See the chaos and devastation of an attack like september 11 occur right here in america and we can never let that happening happen again. We will prevent isis from attacking us here but we will not risk one American Life unnecessarily. So, i started out by saying you are going to hear a lot of candidates. They are going to talk about i will do this, i will do that. Ask them how are they going to do it, have they done it, and what is the vision as to how they are going to protect america in the 21st century. I have had a privilege of leading one of the great states of america, the state of new york for 12 years. I got elected as a republican conservative three times. Im the only person ever in the history of new york state to run and win as a republican candidate and a conservative party candidate. I got elected by the two largest majorities ever for a republican in the history of new york state, a state where in the last 93 years there have only been two other republicans elected, period, and they were both liberal republicans. I can win this election. I can change washington. I can change america and bring americans together. I did it in new york. I will do it in washington. We are one america. We stand together, theres nothing we cant accomplish. Whether its here in iowa or anywhere in america, we should believe and it should be true that the 21st century is one of unlimited opportunity and the greatest Century America has ever had. Thank you for listening to me. If we have any time, im happy to try to answer a question. Yes, maam. [indiscernible] i she said, thank you for putting up with the iowa son. Hey harry truman said if you , cant stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Im trying to get into the kitchen. The heat doesnt bother me. [inaudible] mr. Pataki let me repeat that, nancy is an educator in iowa and she loves all the kids of iowa and pointed out how her statistic is 41 of kids in iowa today are growing up poor and how education has always been the great equalizer. I can tell you thats true for me and its something i care about greatly. My father was a mailman. When he went off to the first grade, he could not speak a word of english. My mother had a scholarship to go to cornell, but she had to turn it down because she was the only one in her family working and she was supporting her parents and brothers and sisters. They did not see themselves as victims. When my father went to first grade, his teachers did not see him as someone, he cant speak english, we will put him aside, put him aside. They saw him as someone they could teach and help live the american dream. He lived to see one son become an astrophysicist and one become governor of new york in part because we had great education. So, what we have to do though is end the monopoly system. You are a teacher and you are going to get mad at me. But too often, particularly in minority communities, we have teachers who cant teach, we have schools that had educate, and we track children, children schools that cant educate, rap we track we t children, children from poor families in schools that we know are going to fail them and their desire to get the education that will allow them to lift themselves up to opportunity. When i was governor of new york, one of the other things i did was i got in place the strongest Charter School bill in america, where parents could have an alternative within the public system to take that child out and given the chance to have a different experience where they could learn, and those Charter Schools by and large are thriving and improving education across new york state and now across america. But we have to told teachers responsible, just as you are in every other profession. I would go further. I would say to a low income parent, if your child is tracked trapped in a Government School where that school year after year fails to educate those children, we are going to give you the opportunity to pick another school or another benefit for that child. We do not want that child left behind. That is part of the equation to lift people out of poverty. The other is to have a stronger economy. The biggest impediment to the American Economy is not the american worker, the american entrepreneur. We have the best workforce of willing to risk entrepreneurs. Everyone of you out there is thinking, i can open a little store. I can have a Small Business on the side. Then you go to fill out the paperwork and the regulatory burdens are so high that you say, forget it. Or if you do succeed you get things like obamacare that say if you hire another employee, we are going to penalize you up the wazoo. You give up or you dont grow. When i was governor we had the lowest Unemployment Rate since they started keeping records in new york. We lowered the tax burden. We repealed thousands of regulations. We got government out of the way. We empowered the american people, and the dream came real. Just one other thing. Iowa is a great ag state, but also a manufacturing state. Theres a lot of people in this country that think, we will not make things in america anymore. I dont believe that. I would put in place the lowest tax rate on manufacturing in the developed world. We have that workforce. We have Energy Prices that are coming down. We have the capitalists and investors willing to put money behind things. What we dont have is a government that empowers freedom instead of inspiring fear. I get elected, we will have that government and we will have those jobs. So thank you. , yes, sir . I like your message. Mr. Pataki thank you. What is that on your hat . [indiscernible] mr. Pataki let me just say, this country produces no finer men and women than those who put on the uniform to protect our freedom. We are proud of every single one of you. [inaudible] mr. Pataki thats exactly right. [indiscernible] pataki did you all hear that . Absolutely right. What he said is that he loves the message, but when you talk about im going to do this, no individual can do it by yourself, youve got to have a team. That is exactly right. Im glad you raise that point because one of the reasons i was so successful as governor of new yorks and i used i again, so forgive me is because we created the best team in america. There you can tell, thats a marine. Because they know you dont do it yourself. I hope i said at the end that we as americans can accomplish anything, and we can make this the greatest Century America has ever had. First, we have to reclaim our government and get it out of our lives and out of our way. Is that better . All right. All right. Thank you. [inaudible] [indiscernible] what can you as president and your cabinet do . Hereataki did you all that question did you all hear that question . He was critical of governor branstads cuts to Mental Health in iowa and what can we do to change that. First of all let me say i think governor branstad is a terrific governor and one of the finest governors. He was governor before i got elected, and he is still governor long after i served in and he set the record for longestserving governor in american history. He cares about iowans. Specific items and specific agents i cant comment on. I love governor branstad. Mental health, first of all im going to digress a little bit because to me when i think of Mental Health, i think of how this government is failing our veterans. And it is an it is in all types of health, particularly Mental Health. One of the roles the government has is to provide a safety net for those who cant take advantage of america upon saw americas opportunities. And certainly no one deserves that a net more than america number deserves that safety net more than americas veterans. We are letting them down. Any veteran who served, they are not going to wait in line to see if they can get services out of the v. A. System. We will give them a card where they can go to any Health Facility in america they need. We are going to make sure they get the Mental Health support, the vast majority of them dont need it, they come back stronger and better but for those who do, it is the federal government and president s role to make sure they get the Mental Health support and counseling they need. And just to digress a little bit more. We have seen horrible incidents of violence in america. You will say, we get to do this, we got to do that. In almost every one of those incidents it was someone who was mentally ill, and others knew that he posed a threat of violence to himself or others, and we did not do anything. We dont need to change the gun laws. We need to change the Mental Health laws so we can protect ourselves from those who are clearly violently mentally ill. One of the laws i changed in new york after a horrible incident is i got the state legislature to pass a law allowing new york state to put in a secure Mental Health facility violently ill mentally health people, even against their wishes, when we had a panel of experts say it was necessary to protect them and protect society. That is the role the federal government can play to make sure we protect people from these horrible incidents. Not by taking away peoples guns, but by protecting us from those who are clearly violently mentally ill. [inaudible] mr. Pataki im sorry. One last question. Im having a great time. [inaudible] mr. Pataki for those at vietnam that we lost . [inaudible] pataki let me repeat it. What he said is you go to the vietnam war memorial. I have too many friends there. You can see the names but you dont know the story of what they actually did and what their lives were. That is something that touches me because if you go to ground zero today and see the memorial, which im so proud of because it really shows the magnitude of the loss and the courage of the response and go down to the museum, we have every Single Person who died in those horrible attacks, their picture. You push their picture and it tells their story. I think that is a terrific idea to honor those who lost their lives protecting us in vietnam and in other wars. If we, i and my team have the opportunity to lead this country, this will be one more symbol of respect we show veterans, not just those here today but those who served our lost their lives and their families in the past. Im being cut off. I will tell you, this was great fun. I will be here again tomorrow morning, 4 00. It wont be as hot. Come back. No, i cant do that. Let me thank the Des Moines Register for having me. Thank you all for being here. This should be a time when we feel the most optimistic, the most positive, the most excited about our future. If we get the right leadership, we will. God bless you and god bless the united states. Thank you, governor. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [indistinct conversations] i was just wondering. You mentioned you grew up on a farm. I was wondering how you can use that for iowa voters and what is the most important issue facing farmers today . Mr. Pataki i did grow up on a farm and spent my whole life on a farm. Were running our farm now and every saturday we take some of our Grass Fed Beef down to one of the farmers markets. Its a way of life that really taught me the value of hard work and the value of it doesnt matter what you say, what matters is what you do. One of the largest problems facing farmers today is the tremendous fluctuation in prices, whether it is corn or wheat or soybeans, the market can fluctuate greatly. The best thing to do about that is to open up and expand markets to new possibilities and new countries. The other thing of course that we experience when i was a kid, we would have a great peach crop looming and then you get a hurricane, and what looked like it would be a good year became a terrible year. Crop insurance because of the vagaries of nature. You have to understand that is something as much as farmers would like to be able to be proactive, you cant protect against a natural disaster. Ok. And what do you think of the . Tate so far seen thei i have butter cow. I will certainly go see the pork show and do some grilling and iust make the rounds and say h to as many people as possible. I was reading a wall street journal interview, you said, if you could just get attention, you would win. Get your message out. Like you have been able to do that . Mr. Pataki this is serious business. It seems like so much politics is entertainment. It was going to land in a to bepter, who is going indicted, how do you fit things 32nd soundbite . A realving america is job. We need grownup government. I now have the ability to deliver that. This is not partisan, narrow government, but in American Government where we solve our problems together. The last of our president s to do that was ronald reagan. A bipartisank in way. Thank you, governor. Mr. Pataki thank you. Appreciated, governor. Mr. Pataki all right. Thank you. I appreciate the opportunity. [laughter] nice to meet you. Mr. Pataki good to see you. [indiscernible] moreataki it may be interesting for you. You never know. We may go back to politics is entertainment. [indiscernible] thank you very much. Mr. But tacky thank you very much. Sure. Pataki thank you very much. Sure. [indiscernible] stand right next to him. Pataki new yorkers together. Native new yorkers. [indiscernible] thank you. Keep doing what you are doing. Mr. Pataki thank you. Sure. Sure. [indiscernible] pataki oh, yeah. [indiscernible] really liked your remarks ,arlier in terms of business the regulatory Things Holding you back and you cant make longterm decisions. One of the things i ran into. One of the things i did, we looked at the office of regulatory reform, repealed regulations that were killing us. A [indiscernible] weve got to go up the hill fast. Pataki thank you. If anyone wants to walk with us, you are welcome to. Www. Cspan. Org [indiscernible] mr. Pataki whereabouts . Whereabouts . [indiscernible] thank you for your service. [indiscernible] kevin mclaughlin. Thank you for being here. Great. Mr