with all of the news dominating the headlines about isis we hardly hear anything more about the crisis on our own borders and yet that crisis continues and we need to hear more about that so coming next is the lieutenant governor of texas who will be addressing this issue among others. during his time in office he worked hard to make texas the national leader in job creation and the best place in america to do business. let's take all look at the monitors for a little bit more

about our next speaker. ♪ >> remember last summer when many of you rode buses, you drove your cars to austin because we had a group of people who literally took over the senate chambers and kept our senate from doing business. so we decided we would all show up so we could save some lives. >> the visionary for hb 2, pro lifers and women and children 0 him a debt of gratitude that simply is difficult to explain to people. >> i want to tell you why i asked him to come. this will be right here. this little baby right here came up for adoption. ville little girl who was

pregnant and didn't know who did that was went down to get an abortion and she couldn't get an abortion because this little baby had just turned 20 weeks old. [applause] >> so the next time somebody says to use that this is about politics i want you to remember -- i want this to be etched in your mind, this is what it is about right here. >> is this bill brought lucille richards to texas to try to stop it. it brought people in from all over the country, they paid people to come in from all over the country. that is out massive this bill was. that is what david dreamed up for us, put together and helped to shepherd through. no one else offered to do that for us. i was able to do that, not dan

patrick, nobody else. that is what makes david legible. >> the sacrifice for you and your staff and other legislators made, we have our son today. >> when there is a time you sit courageously as the lieutenant governor does and here we stand today with the fruit of that, this little baby the lieutenant governor ought to get the credit for his leadership. i want you to thank them today. >> ladies and gentlemen, from the great state of texas please welcome lieutenant governor david newhearst. david dewhurst. ♪ >> thank you.

ladies and gentlemen, it is a great pleasure for me to be here is this morning. i get to be in a room full of conservatives, fellow christians, people that are dedicated to supporting life and i get to talk about texas. it doesn't get any better. i have been a conservative all my life. i remember as a youngster i read barry goldwater's book the conscience of a conservative and when i got through reading and i said that is indeed. my most important north star is my christian faith. my belief in christ. my family are a very close second meaning they are really great. growing up, my dad was killed when i was 3 years old and a car wreck. mom was our rock. she taught us her christian values and we had her

unconditional love just like we have christ's unconditional love. i have come to realize that the core essence of conservatism is the unshakable respect for the dignity and liberty of every person. just a second ago that maybe continues to be very emotional for me. you and i know that life is different got and i am proud to defended any time i can from anyone who would treat free born babies as a mere inconvenience or try and harm you or your family. [applause] >> thinking about that they be before i was elected lieutenant governor only one pro-life bill in the history of the state of texas had ever passed out of the texas senate. since then i have lead in

passing parental consent, a woman's right to know, 24-hour cooling off period, making it a crime for the first time in history of the state of texas to harm an unborn baby, defunding planned parenthood. [applause] >> the sonogram bill and a lot more including what you just saw, the 2013 blockbuster bill where we had protesters chanting hail satan. that bill has saved a little over 10,000 lives in one year. [applause] >> today i don't know a state more socially conservative than texas. i want everybody to be socially

conservative. i don't know a state more fiscally conservative and texas liz i want everybody to be fiscally conservative. i am pretty independent. i am pretty independent. i do what is right and i started my business from scratch and i knew that as i know now that government takes too much of our money. over in the years i built a consensus in the legislature in which we cut taxes 54 times for $64 billion. what we have eliminated, 57 state agencies because i hate to waste your money. [applause] >> i made job creation a priority because that is part of the american dream and i remember starting to start my business and how hard it was but

the key is willing to work hard. if america were not a great country border security would not be as a problem. tony asked me to come up from texas and talk about a subject that i am involved with every day and that is border security. it is this situation that i regret we are in the middle of in texas but we are and i am proud of what we are doing and i want to make a statement about how proud i am of the men and women in texas who are standing up and standing on that line because ladies and gentlemen i will probably see it again. if we don't stop the bad guys at the border today they will be in your neighborhood tomorrow.

mostus ous if not all of us fed up with the federal government, and i know what could be done if the federal government would just listen. border security is a huge issue in texas and the democrats tried to talk about border security, talk about immigration, and humanitarian, pull at your heart strings, and what that means. and opening up the red carpet to come here and talking about amnesty by executive order made millions of us around the country really mad. bottom line if we don't stop the bad guys at the border we will be at your home town tomorrow.

i believe we have to do five things. we have got to secure our border against illegal immigration, we have got to stop dangerous drugs that are coming into texas because they are killing our federal -- our americans. 3, we have to do something about our transnational gangs operating in every texas city. dangerous, working for the cartels, human trafficking, we have got to stop human trafficking, trafficking of young children turning into sex slaves in the united states. we have to guard against national security threats that are crossing the border. a lot of border patrol signs in the texas brush are in english, spanish and chinese. there is unconfirmed judicial watch story about isis activity

in south of el paso. a very liberal democrat congressman, that is redundant, the baited me last saturday, he made light of the border threat saying the fbi and the cia told and there are no known confirmed terrorist threats along our southern border at the present time. at the present time. that is not the question, congressman. the question is is there a isis activity targeted against the united states and the answer is clearly yes. every message that we have seen coming out of isis focuses on mobilizing terrorist islam against the united states. the leader of pieces has said i will see you in new york, prayer works have been found on the texas side of the border in the brush. again we are facing another

tsunami and that is these transnational gangs that are working for the cartels in every city. if you don't remember anything i said today please bear with me and remember this one thing. in texas, in texas since 2008, over 640,000 crimes have been charged with people illegally in texas including 3,000 murders, and the porous border kills texans, and it kills americans and hurt americans. [applause] >> i respect mexico and i certainly respect the efforts of the previous president in his fight against the drug cartels but the mexican president was wrong on 9/11 when he issued a

press release saying texas was putting the national guard on the border for politics. governor perry and i are both conservative republicans but we run and serve completely independent of each other and i didn't wake up yesterday and we need to do something about securing the border. i started eight years ago, eight years ago, i am fed up with the federal government, they are not going to do their constitutional responsibility to defend our sovereign borders and when that happens i believe the states not just a right but an obligation to act independent of the federal government. [applause] >> did you know there are twice as many cops in new york city in the border patrol, in alaska and

canada. there is no way they can do this. they need more people. as a conservative and firm believer in the tenth amendment i believe states must act independent of the federal government and the federal government fails to do their constitutional duty. that is why in 2007, eight years ago, i appropriated texas tax dollars, and the southern border with state police. we got high altitude spotter aircraft, helicopters, gunboats, cartels don't shoot at us, each of the boats can fire a thousand rounds a minute. we put texas rangers in the brush, we have now spent $800 million of texas tax dollars, not a penny of federal tax dollars trying to secure the

border and this increase, this recent increase is because obama put out the red carpet for people to come to texas with the help of the drug cartels. these cartels are horrible. some of the people the cartel's smuggle are left to die. others are put into service as sex slaves. i cannot sit idly by and not do everything in my ability to stop that. these are humans, people made by god like us and we need to stop this horrible horrible -- [applause] >> let me be quick, my time is almost up. last fall, it was successful. we kicked off a big surge, a thousand of state police,

activated a thousand national guard's. we haven't militarize the border, the border patrol our eyes and ears, and the border patrol and state police around the month. we targeted the worst zone, the worst zone, where most of the cartels are. reduced illegal immigration of 65%. [applause] >> our interceptors tell us cartels are working back and forth with each other saying when are these guys going to stop? my answer is never do we finish a job. [applause] >> is not without a cost.

$18 million a month puts a lot of money. caught the you put a price on saving the life of a texan? you can't. there is no crisis. my goal is to show washington how to do it, get them to increase the size of the border patrol. we have problems to face right now. in washington, these are needed to change the 2008 law that allows apprehended aliens up to two years to have a final hearing, that is not. [applause] >> mexico or canada, that is 24 hours. we need the nation of mexico to

find their border security. and eliminate free train rides. as we stand up for and the life of every texan and every american. we are in a dangerous position. and elected a conservative president in 2016. and who is a leader and will do the right thing for america. i tell tourists many times texas

doesn't really exist. if you saw that movie of america which i recommend, not all lead don't quote lead singers. if you saw bono in the movie you know what he said? he said it has always been a right/ronny issue and america has always been on the side of right. theymen. give us liberty, dignity and justice and we will handle it from here. i like that. i like that. let me end by saying i love america and i know you love america. it offered this for boy from texas opportunity. it offered me the opportunity of a lifetime and that is the biggest opportunity in my life, second only to my wife tricia saying yes and that is to serve as a tenured governor of texas

to try and honor the lord in my acts and my words and to help protect life and liberties to try to make this all little better ways to live. america has fallen, our leaders have failed us but as christians, we know america is in god's hands and with our strong prayers, every day, several times that they i know in my heart as a hero of yours and mine once said america's best days are in front of us. god bless you, thanks for dealing with you. ♪

>> lieutenant governor, now to set up our next speaker we have a video we would like to show you so let's look at monitors together in preparation for our next speaker. ♪ >> i have a question. can a nation conceived in liberty denied for texans to the understand most vulnerable of its citizens. can the country founded on god-given rights continue to thrive without understanding that wife is a precious gift from our creator. i believe great nations and great civilizations spring from the people who have a moral compass. i don't think a civilization can long endure that does not have a respect for all human life born and not yet. as supposition i have looked

into the lives of one pound babies, and i the fis those who are careless that would disregard life, look at these tiny little miracles and say we are not going to protect them but i believe we will come a time when we are all judged on whether or not we took a stand in defense of all life from the moment of conception until our last natural grass. as a teenager i gave my first public speech in my church village i hand shook, my heart pounded, i can't do exist but somehow i did and because i wanted to talk about things that are important i persisted. i chided my church as a senior in high school for not seeming to care about the not yet born from looking the other way, not taking the stand on life. >> i will be in earnest. i will not equivocate and i will not excuse.

i will not retreat and i will be heard. one thing i promise you, i will always take a stand for life. [applause] >> leasing gentlemen, the values senator simon is honored to welcome the new co-sponsor the national religious broadcasters coming up to introduce our next speaker would you please welcome the president of an arby doctor jerry johnson. [applause] >> he is courageous. he is not afraid to stand up. he is not afraid to speak out. he is not afraid to vote no and he is not afraid to about to filibuster when necessary.

senator rand paul was elected in 2010 to represent kentucky in the united states senate. he is a champion for constitutional liberty, fiscal responsibility, and for the sanctity of innocent human life. and he is a warrior against government overreach. in particular he is a vocal advocate for term limits, balanced budget amendment, read the bills act and that is a good idea conlan and an audit of the federal reserve. [applause] >> he serves on the senate foreign relations committee as well as the health education labor and pension committee, homeland security and government affairs committee and small-business committee. senator rand paul is a practicing ophthalmologist legionella as the u.s. senator

he continues to provide pro bono eye surgery, and recently in guatemala and others in need of care. i want to particularly thank you for your national leadership in defense of the constitution. especially the very first freedom in the bill of rights, religious liberty. last fall you voted against -- on the senate floor, this summer you helped thwart senator harry reid's brazen attempt to gut the 20-year-old religious freedom restoration act. he is on the edge, he has an edge. it gives him the edge. it is an honor to welcome you to this assembly, senator rand paul. ♪

♪ >> thank you. what a glorious morning it is outside. it is a beautiful day. thank you for coming. america is not just experiencing growing pains. america i believe is in a full-blown crisis, spiritual crisis. voices seek to reassure us that everything is ok, everything is just fine. all is well until one day all is not well. the problem is not wolves at the door but termites in the floor. the foundation is cracking. not the we have chosen the wrong politician though there's some truth to that. is more fundamental. we have arrived at a crossroads.

we have arrived at a day of reckoning. will we falter or will we thrive? we discover our mojo. america's much grain is left in her and i am convinced of it. if we believe in ourselves and believe in our founding documents, if we believe in the system that made us the richest, freest and most humanitarian nation ever, but cracks are evident. the sand is shifting. our moral compass is wavering. the only proper restraint for freedom is self restraint. what does that mean? those of us who love freedom must realize freedom is not a license to do as you please. freedom can only be realized when citizens no self restraint or put another way, virtue. this parallels what george

washington's believe that democracy requires a virtuous people. think american revolution versus the french revolution. laws don't ultimately restrain people. 98% of the people will follow wafer to escorts with or without loss. this isn't to say we shouldn't have laws or that we don't need laws but what we need is something more than a cause. we need something that symbolizes the nation and that is fair to. what america needs is not just another politician or more promises. what america really needs is a revival. noon to hundred years ago thomas paine wrote these are the times that try to's sold. the question is as important as it was then. will you be sunshine patriots shrinking when the going gets

tough or will you stand shoulder to shoulder to defend the republic? as your representative i swore an oath to defend the republic against enemies foreign and domestic. now that i have been to washington and seen the belly of the beast i can tell you i have met the enemy and the enemy is too often right here in this town. [applause] in congress and frankly many times in both parties, in bipartisan fashion congress defies its own rules. they are supposed to publish the bills in advance so we can read the bills. reading the bills shouldn't be too difficult, should it? the present acts like he is kicking. he ignores the constitution, arrogantly says if congress will not act then i must.

these are not the words of a great leader. these are the words for itself more like the exclamations of an autocrat. in the face of more the president is just as arrogant. instead of coming to congress he illegally acts on his own. we are faced with a crisis in the middle east that does require action. i am one who is hesitant to be involved in the civil wars of the middle east isis is now a threat to our consulates. they are a threat to our embassy in baghdad. we should act but we should act within the rule of law. the constitution says only congress may declare war yet this president has been libya and this week in syria committed our sons and daughters to a war that is not authorized by congress. had i been president i would have called for a joint session of congress. i would have laid out the threat, i would have requested

congressional authority to respond as the constitution dictates. by failing to follow the constitution does president missed a chance to unite the nation. team is a chance to galvanize the country, he missed a chance to become a great american leader. how did we stray so far from the constitution and how we find our way back to the traditions of our founders. ..

government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit. mother theresa was once praised for her social work in india, and she replied, we are not social workers, we do this for jesus. no secular government, no social worker can claim the same motivation. no government, no law can force a people to be virtuous. our churches, our schools, our parents must fill that void. this isn't the norm now. speaking of a revival, speaking of our values is sadly considered nonconformity in this day and age. in other words, i think we must do something our world often tells us not to do: seek god. walker percy laments in "the moviegoer" that we've left no room from the seeker. maybe our country's revival depends on seeking and

rediscovering the synthesis of freedom and tradition. some seem to believe you must choose -- it's either liberty or virtue, that to be virtuous, you can't have too much freedom. this is exactly wrong. liberty is absolutely essential to virtue. it is our freedom to make individual choices that allows us to be virtuous. government can't impose virtue. we must impose it upon ourselves. now, this doesn't mean that government shouldn't or can't reflect our values. it must. the first amendment is not about keeping religious people out of government, it's about keeping government out of religion. applaus[applause] some seek to separate the issues of our day -- separate our debt from the issue of life, separate our charity from our education, separate our values from our government.

this doesn't work. obamacare forces us to try to separate our faith from our business. fortunately, the supreme court thought otherwise. reagan understood this unity of message when he wrote, we do not have a separate social agenda, a separate economic agenda and a separate foreign agenda. we have one agenda. just as surely as we seek to put our financial house in order and rebuild our nation's defenses, so too we seek to protect the unborn, to end the manipulation of school children by utopian planners and permit the acknowledgment of our supreme being in our classrooms. [applause] as christians, we should always stand with the most defenseless. i believe that no civilization can long endure that does not respect life from the not-yet-born to life's last breath.

[applause] the debate isn't really about whether government has a role in protecting life. the debate really hinges on when life begins. i've held one-and-a-half pound babies in my hand. i've seen them sucking their thumb on an ultrasound, and i've seen surgeons operate on babies still in the womb. so don't tell me that five and six pound babies have no rights simply because they're not born. [applause] i'm one who will march for life and will continue to stand up in defense of life as long as i'm privileged to be in office. another way we as christians should stand up to the current status quo is in foreign policy. reagan, in his first speech to the u.n., said, the record of history is clear. citizens of the u.s. resort to force reluctantly and only when we must. reagan believed in strength, but

he also believed in peace. he said, as for the enemies of freedom, they will be reminded that peace is the highest aspiration of the american people. our foreign policy though has too often accepted war instead of peace and intervention instead of strength, leading to a host of unintended consequences. toppling secular dictators in the middle east led, time and time again, to chaos, and ultimately, that chaos enabled and abetted the rise of radical islam. as secular dictators fell, in libya, in egypt, in iraq and now syria, radical jihadists exploited the vacuum, and christians have been forced to flee. where will the syrian christians go when the civil war breaks down their door? across the middle east, the story is the same. christians are either persecuted or on the run. in sudan, meriam ibrahim is on the run, but i understand she may be here today.

is that right? [applause] for her beliefs, she was sentenced to death by the muslim courts of sudan. meriam was raised by a christian mother and married a christian man. at the time of her arrest, she had a young son and was pregnant with another -- because meriam's father was muslim, though, islamic law considers meriam and her son to be muslim. so when she was arrested, meriam and her young son were taken to prison. meriam was forced to give birth in prison, shackled to the floor. when meriam's muslim brother was asked about her sentence, he replied, if she repents and returns to our islamic faith, then we are a family, but if she refuses, she should be executed. after her conviction, meriam was given a chance to recant her christianity and save her life. she refused, declaring, i am a christian, and i will remain a christian. that's true bravery.

[applause] luckily, meriam was granted asylum and she is now here in the united states, but there are many more like her. across the globe, christians are under attack, as if we lived in the middle ages, or as if we lived under early pagan roman rule. in libya, once the secular dictator, qadhafi, fell, radical jihadists raided christian churches, rounding up hundreds of christians, accusing them of being missionaries because they possessed bibles and crosses. many were tortured and one christian died while being tortured. in pakistan, asia bibi, a christian, sits on death row for blasphemy. she says it all began when she drew water from a muslim villager's well. as she was filling the bowl of water, a crowd formed chanting death -- death to the christian. she pleaded for her life. she was pelted with stones, punched in the face, drug through the streets. the local imam finally intervened only to say, if you

don't want to die, you must convert to islam. the crowd descended on her, beating her with sticks. finally, the police stopped her attackers, only to arrest her. for several years now, asia bibi has been on death row for the alleged crime of blasphemy. until asia bibi is freed, pakistan should not receive a penny of u.s. aid. [applause] not a penny should go to any nation that persecutes or kills christians. i can't imagine why we would do this. and you would think -- i believe the american public believes this -- that there's no way we should do this. and you'd think your representatives up here would get it, but they don't. this summer, i introduced

legislation to stop foreign aid to any country that has the death penalty or life in prison for christians or other religions for making religious freedom choices. both republicans and democrats voted against this amendment overwhelmingly. the committee voted 16-2 to continue this indiscriminate aid to these countries regardless of whether they persecute christians. i don't think anybody out in america really agrees with that, and that's why you really have to stand up and send a message to them up here because they're not listening. our foreign policy also must let us stand with israel. that's why this year i introduced a bill to cut off all aid to the palestinian authority and hamas until they lay down their arms, stop firing their rockets and publicly recognize israel's right to exist. applaus[applause]

the irony is impossible to escape. our tax dollars, your tax dollars may well end up funding hamas, allowing them to buy more missiles with your money. my bill was opposed by republican and democrat leaders. instead, this week congress voted to arm the islamic rebels in syria. one group of these so-called moderate rebels has stated publicly that when they're done with assad, they're -- next they're coming for israel. they'll take back the golan heights. that's next on their list. i asked on the senate floor last week, i said, to those of you who wish to arm these islamic rebels, tell me who among them will recognize israel's right to exist. silence. no one answered because not one of these islamic rebels will ever think about recognizing israel. in country after country, mobs burn the american flag and chant

death to america. congress' response -- congress responds by spending more of your money to these haters of christianity. i say not one penny more to any nation that is burning our flag. [applause] it's time to put a stop to this madness. re-examine our foreign policy; halt all aid to islamic radicals in syria, egypt and elsewhere; and take a good hard look at what our foreign policy has done. you and i must and should stand with our fellow christians in the middle east, around the world. but that does not necessarily mean war, and it certainly does not mean arming both sides in every conflict. as christians you have to lay it out simple to the people in washington, they'll never get it.

[laughter] as christians, we understand that the right to life and freedom of religion pre-exists all government. these rights are not granted to man by other men. these rights are granted to us by our creator. god help us in these troubling times to make wise decisions, to make moral decisions and to listen to the voice of god that lives and breathes and resides in us all. i try to remember each day, corinthians 3:17, where the spirit of the lord is, there is liberty. i hope christians everywhere will remember that the reverse is true. where there is liberty, there is always plenty of space for god. thank you very much for having me. [applause] ♪ ♪ thank you so much senator.

>> i love the fact that he had the courage to look hillary clinton in the eye and say, if i had been president you would been relieved of your duties. [applause] and when later asked about the visa even bill clinton would have fired hillary clinton. [laughter] folks, in 2006 our next speaker would become the first republican woman to be elected to represent minnesota in the u.s. house of representatives. you know where i'm going. 2010 she founded the house to party caucus that helped fire nancy pelosi into barack obama is biggest defeat. [applause] 2012 she ran for president of

the united states of america, and in between these milestones should become a tireless worker for issues that we all hold sacred in america. and after eight courageous years of service she is stepping down from the house of representatives, and so, folks, this is your chance to not only welcome our next speaker, but to say thank you to a true warrior for your values. ladies and gentlemen, would you please welcome michele bachmann. [applause] ♪ ♪ >> hi, everyone. thank you. thank you so much. god bless you. thank you. i love you, too. thank you so much for that warm introduction. and as you know, i'm not running again for my seat in the united states congress. and so the first question everyone asks me is this, michelle, what is it you going

to do when you leave office? well, i have to to the most important thing i need to do is take a vacation. and so i'm planning to find the most secluded spot i possibly can to rest, and that's why i've decided i'm going to msnbc primetime. [laughter] it has been an absolute incredible privilege or me to serve in the united states congress. it really has been the thrill of a lifetime. that's why i'm so grateful for that opportunity. and when i came to congress, i took the dice and i rolled them for everything that there was because i was a normal, real person when it came to congress. i am still in normal, real person today. [applause] because you see, when i came in

was sworn in in 2007, i decided i was going to give it absolutely everything i had, and that's what i did. because i think why else? why come here? why else serve the public in office if you're not going to put absolutely everything on the line? because i absolutely believe, as everyone in this room does, in the greatness of the united states of america. and want america. and what do i mean by that greatness? you see, it is an idea. it's the idea that the nation was founded upon. i talked about it before from this podium, and i'm in love with this idea, the fact that there was a creator, god, who thought so much of the individual, he created us in his image and likeness, and he created is equal. that's what the declaration of independence says. so it isn't the government or some never do well politician to give us our rights.

it's a creator who gives us our rights, so basic, so foundational. never ever forget it. since its of the creator gave us our inalienable rights, the good news is, no man can touch them. they can never take them away. [applause] it is the phenomenal philosophy upon which the nation was founded. life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. those are just nice sounding words. it is the ultimate social contract that governments were instituted among them. why? to secure life, to secure liberty, and to secure your rights to the fruits of your own labor. not a bad deal. what a concept. [applause] that's why i decided whatever issue came my way, i was going

to stand for those having principles. and i did. i kept the faith during these last eight years. and so that's why i don't know whether nancy pelosi is going to miss me more or john boehner, one of the two, i don't know. but along the way came the wall street bailout. and i helped put together a rumpled group that said no to the wall street bailout. and we brought down that very first vote. it passed, but we brought it down the first time. then the automobile bailout. i gave a speech. it was viewed 2 million tons. i called it gangster government because its gangster government when your government issues 3400 pink slips to privately owned automobile dealerships. then there was the trillion dollar stimulus. i guess that didn't work so well. and, of course, obamacare. i introduced the very first repeal bill the next morning.

the bill passes at midnight, and at 9:00 in the morning i'm in there introducing the repeal bill. [applause] and then four years into my term i was privileged to be appointed to serve on the select house committee on intelligence. we deal with the classified secrets of a nation, it would also deal with terrorism. during the course of these last four years i did a deep dive into the leading foreign policy and national security issues of our day. and during my time on the intelligence committee i had a front row seat to the world set on fire, islamic jihad, and what we have seen is one disaster after another from the obama-clinton foreign policy team. and in their fantasy world, a smaller, diminished, less powerful united states is somehow supposed to bring about global tranquility. well, mr. obama, mrs. clinton,

we want our 98 these foreign policy back. peace through strength. [applause] we don't want your failed russian reset. we don't want for americans dead in benghazi. it was a tragedy to release the five top taliban leaders from guantánamo bay. perhaps nothing will change the world more than your foolish lifting of sanctions on iran as they are racing toward completing nuclear weapons. and they will if we stay the course as president obama and hillary clinton have laid forward. and unthinkably we have the first anti-israel president in american history? that's the obama-clinton legacy. it's no wonder that hillary

clinton couldn't think of an answer when asked on her book tour to name her accomplishments as secretary of state. i have one. permanent retirement. [applause] quite simply, because she basically fails to inspire confidence in anything, and never forget, she will be barack obama's third and fourth term as president of the united states. stay the course. what an exciting message for her 2016 campaign. but one slogan that she won't be able to use, al-qaeda is on the run. remember that one in 2012? as the rise of radical islamic jihad, although that's redundant, dominates the headlines, we are seeing this enemy as pure evil as they are cutting off the heads of innocent people.

back in august buried literally women and children alive. these are christian brothers and sisters. these are yazidis tonight, tonight, who are on mount sinjar and they're continuing to suffer. i recently got an e-mail from a pastor this week you told me there's a missionary working with the yazidis who are barely clinging to life. they are sleeping in the cold mountains. they don't have blankets. it's a whole different world now, and we can't forget them. we can't forget the others who are persecuted around the world just because of their religious beliefs. and why is that? it's because we have jihadists who are subscribing to this radical ideology that believes that dying in the name of islam gets them to happen. this is spiritual warfare, and what we need to do is defeat islamic jihad. [applause] sadly, our president has the

wrong prescription. he even failed to acknowledge their motivations for bringing about jihad. yes, mr. president, it is about islam. [applause] and i believe that if you have an evil the order of this magnitude, you take it seriously. you declare war on it. you don't dance around it, just like the islamic state has declared war on the united states of america. you kill their leader, you kill their counsel, you kill their counsel, you kill their army intel they wave the white flag of surrender. that's how you win a war. [applause]

and you don't preemptively take anything off the table. you don't advance signal your enemy as to what your intention is. the president asked congress to follow him in a vietnam style slow walk response, and i said no because either the united states chooses to decisively defeat this brutal people with every resource we have or we're going to have to answer to the next generation why we failed to defeat the totalitarian evil of our day. and i also believe the president's decision to train and arm the so-called vetted that moderate syrian rebels is a tragic mistake. [applause] because here is the ugly truth. they will never be vetted, and

they certainly aren't all moderates. there was a british intelligence service study called james, found nearly half of the syrian rebels today that we've trained have already taken up the cause of islamic jihad. half. so why in the world are we giving them american weapons? it is complete madness. but one thing we could do immediately to keep the american people safe is this. we could strip from the terrorists the passports of any u.s. citizen who joins the fight with the islamic state or any other terror group. [applause] i can't believe that we are doing this now. they shouldn't be allowed -- a

terrorist should not be allowed to reenter the united states once they have voluntarily chosen to be a terrorist. that's about like a 100% issue. after we remove the passports, then i believe that we should begin the process of removing their american citizenship from them as well. [applause] the rise of the islamic state seemed to be a shock to president obama. it wasn't to me. it wasn't to those of us who sat on the intelligence committee. i watched the up tempo of islamic jihad. i knew what was coming. so earlier this summer i asked the fbi for a classified briefing. i asked if there any minnesotans who are fighting with the islamic state, because many of you know the tragic nexus that minnesota has with terrorism. it was classified information earlier this summer.

i couldn't reveal it to anyone. but now everyone knows there are, including the first two americans who died fighting for the islamic state, both of whom were minnesotans. so what i ask is, once they identify with islamic state, what will happen. if they don't get killed, what will happen if they tried return to the united states? i was floored when the fbi said to me, well, they can come into the united states. they are still u.s. citizens. i said to the fbi, are you kidding me? so that's what i introduced the legislation to prevent them from coming into the united states. it's just commonsense. [applause] because our first priority is national security. every american has the right to give secure in their own home. every american deserves the right to feel secure in their own community.

but for all his leading from behind on the world stage, president obama is also ignoring a national major security threat here at home. you know what it is. it is our open southern border. i was there for four days in august, and i will tell you, i was floored. i thought i knew a lot about this issue. i was floored to see a wide open, in the midst of all the heightened terrorism and all the foreign nationals that are streaming across our border, just how porous it is. it is the understatement of the year that our border isn't not secure. when i visited the u.s.-mexico border, what i saw was people processing, not border security. you would be shocked to learn that virtually 100% of foreign nationals who want to come to the united states do. they're not stopped. when a foreign national

illegally enters the united states, they are taken to a processing facility. i've seen them, where it's determined was not take you to stay in the country. that's the ones that we catch. in order to keep the american people safe we have to secure the border. build a fence. keyport on the spot. don't wait four years. send them back on the spot. [applause] >> we have to know is coming into our country. i was el dorado and they told me that so far this year people from over 140 different countries tried to come in this year, including yemen, sudan, syria, iraq, iran. i could go on. but the legislative battles that we're fighting are only part of this larger effort to revitalize american values. that's why i'm so grateful for the value voter summit. because we know we have to do more than move legislation. we have to move heart.

that's what faith does. and why we have to remind our fellow citizens what it is that makes i us so exceptional. we don't apologize for that. we brag about it to the rest of the world. [applause] you see, we have been such a force for good for about the last 100 years. the world was safeguarded by what was known as pax britannica. england was the world's military and economic superpower. but as we all know things didn't stay that way. summer in the middle of the 1940s we move from what was called pax britannica to pax americana. why? because in the 1940s the united states of america became the economic superpower of the world. and when that happened we also became the military superpower of the world, and we are a force for good and brought peace to different regions of the