Republican hopefuls will be there. How do you think that most of this crowd views that . Is there a favorite at this stage . I think our folks that are really the faithbased, grassroots of the party. My sense is that they are the primary electorate writ large. This is kind of all jumbled up. They like ted cruz but they like mike huckabee, they like rick santorum. I think rand paul has got some jazz. I think they will kick the tires and look at the more established frontrunning type candidates. Chris christie will be here this weekend. He will make i believe his First National appearance before a social conservative audience of this type. Are you accepting of him . I think you will get a fair hearing. I think he will make the fair case. Why didnt you invite any elected democrats . Well, i think unfortunately, i have always reached out to democrats. Our agenda is not really partisan if you really look at where we are on Immigration Reform, where we are on education reform. If you look at
Republican hopefuls will be there. How do you think that most of this crowd views that . Is there a favorite at this stage . I think our folks that are really the faithbased, grassroots of the party. If you go back and look at the 2012 collection, they were 51 of all of the votes cast in the primaries. My sense is that they are the primary electorate writ large. This is kind of all jumbled up. They like ted cruz but they like mike huckabee, they like rick santorum. I think rand paul has got some jazz. I think they will kick the tires and look at the more established frontrunning type candidates. Chris christie will be here this weekend. He will make i believe his First National appearance before a social conservative audience of this type. Do you think they are accepting of him . I think you will get a fair hearing. I think he will make the fair case. I think he will make a strong case on the values he has represented in new jersey. Why didnt you invite any elected democrats . Well, i
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. We continue our coverage of the situation in iraq. This week the government of almaliki requested the u. S. Air strikes against insurgency led by the islamic state, isis. The president said the United States is ready to take action if and when the situation with requires it. The United States will continue to increase our support to Iraqi Security forces. We are prepared to create joint operations in baghdad and Northern Iraq to share intelligence and coordinate planning to confront the terrorist threat of isil. Through our partnership fund, were prepared to work with congress to provide additional equipment. We had advisers in iraq through our embassy and will send a number of additional military advisers up to 300 to assess how we can best train and advise and support Iraqi Security forces going forward. American forces would not be returning to combat in iraq. We will help the iraqis as they fight 2 terrorist groups who threat
Is there a favorite at this stage . I think our folks that are really the faithbased, grassroots of the party. My sense is that they are the primary electorate writ large. This is kind of all jumbled up. They like ted cruz but they like mike huckabee, they like rick santorum. I think rand paul has got some jazz. I think they will kick the tires and look at the more established frontrunning type candidates. Chris christie will be here this weekend. He will make i believe his First National appearance before a social conservative audience of this type. Are they accepting of him . I think he will get a fair hearing. I think he will make the fair case. Why didnt you invite any elected democrats . Well, i think unfortunately, i have always reached out to democrats. Our agenda is not really partisan if you really look at where we are on Immigration Reform, where we are on education reform. If you look at where we are in criminal justice. You did not invite any democrats. No, but we have an a
Freedom coalition, ralph reed. Thank you for being with us. Your conference is this weekend. Almost all of the major republican hopefuls will be there. How do you think that most of this crowd views that . Is there a favorite at this stage . I think our folks that are really the faithbased, grassroots of the party. My sense is that they are the primary electorate writ large. This is kind of all jumbled up. They like ted cruz but they like mike huckabee, they like rick santorum. I think rand paul has got some jazz. I think they will kick the tires and look at the more established frontrunning type candidates. Chris christie will be here this weekend. He will make i believe his First National appearance before a social conservative audience of this type. Are they accepting of him . I think he will get a fair hearing. I think he will make the fair case. Why didnt you invite any elected democrats . Well, i think unfortunately, i have always reached out to democrats. Our agenda is not reall