And economy r they right . Hi, everybody, im david asman, lets focus with mr. Steve forbes, elizabeth, sabrina and bruce jackson, steve, spend more . Dave, unfortunately we will have to spend more and a lot more under barack obama the budget declined, a couple of hundred billion dollars, trump is increasing it but not nearly enough, we need more ships, we need more equipment and we need to maintain what we have which we havent done in recent years, we also need radical reform of procurement system which wastes 25 billion a year. A lot has to be done. John, look at the percent of gdp that we spend in military hardware, it has come way down. We had the peace dividend during the clinton years after the end of the soviet union, thats when the big dip happened and we built up after 9 11 and its come down again. Coming down from a very high level. Even now we spend more on the military annually than the next seven largest spending countries combined. David theyre not spending a lot, john. I
Victory. I love you, all. We are having fun. When i heard the polls today they said what are you going to do . I said i am not leaving iowa. I am going to work harder. If i lose iowa i will never speak to you people again. Okay. Lets do a couple questions. Where is that mike . Nice questions. Vicious. You can ask me anything you want. You any tana . You got a good one for him . Go ahead. How are you . Good. Thank you. I want you to know i am married, eight children, stay at home wife and average income. I want to know with the war on poverty we spent 20 trillion, yet the poverty lines are the same. I made good choices, a lot of people do, we pay for people to make bad choices, what are you going to do cut some of that out . We have now and the numbers came out we have 50 Million People in poverty in this country. You look like you are doing well in fairness. We have 50 million. 46 Million People getting food stamps. We talk about how well we are doing. Almost 50 million between poverty
There is no better i can write that will not be insulting to those people. Dear miss so and so, i dont need your money, thanks a lot. If where got that back i would say who the hell does he think he is . We take that and it is important. I preface by saying i dont consider that funding. I am selffunding my campaign and i am getting ready to put up millions. Millions. [applause] something i am very proud of, that i think it is great, it has been really great, but i have spent less money than any other candidate by far. I think. I dont know. Probably a couple guys have nothing so they go around but i was told i spent less. I had the best result because in most polls i am number one. Until iowa came along, i was like, what the hell are you people doing to me . They said why dont you skip iowa. He said would you think of skipping ohio and going to New Hampshire and then South Carolina where i am leading. You ought to see the rallies there. You do the nevada but i cannot do that because i h
It easier to be able to establish some distance. Clintons attitude was just different. Their view of the world was different, their view of israel and the place in the world was different, and it did not mean that president obama did not feel that it was not in israels interest to be isolated. In fact, they would say that , but he also saw a benefit and being prepared to establish some distance when he felt there were real disagreements. You work so closely with both. I think him as i said earlier, i do do think that the context is entirely different. Remember, then Prime Minister netanyahu was succeeded in 1990. Preceded. Preceded. Prime minister after the assassination. Right. So the context was entirely different. The us position in the middle east was entirely different. And the politics in israel was entirely different which i think is a fair point. Succeeding and moving toward camp david prepared to make unprecedented offers to the presidency for palestinians. After the decade of
In a lot of ways obama does feel israel is a special state, but he is worried that somehow they are not living up to his values. What do you think about the spectrum and where the president is . I would say number one, the contour of the debate and policy approaches have changed pretty dramatically since eisenhower and a certain assessment that has been made, indeed, the four corners,corners, if you will, the guideposts had changed pretty dramatically since then. Number two, as was said from the outset, the pres. Outset, the president made it clear that he had an absolute commitment to israels security. Indeed, if we were going to pursue a peace effort, that was absolutely essential that israel could not be expected to take the steps and risks toward peace that would be required absent the United States providing that kind of clear assurance and to see manifested can greatly across a range of projects. Number three, i do think that the president has an emotional attachment israel. And