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[applause] >> i ate it up and spent it out. thank you, dear friends. upis great to be backed there. i have, as they say up here, the high honor of introducing the next presidential candidate who is unique in many ways. just to give you a hint. he is the only candidate who they use the article "the" before. like the vatican or the egg. trump isdate donald the surprise phenomenon of this campaign, consistently leading national and state polls of republican candidates as he himself has occasionally pointed out. [laughter] but, those polls are important and relevant in have a message that is important and relevant for all abuzz about public open you in. many people obviously see donald tomp as the best vehicle express the most common in andions of this intense unusual campaign, which are disappointment, disdain, and anger toward the status quo in washington. ande same in emotions opinions are exactly what led to the creation of no labels. but as you know, no labels is not a campaign for a candidate will stop we are a national campaign for an idea which is to make america's government work or the people of america again. [applause] pause life gives us usdonald trump's life gives to ideas. he has had a very successful career in real estate. he is successful not because he down, but because he built buildings up. we need leaders who will build up america's government again. leaders who cannot agree on some big goals and negotiate the details to get them accomplished. has had somee experience negotiating deals. in fact, he wrote a book called, ,"he art of the deal nobody in washington has been able to negotiate a deal on anything as basic as the budget. -- two talk about donald donald about how to negotiate the details, and how to, as he might put it, make america great again. about, iever he talks want to say how grateful the at no labels are he adjusted his schedule to be with us today and how glad i am now to introduce to you, and incidentally, he is not here to fire any of you. [laughter] have been, i authorized to say, to fire you up. ladies and gentlemen, the donald trump. [applause] every time that i look in the mirror all these lines on my face getting clearer the past is gone desk to don -- dusk to dawn everybody has got their dues in life to pay ♪ donald trump: take you very much everybody. well. no labels. that's right, i am a believer. calledw, john and joe and said, will you do it? this was two months ago. i said, i think i will be able to. they explained what no labels meant. that is where we need to go on this country because we are getting nothing done whatsoever. i said, i am pretty sure i will be able to do it. the next day they announced i would be there without question. right? they are tough negotiators. i had another problem. i had another's meet someplace, it was quite a bit of a problem. i would not do it. they are problem solvers. they went nuts. they were not happy people. is that right, joe and john? ultimately, i said, i may have gone a little bit of that 50% level. so here i am. right? here i am. i love new hampshire. as joe said, the latest poll came out. to 14, and i have the 32, which is even better. some it is said, why did todd about the polls? i said, because i am winning. i said, but nobody else talks about it. that is because they do not do well. they would bell, talking about the polls. 13.ad 32 to big gap. a lot of people have friends in new hampshire. they are an people. i appreciate it. when we talk about no labels and getting along, and i am not going to say it much, because tip o'neill ronald reagan, you probably hear it all the time. different views. different everything. a liked each other. and they got along. they got things done. they had a leader and ronald reagan. because ultimately, it is about the president. more so than you could imagine. if the president is a real lead her, or she is a real leader, you will get things done. to you need the leadership come from the very pinnacle. from the very top. if it does not, it is not going to happen. it is not happening now. people are not getting together. i see it. i have been doing it for a long time. people say, og. i was very establishment. i gave so much money. i was all establish my when i gave contributions. i was started to run, anti-establishment. we cannot take a chance on a loss. . watched previously i was seriously thinking about it. i decided not to. i thought it was a race that could have been won. should have been won. i don't want it to happen again. youuse i think, really if look at what happened, four years ago, the timing was right. everything was right all stop it should have been done. it is going to be done this time. hopefully it is going to be done by me. i think we will have a result that will be great. we will make america great again. to happen.t is going i looked at a couple of things that i thought would be appropriate. of my career.ck when i was shown, a young man in new york, we had a problem called a skating rink. it took eight years. everyone knows. they now study it in all the business schools. we all studied it. i did not study it, i didn't. it is in all the business goals about what private enterprise can do. we had a ring. not a little deal. and 80,000 foot rink. a very big worry. -- rink. they could not get it built. it was in renovation, it wasn't even holding. after eight years, and i had a daughter growing up said, i want to go ice skating. and i would say, a banca -- ivanka,ver hear of -- anyone ever hear of a banca? there is no ice. i would see the workers, they were sitting down. breaks, 4-5 hours. hundreds of guys sitting down in the rink. after the seventh year, i went to koch. and i said, ed, i can do this fast. this is not working. they are using the wrong everything. i met with the unions. didt with people who refrigeration. the engineer was based in miami, florida. it's true. a were using freon. have athat means if you little tiny hole, in 30 miles of private, a little tiny hole, it is not going to work. -- do we want a guy i called up the montreal canadiens ice hockey team. i asked you did their ranks. had someoneey excellent based in montreal. i said, now we are talking. he came in, looked at what was happening, he immediately said, you cannot use freon. it will freeze. you use brine. in it.s water with salt how simple could that get? a top of everything else, was much less expensive. i got to town. at koch said, could you do it? it was a huge embarrassment for new york people. they know what i'm talking about. we had cement mixers, it was a massive war. they were pouring little sections, 10 feet high 10 feet. take the biggest office floor you know and double or triple it. they would take a little section, another little section. the vandals would come in at night and still the copper. before jan, you have to use copper. is not good. you want one contiguous pour. i had tracks from the rink all the way back to harlem. 125th street. 24 hours, pouring during the day, pouring during the night. 26 hours and 25 minutes. we board one contiguous pour. it healed beautifully. in the city did it, they had on one side 1.5 feet of water, on the other side, no water. they could not make ice for a lot of reasons. when i talked about the price, the biggest problem i had was demolition. that was the biggest cost. i had to demolish everything that was done. i got it done. gott everyone together, we it done. to this day, it is the most successful i skating rink. i still run it. the city does not want to take any chances. i've run it for many years. it is the number one ice rink in the world will stop i was talking to john -- the number one ice rink in the world. i was talking to john. the beauty of it is, i did it in four months. i did it for $1.8 million. the city had spent over $3 million. i always say, most of it was demolition. that is what happens. with the country. believe me, you can do things people have no idea. apart.ds are falling our bridges. our tunnels. our airports. i just left laguardia airport. it is third world. it is horrible. to look at it, you go out the runways, it is wearable. i go to places because i travel all over the world. i have so many relationships, partnerships, complicated stuff. in thethe richest people world. i am partners with many of them. you go to qatar, you go to all the different places, all over china. go to bahrain. saudi arabia. you see airports, you have never seen anything like it. build temporary airports while they are building the big one that are 100 times nicer than anything we have in this country. we have lost it. happened,al that just and again getting everybody together, the bronx, right outside of manhattan, and most a you read about it, they had 350 acre of land on the water. on the east river. the east river is great. people have apartments there, right? into 500 50 acres. five minutes outside of manhattan, right up the manhattan ramp. they had been building the golf course for 30 years. i think. somebody said, it is really not 30, it is 21 years. ok, 21. whether it is 30, 21, or 30. it has been under construction for many years. we believe the cost is over $300 million. the mayor said to me, what do you think it should cost? i said, about 7 million. i believe the cost is over 300 million. mayor bloomberg said, you have to help us. they went to an rfp. i have a long-term deal. i took it over, got it done in less than one year. fourth nuts. it is beautiful. rave reviews. i had to get the city together, the unions together, everybody together. we got it done. now it is open, setting every record because of its location. it is phenomenal. next to manhattan, on the river. unbelievable. you can do these things. it is about leadership. yep to get people together. if i had somebody working for me that was good, i couldn't have. it had to be me. i needed the council, the mayor. and it has to come from the president. i will give you something that, to me, is so big. corporate inversion. i look at the different things you have common things you want to do. create 25 million jobs. this is the organization you want to do. alan's the federal budget by 230. 230? that is an easy one. they gave me this note, i said, i think there is a typo. 2030? secure social security? we have to do it. needed. we have a contract. i have a contract. i do not need of mine, by the way. if you don't need it, give it up. it has to be that person's decision. i have friends who make hundreds of of billions of dollars. they don't even know the check comes in. a lot of people would give it up for the good of the country. i want to do that. i don't know if anybody has even talked about. i have friends who say, i know one of. let's give it up. a lot of people would do it. you give it up in the spirit of the country because we have to give it up or deep people who really need it. it is so important. [applause] and make america energy secure by 2024. it is almost energy-secure now. because of technology, what we have in the ground is enormous. that we are not allowed to export it. and we have more than anybody. i have friends who are oral people, great people. we have the best stuff. i am not talking about the tar sands. it is expensive to get the oil. it costs a lot of money. you do heated, colin, do all sorts of things. g -- you have to heated, cool it, do all sorts of things. coale not allowed to use anymore, but we export coal to china and we save china has to go under the agreement. for 25, 30 years. how stupid are we? how stupid do they think we are? [applause] it is like our military. i love our vets. i will take good care of my bets,, believe -- of our believe me. are being treated worse than a illegal immigrants coming into this country. they are being treated worse and they are our wounded warriors, they are not being treated fairly. of that.ke care i watched president obama last night on television. he bombed. very simply. it was not easy for him. much croft, they were nicer to me. i was on with putin do you believe that? and charm, nice table mates. putin and trump. every single thing is negative. isis. syria. a rack. afghanistan. .- iraq afghanistan. the labor force. they are not going to get jobs. the statistic is phony. it does not mean anything. other than the politicians in this room, they do not count because they are fabulous. i hate to do that to people when they are sitting there with their wives. but this statistic was made up by politicians, because it looks good will stop a man looks for a job, he can't find one. or a woman. they go home and say, i have looked for months, i cannot find one. we have 100 million people. 100 million people out of the workforce. we highest number it has ever been. somebody said, a very talented person, said our unemployment rate, and i am not going to take this number, but they said our unemployment rate was 42%. if you really added up, it is. that i only always say it has er been. somebody said, a very talented person, said our unemployment rate, and i am not going to tak2 percent. because i want to be nice to the president. that it is a disaster. we have to bring the jobs back home. [applause] happens, and what has to happen is we will get into a situation where hopefully when the next president is interviewed by 60 minutes or wow you they can say, have really made some unbelievable strides with trade deals. i have the smartest, toughest negotiators in the world lined up. they don't want anything for it. just like i don't one a salary. someone said to me the other day, would you want your salary if you became president? i said, no. i know one of. these guys don't want anything. i want to help. they want to do something. i know guys who are so tough and smart. the other day someone said, you want tough. i said, i don't want tough. i want to and smart. i know too many people who are tough and not smart. we need the combination. smart, tough people. we have got to bring our country back. we cannot go on like this. lose.not continued to the u.s. trade deficit with china, almost $400 billion a year. last year the same. i went back five years, it gets worse. if you want to do business with china, you cannot. i have friends who are manufacturers, they cannot get their product in. if they do, they have to pay a huge terror. a man i am very close to -- by the way, i love the chinese. too their leaders are smart. i love mexico, but their leaders are too smart for our leaders. nabisco is moving into mexico. can you believe it? leaving chicago. which means, i am never going to read another oreo again. never. a 2.5 millionng dollar plant in mexico. how does that help us? they're closing in mexican. -- in michigan. i went to the wharton school of finance. why is this good for us? why? in tennessee, they are all set to announce a big plant and the company announced very quickly, very ruthlessly, they have decided to go to mexico in stead. not going to happen. keep our jobs in the united states. you want to do business with some of these countries, they charge you tax will stop we do not charge them tax. because we are stupid. it is not fair. we need problem solvers. we need leaders. you cannot have leadership unless you know how to -- we're going to make our country rich again. a woman came up to me, she said, i like you so much, but are you a nice enough person to be president? i said, i think i am nice. i love people. i said, i am nice, believe me. i am going to take care of women, i am going to take care of men, i am going to take care of african-americans. a record. african-american youth, look at the inner cities. cannot-american youth get jobs at all. 67% unemployment. care ofng to take people, but i said to her, i really do not think this is going to be about if i am a nice person. i think people are fed up with incompetent politicians that do not get things done. i think they are fed up. [applause] and i think this is going to be an election that is largely based on competence. we want our country back. we want to take it back. so, it is really an honor to be with you. .t is in incredible group behind me is the future. [applause] couple of people in the audience that i know, forget them. like, this is the future. i thought i would take a couple of questions. so, it would be my honor. go ahead, sir. yes? go ahead. sure. wait. >> mr. trump, you look healthy to me. i would like to thank you for continuing this conversation. as you probably know, president fund, theed a president's emergency fund for aids relief. it has been incredibly effective globally. a group of college students across the country, we wanted to ask you if you would commit to doubling the number of people on treatment 230 million people by the year 2020. donald trump: those are good things. alzheimer's, aids. we are close on some of them. on some of them, honestly, with all of the work done which is not been enough, we're not close enough. the answer is yes. i believe strongly in that and we are going to leave the way. yes, sir? >> i am impressed you are here in person. i have to admit. i'm going to throw a question at you, and i think it's going to be a hard one for you to answer. so here's the challenge. compromise has become a dirty word. if the other side said, we will do this, this, and that, and all they ask for you is for a tax increase, a specific tax increase, or getting rid of a tax deduction, what could you offer at the table, again, as a gesture of compromise? mr. trump: let me say, the word compromise is not a bad word to me as a negotiator, having made deals all my life. i am coming out with a book in three weeks. does anyone know the title of the book? "crippled america." it's a very sad title. simon & schuster said, we would love to do a book. i started writing, and i worked with a group, they are great people. i realized how much negativity is going on. i said that. then they sent a great photographer and took these beautiful pictures of me smiling . smiling. i look nice. my wife said, you look really good. but i didn't use that picture. i used the worst picture. it is mean, angry, because i'm angry about what's happening in the country, and i put it right on the cover at the book. it's a horrible picture. but i like the word "compromise." we need compromise. there's nothing wrong with compromise, but it's always good to compromise and win, meaning, less compromise and win. as far as taxes, i put out a plan where i am reducing plan -- taxes substantially. we are bringing corporate down to 15%, bringing tremendous tax reductions to virtually everybody. we are getting rid of a lot of the deductions, like carried interest, which is meant for the hedge fund guys. we are getting rid of them. the hedge fund guys don't want to talk to me anymore. they wanted to give me millions. i am self funding. they wanted to give me millions of dollars. i don't want it, because if i take it i have to be like jeb bush and rubio and all these guys and i have to do what they tell me to do, because believe me, they are puppet. i am self funding my campaign. we have asked for a major task -- tax reduction and a major signification. the word compromise is absolutely fine. but if you have to compromise, ask for about three times more than you want, you understand? so that when you compromise, you get what you want. go ahead, go ahead. she doesn't have a mic. who has a mic? ok. look who we have. good. >> i am miss america's outstanding teen, and i travel across the country and teach kids about saving money, which is hard. our government is not even fiscally responsible, so i'm asking every single candidate, and i have been waiting to ask you, specifically, what are you going to do about the $18 trillion deficit? nottrump: by the way, it is $18 trillion, it is now $19 trillion. we have $19 trillion in deficits. we owe, this is what you are talking about, we owe $19 trillion as a country, and we will bring it down quickly. we will bring jobs back, bring business back. we will stop our deficits. we will stop our deficits. we will do it very quickly. >> how? mr. trump: number one, we have tremendous cutting to do. you have a department of education that is out of control. massive costs. some of the republican candidate like common core. i am against common core. i want local education. when i mean new hampshire -- when i am in new hampshire and iowa and south carolina, it is so important. save our department out environmental protection. they are not doing their job. it's impossible for our country to compete. and many other things. hundreds of billions of dollars is going to be saved just in terms of running government. in addition, i will bring millions of jobs back into this country. ok, questions. >> in the spirit of problem-solving, i'm wondering if you are at all concerned about some of the divisive language used on the campaign trail undermining your ability to solve problems? [applause] mr. trump: here's the thing. i went to ivy league schools. i know what is divisive and not divisive, in all fairness. i don't want to necessarily be politically correct all the way down the line. because i see people who can't even function. i see politicians who are afraid to say anything because it's not politically correct, and they know the answers and refuse to give them because they are afraid it's not going to be politically correct, and i'm going to have to be who i am. at the same time, i am running against a lot of people. .t was 16 now 15 many are going to be dropping out soon, if they are smart. too many people. too many people. when it becomes a different kind of a situation, you will see i will be much less divisive, but always remember this -- i never start anything. they start. they get very nasty, whether it is lindsey graham, perry from texas. i get along great, and then because they are dying, doing so badly, they figure, i don't think anybody in this room wants to have somebody who's not going to fight. the problem is as we have people now who don't. they don't. is the country, the country being hurt tremendously by it. another question. go ahead and >> -- go ahead. >> mr. trump, my name is kyle smith. i may student leader -- i am a student leader. mr. trump: where are you? >> over here, sir. thank you. i wonder what your plan is a working across -- in working across the aisle to increase civic engagement, and also student loans. mr. trump: so important. the one thing i get more than any other question is student loans. they go out and get an education from great colleges. many great colleges. they become the best student in the class, everything is great, then they can't get a job. the best way to solve it is to create jobs, but they can't get jobs. the students are going out and borrowing money all over the place, borrowing student loan money, one of the only agencies in government that makes a lot of money, the one place where maybe we shouldn't be making so much money. it's a question i get more than any other question. we are going to be cutting that down, giving people incentive to go and get an education. at a much lower price. don't forget, these schools because they get so much money from the government through students, they are raising fees to a point that is ridiculous. they don't need to get that kind of money. they don't need to get that kind of money. because of the fact that the government is giving out so much money, you take a look at what is happening to the cost of education, and it has not gone up that much. we will get those numbers down, and also we will have jobs so that when you graduate you will end up with a nice job where you are very happy. thank you. great question. [applause] go ahead. >> i'm curious what your perspective is on the freedom caucus, aka the tea party, which has been at the heart -- mr. trump: i love the tea party. >> ok. mr. trump: i will tell you about the tea party. these are people, in all thatess, these are people love this country. they do love this country, and they want this country to be great. go ahead. >> the issue is, for example, i see, not to offend anyone, but i see the planned parenthood as a deck chair on the titanic. that's where i am coming from. to shut down the entire government over it, it is the small-world mindset. mr. trump: they don't want planned parenthood funded. a lot of people understand that, including me. i understand that. so you do have that. so you do have that. a lot of people feel that way. >> so maybe i am wrong. maybe you can prove me wrong. but i don't think you are a friend to women. [cheers and applause] mr. trump: i know i should not have picked her. let me give you that answer right now. i respect women incredibly. i have had women working for me in positions that they never worked, in terms of so many different jobs. i had a woman who was in charge of the building of trump tower many years ago, before anybody would have even thought of it. and she did a fantastic job. i have given women more opportunity than i would say virtually anybody in the construction industry. i have a daughter named ivanka and a wife, who constantly want me to talk about women's health issues, because they know how i feel about it. they know how i feel about women. i respect women. i love women. i cherish women. hillary clinton said, he should not cherish. i cherish women. my mother was one of the great people of the world, my mother. i respect women, and i'm going to take care of women. jeb bush did not want to fund women's health issues. you saw that. then he took it back later. i will take care of women, and i have great respect for women, and i do cherish women, and i will take care of women. i will take care of us, also, from the enemy, the enemy on different shores looking to come in and do numbers. believe me, i will take care of the people of this country far better than any of the folks you are looking at right now. that i can tell you. go ahead. >> i thought it was finished. >> i want to get paid the same as a man. and i think you understand that. if you become president, will a woman make the same as a man, and do i get to choose what i do with my body? [applause] mr. trump: you are going to make the same if you do as good a job. you are going to make the same if you do as good a job, and i happen to be pro-life, ok? i am pro-life. any other questions? yes, go ahead, you have the mic back there. go ahead. go ahead. shout it out. shoot. he's choking. come on. much, sorry,so thank you so much for coming to speak to us. i have a quick question about something you said earlier this summer, that south korea takes advantage of the united states in terms of defense spending on the korean peninsula. are you from south korea? >> i am not. i was born in texas and raised in colorado. no matter where i am from, i would like to get my facts straight. i would like to tell you that's not true. south korea paid $861 million. mr. trump: which is peanuts. excuse me, it is peanuts compared to what it is costing. by the way, they are a very wealthy country. part of the problem when we talk about, like your question, about deficits and losing, we are defending germany, we are defending japan, we are defending south korea, we are defending so many countries. we get peanuts. we get nothing. we get a small payment. it is a tiny fraction, and i talk, i say all the time about south korea, i ordered 4000 television sets recently for a big project. they all come from south korea. from south korea, whether it is lg, samsung, these are wealthy countries. we have 28,000 soldiers on the border of south korea. so we defend germany, which is sending cars and everything, and economic behemoth. we are defending japan. so here's the deal we make. we defend japan and we have to defend them with our lives. if anybody attacks japan, we have an agreement, we have to go and attack and fight and die and to spend. but if anybody attacks us, japan doesn't have to do a thing. that's the way we run things. it's not going to happen with me, folks. it's not going to happen with me. if we are defending people who are far richer than us, they have to pay for it. we want to help them, but why are we defending germany? why are we defending south korea? why are we defending japan, and they don't do anything for us? we will have great relationships, but why do we pay the cost of defending the world? when you look at the military budget, it is far higher than anybody else's, but you know why it is higher? because we are defending all these countries. not helping us. so we are going to change things around and make america great again. believe me. thank you all very much. thank you. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ >> the no labels convention in manchester, new hampshire, focusing on bipartisanship in government. at the conference, our c-span crew talked with attendees about c-span's road to the white house coverage. for more information, go to .org.n on our next "washington journal" we are live from in montgomery county, maryland correctional facility for a look inside the system. here's a preview of the program. guest: it is a job seeking assistance program for inmates housed here. we are one of the first, but not the only one. what we found is the needs of offenders looking for work differs from the mainstream population. that's why we are here. the earlier we can start preparing for it, the more likely we are to get employment. so we begin eight months before their release. guest: what we do is we go and recruit them. this is a voluntary program. you can come, you can sign up to come to our program. so what we do is we go and we tell the inmates, our soon-to-be customers, what is available here, what they can do. eight months last on this sentence, they cannot leave -- on the sentence, they cannot leave pretrial, and they cannot have a detainer in another jurisdiction. it consists of a 16-we curriculum. six weeks of job readiness, six weeks of job search, and four weeks of personal development. our goal is to get them job-ready and life-ready. guest: they might not have previous legal work experience. go to anand i interview, we don't have to explain that i have this criminal record, so we spend time helping them to prepare to talk about that and feel comfortable talking about that. additionally, sometimes their educational level is not as high as a traditional job seeker, so a lot of it is confidence. ensureare them on how to to employers that i can do the job. guest: when customers cs, they work with us for a number of months. but it's good for them to have individuals coming from the community to work with them, so they can get a feel for different personalities, individuals who they can see are willing to help them. it's important for the community to come in and see what we are dealing with. because sometimes this can be a scary environment, so you automatically will be afraid to fenders, but if they can see this is a person who's here, they made a mistake, but they are working towards an opportunity to be a better tax paying citizen. that's the benefit of individuals coming from the outside. >> on our next "washington journal" we are at a correction facility in montgomery county, maryland talking about the criminal justice system with robert green, who heads the revocation department. then, a look at the challenges inmates have preparing for life after jail. kendra jochum joins us. later, discussing the role intal health and issues play -- substance abuse issues play in prisons. you can join the conversation >> -- >> c-span has your coverage of the road to the white house 2016, were you can find the debate, and most importantly your questions. we are taking the road to the white house coverage into classrooms around the country with our student cam contest, giving students the opportunity to hear -- to say what issues they want to hear the most from candidates. follow on tv, on the radio, and online at www.c-span.org. >> presidential candidate chris christie talks about marijuana laws, education, and social security. the new jersey republican spoke at the no labels conference in manchester, new hampshire. [applause] collects thank you -- >> thank you very much, fellow problem solvers. no labels is not about -- is in part about forcing consensus and building bridges. liket to ask, do we all bruce springsteen here today? [applause] there you go. most of us can agree on the boss. one of the reasons we tend to often elect governors president in our country is because governors have to do things. they have to solve problems. they have to deliver results. as a newly elected democratic governor in my home state, the first democrat in 20 years, one of the first things i did was take up the phone and call governor terry branstad, the governor of iowa, because i heard about interesting initiatives he had done in his state to improve the efficiency of government. we shared ideas and solutions. there was no pride of authorship. republicans, democrats, liberals, conservatives, working together to deliver the results the people of our state had a right to expect. that's what governors tend to do. i had a republican state legislature and senate for all eight years. i knew we had to work together if we would get anything done. we had our differences, sometimes strongly, but at the end of the day we produced for the state of indiana. balanced budgets, created jobs, expanded health care, more funding for schools, higher environmental standards, etc. the man i am about to introduce has had a similar experience in new jersey working with a legislature of the other political party throughout his time in office. they worked together to try to grow new jersey's economy, to deal with significant fiscal problems that confront that state, and when sandy blew through and endangered the people of that state and harmed the economy, this man embraced president obama when he came to visit, because he knew they had to work together for the betterment of the people of this state. ont didn't mean they agreed everything. that didn't mean they were political allies. but he knew what mattered was the welfare of the folks who put them both in power. that's what mattered most. so i ask you to join me in giving up rousing welcome to the governor of the state of new jersey, a man who is known, americans today are hungry for straight talk, blunt talk, governor christie is known for that. join me in giving a warm no labels welcome to the governor of the state of new jersey. [applause] ♪ mr. christie: good afternoon, good afternoon. i am not going to give a speech to this group. this is a group that knows what they want to talk about, knows what they want to hear about, and i am much better giving you time for questions. no speech for me. let's just start with questions. let's go. [applause] all right. this guy knows what he's doing. on the night the meta s are hosting their first baseball playoff game in nine years, he put the mets hat on to get a mets fan to give him the first question. you got it. smart guy. is somebody going to bring you a microphone? go ahead. i will repeat the question, don't worry. they don't have a microphone to him yet. >> [inaudible] mr. christie: ok. so the question was, he said my views on marijuana are well known, and that in the spirit of bipartisanship he wants to know if i would be willing to meet states halfway on recreational marijuana. in the spirit of bipartisanship, no. here's why. here's why. there's a few reasons. the first one is that the laws in this country better -- matter. they matter. when we have lawlessness in this country, we have a situation where folks feel that they can pick and choose which laws they like and which ones they don't. and if we are ignoring the law that you don't like, you are probably pretty happy. the moment we start ignoring the law you do like, all of a sudden we have a big problem on our hands. i think you folks who want to legalize recreational marijuana, go to congress, get a president who will want to legalize it, and sign it. that's how we do these things, rogue letting states go and decide for themselves. that's where i have the problem with what's happening right now. we don't have folks who are respecting the law. why is it that the people of new jersey have to follow a law that says there's no recreational marijuana, but the people in washington state don't have to follow it? it doesn't make any sense. that's the kind of philosophical reason. but the bigger reason, from a policy perspective for me, is that it's a bad idea. i believe it's a bad idea because every study i have seen shows that marijuana is a gateway drug to other drugs, and if you walk around this state or many other states i have been in , including my own, we have enormous drug abuse problems. a norm is problems that we don't need to be adding to in this country. so i would say, let's focus our attention on treatment of those folks who have the disease of drug addiction, and try to give them the tools they need to reclaim their lives. let's not focus on those other issues. in the spirit of bipartisanship, the answer would be no. yes, on the aisle here. i was taking this young lady right here, but i will get you then . >> i am a proud citizen of new jersey. mr. christie: there you go. >> as a college student, in issue that's very important to me and a large network of students and represent is that a global health, specifically funding for aids. i know you are a big proponent of bipartisanship, and this has been a bipartisan issue over the years, so i wonder if you would be willing to make a commitment artie made by -- already made by senator clinton and mr. trump today to double the number of people on aids treatment around the world by 2020 to paris for in a three generation. [applause] mr. christie: first off, to answer directly, yes. let me to you why. you are right that it is a bipartisan issue, and it was made a bipartisan issue by president george w. bush. i am extraordinarily proud of the president and what he did, to say that this type of disease running rampant through parts of thatorld when we know there was an ability to treat it and make people better was just immoral, and that the american people, not only had a responsibility, but that is who we are. if we have a way to help others that we are aing, if w group of people in this world that stands up and helps the suffering. so absolutely, i would join that commitment. it's not only the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do. a healthier african continent in particular is better for world peace and stability. we should be shooting for that. that's clearly one of the ways we can do it. let's go over to this side. right in the middle, you are waiving your hand at me. yes, sir? how do i know it? thingwe have a field between us. >> my question is this, governor. everybody says that the best way to deal with public school education is to go back and let the districts handle the education themselves. to no child -- no, a nation at risk, all of the local school districts had control over their school systems, and some of them were decent and some of them were abysmal. do you really feel it is in the nations best interest, in this technological age, it is far more important to the united government, it is an issue of national security that we have the highest level of education. child left behind was bad, whatever else was bad, go back -- would you look at this to be assured that every kid has the opportunity to have a world-classification -- world-class education? mr. christie: i agree with the premise of your question, that education is not only a human rights issue, it is a national security issue. it is both. but i do agree as we have watched the educational system evolved in our country that we are much better off having these decisions made at the local level. here is why. i don't believe there's anybody who cares more about a child's education than their parents. we can always find exceptions to that rule. there are kids who do not live in stable homes, who don't have appropriate adult influence. i will talk about that in a second. but in the main in america, the people who care most about a child' visitation are her mother and her father. -- child's education are her mother and her father. i want those decisions made as closely to those people as they can, and i want to give them as much choice as they possibly can, meaning everything from homeschooling to private and parochial schools to charter and renaissance schools and public schools. i went from k to 12 at public schools in new jersey, and i feel they certainly extraordinarily well. i married a woman who is number nine of potential than who went to catholic school all her life. when we got married, i thought my children should go to public school and she thought they should go to parochial school, so of course all fourth and children went to parochial school. [laughter] and it served them extraordinarily well. and it served me extraordinarily well. so i would agree on that. i think parents should be making those choices, and they should be making those choices regardless of their economic ability to effectuate those choices. we should not be making these decisions based upon if you have enough money. it's, what you believe in your heart is the best way for your child to be educated? my wife really believes, and she has brought me around to the belief for our kids that she wanted them having that religious education in joint with their academic education. that is not a choice everyone else makes. that's not a choice my parents made, but i like those choices may close to the local level and curriculum choices may close to a local level, because if curriculum is going off the rails you have the ability to go to your local school board and raise hell about it. if it's happening at the federal department of education, good luck. that's why i am on the side of making those choices at the local level. but technology your question -- ing your question, there's no perfect way to do this, and that's what parental involvement on what is happening in our schools is a responsibly that requires vigilance. if we don't do it, we only have ourselves to blame. we're certainly spending enough money on it. we're not getting the results we want right now. we need to change that. that's how i would approach that problem. let's go to the bleachers. this guy, with the glasses. yes, sir? from new jersey. mr. christie: if you are from there, you know we don't say it that way. come on! hogo ahead. labels work to reform our broken political system to make our country progress for the good of the american people. if you are elected as our next president, what specifically will you do to help us reform our broken political system? [applause] mr. christie: i have a fundamental disagreement with the premise of your question. i don't think it's the system that's broken. i think it's the people who are running it who are broken. [applause] this is the same system we have had a long time. it can work. but you have to understand that compromise is not capitulation. right now in washington, we have an attitude that says that if you are willing to compromise, or. are a capitulatin that's not the case. that's not the case at all. first, we have to talk about the idea that people have to make the decision. i have a democratic legislature. so i wake up every morning knowing they are not looking to make it a good day for me. we don't agree on a whole lot, and it's not like every day they wake up thinking, how can we make the governor happy today? in washington, they use it as an excuse to do nothing. they don't agree with me, i don't agree with them, so i won't do it. if that's what i did in new ,ersey for the last six years we would not have capped property taxes, cut spending, kept taxes lower, we would not have performed teacher tenure, we would not have performed tensions and benefits -- pensions and benefits. i did not get everything i wanted in those proposals, but i got more of what i wanted them what i didn't want, and i had to give a little to the other side to get them on board. pension andon -- benefit reform sponsored by the democratic senator president, who was president of the iron workers local. that is called compromise. that is called working together. i don't believe the system is broken. what i believe is that the people we have employed to run it have broken their promise and there were to the american -- their word to the american people. so when i have to stand up and fight, i will. bills, morer 400 than any governor in new jersey e taxry, vetoed mor increases in any governor in american history. when i have to fight, i fight, but i also have a room in the state house where i bring members of the legislature, that leadership, to sit whenever they want to talk and reason together. we can argue in public, but when we get in that room it is time to get business done for the people of the state of new jersey. the only way you do that is to build relationships, and that the last part of it. we don't make anything. we don't create anything. we govern. that's all you do when you are elected to these positions, and if you don't make personal relationships with people on both sides, it's never going to work because they won't trust you. because they don't know you. the best political advice i ever got was from a non-politician in a nonpolitical setting. i was the u.s. attorney in new jersey and he was the deputy attorney general of the united states, and he had been my colleague as u.s. attorney in manhattan, and he is now the director of the fbi. he came to visit me when i was u.s. attorney. when i was leaving i said, what are you doing next? he said, i'm going to the "new york times" editorial board. i said, you are in george w. bush's administration. do you have a death wish? he said, chris, you don't understand. i'm going to the "new york times" editorial board because it is harder to hate up close. it is extraordinarily good political vice, everybody. [applause] it's harder to hate up close. much harder to hate up close. i will go to this gentleman on the aisle, here. >> steve corbyn, from iowa. you know where i ways. we have seen you there. why would any presidential candidate in any of the -- and any of the representatives and senators ever be opposed to the four goals of no labels supported in the super majority by republicans, democrats, and independents? can you think of a reason why they would be opposed to any of the four goals of no labels? [applause] mr. christie: steve, you are in dangerous territory now, because you are trying to impute logic into the way political decisions are made sometimes. [laughter] so be very, very careful about that. listen, i would not be here today if i didn't think this organization and its goals were worthy and achievable. that's why i'm here. otherwise i would be someplace else. [applause] remember thattoo, every leader brings a unique skill set and approach to their job. and so, there may be times when you see me going in one direction or another and think, no, the target is over here and my message -- method to get to the target might be to go this way and then that way to get to the goal. that's why trust is so important. there has to be a sense of trust to develop with the people you represent, because you are not always going to be able to, nor are they going to want to listen, to every method you employ to get where you want to get to. let's agree on the goals, and get organization to really care about what's getting done in this country. if i hear one more, i want to turn off the news, with all the stuff going on in washington right now with who is going to be the speaker of the house. who cares? i mean, who cares? [applause] because quite frankly, whether it is a democratic or republican speaker of late, they don't get anything done. i watched the sunday shows this weekend, and i heard more talk about who's going to decide the committee chairs, who will decide whether they will be free and open amendments, who will decide what bill gets brought to the board -- floor. you know what i want? how about they just do something, do something, rather than all this intrigue. where all they want to do is talk about who gets the big office, who gets the big title, and who gets the best table at the best restaurant in washington. i am bored. i think you are, too. especially as our country continues to deteriorate, i would like leaders to talk about what their goals are and work towards achieving them together rather than continuing to bicker with each other over something that nobody in the main in america cares about, except the people between washington, d c and new york who ride that train all the time. other questions? >> thank you, governor. you remembered you would call on the at the next event. mr. christie: i spotted you. >> i have a question about social security. i am all for working across the aisles. it is a great idea that no labels wants to do. but with seniors living on an average of $16,000 a year from social security checks, what do you have to say about the cap on social security, making it fairer for the working class and lower middle class so we can survive? thank you. [applause] mr. christie: in seven to eight years, social security is not going to be able to make the payments they make now. so take that person. seven to eight years, a harvard and dartmouth study said that social security will be insolvent. there's two different ways to approach the problem. i guess there is three. the first one is what we have been doing, to ignore it. the second approach is to give the government more money. the third approach is to work on performing programs to make them affordable -- reforming programs to make them affordable. i'm the only person in the race who has put forward an entitlement reform plan in detail. that's the first thing i did in this race. the reason is because of what this woman said. we have so many people in the country who are dependent on making sure they get social security payments, so there's a few things we need to do. first, we need to acknowledge a happy truth, which is that we are all living longer, better lives. the average life expectancy for a woman in this country is 83 years old. the average for a man is 79. i saw a few women smiling out there. [laughter] i want to let you know, 10 years ago you were ahead of us by six years. we are gaining on you. [laughter] four-year vacation from us you were expecting at the end of your life? you may not get it. you may be stuck with us the entire time. designed fors were when people died in the mid-60's, and we are living 15 to 20 years longer and drawing from the social security fund from that much longer. let's acknowledge the fact that by having this happy circumstance because of medical science, pharmacology, all the best, eating better, better lifestyles, we need to raise the retirement age, raise it two years over the next 25, meaning one-month increase a year for 25 years. believe me, the world will not stop spinning on its axis because of this. when i get accused later of throwing grandma off the cliff because of this, that is the highest, longest fall ever, taking 25 years. let's be serious. social security should be there for the folks who need it. we needed to be there for the folks who it makes the difference between living their old age in poverty or living their old age in dignity. the difference between rent and heat and food. those are the people we need to make sure we take care of. make overolks, if you $200,000 a year in retirement income, that means you have $4 million to $5 million at least saved away, if you do, i say to you, great job, god bless america, because this is the only country you could have done it in, and i say you should not get a social security check. you should not get a social security check. [applause] i did a townhall meeting in exit or where somebody yelled, i paid for it, i want my money back. first, you are right, you should get it back, but the government lied to you and stole from you. i'm not the first person to point this out for you. there's no trust fund. there's no lockbox. there's iou's in the lockbox. they are spending your money today. forget that. it's a fiction. somebody needs to tell you the truth about it. secondly, there's plenty of things you pay for that you don't get money back for, but what you get back his peace of mind. let's say homeowners insurance. you buy homeowners insurance in case your house burns down or there's a flood or a robbery, some calamity, and you know the money will be there for you to rebuild. let's say you own a home for 25 years, and you are selling it, and you never made a claim the entire time. if i am the insurance company, do you ask for the money back? they will just laugh at you. they will say to you, what you got in return was the peace of mind of knowing that when you put your head on the pillow at night, if something happened, we would be there to make you whole. social security has to be the same thing. if you play by the system, it will be there for you if you need it. my friend mark zuckerberg said, he told me what that means. what it means for you, mark, you get nothing. [laughter] you get absolutely nothing. you will get zero. you don't need it. that's the way we have to take care of social security. if we don't do it, option one, take the cap off the payroll tax and everybody pay more. that me ask you a question. the government that my to you and still -- lied to you and stole from you already, you think the answer is to give them more money? next time, they won't do it? of course they will. if they get a choice between cutting the program or or stealing tax from this pilot money over here that no one is using right now, so just borrow a little bit from that, it will be fine -- understand what politicians are like, ok? they are taking from that pile of money. don't give them more. this is about people who have done very well. takingthe cap off means from them now and meaning you caps on that the government was wasted, or taking it later. let's not trust the government to get more money, please. take it off the back end, make social security solvent, and let's have it be there for the people he needed. [applause] let's see. let's go to that gentleman in the plant shirt. they are all running at you. [laughter] >> londonderry, new hampshire. when the government shuts down, that damages the full faith in the united states as the world system.for the monetary what could you do, or what do you recommend be done so we never experience another shutdown in government? because i feel my government should never shut down because of some stupid reason that they seem to come up with. mr. christie: listen, i said this the last time it closed down. it is a fundamental failure of leadership by everyone when government shuts down. a fundamental failure of leadership. all you get hired to do is governed, and then you stop governing and say that is ok? that is what you are hired to do. in new jersey, before i was governor the governor was a guy named jon corzine. they closed down the government in new jersey in 2006 because they could not agree on how much to raise taxes. imagine, you want to talk about the variety of stupid reasons to close down government. here are two sets of people who agreed they wanted to raise taxes, and they could not agree on how much, so they shut down government. the bipartisan -- this is a democratic legislature with a democratic governor. they shut down government for that reason. when i was running against governor corzine, i said that the government will never shut down on my watch. i will make sure it doesn't. it's my responsibility as governor. i had a much tougher task, because i had a democratic legislature with me as a conservative republican governor. we have gone through six years, and we have not shut down the government wants. we get in the room like adults and make agreements. agreements that neither one of us like sometimes, but we make agreements because we know that our job is to make sure the state parks remain open on the fourth of july, to make sure human services continue to get them, because that's what we're supposed to provide. public safety has to continue and state police have to be funded and out on the roadways. it's not an option. anyone who closes down the government has engaged in a fundamental failure of leadership. if the government shuts down in the next few weeks. that is a pox not only on congress, but on the president, because he has an obligation to get people in the room and get them to agree. everyone is a failure when that happens. it didn't happen on my watch in new jersey, and it won't happen if i'm president, either. [applause] here.entleman right >> thank you so much for being here today. i am born and raised in washington, d.c., and i wanted to ask you about a question that has not come up too often. we talk about the gridlock in d.c., but we don't talk about the 650,000 people who live there and the lack of basic fund mental rights, the right to vote in our congress. we have no voting members there. [applause] labels,conference, no why has it become such a partisan issue that it has presented -- prevented washington, d.c. residents, the only capital of the world whose population does not have the right to vote? why can't we give them this basic democratic right? [applause] mr. christie: we are the only capital, we may be the only capital created just to be a seat of government. washington, d.c. was created to be a seat of government.that's what it was created for . it has now expanded and grown into something different. to tell you the truth, i'm not one to give this a lot of thought, but i will give you my initial reaction. my initial reaction is, i don't think adding another person to congress is going to help. i just don't think fundamentally it will help or make an enormous difference. i understand the philosophical argument and i'm not rejecting it, but to be honest i have not given it enough thought to give you a really thoughtful answer. somebody out here will come to my next town hall meeting in new hampshire when i am back again next week. make sure to answer -- ask that question again. i don't want to give you an off-the-cuff answer i have not thought about. that's my initial instinct. i will come back and give you a full answer on it. all right. they have turned my screen blank , which means i get to do what, one more? the powers that be say one more, so i'm going to give one more and, let's go to this young lady right here in the middle. >> thank you, governor. national service is a really important program across the country. i'm wondering, if you are elected, will you support expanding national service? mr. christie: i will, for a few reasons. first off, the folks from americorps were extraordinary helpful to us in the aftermath of hurricane sandy. [laughter] -- [applause] we had volunteers who came to new jersey and stayed with us for months, helping to get their lives back to some sense of normalcy. helping to clean up debris. helping to rebuild. helping to cook meals. helping to read to children when they were out of school. all sorts of different things that americorps volunteers did, which were indispensable not only to help us rebuild, but to give the people in our state who were really suffering a sense that they were not alone. that is an intangible that you cannot even place a value on. the enthusiasm and compassion that americorps members brought to new jersey made me an even bigger supporter of the program. we need to expand national service as a way to deal with the student debt problem in our country. [applause] there's a whole bunch of layers to this which i can't go into now, because my clock has run out, but one of the options i think we need to give young men and women who graduate from college with significant that is for them to participate -- significant that is for them to participate in national service to work that off. [applause] it's going to be great for our communities. it will be great for our communities and our states and our country, and it will give those young men and women the opportunity to not carry that millstone around the neck that prevents them from buying a home, starting a family, doing the kinds of things they want to do because they leave with such an enormous amount of debt. we need to deal with colleges and universities, too. national service is an important thing to honor, not just in the military, but across all disciplines. i would give young men and women the opportunity to engage in national service in a much broader way when they graduate from college, and when they do so, have them work off part of their student loan debt so they are not carrying a mortgage of their own before they ever own a home in this country, preventing them from really starting their lives. i thank those people for participating, and i think we should expand it. [applause] the screen here says time ending, wrapped up --wrap up. in case you are not clear on that, they put in red, time's u p, exclamation point. i'm from new jersey, which means i ignore stuff like that. [applause] i will tell you, the gathering of you all here today is in encouraging for me as a candidate for public office, that many women of both parties who care deeply about the country's future are here today to make sure those voices are heard and you make sure you hear from us about what we believe in and what we are willing to stand for and fight for. but you being here, i know what you are willing to stand for and fight for, a better america and world.stable thank you, senator lieberman, governor huntsman. thank you for having me. >> c-span has your coverage of the road to the white house 2016, where you will find candidates, speeches, debates, and most importantly, your questions. this year, we take road to the white house coverage into classrooms around the country with our student cam contest, giving students the opportunity to discuss what issues they want to hear most from candidates. follow road to the white house coverage 2016 on tv, on the radio, and online at c-span.org. >> more live road to the white house coverage tomorrow on c-span. former florida governor jeb bush delivers a health care speech on repealing the affordable care act, live from the new hampshire institute of politics in manchester. -- ohio governor john kasich takes questions at a townhall meeting in bow, new hampshire. up next, our series "landmark cases," which looks at key supreme court cases. sandford,cott v. involving dred scott, who was enslaved by a u.s. army sergeant but lived in a free state. later, we will hear from presidential >> landmark cases is the history series produced in cooperation with the national constitution center, exploring the human story and constitutional, behind decisions -- the constitutional

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