Came out, republicans believed st. Louis public radio is doing the books were cooked and the same. Democrats believed they were not. I do not know what the truth is. The broadcasts is also been streamed live on ksdk. Com and stlpublicradio. Org. But i am worried about the fact that we have become so partisan we also invite you to take part that we cannot distinguish the on social media on twitter. True anymore. All we care about is what were being told by the party masters. The fact is, for me, id like to finally, our appreciation to the city police and fire department, as well as the School District of clayton for respect the terms of the debate. Hosting tonights event. Please do not tear or anything like that. In least during my time. At least during my time. Before we begin, id like to review the debate format. Each candidate will give a 3 minute Opening Statement and a 3minute closing statement. I lost the question, i am sorry next, our panel will ask questions of both candidates.
[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2012] looking at some of our live events today across the seas about network, and about half an hour, leon panetta will take part in a joint briefing with his south korean counterpart. You can see that starting at 10 03 eastern here on cspan. At 10 50, we will show you a forum on legal issues from the u. S. Chamber of commerce. The speakers include several attorneys general and Rudy Giuliani and that is on cspan 2. At 2 20 eastern, paul ryan will be in cleveland speaking to ohio voters. We will have a live for you. A little bit later, president obama is out west today in denver and we will have his remarks live at 4 50 eastern on cspan. Asking middle and High School Students to send a message to the president in a short video. They will answer the question what is the most important issue the president should consider it in 2013. It is the cspan student camp video competition. For
Is theyre what weve had for 10 years. Businesses have made their plans predicated on a tax rate. I dont think we should increase the tax rates on anybody. I dont care if youre rich, middle class or poor. We shouldnt divide up people. We should divide people into two sectors. Private sector, public sector. I dont want to grow the public sector, i want to grow the private sector. So that means means, leaving as much money in the private sector as possible. I dont want to tax anybody any more to take any money out of the private sector. Why . Because thats where jobs have created. Weve tried this before, the vilify cation of the rich. We tried this one time having is certain surtax on yachts, same as having one on millionaires and anything else. The things we lost were men and women making 50,000 60,000 a year making the yachts. What happens is it doesnt work. Its hard to punish one set of people. Also very not american to say i want to go after those successful people. It also ignores th
But three years ago, i made the decision to go back and use what i know i am in a unique situation to take what i know and apply it to the Education Community and say we can make special education better. There are ways we can use the data we collect. I have to say i am a little proud of this, too. I am proud of standing up at this point of time. I wanted to be a politician. I did not do it because i wanted power. I did it because, after september 11, i wanted to find a way to serve my country. I was too old to join the army. I thought about applying to the fbi. I should never have a gun in my hand. [laughter] this, i can do. I can stand up and speak and contribute to the conversation. I am very proud of this and proud of you guys because everybody has talked to me and said, we can do better. We, the electorate, can increase the conversation. We can make government better. I will answer the other part of the question, something i would take back. I was offered a job at amazon. [laughte
I remember someone who came to me and his son had been sentenced on his first drug offense to 15 and a half years to a state penitentiary. On the day president clinton left the white house, he signed a president ial pardon saving Cory Springfield a decade in a federal penitentiary. There is someone sitting in a federal penitentiary today with a 55year sentence for selling marijuana on three occasions because the informant said there was a gun around. Not that he had used it. So a gun enhancement, mandatory gun enhancement from the judge that entered the sentence said it was an outrage. It was unjust. But 55 years. This is the kind of human toll in this country. We dont just need to legalize marijuana, we need to end drug prohibition, just like we ended alcohol prohibition and treat drug use and abuse as a Public Health and education issue and get it entirely out of the criminal justice system. [cheers and applause] we have the highest incarceration rate. We have 5 of the worlds populat