You were here last night, writing the rise with your family. You are a young senator. A lot of iowans tell me they relate to you. Senator rubio that is why i was so focused on student loan debt. Alternative educational plans. That is why we want to increase the child tax credit. That is why we want to cut the burden on small business. That is why we want to expand the childcare tax credit, so students going back to school have somewhere to put their kids. I think it is 35 out of 50 states, childcare is more expensive than higher education. These are challenges real americans are facing. We have an agenda we are very proud of. Senator rubio hey, how are you . Good to see you. Senator rubio we were here last night area last night, too. My daughters were here. Senator rubio they went to the concert and i rode rides with the boys. Spent about 50 trying to knock down a bottle. It was fun. We had a great time. We appreciate your contribution to the iowa economy. Senator rubio maybe it was more to the carnival guys taking my money. [indiscernible] senator rubio thats great. Im glad we did our part. Senator rubio im glad you brought your camera. I think they are often looking at a giant pumpkin somewhere. The butter cow senator rubio we have not seen the butter cow. We have to go see that. We look forward to that. Come in many have you had so far . Senator rubio i have had won just about every day. Funnel cakes and cotton candy and all that stuff. Sugar. Senator rubio well, good. Im glad i saw you. [indiscernible] ok, ok. They are wearing their iowa state colors. Oh he is a good friend and he came for my birthday party. I am trying to be a good host. We appreciate all of the candidates. We are excited about him coming and giving them a chance to see iowa at its best, actually. I support him, and im really impressed. I think he is definitely a rising star in the republican ranks. We are very proud of his record and appreciative of him coming. Senator rubio thank you so much. Do you plan to spend more time here in iowa . Senator rubio where are we going . Right over here. Senator rubio do you have an umbrella . What are you selling . Nachos. I have to point this out because television is visual fine sure choice today, sir. Find shirt choice today, sir. Enjoy, enjoy. Shows what do you plan on reading trumps immigration plan . Do you plan on reading trumps immigration plan . [indiscernible] can we borrow any corn here or no . Senator rubio can we buy any corn here or no . [indiscernible] senator rubio how long are you open . Until 9 00. Senator rubio so, we have until 9 00 to stuff the ballot box. [indiscernible] you have to be 18. Senator rubio thank you. My sons are here, too. [indiscernible] senator rubio amanda is 15. Three more years. The next time i come maybe in three or four years, as president , i hope. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Ready . Which way are we going . Senator rubio daniela, come here, please. [indiscernible] hey, can i get a picture . Senator rubio thank you, guys. [indiscernible] oh, dear. Where is she . Oh, over there . [indiscernible] senator rubio the guy we are following, in white . [indiscernible] senator rubio it was like stop and start and stop and start. I was worried, on the radio they said that it was going to be lightning. Where are we going . [speaking spanish] senator rubio we are not going to be able to that thing. Its probably shut down. Yeah, looks like it. [indiscernible] oh, there are goes. It is spinning again. This morning it was not moving at all. I will get a photo. If elected president , how will you address global poverty . Senator rubio well, we do now. America does more than any country in the world. One of the goals we have the main things we can do, obviously is help develop the economy through literacy, health care, ultimately rule of law. I feel like america does more now than any place in the world. [indiscernible] senator rubio people think it is more than it actually is. Its only 1 of our budget. I have no problem with it. In some cases, i have called for increases. I would like to see more accountability on some of it. I have some reforms on some of it. For example, we did enact that required countries if they want to receive foreign aid, they have to make sure they get birth certificates. I would never propose cuts to it. What im looking for is ways to improve accountability. I would like the programs to get back to historic old historic numbers. [indiscernible] [indiscernible] senator rubio how are you . Cheryl. Senator rubio cheryl. [indiscernible] [laughter] nice to see you. Senator rubio nice to see you . What have you got going . Burgers. Senator rubio [indiscernible] thank you. I enjoy doing this. Senator rubio did you already flip these . You are going to be in my hometown tonight. Senator rubio i am. [indiscernible] senator rubio yeah, these have some time left. We do this every sunday. Or most every sunday. [indiscernible] senator rubio i got here as 7 00 a. M. [indiscernible] senator rubio [indiscernible] are they all pretty much the same time . Do you think the edges are hotter . It looks like the middle might [indiscernible] senator rubio that is the key, is to only flip them once. What are these . What is the meat . Pork burgers. Senator rubio is there a particular reason . [indiscernible] you ever had a pork burger . [indiscernible] senator rubio well, i have had a pork chop. I have not had it on a stick. It is pork, ground down. Not as spicy, a lot thinner. They are just trying to see if i burn anything. I am not going to burn pork. You do this at home . Senator rubio i do. Right, guys . [laughter] senator rubio these need a little more time. We like to grill. Mostly hamburgers. Other stuff. Steak. We roast a whole hog on christmas. Thats great. Its a lot of work. [indiscernible] senator rubio yeah. We have plenty. We do plenty of pork. Were cuban. You want a pork chop . No . Were these frozen . Yeah. The second batch of burgers today. [indiscernible] senator rubio im trying to see these all look like they have already gone what is your favorite food at the fair here . Senator rubio i like the funnel cake. This is ready. I think this one is ready. Dont you . I think they all are. Senator rubio you think they all are . Are there any vegetarians . Well, we are not trying today. [indiscernible] um, these are going to have to go a while though. [laughter] a you like your meat really raw. Put diet pepsi dont trust him. [laughter] senator rubio well take some of these off here. You bet. Thank you. Senator rubio im just wondering how many we are singeing right now. Yeah, someone is going to get burned. They are walking backwards. Senator rubio what time do you start . Generally we get here in the evening and things start happening right away. Senator rubio is there a target temperature you like to get to . Yes, everything has to reach 145. Hey, over here senator rubio hey. You want a pork burger . A little bit more on that. Senator rubio the other white meat. Thats right. [indiscernible] senator rubio so, what do you think . Do you think these are already . Just give them a little senator rubio what does the grill get to . Pardon . Senator rubio what does the grill get to . Oh, about 350, 400 degrees. Senator rubio are they frozen when they go on . Yes. Senator rubio these take a lot longer. When they start bleeding its time to flip them. The longer you cook it, the lower [indiscernible] senator rubio right. We roast a whole hog for christmas every year. [indiscernible] we spent 12 hours last year on the one we had. At some point, youre just guessing. Youre just looking at it. My wife and i do a lot of cooking and i do a lot of smoking. Senator rubio you ever use a roaster . We roast with charcoal. They call it in spanish. They do it in cuba by digging a hole in the ground. No one was to dig a hole in the yard anymore. It takes a lot longer that way. Right. Senator rubio we are ready when you are. All take that over to you. Here, let me stir it for you. Senator rubio weve got to try it. You bet. [laughter] senator rubio i think this is the one you made. Thats good. Thanks for having us, chef. [indiscernible] [indistinct conversations] you got it working . [indiscernible] senator rubio i did. I do that every sunday. Thank you. We appreciate it. [indiscernible] how are you . Senator rubio thanks for having us guys. I appreciate it. I am a pork guy, and i senator rubio oh, you are . [laughter] [indiscernible] senator rubio you are everywhere. They have a Big Distribution Center in south florida, dont they . We do. I just retired. Senator rubio you did . So, you are here . Im living around in atlanta. Im having a good time. [indiscernible] i do. We have one if you would like 1 senator rubio when i ran for senate, we got really interested we worked with them on a bunch of things. We appreciate all of the support you have given us over the years. Senator rubio you guys do a great job. We appreciate it a lot. Senator rubio you create a lot of awareness. [indiscernible] senator rubio where is your camera . You can download that online. You look ready to go. Are they working here . They are. Senator rubio they dont get to go on rides . Later. Senator rubio oh, later. Thank you, guys. [indiscernible] [laughter] senator rubio i might have overcooked them, not undercooked to them. [laughter] senator rubio thank you. Thanks for having me. Senator rubio let me guess, they are having pork . [laughter] [indiscernible] hi. What is your plan to turn minnesota into a red state . Senator rubio you know, we have a plan for all americans. I think americans in minnesota and all of the country want their children to do better than themselves. The only way we will do that is to become globally competitive, modernize higher education, and make sure our military is the strongest in the world. We need to do at job of convincing them that we are the party that stands with them. Thank you. [indiscernible] senator, what did you learn today, anything . [indiscernible] our coverage continues from the iowa state fair on cspan, and cspan. Org as the candidates walk the fairgrounds in speaker the Des Moines Registers soap box. On wednesday, rick perry. On friday morning, senator ted cruz. Christie andchris bobby jindal. Join the twitter conversation at dmrsoapbox. Announcer now we will hear from Ohio Governor john kasich. He was recently endorsed i the alabama governor. Welcome to the Des Moines Register soap box. Our next speaker is Governor John Kasich of ohio. He held his first elected office as a state senator in ohio. Then he served 18 years in the u. S. House including chairing the budget committee. After a stint in the private sector he was elected governor of ohio and was reelected in 2014. The governor kasich, welcome to the relocated soap box. [laughter] [applause] mr. Kasich its great to be with you. I just want to tell you a couple of things ive noticed at the fair today. Number one, just a little bit about my background and my record, just so you know i grew up in a little town outside of pittsburgh. My father was a democrat all of his life. His father was a coal miner. My mother was a very opinionated and marked woman, but not highly educated because her mother could barely speak english. It was a town where if the wind blew the wrong way, people would find themselves out of work. I think it is important for people to know that i grew up in a place where people never got the favored treatment. It was not a place where anything really special the promotions or those things it was just hardworking folks. I got elected to Office Without even really so much including the republican party. Iran for office because i thought i could make a difference. I am a republican, but the party has always been my vehicle and has never been my master. I recruited a lady like you, maam, to help me and to go doortodoor. I have then throughout my entire career a pretty independent person. I believe in balanced budgets, but i believe in cleaning up waste no matter where it is. I was one of the original fighters against corporate welfare and the congress, and it was, at times, a lonely endeavor in the congress. I spent 10 years of my life in washington to balance the federal budget. My first budget i presented after a guy challenge me i wrote my own budget, and there were votes on for budgets that year. The president cause budget, a republican, the black caucus budget, and the kasich budget. The vote on my budget was 405 no and 30 yes. I thought i was doing pretty well because i had 29 other people that thought it was not right to mortgage our young peoples future. I also thought there was a good value, which is you do not live in debt. I spent 10 years of my life fighting for that. Literally 10 years. In the late 1990s, i worked with the clinton administration, and i was one of the chief architects the first time we balanced the budget since man walked on the moon. The economy was doing very well. I also was a military reformer. When i first went to congress, the only committee i was on was the defense committee, and i found hammers and screwdrivers and wrenches along with a couple of other congressmen that cost tens of thousands of dollars. I went about reforming the pentagon. Most of my career, people called us cheap hawks that we were for a Strong America but wanted to make sure we did not waste money there. After that budget episode, he had a 5 billion surplus, and i decided to leave. I went into the private sector, and then ive out the call to go back into public service. Hopefully, i can get to this in just a few minutes. Iran for governor, and the state was in very bad shape. We were 8 billion in the hole. We had lost 300 50,000 jobs. Our credit was at risk. Were now up 350 thousand jobs and running a 2 billion surplus. Weve cut taxes by the most amount of any sitting governor, including tax relief for small businesses, which are the engine of economic growth. As we have grown and become stronger and this is an important thing for me to say to you we dont believe that anybody should be left in the shadows. We feel that with more economic progress, people who have mental illness, drug addiction, the working poor, development to leave disabled, the autistic, and our friends in the minority community, that everybody deserves a chance to live out their godgiven purpose. We had a reelection, and i was able to receive twitty 6 of the africanamerican vote. 51 of union households, 61 of women, and the second largest electoral victory in modern ohio history, and it happened for, i think, two reasons. One, hope has come back to ohio. The second reason is i like to think that many, many people in ohio do not feel as though they are being shut out, that they are being listened to, that they have a chance to get ahead. I think that is what we want in our country. I want to talk to you about something that is, i think, so critically important for me to suggest to you and you to listen. Over the weekend, there were some articles printed about isis rounding up 12, 13, 14 year old girls and using them as sexual objects and trading them as an object to their fighters. Isis represents, in my opinion, with the beheadings, the attacks on people of eight, the abuse of women the attacks on people of faith, the abuse of women, and the attack on civilization, not just a National Security threat to us, but something even deeper people who want to destroy our very way of life. That same weekend, i read about two young people who live in starkville, mississippi, the home of Mississippi State university. It is a very sweet town. The story was about a young man and a young woman who were arrested because they were trying to board a plane to make a connection to fly to syria to join isis. Let me be clear on the military front. I have said for a long time now that america as part of a coalition needs to destroy these people. We need to go, even road them, and destroy them erode them, and destroy them. We even need to do it now, or it will cost us a lot more later. At the same time i say that, the military effort is only one part of what i believe we all need to think about. Why would this 18 and 19yearold seemingly normal two very attractive people wanting to go and join isis . Why do we find some of the most successful people, and we read about them being attracted, and what isis tries to offer is a sense of family, a sense of importance, and a ticket to paradise. They are liars, distort hers, murderers, and rapists they are liars, distorters, murderers, and rapists. What about us . For a while, western civilization has practiced two fundamental objectives. A New York Times columnist wrote something about this. One, we worship freedom, and i dont mean just freedom to be free, but everybody can do whatever they want to do, and nobody theres no overarching rules. Theres just do whatever you want to do. I think about my 15yearold twin daughters. If my wife and i raised our daughters to do whatever they wanted to do, what do you think would happen . Secondly, in the west, there seems to be an aggressive effort to find happiness. Because we all want to be happy. But i have to suggest to you that we as human beings who represent the western ethic and the western tradition we need to realize that we have a purpose here on earth. Our purpose relates to healing those who live in our world, and i believe that our purpose involves justice in this world. We build a Holocaust Memorial on the grounds of our state house so that every day young people, people of all ages could recognize what happens with mans inhumanity to man. The inscription on one of the walls says this if you save one life, you have saved the world. Our responsibility, in my opinion, as human beings and someone who has had a lot of experience and seen a lot of success and so many ways in which we all live together i believe that all of us have to be a center of justice and a center of healing, and to realize that life is not just about us alone. Life is about us doing something bigger in our lives for someone else. We have the former speaker here, brent secrest. Hes a coach. I have a state senator here who coached in high school. He is now a state senator. Their passion was to show young people the way, wasnt it . It was not necessarily to win the Football Games or the wrestling tournaments. It was to build character. Some people ask what that is all about. I think theres some fundamental values we need to think about. I outlined them in my inaugural address. Personal responsibility. We cannot make excuses for why things dont work out. The dog it my homework went out in the fifth grade. Secondly, the idea of resilience. You get knocked down, and you get yourself back up. I dont know about you, but im rooting for tim tebow to make the nfl. Im rooting for him because i love to see the comeback story. Third, empathy. Too much anger in america today. Too much division. You know what empathy really is . Its putting yourself in somebody elses shoes and understanding how difficult life can be. I just had a woman the other day tell me that she knows a bunch