Testify. Mr. Graham i wont mention the candidate that is not here. Is there any scenario you think if your generals and advisors are saying maybe we should have gone earlier, if we go in places in syria, we can knock isis back. If you know about this, is that a smart thing to do . Why arent we doing it if it is . Mr. Graham you have a weak president that is more worried about Campaign Promises than dealing with the threats to our country. He was told by all of his commanders, dont leave iraq without a 10,000 residual force behind. John mccain and i begged him not to. Everything we said has happened. It is hard, democracy is hard. Look how hard it is for us. You expect these people to get everything right in 10 or 15 years . It wont happen. He was told by all of his advisors, you need to help the Free Syrian Army while assad is on the rope, a nofly zone. He said no thank you. He said isil is the j. V. Teal. He drew a red line, and everybody thinks we are all talk. You need more troops in iraq. I have been to iraq and afghanistan 35 times. I ask you to make me in chief. You need somebody who knows what they are doing. I have been a reservist. It will not be easy. Were going to have to go from 3500 to 10,000 to get iraq in a good spot. If you dont deal with syria well be hit here. Its the perfect platform to attack us. There is no ground component in syria. We spent 5 00 million to train 60 people. I would go to the turks, to egypt, to jordan, i would go to saudi arabia and say were going to take your armies and integrate our forces in your armies and you will pay for this war, we paid for the last two. Well pull the caliphate up and repair syria. If we dont they are coming here. There is no easy way forward folks. We wont balance the budget without democratic support or fix immigration unless you get a bipartisan plan. Im from the reddest of red states. My biggest sin is that i worked for democrats that tried to find arable a rational solution. I would suggest to you the best way to predict what i will do in the future is what i have done in the past. Whatever it takes to defend the country. Mr. Heath what should the federal minimum wage be . Mr. Graham the federal minimum wage should not be increased. Hillary clintons list is a mile long of help the middle class. The middle class is somebody that cant go on vacation when the car breaks. The middle class has to make hard choices nobody else seems to make any more. I have been there. Her definition, secretary clintons definition of flat broke is different than mine. If after two terms in the white husband and your husband is president you think you are flat broke, boy, have you lost your way . At 22 i was flat broke when my parents died within 15 months. I cant wait to get in the ring with her or joe biden, who is a fine man. If you want to turn around American Foreign policy, the last two people you ought to ask is his Vice President or former secretary of state. Mr. Heath 30 seconds, senator. Mr. Graham the next president needs to be sure of who or im sorry. I cant talk. The next president needs to have their act together. Three problems. Too many terrorists, too much debt, too few jobs. You need a strategy to put radical islam in a box and nail it shot. We cant do it without more troops. The debt is driven by the 80 million baby boomers. We are going to wipe out Social Security and medicare if we dont do anything about it. I would do whatever it takes to save this program and this country. Under ms. Fiorinas leadership Hewlett Packard grew to become one of the biggest countries in the United States. Mr. Heath how can we get past what happened in 2008. Ms. Fiorina the financial crisis was caused by fannie mae and freddie mac. These were sponsored by republicans and democrats alike. They have not been reformed. 25 agencies were supposed to be minding the store and did not. Democrats passed doddfrank. Doddfrank caused 10 wall street banks too big to fail, have become five, more bigger, powerful wall street banks and thousands of Community Banks have gone out of business. We need to repeal doddfrank like we need to repeal obamacare and get about what we should have been doing years ago. Reform freddie may and freddie mac. The government should not be in the mortgage business. The agencies that regulate the mortgage system should be competent. The regulators that are supposed to be minding the Banking System are watching pornography and earning the same pay. This is not rocket science. It just never seems to happen. Mr. Heath senator graham had some sobering words about perhaps iraq syria, troop commitment. I think americans i cant even begin to characterize what it is like to watch the beheadings and torture and what isis is doing to captives. We know about lone wolf terrorism. Chattanooga, tennessee, and so forth. Fort dix. Do the American People have the stomach to go to war, even if it is limited, to go to war in syria or iraq to fight this evil . Ms. Fiorina president obama continuously provided to the American People the false choice. He says either you agree with what im doing or not doing or the option is to go to war. That is not true. There are many things we could and should be doing. First we must have the Strongest Military on the planet and everyone has to know it, which means we have to invest in fighting men and women and reneed to reform the department of defense. I would make two phone calls to netanyahu, to rea sure him we stand with israel. The second is the leader of iran. He may not take my call. He would get the message. Until you allow anytime, anywhere inspections well make it difficult for you to move money around the Global Financial system. Why do i start with those things . Knowing more World Leaders on the stage today than Anyone Running with the possible exception of Hillary Clinton, i know our allies need a message from us we will stand with them and our adversaries need a message that we will confront you. In terms of isis, we have allies that know this is their fight. The king of jordan a good man the saudi, i know them, the kurds, the emrates, they know isis is their fight. They asked us for bombs, intelligence, and weapons, i would have a camp david summit and ask them what they need from us. Yes, they may need more special forces but we need to show leadership, resolve, or support or our allies will lose courage. Mr. Heath you have 30 seconds. Ms. Fiorina i started as a secretary in a nine person real estate firm. I went on to lead the Largest Technology country in the world. Now im running for the president of the United States. My story is only possible in america. Our nation is at a pivotal time. Whatever your issue or cause or problem that you hope would be resolved, the Political Class haslett you down. Margaret thatcher once said im not content to manage the decline of a great nation. Neither am i. We need a president who understands the economy, the world, how it works, who is in it. Bureaucracy and how to hold them accountable and cut them down to size. Technology. I have a proven track record of challenging the status quo and problem solving. With your support and vote i will lead the resurgence of a great nation. Mr. Heath thank you. Senator santorum was a member of the gang of seven that exposed the congressional banking and post office scandals. Mr. Heath senator, what should the president s role be in terming abortion policy in america. Mr. Santorum i believe that the Supreme Court of the United States has abused its authority. Most recently in the gay marriage case. Justice roberts said it best. There is no constitutional basis for this decision. Roe versus wade, they said it was the same logic as dred scott. Whose sign are you on . Are you going to be on the side of lincoln . Abraham lincoln said that decision cannot stand and they went on and passed a bill to free the slaves. Are we suggesting we will be held by a Supreme Court that Abraham Lincoln wasnt held by when an unjust decision was handed down . In my opinion, we cannot be. Mr. Heath is it time, this is from one of our folks, a voter. Is it time to put a woman on the 20 bill, and if so, who . Mr. Santorum i think carlie is a good choice. I like her. Mr. Heath i thought you would say mrs. Santorum. Mr. Santorum now you are going to get me in trouble. Karen, im putting you. Thats what i was thinking. Mr. Heath lets shift gears. You agree it is time . Mr. Santorum i think thats certainly appropriate. We have tremendous people, women of great accomplishment. I have no problem putting them on currency. Mr. Heath why has it taken this long. Do you support the marketplace fairness act from another voter marketplace fairness act, which requires internet businesses to collect sales tax. Mr. Santorum i do not. Mr. Heath what is going to happen if this push continues . How do you get across the message that taxing the internet might stifle growth. Mr. Santorum what we dont need is more government texas. Taxes. We need to go to a flat rate a simple system where you dont have any of the bells and whistles, no incentives. You dont need them if you have a low flat rate. Mr. Heath i hear from Small Business owners that feel at every level they are overburdened. Some say they would not even start the business today. Are we antibusiness in america and why . Mr. Santorum everything that president obama has done with a pen and phone can be undone on day one with a pen. I would suspend every single executive order, regulation, rules interpretation that cost americans jobs. I would repeal them. If there was no purpose for them, or i would review them and make them more business friendly and friendly to american workers. This is all about jobs. This is all about creating opportunities for the folks in america that feel that Neither Party cares about them. Democrats, all they want to do is give them money. Republicans, you know, all of our emphasis is all about Small Business. I think Small Business is great. We need to do things to encourage Small Business. But 90 of workers in america dont own or run their own business. They work for a living. We have to have an idea, a plan and a vision to put them back to work so they can rise, too. Mr. Heath you have 30 seconds to address the voters. Mr. Santorum as was mentioned i was a member of the gang of seven. I won my first race in a 60 democratic district against an incumbent. In a state of a million more democrats than republicans, i took out an incumbent . I did that because i was an effective reformer that stood for the people in this country no one else is standing for. Im the only person in the race that ran in a president ial year with a president on the ticket that lost the state, and i won. President bush lost by four and i won by five. No won has done that. Its hard in a president ial election. None of these gentlemen have won in an election year. If you want a winner, you have to have someone that will stand with the American People that has a record of reform and accomplishment to get things done and i have that record. Mr. Heath thank you, senator. Mr. Santorum thank you. As governor of ohio, governor kasich has made a surplus and cut taxes. Mr. Heath what is a major issue with which you will say tonight you disagree with the republican party, your own party on . Where is your party wrong . Mr. Kasich im not here to criticize my party. What i will tell you is i think that Economic Growth is not just an end unto itself. I think it is very important with Economic Growth comes responsibility and the ability to help people that live in the shadows, whether they are mentally ill or drug addicted. We have the mayor of manchester fighting a tsunami. All over the country are the working poor. What i have tried to emphasize is Economic Growth, the creation of jobs is our most important moral purpose. Once that is accomplished we need to reach out to people that have traditionally lived in the shadows. In my state, ohio, we usually find out the results of an election three days later, i had the second largest victory in modern ohio history with 60 of women, 51 of union households, 26 of african americans. Our whole purpose has to be to give everybody a sense that the American Dream is alive. That we all can rise. Whether we are drug addicted or ill or developmentally disabled, whether we have never been given the attention we need as made in the image of the lord. So i would not disagree with any of my colleagues on that. I think we all have a heart for that. It is something our party needs to talk more about so people across the country understand that we get them. Sometimes, jack, our problem is people dont necessarily think we get them. But you know, thank god my father carried mail on his back and his father was a coalminer my mother could barely speak english. You are in touch with folks, their anxieties and concerns want. People want to know you get them. Mr. Heath governor, in a few days there will be a debate in cleveland. Mr. Kasich lebron will be moderating it, i understand. Mr. Heath you got in the race late. A lot of your colleagues here. Some are pretty impressive folks. Why did you feel there was an opening for john kasich. You have run before. Why did you get in this time with such a large field . Mr. Kasich jack, look. I have received blessings, most of us here have been very, very blessed. When you get that way, you have to figure out what your purpose is in life to make the world a little better place. It took me a while to get in this because i didnt get in this just to do it. I got in it to win. If i didnt think i could win i wouldnt do it. The reason im doing it is frankly, i have been a servant in terms of government, you know, government responsibility, a lot of my adult life. I spent ten years in the private sector. I got a calling back to my state to help fix my state. Guess what. We went from the loss of 350,000 job to the gain of it. Our credit going up. People living in the shadows have hope. We cut taxes by five billion dollars. So you know, we diversified our economy, jack. The most importantening is give people a sense that we get them, everybody can be included and we liftsh, nobody cut out. Mr. Heath you have 30 seconds to address the voters. Mr. Kasich i have been listening. Balancing the budget. How are you going to do it. We did it. When i left washington, we had a five trillion surplus, the economy was booming. We cut taxes on risk taking and investments. So it is not about what i think we can do. It is about what i have already done. I served on the Armed Services committee and have Great Respect for senator graham. I was there when we changed the way the military operates to get the services to work together. So reform the pentagon. I have National Security experience. We went from eight billion in the hole to two billion in the black. For people in ohio, hope has come back to the buckeye state. Thank you, i love being here. Well see you soon. Mr. Heath thank you governor. As governor governor christie achieved Health Benefit reforms. Mr. Heath the question i asked someone earlier, governor, is a question about the president s, now maybe he regrets it, calling isis a j. V. Team and now they are a bigger threat. Do you have a plan to take on that direct terrorist organization and defeat them or is it a movement that we have to be realistic, it will be here longer than we may want . Mr. Christie i think the answer is yes to both. This will be a long battle whether you are talking about isis or alqaeda or the other radical Islamic Forces across the world. The plan has to be very direct and clear. We need to get our allies in the middle east engaged in a major way. The jordanians and the saudis, they want to be engaged and believe this is an exostential threat to them. We need to make sure they are armed and trained. We need to share human and electronic intelligence with them and we need to provide them air cover and cooperation to make their attempts to target these folks correct. Mr. Heath you may get the energy award of campaigning in New Hampshire. I heard a lot about your town hall events. I hear you stay late and answer the questions. Thats the point. Mr. Christie im like the bad relative you invite for thanksgiving. I come early and stay late. Mr. Heath of all the candidates in New Hampshire are staying long and often. But some people that observed this say that your best time to run may have come and gone. I would like to know what makes a lot of you tick to make such a big decision. Mr. Christie are you saying im washed up . Mr. Heath no. But if you are going to open the door, i will take it. You have gone through battles in new jersey. Im sure it is a Family Decision for all the candidates. It is an incredible undertaking. Why now . What was the decision in your house. Mr. Christie no one should run for president until they can look in the mirror and say when they are ready. When folks approached me i was honored but i wasnt ready. I had been governor about 16 months in new jersey. I was not ready. So i look this time, four years later in the mirror, and everything that happened to me in the last four years, good and bad, made me better, made me better prepared. The decision is about whether in your heart and mind you are ready to lead the greatest country in the world during some of the most difficult times we ever faced. If that answer is not unequivocally yes, you have no business going to the American People to ask for their vote. Im ready. Mr. Heath ready for 30 seconds . Mr. Christie sure. I come from one of the bluest states in america. 42 years since new jersey elected a republican to the United States senate. Longest streak of any state in the nation. In 2009, against an incumbent that outspent me 33 million to 11 million, we beat him and took on a budget deficit, balanced it, cut taxes, and now after eight years of no private sector job growth in new jersey before i became governor. 192,000 new jobs. And most importantly the people in new jersey know when i say im going to do something, ill do it. When i say i wont, i wont. We need that kind of clarity in the United States again and in the oval office. I thank for your vote. As governor of new york government pataki lived through the worst terrorist attack on american soil on september 11, 2001. Mr. Heath governor, that introduction is where i was going to go. Seems like a lot of years ago. In some respects, i imagine for you and others, it seems like yesterday. Mr. Pataki it seems like yesterday. Mr. Heath how did it change your life . Mr. Pataki it changed it completely. On september 11 i was governor. It wasnt an abstract thing to see and hear about radical islam. I walked the streets, i could taste the dust and ash in the air. I comforted families that lost loved ones. I vowed that i would do, if i ever had the opportunity everything i could to protect us from radical islam and another terrorist attack. We are not doing that today. Isis poses a very clear threat to us. Not just with a major attack, but what they are doing here, tweeting, recruiting, jihaddists, you know, we just had the tragic incident in chattanooga. The Obama Administration says were going to not have our marines put on arms, they are going to take off their uniform. My view is very simple. We cannot bow down to islam anywhere. Certainly not in the United States. We should have our marines not take off their uniforms, but put on their guns. We should be proud to be here. We have to be proactive against isis in the middle east. I went back and read the september 11th commission report. Just a couple months ago. They had what we must do in the future to prevent another attack. They actually had a section that said if, for example, iraq becomes a failed state, and radical islam rises there, we have to use all of the might of america to destroy it. Well, today isis has training camps. We distributement centers, social media capability. Hundreds of millions of dollars people with western passports, we cant be passive. We have to arm the kurds directly. They are took place on the front line. Instead of telling egypt to get better on human rights, help their military fight isis and we should go in and destroy the recruiting centers before they have the chance to attack us here again. Mr. Heath quickly, lightning question. Is there a limit to Second Amendment protection in your mind . Mr. Pataki i dont think we should change the Second Amendment. The problem is Mental Health. We have to do a lot more to enforce Mental Health laws. Mr. Heath governor, 30 seconds. Mr. Pataki in my lifetime, i dont think i have ever seen americans more divided than today. A great republican president Abraham Lincoln said a house divided against itself cannot stand. We need to win this election. We need to do it not bipolar bipolarizing but by uniting the American People behind good, intelligent conservative limited government policies. I know i can do it because i did it three times in new york the most blue state in america, with more than three million democrats. We can win this election by bringing the American People together behind us. If i run, i promise you i will do that and take americas Government Back for the people. Thank you. Mr. Heath thank you governor. While jeb bush was governor of florida. 80,000 businesses were started and 1. 3 million jobs created. Mr. Heath governor bush. Common core curriculum is controversial in New Hampshire. Should state and local School Boards reject National Educational standards . Mr. Bush they should. States should create standards they should be state driven and locally implemented. The federal government should have no role in the creation of standards, no role in the creation directly or indirectly. The federal governments role in education ought to be to provide support for states that wont reform. Government jindal created some amazing reform in louisiana. His money cannot be used to enhance the reforms. The federal government should not have a say on standards, we need higher standards, school choice, ending social promotion, a plan to make sure more than a third of the kids are college or career ready. Mr. Heath i differ than my sister greatly on politics. You have a brother that is wellknown, and a dad, a father that was president. Do you feel when you talk with voters you have to differentiate yourself philosophically from the former president s . Mr. Bush people get this. By your point, around the kitchen table, your sister doesnt agree with you on things, and so i have a different view than my brother. My dad is probably the most perfect man alive. It is hard for me to be critical of him. I have a tshirt that says, the jeb swag store that says my dad is the greatest man alive. If you dont like it, i will take you outside. Mr. Heath a final word . Mr. Bush first of all, im impressed with the caliber of the people that are running for president. Every person that participated in this debate is better than any of the democrats running. So im honored to be a candidate and believe that we are on the verge of the greatest time to be alive. We have to fix a few things. If we do, this country will take off and i have the skills to make it happen. Mr. Heath that is it. Thank you very much, everyone. That concludes this evenings program. Thank you to our participants. On the next washington journal we will start the program by getting your reactions to the program. And later Joseph Mcquaid as he reviews that program. After that, National Journal reporter jason plautz examines present obamas announcement. And finally, mark legon discusses efforts to combat human trafficking. Plus your phone calls, Facebook Comments and tweets. This morning a hearing on federal prison oversight. We hear testimony from general Michael Horwitz as well as officials from the justice department. It is held by the Homeland Security committee and starts live at 10 00 a. M. Et. Then markstrom carol folt at chapel hill. She will speak about College Affordability at the National Press club. After that the Brookings Institution holds a discussion on the future of afghanistan after the u. S. Combat mission ended in 2014. We will hear from general John Campbell in afghanistan with the security situation and what it could look like in the future. It starts live at 3 00 eastern on cspan. Sunday night on q a, former emergency manager of detroit talks about detroits Financial Issues and his job overseeing the largest Municipal Bank industry. If detroit had taken that 1. 5 billion that it borrowed in 2006, when the stock market went down, and if it just invested in an index fund, the stock market is now trading at. 18,000, almost three times what it was they not only would have tripled their money they could have paid the pensions and full and got back into business of what is to clip called the current the 13th check. Giving pensioners a 13th check at the end of the year in addition to the 12 aired do. 12 they are due. It could have fixed itself if there had been any kind of sober management. If you have a strong and focused leadership you can resolve these problems. It takes a lot of effort. Sunday night on cspans q a. Next, cspan partners with the New Hampshire union leader or the newspapers voters first forum. All 17 republican candidates were invited to participate with 14 taking part. Held at the college in manchester this portion is 90 minutes. [indistinct chatter] [indistinct chatter] [indistinct chatter] ladies and gentlemen please take your seats at this time. The program will start soon. [indistinct chatter] [indistinct chatter] [indistinct chatter] [indistinct chatter] [indistinct chatter] [indistinct chatter] [indistinct chatter] [indistinct chatter][indistinct chatter] [indistinct chatter] [indistinct chatter] [indistinct chatter] [indistinct chatter] [indistinct chatter] [indistinct chatter] ladies and gentlemen, the show will begin momentarily. Please take your seats. [audience murmuring] good evening everyone. [applause] there are only two times we can applaud and that is once. I am out here to tell you a couple of housekeeping things before get started. Applause, there are two opportunities when you can applaud. Unless prompted by jack heath the moderator. This is about the voters and we want to make sure there are not disturbances out here. The fact is, try to keep it to yourself. We want to have a good forum and it is about the voters. Another housekeeping item, please state in your seat. I know it is long. If you stand up, you are in the way of one of these Many Television cameras and you will block the shot. Using the restroom, i hope this is a good time to say that i hope you already did that. If you do have to leave, they will not let you back in. The third thing, and most importantly, and i have a 13yearold daughter, i need you to shut your cell phone off. I know a lot of people will hold it down here and start clicking, but we can hear those tabs on these sensitive microphones and the shine from the screen does affect the sensitive lights in here. Im going to ask you to shut your phone off. If you cant do that for us that would be great. I would like to introduce to you dr. Stephen disalvo, the president of st. Anselm college. [applause] mr. Disalvo thank you and welcome. Many of you have been here before. Tonight is a next ordinary night. A next ordinary night. I had an opportunity to meet the candidates earlier. I want to thank the union leader and our media sponsors for being here tonight and helping us put on this wonderful event. I also want to take this opportunity to publicly thank the team for an outstanding job behind the scenes, putting together all of the logistics for this event. Thank you, neil. [applause] most of you know, we are a college that was founded by benedictine monks. We hope to be able to provide hospitality tonight and over the next six months that this as this political process unfolds. The institute of politics is run on a day to day basis by our students. We have over 100 student ambassadors. Many of them greeted you this evening. If you have a chance later on and you run into one of our students, thank them for their hard work and dedication to the New Hampshire political process. I would like to welcome you all on behalf of the faculty, the staff, and the students at st. Anselm. As neil said, we have a wonderful opportunity to hear the candidates tonight. We are asking you hold your applause later on, but this is an opportunity for you to meet the candidates. Please welcome the candidates. [applause] i would now invite two of our students to join us for the pledge of allegiance. Leah and brian oconnor. 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. As many of you know, we have hosted a series of events called politics and eggs. Many of the folks behind me has had an opportunity to meet our students and members of the community during those events. Those are opportunities for them to tell us their vision for the future and for us to ask questions. Tonight, we have an opportunity with everyone here to do the same. It will be moderated, we will have an opportunity to hear the presentations. The format will allow them a chance to talk about their platform, then they will have an opportunity to come up again and give us a little bit more information and perhaps clarify some things that were said. An interesting format, it is a forum, not a debate. We are blessed to have everyone here tonight. We know it is a busy week. We know that this is important because as the first in the nation primary state, in iowa, they take corn, and in New Hampshire, we pick president s. This is an opportunity for our voters to hear from the candidates. We are just about ready to go live. When the cameras roll, we will be on cspan and broadcast on many other networks. We do ask that everyone please be quiet during the presentation and keep their cell phones off. With no further adohere it goes live excuse me, on tape, now. [applause] gautier, welcome to the 2016 voters first republican president ial forum. This sponsored by the courier, the gazette, i heart radio and cspan. We want to thank the local sponsors no labels, americans for prosperity, live free or die, and saint anselm college. You will hear from 14 candidates this evening. With us is jeb bush, then carson christie, fiorina, graham, kasich, pataki perry santorum, and walk. Er. Via satellite cruz, paul and rubio. Welcome the moderator, jack. He is the host of New Hampshire today. Moderater thank you. There is a belief that the voters in the states and america deserve to hear from all of the chantix at the same time and answering the questions. The time will be tight and we want to hear from everyone. We have asked the candidates to skip their intro so that we can get to it and the legend and the answers are you. Rick perry was the governor of texas. Moderator thanks. Candidate howdy. Moderator we have responses from the voters and we focus here tonight on what was most important to them and the number one issues. Topping the issues, immigration and the economy. What would your policy need towards Illegal Immigrants . Candidate the issue is what is happening all over the land. The cost of immigration is on the states. Until we get the border secure, it does not stop. Like a serious wound you want to staunch the flow. Some say that we will deal with the ilLegal Immigration issue by reforming it and securing the border. Of the American People do not trust washington dc to do with the issue washington d. C. To deal with the issue. I looked at the president and said, mr. President if you do not secure the border, texas will. They put them in the river and we deployed at the National Guard. Because of the effort, we saw the increase in apprehension. It takes boots and security fencing. Im talking from tijuana, el paso, and brownsville with technology to see the activity that is illegal or suspicious. I know how to secure the border. Elect me president and i will promise you that the will to secure the border will reside in the oval office. Moderator ilLegal Immigration until we get a handle on it, should we reduce the number of green cards . What should the number be . Candidate we need to be smart about it and they cannot even keep up with it. We can find a package halfway around the world and we cannot keep up with the people who have overstayed visas. The agencys rogan and you need to fix the agency. The agency is broken and you need to fix the agency. You need to send it back. Moderator should we reduce the number of legal . Candidate i dont know. We need to find out where the people are illegally. Get that taken care of and we will maskke a smart decision about whether we do or do not have visas handed out. Moderator the economy has 2 gdp. How can you make the economy grow faster than 2 . Candidate i am more than a passable expert because the state of texas created more jobs than anybody in this room. One third of all of the jobs created in america occurred while i was the governor of texas with smart policies that let you keep more. We had Public School policies that were accountable and said to the businesses that you find a Skilled Workforce in the state. It is intertwined with the Energy Policy. Canada, the United States, and mexico have more resources than russia and saudi arabia and we can drive income tax down and create a renaissance in manufacturing. Moderator thank you. Rick santorum represented pennsylvania. Moderator should the federal government subsidize any economic sector . If so, which ones . Candidate i dont think we should be subsidizing. We should make them competitive. In pennsylvania, we talked about restoring the great center of america and getting americans back to work who have not been. 2 wage growth. It has stagnated with the americans from 2565 who do not have a College Degree and do not have manufacturing jobs anymore. We are down to 11 million. The line is going down. If we do not allow the country to be competitive with the rest of the world, we will see decline. There is no hope for those who struggle the most. That is why the campaign is making manufacturing competitive and is putting a flat tax that will have a transition time for manufacturing. We will start at a 0 rate and we will go back. We will have repatriation cut to 5 . We will have expensing instead of depreciation. Moderator what percentage . Candidate 20 . I have an income tax, corporate tax, all 20 . Moderator speaking to the economy, in New Hampshire, someone maxes out on public assistance and that is 14 an hour. In massachusetts, 20 an hour. How to view incentivize people to go to work . Candidate i managed a bill on the floor of the senate that wanted to do things. We put time limits and a work requirement. We eliminated entitlement programs. I did that. I was the leader. We should have done it for snap and other means tested programs. Next door, a germanic reduction. Dramatic reduction. There has to be a 12 punch. There has to be jobs for those who want to work to get them off of the welfare programs. It is manufacturing and putting time limits and work requirements on welfare. Moderator and you believe the president and the administration wants order security . Candidate i dont think they are serious about protecting working men and women. 35 Million People have come to the country legally and illegally. That can be bad or good. We have never seen such decrepit wage growth. The people coming in legally and illegally are unskilled workers competing against our young men and women who want to succeed. We are not giving those people a chance. Im the only person in this race calling for a 5 reduction 25 reduction in unskilled labor. Everyone elses dancing around it. Moderator how do we do that . Candidate everify. Moderator you ran before. Are you glad to make the decision again . Candidate it was a tremendous opportunity. This time, it is better. Last time, it was everybody saying they were more conservative than mitt romney. This time, it is the issues. John kasich was the governor of ohio. Is the governor of ohio. Moderator what would you do with the sanctuary cities . We saw the murder of the woman by the Illegal Immigrants. Johncandidate it needs to be secured. There needs to be a worker program. They need to do it in a legal way. With the 12 million we need to find who they are. If they are godfearing, they will pay a penalty and have to wait. The ones where the 12 million who violate the law will have to be deported. At the same time, we need to make sure we protect who gets in and out of the country. When we put something into effect like that, no one should be confused. Moderator you are not a fan of nafta. Candidate if the American People do not get protected here is what i main. I mean. I have a friend in the business who says that it takes two years to find out if somebody is cheating. You cannot wait to years. Two years. We need an expedited process. If it makes sense, we go forward. We need to call them on it and take action. You asked about the economy and if i could speak on that, i was the chairman of the budget economy and our economy Budget Committee and the economy took off. We cut taxes and allens the budget. Balanced the budget. We cut taxes and we are in the black. Cutting taxes, balancing budgets , it works to drive Economic Growth. Moderator tim asked about balancing the budget. He and his wife have to live within a budget in their household and he and his wife do not understand why washington cannot. The budget was balanced. It has not happened. How is washington going to live with the same responsibility that people live with . Candidate we need a allens Budget Amendment in the constitution. Balanced Budget Amendment in the constitution, which i have in pushing for. We need balanced budgets for values. We do not have the right to live high on the hog and put the bills on our children. I spent years and we got it done. We can do it again. It is politically challenging. Frankly, the effort to get there is not that complicated. I have written only 16 budgets in my lifetime. These things can be done. They dont necessarily have to be done by killing or chopping programs. As president , my priority is to get us on a roadmap to create a balanced federal budget to get us going in america. Lindsey graham was elected to the house and has served as a senator. Moderator the good evening. How do we maintain free trade that is fair trade . Candidate china is cheating and they manipulate currencies. We do not do a dam thing about it. Damn thing about it. They cyber attack us. When i am president , we are pushing back on china. My policy is clenched fist, open hand you choose. Moderator if it is president Lindsey Graham and you catch a country doing that, what you going to do . Candidate you hit back. You make them pay a price. China cheats in and steels. To putin, if im president , you have a different person to deal with. Obama drew a redline against assad and china thought, this is a weak guy. Lets grab all that we can. I go to the negotiating table with a crowbar. There are more terrorist organizations with more capabilities to destroy the homeland is 9 11. Since 9 11. Moderator you mentioned vladimir putin. Candidate we should arm the ukrainians. We signed an agreement about the Nuclear Weapons that guaranteed sovereignty. Who would do that . We take every bit of natural gas and exported to undercut putin. Everyone talks about balancing the budget and spending money we are on the way to being greece. If you dont do this somebody in this country needs to do what Ronald Reagan and tip oneill did. I can give up Social Security benefits because i will have a military retirement, congressional retirement, i would take less. I want to be president to restore the great nation. I want to put radical islam in a box. I want to do the big things,. The hard things. Moderator the war of tomorrow candidate we are worried about isis. Moderator it may be here today. If somebody takes out satellites and causes chaos here, as president , is that an act of war . Candidate to mean, it is an act of war. What is the response . Cut the military budget and have the Smallest Army since 1940 . Andneuter the fbi and cia . We need to hit them. Hillary clinton is the last person you want to send into the arena with the russians. I have been dealing with this for 20 years. I am fluent in clinton. When bill says, i did not have sex with that woman, he did. When she says, i will talk about holding a pipeline, she wont. When she tells us we have all the emails, we have not scraped the surface. I understand this crowd. Chris christie has served as the governor of new jersey since 2010. Moderator thank you. I want to get to questions that hit home in New Hampshire. Should the president ever saying she the payment for the release of american citizens held captive . Candidate no. We cannot negotiate with terrorists. I fight against terrorism. I was appointed before september 11 and we encourage those people by doing that and cannot do it. Moderator republicans may not be great communicators like democrats. Entitlement reform is a tough subject. Medicare and disability are going insolvent or will be broke. Americans may have to give up a program they like. That is a tough message. How do you tell the truth . Candidate you have to have a concrete plan and you cannot speak in generalities. The spending is between americans understand we are mortgaging away the future and killing the programs. We are living longer and better life. That is a blessing. We need to increase retirement age. For those who are the most fortunate, we need to say to those, if you have done well in this country, we need you to not take a Social Security check. Those are things that americans are willing to give. We underestimate the American People. There are challenges that promise a better future. It is not the American People who are failing the entitlement system. They are not telling them the truth. Moderator veterans in New Hampshire, we have one of the highest populations here and we do not have a fulltime hospital. Should every state have a fulltime hospital . Candidate they should be able to take the veteran card and go to any Health Care Provider and get treatment from them and should not have to wait. If they want to go to that hospital, good for them. We should keep the promise to the veterans and we are not because of the incompetence of this administration. Lets get the v. A. To do what it needs to. We need to honor our veterans by giving them the health care they deserve. Moderator one of the Biggest Health care crises is facing New Hampshire. One asked me if i would ask you about this. A daughter passed away with a haireroin overdose. Why is there not more help for these addicts turn to prostitution . Candidate there should be and there is in new jersey. They go to mandatory drug treatment because this is a disease and the war on drugs has been a wellintentioned failure. This is a moral failing. Everyone has made a mistake. There, but for the grace of god, go i. If you are not a Violent Offender and dealing drugs, we need to get you treatment. The fact that this could happen to anyone and that this is guided by sensitive economic standards, it is not. Anyone can have this happen to them. We need a president who says that this is a disease that we need to fix. Ben carson attended yale and received his m. D. From michigan. Moderator you have been one who has talked a lot about the Affordable Care act. Or obamacare. The president says we can refer to it as obamacare. What do you replace it with . Candidate there is no question that it needs to be replaced before it is repealed. You do not want to pull a safety net out from people. The reason i dont like obamacare is not so much because it does not work and because it is not affordable. It is because if flies in the face of what we are as a nation. It is for and why the people. By the people. Obamacare comes along and the government says, we do not care what the whole think and we are shoving this down your throat. That is antithetical to the founding principles of the country. I would put the power back into the hands of the consumers with the savings accounts that are available from that ehe day you are born until you die. You give people flexibility. If you are 500 short, you can give et it from your mom or uncle. Virtually nothing is coming out other than Catastrophic Health care. The homeowners policy that would work well for a majority of people. Not for the indigent. How do we take care of the indigent . Medicaid. 400 billion to 500 billion. What could you buy with that . A concierge practice, most cost between 2000 3000 a year. Think about this, washington says that you cannot give Health Savings accounts because they would not the able to manage them. They think everybody is like them. That is not true. They said that about food stamps. They would learn this. You do not go to the emergency room. People go to the clinic for the same treatment. They get the diabetes under control. You learn personal responsibility and we are doing things that teach that rather than dependency. Moderator and the senate, there was a vote on plant parenthood. Planned parenthood. Candidate taxpayers should absolutely not Fund Planned Parenthood and the recent videos show the level of depravity that we have something to. Sunken to. We have another question. What is your game plan to reform the tax code . Moderator mine is raised on who i believe is the fairest individual in the universe, god. He says, i want a tithe. There must be something inherently fair about proportionality. Jack governor, is america doing enough now to prevent another major terrorist attack on u. S. Soil and what security steps are we failing to take . Mr. Bush i think we have let our guard down. It is typical when you have an attack like 9 11. We responded, had a security apparatus, and over time other things have come to the forefront. Senator graham is right. This is a war against western civilization. These are barbarians. As isis stays in a caliphate literally the size of indiana in two countries, doing nothing allows them to send tweets out to recruit people in our own country. We have a Security Threat that israel and we should do what we need to be doing, and protecting the homeland is the first duty of the president of the United States. Jack president obama referred to isis as the jv team. I think they have graduated to the varsity. If Ground Troops in syria could cut down isis strongholds, would you take the order . Mr. Bush i would take the advice of the military very seriously. We need a strategy. This president has admitted we do not have a strategy when it comes to isis. The idea of boots on the ground i am not sure that is necessary, but special forces embedding our troops with the Syrian Free Army training them at a much faster rate we have spent half 1 billion to have 60 people ready to go. If this is a serious effort, we to treat it seriously, so engaging in the world, creating alliances with traditional arab nations, supporting it with air power and military power creating a strategy, and sticking with it. There needs to be a political element as well. The United States is not trusted because no one has a sense that we are going to be around. It is hard to engage with the turks, the jordanians, the saudis they will not make the commitment. Jack you said to me you started today in california a big country hard job running for president. You have been out of office and even your colleague senator rubio speaks highly of your time. What compelled you to run . Mr. Bush i think we can grow this economy at 4 and the fact that paul krug disagrees with me warms my heart. It would involve fixing the tax code, how we regulate, embracing the Energy Revolution with a north american strategy that would allow for high wage jobs to be created in our own country, and moving from a broken economic integration system to an economic driver. That allows us to solve entitlement challenges and many other things. In return grow at that rate we need a secure world. I think i have the leadership skills to do that. We cut taxes to 19 million reduced the Government Workforce by 13,000, 11 . We were one of two states to go to a aaa bond rating. I left with a 9 billion reserve. We created 1. 3 million jobs during my time. More Small Businesses were created in florida during those eight years. Jack on Legal Immigration, does the illegal Immigration Crisis or problem, should that affect the number getting in legally . Mr. Bush i would cut it down to spice spouse and minor children. Carly fiorina the former ceo of hewlettpackard, was the first woman to lead a fortune 50 business. Jack what is this is a personal but a professional question you have run for office or a top 50 ceo. One of the viewers wants to know what is the least popular action you have taken and what did you learn from it . Ms. Fiorina thank you for hosting this, and thank you for reminding the Political Class we do not have a Nation National primary. I think one of the most difficult primaries we have is a leader is to challenge the status quo. In the bureaucracy, especially in washington dc, it is powerful, because people that have benefited from the status quo want to preserve the status quo, so when you challenge the status quo and say this problem has been festering for too long and we will fix it, or these folks have been in charge for too long, the truth is 80 of the American People now think we have a professional Political Class that is the status quo, and we have festering problems our budget gets bigger and bigger every year for 40 years and we have been talking about ilLegal Immigration. How long have we been talking about the border being insecure 30 years. How long have we known it was insecure 30 years. We talk a lot at election time, but somehow we never solve these festering problems. It is because the status quo is in charge. Leaders challenge the status quo. Jack least popular action you took as a leader . Ms. Fiorina philly popular actions are when you have to say to people we cannot afford this anymore and lord knows we need to do that in washington, d c jack can you win with that message . Ms. Fiorina people understand. The government has gotten bigger and bigger every year for almost 50 years. You have to invest in things that are priorities, securing the border, helping people eventually truly need help, and you need to quit spending money where you are wasting money, and we are wasting hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars every year and we know where it is because there are reports that come out every year, they land on congress desk and nothing happens. Jack former first lady Lady Hillary Clinton you have been a strong and steady critic. She will be testifying in a few months on benghazi, the email d believe those are political inconveniences for the former first lady, or are there bigger issues the American People need to know about and are there potential illegal worries you have on the email server or anything else . Ms. Fiorina i think Hillary Clinton thinks they are political inconveniences, but they are far more than that. She lied about benghazi. They knew it was a purposeful terrorist attack on the anniversary of 9 11. She went to the American People and talked fiction about a videotape. She has lied about her servers and the kinds of information she had on our server and why she kept everything on a single device. These go to the core of her character. In order to beat Hillary Clinton or whoever the nominee turns out to be, we have to have a nominee that will throw every punch because it is a fight for the future of this nation, for the character of this nation, and unfortunately, we know sometimes the right questions to not have asked in a president ial debate. Jack should planned parenthood received federal taxpayer funding . Ms. Fiorina absolutely not. This is about the moral character of the nation not about whether you are prochoice or prolife. Taking care of people that need our care is part of our moral fiber as well. Governor bobby jindal was elected to the u. S. House of representatives in 2004 and has served as governor of louisiana since 2007. Jack governor jindal, if you are the next american president i think most people would agree you would be coming into a divided america on race relations, income relations a lot of talk about who has how much money, and who does not and talk about what you do about that. How can unify the country . Gov. Jindal im tired of the president trying to divide us. We are all americans. Were not hyphenated americans africanamericans, asianamericans, poor americans we are all americans. The left likes to see ourselves as victims. It and if its them as it benefits them as candidates. This president is trying to turn the American Dream into the european nightmare make us more dependent on government. Give Bernie Sanders credit. He is honest enough to call himself a socialist. Hillary clinton and barack obama are no better, but they are not honest enough to call themselves socialists. Jack making washington work for us again i guess there is this feeling that everyone would agree washington is not working for america, in fact, maybe working against us. You have a good story to tell. A few other governors have a good story balancing the budget, cutting the deficit, growing jobs how do we believe you can go to washington, if elected and change the culture to balancing budgets and making the American People feel good about the government again . Gov. Jindal we have a lot of talkers. We need a doer. We cut the budget in louisiana by 26 . We have over 1000 fewer bureaucrats. Eight credit upgrades. Top 10 state for private sector job creation. In dce, even the republicans talk about slowing the growth of federal government. That is not enough. We need to shrink the size of the federal government. Do you measure prosperity in the government sector or the real world . Hillary clinton measures that in the government sector. We measure it in the real world. Secondly, it is also important that we get rid of the permanent Political Class in d. C. We need term limits. We have politicians that go there, it becomes a career. Not only doing a term limits, we need to stop them from paying from being lobbyists. We need to pay them a per diem. Make them live under the same rules. They love the obamacare until their exemption was taken away. Jack New Hampshire decided against arming recruiters in our National Guard or troops domestically as when they are abroad, as you know, they can carry a side arm and protect themselves. Should we be arming troops in New Hampshire, your state in louisiana, at these basis and recruiting centers . Gov. Jindal absolutely. I signed the executive order louisiana. Our commanderinchief, the president needs to do the same. We should not have these gunfree zones. The president said were not going to beat isis with guns. We need to change their hearts and minds. I am glad the Police Officer in texas had a gun. If general patent and eisenhower said world war ii would be a propaganda war, the french would be speaking german. Jack i would like to take the president at his word that the iranian deal it is the only way to stop iran from getting a bomb. Do you agree . Gov. Jindal absolutely disagree. He has declared war on trans fats and a ceasefire with the largest state sponsor of terrorism. A good deal would say no centrifuges, no enriched uranium, cutting off ties to hamas, hezbollah, terrorist groups. They have to free american prisoners. We will only gradually lift sanctions, not immediately. Syria loves it. Israel hates it. That is all you need to know. Jack thank you, governor. Governor scott walker has served as the 45th governor of the state of wisconsin since 2011. Jack governor, is Climate Change related to human activity, and what steps if any should americans be taken to address Climate Change and i would like you to comment to the president s proposal today to cut Carbon Emissions 25 is that realistic . Gov. Walker first of all, it is not a clean power plan, it is a costly power plan. It would be a was saw to the nations economy. I am an eagle scout. We were taught your campus site your campsite should be cleaner after you leave then when you found it. I want clean air, clean air, clean water, but i want an economy that my children and grandchildren can grow in. The proposal is a was saw to the nations economy and we need a leader that will recognize the balance. Jack it was not long ago one congress looked at cutting the budget and they balked when sequestration came about. How could you lead and work of congress on both sides of the to cut spending and be specific in some areas of the budget that could and need to become. Gov. Walker i inherited a budget deficit and we fixed it. We still reduce taxes by 2 billion on individuals, cut rates, reduced one of the brackets, actually on job creators, farmers, manufacturers, and others out there. Property taxes are lower in my state and they were watching years ago. I know how to balance the budget. It is a combination. It is through growth and reform. Growth we laid out a multipronged plan to once and for all repeal obamacare applications and families back in charge of health care, raining and the sorts of things we talked about out of control regulations, and all of the above Energy Policy that allows us to use the abundance of what god has given us here, make sure everyone gets the education and skills they need, and to reform and lower the tax rates. On specific reductions a big part of reform is taking major portions of the federal government medicaid transportation, natural resources, others, take them back from washington and send them to the states. Governors are much better at being more effective and efficient and accountable that managing those programs. Jack you survived they recall you have a good story on balancing the budget you have a surplus how much . Gov. Walker we started with 1 billion, use it to cut taxes and we have another budget that will have a cash balance again. The Rainy Day Fund is 165 times bigger than we first took office. Jack in the process you have been known as someone that takes on the union are you antiunion, antiworker . Gov. Walker i am proworker protaxpayer pay we gave workers the freedom to choose whether they want to be in a labor union or not. Many chose to keep the money they use to pay for union dues to pay for their kids college education. We are protaxpayer. All the power treated in the hands of the elite union bosses. We redistributed that to the taxpayers. In our schools we no longer have seniority or tenure. We can hire and fire based on merit. We can put the best and brightest in our classrooms. Four years later, Graduation Rates are up, thirdgrade scores are up if it can work in a blue state like wisconsin if it was not too late for wisconsin, it is not too late for america. Jack biggest challenge you think you were successful on . Gov. Walker taking on the budget in a way that focused on reform and not just austerity. If i would have just been about cuts, i probably would have been recalled but i focused on reform and growth and that made the difference. Governor George Package served as the 53rd governor of the state of new york from 1995 to 2006. Jack this comes from the live free or die alliance in New Hampshire what federal agencies do you think should be eliminated . Mr. Pataki let me start by saying we should get rid of obamacare, common core, and reduce the size of the federal workforce by at least 15 . People are going to say how can you do that . I was governor in new york three times. I had an overwhelmingly Democratic Legislature and reduce the size of the workforce by over 50 . We reformed entitlements, cut growth in metal medicaid. We had over one Million People fewer on welfare. One program i would repeal is obamacare. I would work to get democrats to support our conservative policies. I did that in new york. Jack do you believe the Affordable Care act can politically be repealed . Mr. Pataki not only can it be repealed, i think it has to be repealed. It will get worse and worse. Not only is it hurting health care for americans, it is also one of the reasons the economy is not growing. I cannot tell you the number of employers i know that say we are going to keep the workforce below 50 so we are out from obamacare. There are millions of americans working 28 or 29 hours a week because obamacare would kick in if they worked 30. We have to put in place an alternative and i would sit down with enough democrats, as i did in new york, to have an alternative that allows us to repeal and repay it. Jack one group in New Hampshire wasson of who is treated most unfairly by the u. S. Cast tax code . Mr. Pataki the veterans and not just by the tax code. Our freedom depends on those who put their lives on the line to defend it. You have a Health Care System that denies them service where as many as onethird waiting in line for treatment have died and an administration that lies about it is wrong to we have to reform the Health Care System for our veterans and do more for our Mental Health. On the tax code, the biggest killer there is for manufacturing. I grew up in a small town. I am the only one that worked in a factory when i was going through college. My factory my family all work in a fact repaired we have the highest tax on manufacturing in the world today, the worst regulatory climate for manufacturers. I have to lower the tax burden. That would allow the great workforce to compete and create jobs. By the way despite the bad policy and manufacturing while i was governor we were able to get over 20 billion in building computer chip factories in upstate new york, great jobs. Grow the economy, allow workers to have an opportunity to have solid careers and shrink the federal government. Jack what should the tax rate the . Mr. Pataki four manufacturing, i would say 12 . Energy costs are coming down. We have the best workforce and work ethic in the world and we have entrepreneurs risktakers. The federal government is the biggest single impediment. We can grow manufacturing jobs here. Jack on planned parenthood should Taxpayers Fund it . Mr. Pataki planned parenthood has a horrific disregard for basic human life. I think they should be defunded. By the way, jack jack we will get you in the next round. Thank you, governor. Now, i believe joining us from washington are three senators who had to be at the capital this evening for an important vote. It was out of their control. They wanted to be here but we are happy to have them join us by satellite. I believe we are joined by our senators. We will start with senator rand paul. Center, good evening. Running for president in 1952, general Dwight Eisenhower famously said i shall go to korea. If you are elected president named the first foreign nation you will travel to . Name the first foreign nation you will travel to. Sen. Paul first of all, thanks for letting us appear remotely. I have been leading the fight to defund obamacare and i was lucky enough to get a vote on that this evening. As far as the first country i will travel to, i think it is important to engage in the world. Even though sometimes china is our adversaries, we do interact with these superpowers. I would say either china or russia. Jack how would you lessen college debt for millions of americans . Sen. Paul i have a plan that would make it deductible. Right now there are limitations i would say your interests and your principle ought to be deducted over your entire working career. Since college is a working and spends, i would let you adopted over your entire working career and i think this makes more sense than the president who says this will be free. He cannot offer free education. I think timing and making deductions is a good idea. Jack should american citizens found to be fighting with isis have their u. S. Citizenship revoked . Sen. Paul yes, and in fact, you really do not have any rights in the battlefield. You really do not have any rights and some have fought this those that are involved do not get to protest and are shot. We do get to process and and due process. What we did to africanamericans precivil rights days, japaneseamericans we have to be very careful that we not collect everyones phone records without suspicion. I am glad we ended the president s illegal phone program and i think this is a better protection of the Fourth Amendment and the right to privacy. I am the one candidate that has to up to the president to say no more, we will not let you collect our phone records indiscriminately. Jack senator what private information should the government collect to guarantee Homeland Security where do you draw the line . Sen. Paul i think we should collect more information on terrorist, but less information on innocent individuals per we have a way to get information. You have to individualize suspicion, and most of the time you have been attacked, we have had the tip, but did not follow through. The 19th hijacker, we had information and we failed to get a warrant. It was not that it was denied. The boston bomber we had information, failed to pursue it. The same with the fort hood massacre. I think we can catch terrorists if we get more information on terrorists, but there is no evidence three bipartisan commissions say the information we are capturing indiscriminately on all americans as an caught any terrorists, has not made us safer, it is damaged our bill of rights and our right to privacy. Jack senator paul, are you concerned that it might take some time to stop a bomb going off if you have to get that want . Sen. Paul there are always imminent circumstances in which things can happen. If someone is screaming from a building, you do not stop to get a warrant. There is always beens there are always circumstance. For the most part, you need to get a want, and the question we have is about collecting allamericans phone records all of the time is that a good idea or a breach of our Fourth Amendment right for privacy question mark most of america agrees with me that the president went too far. This is a president that investigated tea party groups, use the irs to go after conservative groups. Im glad that i stood up on principle to say enough is enough we can catch terrorists, but in a collected targeted fashion. Jack thank you. Senator ted cruz, Arthur Schwartz is in manchester tonight and he wonders what youre deal with iran would look like. Sen. Cruz well, jack, thank you very much. Thank you for allowing us to be here, we had to vote to deFund Planned Parenthood, and i hope we see Republican Leadership lead the fight to get it done. Let me answer the question because it is a very important one. I believe this Obama Iranian Nuclear deal is the single greatest National Security affect facing america. If the deal goes through several things will happen first of all, roughly 100 billion over 100 billion will flow into iran. Iran is the worlds leading sponsor of terrorism. Billions of it will go on to hamas, hezbollah it is very interesting. I pointed out a couple of weeks ago if this deal goes through the Obama Administration will become the worlds leading global financier of radical islamic terrorists. In response, plastic president obama attacked me from president obama attacked me from africa and said that rhetoric was from over here. That is not rhetoric. It is the truth. If john kerry, Hillary Clinton and barack obama are responsible for spending billions of dollars to go to iran and that goes to terrorists, the administration is responsible. Beyond that, this deal leaves four american hostages languishing in iran. We saw one president that abandoned hostages in iran. We should not see another. This accelerates iran acquiring Nuclear Weapons. What should we do i have introduced legislation that would reimpose sanctions strengthen them, and lay out a clear path, a sensible path for he ran to lift me sanctions. They would disassemble centrifuges, hand over enriched uranium, shut down their program that exists for one purpose, and that is to carry a Nuclear Weapon to the United States of america, and they would cease being the world leading state sponsor of terrorism. Over the next 60 days i will do everything i can to mobilize and energize the American People against this catastrophic deal because i think it is a profound threat to the safety and security of america. Jack senator tom of New Hampshire is from in the audience. Tell us about a time your judgment has been tested in crisis and what you want us to appreciate about your judgment. Sen. Cruz serving in the United States senate is an interesting expense. I have spoken a lot about what i call the Washington Cartel. What is the Washington Cartel it is career politicians in both parties that get in bed with lobbyists, special interests and they grow government. The American People are frustrated because we keep winning elections in 2010 we won the election in 2014, we won the senate, and we were have leaders that follow their commitment. I will tell you the sad reality my time in the senate what ive tried to do more than anything else is tell the truth and do what i have said i would do. Stand against the Washington Cartel and stand for the 27 million texans i was elected to represent. When you do that they beat the living daylights out of you smack you in the press, come after you on every front. Democrats attack you, the Mainstream Media attacks you republicans attack you, but the only way we will turn the country around stop the spending that is bankrupting our kids and grandkids, stop the abuses on our liberty, is with a leader of the demonstrated history of standing up to the Washington Cartel. It is not easy, but we have seen it before Ronald Reagan, the reagan revolution with the American People at his back, he stood up to the Washington Cartel and turn the country around. That is what i will do if i am elected president. Jack thank you, senator cruz. Senator marco rubio joining us live from cspan. Good evening. Shouldnt medical marijuana being narrowly written law or is it ok to have conflicting laws in different states . Sen. Rubio i do not support the legalization of marijuana. I understand that individual states are going through the debate about medicinal purposes. As long as it is for medicinal purposes and even at the National Level it goes through the fda process at any other medicine would have to go through, that is something im going to explore. I do not support the legalization of marijuana or any additional intoxicant. This country is paying a significant price for the legal use of drugs and even alcohol which is legal. You talk about New Hampshire one of the stories it is not been reported nationally is many of the people dependent on heroin today became dependent on prescription opiates and when it became difficult to acquire prescription opiates they unfortunately became hooked on heroin and opium in the streets. I am not in support of legalizing Something Like medical marijuana. For medicinal purposes, if it underwent an fda process and was designed to be used as medicine, that is something i would be willing to explore. Jack if elected president , what would your product what would your solution before undocumented sen. Rubio im glad you asked that sorry jack go ahead. Sen. Rubio i do not think anyone would disagree that he needs to be fixed, but it cannot be fixed in one massive piece of legislation. There is only one way forward and it requires three steps we have to prove ilLegal Immigration is under control. It is not good enough to say we are going to pass a law that will bring it under control people demand to see it. They want to see the fence completed. They want to see more border agents. They also recognize that over 40 of the people in this country illegally entered legally and overstayed a visa. That is why we need electronic verification systems that employers must comply with and we need systems at our airports. That is the key to unlocking the ability to make progress on anything else. Once we have done that, the second step would be to modernize the Legal Immigration system. We are the most general and generous country in the world admitting over one Million People legally, we do so on the basis of whether or not they have a relative living here. We cannot afford to do it that way anymore. In 21st century, Legal Immigration must be based on merit what you can contribute economically, basically, whether youre coming to be an american as opposed to simply living in america. Once we have done those things, there is a reasonable way to address the fact that there are 12 Million People living in the country that are illegally here but have been here for a long time. They will have to pass a background check, pay fine, learn english, and in exchange they will get a work permit that allows them to legally work in the United States and travel and that is all they will have for an extended period of time and at some point can have an extended conversation about a green card, but that is the only way forward at this point. Jack senator, how would you address the mood or morale of the dates or americans the economy is not growing, the budgets and the deficits are mounting, we have threats abroad how and why is america where it is at right now, and what is the reason for it . Sen. Rubio that is actually the fundamental question of this election. This nation is at a Pivotal Moment in its history. The world around us is changing and we need to decide what kind of country will be in the 21st century we will be in the 21st century. The economy is rapidly changing. The largest retailer, amazon does not own a single store. The largest Hospitality Company airbnb, does not own a single hotel room. Uber does not own a single car. We live in a world that is rapidly changing china is taking over the South China Sea russia is threatening the unity of europe and nato. Iran is on the verge of acquiring Nuclear Weapons and delivering it to the United States. Radical jihadists have spread across multiple continents and some are located in the United States. The result is it makes people feel insecure because they recognize the old ways of doing things no longer work but no one is outlining the way forward. What we need is leaders that understand the new era and have clear ideas that i have offered about how to modernize policies that fully benefit from the opportunities the new economy and ideas on how to restore not just american prestige, but military power, the ability to stand and the importance of the states role as the first in the country primary. And then jason examines president obamas announcement of new rules that will limit power plant Carbon Emissions. Finally, Freedom House discusses a recent report which raised countries around the world to combat human trafficking. Your phone calls and facebook posts and tweets a washington journal is live at 7 00 a. M. This morning a hearing on prison oversight and we will hear testimony from Michael Horwitz and other officials from the justice department. The hearing is held by the Senate Homeland committee and is left at 10 00 a. M. Here on cspan. Their remarks from the chancellor of the university of North Carolina at chapel hill. She was big. She will speak about College Affordability. See those comments live at 1 00 p. M. Eastern. The Brookings Foundation holds a conversation on the future of afghanistan. We will hear from general John Campbell commander of Operation Resolute support on what the security situation could look like in the future. Live at 3 30 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Sunday night on q a, former emergency manager of detroit talks about Financial Issues. And his job overseeing the largest Municipal Bankruptcy in u. S. History. Mr. Orr if detroit had taken that when the stock market went down and invested in an index fund the stock market is now trading at almost three times what it was. Not only what it have tripled their money, they could have paid pensions and then got back in the business of giving pensions a 13th check at the end of the year in addition to the 12 they are due. It could have fixed themselves if there had been sober management going forward. If you had some strong leadership and some focused on leadership, you could resolve the problems. But it takes a lot of effort