and will it happen, yes. but ultimately to have a lasting victory, i ve been saying for some time that the lasting victory needs to involve civilized islam, arab boots on the ground. and they are going to have to be if you re going to take over cities like raqqah and cities like tikrit, the people actually doing the fighting and the new mayor of tikrit, the new garrison has to be sunni muslims who live there. until that happens they re going to see all other victories, but they ll see them as temporary if it s american soldiers, garrison and tikrit, another generation will slither forward and put bombs underneath our humvees. really we can help, we protect ourselves. but absolutely we need to help those who live there who have to be the fighters. in his state of the union address president obama said the fight against isis doesn t pose what he called an existential threat to the united states. you agree with him? well, they re not going to come here with armies. and terrorists ac
republican party. i don t think i m out of step because i m a known conservative. people know me with as a very conservative person who s been advancing ideas like balancing budget, reforming welfare, entitlements, tax reforms, all the rest. there is room in this tent for a lot of people. it is a majority party. this nomination process is going to be healthy. i trust the republican primary voter to pick a nominee that can take us all the way to win the without so we can fix this country. are you concerned about donald trump s rhetoric? you were with that one. obviously i don t agree with what he said with respect to a religious test. i was speaking out for the first amendment. religious freedom, right of conscience, that s a fundamental right, a natural right and a constitutional right. and it s something we as conservatives should always forcefully defend. what is the process you ll go through to make decision if you want to be speaker for 2016? i haven t thought of that. is
below. you would not take that pledge. you said for $1.60 a week you d get paid family leave. how much are taxes going to go up if you are president of the united states? can you say you ve got a lot you want to pay for. can you give us a number about how much you re going to raise taxes. well, this is what i can say. we re going to do away with the corporate loopholes that allow major profitable corporation who have their money stashed in the cayman islands. that s $100 billion a year. we ll impose a tax on wall street speculation to make sure public colleges and universities in america are tuition-free. we ll raise the estate tax for very, very wealthy people, the top two-tenths of 1%. but in terms of this issue you raised, i do disagree the secretary. i believe the united states should join the rest of the world for paid family and medical leave. it will cost us $1.61 a week in an increase in payroll tax. that s great investment. is that the only thing you
shocking. i think this is about from cruz s perspective, it s rabb i redefining immigration as a national security. and despite what he said in 2013, despite what we know, he has been trying to make the case he is running against washington and that is what he is doing to rubio. rubio is trying to say there is no real distinction between us on this issue. frankly, there are a lot of issues where there are no distinction at all. the national security and immigration are the two. i do think politically the more that the distinction between the two men gets erased on immigration, i don t know if you disagree with me on this, i think it helps trumps. to the extent that cruz is less of a palatable alternative, that can only make trump stronger. i think it s helping chris christie. if you see the new movie creed creed goes after the english fighter again and again. rubio and cruz are killing each other and chris christie is standing over there, he s rocky, stallone character winnin
men. every time we get involved in benghazi, i m talking about, every time we get involved with rebels, the rebels, they call them the freedom rebels, always nice names, it ends up being far worse than the people there in the first place. so assad is not a good guy. but the people we re backing, a lot of people think we re actually backing isis. so what are we doing? we have to get rid of isis first, assad we can think about later on. let me ask you to respond to your friend jeb bush and what he had to say about you yesterday. take a listen to the full quote and i ll get you on the other side. just one other thing. i have to get this off my chest. donald trump is a jerk. [ laughter and applause ] i feel better now. i just i just i gave myself therapy there. thank you for allowing me to do it. well, this has escalated between you and mr. bush. look, his people gave him that quote, you could see he was just saying okay, i m ready to say it. jeb is a weak and ineffective perso