We will be free.
|
| 02:19:36 | Everything will be safe.
|
| 02:19:38 | That is a lie.
|
| 02:19:39 | We need a leader to stand up and
tell america about the line and
remind them who we are.
|
| 02:19:48 | This is the challenge of the
next leader.
|
| 02:19:52 | Yes, to win this election, but
the -- but to then have the
courage to go out and lead and
motivate a country, to remind us
who we are, that the people who
came to this country came like
my grandfather, because they
cherished freedom.
|
| 02:20:09 | It is in our dna.
|
| 02:20:12 | We are different than the
greeks.
|
| 02:20:14 | We are different than the brits.
|
| 02:20:16 | We left greece.
|
| 02:20:18 | We left britain.
|
| 02:20:20 | We left italy.
|
| 02:20:21 | We came here because we knew our
government would believe in us.
|
| 02:20:29 | Barack obama does not believe in
you.
|
| 02:20:33 | He believes in himself.
|
| 02:20:37 | In the 2008 election, the
american public was convinced by
this anointed one, as shawn
hammett he calls him.
|
| 02:20:49 | -- Past --- as sean hannity
calls him.
|
| 02:20:56 | There was a belief that if you
gave him your trusty would take
care of you and america.
|
| 02:21:03 | After two years of running this
country in the ditch, of having
our allies, like the czechs an
the polls and the hondurans and
the colombians, and they used to
be the egyptians and israelis,
now see that america is no good
friend, and our enemies like
iran, venezuela, cuba, and
syria look at us with the stain
as toothless tigers -- this is
our moment, ladies and
gentleman.
|
| 02:21:40 | This is our moment.
|
| 02:21:42 | It is our watch.
|
| 02:21:44 | It is our obligation to go out
and make the sacrifices, and to
have a leader who is willing to
lift the people to believe in
themselves again.
|
| 02:21:56 | When I was in the united states
senate, I fought for life
because I knew of the dignity of
every human person.
|
| 02:22:06 | I fought for welfare reform
because I knew the dignity of
every human person, the
potential of every human person.
|
| 02:22:15 | I believed in that.
|
| 02:22:16 | I still believe in that.
|
| 02:22:18 | I believe in the greatness and
goodness of this country.
|
| 02:22:21 | I believe we need a leader that
will raise them up.
|
| 02:22:25 | I am concerned that if this goes
on much further, not only with
obama care, but with what our
children are being taught -- do
you know our children?
|
| 02:22:36 | Everybody talks about how poorly
they do in math and science.
|
| 02:22:40 | Do you know their worst subject?
|
| 02:22:43 | History.
|
| 02:22:44 | How can we have children in this
generation of america willing to
fight for america if they dot
know who we are.
|
| 02:22:53 | Our president does not tell us
who we are.
|
| 02:22:56 | He tells us to believe in him.
|
| 02:23:00 | In 2012 we do not need a
president that we can believe
in.
|
| 02:23:06 | We need a president who believes
in us.
|
| 02:23:09 | [Applause]
I know it is frustrating.
|
| 02:23:33 | I know the anxiety level when
you see this country that you
love going through what is
going through economically,
going through what it is going
through culturally, going
through what it is going through
with the embarrassment of the president who
does not believe
in america and it's the use and
standing up for the country.
|
| 02:23:54 | I know it is hard.
|
| 02:23:56 | But it is our watch, and need
to be faithful.
|
| 02:24:00 | We need to go out and fight for
those values.
|
| 02:24:05 | I will close with a story of
faithfulness.
|
| 02:24:08 | It is a story of the foremast
from my time in the united
states senate fighting on the
issue of life.
|
| 02:24:15 | I want to share this with you
because I want to instill in new
this.
|
| 02:24:22 | All you need to worry about is
what you can do.
|
| 02:24:25 | All of us are going to be called
to do heroic things, I believe,
in this next year and a half to
win louisiana.
|
| 02:24:37 | We need to elect a president and
a sufficient majority of the
united states senate to repeal
obama care.
|
| 02:24:44 | [Applause]
this is a bigot, a big task for
all of us.
|
| 02:24:55 | We need to keep our head down.
|
| 02:24:58 | We need to keep working.
|
| 02:25:00 | We need to keep faith.
|
| 02:25:02 | If you keep faith, god will keep
faith.
|
| 02:25:05 | He will bless what you are doing
and he will bless this land.
|
| 02:25:09 | I told you of the story of the
debate on partial birth
abortion.
|
| 02:25:15 | It was the second time bill
clinton vetoed this bill.
|
| 02:25:18 | I was the leader of that bill.
|
| 02:25:21 | I was author of it.
|
| 02:25:23 | I fought for three years to get
it passed.
|
| 02:25:26 | He vetoed it in '96.
|
| 02:25:28 | We tried to override it and we
failed.
|
| 02:25:31 | We tried again in 98 and we can
short again.
|
| 02:25:37 | We tried again in 2000.
|
| 02:25:40 | The supreme court threw out a
similar statute out.
|
| 02:25:44 | Eventually, after george bush
came back, we stood up and said
the supreme court was wrong.
|
| 02:25:49 | We put the first two sections of
the bill telling the court how
they screwed up the case.
|
| 02:25:56 | We told them congress has a say
of what is constitutional and we
believe this is constitutional.
|
| 02:26:02 | The court sided with us.
|
| 02:26:04 | We eventually won.
|
| 02:26:06 | During this discourse, I have a
moment when I was in the
trenches, and not necessarily
feeling they love and success of
the ultimate victory.
|
| 02:26:21 | It was in september of 1998.
|
| 02:26:24 | We had just debated for six
hours on the override a veto.
|
| 02:26:29 | I debated barbara boxer on the
floor for six hours.
|
| 02:26:35 | I am catholic.
|
| 02:26:36 | I think I will have a little
time off in purgatory as a
result of that, personally.
|
| 02:26:43 | [Applause]
we finished the debate at 8:00.
|
| 02:26:53 | The vote was the next morning.
|
| 02:26:54 | I felt maybe there wasething
more I should do.
|
| 02:26:58 | I still have this sense of
responsibility that you all
feel.
|
| 02:27:01 | That is why you are here.
|
| 02:27:03 | I went and called my wife.
|
| 02:27:07 | We had four children.
|
| 02:27:09 | We had a little one.
|
| 02:27:10 | I said, "i have been debating
all day, but I feel maybe there
is more, maybe there are two or
three senators who are watching
c-span late at night and will
see what I have to say.
|
| 02:27:23 | Maybe I can change their mind.
|
| 02:27:26 | Karen said exactly what she
always said.
|
| 02:27:32 | This time when I sat down with
her in the family, "if that is
what you feel called to do, that
"
I went back out on the floor of
the senate and an hour and a
half later I finish.
|
| 02:27:47 | I am almost done.
|
| 02:27:49 | Don't worry.
|
| 02:27:52 | Packed up the senate, came in
the next morning, and we lost by
the same number of votes we were
going to lose by the night
before.
|
| 02:28:03 | I walked out of that chamber
having gotten into late at night
to see my kids to bed, or even
my wife.
|
| 02:28:09 | I got up the next morning at
and was out before
they were awake.
|
| 02:28:15 | I thought what a horrible that i
had been, what a horrible
husband I had been, another
night were you focused on what
you felt called to do.
|
| 02:28:26 | I thought of the hubris and the
pride I had that somehow I could
make a difference.
|
| 02:28:33 | I beat myself up for days.
|
| 02:28:35 | Five daysmail.
|
| 02:28:38 | It was from a young man from
michigan state university, and
it said the following.
|
| 02:28:44 | The other night, my girlfriend
and I were flipping through the
channels and I saw you standing
on the floor of the senate with
a picture of a little disabled
boy.
|
| 02:28:53 | That is what I was talking
about, the children who are the
targets of partial birth
abortion, children with
disabilities.
|
| 02:29:00 | We did not find out about the
disabilities until later in
he said, "we stopped and
listened.
|
| 02:29:08 | After a few minutes, I looked
down and saw my girlfriend had
tears running down her cheeks,
and I asked her what was wrong.
|
| 02:29:16 | She looked up at me and said, "i
ion scheduled for
next week, but I am not going to
""
[applause]
god will be faithful.
|
| 02:29:44 | He has blessed this land.
|
| 02:29:46 | But he needs his people to
faithful to.
|
| 02:29:50 | That is why you are here.
|
| 02:29:53 | You're responsible to this
country is to select leaders of
the republican party who will go
out in this election and touch
the hearts and souls of the
american public.
|
| 02:30:06 | Someone who will lift their eyes
up.
|
| 02:30:09 | Someone who will help break the
shackles, the siren song of
those in government to said,
"just trust us.
|
| 02:30:18 | Just give us a little bit more.
|
| 02:30:20 | "
take the view that narcotics.
|
| 02:30:27 | The week after the
massachusetts election last
year, I at
fox.
|
| 02:30:35 | It was the day after barack
obama decided to push the senate
health care bill through the
house.
|
| 02:30:42 | I ran into juan williams and
said, "this is crazy.
|
| 02:30:48 | You are going to lose the
election.
|
| 02:30:53 | People are outraged.
|
| 02:30:54 | Even massachusetts does not like
"
they had some experience in it.
|
| 02:31:01 | [Lauthis is what williams told me.
|
| 02:31:06 | He said, "let me tell you what
people in the white house and
nancy pelosi's office said.
|
| 02:31:16 | We believe that americans love
entitlements, and once we get
them hooked on this
entitlement, they will never let
"
why do you think they were
willing to push this bill, in
spite of this and popularity?
|
| 02:31:32 | Why do you think they were
willing to lose this election?
|
| 02:31:36 | Because they knew that obama
care is a game changer.
|
| 02:31:40 | It will change america forever.
|
| 02:31:43 | It will make america the country
that your ancestors left.
|
| 02:31:51 | Don't let that happen.
|
| 02:31:53 | God bless you.
|
| 02:31:54 | God bless america.
|
| 02:31:55 | [Applause]
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nation captioning institute]
[captions copyright national
2011]
can continue to shield from the
damage I have caused.
|
| 02:33:10 | amid a chaotic scene,
congressman resigns in the wake
of a
scandal.
|
| 02:33:22 | Who will succeed him?
|
| 02:33:23 | Joining me with some perspective
is david wasserman.
|
| 02:33:27 | But we appreciate your time on
c-span.
|
| 02:33:31 | for having me --
guest: thanks for having me.
|
| 02:33:37 | I know it I but
what names have been mentioned
to replace him?
|
| 02:33:45 | amazingly enough, this
will be the third special
luncheon in new york state in
recent years.
|
| 02:33:55 | To we have had two sex scandals
that have already created a
special alexians in republican
leaning seats in -- specialty
elections in republican-leaning
seats in upstate.
|
| 02:34:12 | Now it is a democrats turn to
defend a seat in queens.
|
| 02:34:18 | Interestingly enough, this will
be more of a tribal election
than the of state elections we
have seen, which is, the
partisan policy dictates of the
chair of the political party of
the democratic party in queens
will be selecting nominees.
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| 02:34:41 | There will be no primar
election.
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| 02:34:46 | And governor cuomo will be
setting the date for the special
election.
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| 02:34:50 | Everyone is watching joseph
crowley.
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| 02:34:53 | He is share of the queens
democratic party.
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| 02:34:56 | He gets the call on who the
democratic nominee will be.
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| 02:34:59 | They will start out with an
advantage.
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| 02:35:02 | But keep in mind, this is the
least democratic district
nyc.
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| 02:35:08 | This is not a foregone
conclusion and democrats cannot
take the race for granted.
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| 02:35:16 | and his cousin, elizabeth
crowley is a councilman.
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| 02:35:22 | Guest: that is true.
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| 02:35:25 | And there are other names in the
house as well.
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| 02:35:28 | One thing we will be watching is
whether, crowley -- is whether
crowley has the credibility to
mount a campaign.
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| 02:35:43 | It is a very diverse district.
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| 02:35:51 | Here is the ranch in this, n.y.
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| 02:35:56 | Is losing a few seats in
redistricting, and this is a
district that ev has been
looking at since the scandal
broke as one district in the
city, will most likely have to
go.
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| 02:36:11 | Crowley would like to take on
more of queens.
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| 02:36:16 | Currently, his district is in
the bronx.
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| 02:36:18 | He would like to take on more of
his home base near el morris to.
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| 02:36:22 | He would benefit from -- neera
elmhurst.
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| 02:36:27 | He would benefit from
redistricting.
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| 02:36:33 | Many speculate that he would
move into wiener's territory.
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| 02:36:38 | We do not know of the names that
have been mentioned -- you know,
linda calves, it for more city
councilwoman, or his cousin.
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| 02:36:52 | Of the names that have been
mentioned, we do not know who
would be willing to be a
caretaker of the seat, but also
led a vigorous campaign in a
special election against
potential republicans.
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| 02:37:09 | you indicated that the
governor has wide latitude when
it comes to determining when he
will holdhe special election.
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| 02:37:16 | When will he know about the
newly drawn lines in new york
state?
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| 02:37:25 | we will now know about
the lines, most likely, until
run against the filing
deadlines of the summer of next
year.
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| 02:37:42 | Governor cuomo, shelley is over,
the assembly speaker who is a
democrat, and the minority
leader -- or rather, majority
leader in the state senate will
all have to hammer hard a deal
on redistricting.
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| 02:37:59 | -- Hammered out a deal on
redistricting.
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| 02:38:04 | It will be a situation where
most people would expect to run
for a seat for a lame duck
session as a member of congress
before it may be eliminated.
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| 02:38:17 | As we found out in new york's
26th district, the last time the
scandal broke, drawing
conclusions about the special
election at the outside --
outset of the elections can be
hazardous.
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| 02:38:37 | I do not think that the county
clerk what ultimately win that
race and how the county can be
preserved by redistricting.
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| 02:38:46 | There is a greater chance that
will be eliminated, but we will
have to see whether republicans
can mount a credible campaign
that puts the democrats in a
tough spot.
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| 02:39:05 | david wasserman, who
tracks the house of
representatives and the politics
of congress for the "cook
"
the headlines outside of
putting him the
winner on the front page.
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| 02:40:58 | >> White house communications
director, dan pfeiffer, faced
questions with the on-line
community at the sixth annual
netroots nation convention.
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| 02:41:13 | He also talks about the in
administration's economic policy
and the repeal of the don't ask
don't tell all.this is one hour 15 minutes.
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| 02:41:23 | Don't tell
law.
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| 02:41:25 | This is an hour and 15 minutes.
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| 02:41:28 | >> Many of you know her as angry
mouth.
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| 02:41:32 | Please welcome the editor of
daily kos.
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| 02:41:37 | [Applause]
>> for all of its six year
history, not roots nation has
brought our leaders -- netroots
nation has brought our leaders
to talk about politics and
progressives change.
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| 02:42:10 | I am thrilled to be your
representative on stage for
another in a long line of
conversations, this with the
house communications director.
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| 02:42:19 | For the past week, I have been
getting feedback from the
community through facebook,
twitter, and blogs about your
questions for the
administration.
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| 02:42:31 | The questions I am asking today
concern you and are a reflection
of the issues you care about.
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| 02:42:38 | My colleagues and I will be
gathering questions from you
today in real time.
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| 02:42:43 | Here is how you can participate.
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| 02:42:46 | At each of your tables, you will
find index cards and pans.
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| 02:42:51 | You can write your questions.
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| 02:42:53 | Raise your hand, and someone
will pick up your card.
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| 02:42:56 | If you do not have cards at your
table, raise your hand and we
will bring you
you can also send your questions
by twitter.
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| 02:43:05 | pfeiffer to
join me on stage, let me say he
is here with that limitation on
subject matter, so ask away.
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| 02:43:14 | With that housekeeping out of
the way, let me introduce you to
the white house communications
director.
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| 02:43:21 | [Applause]
thank you for joining us here
with the professional left.
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| 02:43:39 | Would you like to make any
introductory comments before we
get started?
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| 02:43:43 | >> Of course.
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| 02:43:45 | Thanks for having me.
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| 02:43:46 | I am excited to be here.
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| 02:43:48 | When it was announced I would
speak today, "huffington post"
wrote that I was heading to the
lion's den.
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| 02:43:58 | That is probably true, in that i
know there are levels of
frustration with some decisions
that have happened in this white
house.
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| 02:44:06 | There is frustration in the
times that the pace of change
has exceeded everyone's
patience, including our own.
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| 02:44:15 | I know that beyond that without
the people in this room today,
barack obama would not be
president of the united states,
people in this room who walked
on doors in the -- knock on
doors in the freezing cold of
iowa so that we could win that
caucus, people who were in the
convention to celebrate barack
obama becoming the first
african-american nominee in a
major party.
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| 02:44:44 | It was the people in this room
who helped put together the
largest grass-roots campaign in
history so we could win that
election, and who helped us to
do a lot of things in the white
house -- help us pass health
part -- health care.
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| 02:45:00 | It means 30 million americans
are going to get health care.
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| 02:45:04 | It is a very important thing.
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| 02:45:08 | People in this room want us to
bring an end the war in iraq
and to do things like repeal
don't ask, don't tell.
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| 02:45:16 | I do that not to get credit or
wax nostalgic, but to be
grateful and know that is the
foundation for some of the big
fights we
we have seen in recent weeks
with the plan paul ryan put
forward and the performance
republican presidential
candidates had onstage on monday
night a very different vision
for this country than the people
room and the president
has.
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| 02:45:41 | It is one that includes massive
tax cuts for the wealthy, and in
medicare as we know it,
privatizing social security,
repealing health care, appealing
don't ask, don't tell, and doing
all of those things.
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| 02:45:56 | We are going to have a lot of
fights together and I hope we
can work together.
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| 02:46:02 | We are going to have the lot of
battles in congress as we fight
to make sure the republican
vision of this country does not
become reality in the coming
weeks and months.
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| 02:46:13 | My hope today is that I can have
an open and honest conversation.
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| 02:46:20 | If there is a thing youustrated by, I will
address --
I will address those and tried
to give you the best
understanding for why he made
the decisions.
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| 02:46:31 | I look forward to having those
conversations.
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| 02:46:34 | >> Thank you again for joining
us.
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| 02:46:37 | Did you your long form
birth certificate with you?
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| 02:46:40 | >> I promise I was going in this
country, even if not everyone
will believe it.
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| 02:46:47 | >> We were soliciting questions
all week fromain questions that
came up over and over again is
about jobs.
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| 02:46:58 | I just wanted to review and
comment we got from broke in
seattle.
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| 02:47:03 | What does the president planned
to do about peo me, who
have been unemployed for more
than three years and are not
getting unemployment benefits?
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| 02:47:12 | Does he have a jobs plan for
people who are over 50 and
already have multiple college
degrees, other than telling us
to gmmunity college
to train for jobs that are not
there?
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| 02:47:24 | What jobs can you train for when
nobody over 50 can get an
interview?
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| 02:47:29 | We have run through our savings
and for a 1 k plans -- 401k
plans and do not have relatives.
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| 02:47:39 | What can you do for us?
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| 02:47:41 | What do you save for a book in
seattle -- for brooke in
>> her story is not unique.
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| 02:47:52 | The president gets these letters
every day.
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| 02:47:55 | They are tragic.
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| 02:47:56 | They are what he thinks about
every morning and every night.
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| 02:48:00 | If we could wave a magic wand
and fix this, we would to keep growing the
economy.
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| 02:48:09 | That is going to include doing
things like investing in
infrastructure, investing in
education, research and
development, high-tech jobs of
th bioscience,
things like that.
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| 02:48:24 | It means doing things sitting in
congress now that could help
people, which includes passing
an infrastructure bill, which
has bipartisan support
get structural things done.
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| 02:48:38 | It requires making sure that
when we are going to have a
pending fight on unemployment
benefits in this country we work
together to make sure the
republicans who have been
fighting us do note is qion that with a
republican majority in the house
this is very challenging.
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| 02:49:01 | >> Earlier this month, you wrote
on the white house blog that
the president wantedchallenging where republicans
are.
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| 02:50:45 | Gosh what of the things that
keeps coming up from the
administration, I understand it
is difficult from an
obstruction of the party and
some democrats that are not as
supportive as you like them to
be.
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| 02:50:58 | It is hard to get things done
that the president talked about
when he was running for the
presidency.
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| 02:51:05 | Is it impossible to get these unless he has
a
super majority in the house and
the senate?
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| 02:51:13 | He said it was next to
done.
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| 02:51:17 | What difference does it make
whether we reelect him?
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| 02:51:23 | >> I will give you several
reasons why it makes a
difference.
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| 02:51:28 | It is challenging.
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| 02:51:31 | We have the historic amount of
things that we got done.
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| 02:51:35 | Was that everything that we got
done?
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| 02:51:38 | I know.
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| 02:51:39 | But we passed a recovery act, a
health care act, don't ask don't
tell.
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| 02:51:48 | >> You are still firing people
for being gay.
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| 02:51:53 | [Applause]
>> in the historic vote,
congress repealed the law.
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| 02:52:01 | Nobody thought that it would
pass through congress.
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| 02:52:06 | >> When will you stop kicking a
gay people out of the military?
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| 02:52:11 | [Applause]
>> that bill has a certification
process in place that is close
to being finished.
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| 02:52:20 | >> When can we expect it?
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| 02:52:22 | >> As soon as we can possibly do
it.
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| 02:52:28 | An orderly transition.
|
| 02:52:30 | >> Speaking of the military, the
w
an libya because u.s.
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| 02:52:41 | Operations do not involve the
same fighting or active
exchanges of fire with hostile
forces.
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| 02:52:47 | And they don't involve u.s.
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| 02:52:49 | Ground troops.
|
| 02:52:51 | It is a little more that we
don't need the authority to do
this.
|
| 02:52:58 | The united states sent a few
military advisers to vietnam.
|
| 02:53:03 | The war was over, how do we know
that libya will turn into a
bigger war?
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| 02:53:12 | -- And that libya won't turn
into a bigger war?
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| 02:53:17 | >> Holly did it in a very
limitedmultilateral prohibition with an
american president.
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| 02:53:26 | It is the opposite of what we
have done in iraq.
|
| 02:53:30 | We only would have done if out
of those circumstances because have forces
marching where they threaten to
go door to door.
|
| 02:53:41 | We had a choice.
|
| 02:53:43 | We could either let that
massacre happened, or we could
do something about it.
|
| 02:53:51 | Now we are heading in the right
direction.
|
| 02:53:56 | I am not a lawyer or an expert
in the war powers act.
|
| 02:54:01 | The way that this is set up
with the very limited role,
we're primarily providing
answers for nato forces.
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| 02:54:10 | This is consistent with what we
did.
|
| 02:54:13 | There is a 60 day provision in
the war powers act and we are
not in violation of that.
|
| 02:54:24 | It is not helpful to our efforts
and when members of congress,
particularly the republican
leadership play politics with
this.
|
| 02:54:37 | And this and example of
politics.
|
| 02:54:41 | In 1999, the speaker thought
that the war powers, that it was unconstitutional
and
ho invoking in this way was not
hellhole.
|
| 02:54:55 | >> Of the republican attacks on
the president from the left are
a little disingenuous at this
point.
|
| 02:55:01 | I think it raises an important
question, should the president,
and the president be able to
wage war without the authority
of congress?
|
| 02:55:12 | >> You should be involved in
limited roles in the
military conflicts like this
one.
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| 02:55:22 | troops are not engaged in
acts of hostility.
|
| 02:55:27 | We're playing a supporting
limited .
|
| 02:55:31 | >> You are saying the you're
guaranteeing us that this is not
going to become a bigger war?
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| 02:55:37 | >> He made a guarantee,
absolutely.
|
| 02:55:41 | >> I would like to ask you about
a different kind of war, a war
that I am particularly concerned
about.
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| 02:55:49 | The war on women.
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| 02:55:50 | [Applause]
we are seeing an unprecedented
number of attacks on women at
the state and level,
anything from contraception to
health care to food stamps.
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| 02:56:04 | Drug-testing, women receiving
welfare in florida.
|
| 02:56:09 | Women in congress are talking
openly about a war on women.
|
| 02:56:15 | I want to know if the president
agrees with nancy pelosi and the
new chairwoman.
|
| 02:56:22 | Is there a war on women?
|
| 02:56:25 | >> There is a sustained effort
from republicans at the federal
and state level to undo a lot of
the progress we have done.
|
| 02:56:35 | The most prominent example was
the effort to defund planned
parenthood a few months ago.
|
| 02:56:44 | The president at that point told
the house republicans that if
they wanted to do it, they would
have to shut down the government
over it.
|
| 02:56:54 | They signed into law an effort
that would illegally defund
planned parenthood.
|
| 02:57:03 | The president is very concerned
about all of these efforts and
the ones from the federal level.
|
| 02:57:12 | The president will do that.
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| 02:57:14 | >> We saw that when it comes
down to it, for the larger
issue, for example, the
president said that accepting
the amendment that punishes poor
women in this country was
unacceptable status quo and we
had put that aside for the
bigger picture.
|
| 02:57:35 | Is there a war on women?
|
| 02:57:39 | >> Let's talk about health care
for a second.
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| 02:57:42 | [Laughter]
amendment was the lot of the
land.
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| 02:57:52 | >> Is renewed every year.
|
| 02:57:55 | >> If we tried to repeal it,
there it be no health reform.
|
| 02:58:00 | That was the choice.
|
| 02:58:02 | It was a very simple choice.
|
| 02:58:07 | You havtwo options.
|
| 02:58:12 | There was no health reform, that
is the to as you have to make.
|
| 02:58:22 | If you have a question about -
war on women is not a phrase
that the president has used.
|
| 02:58:31 | Nancy pelosi has.
|
| 02:58:34 | There is no question that the
very same things that concern
nancy pelosi concern the
president in the same way.
|
| 02:58:46 | >> He talked a lot about the
efforts on planned parenthood.
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| 02:58:52 | I am sure he will speak about it
as well.
|
| 02:58:58 | >> President obama carry a 11 by
a 56-43 margin.
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| 02:59:04 | In 2010, democratic women stayed
home or voted republican.
|
| 02:59:13 | Democratic women that were the
majority of the country and the
majority of the party, we feel
like we are under assault.
|
| 02:59:22 | Does the president think he can
win reelection without those
women that did not show up for
him in 2010?
|
| 02:59:30 | >> Of course not.
|
| 02:59:34 | >> And does hentend to do any
pro-active steps to get the
women in this room, meat, the
women in this country to turn
out in 2012?
|
| 02:59:47 | >> The paycheck fairness act,
the president is a big supporter
of and a big push in congress.
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| 03:00:01 | >> Ok.
|
| 03:00:03 | We have a question from clutter.
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| 03:00:06 | What are the lines you will not
cross while negotiating with the
gop regarding medicare and
social security?
|
| 03:00:17 | >> On those, the
president will do nothing that
will cut benefits, privatize the
program, or change the nature of
the program.
|
| 03:00:29 | There is no question that both
of those programs need to be
strengthened.
|
| 03:00:35 | It is certainly not a driver of
our deficit, same with medicare.
|
| 03:00:42 | There things we can do that was
done on the affordable care act.
|
| 03:00:47 | Like what the president proposed
in the speech he gave a few
months ago that will deal with
the provider side, not the
benefit side of medicare.
|
| 03:00:58 | He is opposed to anything in 100
miles of what the republicans
and paul ryan have put forward.
|
| 03:01:05 | >> Not raising the age limit?
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| 03:01:09 | >> We will make sure that
however we strengthen it is done
in a way that does not change
the fundamental nature of the
program.
|
| 03:01:20 | I will not have a negotiation
with republicans here with you,
but what I can promise youthe president will
strengthen
medicare and he will fight every
effort to change the nature of
the program or end it or
privatize its.
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| 03:01:41 | >> I want to follow up on this
issue of co is the
scene that came up quite a bit.
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| 03:01:50 | I looked at what senator barack
obama wrote in 2005 talking
about how you deal with an
obstructionist party.
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| 03:01:59 | This is what he said.
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| 03:02:02 | Whenever they are wrong or
dishonest, he should face those
clearly and repeatedly.
|
| 03:02:09 | We should respond quickly and
forcefully.
|
| 03:02:15 | Truth as we best know it will be
the hallmark of our response.
|
| 03:02:20 | Here is my question.
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| 03:02:22 | Republicans have been very
effective at promoting their
with no respect for tone or
true.
|
| 03:02:32 | It seems to have been fairly
effective, actually.
|
| 03:02:36 | At what point will the president
responded quickly and
forcefully with truth as the
hallmark of his response rather
than concern for the proper
tone?
|
| 03:02:52 | >>, The president has and will
continue to respond to
republicans.
|
| 03:02:56 | If the argument is that the town
doesn't matter, it does matter
because there are a lot of
people in this room and in
washington that are very
partisan and have a lot of anger
towards the other party.
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| 03:03:15 | I am like that a lot of the
time.
|
| 03:03:18 | There are also a lot of people
in this country that are less
engaged in politics and are
turned off by the partisan back
and forth that is dominating so
much in washington.
|
| 03:03:31 | The president was elected
because he wanted to transcend
it.
|
| 03:03:37 | If you don't fight for what you
believe in.
|
| 03:03:40 | He did that in the midterm
alexians.
|
| 03:03:45 | >> They did not work out very
well for him.
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| 03:03:49 | >> That is not why.
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| 03:03:52 | >> A lot of lies, ugly tone, and
they did pretty well on that in
2010.
|
| 03:03:59 | That does not like they will be
changing that strategy in 2012.
|
| 03:04:03 | Will it not work for them?
|
| 03:04:06 | >> I don't think it was the best
strategy for democrats to stoop
to the things that they do.
|
| 03:04:15 | That is not how we won in
thailand that -- 2008 or how we
will win in 2012.
|
| 03:04:22 | >> The president also says we
should be able to agree on
certain principles.
|
| 03:04:27 | He is open to any good idea
regardless of where it comes
from.
|
| 03:04:33 | Can you name a good deal of the
republicans have proposed?
|
| 03:04:37 | >> I will give you one.
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| 03:04:40 | The individual mandate in the
health care bill.
|
| 03:04:44 | A republican idea.
|
| 03:04:47 | The tax credits for small
businesses that were passed as part of the
recovery act or
since then.
|
| 03:04:55 | Some of those were republican
ideas.
|
| 03:04:57 | There are ideas from the middle
part of the republican part,
those would be a mistake toy idea simply
because it came from a
republican.
|
| 03:05:11 | >> Ok.
|
| 03:05:13 | Does the president still think
that bipartisanship is possible?
|
| 03:05:21 | is
whether it is necessary.
|
| 03:05:25 | There will not be a law that
gets to the president's desk
that does not have some measure
of republican support.
|
| 03:05:33 | That is the natur>> this is a perfect example.
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| 03:06:24 | There were two choices in this.
|
| 03:06:28 | A bill extending only the middle
class tax cuts that the
president would have signed not pass the
united states
senate.
|
| 03:06:38 | The choices were to either
extend the bush tax cuts for the
wealthy along with the middle
class tax cutact, which led to the poorest
americans, or you could let them
all expired.
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| 03:06:58 | The president believes that it
would not have been the right
thing to do or the progressive
thing to do to give a massive
tax increase to the middle class
and working americans simply to
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