Our white house coverage continues this week with president ial announcements. Dr. Ben carson expected to launch his campaign tomorrow in detroit. That will be right here on cspan. And Mike Huckabee announces his candidate the candidacy in arkansas. That is tuesday at 11 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Josh good evening. Welcome to our conversation with the candidates. Our guest this evening, rand paul of kentucky. We will get to know senator paul and where he stands on the issues. I will be asking the candidates of questions. After a short break, we will have our audience join in to ask questions of their own. Before we start, lets get a quick look at the candidates biography. Rand paul was born in pittsburgh in 1963. The u. S. Senator from kentucky is the son of ron paul. Like his father, he is a doctor. He graduated from dukes school of medicine. Is a practicing ophthalmologist and founded an organization that provides eye exams to the needy. He is a vocal advocate for term limits and be
[ applause ] sorry to sorry to cut mr. Clegg short, but we do have to stop because we have exactly 90 minutes for this program. That ends, incidentally of course as you would guess, this edition of question time. Were going to be back not next thursday when we have the Election Results but on friday evening at 9 00 when well be looking back at the election and seeing whats happened. The first chance to talk about it. So from here my thanks of course to our Party Leaders and particularly to all of you who came to take part in this in leeds. Good night. [ applause ] a look at the state of the u. S. Economy with cnbc reporter. Kim mac of the daily beast tim mack of the daily beast talks about the patriot act. And reconstruction efforts in afghanistan. We take your calls him a clear comments on facebook and twitter. M look for your comments on facebook and twitter. The european trade commissioner will be in washington, d. C. , on monday. She will speak at the center for strategic and inter
You can watch these anytime by searching our entire Video Library at cspan. Org. Color photos of every senator and house member and bio and Contact Information and twitter handles. Also district maps, a foldout map of capitol hill and a look at congressional committees, the president s cabinet, federal agencies and state governments. Order your copy today. It is 13 95 plus shipping and handling on the online store. The uks general election is thursday. Ahead of that, british Prime Minister David Cameron and other leaders are dissipated in a special question time from the bbc. That is next here on cspan. Then kentucky senator rand paul in the spotlight on president ial hopefuls on a local tv station in new hampshire. At 11 00, another chance to see q a with Washington Post columnist Walter Pincus Walter Pincus. One week before the u. K. General election, the bbc held they final leaders event. Ed miliband and liberal democrats leader nick clegg. They answered a number of body questions o
In her view. You know. And she used to tell us, whatever was bothering her all the time wed say like, mom, enough, stop. Shed say to me, no, no, no, no, im getting this off my chest and im getting it off right now, youre going to listen. There will be no deathbed confessions in this family youre hearing it now. And i will tell you that, you know, it forms who you are right . The ethic i was taught is if there was a problem, talk about it now. If theres an issue get it off your chest. If you feel something, let people know it. And so its hard then to get into politics and say, im going to conduct myself completely differently than the way ive conducted myself for the 40plus years before i got involved in politics. My mom used to say to me all the time, christopher, be yourself. Because then tomorrow you dont have to worry about remembering who you pretended to be yesterday. Its great advice. Ill end with this, to give you greater insight to the impact this has on real lives. So i im tal
Common core. The idea is that this is common core that you have assessments is really not true and people have been opting out. Florida had the most meaningful accountability system in the country. We also have the greatest learning gains in the country. They go together by the way. Its a comprehensive reforms that create the rise of achievement. We were on the nape test, you cant teach for that test. We were 29th out of 31 in 1997 on the fourth grade reading test. Ten years later we were six out of 50. Florida hispanic kids do two grade levels ahead of their counterparts and equal to 33 states on this test. Low income are in the top five. Africanamerican are in the top five in these tests. The reason is that we have meaningful assessments and we have robust accountability and we have School Choice that puts pressure on a system that wouldnt otherwise move. Eliminating elements of the accountability system would get a bad result. When a third of our kids are 40 at the best or career re