John welcome to our libertarian forum. Tonight is the first of two debates among the libertarian president ial candidates. Given that the president ial frontrunners, Hillary Clinton and donald trump have huge unfavorability ratings worse than any candidate in 30 years, its time to hear from with us tonight are the three leading libertarian candidates and i say bleeding because they place first, second and third in polling conducted by the Libertarian Party. First former new mexico governor gary johnson and then tech entrepreneur, john mcafee, third libertarian republic founder Austin Petersen. Candidates tonights rules are simple. I or someone else will ask you a question and you get one minute to respond, 30 seconds for a followup Response Rate if you go over your time you will hear this. Please dont go past your time. Before we start the questions each candidate has an Opening Statement to governor johnson since you were first in the early polls you start. Well i am gary johnson and
But why didnt any libertarian when . Im a libertarian because i know im not smart enough to run your life for you. John so what did this weeks election mean for liberty . Thats our show tonight. John we now have divided government and as a libertarian i say yes to that because when government is split, politicians cant agree with each other. They increased spending and they are less likely to mess with my life. What else did the midterm results mean for freedom . Here to debate that is our liberty loving panel, columnist deroy murdock, katherine manguward and austin petersen, who runs the libertarian website libertarian republic. The website features this shows topic this week. I pull data from the Cato Institute which look that divided government. We may be going into the most libertarian next two years that we have seen in a long time. The type of government was a democratic president. And this is actually where we get the smallest amount of government growth. 4 per capita. Versus on
But why didnt any libertarian when . Im a libertarian because i know im not smart enough to run your life for you. John so what did this weeks election mean for liberty . Thats our show tonight. John we now have divided government and as a libertarian i say yes to that because when government is split, politicians cant agree with each other. They increased spending and they are less likely to mess with my life. What else did the midterm results mean for freedom . Here to debate that is our liberty loving panel, columnist deroy murdock, katherine manguward and austin petersen, who runs the libertarian website libertarian republic. The website features this shows topic this week. I pull data from the Cato Institute which look that divided government. We may be going into the most libertarian next two years that we have seen in a long time. The type of government was a democratic president. And this is actually where we get the smallest amount of government growth. 4 per capita. Versus on
The Boston Marathon bombing. We look at the people whose lives changed forever when the ball drops in times square it begins more than a new year a whole range of laws kick in some you wont believe thanks for being with us. It was a solemn sombre service on a grey and gloomy day, thousands gathered in new york city to say a final goodbye to wenjian liu. Officers families friends and many that never knew him came together to pay trig ute. The second of tribute. The second of two officers fatally shot as they sat in a patrol core. Reporter officer wenjian lius widow spoke about her husbandss respect for the law and devotion to his parents as app only child. One of his many passions is to be a Police Officer. He took pride in the fact that he is n. Y. P. D. Reporter wenjian lius father spoke in a cantonese dialect, choking back tears as he spoke of his sons traits obediens respect and loyalty. He said his son want to be a Police Officer since a child, and after 9 11 he wanted to serve the
Were you more impressinged . I was bored. President wants to take credit for good things but not credit for bad things he had food stamp rolls increase 45 percent since taking office. He just wants to talk about the flowers nice thing. John katherine this is my least favorite obama like papa obama telling you how you should behave. Were a tight knit family, he does not like us teenagers, this is a sort of you know. State of the union as you know speech you get before you get grounded. I was not a fan. John dan . What struck me, you have to give own credit for being consistent. Every single state of the union bigger government, uncle sugar daddy giving us tree stuff free stuff that should be on tombstone of obama presidency, free stuff as we become greece. John cut away from panel go to brandnew republican members of congress lee of new york. Did both parties applaud . Really it depended on what president was talking about. There were times that president said we need to hire more vets