Support make us less safe. Governor Maggie Hassan she has gov. Hassan she has put her party before National Security. Host these two candidates do not see eye to eye. The debate begins, right now. Host good evening, it is debate night and we want to welcome the candidates to our studios and thank them for taking part in the issues. We want to welcome our viewers watching and to the viewers around the country tune in and on cspan. Host the candidates will each be given a question and will have one minute to respond. You the viewers will hear an there will be 32nd rebuttals 30 second rebuttals allow. The governor will go force go first, followed by senator kelly ayotte. We are partnering with the debate coalition. Tonight the debate will feature questions posed by more than 120,000 voters in New Hampshire and around the nation. Paul we have a lot of crucial issues. We will start with health care and in the news for those that fromeceiving health care the marketplace, there will be a rise in premiums. Says governor Maggie Hassan cannot stand up to her party. Governor, we want to give you a chance to respond to that ad. Gov. Hassan thank you for monitoring. And senator, thank you for participating. And to everyone watching, thank you for watching and engaging in the debate. My husband and i have two terrific kids and our oldest has severe disabilities. And various time spent has been tieme spent with doctors. So we know the flaws of the health care system. It is important that we improve the Affordable Care act, but we should not go back to a time when people who had a preexisting conditions could not purchase insurance. We have our bipartisan Expansion Program in New Hampshire, which provides coverage because of the Affordable Care act. There are improvements we have to make my but i will any attempt to take insurance away from voters, something my opponent has said she will do. Sen. Ayotte thank you for having us. And for all of the viewers. Good to be here with you. This issue is one where we have agreement on two things. First, we need to address preexisting conditions. And those receiving coverage now, we do not want to pull out the rug from under them. That is why i voted for Medicaid Expansion for two years so we can work on a solution to give more stability to states to craft their own solution. Make no mistake, higher deductibles and premiums, and people were told they could keep their plans if they like it, but costs have gone up. We need more competition and more transparency. I have supported Health Savings accounts and more competition and transparency. This is a big difference between us, because she is going to be following Hillary Clintons lead on this and she wants to expand the Affordable Care act when there are so many issues with it. Gov. Hassan people should be clear that my opponent has voted to repeal Medicaid Expansion. She is using washington speak to tell you, because she is willing to give you one more year and then pull the rug out, somehow that is a good thing. We came together and a Bipartisan Group of us build an Expansion Program that has added competition on the exchange. There is more to do to fix the issues and problems and lower the cost, but we should not dop it by taking away health care from people. Paul we will stick with health care. Kiki name three things you could propose to lower the price of health care premiums. Senator, we start with you. Sen. Ayotte eliminate some of the mandates from washington. You have to give people the ability to have flexibility with different plans. They should have been able to keep their plan if they liked it. We should expand Health Savings accounts and transparency in the health care system. You should be able to purchase insurance across state lines. There is so much more to do. A onesizefitsall from washington is not going to solve it for people in New Hampshire that have higher copays and premiums. This is an issue for this family struggling. Let me go back to something that the governor said with regards to Medicaid Expansion. I voted to expand it, because i want New Hampshire based solutions and new ways to craft ways to better serve people who need help. Not just washington telling us how to do it. Kiki governor . Gov. Hassan we put together the Medicaid Expansion, which she has voted to repeal five times. Look, there are a number of things we need to do to lower the health care costs, among them, reward quantity over quality quality over quantity and get these drugs to market more quickly. We could also allow the importation of drugs from canada, something she has voted against. It is reflective of her pattern and special interests, major donors to her campaign. Sen. Ayotte i have supported generic drugs to go to market sooner. And we need to address changes with the fda. I support the fair drug pricing act that will require companies to notify us in advance we can take action. And the governors favorite talking point is that somehow i am supporting special interests. She is actually raising money for lobbyists and issues criticizing me. Gov. Hassan if i could, first of all, the senator has failed to stand up to the big pharmacies over and over again. And she continues to talk about the people are so frustrated with the washington that is broken, because of people like my opponent, that stand with special interests, instead of people in the Small Businesses of New Hampshire. Sen. Ayotte think about this, if you are wondering who will make changes to the Affordable Care act to have more transparency, the governor stands with Hillary Clinton. This system needs to be changed. And it she stands with her for the florida for the iran agreement that is dangerous for the country. And as he has proposed tax increases that will hurt families in New Hampshire. Kiki john would like to know, what will you do about the skyrocketing price of perception drugs . Governor, we will start with you. Gov. Hassan thank you for the question. As you know, my family and i deal with insurance companies, changing prescriptions my son can have, because of the prices skyrocketing. Among the things we could do is allow medicare to negotiate for prices, the volume of that would bring the price down. It is something that the senator has failed to stand up for. Pharma stood with repeatedly and this is something we could do to lower the cost of prescription drugs, along with allowing them to be imported from canada, which she voted against. This is an election about whether you will have a senator who stands up for the people of New Hampshire, as i have. We have been working together to make progress. We have a to point and percent Unemployment Rate 2. 9 Unemployment Rate and more people are working today than at any other time in our state history. We need to reach across the line and make progress. Senator . Sen. Ayotte i would support medicare and negotiating. But we need to solve the problem here. This is why i would support getting more competition and more generics to market. The governor talks about special interests, it is her favorite talking point. Look at your television. She was recruited by powerbrokers in washington, harry reid and chuck schumer, who want control and that is why they are spending money from the super pac, and the former mayor of new york city spending on her behalf. I am standing up for you. That is what i will always do, because i think about the people struggling and that is the work we need to do. I have one of the most bipartisan records in the senate and i look for Common Ground to deliver results. Kiki governor . Gov. Hassan the senator voted with the Koch Brothers 90 of the time, siding with them for big tax breaks. And she has voted against taxes it for those who are moving jobs overseas. She has stood with wall street, which has given about 2. 5 million to her campaign and has supported tax breaks for their ceos. Washington isthat not standing up for people, we should be working for families, not special interests. Kiki thank you both. Sen. Ayotte i would like to respond. This is her favorite talking point and it is not true. There are no ads on the air from the Koch Brothers, they have been critical of me because i stood up for New Hampshire and Climate Change. The governor in her time as governor, the largest state contracts in state history, 1. 6 billion from one of her largest contributors, where she took about a quarter Million Dollars to her campaign and the democratic governors association. This is the kind of conduct people worry about. Paul your response . Gov. Hassan she knows what she just said is political attack. Lets be clear, the contract was entered into the state before i became governor and she knows that. And the Koch Brothers, the family has given personally to her, even after she did the kind of to pretend that she has strong paul voters got a mailer this week from the Republican Party needs said, the country governor saying she has backtracked, integrate mail pieces, and say that a future President Trump needs her in the senate. Senator, two questions. Did your campaign have a hand in the mailer . Andy recently said that he would not vote for donald trump after the audio recordings we all know about. But you said you would write in the name, mike pence . Isnt it that still supporting the ticket . Sen. Ayotte there are a lot of mailers. I do not know where that one comes from, not my campaign. I will tell you, i have stood up to my party, unlike the governor. And i will put the priorities of New Hampshire first. I did that before donald trump was a candidate. Whether issues like the Government Shutdown data i did it. Shutdown i did it. It. She has not stood up to her menominee. She will give you talking points about where she disagrees with president obama, but she has not stood up to Hillary Clinton, whether it is the iran deal. Or whether it is the trillion dollar tax increase that Hillary Clinton wants. She has a history of imposing taxes on New Hampshire families. Gov. Hassan on 35 different occasions, she has stood with donald trump, even as he insulted women, made fun of people with disabilities and attacked a gold star family. When it was clinically inconvenient after the tapes were released, she finally said she would not vote for him, as if she was surprised by those tapes, which reflected who we have come to know as donald trump. And now trying to walk back, her campaign approved the mailer that said she wanted to work with him in the u. S. Senate. She wants to create gridlock. I am happy to talk about how i will stand up to my party at any time. Paul senator . Sen. Ayotte talk about gridlock, it is like vetoing a budget like she did, because she wanted to decrease taxes on businesses. She vetoed it and now she is taking credit for it. I will be the person that makes sure our Small Businesses have lower taxes, unlike the governor. When you think about standing up to your party, the governor has not stood up to Hillary Clinton on anything of consequence. I have already done that. I stood up to donald trump and i stood up to the Government Shutdown and i will stand up to democrats if i think they are not doing the right thing. But i also have one of the most bipartisan records paul in the senate. Government records in the senate. Paul governor . Gov. Hassan lets be clear, she said she was willing to vote for donald trump. I have stood up to Hillary Clinton and i do not support the proposal to close guantanamo bay. I will continue to fight for the people of New Hampshire. And lets also be very clear, i stood up to veto a budget, because i will always stand up for fiscal responsibility. Only in washington dc would you hear a debate about taking credit for something. Lately we have been getting a daily download from wikileaks. The documents reveal disturbing information about the Clinton Foundation and Hillary Clintons time as secretary of state. Has it made you rethink your position of supporting her . Gov. Hassan i think as senator rubio indicated, it is a mistake to give credence to this wikileaks stream, you are supporting the people that hacked into these records. And i think it is a mistake to do that. I will never fail to stand up to secretary clinton or my party. I have criticized her for handling her emails, that was a mistake and she has apologized for that. What is at issue in this campaign and what it will be about is, whether we will come together as americans and build a future that includes everyone. A place where hardworking families can stay ahead and a middle class is growing and where parents are confident again that their children will have a better future. That is a vision i have been working on with members of both parties and that is the vision that Hillary Clinton shares, which is why i support her. Kiki thank you. Senator, a 30 second response . Sen. Ayotte a mistake is when 2 equals 5. Us that is what happened when Hillary Clinton jeopardize National Security. This is a difference between us. I will stand up to my own party and to the other side. I have one of the most bipartisan records because i am focused on getting things done, like passing legislation to epidemic anderoin making sure it is easier on Small Businesses with taxes and regulation. The governor vetoed a budget that did provide reductions for the Small Businesses, because but she wants to take credit for it now. Gov. Hassan lets be clear about the senators record, she voted with ted cruz to shut down the government and when she realized it was hurting New Hampshire, then she finally decided to pretend to be part of the solution. She voted to defund planned parenthood six times. She has been standing with Mitch Mcconnell on the Supreme Court blockade. She has stood with her party and has made a mistake of supporting donald trump, even when members of her own party and a National Security expert said he posed a danger. Paul i do not think we would be talking about this topic, but the Sexual Misconduct schedule is front and center in this campaign. A new ad by a Group Supporting the senator says the governors husband, principal at the time, covered up a scandal. And it includes the governor speaking to reporters, explaining why she accepted a campaign conservation in her first run from that academy involved in the scandal. Governor, your campaign has pushed back against this commercial, saying it is out of bounds. I would like to hear from you on this issue. Gov. Hassan this is a personal attack against my family. The facts are that the school and my husband went to the police as soon as they received allegations of misconduct. Charity an donated to conservation from the offender. What is really concerning is how much the senator and her allies want her reelected that they would stoop to this length, to publicize this tragedy at a school. That they would politicize other things around the opioid crisis, running ads about that in the political campaign, something we are working together on to combat. Her allies want her back in washington because they know she will vote with them, with big pharma to protect prices, to vote with the oil and against the environment. They know that she will vote to protect outsourcing, so they get a tax break when they move jobs overseas. That is why they support her and why they are running this kind of despicable political ad. Paul senator . Sen. Ayotte we could have kept all of this outside money out of this race. I offered the governor a pledge, a pledge to keep the outside money out, that elizabeth warren, one of her supporters put in place. And it we could have kept this money out. I think we know why she did not want it out, because we see millions of dollars from terry reed, that recruited her, the powerbrokers supporting her, mike bloomberg, the former mayor of new york city giving over 7 million and federal unions and Hillary Clintons super pac, because they know that she will be a rubberstamp. Paul i think were going back to Campaign Finance later in the to bake my but quickly in the quickly, talk about the ad. Sen. Ayotte i have talked about my record and the governor has not said anything about it. We could have kept the money out. She will have to address the ad. Gov. Hassan mone