club people will frown on you. hollywood screams for freedom of speech. but if you don t agree with what they say they have a problem with that. sean: what do you think about holder? totally inappropriate for him to be saying this particularly in his capacity as attorney general. equality before the law is a bed rock principle of the american system. we whole these truth to the best self-evident. we you ask about my people, privately, if eric holder feels a certain racial solidarity, i have no problem with that and i understand it. you see other ethnic groups, i work with irish catholic guys who talk about being irish catholic all the time. as attorney general, totally thoroughly inappropriate. sean: there s been issues that have come up. you herd about this new book that came out the writer talks about an incident where barack obama in may, 2009 or
problem. they owe so much of our debt they can t see us go under. they would be ruined if they did something percept sean: good point. we the power. secondly, we should remind ourselves we are the most powerful nation on earth. our gdp is three times china. if you count their people in poverty our gdp, 10 times china. our military dwarfs their military. some being so frightened, timid. i think it is part of something you talk about a lot. it is an of the president to understand american exception alism. we are an exceptional country. we are by far the leading country in the world. we should start acting like the leading country in the world. if we don t somebody else is going to tart acting like the leading country in the world. what going to start acting like the leading country in the world if we are not the leading country in the world, who is, that?
i think i have a much deeper and more fundamental understanding today of the challenges we need to be successful. i m in the reagan tradition i think our best years are ahead not behind. i think we have a chance to have an extraordinary 20, 30 year run. leave china and the others way behind. and be the most dynamic, most prosperous and safest country in the world that requires the kind of changes i don t know coming out of the speakership that i would have had anything like the depth of understanding i have now about how big the changes have to be. and how you could get it done. sean: what i m hearing is, if you win the primary, you re setting up is compare and contrast. two very distinct, different visions. barack obama wants to transform america. you are in many ways saying you want to transform america. i think president obama wants to change america into a
time the next president gets in it will be around 18 trillion, how do you with numbers so big and massive, get to a balanced budget and start paying down that debt? when i became speaker, people thought you couldn t balance the budget at all. i was common wisdom. sean: what was the debt then? deficit was probably a third of what it is now. it is a question of scale. we to a balanced budget in three years. there were a couple of things would you do immediately. first, pass dramatic tax cuts to create economic growth. if you go if 9% unemployment down to 4 and 5% of the american people go back to work they come off medicaid, food stamps, off unemployment they start paying taxes because testify a job. step number one to a balanced budget. second, quit spending. this new budget the president sent in is a joke. he ought to call governors cuomo and brown, and ask their
nuclear weapons? what pressure can you bring to bear? i believe he would use them if he had them. calista and i did a movie on ronald reagan and pope john paul ii back to poland. in both movies we showed how diplomatic, political, inllectual pressure brought to bear against the soviet empire. ultimately broke it. at a speed no liberal thought was possible. iran is not that powerful a dictatorship. we should be aggressively every morning have a powerful voice of america program. subsidies going in covertly. i think you would have so much fun it would be dangerous. sean: i think you are right. this is a fascinating time. i will say one thing, as these debates emerge, i think it is going to be extraordinary for the country. and a great contrast to where we go. would you look forward to debating obama if you won the primary? as ronald reagan once said to mondale i will try not to