Look at the republican candidates who are vying for the nomination. Now, would begin the we begin the forum. Here it goes live excuse me, on tape, now. [applause] gautier, welcome to the 2016 voters first republican president ial forum. This sponsored by the courier, the gazette, i heart radio and cspan. We want to thank the local sponsors no labels, americans for prosperity, live free or die, and saint anselm college. You will hear from 14 candidates this evening. With us is jeb bush, then carson christie, fiorina, graham, kasich, pataki perry santorum, and walk. Er. Via satellite cruz, paul and rubio. Welcome the moderator, jack. He is the host of New Hampshire today. Moderater thank you. There is a belief that the voters in the states and america deserve to hear from all of the chantix at the same time and answering the questions. The time will be tight and we want to hear from everyone. We have asked the candidates to skip their intro so that we can get to it and the legend and the
Gautier, welcome to the 2016 voters first republican president ial forum. This sponsored by the courier, the gazette, i heart radio and cspan. We want to thank the local sponsors no labels, americans for prosperity, live free or die, and saint anselm college. You will hear from 14 candidates this evening. With us is jeb bush, then carson christie, fiorina, graham, kasich, pataki perry santorum, and walk. Er. Via satellite cruz, paul and rubio. Welcome the moderator, jack. He is the host of New Hampshire today. Moderater thank you. There is a belief that the voters in the states and america deserve to hear from all of the chantix at the same time and answering the questions. The time will be tight and we want to hear from everyone. We have asked the candidates to skip their intro so that we can get to it and the legend and the answers are you. Rick perry was the governor of texas. Moderator thanks. Candidate howdy. Moderator we have responses from the voters and we focus here tonight on
Testify. Mr. Graham i wont mention the candidate that is not here. Is there any scenario you think if your generals and advisors are saying maybe we should have gone earlier, if we go in places in syria, we can knock isis back. If you know about this, is that a smart thing to do . Why arent we doing it if it is . Mr. Graham you have a weak president that is more worried about Campaign Promises than dealing with the threats to our country. He was told by all of his commanders, dont leave iraq without a 10,000 residual force behind. John mccain and i begged him not to. Everything we said has happened. It is hard, democracy is hard. Look how hard it is for us. You expect these people to get everything right in 10 or 15 years . It wont happen. He was told by all of his advisors, you need to help the Free Syrian Army while assad is on the rope, a nofly zone. He said no thank you. He said isil is the j. V. Teal. He drew a red line, and everybody thinks we are all talk. You need more troops i
Next, cspan partners with the New Hampshire union leader for newspapers voters first forum. All 17 candidates were invited to participate with 14 taking part. This is two hours. Good evening from the dana center on the same in some on the campus of the saint anselm college. Tonights forum is cosponsored by the post and courier, the gazette, i heart radio and cspan. We want to thank the local sponsors, no labels, americans for prosperity, live free or die, and saint anselm college. Labels, americans for prosperity, live free or die, and saint anselm college. You will hear from 14 candidates this evening. With us is jeb bush, then carson christie, fiorina, graham, kasich, pataki perry santorum, and walk. Er. Via satellite cruz, paul and rubio. Welcome the moderator, jack. He is the host of New Hampshire today. Moderater thank you. There is a belief that the voters in the states and america deserve to hear from all of the chantix at the same time and answering the questions. The time will
[ applause ]. John our legal system is a mess. Every single lawyers due takes forever, and the guilty get away with it. But at the same time lots of people are locked up for things they didnt do. We know that now because dna evidence is more available. These innocent people were jailed. I was wrongfully convicted of a murder and rape of my friend, and i spent almost 20 years in prison nar crime. I spent 11 years and 3 months in prison. 20 years, 9 months and 5 days in prison for a crime i didnt commit. John how does that happen . Tim lynch runs the project on criminal justice for the cato institute. The system is not as accurate as people think it is . Its not. Our system is badly flawed. More flawed than many people want to admit, john. As you said since dna evidence came on the scene, we discovered weve got hundreds and hundreds of people who had their lives shattered because theyve been thrown in prison for crimes they didnt commit. John Chris Christie said without question america