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Information flows and there is not a lot of fact checking. Judy get my pressure up on that. I would just echo that because i think the current climate makes it so much more difficult to get your message out. And there are so many other vehicles. But i do think it is a tremendous opportunity because you can also be much more creative. And also to the Public Affairs side, i have seen more and more Public Affairs being done on the international front. That has just boomed. Frederick thank you, sarah. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you all for being with us this evening for this forum. I hope you have enjoyed hearing a little bit about the careers of these three fine Public Servants who are doing Different Things now than in bushs administration. We thank you for being here. If you would join me in thanking , our guests. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] frederick president s bush thank you for being with us tonight. [applause] frederick and i have one more swag to do. [applause] frederick if you would, please, remain in your seats so the bushs can depart and then we ask you to join us in the foyer. Thank you very much for being with us tonight. [applause] New York Times chairman and publisher and executive editor discuss the times future in the digital age. About half of the newspaper subscriptions are solely for digital content. In major shift for an organization that begin offering digital only subscriptions just four years ago. Mr. Baquet says do was and is better because technology. Says it journalism is better because technology. Journalism is better today than it ever will because there are many more tools. I grew up in new orleans reading afternoon newspapers. I only had access to one newspaper. The same could you grows up in new orleans in a workingclass family now has access to as many newspapers as he can push a button four. Access to video, the whole world. We shouldnt get so caught up in the debates over the form and we should not get so caught up in some of the romantic aspects of journalism, which i grew up in. It will be better 10 years from now. We are in a mode of testing, learning, adapting. If you dont have the courage to try new things and grow, you are going to fail. That is just the reality of the world we are in. So i actually applaud what dean and his colleagues did, which is to increasingly say, lets put the story out when the story is ready. There are some people who are going to read it then and others will read it later in print. It is not about the device. When i say device, i mean print as well. As eu said some decades ago, we must it increasingly that means mobile. The future of the near times in the digital age. Tomorrow night, at eastern eight eastern. The Christian Science monitor held a discussion analyzing voters and issues in the 2016 president ial election. They discuss the results of the national the views of likely voters. The data indicates unmarried women, millennials and minorities represent a majority of voting eligible citizens. The event looked at the candidates and Supreme Court rulings on health care and samesex marriage. This is about an hour. Were going to let the rest of our colleagues join us in progress, as they say. Thanks for coming. Our guest this morning are stan greenberg. He founded his company 1980 after teaching at yale where he won a good nine fellowship. He has a bachelor degree and a masters from harvard. [laughter] graduated from Montgomery Blair high school. [laughter] all right. Page gardner has been a guest in our past as well. Founder and president she is here in her role as president of womens vote fun. It organizations goal is increasing the participation of unmarried women and other historically underrepresented groups. She has a high honors degree from duke. Now onto the ever popular process portion of our program. I did much better with this before my stroke. Just kidding. No live blogging or tweeting. None of any kind while the breakfast is underway, to give us time to listen to what our guests say. To help you we will email several pictures of the session. As regular attendees know, if you would like to ask a question, send me a nonthreatening signal. We will start out making elves of opening comments. The opening remarks will be somewhat longer than usual. Thanks again for doing this. Page thank you for letting us share our research here. We are here to talk about, in part, the rising american electorate. Millennials, people of color and unmarried, particularly unmarried women, and they will be central to 2016 and the election cycle upcoming. They are the majority of people who can vote. In the past, they have not been the majority of people who do vote. In 2016, for the first time, they will be the majority of people who can vote. The new american majority will set the new american agenda and this Research Points that out. In addition to the horse race in terms of congressional candidates, we see three under flying. Women and family issues, and an overall agenda race. Enthusiasm and one of the challenges presented to us as the rising american electorate looks to 2016, they are less enthusiastic. 40 scored 10 on a sliding scale of 110. Very interested, versus those who score that is a challenge. The women and issues agenda, this will be one way to make sure the rise of the american electorate becomes more enthusiastic. Paid sick, equal pay, affordable childcare. These kinds of issues begin to excite particularly unmarried women and get them more enthusiastic. Finally, there is a broader agenda we will discuss today including things like college affordability, infrastructure, and jobs. Its broader agenda combined with elements of reform one is government reform. Is the government working for you . The other is money and politics reform. You have got two pieces of the reform agenda central to combining with an Overall Economic agenda. As we go into the race, we see the horse figures from the horse race, and we also seeing these underlying agenda items. Stan thank you very much. Thank you to the monitor for the long tradition of inviting us to share in real time. Everything is published. You can have access to all questions, it is all part of it. One of the things page has been great about is believing transparency added to the credibility of it. A lot of polls where you struggle. This is not one of those polls. This is completed before last week. We assume the president s standing will rise. Even in this poll, it rises. We are focused on the much Bigger Picture here. This is an electorate in which the republican brand has become so toxic, led by the leaders of congress purity will see they hit their low low point. That combined with a cultural shift reflected in other polls in terms of the number of people who call themselves conservative in the country. It is producing an electorate courtesy big margins for democrats and bigger margins congressionally, bigger than we have had before and in some time. There is a huge Enthusiasm Gap in the poll. That is stunning in degreen what happened, even though we do not expect to happen what happened in 2014, there is no doubt republicans are engaged in fighting trends in the country that engage them, that is still evident in this poll. You will see the results in here. When you do focus groups, from the political klass come along with workingclass voters generally, you will see the Political Class operating its own interests, dominated by money, gridlock, which we believe significantly contributes to the sense the country is on the wrong track, pessimism, that sets up, that tilts us back toward the republicans, despite being poor about. The third poll confirming a trend we have just not taken that is that the democrat progressives get hurt when reform of government and politics is central to the message. There is a significant shift in enthusiasm amongst unmarried women, white and unmarried women, that comes as a consequence of an agenda, a very broad agenda with activist government combined with going after money and politics and making government worth it for people who are struggling. We do not view it we do not believe progressives should be cautious in changing government. They will not win unless they voted for change. Voting for change also means changing the way government operates. Let me just highlight some of that with a few graphs. I will not present all of these. You have the full set. If you go to grass seven, this is a line where we track the parties. At the bottom right, you can see the term for republicans in congress, it is the change that is the biggest in this poll. We look at the favorability thermometer ratings from barack obama, to Hillary Clinton, to the Republican Party, minus nine, to the republican congress, then you get to the leaders, john boehner and mitch mcconnell. Who have staggering numbers in terms of how negative the perceptions are. Slide nine, you can see it is the Second Lowest point since we have pulled, the lowest point for mcconnell. They are clearly driving the republican brand. Negative territory, which is setting up congressionally. When you look at focused strips, you can see it is a combination of gridlock for the wealthy. Not a huge change in the perception that the Republican Party is up for sale, that money is playing a huge part of that that permeates congress, both great rock and who therefore. The other thing going on is hold back from conservatives. You look at graph 11 and you see that red is the percentage who identify as conservative. It is now at 35 in our poll. Liberals have moved up steadily even through 2014. You have seen a steady trend. After 2014, driven both by the president ial campaign and by congress. You can see our thermometer tracking for prolife groups undocumented immigrants, all that we track, everyone of them is on a more level trend than they have seen in other polls. These choices are taking place in that context. This is obamacare before the Supreme Court decision. We have watched a slow the rise in its standing. It is the first pull we have had in which the negatives and positives are almost equal after it has been sharply negative i a lot by a lot. Told range of things appear to be moving in a way that is creating a fairly positive environment. You then have an election in which 16 were Hillary Clinton lead is stable from our poll. Impressive given you will see her personal ratings have gotten more negative but it has not translated into a vote. What defines her position is overwhelming support amongst married women unmarried women and minority voters, secular voters. Democratic voters are voting for her in big numbers. Keep in mind, they will be 55 of the electorate in 2016. In a president ial electorate. If you include the people on top of that, youre talking about 63 of the electorate. When you talk about these kinds of numbers with groups forming a big majority of the electric, it is possible to win unless you have an enthusiasm problem that i will talk about. Past that, you can look at the actual votes. The most important thing to look at is the challenge, which is the enthusiasm measure when you are interested in what is happening. You see a huge gap from democrats and republicans. Seniors are very high. Two thirds, giving the highest ratings participation paired you go down to minority voters unmarried women, 46 , and millennials a 35 . That base of the Democratic Party begins quite negatively. The issue is going to be how you get them engaged. You look at 25 and you can see some of the focused Group Results on how much politics have dominated by money, how distant it is for average people. I will let you read this quote. There is a reason why, even though theyre giving democrats big numbers, the lack of enthusiasm is grounded in an analysis the way the political system operates. You can look at whether the country is in the right direction or not, unmarried women are 55 the wrong track. A democratic president. Voting in large numbers for democrats to succeed. Nonetheless think the country is in trouble or unmarried women are. 25 of the electorate and will be for sure. And they high proportion of democrats. Them having those attitudes is quite critical. How do you change that is move the agenda. A combination of taking on the way politics happens and taking on the way government operates in who the Government Works for. At the beginning of any subject, they start with talking about they think this is the money they believe politicians are lining their pockets. We tested and rotated whether you began with reform first you are on page 30 stan 33. You can see the huge report, and all these agenda items have gotten bigger and bigger. Making sure working with them to get equal pay same as worth, and the company starts opening up opportunities to women of all levels. Dont raise the entire the retirement age, seniors depend on checks to survive. Each one of these are bigger. You can see in 34 that the ones who drive the vote and the agenda or favor democrats on the economy are dealing with work and family issues, dealing with pay. These policies are 10 points stronger than all republican there is a huge difference between the parties. And then on 38, you can see two pieces that open up the political process. Transparency on money and limits on donations, empowering small donations, what is interesting because people have always use these things as not things really people vote on, we put them into the lists on the other issues on the agenda, they are in the middle or the upper part attacking the way politics are done. The last thing on page 40 is the form of government. It is probably a little bit stronger than things that get subsidies for the rich out of what theyre doing. They are strong for unmarried women. I will go to the end of the deck, 45. What you see, and again, here we are looking at your level of enthusiasm. You see at the end of this, you push up a significant push up on the agenda and it is more for democrats than for republicans as the agenda moves toward greater enthusiasm. And it is greater for the women. Let me stop there. Im happy to go through any part of this. Given the structural advantages, which seem to have grown, they will translate, but whether they are deep enough and broad enough, and also bring the congressional along, requires looking at this in a much more fundamental way then bringing the agendas that address reform and policy. Unmarried women and the unmarried electorate, enabling you to win at a big enough level to really affect. Let me ask one or two dozen then we go around the table. Given what you have just said, this might not the this would be a Better Climate for Bernie Sanders van for Hillary Clinton, right . [laughter] stan no. Why not . Stan she did make, before this, she did make one of her key pillars of her election dealing with Campaign Money and raise the issue of the constitutional amendment in the context of money. It will be interesting to see how this plays down in terms of the story and the poet in the post on money in the bush world. I think there will be a broad sense of that is the way politics work. I think that will push for it teeing Even Stronger in advocacy on going after money and going after the way Government Works. You can i ask another question mark i was struck by the New York Times piece a week ago now about election polling in near crisis and they cited an increasing number of homes that only have cell phones, willing to answer surveys likely voters, and the result is pollsters will be less reliable and may not even know when they are off pace. I thought, given your long experience, would let you say whether you agree with that . Stan they set up question . This being the only poll that you could trust, and the reason, i am not just saying that, the reason is 60 on cell phones. Stan right. And also, we are the only ones in a national poll. We are only dealing with people who voted in the prior president ial or they have a very high press to start with, they are voters. Were not trying to guess. These are voters, probably two thirds or 70 of the people we are interviewing have voted in a prior president ial election. 6 cell phones, that is expensive. Our assessment of the numbers does prove they are right. Fortunately, people who support this i did not mean it as an attack on you. But for the industry as a whole, given that we are coming into a heavy polling era, should voters and news consumers be more concerned . Stan no. Some of the news organizations we work for, we do bipartisan polls. An increasing number of those. The l. A. Times poll is by far the most accurate. They had serious samples off the voter files, hispanic representation. All of them are moving to not cell phones, but internet and webbased surveys, because the cost is so great. I think our challenge will be even greater. I think our problem is not the landline problem. Because of the cost of dealing with cell phones, the alternative they are moving to is doing web service. We have no experience with it. We polled for the labour party. In my past pulling for the labour party, this time, the labour party only paid for. We had a poll that did show the election getting closer. It turned out to be right. It also turned out there was not any real difference between the web based polls in the British Elections in the ones that were done by regular phone samples. I think we are in the middle of which country. My experience in the u. S. Is the databases are not as strong in the u. S. As in britain. We will go to to start. Hillary lost women to obama in 17 states or 17 contests, i should say, and did less well among unmarried women. She has always had a problem generally, attracting unmarried women in the election. How do you overcome that now . How do she overcome that now . Stan we do not pull in the primaries. I would be surprised if she did less well than obama. Given the high proportion of africanamericans who are unmarried, a racial effect rather than if we look at her position right now, she is doing well and better with unmarried women. And i believe with white workingclass than obama did. She is doing much less well in this poll. Page we did not take a look at all the primary contests. We did some and we did see as the race was joined there was movement. But getting back to a stan was talking about earlier, i think you see in terms of the four pillars she has put together something that addresses the lives of unmarried women specifically and their concerns about a government that works for them, and economy for the future. I think there will be a lot of excitement around unmarried women for the candidacy and, as stan has seen, what we are seeing in our poll, white unmarried women are doing this and it is impressive. I have a dove or dutch Double Barrel question. When you talk about this group in which the enthusiasm or intensity is high but the turnout rate is low, do we know what the actual turnout rate has been for the entire group which you have added to . Can you say in those groups individually or in combination what the turnout rate has in . Page in 2012, they were 48 of the electorate. Just the rising american electorate, even though in 2012, they were the majority of people who could, yeah, 48 . Based on the trend it is like 64 . That 48 , 55 the second barrel on this is why is the democratic edge so thin . Are we talking about voting groups . We are looking right now, im not sure i want what the republicans have. The lower the standing of the Republican Party. I think Hillary Clinton is a strong candidate. As she is being attacked broadly. That she is a strong candidate. And i think probably will be aided by the primaries and will probably the moved more quickly. If she were not there, there is a whole bunch who might emerge as candidates in the Democratic Party. Win the nomination. I should ask you on behalf of the group, other than friendship, is there a relationship that you have with hillary . What should we be telling republican candidates about putting together winning a Coalition Given the shifting electorate . Stan pretty fundamental. My backdrop is, you know, the new democrats and former had to do to win both the party and the country. There really is a pretty sustained party for them coming into that. We had a president ial for a long time. It took to mulch was primaries in which we battled. We do not win until after the primary, a process, to make a turn to say we are a different party. It isnt like take some physicians and then in order to balance, you know, liberal, then take other positions. He ran against union control. It was true of bill clinton. We ran welfare reform in georgia in the primary. Able to say to the country, we beat the old forces and we are now a different kind of party, a different kind of democrat. They need to have a defeat with a candidate that is the mainstream of the party, and then go through the process of reforms. We took off a few issues that work better in the general election. The problem is you have unmarried women were you have the population growing, big changes for the country, but they are fighting it is not just that there is a trend. They are defined by their battle against those trends. We are not just looking at a line. We are looking at a line they view as something theyre trying to forestall or keep that majority from governing in its own name and its own value. Page if you look at what is going on now and terms of the lives of most americans, they do not understand why the candidates in the Republican Party fundamentally do not get it. Whether it is equal pay, and this is men and women together. Paid sick days, a formal childcare, fundamental issues that make the lives of working americans strong. They do not see a little bit of tone deafness is around it. Stan we tested the republican agenda and a test 10 points lower overall. You want to look at the bottom of things that are really low, with 22 , cut regulations, weaken unions, reducing deficit and Government Spending and page 35. If you want to take the issues at the bottom of their list, it is what they care about, what they really talk about. New logo to alexis from real clear politics. Thinking about the ensued the Enthusiasm Gap, for a democratic candidate to follow a twoterm democratic president into the white house, thinking about the Enthusiasm Gap Hillary Clintons agenda so far is not that different from president obama here at what is it about the democratic candidate agenda that you would suggest might be missing . What im thinking of is that of voters are somewhat demoralized or downbeat about a democratic president working with a republican congress, has been blockaded on some of the issues they care most about it what can the candidates say to voters this time to persuade them not just to be enthusiastic about the agenda, that that it could actually be fulfilled . I think that is a harder problem. You can see it in the group. People do not think any of this will happen. It is not just because were following obama. It is because they think washington is so corrupt and gridlocked so i do think, it is the main problem, getting people to believe change is happening. It is not because it is the third term for barack obama. It is because the whole political system is uniquely corrupted. I think the old patterns of twoterm president s are meaningless. What matters is how deep a critique people have of what is happening politically. That is the context. I was so take the deck handed handed to her president obama, as he gets to the end of his term, the economy will continue in macro terms. Over 50 approval, disproven probably for a sustained time, i would not mind. The president was on this agenda. The country was not thinking it was dealing with this agenda. The first time youre really talking about this is this years state of the and a Strong Economy that is working, that people have hundreds of thousands of jobs. It was not about both happening in the middleclass. It is not his agenda. I think hillary has a big opportunity economically and more broadly. Page i would also add in the research you see, one of the signs of who was working for you, she and the democrats in congress had a big advantage on that. I agree with stan in terms of the clinical pattern. Right now, who do the American People think they just think are working for them and you see a clear advantage. Just a followup for hillary, is there anything she is not saying that she should, as a candidate, stress more, based on what you have discerned . It is early. I thought it was very much in line. Looked at it and said, well, questionnaire no, it seems to me those are pretty bold issues, very much in line with the boldness, she is also talking about working women and cleaning up money. To me, she seems to me moving toward this direction. If i am wondering the decisions of the Supreme Court and the movement of the country in the last week due in terms of Enthusiasm Gaps were talking about. On gay rights, and to some degree the racial sensitivity from charleston. Does that have the effect of dampening the Enthusiasm Gap because their victories for the democrats and embolden republicans who are so inflamed. I listened to mark within this morning on obamacare. This is totally without data but i can promise you every democrat i have seen seems pretty hyped up and energized by this decision. If there is the perception he is a successful president , i think democrats are energized by that. We are watching a trend line nine on ideology and cultural symbols moving in a particular direction. It looks like one side is winning. They have to give it may lead to complacency but i do not think so. I am assuming there is more disgruntlement that your leaders are failing you defending our values. Just a followup, you do not think republicans could take from these positions enough to generate enthusiasm on their side . I do not see the logic and for those who want to argue for different kinds of party directions, yes, you could make an argument or maybe in his announcement, he will say this is a turning point. We need to worry as much about the poor as christian values say we should. Maybe he will come with a different perspective that will make it hurt, certainly by the media. Republicanbased voters will listen. But it is theoretical. I do not see the logic of it with republicans or conservatives. We will try to get to rick klein, karen bowen, cameron joseph, and david. Rick from abc news. You make the comparison a long public and leadership with john boehner and Mitch Mcconnells if that did not matter to voters in the 2014 midterms when the leadership was actually in question on the ballot, and republicans gain ground, why would it matter in 2016 and related to that arent they just one popular president ial candidate away from turning around . Talking about the president ial candidate, does it work in the reverse . You are absolutely right, i have watched and hoped for the kind of effect to play out in president ial elections. It was harder given the nature of the electorate. And success doing the op. Cit. Not their congressional leaders, but about nationalizing around obama and stopping obama. There is some evidence in this whole that for some groups beginning to line up the congressional vote in the president ial vote. If you look at 21, one of the things reflected in the vote which had a strong president ial margin for hillary over two candidates who tested, and all had a stronger democratic vote. That was where you see the margin between the vote for congress and president. Pretty small but you are beginning to see not only a very strong vote for hillary, but also a strong congressional vote. It is not generic. Ours is main. In each district, we asked to the congressional incumbents name and generic. We have shown a shift. There is some evidence here, and hillary is attacking the congress, unlike obama, where he was much more making the case for his own presidency and the direction of it, sees very much what the republicans are doing on education, spending, as they produce a reauthorization of the education, talking about the cuts and research, you know the Research Budget of the federal government, he seems to be bringing congress into the narrative more than obama did. 52 on the enthusiasm has really got my attention. [laughter] the polls show generally the public does not like republican leadership. Hillary clinton in her speech, this agenda toward working people. Republicans, what your poll finds his do not like. How did they get to 67 percent . Why are republicans so jazzed to vote . Do they not like obama, is that it . They do not like obama, they do not like Hillary Clinton. I think when they watch the Supreme Court, which may be the point you were making earlier, when they watched the Supreme Court on gay marriage, and other issues on the aca, they see the only things to stop them who win an election and stop them. The issues to them are, trying to stop something as opposed to democrats, a change of governments that needs to be reformed and order to bring change. The more competent argument for democrats. Page i also see you go over time. If the argument is are articulated from now until the end, you see the enthusiasm level dross pretty significantly. It is just a matter of articulating an agenda that speaks to their lives that includes economic lives as well as getting something done to make government work for them. Is this 67 a floor or a scenery or a ceiling . They just elected a Congress Really ever public and leaders for the first time in a very long time. They have the start of the president ial election with many candidates. You can see why in particular. Democrats, particularly unmarried women, have fairly mixed views. The Approval Rating is pretty big among unmarried women. We have to move them. The agenda that does it, the evidence here is it does move them, once you advance an agenda which shows you want to change the way politics and governance works, as well as the economic policy. Page there is another piece to that come increasing enthusiasm but also optimism particularly among unmarried women to you saw how pessimistic currently they are. I think there is a lot of movement there as well. I would like to ask the republican field at this point i see your polling Shows Hillary would do better against walker than rubio. Is there anything to that . Related to that, we are seeing searches for candidates like ben carson, trump is doing well in new hampshire, two people just come on their publican side, just not really know what they want yet or are not really familiar enough with the candidates, or do you think there is something in the numbers about telling us what the Republican Voters want . Stan the differences are not real statistically. We view them as comparable strengths. We will probably still rotate other candidates in. We did not come out of this saying, well, one of these is stronger. We did not pull the primary audience. As i look in 2012, the nominee if he had not withdrawn in iowa, think all of them elected, nothing will be out of the race. Just a, waited out, presumably giving you enough money, i think they sustain the race as long as possible and you have a winner take all system. The system is tilted toward winner takes all. This thing could play out in very surprising ways to we have a lot of evidence. I think it is still unpredictable. To me, the only protectable thing is how jeb bush is and how unwell he is as a candidate. He is not compelling to some of the general election numbers. A whole argument is we need somebody who can run and win the general election. Stronger as a candidate, i do not quite understand the logic of it paired but also, is there a base for establishing our polling, about 25 . And i think hes barely competing with other candidates. Who are the voters jeb bush grabs hold of . I think it will be highly unpredictable. Everyone can take the day because they can play out in the primaries and winner take all. Im not trying to be rude but i have got to squeeze too does people into three minutes. Cameron . Cameron the other thing i was wondering, we have not talked much about National Security here. In 2014, some of the races their losing foot because of married women in the last six weeks of the election because of all of those issues. Pelicans talking a lot of security right now secretary of state. How compelling for the electorate as a whole, how do you avoid that being a motivating issue for the other side . The opposite observations with other issues that would likely explain that, i do not downplay the importance of National Security this week would play in the election. Not prominent in this poll, we were focused more on the economic agenda in the government agenda. Our polls will include that here the election for the president of United States, huge uncertainties. Globally. Europe, russia, isis, the middle east. I am sure the issues will be important. I think hillary historically brings strength to that, as secretary of state, experience strong, having taken positions in these issues that allows them to establish some independence on these issues. We have no data on this. It is obviously important. Last question, david. David i want to go back to obamacare. Different views about why people feel the way they do some people argue as folks became more accustomed to it, others saying really, just a proxy for how people feel about the president. You have any sense of what is striving the upper trend, is it the law itself, the president , some mix . Stan the line does not correlate very well with his overall Approval Rating. Im skeptical of that is a theory. I would not have accepted the obamacare labeling of it given how polarized the country is. The a formal care act is clearly low clearly the right place to be on it. I did not i think they did not sell the law as transformative enough. The fundamental problem was selling it. It is transformable. It is a fundamental change. But it was sold as, if you have insurance, you can keep it. Minimum change. In fact, a huge impact on affordable coverage, a huge effect. No idea. However, bottom line, it is seen as a requirement, an individual mandate because the employer part was delayed, it is seen as an individual mandate. They also see policies and have big deductibles. People are really struggling financially even though they are being helped, it is nonetheless still a struggle when you have big deductibles. Unmarried women in particular are feted by that and we spent time talking about that paraguay wouldnt Hillary Clinton or democrats come out for a public option . Without deductibles, as an amendment, if you want to focus on what people understand, it would be being able to choose an option. I think genuine issues, it is not just random. There are genuine issues, the whole support level. [indiscernible] stan im just assuming it is working. It is having a huge impact. So the coverage i think is very different. Page i think it is an important experience and a good one despite some issues around economic strains it is putting on people. You hear that in the groups. Were out of time. Thank you both very much. We appreciate it. Thank you to my reporter colleagues for coming. Page thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] a few feature programs for the threeday Holiday Weekend on the cspan network. Tonight, and interview with Arthur Sulzberger junior on the future of the times. Sunday night members of the church committee, walter mondale, gary hart on the groundbreaking efforts to reform the intelligence community. Tonight on afterwards, carol broken on why the bill of rights was created and the debate it spurred. Join our threehour conversation with peter schweitzer. He has written a dozen books including clinton cash and throw them all out. Tonight, here a Brooklyn College classroom lecture on the revolutionary war and how individual personalities often influence the outcomes of major battles. Sunday afternoon, a look back at a 1960s film about a nationwide search for old circus flagons and the circus world museums efforts to restore them in time for a july 4 parade in milwaukee. Get our complete schedule at cspan. Org. The cspan cities to her is partnering with our cable affiliates as we travel across the United States. Join us and coxe communications this weekend as we learn about the life of omaha nebraska where the decorous club was one of americas first advocacy groups fighting for racial equality. Omaha had a reputation in the United States as a city, that when you came in, if you are black, you needed to keep your head down and be aware you werent going to be served in restaurants. You werent going to be able to stay in hotels. When the do for his club began their operation, the idea that civil rights they used the term social justice the the idea of civil rights was so far removed. They were kind of operating in a vacuum. They were operating without a net. There were not those support groups. There were not the prior experiences of other groups to challenge Racial Discrimination and segregation. We look back to the Union Pacific and the construction of the Union Station contributed to omahas economy. Union pacific is one of the premier Railroad Companies of america. It was founded in 1852. It combined several Railroad Companies to make Union Pacific and then they were charged with building the transcontinental rail world railroad that would connect the east and west coast. They started here, moving west and Central Pacific started on the west coast and was moving east. They met up in utah. That is what propels us even farther. We become that point of moving west, one of the gateways to the west. See all of our programs from omaha throughout the day on cspan2s book tv, and sunday afternoon on American History tv on cspan3. On tuesday, new Jersey Governor Chris Christie announced he is a republican candidate for president in 2016. He made a speech at Livingston High School alongside his family and supporters. This is about half hour. Mr. Christie thank you. Thank you. Thank you, new jersey. Thank you. Thank you to livingston. Lots of people have asked me over the course of the last week why here . Because everything started here for me. Everything started here for me. The confidence, the education, the friends, the family, and the love that i always felt for and from this community when i decided to make this announcement, there was not any choice. I had to come home and livingstons home for me. [cheers and applause] i want to thank a dear friend of my moms and wonderful representative of this town for welcoming us here today. And i want to thank my friend some of you may be confused. It may be you thought she was being booed by her High School Classmates. She was not for reasons i will not explain. Her nickname in high school was the juice. Hence it is not a boo. It is the juice. I am here because this is where my family raised me. You have heard a lot about my mother and father. All of us know that for good and for bad, where we come from is from our parents. And so you heard sheila and lynn talk about my mom today. I am here and livingston because all those years ago, my mother and father became the first of either of their families to leave the city of newark and come here and make this home for us. My mom is not with us today but i feel her and my dad is here with me today and i am privileged to have him. We were right here when we were four years old in two years old and then our sister joined us a few years later. This is where we grew up. These are the fields we played on. These are the playgrounds we played on. This is the school we built our friends with and up until i left to share a room with very had a shared a room with todd the entire time you may was a smooth transition. My sister dawn and todd are his egg apart of today as anyone else. I they are both here and i love them. [applause] everyone thinks i am the politician in the family. We did a coin flip when i got married. I am the guy who ran but the politician just as good as me is the woman i met all those years ago at the university of delaware. From a family of 10 people people say why arent you shy in a crowd and i say you should see the family and married into. My wife has been an indispensable part of everything i have done with my life over the last 30 years. She is largely responsible for the formation people that you see standing with her. Ever since i have been governor i have in happy to use the veto at home. So far, so good. I am glad they are here today and for andrew and sarah and patrick and bridget, i could not the prouder of four children than i am of them. I told you my parents moved to livingston to make this part of their fulfillment of their dream. Of their murder version of the American Dream. They both lost their fathers at a young age. And were raised i extraordinarily strong women under really difficult circumstances. My dad, one of the best students in his High School Class admitted to Columbia University because his father passed away he could not go. They did not have the money. He went to work and he got drafted into the army and came home and went to work at the breyers ice cream plant in newark, new jersey and decided after he met my mom that it was time for him to make more with his life and he went to school at night for six years while working at those jobs during the day to get his degree in accounting and my mother, one of the proudest pictures that she ever had was the one she called our first Family Picture. It was my mom and dad on the day he graduated from rutgers in june of 1962. The first person ever to get a College Degree and it was the first Family Picture because she was six months pregnant with me. The smiles on both their faces that day were indicative of not what they had accomplished but what they saw coming ahead of them. Their smiles were about the fact that they thought nothing was out of reach for them now. They had each other. They were building a family. They worked together, and with the help of both of those strong women, they gave them 5,000 each, probably all the money they had in the world to put a down payment on a house in this town to give their children a chance to take the dream they had started to build and to make it even bigger and even better. So im not only think about my mom and dad today, i think about my two grandmothers, women who raised children largely on their own, women who knew how to work hard and knew that hard work would deliver something for their children and i know that both of them are watching down today and part of today is the fulfillment of their dream, too. I am thinking about both of them. One of the things my mother always used to say all the time was if you work hard enough, you can be anything. She said god has given you so many gifts. If you just work hard enough you can be anything. And that story is proof, it is proof parents who came from nearly nothing except for that hard work. Parents who brought little to their marriage except for their love for each other and that hard work. And that hard work not only produced a great life for me and my brother and sister but think about how amazing this country is that one generation removed from the guy who was working on the floor of the plant at the breyers ice cream place, his son is the twoterm governor of the state where he was born and raised. [applause] that is not only what my parents have done for me but that is what new jersey has done for us. This place that represents the most ethnically diverse state in the country, the most densely populated state in the country we are all different and we are on top of each other like you are on top of each other in this gym. [laughter] and what has come from that is the absolute belief that not only can all achieve what we want to achieve because of the place we live and we cannot only do it together, we have no choice. This country needs to Work Together again, not against each other. When i became governor six years ago, we had a state that was an economic calamity, and 11 billion deficit. Estate that had the a state that no longer believed that any one person could make a difference in the lives of the people so we rolled up our sleeves and we went to work and we balance this budget and we refused to raise taxes on the people of this state for six years. We made the hard decisions that had to be made to improve our education system. We reformed tenure. We made the difficult decisions to reform pensions and Health Benefits and continue that fight today. We have stood together against each and every person, every cynic who said why are you wasting your time, this state is not governable. We proved not only can you governor the state you can lead it to a better day and that is what we have done together. And now we face a country that is not angry. When i hear the media say that our country is angry i know they are long wrong. I met people in every corner of america and they are not angry. Americans are not angry. Americans are filled with anxiety. Because they look to washington, d. C. And they see a government that not only does not work anymore, it does not even talk to each other. It does not pretend to try to work. We have a president who ignores the congress and the congress that ignores the president. We need a government that remembers you went there to work for us, not the other way around. [applause] both parties have failed our country. Both have stood in the corner and held their breath and waited to get their own way. Both parties have led us to believe that in america, a country that was built on compromise that somehow compromise is a dirty word. If washington and adams believed compromise is a dirty word, we would still be under the crown of england. And this dysfunction, this lack of leadership has led to an economy that is weak and has not recovered the way it should. It has led to an educational system that has the 27th in the industrialized world in math and 24th in science. It led us to weaker leadership around the world where our friends can no longer trust us and our adversaries do not fear us. This weakness and indecisiveness have sent a wave of anxiety through our country but im here to tell you that anxiety can be swept away by strong leadership and decisiveness to lead america again. We just need to have the courage to choose. We have need the courage to stand up. We have two coarsening have. American knows that new. It must start with this. We must tell each other the truth about the problems we have and the difficulty of the solution. If we tell each other the truth we recognize that will lead to growth and opportunity for every american in this country. What are those troops . Those truths, we have to acknowledge our government is not working anymore for us. We have to say it out loud and acknowledge it is the fault of our bickering leaders who no longer listen to us and no longer know that they are supposed to be serving us. We need to acknowledge that all of that anxiety and those failures are not the end, they are the beginning. The beginning of what we can do together. What we need to decide is that we can make a difference. That we can stand up and make a difference in this country. That is why i love the job i have. That is why i love my job as governor. Kids ask me all the time they ask me to questions, what is your favorite color, always. Second, they always asked me what is your best part of your job . And i tell them i wake up knowing i have an opportunity to do something great. I do not do something great every day. I am human but every morning i wake up with an opportunity to do something great. That is why this job is a great job and that is why president of the United States is an even greater job for a greater number of people. I have spent the last 13 years of my life as u. S. Attorney and governor of the state fighting for fairness and justice and opportunity for the people of the state of new jersey. That has not made me more wary it has make made me stronger and i am way to fight for the people of the United States of america. America is tired of handwringing and indecisiveness and weakness in the oval office. We need to have strength and decisionmaking and authority back in the oval office and that is why today i am proud to announce my candidacy for the republican nomination for president of the United States of america. [applause] and now as livingston and new jersey transits gaze to the turns its gaze to the rest of america today, what do we see and what do we have to confront . We need a campaign of ideas and hard truths and drill opportunity for the American People. We need to fix a broken entitlement system that is bankrupting our country. We have candidates who said we cannot confront this because if we do we will be lying and stealing from the American People. The lying and stealing has already happened. We have to get it back in and we can only do it by force. We need to get our economy growing again at 4 or greater. We have to make this once again the country my mother and father told me it was. That it is as hard as you work, that is as high as you will rise. That is not the case anymore. We cannot look at our children and say that to them because we have an economy that is weak and does not present them with the same opportunities that mary pat and i were presented with in the mid1980s when we graduated from college. We did not worry about getting a job create we worried about picking which job was the best for us. We did not worry about if we were going to be successful. This country and its leadership does the same thing to my children and yours and i am ready to give it to you. [applause] we need a tax system that is simplified and will put cpas that my dad out of this this. My dad out of business. We need to get the government off the back of our people and businesses and encourage businesses to invest in america again. Invest in our country and people. And in a world that is as dangerous, as frightening as any time i have seen it in my lifetime, there is only one indispensable force for good in the world. It is a strong, unequivocal america that will leave the world and not be afraid to tell our friends we will be with unit matter what and to tell our adversaries there are limits to your conduct and america will enforce limits to that conduct. I heard the president say that the world respects america because of his leadership. This convinces me, this is the final confirmation that president obama lives in his own world, known in our world, and the fact is this. After seven years of a week and feckless Foreign Policy run by barack obama we had to turn it over to his second mate, Hillary Clinton. Better not turn it over to his second mate, Hillary Clinton. Leadership matters. It matters for our country and American Leadership matters for the world but if we are going to lead, we have to stop worrying about being loved and start caring about being respected again. Both at home and around the world. Im not running for president as a surrogate for elected prom king. I am not looking to be the most popular guy and tries to figure out what you want to hear, see it, and turn around and do something else. When i stand up on a stage like this in front of you there is one thing you will know for sure. I mean what i say and i say what i mean and that is what America Needs right now. Or whether it makes you cringe. Youre not going to have to wonder whether i can do it or not. In new jersey as governor, i stood up against economic calamity and unprecedented Natural Disaster. We have brought ourselves together. We have pushed back the economic calamity and we are recovering from that Natural Disaster and that is because we lead and Work Together to do it. As governor, i have proven that you can stand up and fight the most powerful special interests this state has to have an stand up and stop them but at the same time, reach across the out to our friends in the Democratic Party and say if you have a good idea, im willing to work with you because that is what our country needs. As governor, i never wavered from telling you the truth is i see it. And acting to make sure that you know that it is the truth is i believe it in my heart. You know, as a candidate for president , i want to promise you just a few things. First, a campaign without spin or pandering or focus group tested answers. You will get what i think whether you like it or not or whether it makes you cringe every once in a while or not. The campaign when i am asked that question, i am going to give the answer to the question that is asked, not the answer that my vertical consultants told me to give backstage. A campaign that every day will not worry about what is popular but what is right because what is right is what will fix america. Not what is popular. A campaign that believes. That believes in an america that is as great as the hopes and dreams that we want everyone of our children to have. Not a campaign that tears down but a campaign that rebuilds america to the place where you and i grew up and where we want our children to grow up again and where we want free people around the world to grow up in in their countries as well. That is what america has stood for and that is what this campaign will stand for. [applause] all the signs say telling it like it is but there is a reason for that. Were going to tell it like it is today so that we can create greater opportunity for every american tomorrow. The truth will set us free everybody. All 52 years i have spent an in our state with our people have prepared me for this moment. We have no idea where this journey ends but we know that it is only in this country, only in america where someone like me could have the opportunity to seek the highest office the world has to offer. Only in america could all of you believe that your voices and your efforts can make a difference to change a country as big and vast and powerful as this one. Only in america have we seen time after time after time the truth of the words that one person can make a difference. The reason that is true is because it is the only thing that has ever made a difference in the history of the world. One person reaching out to another to change their circumstance and to improve the lot of their children and grandchildren. I do not seek the presidency for any other reason than because i believe in my heart that i am ready to work with you, to restore america to its rightful place in the world and to restore the American Dream to each one of our children whether they live in livingston or newark, or canned him, patterson, or jersey city. No matter where they live, we need to make sure that everyone of those children believes they have a president who not onlys asked to them but who hears them. Speaks to them, but who hears them. Who hears them. And understands that their voices, that their voices is what makes any american president great. If you give me the privilege to be your president , i will wake up every day not only with my heart strong and my mind sharp, but with my ears open and my arms open to welcome the American People no matter what party, no matter what race or creed or color, to make sure that you know that this is your country too. We are going to go and win this election and i love each and every one of you. Thank you very much. I spend 20 years trying to get out of this place sfoet i was looking for something i couldnt replace i was running away from the only thing ive ever known New York Times chairman and accomplisher Arthur Sulzberger jr. And executive editor dean baquet discuss the times future in the digital age. Half of the subscriptions are solely for digital content, a major shift for a paper who only started offering digital only subscriptions four years ago. Mr. Sulzberger said the times needs to change practices in journalism. Mr. Sulzberger lets put over here digital versus paper. Journalism is better today than it ever was. Theres many more tools. I mean, i grew up in new orleans. I grew up reading afternoon newspapers and i only had the same kid who grows up in new orleans in a working class family now has access to as many newspapers as you can push a button for. He has access to video and he has access to the whole world. We shouldnt get so caught up in the debate over the form and we shouldnt get so caught up in some of the romantic aspects of journalism which believe me i grew up in to forget its better and its going to be better 10 years from now too. Were in the mode now of testing, learning, and adapting. And if you dont have the courage to try new things and grow youre going to fail. And thats just the reality of the world were in. And so i actually applaud what dean and his colleagues did, which is to increasingly say, lets put the story out when the story is ready. Some people will read it then. Other people will read it later in print. But its not about the device and when i say device, i mean print as well. As you so eloquently stated some decades ago, we must be platform agnostic. Go to where the people are, and increasingly that means mobile. The future of the New York Times in the digital age with chairman and publisher arthur salzburger jr. And executive editor dean baquet tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan. Cspan has been conducting a series of interviews with new members of congress. Republican Elise Stefanik represents new yorks 21st district. Shes the youngest woman ever elected to congress. Congresswoman stefanik previously worked for the romney president ial campaign and for the bush administration. This is about 25 minutes. Representative Elise Stefanik from new yorks 21st Congressional District which includes north country. Mmhmm. The youngest woman ever elected to congress. Whats that like . You know, i actually didnt know i was going to be the youngest woman ever elected until after i won my primary. I went into this race not knowing about the historic nature. And after i won my primary, which was very competitive, the media started covering the race and talking about how i would be the youngest woman ever elected. And what was interesting to me was at campaign rallies, particularly towards the end parents started bringing their elementary schoolaged daughters to events. These were nonpolitical families republicans democrats, unaffiliated voters just to show their daughters an example and role model that they could achieve. Its something i take seriously as a role model in this country. Not just for republican women, be uh for all women who want to break glass ceilings in whatever role theyre in. Politics, business, the arts, i think its very important as a country that we be examples for our young women to see what they can achieve. Its been great in congress because on a weekly basis, we have young women coming through my office whether its young candidates looking for advice, young i had a great letter from the middle school aged girl who was running for Student Council from i think it was Washington State or oregon. I know it was on the west coast. But she sent a letter to the office. It