Transcripts For CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20240622

Larry, we will call. Thank you. Talk then i have to go to another meeting. Ok. Thank you. Two parallel campaigns happening right here, are you on either side . No. Do you ever played golf play golf . You dont want others, you play your best game and usually you win. Changed. I dont have talking point, it is whatever comes into my head. On row is your stand roe vs wade . Ohio have done a lot in affecting that when a court makes a ruling, they make a ruling. There are constitutional restrictions that can be put on it. First of all, i put my name on a piece of legislation. Citizenship is part of the constitution. This is throwing a wrench into what we want to do to solve the problem. People come across, there is no debate. You are going back. There are guest worker programs, but at the same time, you look at these 12 Million People, if they have not violated the law, they can work toward legalization. That makes sense. People couldnt be supportive of that. What about ilLegal Immigration . Gov. Kasich i am done with that topic. I can tell you, i have been blown away by a couple of things. The governor of alabama called me and said i want to support you. Go toto go to alabama and that church where those four children were blown up in the 1960s. I think that that governor will travel with me. We have a great endorsement here, the former speaker of iowa yesterday. Is talkingkley nicely about me. [laughter] good luck. Gov. Kasich things go up and down. , this is about isis been in my head for a while. The stories of the rape of those girls and how these girls told stories of , i couldnt even believe it. Executionstop of the , and then roger cohen wrote a piece in the New York Times on saturday that talks about what has been happening in western civilization and i called yesterday, i have to say my own thing, he says his, but the idea that people who are folks that live next door are interested in isis, it is because some of them have lost meaning in their lives and they are searching for it desperately. We needed to destroy isis and radicals on the battlefield, but these ideas go on. The west needs to be clear what we are about, what meaning in life means, that there is happiness that comes from that, from justice and healing, and the path to paradise is do that. Not the path of rape and murder. I want people to hear this. Things because people need to hear it, whether i win or lose, i want good out of this. I would like to do some good. So i dont change things, im not stuck anywhere. I dont have a teleprompter or talking point, i study issues. Said, he is undisciplined, but do you think i have been . I have a ball. I am doing good. In the end, if i do not win, i will feel like i have contributed something. Thank you. You have done 14 of these test gov. Kasich i have more than a hundred ago. What have you learned about New Hampshire voters . Gov. Kasich they are like voters everywhere. They are wondering if the system works, whether they get fair treatment, whether they get the shaft, and my going to lose there was a lady the other day,. Nd i asked what she did she said i was training somebody who took my job. You know how she felt, i was unbelieving it. Said, i know people who have committed crimes and in my job. I got her number and asked her what she does. People want to be hopeful and optimistic and what i really learned, is that your record matters, because all they hear is hot air. When somebody can deliver, thever the mail or land plane, it has unbelievable power. Voters are tired of all the promises and not seeing results. Thank you all very much. Out the back door. [chatter] [laughter] gov. Kasich you guys have a limit. I am trying to accommodate you. I appreciate that. Good luck. Gov. Kasich oh my goodness. I will get out of your way. Gov. Kasich thank you. Thank you. Ok, thank you very much. [chatter] gov. Kasich here we go. Cspans coverage of the road to the white house will continue tomorrow as we had back to the iowa state fair. We will hear from ted cruz, his turn to be on the soapbox. We will open phone lines and get your reactions. You can see it live starting at 11 00 eastern. This weekend, politics, books, American History, on cspan saturday live coverage of president ial candidates at the iowa state fair continues. We will hear from Chris Christie and bobby jindal. And sunday evening, scott walker holds a town hall meeting in New Hampshire. Live at the be mississippi inaugural book festival. Coverage features Panel Discussions on civil rights on the history, biography, and the lives of harper lee and others. And then katie kiefer shares her thoughts on the obama administration. That will be on cspan3, saturday afternoon, the preservation of new yorks landmarks and the history the commission created to protect them. Yunnan railamerica, three films on the pilot district project. Create goodated to relations with Police Officers after Martin Luther king jr. s assassination and riots. More information on www. Cspan. Org. Rick santorum was invited to the National Press club today to talk about his immigration policies. His remarks followed by questions is just over one hour. John hughes good morning, my name is john hughes the president of the National Press club and an editor at bloomberg first word and that is bloomberg newsbreaking news desk in washington. Our guest is former senator Rick Santorum, the republican president ial candidate who will discuss immigration. First, i want to introduce a couple of colleagues. To my right is the Washington Bureau chief for the buffalo news a former National Press Club President and he is the current chairman of the clubs speakers committee. To my left, the washington correspondent for nj advanced media, that serves nj. Com and the starledger and hes the Speaker Committee member who organized the event and a former National Press Club President. I want to welcome our cspan and public radio audiences and those of you in the room. You can follow the action on twitter npclive. Our speaker today was the runnerup to mitt romney for the 2012 republican president ial nomination. He won the iowa caucasus and several other states. In his second try at the presidency, senator santorum so far is lagging in the opinion polls, relegated to the happy hour or socalled kids table debate on fox news earlier this month. He was not happy, saying the idea that a National Poll has a relationship to the viability of a candidate, asked Rudy Giuliani that, ask phil gramm that. He was asked during the debate, has your moment past . He said the message that worked four years ago will propel him again and pointed to his track record. That track record shows he was elected to the u. S. House twice from a democraticleaning district and 12 terms in the senate representing pennsylvania, which leans democratic in president ial years. In congress, he wrote the law outlawing the procedures some call partialbirth abortion and altered bills on sanctioning iran. He was a member of the House Republican gang of seven that exposed the house banking scandal. He became the senates third ranking republican and was a vocal opponent still is a vocal opponent of samesex marriage. Today, senator santorum is here to talk about immigration. This has emerged as a major issue in the 2016 campaign, donald trump, the current front runner has called for deporting all 11 million unauthorized immigrants. Trump says he was to revoke the 14th amendment guarantee o citizenship for anyone born in the United States. The Washington Post says that immigration proposals that languished at the edge of republican politics now are in the partys mainstream thanks to trump. Senator santorum says his immigration proposal will take into account the millions of americans who cannot find jobs. He is here to tell us more. Please join me in giving a welcome to the National Press club senator Rick Santorum. [applause] mr. Santorum thank you jerry and jonathan, i appreciate this opportunity. I am as many of you know the son of an italian immigrant, my fathers journey to america rescued him from a childhood as a brown shirt and mussolini core and from being a called in the war machine. Cog in the war machine. It was not as easy as boarding a ship and coming to america. My grandfather came to america to flee the new fascist regime in 1923 in spite of the emergency quota act of 1921 that limited italian immigrants to a few thousand italians a year. It turns out that my grandfathers hometown in italy was part of austria before world war i and my grandfather was considered an austrian by the american government. He was able to come, but not able to bring his italian children with him. In 1930 he became a citizen after working most of that time in the coal mines of southwestern pennsylvania. He was able to unite his family in america. When my father told me about his family story and journey to america, i asked him a natural question did you resent america from keeping you away from your father and leaving you in the fascist country for the first seven years of your life . He said no, america was worth the wait. He was right. America was worth the wait. We had been a country that puts the law above the people making and executing the laws. The greatest protection each of us has is that no one is above the law in america. That includes president s, justices, and yes, immigrants. The law that kept my father and grandfather apart was passed because our nation needed to balance labor markets and National Security interests and a number of other reasons that were prevalent in the day for limiting new immigrants. But the immigration act of 1921 and 1924 targeted italians and jews in part because of concerns of assimilation and in part because of rank prejudice. Oddly enough, the clause in place today were less significantly altered in 1990, a bill authored by ted kennedy, nothing like the laws of the 1920s which limited immigration not just in nationality, but in numbers to a mere 170,000 people per year for what turned out to be 40 years. The kennedy bill was designed to remove the need for ilLegal Immigration by increasing the number of immigrants to one million per year. It has not worked, thanks to the incentives offered by president obama and bills like the gang of eight immigration proposal, last year the number of Illegal Immigrants rose to 700,000, bringing the total number of both illegal and legal to a record 42 million, comprising 13. 3 of the u. S. Population, the High Percentage in 105 years. Is this flood of immigrants in the National Interest . That question is the question we should be asking. It is a question we should be asking about all of our laws. Is the law in the National Interest . Immigration law should serve the interest of the American People. Since immigration involves labor markets, one key requirement of any plan is it improves opportunities for better jobs and better wages by stimulating growth. Lets look at the numbers. Without a doubt, immigration has held down the cost of labor, increasing profits for businesses. Has a caused growth that has led to higher wages, particularly for workers who these immigrants compete against for jobs. Real hourly wages have increased by about one dollar in the last 25 years in real terms. It has slightly declined during this administration. From 20002 thousand 14, they were 5. 7 million net jobs recorded for people 16 to 65. All of the new jobs went to immigrants in spite the fact that there were 17 million more nativeborn americans in the workforce. Democrats like Hillary Clinton say that they are for the American Worker yet demand amnesty and huge increases in the number of immigrants for one overriding reason votes. Which leads to political power. They have no interest in fixing our broken immigration system. The president had a filibusterproof majority in his first two years and did not bother to introduce an immigration bill even though he had plenty of time to push obamacare. To the president and mrs. Clinton, immigration is about dividing america by injecting ethnic and racial politics into this debate. Not doing right by struggling workers. Immigration is another example of how mrs. Clinton has abandoned the millions of americans want the opportunity to work and to provide for themselves and their families by using divisive identity politics to gain more power. What i will be proposing today is in direct contrast to mrs. Clintons vision. My proposal says workers of all races, genders, ethnicities, that you are welcome to an america that will provide you an opportunity to rise if you work hard and obey the law. My proposal is based on hope and opportunity, not fear and bigotry. The establishment i might add, the big Business Community is not much better. They see immigrants, workers as a way of diluting the worker pool and lowering labor costs, to them workers are commodities and increasing labor supply means more bottom line profitability. Workers are not commodities, they are well people and real families who have Real Mortgages to pay and mouths to feed and they deserve leaders who put them first. That is why im here today. I am running for president not for power or profit, i am running to fight for the real people who have real families and who are struggling to make ends meet. Over the past 20 years, nearly 35 million legal and Illegal Immigrants have come to our shores. The largest Mass Immigration america has seen in our history, surpassing the great wave at the turn of the 20 century. 20th century. These immigrants are largely unskilled and low Skilled Labor and they are competing for the same job that 74 of americans who do not have a College Degree are looking for. Because labor supply and demand , you see that concept in action, corporate profits are up because labor costs are down and executives and shareholders are doing very well. But the American Worker has seen stagnant wages for over a decade. The American Worker is struggling and as a result the American Family is struggling. I know some of my party rolls eyes whenever i make this point, when i see them at fundraisers and party events. Contrary to what the elites along the coast think, the economy does not start on wall end on route 128, it starts with a family and includes streets and avenues and drives across this country, including main street. The American Family is the first economy just like business, each family needs revenues, pays expenses and at the end of the month the books must balance. Struggle, we must make sure our policies do not throw up for the roadblocks and dead ends to their ability to succeed. We must rebuild the first economy and one step is to ensure we have a responsible immigration policy that puts the American Worker and American Families first. Up until a few days ago i was the only candidate in this race who put forth a legal and ilLegal Immigration proposal that puts American Workers first. I wanted to use this opportunity to flesh out those proposals and cast a vision for a stronger and healthier and more prosperous america. The plan will fix our broken immigration system and has that has served as a catalyst for economic stagnation and soaring Government Spending and lawlessness that threatens our National Security. I am not new to this debate, a decade ago i authored a Border Security legislation that stood in contrast to the legislation president bush and senator kennedy were advocating. Unlike some who are running for president today, i was never a member of a senate gang, because i understood amnesty was not a solution but i will mess this one up will perpetuate the problem. Amnesty will perpetuate the problem not solved the problem. Solvee the problem. Where there was a path to citizenship in the gang of eight bill or the right to a permanent work permit supported by ted cruz and others, in any event it is amnesty. The workers who serve as groundskeepers and waiters, maidss and made they are hardworking americans who are hurt most by record levels of legal and ilLegal Immigration. They are the bluecollar americans who are in direct competition with cheap and sometimes illegal labor. Amnesty will make competition more fierce not less and encourage more ilLegal Immigration, not less. And further depress wages. As important as the debate is over ilLegal Immigration we cannot speak about securing our borders and turn a blind eye to an entire system that hurts American Workers. Until this summer, the only candidate who had a message focused on having American Workers first and commonsense limits on Legal Immigration was me. This summer i was joined by Governor Walker who was first to change his position with a few specifics calling for limiting Legal Immigration. Donald trump has joined a majority of americans at me with and me with ideas had to put American Workers first, i welcome them both and encourage all candidates and all americans to listen to this vision of how we can make america stronger. Lets face it, the problems with the ilLegal Immigration can mostly be solved immediately. It does does not require changing the law, it requires enforcing the current laws. The president has the authority and access to funds to secure our borders. Let me be clear, i will do what five president s have promised the American Public to do, i will secure the border with mexico. I will build hundreds of miles of new walls, you stateoftheart technology, deploy what manpower is necessary to secure the border with mexico. I will end the catch and release program of this administration and have personnel deployed to maximize apprehensions at the border. It is time to stop the bait and switch, the political discussions that happened during a campaign and then forget about the promises when you become president. I will not demand the governor of mexico build a wall, i want u. S. Workers to do that. I will make it clear to the Mexican Government that they must stop facilitating the lawlessness on the border and cooperate with our efforts. I will do all i can to change mexicos behavior for the benefit of both countries, but if they fail to cooperate, i am prepared to do several steps, beginning with authorizing the Border Crossing cards to be suspending until mexico suspended until mexico cooperates. Overstays are one of the largest factors contributing to overpopulation. The fact, i will do what no Previous Administration has done, i will enforce the law. We will track who they are and whether they overstayed their visa. Anyone apprehended will be subject to fines and subsequently removed. I will end the practice of sanctuary cities by withholding federal funds from any city that refuses to cooperate with federal law. I support kates law and ending the policy that results in 30,000 criminal Illegal Immigrants being released from prison last year. Because their native country will not accept them. I will exercise my authority already a law to deny visas to any foreign country that will not take responsibility for their citizens until they take their people back. The federal government has to end policy that have encouraged millions to break the law. In that regard, i will put an end to the president s unconstitutional executive amnesty which is largely responsible for this latest border surge. I will require businesses to use everify and immediately encourage all businesses to use everify and hold them responsible if they do not play by the rules. I will propose we join every other developed country in the world and put in into the automatic citizenship for children born here to Illegal Immigrants. This enforcement of existing laws will dramatically reduce the number of you legal immigrants competing against legal workers in this country. Reducing the never Illegal Immigrants will not be sufficient to help struggling americans. I am proposing to change to the Legal Immigration system that will reduce the supply of lower skilled adults holding wages down in america. Like jeb bush, i am proposing illuminating the visa lottery and chain immigration, unlike jeb bush i will not increase other categories of immigration to levels beyond the current level. These changes will result in a 25 reduction in ilLegal Immigration, a start contrast to every republican president ial candidate except, until recently, donald trump. Some like ted cruz have proposed doubling the number of immigration and he is not alone in the republican field. I believe immigration can be a good thing, but there can be too much of a good thing. When our labor markets cannot manage the influx we are receiving, it is time to recalibrate. This is not antiimmigrant, this is proworker, especially for those who are most affected by the waves of new workers. And those folks are recent immigrants, minorities, and younger workers. Even skilled workers have been hurt by our current system. This year at disney laidoff americans and replace them with cheap foreign labor. In Southern California edison had the nerve to have its American Workers train the foreign replacements under the h1b program, disney and california edison Southern California edison used this program to replace existing American Workers, tech workers who were not supposed to be replaced by this program, but are. There are an oversupply of American Workers who can fill entrylevel tech jobs coming out of our schools, they should begin the opportunity to get to work in their chosen field and grow in experience and rise. I propose overhauling the hib visa program so the higher skilled workers who guesstimate economy and create more jobs will be eligible to come here. This is in stark contrast with other republicans, particularly ted cruz who seeks to increase hibs fivefold. The current program. There is a sector of our economy that needs workers that are not that there is not a sufficient amount of americans to do the job, some 400 categories in the department of commerce of job classifications, of those 400 job investigations only a handful are there a majority of folks not born in america doing those jobs. I think you can safely say, as some like to say about a lot more jobs, these are jobs americans are not doing and will not do. But there are only a handful and not surprisingly they are all in agriculture. As a result, i will provide for an opportunity for illegal workers in these job investigations to stay here in america under a program that will allow their employer to pay a fee and so they can stay, even know they are illegal, under a guest temporary program. An annual fee and renewable as long as they want to stay in this country. As my father said, america is worth the wait, and it is worth doing it right. This means we need an immigration policy that rewards those who do it right. An immigration policy that fits our Economic Needs and an immigration policy that puts American Workers first. I was asked in the first president ial debate how i would explain the enforcement of our immigration laws to the child of an illegal immigrant. I said our compassion in government is founded on our laws because we treat everyone equally under the law. This must be true of our immigration laws. Having an immigration system that turns its back on american citizens and legal immigrants so more ilLegal Immigration can come when there are not enough good paying jobs means there is not compassion. Compassion is an immigration system that says we want you in america, but says we have an opportunity and a job here for you so you can rise and the needs of everyone of you, both in this country and coming to this country, can live the american dream, something all of us strive for. That will be my policy as president of the United States. Thank you, very much. You could stay right there at the podium and i will stand next to you. Questions how does your proposal for a border wall differ from donald trump . Mr. Santorum as i said, i am for americans building the wall, not mexico. I will not make mexico painfully well, i want them to cooperate in stopping the influx of immigrants and the instability of the border. Lets be very clear, immigration into america is big business for mexico, the estimate are 22 billion a year flows from people in this country into mexico. To provide a lot of economic support for people in that country. There is every indication that mexico is doing next to nothing, in fact, some argue they are working to facilitate people coming into this country and doing so illegally. A wall is a part of it, other measures are a part of it. As long as they are not cooperating to secure the border it will make our job harder. That is why i suggested i would suspend the Border Crossing card as an initial step, i would like to do other things if we do not see any cooperation from the Mexican Government to make the border secure. Outside of your differences, what are your thoughts of trumps immigration plan and how you differ and the things you agree with that are part of it . Mr. Santorum there are differences, mostly because of the lack of specifics on the part of mr. Trump on some of his proposals on the legal side, for example, i have been clear about what i would do to change the immigration system and changing to programs that most people feel have not been beneficial to our country. The idea of chain immigration and the visa lottery program, there is widespread thought on republican sides that those programs are not good programs and are allowing people, particularly chain immigration, allowing people to come into this country by virtue of the fact that they have a relative in this country and we are allowing adults to come in who are parents or siblings of that person. The policy prior to that was that if you were an adult you had to earn citizenship on your own or entry on your own merits, not because you had someone here who was related to you. That should be the case again going forward. I have no specifics. Ps talked about a return to historic levels but he has not talked about he will accomplish that. As far as on the illegal side, there are similarities between what mr. Trump and i have put forward, i am glad to see that. Everything from the wall and visa overstays. Birthright citizenship, all these things are similar. How will you handle the millions of Illegal Immigrants already in the country . Mr. Santorum as i said, the enforcement of everify. If you stop immigration from the border, if you require people to adhere on overstays to leave. You contact them and move with the process of removal, you know who they are and they made a promise when they came here that they believe at a certain time and we would go through the process of contacting them and moving forward with their removal. The same thing would happen with other people who are in this country. We would move forward with removals as we find people who in most cases we would find them through people who have broken the law and have been known to Law Enforcement and therefore communicate with our ice agents to begin the process of removal. It would be a rather easy systematic way of going through that process. Simply enforcing the law. This questioner notes youre a politician who has made family the centerpiece not only of your politics but your life. How would you handle children who are citizens by birthright, but whose parents are here illegally . Another question about birthright, i believe it was governor perry yesterday, i believe he said yesterday, that it could take a decade to change the 14th amendment, it is not practical and we should focus on the border and the wall. What is your response to birthright changes being practical . Mr. Santorum i give a lot of talks on immigration throughout the country and i would agree that the birthright issue is an issue. It is a legal issue that should be solved and we should have a determination as to what the 14th amendment actually says. Good legal arguments on both sides as to whether someone born here, you respective of circumstances of their parents should be considered a citizen of the country. I do not think from my perspective, looking at all i want to accomplish with immigration, that is not my highest priority, there are other things much more pressing. That is simply another one i listed, i think i listed it last, and all the things that encourages people to come in illegaly that is one and we need to eliminate those incentives that encourage people to break the law and enter this country. There are many other things we need to do ahead of that. I agree with rick perry in that it is not our highest priority and would not be my highest priority. What i think the law should be, i want you to lay that out as a marker as to what the law should be in this country. In terms of the children born to Illegal Immigrants, and keeping Families Together, how would you handle that would the parents be deported and the children stay, or would you get exception to keep the Families Together . Mr. Santorum i keep coming back to this premise what seems to be lost, the people who brought the children here did so breaking the law and with a full understanding that they very well may they had children here, they knew fully what they were doing. It is like someone who robs a bank because they want to feed their family, do i feel bad that they do not have enough money and they felt the need to rob a bank and provide for their family, of course i feel that, we all feel that, we hope people are not in that situation where they have to break the law so they can make a better life for their family. That does not change the fact that they broke the law and there are consequences to breaking the law, any more than you would say we can as a mothers and fathers to prison because it was separate them from their children. No moms and dads would be in jail if we used the same argument being made here that we cannot separate the children. We are not separating them arbitrarily, we are separating them because they did something and put themselves in a position to jeopardize that relationship with their children. That is not the responsibility of the government to say, we made the mistake, no, they made the mistake in doing what they did and put their children in that situation. They should have to deal with the consequences just like any other american who breaks the law and as a result gets separated from their children. Unfortunately, it happens every single day in america, it is tragic, i wish they were not separated. We are a nation of laws, and to turn this to suggest if you are for separating that this is different than any other type of situation where we have people separated from their families because of the illegal actions of the parents is inaccurate. It is a consistent if we separate people who break laws then we should be consistent with respect to Illegal Immigrants who have done the same. Donald trump takes credit for bringing immigration front and center, and you said in your remarks that you were ahead of the immigration issue, but either way it is seemingly be front and center issue in the republican president ial campaign. Is that a good thing, does it belong here or is a crowding out other issues that need to get focused on . Mr. Santorum i announced my campaign from a factory floor in western pennsylvania because i think the most important issue facing the economy and most americans is the opportunity to live the american dream. Particularly for the 74 of americans who do not have a College Degree, the millions of americans who have seen their wages flat line, see their losing ground with inflation. A lot of folks who do not feel america is working for them. When i announced for president , i listed things i thought could turn that around, one is to grow the economy and create jobs, particularly in manufacturing. That create good paying jobs and the ability for people to provide for themselves and their families. We are gone for 20 many people and manufacturing in 1980 down to 11 million and it is dropping like a rock because of the policies of this administration. I have focused my entire campaign, what can we do to help those struggling the most in America Today . I talk about tax policy that will help, regulatory policy, trade policy, and i have to talk about labor markets. What is the state of labor markets today . The reality is we have a lot of American Workers who are not seeing their wages go up because of an increase in the supply of 35 Million People. Some people say it was a good thing and make that argument. Here is the point, this is a legitimate debate. You say, was it a good thing or bad thing we are having a debate it is a legitimate debate. Many on the other side who have suggested anyone who wants to raise this issue, you raise it because your antihispanic or antiimmigrant, i am the son of an immigrant. I want to make sure america is strong for the immigrants who do have, that there are opportunities for people who want to rise and live that dream. That is the promise of this country and to suggest that reducing levels of immigration or enforcing the law with respect to 10 Million People here illegally is somehow antiimmigrant suggest that the alternative is that we should allow everybody in and there should be no limits on immigration because unless you are for that, then you are antiimmigrant. There may be some out there who are for open borders and anybody to come in at anytime, i do not see too many people in public life. If you are not for that, then you can call anybody who wants to have a discussion as to what the limits are antiimmigrant. That is an appropriate Public Policy discussion that should be based on facts. Up until this point, i do not think it has been, it has been driven by an attempt by one party. I am hopeful that as more information comes out about the impact of immigration on the american workforce, the impact of ilLegal Immigration on our security and economy, we can start to have a rational discussion about what the policies of this country should be to help people who are looking for the american dream. Be on immigration, what are the reasons for the growing gap between the rich and poor and how would you address that . Mr. Santorum i mentioned how important it is we have a Manufacturing Policy that makes us number one in manufacturing. That is the key economically for us to have a strong middle class. I wrote a book one year ago, im sure all of you read it, it is called bluecollar conservative, i lay out in great detail how we will accomplish that. I talk about manufacturing and cutting taxes and making us competitive, we have the highest corporate taxes in the world. I will propose an economic plan in the next in september which we have labeled the 2020 Perfect Vision for america, 20 tax, flat tax on Corporate Income and a 20 flat tax on individual income. It will be progrowth and allows for getting rid of the special interest provisions in the tax code. On the corporate side and individual side. It is a simple, strong, progrowth plan economy going, particular provisions that will provide extra incentives to manufacturing, including repatriation of profits, a provision to lower the taxes on profits made by companies that are u. S. Based but those profits were made overseas to bring those profits back to america and not get hit with a to a 40 tax. As i mentioned, we have trade programs that we need to make sure we enforce the trade laws and at the same time open up markets. I know some people have suggested that my policy of being against the trade promotion authority, which i was, means im not for future trade laws, i am, i voted for almost trade bill in the u. S. Senate and the house. I voted against nafta. I do support opening up opportunities, particularly in the pacific rim but we have to do so in a way we make sure we are not undermining American Workers at the same time. I said we have no faith that the president will do that, he has given me no indication he cares at all about American Workers with his policies in manufacturing and energy and other things that are lowering wages in America Today as we have seen, wages have declined. And they continue to decline under this president. Finally, the American Family, i mentioned in my speech, i always mention in my speeches, because every book you read and sociology textbook, every study that has been done of america and the reason for the hollowing out of the middle of this country points to a culprit that is first and foremost among them. That is the breakdown of the Nuclear Family in america. From Robert Putnams recent study to the to Charles Murrays book. Both of them and many others have suggested the reason we have trouble in our Education System and having trouble not rising and getting good paying jobs is because of increased incarceration rates, it is because of the breakdown of the Nuclear Family which continues to be a problem and i see nothing being done by either party to address it. In fact, no one talks about it. I find myself often times in these meetings that i refer to in Party Meetings as the only one mentioning the huge elephant in the room. Even in the Democratic Party is an elephant in the room. Those on the left who are now suggesting this is a problem we can no longer ignore, yet Neither Political Party wants to talk about it because it is politically incorrect. I think we have reached the point where Political Correctness has gotten us in a position we will not even fight for the lives of our children in the future, then we need to have politically incorrect people run for president and put the children on the front and center of the Public Policy debate and i am doing that. I mentioned in the introduction, that you are down in the polls and said what you say you think of polls. What is your own personal benchmark in your head that will tell you i will get out . Not finishing in the top three or four in iowa, if it is not the polls, what is the thing that would make you leave the race . Mr. Santorum sort of like the Supreme Court when it comes to pornography, you know it when you see it. I will certainly four years ago, it was apparent to me when we got out it was the time to drop out. Some to just it was too late, others suggested it was too early. I am the goldilocks. I will know if that eventuality ever comes, i do not anticipate dealing with that problem. Right now i feel very comfortable going out there and articulating a strong, positive vision for america. Having answers and unlike everybody else, and this is the case with integration, people say you will not get this done, i would make the argument that if you look at my track record on issues that no one thought could be passed, we have a good record of passing the. Welfare reform, no one thought we could get it passed and bill clinton vetoed it twice. We got a dozen democrats to join us in the senate and passed a welfare reform bill that ended a federal entitlement, something that was predicted could never happen in washington, d. C. Never be allowed unless you have a super majority of republicans you would never be able to get bit of a federal entitlement for the poor, and we did. I led that charge. I wrote the original bill in the house and managed the bill in the senate. If you look at reforming the Health Care System, we have a lot of folks trying to run around telling you how they will reform the Health Care System. Unfortunately, republicans are bereft of ideas, no ideas of how to move forward and improve the private economy when it comes to and the power of patience when it comes to the Health Care System until Rick Santorum came along and introduced the concept of Health Savings account over 20 years ago and fought for them and pass them in spite of opposition by immigrants and by this president. The reality is we have a long track record, abortion bills, how many abortion bills passed the senate and house . I can think of three in the last 50 years and i authored and led the fight on all three and got democratic support for all three. I share with you that we have a record of being a principled conservative and going out there and pushing the envelope on Public Policy to restore the opportunities i think america has for everybody and can have for everybody by restoring our conservative principles back here in washington, d. C. But nobody in this field has a record of doing that. You have a lot of people who will come out there in a very sharp elbows and tell you how everything is wrong and tell you why everything is broken. They have no record to show they have been able to do any of those things and most of the record of the people who are running who are United States senators is abject failure. I would suggest that we need to look at folks who accomplish things before we decide whether they should be promoted or not. I think we have a good track record of accomplishment. You mentioned abortion the other day, and the other day i believe you said not only should planned parenthood be defunded but prosecuted, in reference to the recent videos that have come out. You have concern that cutbacks to planned parenthood would affect the Birth Control part of its offerings and inadvertently lead to an increase in abortions . Mr. Santorum i do not think there are any numbers out there that suggest that access to contraception reduces the number of abortions, pretty good and compelling studies that show there is no correlation and has not been for some time. Having said that, i am not concerned about the link between contraception and abortion. Contraception is part of a federal program and planned parenthood if they do not get these money there are lots of organizations that can feel the need that planned parenthood is providing to provide these types of services. I am not worried about the access to contraception that would be coming through other organizations other than planned parenthood and i am worried about an organization that was founded by a eugenicists whose purpose was to eliminate undesirable races and people. It is stunning to me, the eugenicists that has such a horrific record of mans inhumanity to man is someone that the current day politicians are happy to receive awards in her name. Including a black politician, because she was a racist. She wanted to eliminate the black race. This is who planned parenthood is, this is what they had been about, started by eugenicists whose objective was to dehumanize certain individuals who they could be removed from society. I wrote a book a few years ago, talking about the genocide that is going on. It was a short book, a simple answer, could have been answered into words, you lie. You live to the people and that is what this is about, a lie of what a child in the womb really is, just a blob of tissue, prehuman, not something we need to be concerned about. It is like, the argument from Margaret Sager about other racist and disabled at who were in her mindset human and we did not need to be concerned about. That is what planned parenthood is doing, treating these children in the womb as if they are not real human beings, except the problem with these videos is that they are harvesting human body parts. It is hard to make the argument these are not human beings when they are harvesting human organs, the most recent video may be the most abhorrent, the most a video with someone who described a procedure where the child was born alive, they made a point of showing the little boys heart beating so the baby survived an abortion and was still alive but it didnt deter her from taking out the little boys brain while it was alive. Of course, that does not glorify anybody who are supporters of planned parenthood, it does not bother people. Why, because this is the ugly business of what abortion is. These are children who are not wanted and are subhuman and we can keep little children alive and remove their brains. And we can talk about it, isnt this cool . I can tap their chests and you can see their heart beating and it doesnt seem to affect the moral compass of the leaders in washington, d. C. That this is beyond the pale, that this does not speak well for who we are as a human race in america. But no, it does not seem to bother anybody because we have succeeded in dehumanizing, that is what this is all about. Yet, we are dehumanizing children who are being harvested for human body parts. I guess i would say that hopefully the people who are looking at these videos will come to agree that this organization that fosters this type of behavior should not only not be receiving federal funds but the people doing this who are breaking the law, i was the author of the born alive protection act, which i wrote for this particular situation. And was passed with near unanimous support in the house and senate. It is said that if a child is born alive as a result of abortion you could not kill it, much less harvest is brain. While it is living. And planned parenthood, they are doing that. That should be prosecuted, should not just be defunded, it should be prosecuted and this organization that creates an environment for these things to happen should be put out of business. Not be held up as some paragon of virtue of the left. Senator, you have compared the Supreme Court Decision Making gay marriage a constitutional right to the dred scott decision justifying slavery. What as president could you do to fight back against something that you oppose on moral grounds but that is now a constitutional right . Mr. Santorum i would say that i did not compare the recent decision of the court with greg scott, Justice Roberts compare the two, i was simply quoting Justice Roberts opinion where he compared the basis for dred scott is the same that for this decision and they had no constitutional basis for this decision. Having read Justice Kennedys decision, it is not a legal work. Not a work of legal scholarship. It is simply a rambling of someone who wanted to get a decision and came up with all sorts of interesting ideas, not based on the constitution. The court has the authority lets take the case of birthright citizenship. There is a legal dispute to what the language of the 14th amendment means. To me, it is something that people on both sides of this issue have ever legitimate arguments, i could not say that if someone said to me, the constitution does not permit birthrights, i cannot say for certain they are wrong and i do not think for certain they can say we are wrong. That is a situation where the court must of in. And has a role of stepping in. In making these decisions. What they do not have a right to do is to create new constitutional rights, that is not within their purview, there is nothing historically that congress and the president have said that they give the court broad latitudes to do whatever they want when it comes to the constitution. When the court oversteps its bounds as it has in cases, then it is the responsibility of the president , the people, the congress, to say that the court has to be held accountable and the law has to be changed. That takes all of those things, it takes the president , the people, the congress. If there is not support to do that, the court wins. Even though they may have done something unconstitutional, the court wins. The other branches of government are incapable of successfully challenging it. Here is my point when it comes to who should be if there is one branch of government that should have more leeway in changing the constitution, i would make the argument it is the president and congress. The reason is the president and the congress can be thrown out if the public finds their decisions to be objectionable. The problem with the courts we could be stuck with a court for 30 years and they are an insulated and isolated from the American Public and as a result their actions can be much more insidious than the actions of a president or congress. The president or congress how many they stand up to a court and says they are wrong, and pushes back, as i did in the case of the partial board abortion status where the court found a similar statute unconstitutional, i was undeterred and we passed an almost identical statute and sent it back and passed it and said we would enforce it, and the court backed down because they knew they were off base. That has to happen more when the court goes astray. Before i asked the last question, i have some housekeeping. The National Press clubs is the was leading professional organization for journalists, we fight for a free press worldwide. More information about the club go to our website, press. Org. And we also have an institute, to learn more about and to donate go to press. Org institute. I would like to mike about upcoming programs coming september 2, nikki haley will address a luncheon on the new south. On september 5, the press club will hold its annual 5k to raise money for journalism scholarships, training, and press freedom. On september 14, nasa astronauts mark kelly and terry burton will discuss their work aboard the International Space station. I would like to present senator santorum with a traditional National Press club mug. That would be suitable on a shelf a couple blocks away at the white house. In pennsylvania, wherever. It is very portable, could even go to iowa where you are headed next. Final question, you mentioned your family and how much you like to talk about your family, in fact you brought family with you. Mr. Santorum i would use my son and daughter, daniel, number three. Daniel is a junior at the Military College of south carolina, the citadel, he is taking off a semester to work on the campaign, when he graduates he will be heading to the air force. My number four child, my daughter maria is a senior in high school and looking to what great players she has in the future, an exciting year for all of us. You wrote a book about your youngest daughter. Our final question is how is bella doing . Mr. Santorum one of the great things i took from the last campaign, is the heart of the American People is beating strong and is wonderful and compassionate. I cannot tell you the number of people in all walks of life of all different perspectives who in the last campaign asked that very question and did so in a heartfelt way. It renews your faith that as divided as we seem to be, as rigorous as this town is, there are still some commonality that if we can use it as a touchstone that we might be able to Work Together in a more civil way and that is my intent. If you look at the history of me and the congress, that is what i could accomplish. My wife and i wrote a book earlier this year called bellas gift. Raising a little girl who had a 1 chance which he was born, she had a 1 survival chance to reach one year. She is now seven, she just lost her two front teeth, so we know what we are getting her for christmas. We are excited that she is doing well, karen and i wrote this book to chronicle our journey. I always say we split the book in half, she wrote 11 chapters, i wrote seven. It is a discussion about how difficult, challenging, stressful, raising a child is, particularly one who has Severe Health problems, and in bellas case she almost died twice. How it is a great challenge to the family, but an incredible blessing. We have found in a world of the disabled, so many people who have come up to us and shared their stories with us. While it is a challenge, and i know in many cases in this world you see, for example, down syndrome children, reports are 80 to 90 of down syndrome children are aborted. People see disabilities as something not to be embraced and wanted. That society says it is too hard, you have to look out for yourself, too difficult a task to manage. What we found is that, yes, it is difficult and stressful, but it is a blessing that we thank god for every single day. Thank you for asking about it, thank you for your prayers. We will continue to shine bellas light very brightly. Senator, thank you for coming. [applause] i like to thank the National Press club staff, including his Journalism Institute and Broadcast Center for helping us organize todays event. If you would like a copy of this program or to learn more about the club, go to that website, press. Org. Thank you very much for coming today. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] mr. Santorum i was always a big supporter that we focus our resources on where they have greatest public challenges. [indisctint chatter[ chatter]tinct [indistinct chatter] [indistinct chatter] mr. Santorum we would treat mexicans and other than mexicans the same at the border, which of course they dont now, but we would. We would and the catch and release program of mexicans coming here and apprehend people at the border and return them to mexico, even though they arent mexicans. Our policy should be to return them to where they came from. Again, this is a very difficult situation. This is a scenario where we could work with the Mexican Government they have responsibility if they try to enter this country and that would be another part of the things the Mexican Government should do, which is to stop these children coming through, coming into the country in the first place in taking care of that problem before it reaches our border. When it does reach our border it becomes a shared responsibility. These is facilitating types of Border Crossings and they have to take responsibility for that problem. I have a lot of things i have to do today, thank you. Thanks. Thank you. [indiscernible] sure. Ntorum [indiscernible] it is more than a twominute answer. Thank you. Roadspans coverage of the to the white house 2016 will continue tomorrow as we head back to the iowa state fair to hear from ted cruz. It will be his turn at the Des Moines Register soapbox. We expect he will meet with voters and fairgoers afterwards and we will open our phone lines to get your reaction. You can see it live tomorrow starting at 11 00 a. M. Eastern. This weekend on the cspan networks, politics, books, and American History. Livespan saturday, coverage of president ial candidates at the iowa state fair continues. We will hear from he republican governors Chris Christie and bobby jindal. Then Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker holds a town meeting in ashland, New Hampshire. Saturday, the mississippi book festival at 11 30 a. M. Featuring former Governor Haley barbour and Panel Discussions on civil rights. Sunday morning at 10 00, author and columnist katie kiefer shares critical thoughts on the obama administrations relationship with millennial on American History tvs on cspan3 saturday afternoon, columbia universitys and her dull cart on the history of the commission created to protect landmarks. Sunday at 4 00 p. M. , three films district project, a program administered by the Johnson Administration to improve poor relations with the community and the police after the 1968 Martin Luther king assassination and subsequent riots. Get our complete schedule at cspan. Org. For the last week or so we have been at the iowa state fair to hear from president ial candidates. , democratic resident candidate martin omalley. They met with voters on the fairway. This is about 40 minutes. We have seen one example, here in iowa, 10, 15 years ago there were a dozen packing houses, and farmers have become more productive than ever but there are only four and they are getting a worse price. I think their competition is not only right and just, it is also good for economic growth, allowing people to earn a living and a living wage. To be a lot more aggressive when it comes to pushing back against mergers and the concentration of monopoly power. Woodrow wilson said freedom means freedom for monopoly, and those monopoly powers are putting the screws to farmers and the agricultural community. I think Merle America and agriculture in particular can play a really Critical Role in the energy future, the next generation of biofuel, and the good things you all are doing. Governor, between Hillary Clinton on your right and Bernie Sanders on your list you seem to be giving squeezed out. Mr. Omalley well, i feel a wider lane opening. I intend to go county to county through iowa. The great thing about iowa is that people arent intimidated by bigmoney. They want to meet each of us and come out. Engage in a serious conversation. This year what they are looking for is new leadership and inability to get rings done and not just a promise. I think you will see a continued to gain support in iowa and New Hampshire. 60 days ago we were at 1 . After 30 days we went to 3 . The latest poll has us at 7 . We will keep going. What completely distinguish as you from the other candidate . Mr. Omalley i think most of them have been received as the most detailed plans of any of the contenders in our party. Far, criminal Justice Reform there is no candidate in our that or the other party has stood at the center of that wound between Law Enforcement and Violent Crime and racial disparities. I havel Justice Reform, actually done it, reduced our recidivism rate by 15 , our incarceration rate to 20 year lows. Restoring the Voting Rights of 52,000 people. The other thing ive done is wall street reform. I have independence from wall street, from the ceos of big banks. Independence that it takes to act as a precedent for all of us not for goldman sachs, not for jpmorgan, Larry Summers or barry rubin. I have the independence to do what is necessary to protect the mainstream from wall street. I am the only candidate that okd a clean electric led by 2050. I laid out the most comprehensive plan for Immigration Reform the National Security imperative and an economic imperative. We also laid out one of the most detailed plans for free college. In the other candidates race, i went for years in a row as governor without having to increase college tuition. That is probably the greatest distinction feature. Most of my time as an spent as an executive. I have actually gotten things done and have been able to reach over the aisle in order to put together the votes for democrats and republicans to get rings like repealing debt penalties. Ut what would you be doing right now in response to the chinese devaluing their currency . One of the tough things about the currency there are some who say that the chinese are aving to make their currency more free trading currency and this devaluation is a part of it. Some say it is a manipulation of their monetary policies in order to fuel their if the latter is the case, and it would appear to me to be the case, we need to put people on the appropriate. Gencies we should not be entering into the transpacific partnership. I think it is a bad deal and im opposed to any trade deals that are congress has to vote on. One of the things that everyone acknowledges is that there is nothing in the tpp to discourage or to take action against those that manipulate the currency. Governor, would you welcome biden into the race . Mr. Omalley i would welcome him. Decent man whod served our country for decades and we could learn a lot of perspective. I think our party would do better in the general election if we have more debate. The more experienced voices we have in that debate, the better we will be. I would welcome his entrance into this race. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him and everything hes gone through. He is a very good and decent man. Senate. With him in the do you think it is a problem for the Democratic Party that senator sanders is a selfdeclared socialist . You think that is an issue . Does that make his candidacy viable . Mr. Omalley i dont think its a problem for the Democratic Party but it might be a problem longterm for senator sanders. What do you mean by that . Mr. Omalley i believe that the Democratic Party has a tradition of offering Pragmatic Solutions to the challenges we face. Im a lifelong democrat. I believe very deeply in the principles of our party. I believe very deeply and what Franklin Roosevelt was about, what john kennedy was about. I am a democrat every year my life. If you were to become the nominee, do you think you could win . Mr. Omalley im not answering hypothetical questions. [laughter] why is it a problem for senator sanders . Mr. Omalley i dont know. [laughter] mr. Omalley im just a president ial candidate on the soap box. Iowa and maryland have one huge concern a lot of agricultural runoff is dirtying waters and rivers and lakes. In iowa there are so many rivers and lakes that we can use, cant swim in because of pollution. Beenryland, there has also a huge agricultural runoff, phosphorus damaging things. Why did it take you till the very dead end of your forth, totion to put to put in phosphorus management rules . Which has already been rescinded by your successor. Mr. Omalley well, you are misinformed. I was working on the phosphorus thing from day one. We delivered on a promise he made to the people of maryland, which was we wanted a new way of reducing nitrogen farms versus sediment in the rivers and streams. That program was called we persuaded five other states to join us. Taking action on land. Best Management Practices on farms, including many we face. Like cover crops. It made our rivers clean appeared storm Water Management to reduce the damaging flow from storm water and a halt thats being done on subjects systems on septic systems. Er management is when we worked on and it are very best to get over the goal line in my short time as governor. There are a lot of things we were not able to accomplish. It was not for lack of trying. I will leave you with this stillesapeake, the epa monitors this cleanup after in something called chesapeake dat. During my eight years, we reduced the flow of sediment by 17 . Nitrogen by 15 . Into thehorus by 12 chesapeake bay, which i do believe with the biggest reductions of any governor so far. But i hope there will be bigger once in the future given what we put in place. Thank you for asking me the question. Thank you, guys. For let me stand with the future president. Letting me stand with a future president. [indiscernible conversations] 23 years ofy in 12 work, i think you will see a theme. Whether that was the things we did on criminal Justice Reform increasing to the highest goal of any state in america, minority and Women Business participation. The investments we made not only in Affordable College but in a historically black colleges and universities. Thathe understanding [indiscernible] of addiction and abandonment of really vulnerable kids in the city of baltimore. We cut in half and reduced by half the number of case that used to get taken out of their homes and put in foster care. So, thats thank you. Mr. Omalley im also the only president ial candidate [indiscernible] mr. Omalley have you met my beautiful daughter . She is a teacher. Conversations] congratulations for raising a great daughter. Mr. Omalley thank you. She is my pride and joy. Thanks for coming out. Only two of you . Look here. 1, 2, 3. Thank you, governor. Mr. Omalley see you tomorrow night at the wingding. Is that tomorrow night . How youve been . Mr. Omalley tellier name again. Tell me your name again. This is my second time. Thank you again for supporting mr. Omalley where did we meet each other first . I only had to say yes. Exactly, but im very excited to meet you. Mr. Omalley you talked to my son on the phone. Yes. Picture . Nt to get a pictures are free. Thank you. Mr. Omalley thank you. Nice to meet you. Another person named martin. Are you taking a picture . Good to meet you. [indiscernible conversation] mr. Omalley good seeing you. How are you . Good. How are you doing . Mr. Omalley where are we going . To the left. Mr. Omalley to the left. Ok, i move easier that way. How you doing . Good. How are you . [indiscernible conversation] you might be the next president of the United States. Mr. Omalley whats your name . She ha he has a twin brother behind him. Mr. Omalley thats great. My youngest brothers are twins. It is a lot of fun. Thank you. Where we going . [indiscernible conversations] mr. Omalley what our nation needs to do. To make college debtfree. To improve our schools, to give our kids not only to be College Ready but actually get ready, a skill for a career in this world of ours. In each one of the points the plan relates to our nation and touches very directly rural america. Do think being the youngest democrat and the field could be used to your invented . Mr. Omalley to to you advantage . Mr. Omalley i think i bring a prospective from a new generation into this race. Problems change and people are ready to believe in new approaches. And new leaders help us solve these challenges. What he looking forward to at the rest of the fair . Mr. Omalley i dont know. You have not done the iowa craft beer tent . Mr. Omalley i have not done. Raare you buying . Maybe next time. Mr. Omalley i might try that. Thank you, governor. Appreciate your taking time to talk. Mr. Omalley whats your name . Shannon. Mr. Omalley i like your cap. Baltimore cap. Where are we going . We are trampling people. High. Hi. Are these your Beautiful People . What are your names. Ive got a jack. How old are you . 8 . I had good lemonade. I have to try the craft beer. Maybe that is not very president ial. The cheese cart. Good seeing you guys. Beautiful kids. From des moines. Mr. Omalley what do you do . What is your story . I work at a restaurant a mile north called kips. Mr. Omalley kips . Do i pass it on my way to the airport . I want to wish you luck. I have been washing you. Mr. Omalley thank you. It is going well. People are so hungry for alternative and leadership. Thank you. Ive a question i forgot. Im an Exchange Student going to france this year. Mr. Omalley bonjour would you encourage students to do an exchange . Mr. Omalley sure. We did not do much of that when i was in college. Yeah . Why do you think it is a good thing for to do for people . Coming here or going over there. Mr. Omalley because we live on a very connected planet. I think its important that we understand each other. And American Kids have a perspective on the world that is broader than just their own continent. Thank you. Tv. Hey got a live hit for mr. Omalley they are going to do a live hit for tv . Ok. We are going to go do a live hit for tv. Wheres my daughter . Right behind you. And your son. Ill trade you. Yours for mine. Mr. Omalley mine were 15. Why does your lapel sticker not stick . That is the question of our times. Giant turbine. Watching over the fair. Goingmalley so, we are where . The tv hit . They have a stage. Mr. Omalley is that you the original famous bud tent . Yeah. Mr. Omalley just asking. Where are we goin . How you doing, man . . Where are you from . Missouri. Mr. Omalley your tshirt. Thanks for saying hi. Where are we going . Been . U good. Been well. We are going to catch up in the second. Mr. Omalley hi. We wave back at you. Been a good meeting. Where are you guys from . Cedar rapids. Mr. Omalley we just opened an office there. Come and see us. Now . We going [humming] [indiscernible chatter] senator, we would love to have you meet these members. Have 900 county officials from across cedar rapids in november. We would love to have you, and talk to them about your beliefs. I am working with author scott arthur scott on this, by the way. Make i t strong and well. Thank you. [indiscernible] senator, how will you get more support from democratic voters . Do you think that Hillary Clintons email [indiscernible] [no audio] thank you. She wants to do in our interview on local tv. She wants you to follow her. 1,2, 3. Mr. Omalley im a senator webb im a selfie guy. There we go. Thank you. Have a great day. I want to tell you thanks. You are my number two pick. Number one, wait and see what joe does. Senator webb joe biden. Would you singn this book . I have been reading it a bit so its kind of regal. John. Thats with him right here, david. Senator webb david . Hes at gitmo right now. Thanks so much. Senator webb god bless your son. [children shattering, indiscernible] [children chattering] chinas currency devaluation. How should we respond to that . What would you recommend if you were president . Senator webb [indiscernible] thee are people who, in longterm, there are people have are people there are saying if we follow the marketplace [indiscernible] watch the trend line. And listen to your key advisors. Iowa is considering changing the name what to think of that . Senator webb people here want else, i of something do not have any [indiscernible] last year i walked across america because i am focusing on climate change. I admire what we did in world war ii when the military in the south pacific, and we responded. We have got to go out and mobilize. I think we need a mobilization on that scale to get this under control. Your thoughts on that . The problem is the international environment. With respect to countries like china, for instance, we are allowing them to still considered an emerging economy. They have to meet the same requirements that we do. They are doing a lot on solar and wind. We are, too. We keep building more pipelines. Problemgoing to dig our even deeper. Agree . Disagree . Senator webb i think on balance, i disagree. Thank you. Senator webb how are you . Hillary clinton in New Hampshire in one poll. Not his rise, and you are picking up in the polls. Do you think there is room for you to come in . And where do you see that happening . Senator webb we are gearing up now. Im looking forward to this next couple of months here. Sixrved with bernie for years. I understand why he is invigorating. What is your place in the where mosthis cycle of the support is coming from the far left of the party . [indiscernible] i have no comment on that. What do you want to try to accomplish tomorrow night . An introduction for you. Senator webb actually, i am going to be in New Hampshire. I read your book. [indiscernible conversation] so, 8 years in the white house . Tomorrow evening, democratic residential candidate bernie hallrs holds a town meeting in south carolina. Following that, the senator will answer questions from cspan a few years viewers in a live callin program. Coverage begins at seve7 00 p. M. The cspankend on networks, politics, books, and American History. On cspan today, live coverage of president and candidates at the iowa state fair continues. We will hear from Chris Christie at noon and bobby jindal at 1 00 p. M. 6 30,nday evening at republican Governor Scott walker holds a town hall meeting in ashland, New Hampshire. V is live at book t the mississippi book festival beginning at 11 30 a. M. Coverage features a former Governor Haley barbour as well as discussions on civil rights, history and biography, and the literary lives of harper leave. Harper lee. 10 00, katieg at kiefer shares her thoughts on the obama administrations relationship with millennials. American history tv on cspan 3 the preservation of new yorks cultural and political and architectural landmarks and the history of the commission created to protect them. And sunday at 4 00 p. M. On reel theica three films on pilotage and project, a program administered by the Johnson Administration to improve poor relations between the police and the community in washington, d. C. , after the 1968 or luther king assassination and subsequent riots. Get our complete schedule at cspan. Org. Visitscspan cities tour literary in a sort sites Historic Sites every other weekend on cspan 2s book tv and cspan 3 American History tv. This month with congress on summer recess, city tour is on cspan each day at 6 00 p. M. Today we look at the literary life of madison, wisconsin. Our first stop is an exhibit at the university of wisconsin at madison called world war i 1914, then came armageddon. We are on the ninth floor of