democratic legislature, i am battle-tested for washington, d.c., everybody, and i m ready to bring the fight there. i tell people it s going to be a show me, don t tell me election. i mean, we have had six and a half years of a pretty good talker. a young inexperienced united states senator that has gotten america in the ditch now. now, i know you re not supposed to say this but i m going to say it anyway. folks who want to come to america should come legally. should learn english, should adopt our values and roll up their sleeves and get to work when they get here. i will go into the oval office regularly once a week for example on a weekly radio address and i will say to you fellow citizens, please take out your smartphones. i would like to ask you a couple of questions, question number one do you think it s important that we know where your money is being spent? press one for yes, two for no.
to be continued. now every candidate will have the opportunity to make a closing statement tonight. each candidate will have 30 seconds and we start with governor perry. this is going to be a show me don t tell me election. i think america is just a few good decisions and a leadership change at the top away from the best years we ve ever had. i think that the record of the governor of the last 14 years of the 12th largest economy in the world is just the medicine america is looking for. 1.5 million jobs created during the worst economic time this country s ha since the great depression while the rest of the country lost 400,000 jobs. we re talking about a state that moved graduation rates forward from 27th in the nation to second highest as a matter of fact if you re hispanic or african-american in texas, you have the number one high school graduation rates in america. americans are looking for
as the five. very clever. yeah. i did that math. this is going to change it. it will. if the five comes on strong for me now. i m at the big table. i m counting on you guys to kind of give me the bump i need to get there. i think when you really look at this hopefully the american people are going to look at the most qualified individual to run this country. and this is going to be an election i say it s show me don t tell me election. there are some great quality candidates out there running for the presidency of the united states on the republican side. some men and women who have some pretty impressive resume s. but when you look at the full scope of things when you look at your life s experiences where you grew up having worn the uniform of the country, having been the chief executive of the 12th largest economy in the world for the last 14 years, isn t that what you want? that type of record that type of experience of running america. i mean we ve had this experience of th
collection and yet he has the power to do it at his fingertips. it s going to be a show me, don t tell me election where voters look at the record and look past the rhetoric. leadership is not a speech on the senate floor. it s a record of action. it s not what you say. it s what you do. let the 2016 barbs continue, rick perry touting action over words, saying that s something that senators can t do because they can t do much. rapid paul s nsa so-called filibuster on the senate floor would seem to indicate just the opposite. anyway to karl rove in the middle of this trying to keep both sides happy. how is it going right now? we all cease this in the primary season, why before the primary in season. particularly rough or what do you think? not really at all. i think rick perry was trying to milwaukee the arguments the runs like governor. if you look at the last six republican presidents since world war ii, two have been
policy concern in the u.s. election both jeb bush marco rubio from miami, they say a and have said even before this that the cuban embargo needed to be strengthened and not weakened and point to venezuela crumbling and problems that venezuela has cuba has because of socialism not u.s. policy. if we do want to lift the embargo and change that that s going to take an affirmative act of congress. good luck getting congress to do just about anything. and also understand that debbie wasserman-schultz generally favors a hardline position on cuba not what obama does. well let s talk about what you brought up which is if cubans are now denieds the path to citizenship because the country itself or cubans wishing to emigrate to the united states, that changes the calculus around immigration and i guess i wonder how much you think that sort of reignites, the issue is one to be one that republicans will have to grapple with, but how much that further pushes the jeb bushes and maybe to some degre