to end collective bargaining rights for public employees. i will restore those rights. along those lines, i got to ask you this. the unions are supporting kathleen falk. how can you convince them that you would be the right guy for the job because she signed a pledge saying that she would go be a staunch supporter of collective bargaining. you didn t sign that. how are you going to correct that? well, what i said was that there are other avenues to make this a reality. what i can do as governor of this state is call a special session right off the bat and seek to have those rights restored without waiting for a budget or do it through the legislative process. i said i don t want to tie my hands behind my back with one approach or another approach. i ve said that i support restoring collective bargaining
reiterated his pledge saying, please, republicans should all be nice. here s mr. gingrich, in his own words. i only have one opponent, that s barack obama. i have a number of friends running and one opponent. and i m going to run this campaign on a positive basis because i believe the people of iowa are smart enough that they can see the difference between somebody trying to help the country and somebody who simply is running a negative campaign. can he stay positive is the big question because speaker gingrich make no mistake, is feeling the heat. let s bring in cnn s jim acosta. here in iowa tracking the republican candidates, jim, that is the big question. the speaker s the front-runner. he says let s be nice. describe to our viewers the kind of heat he s getting. reporter: well, you know, it s almost impossible to figure out a direction where he s not being attacked from right now. keep in mind he s has three other candidates in this field attack him with either web
this out? actually this is a critical issue, of course. government is on a road of fiscal irresponsibility which is threatening our future. as a result, i signed a pledge saying that i would not support raising the debt ceiling, unless we cut federal spending, cap federal spending as a percentage of the total economy and put in place a balanced budget amendment that s my position. i was asked about that. i continue to say i m not going to sign up for the boehner deal or for the mcconnell deal or for the harry reid deal. i m not going to comment on those deals. my position is, cut, cap and balance. that s my position throughout the process. sean: i m sorry. is that your prescription now? look, every single year, this is about baseline budgeting, we are go to increase 8% a
this out? actually this is a critical issue, of course. government is on a road of fiscal irresponsibility which is threatening our future. as a result, i signed a pledge saying that i would not support raising the debt ceiling, unless we cut federal spending, cap federal spending as a percentage of the total economy and put in place a balanced budget amendment that s my position. i was asked about that. i continue to say i m not going to sign up for the boehner deal or for the mcconnell deal or for the harry reid deal. i m not going to comment on those deals. my position is, cut, cap and balance. that s my position throughout the process. sean: i m sorry. is that your prescription now? look, every single year, this is about baseline budgeting, we are go to increase 8% a
promise for him. he didn t follow throw. president obama didn t follow through. we re going to do this, we re going to do this and then they always walk back from the ledge saying, the kri critics saying s is going to cause violence. there s violence in the middle east all of the time. this is a promise made and kept by president trump. there s always going to be complications. people that disagree. but america s role is to provide the clarity in those moments. senator lindsey graham had some comments on this yesterday saying, president trump has a bigger message by moving the embassy to jerusalem. listen to lind si graham. he s telling iran we have israel s back, he s telling north korea that i m going to be different than any other president before me. when i say i i m going to do something, i mean it.