people of turkey made me president by 52% of the votes. mr. irdyk: thank you. we need to go to the audience for a couple of questions, if you are ok with that. i would ask you to wait for the microphone, to identify yourself, and please to ask a question, not to make a statement. tohave an opportunity here ask questions of the president, but we are not interested in having a political statement in the process. i also want to make clear that this is not a press conference. this is a discussion, with policy people in washington. so i hope the media will understand, but call on all of to turned it into a press conference, i want to avoid that. i am the deputy director of brookings foreign policy programs. thank you very much for coming here and engaging in a discussion at brookings. in your speech he talked about a number of different issues around the region, but that was one country that received almost pleading mentioned, and that was iran. turkey has played an important role
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to defend our nation, our vital interests and again i think you will see that whether against isis or any other threat we face as a country. i am a conservative republican and i said this before but this should abbey partisan consensus. it was a bipartisan consensus polled world war ii and throughout the cold war and it should be again. there should abbey partisan consensus. my hope is there are responsible leaders in both parties in the congress as well as across the country that will stand up to say this is vital to protect america s interest here and abroad to secure the homeland. our federal government is doing many things our founding fathers never intended. when the government tries to do everything it doesn t do the correspondsability well. the correspondsability of our federal government is to secure the homeland, secure our nation. it is in the one thing in the constitution much the one thing federal government is ordered to do, one thing government is told it must d
includes $900 billion in subsidies over 10 years for major commercial health insurance. the union health plans are not eligible, and they are being frozen out of that market by the government picking winners and losers. it is a mistake. question.t what policy should the federal government pursued to improve our nation s economy? government sederal responsibility for growing alsomic disparity, and including an increase in the minimum wage. thank you. the mostion touches on important comment of his campaign, the economy. the economy is the bedrock of so much else and have talked about tonight. the basic building block of the economy is jobs. is pursuingent policies right now that are killing job creation. we have 8 million people that have dropped out of the search for a job in despair. we have 7 million people stuck in part-time jobs, and we have millions still unemployed completely. there is no silver bullet, but our concrete, immediate things that this government can do
the house of representatives and shared in many cases with many different senators has been stopped by harry reid. unless you stop him, the same thing is going to go on. because the president has indicated this is a referendum on his policies and his programs nd his legacy. if you look at his legacy, you will see this guy is a liberal democrat. i don t know you can t come clean about it and just be proud that you are a liberal democrat. the senate suggested i voted for harry reid. i want everyone to know, i didn t commit voter fraud. i didn t go to nevada and vote in that election. the senator also talks about contributions. some of the contributions he s failed to talk about are my contributions to republicans. i actually gave money to scott brown in massachusetts in 2010 precisely because he was the vote that was supposed to prevent the affordable care act from becoming law. that s why i made that contribution. i ve said from the beginning that i think the affordable care