make a difference as president. [ cheers and applause ] i m humbled by the realization that america america doesn t owe me anything. but i have a debt to america i must try to repay. this isn t just the country where i was born. america is literally the place that changed my family s history. i regret that my father did not live to see this day in person. he used to tell me all the time, he used to tell us all the time [ speaking spanish ] that means in this country you will achieve all the things we never could. [ applause ]
the country just falls apart. because iran is active there. i mean they re obviously supporting assad 100%. absolutely. but we re seeing you know, iranians on the ground there. and actually not too far away from our border. so you know, that s an issue that we ve discussed with the iranians. you have? yes. and so their outreach, their reach to iraq, lebanon syria, yemen, that s concerning for you? and again don t forget africa. if there could be a building block of stability as these discussions move forward then all great and fine, but it can t be taken i think piece by piece. i think i hope that the next phase of discussions will be how can we move ahead on all these issues? the biggest challenge for you here? economy. and, you know from a military strategic point of view, you know, if you look at the map, isis is actually not near us.
about his age rubio addressed that. saying some think it s not my turn, i should wait but he also talked about pushing forward, getting into the 21st century sounding like he wants to harness the youth as a plus for him. this was not a particularly subtle speech. i thought it was a good speech. but he spent a long time talking about student loans and higher education. he s clearly going for the youth vote. he was almost mercilessly unsubtle in terms of talking about how this isn t the country where just because you re rich and powerful and come from a good family, i wonder who he could be talking about there, that doesn t guarantee the path to power. that s part of his message. he s very much running the way bill clinton did in 1992 and barack obama did in 2008. turn a page on the past. i think it s pretty effective. there were some who thought that hillary clinton by making her announcement yesterday might steal some of his thunder but it sounds like she gave him a little ammuniti
democracy and human rights around the world especially cuba, venezuela and nicaragua. then, if we did these things then our nation would be safer, our world more stable and our people more prosperous. these are the things that we must do, but this election is not just about what laws we re going to pass. this election is a generational choice about what kind of country we will be. now just yesterday a leader from yesterday began a campaign for president by promising to take us back to yesterday. yesterday is over.
still relatively weak, the job picture is bleak, economic confidence is plummeting sharply. also, secondly, obamacare is wreaking havoc on individuals and the broader economy already. third is this perceived lack of leadership, and that s what we ve been talking about with congress and the president. there s a sense that the establishment on both sides of the aisle has really failed us. and i think maybe the biggest part of all of this, which is feeding into all of these numbers, jon, is this general disorientation about america, about the country and this sense that the country that we re seeing now and with the lack of leadership and with all of the chaos, that this isn t the country we grew up in. it s not the country of individual liberty and economic freedom. you have all of this in-fighting, and nothing is getting done to solve that, and i think a lot of people don t know what to make of their country right now. that s why you re seeing those big disillusionment numbers. jon: ver