position. if hypothetically roe v. wade was overturned and the congress passed a federal ban on all abortion and it came to your desk, would you sign it? yes or no? i agree with senator thompson, which is we should overturn roe v. wade and return these issues to the states. i would welcome a circumstance where there was such a consensus in this country that we said we don t want to have abortion in this country at all, period. that would be wonderful. would you sign the bill? let me say it, i would be delighted to sign that bill. that was mitt romney running for president last time around saying he would be delighted to sign an abortion ban for all abortions period. and usually when you go out of your way to say all abortions, period, you mean all. you mean no exceptions. when mississippi was considering a ban on not just all abortions but likely some forms of hormonal birth control that their so called personhood amendment last year, he went on the fox news channel with mike
endorsed his campaign for a lot of reasons i just shared with you. thank you very much, governor. mike: i want to begin right at the heart of this issue, you helped create the welfare reform movement by in an area in wisconsin, trying out the things that ended up working. other gorps said we d like to do that, too. now we re seeing an attempt by the obama administration to make changes. i want you to first speak, what s the heart of what makes welfare reform work? the fact that people have to get up in the morning, go to work, and be able to get themselves out of poverty. i always told people you can t get out of poverty by not working and the welfares mothers responded in the state of wisconsin and across the country. always the responsibility for them, they had to have some skin in the game. and we would continue to provide for help for them and assistance, but they had to get up, look for a job and go
were dependent on their being reelected. now, the obama administration wants to go back to the days where welfare checks could be given without the stringent work requirements that have proven to be successful and helping people stand with their own two feet instead of carried with the government. why would anyone propose such a stupid reversal? just remember, it s not about the people, it s about the power that politicians want to have over the people. real strength of a government program is not how many people on it, but how many people are independent enough to not have to need it. [applause] joining me now is the original architect of welfare reform, former health and human services secretary under george w. bush, and former governor tommy thompson now running for the cites senate in his home state and full disclosure, i have
ewill lexes are in person voter fraud. and the governor takes on attorney general holder s claim. and the topics, you wrote us about tonight. ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. [applaus [applause] thank you. thank you very much. and we ve got a great studio audience and from huckabee on the fox news studios. one of the few times that the government worked is during the welfare reform efforts of the mid 1990 s, engineered originally by wisconsin governor tommy thompson and utah governor mike leavitt, the republican congress in 1994 and speaker newt gingrich worked with democratic president bill clinton, to pass the landmark legislation which was crafted to take people from welfare roles to payrolls. and in my first legislative
think that, but i think mitt romney has won decisively in some states even florida. but he be a presidential pick? i think we like to see the drama and keep it going. i think jeb bush is going to be the person that runs this time around. greta: that was senator thompson s phone and not mine. it wasn t yours either. bye-bye. . greta: attorney general eric greta: you ve seen the top stories but here is the best of holder calling fast and furious the rest. secretary of state hillary bad law enforcement. clinton lands in a tough spot at he appeared frustrated. capital hearing. she was defending the keystone once it was brought to my attention, i stopped it. pipeline rejection from i stopped it. in spite of what other attorney president obama. there was an opposing view. generals might have done with even the former president