Received his bachelors degree and juris doctorate and worked for the house of representatives judiciary committee. Went on the serve as United States attorney for district of massachusetts, and eventually the u. S. Assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division. In 1990 mr. Weld was elected as governor of massachusetts. And in 1994 he was reelected to that position by the largest margin of victory in massachusetts history. Governor weld is now running for president under the republican ticket. Although he is challenging President Trump in the gop primaries, we do have to clarify that this is a policy the event and not a campaign event. Mr. Weld has a history of service in the Republican Party and to his country and the Dartmouth College republicans are proud to host him on campus. Without further ado, governor weld. [ applause ] thank you so much. A pleasure. Well, im going to sit by the side here so theres nothing between me and you and i plan to speck for 10 or 15 minutes on my chosen topic which is Climate Change and after that my understanding well have questions and answers for a slightly longer time than that. Climate change is right at the top of the list of things that i want to do if im successful in becoming president of the United States. Its really a threat, not only to our country, but really to the entire planet, and the issue is that if the atmospheric temperature rises by a certain amount between now and the middle of the century, 2050, then its very likely the polar ice cap in its entirety would melt which would carry completely catastrophic consequences for the entire world. Many countries would not be able to sustain their populations because of the impact of colossally problematic weather events. Weve already seen that start to happen in the last couple of decades and at an accelerating pace there would be worldwide flooding, all of the mountain glaciers in the world would melt. The mountain glaciers are the sole source of Drinking Water for 300 Million People which is just a little less than the population of the entire United States. So that would be catastrophic event. All the coastlines of the world would be rearranged and, you know, people who are now on the coast would be 13 to 30 feet under water and a lot of shore front property that is not shore front property now. Probably not here. Problem safe from that here. But really enough to ravage the economy and settle patterns of activity in virtually every country in the world very much including the United States with our two very lengthy coastlines. So it just is an event that has to be, has to be avoid and its got to go to the top of the list for the new president. You cant treat it as something that is not going to happen. 97 of all the scientists in the world agree that it is going to happen and the science here is settled. Thats all the bad news. The good news is that the solution to the problem is not really that difficult. To put it in physical terms, whats necessary is that the countries of the world gettogether and prevent such a big amount of carbon going into the atmosphere that the temperature of the atmosphere rises 1. 5 degrees centigrade. If we can stop that from happening then well have avoid all these colossal bad things that ive just been describing. The way you do that as you doubtless know is by reducing at that point of carbon thats emitted into the atmosphere. And so its a mechanical, an math assignment for the nations of the world. One of my first acts as president is to rejoin fairs accord which is a group of many, many countries under the u. N. The framework on Climate Change. And to work with china and the rest of the world to get a solution that would to our bit to reduce carbon in the earths atmosphere. In terms of the United States contribution to the problem and responsibility were the second largest polluter in the world after china. Were the biggest per capita. So what we and china do would be highly important. In terms of upholding our responsibility and its a quantitative thing how much carbon you get out of the atmosphere i propose we set a price on carbon. This would be legislation or executive proposal that i would introduce in the first month, probably going to the senate to seek approval for it as a treaty under established procedures, and putting a price on carbon means that either by executive order or congressional enactment everyone who emits carbon in the atmosphere has to pay a certain price per ton, probably lets say 40 per ton. It might float up to 50 per ton. That would be imposed upstream so would not be felt by consumers and by upstream for oil and gas companies, for mining companies. So that would raise a couple hundred billion dollars a year. So thats something thats coming from these sources of carbon. However, i want this to be a price on carbon not a tax on carbon. So my proposal is that all of that money would be remitted to taxpayers so it would be revenue neutral to the government. In that sense it would not be a tax, simply a price. The most common way to remit it to the taxpayers, its been proposed, is simply to give payroll tax relief which is paid by everybody thats working, and i propose that be put on a gradient so its more relief for lower income taxpayers. To the extent you need cooperation of congress i would appeal to democrats, you would be able for relatively short money to repeal the gas tax and diesel tax. That might appeal to republicans. But it would not be a terribly painful thing to do in terms ever its importance to the world at large. One idea that ive had that i havent seen others put forward is for industrialized countries like ourselves and or china to buy up sovereign debt of countries that have a great deal of forests, particularly rain forest, which is very, very good for the atmosphere. More trees is a very good thing. And buy up that sovereign debt on condition that the rain forest stay in their existing status. If they were to be savaged, that would be very bad for global warming. So this is what we need to do. And its not something that causes us to have to commit economic suicide. It could be paired with Infrastructure Investments by the United States and such things as rail, roads and bridges to guard against flooding. And anything that promotes climate resiliency. Its not that difficult a measure if the political will is there to do it. And that would be number one on my list. So theres the plan. Im happy to take questions from anybody on this or any other issues and thank you again for coming. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you for joining us. Well begin the q and a session. The line will start right here. Come up if you have a question. Ill hold the mic. Please be polite. Anyone want to start . If youre sitting on this side of the auditorium you can come up and line up over here or ask a question over here. My name is ethan. My sqquestion is what is the thoughts on the Green New Deal. Its fine as far as it goes on the Renewable Energy and the wind and solar. Thats great. In this part of the world we have hydro. Im an outlier on the plan as its emerged as i think Nuclear Power has to be part of the equation as well. People have been sitting around for a long time why cant we invent something that uses no carbon and that thing was invented a long time ago and its called the atom. Ive been around to a bunch of, usually thinly populated counties, im thinking of upstate new york. They already have little Nuclear Plants there and they would love to have more. They are very Good Neighbors and very good sources of employment. The fact is that in the first draft of aoc, alexandria occasiocortezs Green New Deal nuclear was included. But then somehow she was persuaded she had to cut it out because it wasnt absolutely clean because it generated nuclear waste. First of all, thats a problem that could be solved in one stroke with the Yucca Mountain that harry reid is no longer the majority leader in the senate. Second, the new generation of Nuclear Plants, gen 4 and gen 5, many of them are complete cycle plants so they consume their own waste. So that problem would just go away. Third, i think advances in Carbon Capture and sequestration will solve that problem anyway. I would put nuclear in which is less heavylifting and a creating guarantee it would be handled by renewables. One place i get off the bus on the Green New Deal it says well invest x trillion, hundreds of trillions of dollars in green energy and that will create so many jobs and so much wealth that were going to offer everyone in the country a guaranteed basic income. Irrespeespective of whether th are willing to work. That wont work in the United States. It might work in europe but not here. Carve that one out and save the rest of the clean new deal. All right. Hi, governor. My question for you is, my name is kyle, by the way. My question for you is beyond rejoining the paris climate accords would you take any further action to convince other countries to bring down their own carbon emission . Sure. What i would do to get to where we need to go on climb change there would be a lot of hard bargaining. Xi jinping said something very early on before the election of trump we have a thousand reasons to be friends. Hes right. We have a thousand touch points. Our economies. Our diplomacy. Our aspirations have a thousand touch points. Of all the countries in the world the u. S. Has the most touch point of anybody. As part of a wide ranging bilateral discussion with virtually any country i could think of i would say well it might not be fair if we industrialized nations said to the south which is a general term i use for lesser developed countries, if we said to the lesser developed countries, well too bad you came to the party late, weve really enjoyed the fruits of the industrial revolution, all that wealth and ease that its create sod were going to continue to eat all the ice cream but you cant have any. So you have to stay where you are relatively speaking in the dark ages with respect to Industrial Development and do nothing. And that would mean youre such good boys and girls because you wouldnt have emitted any carbon in the atmosphere. Seems that wouldnt be fair. I do think countries like the United States and china have, to you know, suck it up and do what they have to do and as i said it doesnt mean you have to declare economic suicide. You can achieve your objective in many different ways and i dont think would have a big impact in the United States. If theres a country that has a long way to go there, its china. I spent a lot of time in asia and africa traveling on business in the last 15 years. And if you go from beijing west all the way to the border theres a coal plant every few miles. Thats their major source. They have a lot to do and they know it. Theres very much politically incented to do it. Two things that drive the people nuts with communism is pollution and corruption. Pollution is number one. I was in beijing shortly before the olympics. You couldnt see across the streets. During the olympics beautiful clear skies you ever saw because they shut down every coal plant. Command and control economy. So i look for things like that with other countries. And the United States would have a certain amount of clout and we wouldnt have to be ugly about it but just say look you be a good citizen, it will come back and you wont regret it and this is why and that would be the approach. My name is ethan. What are your thoughts on the trump impeachment inquiry currently in the house, thank you. You know i said this often, and i was just here for a policy speech, but speaking as a lawyer and a lawyer who worked on the nixon impeachment and wrote together with my office mate Hillary Clinton on whats the grounds for impeachment im a good person to ask. You know an Impeachable Offense is a word in the constitution is treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdeamnors. And treason is giving aid and comfort to our enemies. Bribery is use of your office to demand or accept something of value for you self. And high crimes and misdeamnors is sort of whatever congress defines it as. But the number of times that mr. Trump tried obstruct the mueller investigation, very clearly by ordering the documents be destroyed or that false documents be filed or that false testimony be given, that would be enough in itself. Every time he had that conversation with one of his folks and they said i cant do that, that would be a lie, that would be a false document he would say whats your point . As weve seen in his relationship with Jeff Sessions and with james comey from the fbi, you know, he thinks that the function of others in the government is to watch his political skirts. And the recent deal with ukraine and trying to use the leverage that he had from suspending 400 million of military aid to ukraine to get the president to investigate his most likely rival, joe biden, thats kind of over the top in terms of the definitions that i mentioned earlier. I think the house will go ahead. The delicate question is what are the republicans in the senate going to do the . You know there will be no removal unless 20 republicans vote for it, give or take. Right now they are holding the line, probably just a handful of republican votes for removal right now. But the polls in the last week have shown a slight majority support not only for impeachment but for removal and thats in the country at large. Republicans have not signed on to that yet. Republican senators who are up for reelection next year, they are dont have to win just the primary, they have to win the general election. So 60 of all the people in the country including democrats like the idea of removal, you know, x months from now, those republicans will think long and hard before they vote to not remove. All the republicans who defended president nixon all year in 1974 said theres not enough evidence, that he knew about the watergate conspiracy, they were proved wrong when the tapes came out showing he had known all along. They were all defeated. They were all defeated. My prediction which im making even those Senior Republicans have been my friends over the years will all lose and youll have a Democratic Senate and the republicans dont want that. Hi. My the name is claire. I was wondering what your plans would be to lower drug prices in our country . Plan is to how to lower drug prices. First things let people buy Prescription Drugs in canada and other countries. This is a left ward swing on my part that i was reluctant to get to. The big pharma has been so outrageous by failing to explain why they charge three times as much per Prescription Drugs here as they do in germany. Thats to allow medicare to negotiate Prescription Drug prices with big pharma. Generally im on the libertarian side of the Republican Party not the Movement Conservative side so generally its very important to me to keep government as small as possible so that individual liberties are as great as possible. But here its, you know, not government versus individual liberties, its government versus big pharma who is not playing square with us in my view. I would give medicare that power and that would be a sea change on day one. Enormous leverage on the price of Prescription Drugs. Hi. Im eric. Im a 23. You just said that when he about 1,000 reasons to be friends with china kpp you elaborate on that . You want one or two of them . No. If we gettogether. We can do a great deal. I myself have a thought about the issue with north korea. Mr. Trump has taken that all on himself to go have oneonones with his new beau. He came close to pressing the Nuclear Button on north korea when he was unhappy with mr. Kim right at the beginning. It was right after he successfully sent 59 cruise missiles into blow up the airbase that dropped chemical weapons into syria. Even i supported that and im a nonintervention and he felt his oats. But the stated reason for it was, i just figured out what a strong tough kid this is. He killed his own uncle. What a strong kid. Now he killed his own brother the guy who was poisoned the at the airport. Thats when he really fell in love with mr. Kim. Thats not really a good bromance. However, examine the problem. The problem is that north korea is heading down a path to get nuclear weapons. Is it because they really want to bomb los angeles . No. They want clout. They want respect. They are frustrated because they have the worst economy in the world. Their people are starving to death. Nobody gives them any respect. This at slaeft a way to get everybodys attention. No, they are a very poor country. Right below them is south korea which is much more highly developed. And theres, i dont know how many hundreds of missiles aimed right at north korea from a distance of, you know, nine miles, give or take. They dont like that. You know who else doesnt like that . China doesnt like that. You know who is right behind north korea, china is. China is north koreas big sponsor faint wasnt for china the North Koreans really would starve to death and everyone kind of knows that. But the United States has no interest in seeing the North Koreans starve to death and just as with some bumps, their reunification of germany has been a success and produced stability in the world. My long term goal would be reunification of the korean peninsula. I was in korea in the earl 90s when don craig was the ambassador there. There was a summit the week i was in seoul. At the last minute the North Koreans cancelled it and said they realized that all the delegates from south korea had syphilis and would infect everyone in north korea. Thats taking a strong line. They walked away. If we can go to china, this is a point, reason to be friends, reason to have reservoirs of goodwill. Look you got your puppet if you lean on them they will deal with us. What you and north korea dont like are those missiles aimed at your head from nine miles away. Im old enough to remember the cuban missile crisis in the 60s when we were very upset at the idea of russia missiles being aimed at us from cuba 90 miles away. So i can just imagine how you would feel if it was nine miles away. Maybe we can talk with the south koreans. Maybe we can do something with troop levels. Maybe we can do something with the number of missiles and types of missiles so this wont be threatening to north korea and you and i would like your help on the economic side. I, the United States i will help on the economic side. I know mr. Trump in or out of office would love to build hotels in north korea which would help the economy there. But you see the glimmerings of a four way deal. Theres no four way deal without china at the table. Hi. My name is bobby, and some of my peers and i are studying religion and politics and i was wonder if youre religious and how it affects your politics. Im tolerant but not religious in a way to impose my views on anybody else. Im not a Movement Conservative. Movement conservatives are so interested in their own views on social issues, you know, abortion, gay rights that they want other people to adopt them as well. And im, you know, im just totally open on that and while im a pronounced fiscal conservative and a real economic conservative on Government Spending and that sort of thing, on the social side, i dont know what some people call me a liberal, im just open and supportive of everybody and every group. In terms of my church, i was raised a presbyterian. Raised by kids as he mihe episcopalians. Episcopalians are almost catholic. Im a pronounced i dont know how to say this. Im a pronounced outs doorsman. I grew up in the woods. We recently moved back in the woods and live inside a 7,000 acre wildlife refuge in canton, massachusetts, south of boston where all of our neighbors are deer and turkeys and okend coyo. The most ljs experience i had was in this state, new hampshire, okay thcathedral of pines. You stand in the middle of those pines and look up and its impossible not think god resides in that place. I have been known to say the outdoors is mi my okay they cathedral. You might say that sounds pagan. If so, bring it on. My question would be if trump were to be impeached and out of the race what do you think your strongest edge would be in attracting some of his more stronger supporters . Well, you know, im not going to attract diehard trump supporters, i dont think. People who were part of his organization. I mean there are still polls that say trump is at 98 , you know, favorable in this state among people who voted in the republican primary the last ten times or people republican with the affiliated republican the state committee. The republican state skmeet the Trump Organization in each of the 50 states. Im not going hunting there. Im going hunting elsewhere, beginning with the 20 states that allow crossover voting. In 17 of those 20, even democrats can vote in the republican primary. And the other three its independents or undeclared is what they are called in new hampshire. My appeal is to people who perhaps didnt vote in the republican primary last time but who may think that the country is facing something of a crisis and they are not satisfied with what we got now in washington, d. C. And even in the oval office and that would be a lot of women voters who have to be horrified by the recent abortion statutes in the south and midwest. A lot of millennials and g gen xers have to understand they will be clobbered by the deficits if they keep on going. They will never see social security. They will be clobbered by Climate Change if we continue to treat it as a hoax and pretend it isnt there. They are going be clobbered if people dont get to work solving problems thats are obvious but no one is working on in washington, d. C. , such as all the jobs well lose because of artificial intelligence. No one is figure how to get the education in the hands of those disclassed workers. Thats hard work. My impression, general impression is that they like huge fights in washington, better than they like hard work because that energizes their base to give them money so they can get reelected. Kind of a vicious cycle. If i can make that stick, i think a lot of voters in the middle could come my way, even democrats. But i do have to enlarge the electorate beyond the Party Leaders and dug in Party Faithful or its not going to work. Governor, my question has to do with iran. Their Nuclear Capabilities and our future relation with them. So, obviously, theres no more iran nuclear deal. That got scrapped. Sign order to deter them from building a Nuclear Arsenal works you plan on doing anything or nothing at all . The question was about iran. And the joint agreement among iran, our western european allies and ourselves in 2015. Do i plan on doing anything . Yeah i plan on doing a lot. Ripping that up was a colossal blunder. Mr. Trump tears it up and says its the stupidest treaty in history and what have we got now . Mr. Trump desperately trying to lessen sanctions on iran so it can get back to a seat at the table. I dont know what he was thinking about. What he thought step two would be after he ripped that up. The western europeans who are members of that agreement, jcpoa, they didnt leave the deal so iran is still in the deal with them. Its very clear that iran is just waiting until november 2020 to see what happens. They as much said so. Im a member of a group of former World Leaders partly as a result of traveling the world on business in the last 15 years. I met a lot of heads of state. Bill clinton is the official u. S. Rep but they elected me too because he often doesnt come and they want to make sure they have a yankee to kick around and find out whats going on in washington. I became friendly with a former president of iran, who is over on the liberal side meaning they dont like the revolutionary guard and the hardliners dont like him. You dont see i had name in a newspaper. He assures me and my own iranian friends in new york, persian friends, assure me that the people in the street really want to tilt to the west and its only the revolutionary guard and the hardliners like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and even Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has shown signs of softening. He wants to go back to the table with the west. With the except of those few people everyone else want to tilt western. I see that future in ten years. I would go back to the table, rejoin the treaty. I wouldnt insist on new language. I would take it the way it was before trump ripped it up. Governor, im from texas. My name is harrison. I won what your policy stances were kind of on the southern border and immigration more broadly . Well, i think the immigration charisma is kind of a canard. Mr. Trump, it was his signature issue during the campaign. And just as he has a one word slogan for Climate Change, hoax, he has a one word immigration policy which is wall. Im not against us having a completely secure southern border but if you ask the real pros people at Homeland Security they say what we really down there is more people. We need more border agents, we need obviously more judges, people to process refugee and asylum claims and just people getting over to border. Thats why you have these children in case is because the americans who are there are overwhelmed and dont have the personnel to even act responsibly. So, you know, i dont think we need this big huge wall. Having said that the truth is there have been bits of wall, quite tall walls for a long time down there. And the dirty little secret between both mr. Trump and mrs. Clinton in the last campaign was dont tell anybody. Mrs. Clinton had voted for those walls and neither candidate wanted that fact to be out so it never did come out. But more broadly getting away from the wall, i think we need more work visas in the United States, not fewer. I spent a lot of time in the western part of the state and i often say from texas west, and i worked a lot with george w. When he was governor of texas, he and i overlapped from texas west. You could not staff the Agricultural Industry or the Construction Industry in the United States without all those, yes, those brown people coming across the southern border from mexico. And, yes, a lot of them are from guatemala and el salvador and honduras. But that doesnt mean they cant be helpful to us. You know. I point to the program that canada has, its called a guest worker program. Many, many people come and they have a worst problem than we do, obviously with weather and a short season on those two industries. Many people come to canada. They work for four months. Send remittances back to their family which is what they want to do and go home and live with their family for eight months which is what they want to do in their native country. They dont want to be in the United States. I said at the beginning its a canard. The opening gun from mr. Trump was there are 11 million horrible illegal aliens in our midst. His first words the mexicans send us their murderers and rapists and illegal aliens. The majority of them overstayed their via sas. They didnt crawl through the mud a month ago underground to get here from mexico. He said they didnt wait in line. All 11 million want to be citizens and its not fair. Ivt true they didnt wait in line. They should anyone who want tubes citizen. Thats not 11 Million People. I wouldnt jump them ahead of anybody, its a much smaller figure. Mr. Trump wants it to be a sense of crisis because it helps him to set group against group. I never saw a president who set out to set out a group against group. He not only wants us to hate all foreign countries, he wants group of americans to hate other americans. Its breitbart news, incorporated and i dont get it. Im josh. As president what would you do, if anything, to address gun violence in this country . We cant do nothing. Creasing rampant massive shootings, that started before mr. Trump. I think they have accelerated over the last three years and sometimes, like the two shootings in texas over the same weekend, they borrowed page from mr. Trumps own rhetoric and tweets that he had done. Thats very troubling. What to do is the question. I think the most promising route is what are called red flag laws. That give any Family Member, any coworker of someone who owns guns and has manifested violent behavior in the past, threatened violent behavior in the future, expressed sympathy for, yes, islamic jihad, and who carried around a list, one of the texas guys carried around in high school a list of all the people he would like to kill. A couple of the pretrump Mass Shootings were under investigation by fbi, but the fbi had to give off the chase because they couldnt invite the case within six months. Thats a crazy rule. It takes 18 months to do a complex investigation, say i who was the head of the Criminal Division of the justice department. So we dont need the government getting in the way. But, you know, in this country, again, as a practicing lawyer, i know this. You can get in front of ain six hours in this country. Its not like waiting for an operation in britain or canada. Six hours if you have what are extraordinary circumstances. A Family Member says this guy has guns, were worried. We think hes going to do something. Okay you get right in front of the judge. You need a judge otherwise just the government taking your gun away. If the judge agrees that person shouldnt have those guns and i dont care if its a daringer. Sure automatic weapons are off the theyre illegal already, except for licensed firearms dealers. A definition could be worked out of assault weapon short of automatic weapon based on its characteristics. In fact, there was a definition of assault weapon in the 1994 crime bill, so maybe we should go back and look at that. But that can be discussed and decided on. In terms of something right away, i think its i think its the red flag laws. Hi, my name is ambrose, im from massachusetts. Id like to ask, if china cracks down violently on the hong kong protests, what would as president , what would you do . And should we do anything in the meantime . Yeah, no, i think china would have to pay a price if they did that. They would certainly pay a price in terms of world opinion. Theyre still paying the price for Tiananmen Square which was 1989. They told us the handover, which i attended in 1997, the handover from britain to china, there was going to be one country, two systems. If theyre tracking down like crazy, the same they do with the uighurs, out west, thats not one country, two systems. I would read that back to them. I think that would call for elevated rhetoric and what are called stiff notes in ambassadorial parlance. Not world war iii, but you cant go quietly on that one. Im kevin, president of the dartmouth libertarians. Great. Welcome. Thank you. Apart from your position on red flag laws, as president would you defend americans Second Amendment rights . Theres 300 million rifles out there in private hands lawfully acquired. People often sometimes say, why dont we license them all . Well have the government license them. They can come in and show them to the police chief once a year just to prove theyve still got it. Huhuh. Year one would be nice to see you. Year three would be, that gun is staying here. And people hate to hear me say this, but its true. Throughout history, when the government makes it impossible for citizens to own firearms, the result is often slaughter of the citizens. Theres a reason the Second Amendment was there. The columnists were sick and tired of having the british b l billetted in their houses. The british could keep their guns but the colonists couldnt. They were afraid they would shoot them in their own houses. They were quite right to be afraid of that. Hitler made it impossible for je wi ws to own a firearm. Josef stalin so that was 12 Million People. Josef stalin in russia, same thing. 20 Million People. Not just those strong men. In africa, who turned out to be a terrible autocratic leader, early on in his tenure he made it impossible for anybody to own a firearm except the government. He was widely praised in the western press who said, this is a forwardlooking sensitive fellow who realizes that guns are awful and isnt he great . Well, he probably slaughtered the 55 of the people who had not supported him in the election and he went on to be the most reviled leader in the world in the 20th century, other than the two ive already mentioned. So, i do think at the end of the day, i think responsible, private firearm ownership is bullwork of government overreaching. And certainly given who we have in the white house right now, i wouldnt want to do anything to jeopardy that. Thank you. We will take one more question. Anyone . Any takers . Come on now, be brave. Hi, governor, again. Im also a reporter here at the college. My question for you is, how do you view the attacks by the Trump Administration on freedom of the press . Do you view them as attacks . Do you think its a concerning trend . Yeah, its very concerning. Speaking of bullworks against the government overreaching, the president has said, and i quote, a free press is the enemy of the people. Its the same thing mussolini said. Its the same thing hitler said. Its the same thing every wouldbe dictator said when trying to take over a country. Because free press, obviously, is one of the guarantors of the security of the people. Ive always loved the press, unlike most political figures. I came up as a u. S. Attorney, which is a prosecutor for each state, federal government trying to overturn a corrupt power structure. One party, not my party, was in control for 40 years before i took over which meant everything was corrupt. I dont care what party it is. I was scraping off a lot of barnacles. I say to the press, you and i are in the same temple, tearing down the same walls. Its true. These are not crimes like bank robbery or murder, where its obvious the offense has been committed. Niece are crimes such as my top priority which was political corruption, public corruption, where everybody has an incentive to cover up the crime. You say, okay, youre immu nniz. We did that and thats how we got we had 111 public Corruption Cases when i was u. S. Attorney and we got convictions in 110 of them because we did our homework. But that was unheard of. That kind of a ratio of conviction was unheard of. Rudy giuliani and i, this was a really good Rudy Giuliani who i knew, we had, unl i tremendous against corruption and organized corruption and the press was an essential ally along the way. Okay. Thank you, everybody. I enjoyed myself immensely. We want to thank everybody for coming. We definitely appreciate you coming and speaking with us and answering everybodys questions. Thank you guys for coming. Lets give it up one more time for governor bill weld. Okay. Thank you. [ applause ] theyre almost irrational on this topic. Doesnt mean you dont do what you got to do. Nice to meet you, governor weld. Good to see you. I worked in governor bakers administration. Oh, you did . Well, okay. Couldnt be better. I called him the heart and soul of the Weld Administration for ten years. Yeah, he was a cabinet official. Twice. He did health care and then finance. All the stuff i take credit for and cutting the budget was actually the grandchild of charles d. Baker. With tell, thanks for coming okay. Thank you all. Live now to the Hudson Institute here in washington, d. C. , where connecticut senator chris murphy, whos a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is about to give a speech on Foreign Policy and national security. This is live coverage on cspan3
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