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Inspections process, how it works, who is involved, all the Technical Details that our guests alluded to. They will talk about the process involved, on tomorrows washington journal which are to 7 00 a. M. We will see you then which starts at 7 00 a. M. We will see you then. Several republican president ial candidates in iowa today for the annual family leadership summit, the speakers this morning include senator marco rubio, donald trump and ben carson. We will take you there live in about an hour and stay with the event all day as part of our road to the white house coverage. This weekend the cspan cities tour travels across the country with Time Warner Cable to learn more about the literary life and history of lexington, kentucky. Edward prichard was a state hero who had a to monstrous political tumultuous political career. If you had asked who was a bright star in american politics , on a national scale, someone who will be governor, senator, perhaps president , a lot of people, Katharine Graham arthur injured list said ed prichard of kentucky. One of those people who work in the white house in his early 20s, seemed destined for great things, and then came back to kentucky in the mid 1940s, and was indicted for stuffing a ballot box, went to prison. That incredible promise flamed out. We also visit ashland, the former home of speaker of the house senator, and secretary of state henry clay. The mansion is a unique situation, clays original home had to be torn down and rebuilt come it fell into disrepair and it could not be saved. His son built on the original foundation. We have a home that is essentially a fivepart federal style home as henry clay had with italian details architectural ornaments and an added layer of aesthetic details added by henry clays daughter and greatgranddaughter. See all of our programs from lexington at 6 30 eastern and a sunday at 2 00 on American History tv on cspan3. A look at the weapons and capabilities of isis and iran with the former director of the israeli Missile Defense organization, he spoke yesterday at a congressional breakfast seminar in washington, d. C. Hosted by the air force association and the National Defense Industrial Association. This is an hour. I want to welcome our friends best the next i want to welcome our friends from cspan that are here this morning. My name is peter. On behalf of the air force association, the National Defense Industrial Association and reserve Officers Association of america, i want to thank you all and welcome our sponsers and friends from the Israeli Embassy and i want to thank two of our former missiledefense information group. Colleagues and friends allison and john. I thank them for being here today as well. And i also say hello to the head of our Government Affairs program at the air force association that is joining us today. Uzi rubin is the father of Missile Defense in israel. He was head of the missiledefense organization in israel and father of the aero program. He speaks around the world about missile developments in the middle east and the threats to the United States and our allies, in particular israel, as well as being a Missile Defense expert. One of our dear friends and colleagues that came from israel. Uzi, we want to welcome you here on behalf of our sponsors. Will you all give a warm welcome to uzi rubin. [applause] mr. Rubin thank you, peter. It is always a privilege to be here. In this great venue. I try to be here about once a year to talk about recent things and threats, and the Missile Defense in the middle east. This time i chose to update you on Missile Defense with isis and other militias. There are too many to name. The main point would be integrated space and missile program. I will try to show to you these programs. They are the same program. Finally, we will focus on Missile Defense. When the iran agreement was concluded i was on my flight here. It does not reflect in my show. I am not aware of many of the details. I have no prepared remarks on that. I will be happy to answer questions to the best of my ability. Not on the specifics or details, which i do not know, but about the implications. If you have any questions, hold on. As to be a good question, not excellent question. Excellent questions have slides and i do not have slides, so only good question. Let me speak first about the rockets and missiles on radical parties in the middle east. Let me show several pictures. This is a picture a recent one. Last week there was a big attack by isis toward an egyptian town. A very nice town near the beach. A beautiful, magnificent beach. Here are rockets. Fire at israel from the cyanide siania. Isis does not like us and fires rockets at us. What is more bizarre is this picture. This picture shows isis firing rockets not at us, but at hezbollah. I cannot believe my ears when i am saying that. They are firing rockets at hezbollah. You can see the emblem here. The black flag with rockets on them. This was last winter. The snowy ways of lebanon firing rockets. That shows you how complex the picture is in the middle east. Im revisiting something i showed years ago. This audience, too. This is Ballistic Missiles in the hands of isis. The story goes like this this building is reported to be the Syria Nuclear reactor. That was taken out, reported by news media, in 2007. The ruins were demolished by the assad isis regime. Before the iaea could expect it. The photo shows the building in the blue was built on that site. It is a mystery what was on that building. Two years ago, a video was published showing them occupying the same blue building and finding in it scud missiles. What was amazing was the launching mechanism. It is something new. It was designed locally by iraqi engineers and syrian engineers. It was iraqi missiles. Transferred by Saddam Hussein to syria. It was in order to be used against israel. That can be propaganda, im not sure. This is the last time we saw this missile until about half a year ago. Here they are again. In the hands of isis. So, they have now scud missiles which are now operational. Isis is getting a lot of volunteers, talent from all over the islamic world. They have missile experts now. It could be the missile will be made operational and it could be used. Here we have isis with Ballistic Missiles. Speaking about rockets and missiles in the hands of militias, a whole zoo of missiles is showing up in iraq apparently homemade by shia proiranian militias. Now dozens of them making homemade rockets. I am not sure if everything is homemade. It is very big. Too large to be a manufacturer in iraq these days. Probably an iranian rocket supplied by them supplied to the local militia. A whole zoo i am showing you several pictures out of dozens. Look at the launcher. This is a regular iraqi army. You can see the iraqi flag here. Truck on which very typical launching area is installed. Same rocket is installed here on some kind of improvised object. All the shops in iraq are producing rockets and here is another type of rocket a good launcher like this one may have dozens of flags. You have different flags there. You find it strange flags. It is something we have never heard about. It is an ethnic group some kind of splintered community. They have their own militias with their own flags. You can see more of the zoos of rockets. These are usually bombardment rockets. Look at this strange element. The huge warhead. In order to fight in close quarters. All of those flags are shia militias in iraq. Look at this strange beast. Im showing the collection all gearing up to fight isis to take western iraq. It is not very successful as of now. Talking about creativity in syria, rocket production im showing you a huge selection. For me as an engineer, fascinating stuff. Homemade rockets in northern syria. The warhead is a canister, commercial canister of cooking gas. With the fuse. There is a short video showing it being tested. It destroys buildings. It is amazing. The creativity here is really noticeable and it is being loaded into the launcher into this pipe. It is not a tube, it is a pipe. It is flying on its own. While they are doing that, the syrian army is increasing its firepower with the help of outside forces. The latest addition we see is this russianmade 220millimeter gun. Last time we saw it in action was in georgia in 2008. Very impressive firepower. Look at this emblem. Lets see a closeup. Here is a closeup of the emblem. This is a syrian officer. This is the emblem you find on google of the russian airborne. In other words this is an emergency supply of rocket systems directly out of the russian army depots. It shows how desperate the situation is there. They fly them in or ship them in without repainting them. They immediately go to battle. That is the other side. We will meet this somewhere else in the middle east. A few slides down will show it. Im talking about homemade rockets. Here is another set of homemade rockets that show some iranian influence. In yemen, this rocket industry kicking into business. It is iraqi war shops. Inspired by iran. This is very similar to one of the rockets we saw. Look at that. That is very similar to that. It seems to me the fingerprints of iranian capabilities in yemen. Talking about yemen, another very active arena for rocket fire on both sides. Here are Yemeni Government missiles before the outbreak of the civil war. They had missiles. Amazingly enough, they had Ballistic Missiles both supplied by soviet union and north korea. If you remember, it was north yemen and south yemen. I think in 1998, they had a civil war. The fire mitchell is a russian supplied mitchell they fired a russian supplied missile. The south fired scud missiles at china and caused damage and casualties. In one case they killed 32 civilians. The north fired ss21 a tactical rocket. Scp of less than 100 meters. It is accuracy of less the 100 meters. It has a range of 120 kilometers which is equipped with the syrian army. It had good effect against georgia in 2008 by the russians. It was some kind of an arms demonstration in the civil war on the yemeni army. As soon as saudi arabia and intervention started, they declared to have destroyed Ballistic Missiles depots of the army in order for them not to fall in the hands of the rebels. The next time we saw a scud was at the end of the houthi rebels. It seems to be completely undestroyed. The picture was taken from smartphone. I added another picture of the system. Here it is again in yemen. We never heard the government the Yemeni Government had it before. Not just in yemen, but it is in the rebels hands. Maybe they had it and it fell into the hand of the rebels or one can deduce a connection to once this weapon is in syria can go all the way from iran to yemen. Going back to the scud, there was interception of the scud that was fired at saudi arabia by the yemeni weapons. They say they fired several. The saudis announced the shooting down of one. They did not show we cannot find pictures of the debris. There is no reason to doubt the claim. They shot down one scud fired from somewhere in yemen into a town which is a very innocent name. Hiding behind it, the largest Saudi Air Force base, which is the main Saudi Air Force base guarding the red sea. There it is. It was a success. Congratulations. A good job. Ending this part of the creativity in gaza, last week we celebrated a year for the operation of protective edge. It was celebrated as a victory. They showed two new missiles which may or may not be operational. Probably not yet. Turn your attention and look at this guide. Here is the rocket, almost touching look how big of this rocket is. It is not going to full size now. The names are the first letters which those rockets are being called. There were two commanders in hamas which were targeted and killed by us during the war. Look at that map. They show the shorter range type hitting near the tel aviv area. The larger one and the size means this is not just a dog and pony show. I speculate they go for larger warheads. Figuring out and clearing out most of the things two small warheads to cause damage. Reasonable to try and fire bigger and it will cause some pain. Im guessing it is hamas. Maybe that is not what they think, it is a possibility. I want to go to my main theme which is the Iranian Missile program. Usually i do it once a year. A tremendous amount happened over the last year and i want to draw your attention to it. It is an accelerated risk. It is not a regular pace but an accelerated pace. The main highlights are this we see an upgrading of older generational rockets and missiles into position. Into precision with precisely guided ammunition. We see it going to the older types. We see the development of tactics of Missile Defense. They are very aware of Missile Defense, especially now. Especially now that theyre being built in the gulf states in saudi arabia. They are very aware of that and building the capabilities to fit that. There is a high rate of production of stockpiling of Ballistic Missiles. Im showing you the depots. Perhaps there is a blip of information that may hint of exporting iranian rockets to north korea. It is unbelievable we usually think of it going the other way around. From north korea to iran. There may be a hint of reverse of direction but i am not sure. Maybe i am reading the signs wrongly. Last but not least, acquiring technologies for global range Ballistic Missiles. Through the Space Program and i will show you how. Lets look at the precision rockets. This is something i showed you before. Technically, they are not a mortal enemy. They hate us and dont want to see us striving. Im an engineer. I cannot help but admire a good engineering work. That is good engineering work. They took a basic rocket and turned it into a bombardment rocket. They added precision to it. They did it several different ways. There are five or six versions of it now. The basic airframe is 624inch rocket. It ranges between 350 to 550 kilometers. It weighs more than half a ton so it is a hefty warhead. It could destroy a block. It is a blockbuster. They have gps guidance and precision weapons. They can hit specific buildings and targets. They could be anywhere between 10 to 50 meters which makes it a military weapon. Not a terror weapon. This is a precision weapon from 300 kilometers away. Notice the range. Mainly it is designed to new allies and forces in the gulf area. Look at the map and the bases there within range of these kind of weapons and now in position, they can select targets. They can target our airbases now and installations. There is an antiship version. There are two different versions. Just to show you how their minds work, this is a demonstration of the precision rocket. Attacking the ship. It is protecting the ship and that happens to be in the u. S. Area. This is an illustration, not a real picture. That is what they are thinking about it and training for it. In a south korean movie about north Korean Missile threats, i found a short clip. I got excited. A short clip of to my amazement, an iranian precision rocket. It could be the editor of the south korean video did not know. He maybe was not a technical expert or maybe he was playing a north korean video. Im not sure what it was. The North Koreans showed the iranian rockets. Look at the terrain. There are not many deserts in north korea. So, it could be a mistake. It could be im seeing the shadows. But, it could be also the South Koreans the North Koreans are thinking about it. For them, it is very important to make that. Im not saying it is happening. Im turning your attention to something that might happen and maybe they are thinking about it. As i said, reversing the turn. Not from north korea to iran, but from iran to north korea. Another way you can see the precision going into the all the iranian Weapons Systems here is a picture of the exhibition. It is missile achievements in may 2013. It shows all kinds of rockets. What caught our eye is this rocket. This is now a small rocket. It is 300 millimeters. They are improvising. They are becoming better engineering wise. Here it is flying. You can see the little winglets here. It is matching the american one, by performance and precision. Also gps guide and everything. Those guys are developing major power and technical capabilities. It is going upscale. [indiscernible] it is about 1900 kilometers. It did not show any illustrations, but they can add capability of steering. I exaggerated just to show you the motion. Once we do that and it is successful, they can make precision attacks from almost 2000 kilometers away. Think about that. You dont have to do it with nuclear weapons. You could paralyze a country. Saudi arabia, israel 2000 kilometers covers egypt, too. You can paralyze a country with a few strikes. It does not have to be nuclear to paralyze a country and this is a weapon that can do that. Speaking of Missile Defense, two strategies. One strategy is another is a cluster of warheads. Another is a cluster of warheads. This is an illustration of a version. They love very fancy names. They have those very symbolic names. It is a cluster warhead. This is a demonstration by a person who does not know very much physics. You dont have that much flying information in space. The idea is clear here. To make sure it is not just a concept, it is very much the same arms exposition in may 2014. You see it in another version. A cluster warhead they painted it bronze. It is clear it works. Another strategy of Missile Defense again and again, this is a very recent disclosure. More warehouses with a rose and rows of completed rockets. There are two warehouses. Another year, they showed three warehouses. Two of those are above ground. This is underground, a tunnel. Obviously, designed by the saudis, not isis. It covers the major targets in saudi arabia. The rocket innovation of the scud. Very clever engineering. Here, 1800 kilometers against us. Quantities they tend to overwhelm missiledefense with quantities. I think the top of it all is the long expected strategic longrange missile which has been anticipated over 10 years ago. They have 20 of them. The Strategic Missile from 3000 kilometers. When the soviet union broke up some of the Strategic Forces of the soviet union moved into ukraine and Strategic Nuclear equipped cruise missiles. They had airbase cruise missiles. They had about 500 of them. By agreement, they were returned to russia. However, about 20 of them or so found their way to north korea china and iran. Three people were indicted for that in russia. All of them mysteriously died. It was done. Obviously, from that point it was obvious it was too small to use operationally. From that point on, i was predicting the appearance of the 2250 km would look like the soviet one. In 2012, the iranians this disclosed the program but never showed a picture. They explained the number. The estimated range is about 2500 kilometers. Obviously, lo and behold, there it is like a magician. A few months ago, here it is. But, for some reason which i cannot explain, now it is not called the range was not announced. But here it is. You can see it. Here is a shot. It is the spitting image. Obviously, this is not chinese it is iranian, probably with a different engine. Maybe jet engine from china. It is very tricky. There is only one company that specializes in that. They may have bought the design and upgraded it. Same length, same diameter. The wings are in the same places, the engine is in the same place, except this is landbased. It takes off from the land. This is a short video of its takeoff. This is iranian tv. The wings popout when it goes out of the canister. This is an achievement, major technical achievement. It is more difficult to design a new one. I take my hat off to the guys who did it technically. You can see the russian influence. This is a groundbased missile. They did it to design a booster. Here is the russian booster. The missile is different. Look at the booster. It is not the same design but you can see the russian style fingerprint. What is the strategic implications . Lets go back to 2000 kilometers. We are not attacking. 2000 kilometers is good enough. It is almost near the pakistani border. They cannot reach with 2000 kilometers more than some countries. With this capability, which was once airborne and could be made again airborne, they have two Strategic Air arms. Capable russian support. If they adopt an airborne version of the missile, they can fly 2000 kilometers. They can launch it north. Under the radar, out of the attention of european capabilities which i suggest people Pay Attention to. In the Space Program, they managed to fly another satellite dish year. This year. There were three failures which i showed here. There may have been more. You can admire the persistence. They tried again and again. Finally, they had a success. One can learn a lot from their mindset. It looks like a military operation. They fired again and again until they succeeded. We do not have this tradition in the west. If we have a major failure, we stop and go back to the drawing board. Here they sent them to the test range again and again until they were successful which shows this is not exactly civilian program. I dont have to go into that. All the space agencys socalled civilian program, it is tied to the defense establishment to the office of the supreme commander. It is integrated with the totality of the missile programs. The space launch is a worked up operation. This is an adapted launcher. Look who is making the decision. Who is the boss . This is the defense minister announcing the test range for the Space Program. The announcement for the Space Program by the defense minister with a uniform general. That shows you how symbolic these programs are. Here is a new space launcher. The picture does not do it justice. The geometry is exactly like north koreas. This is about 80 tons, 90 tons. The launching facility being built. It is the spitting image of the north korean facility. Space facility. However, this year, the iranians showed they have a program Space Program with an ambition to put an iranian after not in space by astronaut in space by 2020. It is not too young and a number of young engineers it reminded me of the old times. Lets go back to the program. They want to do a suborbital by 2016. It is an orbital test. Those guys know what they are doing. This is an escape tower in case there is a emergency. Here is a regular flight suborbital flight. They did not mention a range. There is an emergency pod. It reminded me of what the United States did. By emergency, they went into the Space Program. You take the only rocket available at the time. You put it onto a launcher and make a minimal space launcher which can take one man into orbit. Very rudimentary. One man capsule which stays in space. One can assume the range is about the same. Look at the american one it was going into orbit to put an astronaut into orbit. They want to go into space by 2020. Being an engineer and doing the calculations, one hint is the death of the general who was killed in a huge explosion not far away from iran in 2011. An explosion that broke windows. It was something huge. Something that had to do with a huge rocket that went bad. Beginners problem. I assume that was the problem. Again, hints are coming out of a version of a space launcher. Making about three or four out of it. I speculate the new launcher the equivalent would be around 260 tons. The diameter 2. 5 meters which is not far from the 2. 4 meters. There is another hint of what is going on. They have yet another space launch facility being built. It is the one that has the space facility. The new one is built not too far away from here. Yet another one and huge. It boggles the mind. Here is the launching pad. 200 meters by 250 meters. Six feet of concrete. It is built to absorb huge explosions. Big, solid propellants come to mind. It was built by the revolutionary guard, not the space industry. There is competition between the organizations. I see all those clues. This is the roadmap. We saw last winter the bigger one is liquid, apparently done with north korea. The next one will be a huge solid propellant turned huge launcher, which is immense space capsule, and to teach iran everything they need to do about propellant. They have all the elements, all the technology elements, huge, and whats a capsule event comes back. So the Space Program, not a Building Blocks to be able to do it if and when they make the decision. Thats why i say again and reiterate again to my mind looking at all the pictures, an integrated missile leading to on one hand capability, and on the other hand, the future to reach United States with icbms, when theyre ready to take the decision. Im not sure they made a decision yet. And now they have this here, the main bases, and you can see the complexes, the silos, and one of them is obviously designed to locate and that one is located in israel and perhaps in the future. What you do about it, again, the Missile Defense program, but the Missile Defense program is the first, not the first, but a series of very successful tests. Lets see a short video here. This is an official movie that was made and you can see the target. We have to file it, believe me when they started, the idea that you file it ballistically with a plan towards it, really jarring to engineers, but we have to overcome this reluctance. Ok. So the target is fired, and the missile is going up there. While they would love to show the shots, this is nothing, so excuse me for the hype. Heres another one. We do it, too. Looks great. And lo and behold, theres a target coming down. It locks on, and this is key hit to kill. Im showing it again, this is a Missile Defense that can look for itself, can see the target you can see the missile. They hit each other. Thats it. Another achievement, they have gone several testing and upgrades, which the details are not available to the public, but recently last week, i couldnt help it, another capability the capability and this was published. They shoot it. Again, it was for the first operation. But we did it for something. So at this point, but they have a very good view. But it was a very good year after the war in november and december. And thats what was really with that system. Now they can do it, and im very happy about it. So, my concluding remark, i showed you, i took you on the list and i showed a lot of things. I mean, all of them happening in the last year, so what is my conclusion from that . The only concluding remark is life in the middle east is not a picnic. [laughter] you can see it, theyre under attack, under missile attack last year. You see im taking probably not to defend, but here to the left and tel aviv under that functioning. You can see traffic on the roads, you can see people there. The town is being attacked. The Missile Defense is working and life goes on. Theres a mad house around us, and we try to live our life and defend us. And with that, id like to conclude. Thank you. [applause] and now im open for question. I know that your first question is the w. M. D. Im from the Congressional Research service. I wanted to ask about israeli capabilities against the ground launch cruise missiles, whether theyre launched from iran or from a cargo ship out in the mediterranean. Is this the capability iron dome has . Good question. Good question. Because one of my slides was about that. But let me answer it in two parts. About capability, cruise missiles, they come from ships in the mediterranean. It is designed, and against, this ground hopping cruise missile, and other part like early warning. It looks downward, ground hopping. So we have this in our sights, and we are working on a solution. But talking about ships, just underway here, an article about a company that didnt know existed, and it was attacks. They flesh out suspicious behavior, taking out of course. It comes to my mind that a capability like that is very hard for anyone to take a ship out of the behavior without being noticed. Dr. Rubin, your Technical Capability is highly regarded. What is your feeling with the removal of the rocket embargo thats being brought up now . Will that wreak any havoc in iran . Dr. Rubin well, i can show you with the embargo. Ill extrapolate to that what can happen without an embargo. I think that i was very happy to see that at least the embargo continues for about five years. I think so. Im not sure this morning. Now i heard Something Else. But if its true and according to a report that they had, and again, its very preliminary. This was a pentagon intervention. I could sympathize with what the pentagon the iranians will be permitted to rearm with the basis. The idea is unacceptable i think to any soldier. I appreciate your general standing up and saying no, no, dont do it right now. Obviously without the embargo, you can extrapolate on that. But let me let me say some remarks about this, and ill comment about them. I think that when i look at this, the question is not i am not an expert to deal or talk about the details of the nuclear part of the deal. Whether theyre good or bad will they stop the iranians . Five years, 10 years, not at all, will they cheat or not cheat . I dont talk about it. But what i want to turn my attention, my opinion, the real implication that there is not the nuclear part of it, but the deal part of it. I was very impressed by articles published by the wall street journal by kissinger and schulz. It turned out it didnt turn out too much attention to the fact that the deal itself is an historical event. So, regardless how effective is the nuclear part of it, whether its even air tight, the fact that the United States, and its the United States, not the p5 plus one, its the United States that made a deal with iran. Changing the relations between them, the relations between the United States is real pleasant where they were up to now, not by the revolution, which was supported by the United States but by the following of the islamic regime. It was the capture of the embassy staff. Once upon a time, when you wanted to declare war, you killed them on the other side. Later it became no civilized injustice, and even later, theyre more uncivilized. Means an indication of war. And in fact, its what it represents. I tell you now, this deal is shifting the relation. Now, what is the logic behind it . I dont violently disagree with some of his views, but hes a journalist and has a way with words, and its going to be the dilemma, which i translated part for his benefit in two short sentences. Its his statement, but its all of it. Iran is a big outdoors on the middle east. Its a small segment, and this is actually whos right. This will change the regime, and you start dealing with its own internal problem, and this deal is going to open for better. But if its wrong, then what we have here is the good intentions which are the deal, and the middle east will become much more dangerous place than it was before. This is an answer of what will happen without an embargo. More questions . That is going to make our weekend very pleasant. [laughter] i want to thank you, uzi. And just for the record, for those of you interested in the iranian agreement, there is a clause after the five and eight year embargos, and it says or when the iaea declares the Iranian Nuclear program peaceful, at that time which is slated for december 15, 2015 whichever is earlier, the embargo on Ballistic Missile parts goes away. And that is whether or not the iaea declares iran in compliance to the agreement as a peaceful and legal agreement on december 15, 2015, the embargos can go away. And the thing is this entire agreement has those kinds of on the one hand, on the other hand, and the two sometimes cant be reconciled. But i want to thank you for coming all the way from israel. Its always an honor, sir, to have you here. I want to thank you for your remarkable insights into middle east and threats and defense. Would you all give a warm thank you to uzi rubin. Thank you. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its captioning content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] cspan gives you the best access to congress. Live coverage of the west house, congressional hearings and news conferences, bringing you events that shape public policy. Every morning, washington journal is live with elected officials, policymakers and journalists and your comments by phone, facebook and twitter. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies and brought to you as a Public Service by your local cable or satellite provider. Republican president ial candidates are in iowa today for a forum hosted by the family leadership summit. Our live coverage just getting underway. Well hear from Marco Rubio Donald trump, ben carson, ted cruz the first four of 10 president ial candidates scheduled to speak today. Live coverage getting underway here on cspan. Welcome to iowa if youre not from iowa. We love it, it makes the corn grow. This venue holds about 2700 people total. As of this morning on the drive in, 2954 tickets were taken to be a part of the leadership summit. [applause] so, for those of you familiar, you might want to think about lunchtime, the two fish in the five loaves story we might have to share a little bit. We are so grateful that you are here. Its been brought to my attention, we have about 250 pastors in the audience today. Please give them a thank you. [applause] we believe they are the backbone of who we are. Right up in front, we reserve the best seats in the house. Please welcome about 200 national and international statewide media who are in attendance today as well. [applause] thank you for being here. We want to greet those people watching by lifestream and on cspan, thank you for covering that as well today. With all the Media Attention here and all the attendance here today, i just want to be very clear on one note. At the family leadership summit, we strive to do everything with excellence because we believe that honors god and it inspires people. Sometimes that summit, there will be a weird one in the crowd. It seems like the media gets attracted to that one person who is not representing the way we like to be represented. I am asking, begging pleading, do not be the weird one today. [laughter] my other request is coming if you see the weird one, dont cover that one. Act like they did not exist. [applause] one other item of note, its by no surprise that this is a public venue, its open to the public, the tickets were free, the free lunch is going to be free, which is not a dumb thing to do. [laughter] it is open even to people who disagree with us. And who disagree with our worldview. We want to know you are welcome here. When the speakers speak, when the presenters present, windows on the stage are appear, what we do is we encourage them and if we disagree with them, we do so ever so politely and we handle ourselves in a civil manner. [applause] the High School Principal in me says if you cannot handle free speech and the American Dream with a full embrace and with a simple, productive dialogue, i will ask you to leave, to get off the premises if you cannot do that. [applause] this summit will not be possible without the many partners that come along, like the National Organization for marriage, christian united for israel action, Family Research council, left right left right forward march, literary this Liberty University come iowa conservatives in the list goes on and on we have so many supporters here, they are out in the booth space. We ask that you frequent their booths and give them your attention as well. I want to ask you to stand as we are going to open in prayer followed up by the National Anthem and opening in prayer for us will be the family leaders chaplin to the board. Please welcome pastor bill tweed. [applause] how many are excited today . I believe weve been gathered here for such a time as this am at this is the day the lord has made and we can rejoice and be glad in it. Im filled with optimism and i believe today is going to be a great time. Lets bow our head. Heavenly father, we thank you and we praise you for the opportunity together in a safety of your presence, to share the good news of your gospel and to receive the truth of your work today, we are so thankful. We commit this day, plan they not be hindered in any way the pursuit that they be achieved according to your will. May we go from this place with a mandate to heal our nation, motivated by love, empowered by your grace and guided by your wisdom. Its as if we are back in the days of noah, our world is troubled and we look all around us and we see difficulties and problems. There is one answer, repentance. May the preachers come and repent and to change gods house, made the politicians come and repent to change the house of government. May parents come and repent and see the houses of our future change for the good and we believe its a time, father, you are calling us to do great things. You are calling us to drive close to you and to pray. A turn from heaven and believe that you live and indeed heal our land. Bless the people today, bless the family leaders. We ask that in the all mighty name of jesus and everybody says amen. Oh say can you see, by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh say does that starspangled banner yet wave oer land of the free and the home of the brave [applause] [applause] [applause] remain standing as we say the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. You may be seated. Please give a warm welcome to the courageous leader of i congressman steve king. [applause] [applause] thank you. [applause] thank you, thank you. Thank you for the great welcome. I appreciate the invitation to speak here this morning. To have the opportunity to kick this off, what a great deal. This is the day the lord has made and he doesnt make many like this, folks. Have any times, how many places do you get to hear from likely the next president of the United States . [applause] may be the next Vice President of the United States and half the cabinet could all be here today. [applause] if i were the one to make the decision, that would be so. I will jump into a couple things on my mind that i wanted to pass along to you. Right before the fourth of july, on thursday, july 25, the Supreme Court came down with a ruling on obamacare and the ruling was, the builder not have the leg which they thought should have been in it, so john roberts and others decided we can write words into law from the Supreme Court level. Never before has there been such a blatant takeover of article one. That was thursday. We are reeling from that blow, how do we put our power back together . The next day, 24 hours later, we got the decision on the 26th of july, the decision the Supreme Court had ruled that there is a right in the constitution and the 14th amendment written under the equal protection clause and the due process clauses, a constitutional right to samesex marriage. Manufactured by the courts. To think that this is the worst way for hours the Supreme Court has ever had. 24 hours the Supreme Court has ever had. That is not their job. [applause] what troubles me is, the lack of real action on the part of many of the American People. Not you, not us, we are here, we are active. There needed to be American People rising up saying i have had it. Look at their Big Decisions in the past. 1857, the dread scott decision. No state can free them. That was the dred scott decision. 100 years later, you have prayer taken out of the public schools. We respected that decision. I thought, how are they going to stop us . What would they have done . They would have emptied the schools and posted guards and still, we capitulated to that outrageous decision that was not based on constitution. 10 years later came row versus wade we are closing in on 60 million babies that have been murdered because of the decision of the Supreme Court. The video of the planned parenthood dr. Remarking on how they can harvest organs. It is sickening to watch this parade of the deevolution of the greatest civilization the world has ever seen. [applause] we must put it back together. This is our chance to do so. I want you to contemplate this there were a couple of great civilizations about 2000 years ago. The greeks and the romans. The greeks developed the age of reason and the foundation for science and technology and geometry and a number of those bases for what we study today. The romans developed a republican form of government where they had a representative and the rule of law, the greeks had it in the romans had it and they spread that all over the known world at the time as far north as ireland. That collapsed with the fall of rome and civilization collapsed and force entries, they lost the ability to think and reason. Four centuries. What we must do is, we must elect a president who understands this, one who will make appointments to the Supreme Court that will get us back to the roots of our constitution, one that understands our freedom of religion and our liberty and make us proud again. I ask you to do what i seek to do every day, pray that the lord will send us a leader whom he will use to restore the soul of america. [applause] [indiscernible] representing conservative review and Fox News Contributor and focus group expert [applause] thank you. Im glad you stayed you guys will be so blessed because of these two individuals to my right into my left because they will orchestrate the day and make this summit extra special. I already introduced our Media Partners steve is a contributor. He will be participating throughout the day. What are you hoping to get out of the summit today . I want to see who is ready to step forward and lead. You have thousands of people who believe their way of life is at stake. They think the system is threatened an american exceptionalism is in peril. We have some potential leaders today. Who is ready to lead at a time of cards crisis . Very good. [applause] frank, as i pitched this leadership summit, i said this would be one on one with frank and the audience. How do you plan on doing this and what are your goals for this summit today . 48 hours ago, i lost my voice. The timing was not great. The pharmaceutical stocks have gone up considerably with the number of pills ive been taking. I know some of you feel like you lost your voice over the last 6. 5 years. [applause] i get my voice back tomorrow. You have to wait another year and a half. [laughter] there is a reason why so many conservative leaders will be a. Over the next eight hours up here over the next eight hours. They have come here to listen to you and to respond to you. I really do want to emphasize, this is your summit. You will be asking questions and i hope the microphones have been set up on both sides. There will be two microphones over here, too microphones over there. I will ask the candidates couple of questions for 34 minutes. The rest of the time, they will respond to your questions. For the first time, its going to be no talking points, no soundbites and no speeches. You are going to run this. [applause] [applause] [applause] the reason why im so honored and privileged to do this, iowa is special. I have done so many focus groups in this country, all 50 states now. The people here are more sophisticated, they know more, they want to know more, they ask the best questions. Its a question, not a statement and not a book. You were on national television. Are on national television. I ask you, i beg you, be civil to each other. Treat each other with respect. Civility and decency should be a hallmark of democracy. [applause] as you can see, we have brought professionals with steve and frank. We are thrilled to have them. There is Something Else special going on in the auditorium. Its no surprise to anybody that this menu right now is being covered and bathed in prayer. We have people praying that our eyes will be opened and ears will be opened. To give us discernment and wisdom as we move forward in this process. This is going to be a blast. I get a little bit nervous beforehand now that i have steve and frank, im extra nervous. [laughter] this is going to be fun. I really am looking forward to whats going to happen. I believe its time that we get this show on the road. Lets get it going. Our first guest is a u. S. Senator. Enjoy today. Have fun. [applause] please welcome floridas u. S. Senator, marco rubio. [applause] [applause] [applause] not only am i ill, the senator from florida has been a less well. Count the number of times he coughs and i cough. [laughter] im supposed to do the jokes are. Here. Part of whats going to make this special come every speaker will begin with a question from the audience. I want the cameras to turn on you while. You all. How many of you are better off today than your parents were when they were your age . Raise your hands. Almost everybody. Be honest with me. How many of you truly believe that your children will be better off than you when they get to be your age . Almost no hands are up. Weve lost faith in the future. The most optimistic people are firstgeneration t immigrants. You were put through the ringer for over a year. What did you learn from that experience and what advice would you give them now . The American People believe in immigration and want it to work for america. I dont think we can make any progress until we bring illegal immigration under control. That is the biggest lesson in the last three years. People are ready to be reasonable about it and modernize our system. They want to make sure that the problem we have now of the rampant outofcontrol illegal immigration is brought under control and never happens again. They dont believe that it is and they dont trust this president to do it. Theres two steps. We have to secure our border. Not just the border with mexico. We have to secure our airports and seaports. 40 of the people in this country illegally come legally and overstate a visa. We only log you in, we dont log you out. Thats like having a hotel when you only check in and dont check out. We need electronic verification for employers. We have to create a system where employers can reliably be expected and demanded to check and ensure the people they are hiring are not legally here. If you do those two things, you will bring illegal immigration under control. [applause] the gentleman screaming, i would do anything for your voice right now. [laughter] if there is something you strongly agree with, its ok to applaud. I want to major we are respectful of people as they are up your. My followup question, is washington capable of solving it or is washington so broken that we will talk about immigration year after year . Thats up to our leaders. The people have to be committed the idea that our job is to solve problems, not just give speeches about them. Not just on immigration, on our Economy National security america is not the filling its potential as a country. We can be even greater than we are today. Bad news, we are not doing it. These are selfinflicted wounds. We are a nation with a government that refuses to solve our problems. Eventually, that question, if our children are not better off its because we did not do it which are that they are better off. To ensure that they are better off. It was frustrating for seven years in the senate as harry reid chose to do nothing. The senate did not do a thing. We face a situation where even if we make progress, the other president will be cothings the president will veto things. Hes more committed to doing things by exec the border then the proper channels of division of powers that the constitution gives us p. [applause] i would be remiss if i did not ask you, what do you do with secure the border. You have to modernize legal immigration. Every year, the United States admits one million human beings to United States permanently. They come here on the basis of whether or not they have a relative living care. It cannot be on the basis of having a relative it has to be on the basis of what you bring to the country. [applause] i think if we do those two things, the vast majority of americans will be very reasonable with someone who has been here for 15 years, will start in texas, pay a fine for a work permit i dont think you can get to that point until weve done the other two things. I know we cannot get to that point having gone through this the last couple of years. If people have a question for marco rubio, there is a microphone over here and over there. Now is the chance to go to the microphones if you want to ask a question. The iranian treaty and that 60 days you are against it. What likelihood you have or preventing it . It depends on whether we are able to convince 14 democrats to vote against it. There are plenty of reasons. I will give you three. The inspection requirements are a complete sham. It sounds almost like an Arbitration Panel for a contract between two companies. We have to ask no american inspectors are allowed into iran. If we want to inspect the facility in iran, we have to ask for permission from iran. If iran says no, it goes through a couple get a 24 days appeal prices. If that doesnt work it has to be moved to the Foreign Ministers and then ends up at the un security council. It can be well over 50 days. Guess what happens after 50 days. Theyve cleaned up the site you wanted to go see in the first place. If they refuse to allow you to inspect, the consequences are iran walks away from the deal. Here is the most outrageous thing. It says we have to help iran develop technical abilities economic, trade, manufacturing we have to help iran become a more powerful. It requires us to do that. It requires us to help iran fight against sabotage that might exist against a nuclear program. The only people trying to sabotage it are our allies. We are now required to work against countries like israel on behalf of iran. We now have multiple american hostages that are completely and touched untouched. They can build a longrange rockets. All these requirements go away in 15 years. Other than that, i guess its good. [laughter] if its that bad, why would this president do this . He wants a legacy. He wants to build exhibits for his president ial library. Barack obama opened up america to iran and the next president blew it. Our allies in the region know it is absurd. [applause] [cheering] [applause] senator marco rubio and so, we now live in a world where we treat iran with more respect than the Prime Minister of the only real american, Free Enterprise democracy in the middle east, the state of israel. [applause] frank luntz we are going to go to microphone over there. I was wondering if you are willing to call the terrorism we have been facing in our country and other terror countries, how you keep it from plaguing our youth . Senator marco rubio that is what it is. It is not radical terrorism, it is radical islamic terrorists. [applause] [cheering] [applause] senator marco rubio and i want to to know why it is there for us to call it that. It is not fair to the nonmedical not radical muslims. The first thing, we have to defeat the ideology. We have to defeat it on my. We have the capability in this country to go after them. Why did they have a twitter account . Why do we allow isis to have these on my social Media Networks . We have the ability to take them down. Lets do it. [applause] senator marco rubio we have to target to them militarily in the safe havens. I system is not exist unless they have a place to operate from. At is why we need to increase airstrikes. That is why we need to increase working with our allies in the region to eliminate and take away from radical jihadists the safe havens and the operating space they need to exist. We have to show the world, and especially these youngsters that are being radicalized, that isis is not an unbeatable, inevitable power. Isis is someone we can humiliate. We need to broadcast and advertise to the world that we contribute them. We can win it against radical jihadists, but we are not to doing that now. [applause] senator marco rubio frank luntz microphone two. Thank you for coming today. Regarding Global Warming climate change, and the epa how do you feel the Obama Administration has handled this . It is is it hurting jobs etc. . Senator marco rubio they absolutely are hurting us. The epa now was to regulate everything. That is number one. Number two is, i think it is important for us to protect the natural environment. I know no one who wants water to be poisoned. I know no one who wants to be unreasonable. I also know no one wants to see single mothers having to pay 100 a month more and a utility bill. I know of no it who knows wants to make the price of food more expensive. And that is what we are going to get different go forward on this radical environmental agenda. I believe it is possible to fully utilize our Energy Resources in this country and protect our natural environment. The job of policymakers is to do that. That is what my administration will be about. [applause] frank luntz lets go to microphone number four back there. Senator rubio, my question to you is our National Debt is over 18 trillion. What steps would you take to reduce it . Senator marco rubio the first step would be too expect of people why we have a National Debt. It is not foreign aid, less than 1 of our budget. It is not food stamps and welfare. There is abuse and in those programs, and that needs to be under control. But it is leaving our nation our children of our nation vulnerable to attack. [cheering] senator marco rubio the way Social Security and medicare are currently structured for future generations. Im from florida. You may not know this, but there are millions of people in florida on medicare and Social Security. [laughter] senator marco rubio one of them is my mother. Let me just say, she is eight decades plus four years. [laughter] senator marco rubio but i recognize that an order for us to save medicare and Social Security, it will not be able to work the same way for me as it did for her. My generation and people younger than me need to accept that if we want to balance our budget, leave medical care and Social Security the way it is now, and save those programs for the future, our benefits wont grow as fast as our parents Social Security grew, and our medicare may not be a plan from the government. It might be many we get every month to buy a plane for ourselves on the private market, somewhat to the way Medicare Advantage works now. That is not too much to ask of americans my age in order to save medicare and Social Security the way it is for our parents, balance our budget, to prevent a debt crisis for our nation. [applause] frank luntz one second, hold on. How old are you . Senator marco rubio i am 44 but i feel 45 today. [laughter] frank luntz you have been in the senate for one term. You are very articulate. You know the issues pretty well. People have compared you to other individuals, the single biggest knock on you is that those who have talked about to have compared you to other conservative leaders who have suggested that you havent been around long enough. Senator marco rubio here is the truth, i havent lived as long as some of the other people running. [laughter] senator marco rubio but i do think anybody running for president understands what like his life life is like for people than i do. Im glad like people like Hillary Clinton talk about People Living paycheck to paycheck. I loved listening to the democrats last night in the thing, what are they do . Frank luntz cedar rapids. Senator marco rubio yeah, it wasnt here. And im sure none of your went but i watched some of it last night. Oh, you are there. Good. I never trust him anyway. [laughter] senator marco rubio i learned a new word, comrade. [laughter] senator marco rubio i love listening to them talk about people with student loan debt. I have student loan debt. Up until four years ago. And the other point i would make is it is true, there are people running that have a lot more experience than i do on issues we faced 18 years ago. But no one running has more expense on the issues that we face right now today, with a world that is more dangerous than ever and an economy that is changing faster than ever since the industrial revolution. [applause] frank luntz microphone one. If you were elected president today, what specifically would you do to move our country forward . Senator marco rubio there is a number of things we need to do but i want to focus on three. Frank luntz just a you this is a summit, rather than a traditional political partisan event. So i just want to if the next president should yes, who are the lawyers and here . Raise her hand. Get out. [laughter] senator marco rubio but im recovering. So the next president needs to do three things. The first thing, we had to become the best place in the world to create the best paying jobs of the 21st century. We have to compete with dozens of other countries. We need a tax code, limited regulations, and a balanced budget that will allow us to be the best country in the world to provide the best paying jobs. Number two, we had to revolutionize what Higher Education made. We cannot afford to graduate people with a mountain of loans for a degree that doesnt lead to jobs. How many greek philosophers do we really need in america . We shouldnt be requiring people to borrow money to pay for that. We have to have more Vocational Education and we have to create flexible Higher Education programs that are available for people that are stuck in lowwage jobs, but have to work fulltime and raise a family. The thing is, we have the rain the most powerful nation we have to remain the most powerful nation on earth. [applause] senator marco rubio and that is why we have to rebuild our defenses, rebuild our Foreign Policy and the trust our allies have it us, and strengthen family life in america. You cannot have a strong country without Strong Families. And you cant have Strong Families without empowered marriages and empowered parents. [applause] frank luntz this program is the family leader. You said strength in families. Do you really think there is a role from washington dc in strengthening families . Senator marco rubio not the primary role. The primary role is on each of us individually as a mother, father, husband, wife, member of the community. But we should not have a Good Government that discourages it. We have safety net programs that does good people from getting married. We deny people the right to put their kids in a school of choice. [applause] senator marco rubio and we have an attorney general general and a Supreme Court that will not stand up for the rights of every American Family to instill in their children traditional values without being persecuted or discriminated against a government or by society. [applause] [cheering] [applause] frank luntz microphone two. I have a question on the recent controversy in the news about methods used in cia interrogation sites regarding how kid and what not. How do you feel about that in regards to obama terminating that within 48 hours of presidency . Senator marco rubio well, interrogations have not been used in that method in a long time and we are not going to go back to those methods. There are dangerous people on this planet. Every single day, they plot to kill as Many Americans as possible. They work actively to do it. If we ever get our hands on people like that, and we are able to gather intelligence from them that allows us to prevent another attack we should do everything within our legal power to try and access that information. Treating them as enemy combatants, the way you would as an enemy in the field. [applause] senator marco rubio and the one thing we should not do is advertise what are interrogation methods are. Do you know why . [applause] senator marco rubio let me just let me explain why. Let me tell you i dont advertise. Because then you allow these terrorists to practice. You allow them to prepare on how to resist it. So really, right now, it is not an issue. This president is not arresting any terrorists anymore. Frank luntz that is a pretty strong statement. Senator marco rubio which one . [laughter] frank luntz the president senator marco rubio he is not. They want to close guantanamo. Frank luntz are you saying that this administration has gone soft on terrorism . Senator marco rubio you know what they do not . This is even more humane now. They just kill them with a drone , as opposed to trying to capture as many people as we can and capture gather intelligence from them. We have lost intelligence in the process. The truth is, there will hours be a role to play in confronting the enemy and eliminating them, but we also need to find the ability to remove people from the battlefield. When you are talking about closing want town will, closing guantanamo, then what youre saying is we are no longer tied together actionable intelligence. Frank luntz is barack obama soft on terrorism . Senator Marco Rubio Barack Obama is confused about global terrorism because he wont call it that, number one. [applause] senator marco rubio i am sure he is against it. I know that he is, but he wont call it what it is that he will confront it in a meaningful way. So we are conducting 11 first exit day. That is not american power. What is that checkup it is not an effective way what is that . It is not an effective way. He told us he you have ago that prices was a jv team. Today, isis is located in libya, other nations in north africa, they just blew up in egyptian ship yesterday. They are increasingly active in lebanon. They are probably deeply embedded in refugee camps in syria. And they are studied to pop up in other areas. They are growing. They are spreading. Somehow, our tactics remain the same a year later. No real strategy moving toward. Frank luntz i want to give you one opportunity to close. Senator marco rubio actually, can i rely on this to close with something i think is important . Frank luntz if you tell them what it is. Senator marco rubio it is a bible. I think they know. [applause] [cheering] [applause] senator marco rubio chapter 12 verse 48, it talks about our obligations. It says, for everyone who has given much, much will be required. And whom they have entrusted much, of all they will ask more. I think that speaks to us in our individual lives. [applause] senator marco rubio i think that speaks to us in our individual lives. America doesnt only anything. I have a debt to this country i will never repay. It is the nation that literally change the history of my family. When my father was nine years old and lost his mother, he had to go work, he had to leave school. And his mission of his life was to give us the chance that he could never do, and that was only possible because of america. Much has been given to this country. We have been blessed with this vast, fertile land with the most creative and innovative people in all of mankind. And with that, comes the responsibility to lead the world politically, economically, militarily, and morally. There are a lot of people out there who may talk about america, they admire us. They are inspired by us. They believe they can be better because they are inspired by us. That is the country i want to lead. Frank luntz senator marco rubio [applause] senator marco rubio thank you very much. [applause] [cheering] [applause] thank you. Great job. Senator marco rubio thank you. [applause] [applause] saving babies all over iowa, please welcome the encouraging executive director of informed choices, rachel owen. [applause] good morning, iowa. You know it is a beautiful i will morning iowa morning when youre [indiscernible] has one off by 7 00 p. M. I love iwoa, my home state. Iowa my home state. My grandparents moved here 100 years ago with their 12 children and settled in the eastern part of the state and populated it. [laughter] youll have to excuse me, i am a little bit my husband and i just found out i havent even told our inlaws yet, but we just found out we are expecting i was six child. Praise god. [applause] god is good. It was kind of unexpected. Something that we, uh woke up one morning and said, oh, something is not quite right in the world. Then we talked about it and we both started to panic a little bit for the first time. Most of our pregnancies have been planned. Then we [laughter] we prayed and just the peace of god came upon us. Like god, is so good. He plans every life and every life is valuable. And that is what we are about at informed choices iowa. We are about [applause] creating a culture of life. One, precious woman at a time. A woman that ends up at one of our clinics they they find themselves in situations that they are not valued. And so they think that abortion is their only option. And what we get to do and the privilege we get to do as we get to come alongside of them, let them know that they are loved because every woman in the state of i want needs iowa needs to know that not only is she valuable, but the life inside her womb is valuable. That is the mission, to get to go forward and to talk about this. To talk about the information that women need to know. The statistics are that 95 of women that have an abortion wished they would have been given more information. They go in not knowing what they are getting into. Hence our name, informed choices. What happens as a young woman comes in thinking that abortion is her only option. She has her needs met at our clinic. And the beautiful thing is that she she comes in, she see that baby on the ultrasound machine, and she changes her mind. Over 90 of the time. And that is powerful, folks. It is incredible. We now have three clinics across the state. Have one and i were city, one in ames, and one in in fort dodd that just opened. Then we have a mobile Medical Clinic, you can to rate you can tour, and that mobile Medical Clinic will be out in front of Abortion Clinics asking women if they would like to see the baby before they have that ultrasound before they have that abortion. If they like to see it on an ultrasound. And that is incredibly powerful. It is a powerful, powerful tool to be able to show them that. And then also to meet their needs. That is where the excitement happens and in what we do. The beautiful thing about iowa is that we have this beautiful responsibility because we are the first in the nation and many things. Our goal at informed choices iowa is to create a culture of life and im a that we can be the first in iowa to be the first in the nation to lead our nation. For some reason, i truly believe it is because we are the heart of the country. We are the heartland. Folks, we are fighting a battle of good and evil every day. Everyone knows that if you can capture the heart of the country, youve got it. And that is what he is trying to do here in iowa. There are many firsts here in iowa. We had the first Abortion Clinic in the country, game it, the whole ball of wax we have had to deal with here. But we have a responsibility to ask the tough questions of these candidates because we put them on the path to the white house. And i think that just because of the the we are so extraordinary here and we are praised. God has given us this gift to be first. I think we can be first in the nation where life is held sacred always. A woman has her needs met to the point where abortion is not the first thing that comes to her mind. I believe that we can do that in the state of i want. Iowa. [applause] i want to show you some pictures of our clinic. These are just some pictures of the clinic. These are the locations of our clinic. And then we also have some photographs. We might have some slight issues here, but that is ok. What happened in iowa, some of you may know, oh, that they are. Those are the locations in the pictures. With iowa and what happens here with some of you may know that the Supreme Court cannot and they were really, in my mind, practicing medicine. They said that it was ok for planned parenthood to practice abortions. It is not just abortion that is rough, it is the fact that planned parenthood administers it until the ninth week. You know, the fda states that you should not administer that passed the seventh week of pregnancy. And the reason is because a woman goes home alone to have that abortion alone. The doctors give her that pill and she takes that second pill and she goes home and she has that abortion home alone in the bathroom. Now, at seven weeks that is not translucent. But what we see, if you want to pull up the there we go. At nine weeks, that sack it actually starts at eight weeks. From a to 10 weeks, what planned parenthood does, that sack is translucent. I have had girls come to our clinic and said, rachel, i held the baby in my hand. I held an eight week old baby in my hand. And you can tell, this photo is actually a hand or someone with a gloved hand is holding that baby. And i saw my baby. Can you imagine the trauma of that . Can you imagine the overwhelming of that young woman being alone and holding her baby . This is a travesty in our state and we have got to turn this around because if home medicine is ok for iowa it is ok for the rest of the country. So that is what it is so important that at informed choices, we are aggressively pursuing these women, we are aggressively advertising working on getting them in so they fully understand when you see one of these little guys on the ultrasound machine, they are beautiful. They call them little jumping beans. They move around, they are waiting, they are incredible. They are alive, folks. They are a life. And so i invite you to join us. I invite you, i commend you for being here, for asking the tough questions of these candidates, for standing for life, but i ask you to join us because we are working diligently across the state. There are thousands of people who have joined us in this fight, these battles for life to bring iowa back to life. But so far in the last six years, has had over 1000 young women have come to our clinic, have had their needs met, seen their baby on the ultrasound, and then choose to carry that pregnancy. And they come back to us and their heart is so grateful and so thankful. Over 1000 babies are in iowa today because of the work of informed choices. [applause] and 1000 women have been spared the pain of abortion. That is amazing. And we have served over 11,000 clients with testing because our goal is to compete directly with planned parenthood. So we do everything that planned parenthood does [applause] folks, we are actually an accredited Medical Clinic. So, we have what it takes to take it that extra mile. And god is good and he provides for us. We have had this is kind of a fun part there have been over 40 have hundred young people who have come to our clinic and made a decision of faith. That is incredible. [applause] so i want you to see our 2020 vision. You want to put up that last slide . We plan on, over the next five years, have five more clinics in five more mobile clinics so that iowa every woman in iowa will have access to free medical care that will point them to healthy decisions and point them to their maker and their creator. They give so much for your time today and god bless you. [applause] [applause] please welcome back, and welcome to iowa and the 2015 family leadership summit, businessman and entrepreneur, donald trump. [applause] [cheering] [applause] donald trump beautiful, look at that. Come on over. Donald trump ok. That was a very good reception. We always begin with an audience question for each candidate. So, i want to ask you, how many of you, by show of hands believe that the vast majority of politicians in washington, the vast majority, play by their own set of rules and dont tell the truth . Raise your hand. Does anyone trust anyone in washington . Audience no. Frank luntz second question this is appropriate to you. What is most important in the next president . Political expense or business experience . Who says political . Raise your hand. Who says business expands, raise your hands. I think both. So i need to ask you, the most important attribute of a successful workforce is the education and training. It is a major issue out there and i know how focused you are on getting the best employees. Common core has been very controversial. The president has had to step back on it. What should the next president do with, core and with education common core and with education . Donald trump a great question. Common core has to be ended. It is a disaster. [applause] donald trump it is a way of taking care of the people in washington that frankly i dont even think they give a damn about education, half of them. I am sure some of you may be due. Frank luntz do you want to use that word . Donald trump i will, i will. Because people want to hear the truth, frank. Exactly what frank said is what is wrong with our country. We are so politically correct that we cannot move anymore. [applause] donald trump you know . Frank luntz wait a minute. Donald trump we have to be able to express ourselves. Frank luntz but dont we go too far . Dont you feel that you went too far in what you call donald trump oh, no, not at all. Let me tell you, not at all. [applause] donald trump two things. I am so proud of the fact that i got to dialogue started on illegal immigration. And people in the media, and all fairness, they were very rough on me in that first week and now many have apologized to me. It has turned out i was right. Someone in San Francisco was shot by in illegal with your five times a day couldnt do anything about it and now everybody is saying that trump was right. That i tell you, i took a lot of abuse