i'm glad we have a free market economy and a democratic system but it's not the economy stupid. rather it is the culture stupid [applause]

a culture that respects life, a culture that honors the dignity of every individual and honors the values of our judeo-christian elites. there's no magic to a free enterprise system or democracy or even our mighty military that cannot be undone by men behaving badly. you have heard it said that liberty cannot be established without barrell established without relative normality without faith. today that's an unfashionable symptom in our society. many wanted to believe that a completely secular society is a desirable goal for america. democracy and military might will not -- the countries of western europe have weakened themselves by adapting a secular worldview which pushes matter of faith to the site. i've got no interest in seeing america go the way of europe. as for me --

[applause] as for me i think carville and clinton got it wrong. i think it's a culture stupid. that brings me to and want to talk about today. there's so much this president the obama administration has done that worries me that weakens our country. i worry about $18 trillion in debt and i worry about obama give becoming bureaucrats between us and our doctors and i worry about the epa smothering our economy. i worry about taxes and borrowing in regulation. he worry about the federal government. with conservative leadership we can reverse much of that damage. the thing that worries me the most the thing that keeps me up at night is this president relentless efforts to change the definition of the american dream. you see it in his actions and you hear it in his speeches. if you listen to the present long enough you understand what

he means about the american dream is all about energy and class warfare and it's about redistribution. it's about growing the federal government to make it bigger more expensive more expansive more government involved in our lives. i don't know about you but that is not the american dream that my parents taught me. the american dream i learned about was america we are forever young and our best days are always ahead of us. and america were the circumstances of your birth don't determine your outcomes as an adult in america. we are not guaranteed equal outcomes that guaranteed equal opportunity. if you work hard and get a good education you can do great things in this country. [applause] now the reason this is so important to me is my parents may have lived the american dream. my daddy -- first and only one in the family to get past the fifth grade. literally grew up in house

without electricity and running water. i know because we heard the stories every single day of our lives. [laughter] good luck trying to get a loan from a guy like that. but here's the amazing thing. nearly 50 years ago my parents came halfway across the world from louisiana. they had never been on a plane. they had never been to louisiana. they had never met anybody who had been to louisiana or was from louisiana. imagine you can even ask me what's the weather like and what are the people like? my dad brought his present wife my mom halfway across the world because they knew in their bones even though they had never visited the new that there is a special place and if you got here and they came legally but if you got here -- [applause] and by the way mr. president

it's not that hard. we don't need a conference that bill. all we need to do is for him to do his job and secure the border. that's all we need for him to do. [applause] but they knew in their bones if you could get here and if you work hard you could pursue the american dream. you could create more opportunities for your children and your grandchildren. there was freedom and there was opportunity in this great country. my dad was in a student apartment and didn't know anybody. he wanted job. he didn't want a handout. he started calling company after company in the yellow pages. i loved what happens. he keeps calling and calling and calling day after day a hour after hour. finally he where somebody down. finally there's a guy sight unseen who says to him at the railroad company you can start monday morning. i level my dad says next. he tells his new boss that's

great. i don't have a car, i don't have a driver's license. you'll have to pick me up on the way to work monday morning. [laughter] only my dad could get away with that. they were so taken by his desire to work they did exactly that. six months later i was born. i was what you would politely call a pre-existing condition when i was born. they were married. i didn't predate their marriage. i just predated their insurance coverage and here's the amazing thing. i was born in the same hospital where years later two of our three children will be born. when our kids were born we had to fill out hours of paperwork. when i was born my dad, there was no insurance to cover me. my dad went to the doctor. he didn't sign a piece of paper. he didn't apply for government program. he went to the doctor and he settles into a check every month until i pay this bill in full. that's exactly what he did.

he shook hands with the doctor to man's and a half -- two men in the hospital making a commitment to pay that bill. [applause] i don't know if that would work today. that was a simpler time. i asked my dad how do you pay for a baby on layaway? how exactly does that work? if you skip a payment can they take the baby back? what do they do? he assured me son you are paid for. no one is coming to take you home home. i mention two of our three kids were born in the hospital in the third was a child that was born at home. i don't have time to tell you the entire story but i will tell you one thing i learned from that story. every man in here you need to go home and thank your mom, your wives and sisters and daughters. they are the reason god almighty in his infinite wisdom does not allow men to have babies. the dumbest thing i've ever heard was a week later and church a guy said we didn't plan

this. my wife delivered literally on the floor in our bedroom is just the two of us. everyone was congratulating me. i just caught the baby. i didn't do anything. my part was pretty easy. a week later and church the guy says to me the same thing happened to me. how did the same thing happen to you? he said i had a kidney stone. it's exactly the thing. [laughter] that's the thing i have ever heard. unless it was a nine-pound kidney stone i wouldn't go home and tell my wife that. i will tell you this, i have been married to my wife for 17 years and i've only lied to her once. it was that morning. our baby comes out and they come out all pink and beautiful and wrapped in a blanket. it's not like that in real life. [laughter] she is asking me she can't see him. how does our son look? i was honest. i would have said he doesn't

look like he's done. let's put him back in for a little while longer. i didn't say that. if i was really being honest i would have said he looks like your site of the family. he doesn't look like my side of the family. i like being married so i didn't say nato's things. he's a beautiful handsome boy 10 fingers and 10 toes and here's the amazing thing. she was in pain and she was in distress. the first time i handed her our son to hold for the first time, this was our third child. the first time she held our child she forgot about her pain she forgot about her distress. i fell in love with her all over again when i saw mom holding baby holding her child. just to remind you what a miracle of life, what an amazing gift to be there and to be a part of that. [applause] going back to the american dream my dad dad come it's funny mark

twain said the older you get the smarter your parents become. and it's true. i hate to admit it, the elder i've become and i'm becoming more and more like my dad. i say things i swore i would never say. my dad used to tell us as boys, if your friends jumped off of the bridge would you jump off over bridge? no idea what that meant that i say to my children all the time. [laughter] my dad used to tell us you are not living in a democracy when you live under my house and my rules. i tell my kids all the time. we are not voting on that. daddy just said so. one of the things my dad used to teach us growing up two things. he's a sons i'm not giving you a famous last name or a heritage that i will make sure you get a great education to in america there's no limit to what you can accomplish. the second thing he would tell us all the time would be this. he'd say sonia to get on your knees every night and thank god almighty that you are blessed to be born in the greatest country

in the history of the world, the united states of america. [applause] and now i want to fight to make sure our children and grandchildren can say that same prayer of gratitude as well. i was thinking about what we have done. i can talk about cutting the budgets of 26% cutting 20,000 state government jobs. the largest tax cut in the strongest economy in a generation. consistently ranked the most -- in the country year after year. [applause] her strong second amendment but the one thing i want to talk about is we have worked hard to make sure we give parents educational choice in louisiana so --

[applause] whether kids are homeschooled or christian school or public school or a charter school we want to empower parents. one union leader said in louisiana parents don't have a clue when it comes to making choices for their kids. that is a debate we face today. on our side we trust the american people to make their own decisions. they don't think we are smart enough to go to her children's school and they don't think we are smart enough to drink a big gulp without the government telling us how to live our lives. here's the amazing thing. in our scholarship program 93% in the program. we are spending tens of millions of dollars. academic performance is getting better year after year. and yet the thanks we got for this program is -- and by the way is that great kids have a job?

[applause] my ameriquest is the next attorney general. the constitution before he makes the draft. [applause] the thanks we got was eric holder took us to federal court to try to stop our scholarship choice program. i came here to d.c. at the national press club and i'd announced the obama administration eric holder lawsuit is being cynical immoral and hypocritical. i don't think i'm being invited back to the white house christmas party by the way. but the reason i said that it is it's wrong for the federal government to try to interfere and micromanage the educational choices made in louisiana. it's wrong for them to try to track kids and family public schools and it's wrong for them to say they know better than parents how their kid should be educated which is also why we

are suing the federal government saying the federal government should get common core out of the state of louisiana. [applause] is a violation of the 10th amendment and federal law for the federal government to try to be making curriculum decisions in our classrooms and beyond the philosophical point i invite parents to actually look at the text associated with common core. it makes absolutely no sense. there's no reason to give these federal bureaucrats the right to dictate how our classrooms around in baton rouge louisiana or any state in the united states of america. [applause] you may wonder how in the world to get to the point where the federal government feels like it's got this power. for once i agree with david axelrod. he famously was trying to defend

president obama at one point. he said was in the presidents fault. i don't remember what scandal there've been so many buddies at the federal government is so vast, so expansive the president couldn't possibly know what was going on. that's exactly right. that's exactly the problem. the federal government is so vast and so expansive. remember when bill clinton famously said the air of big government was over? never before has somebody been so wrong about something so important in our modern politics. if i were speaking to several years ago on the stage come if i were to ask you to predict what has happened in our country you wouldn't have believed it. if i had gone back in time and said what he believed the irs would go after conservative groups for their beliefs would would you have believed that? no. if i would have gone back in time and said what he really believe the department of justice would spy on the ap and other reporters, would you have believed back? no. if i could go back in time and said they were going to run at the changeling dollars in debt

and create a new entitlement program and we can't afford the ones we have got now would he have believed back? if i would have gone back in time and said our ambassador in libya was going to be killed and they would blame a youtube video would you have believed back? no. if i would have gone back in time and said defense secretary clinton would get so exasperated about having to answer questions about the study would say what difference does it make? would you have believed back? no. there are so many of these things but maybe this is the most dangerous. we are seeing now an unprecedented assault on our religious liberty rights right here in the united states of america. [applause] you know i was happy that the supreme court ruled 5-4 that the greene family doesn't have to spend over a million dollars in fines to the government simply because they don't want to use their own money to pay for --

but i have a question. why was that a 5-4 ruling? why wasn't that a 9-0 ruling in favor of religious liberty in the united states? [applause] when this president, secretary clinton, they talk about the freedom of religious expression they mean you have the right on sunday morning on wednesday night to have your religious views. that's not religious liberty. that's not what the founding fathers intended. with so dangerous about this there's a freedom of speech and no freedom of association without religious liberty in this country. you may remember when the whole duck dynasty controversy happened. one of the first people to come out and speak out in defense of fill in the robertson family was the governor of louisiana. [applause] you may have thought i did that simply because they are friends. that's not why he did it. you may have thought i did it simply because i found the show

in louisiana and that's not why i did it. you may think i did it simply because little boys are huge fans of the show. and by the way isn't it great to have a tv show you can watch with your kids without being embarrassed for once? [applause] it's not why i did it either. i did it because i'm tired of the left. you see they say that they tolerate diversity of views but they like different opinions. reality is therefore tolerance unless you happen to disagree with them. i'm tired of the hypocrisy in his time to take a stand and say enough is enough. [applause] i knew this president didn't like the second amendment to the constitution. i thought maybe he would at least leave the first one alone. i'm not in favor of lawsuits but for so long we keep saying president obama is a smart man

and a constitutional lawyer. there is one lawsuit i would endorse. i think the president should sue harvard law school to get his tuition money back. i don't know what they learned. [applause] you know there's one thing i wish the president would hear from us loudly today and it is this. the united states of america did not create religious liberty. religious liberty created the united states of america and it's the reason we are here today. [applause] [applause] you may have missed it the person spoke to the national prayer breakfast in this town a few months ago. he spoke eloquently about the

plight of christians being persecuted overseas and he was right. there is a shooting war going on overseas. it's a silent war here. the two are not the same. it was still jarring to hear the president speaks so eloquently in contradiction to what his own administration is doing here at home. once again there is a grand canyon sized gap between what he says and what he does. if you didn't hear his speech this is what the president had to say. you see, the president is concerned about religious liberty. and if you like your religious liberty, you can keep your religious liberty. before i close i have to mention one final thing that has frustrated me about this administration. you see it every day this administration's weakness when it comes to foreign policy continues to make america not only weaker at the world a more dangerous place. this is a president that doesn't

believe in american exceptionalism. this is a president who simply waited while isis gathered strength. they call them the junior varsity team less than a year ago. this is a president who after the barbaric beheading of fully didn't lay out a strategy. indeed at the time he said isis needed to be contained. they needed to be expelled. we never heard him say they needed to be hunted down and killed and destroyed. this is a president that for some reason doesn't seem to understand that when america is strongest the world the safest. that's not just a saying that's a true statement. [applause] i know that doesn't sound very sophisticated to the citizens of the world that occupy this administration but sometimes the truth isn't that sophisticated. sometimes the truth is pretty

simple. our enemies don't fear us. our friends don't trust us anymore. not only is the president dithering may face a stronger but it's made america more formidable and america more week. the reality is this president believes and multilateralism as a goal not as a tactic. we must not give veto power over our own national security our national security, are on foreign policy to foreign capitals of the world. i was going around in 2012 saying this president was the worst president since jimmy carter. after the election i came here to d.c. and apologize to jimmy carter. [laughter] jimmy carter was just incompetent. at least he believed in american exceptionalism. this president surely i think does not understand america's not only the strongest most consistent defender of human dignity and freedom and the world needs america. we are the indispensable nation.

the quicker he realizes there's evil in the world that must be confronted defeated and exterminated, not simply accommodated and negotiated with the sooner we will resume our rightful place in world affairs and the sooner we will be protecting american people and their allies, the sooner we stand with israel unambiguously when they fight hamas. [applause] the sooner we stop drawing artificial red lines and threatening actions that would never come to pass in the sooner we stop inviting russia to go into the crimea and ukraine the sooner we know that america will truly bend again be leading from the front and not leaving from behind. i want to close with one final thought. i have talked to today about the growth of the federal government endangerment of the american dream and what this administration is doing with foreign policy. let me ask this one simple question. when doing the obama

administration are we witnessing the most incompetent administration in our lifetime's? or are we witnessing the most extremely ideologically liberal administration in our lifetime's? i thought long and hard about this question. the only satisfactory question i have is to secretary clinton. what difference does it make? [applause] i will close with this final thought. my dad was right. we are blessed to live in the greatest country in the history of the world but it's not inevitably forever so. every generation has to choose for itself to renew those principles of freedom as our 40th president reminded us. now start time and what gives me optimism and hope is this. the founding fathers got it right. what makes america great or not the buildings in washington d.c.

and not these monuments. it's the freedom they enshrine in our doctrines. they trusted them they trusted to enter the north american mother the american father the american family. they are creating something out of nothing. there's a rebellion brewing amongst us in these united states of america where we are ready for a hostile takeover. we are going to take our country back from the entrenched interest in washington d.c.. god bless you and god bless the united states of america. [applause] thank you very much. [applause] ♪ ♪

earlier today on capitol hill house foreign affairs subcommittee held a hearing about a u.s. marine who is currently being detained in mexico. we mexico. read her mexico. we heard testimony from military veteran and former talkshow host montel williams who discussed the imprisonment of the marine sergeant. here's a look. >> as we ever trusted over and over again andrew made a wrong

turn and get thrown out a couple of terms related to ptsd with that by saying hypervigilance but we have got to slow down for second and take a minute to understand what that means. though jill can say it in others won't say we know for a fact that sergeant tahmooressi's time in this prison has been worse than his time in both combat situations. he is going to come back to the estates and have to be treated for his combat ptsd but also his incarceration ptsd and to me this is an abomination. six months. he didn't hesitate to say iai sir to go off and serve. how dare we. how dare we as a nation hesitate to get that young man back. we sit here in the city and discuss sending more young people off to die. i have a son who is 21 years old who has asked me over and over

again dad should i serve? right now i'm telling him no. that's coming from a guy who did 22 years in the service but no because our government doesn't respect you enough. and how dare they treat him the way they do and the way they will. angers incident is clearly triggered by his ptsd. when he made that turn while in mexico he made a decision to leave. when he got in his car he was probably already triggered and justice so some of you understand suffering -- i suffer from the mass. i have scar some ominous with concussive brain injury so some of the symptoms that i'm talking about her symptoms that i lived through on a daily basis. sometimes pressure and sometimes hypervigilance. i can walk into this hallway and congress were protected and be afraid to walk into that

bathroom. this is what these young men live through and it's sad we have one of our own right now being held in a prison while we talk about it. it is clear everyone understand he is not going to get the treatment he is due. he has served the time i believe for any crime that he could have committed. so bring him home and let's treat him appropriately but his treatment is not going to just be for combat ptsd and remember his treatment for his ptsd from being in prison rests on our shoulders. that portion of a hearing held earlier today by a house foreign affairs subcommittee. you can see the entire event tonight starting at nine eastern on c-span c-span or anytime on line at c-span.org. [applause] >> earlier today british foreign secretary philip hammond outline

priorities of the uk's foreign policy to members attending the conservative party's annual conference. this is 20 minutes. [applause] to be frank with you with everything else that's going on the foreign office is rather relieved not to have to be in scotland to its list of responsibilities. let me start by introducing my fantastic foreign office ministerial team. david livingstone, tobias ellwood james guthridge in the house of lords choice, ian livingstone and ann milton. her indispensable david collins outlook show burke and david brock e.. please give them a big round of applause. [applause] i can tell you that i have inherited a foreign office in great shape with new missions flying the union flag across the

world, ministers visiting countries from australia to somalia that labor had forgotten even existed the language school that labor asked reopened and their culture of mediocrity replacements again by diplomatic excellence. [applause] and all of that is due in no small part to the commitment and the determination of the man who will surely go down as one of the truly great british foreign secretary's, william hague. [applause] >> people rightly credit william with many exceptional qualities and i have to say looking back

over what's happened this summer and beginning to wonder if he's clairvoyant too. [laughter] p. is a very hard act to follow and i have to tell you i take some small comfort in the knowledge that there is just one thing i have that william doesn't. [laughter] [applause] he has left our country a fantastic legacy and i am determined that we will build on that. i have told their diplomats that it might be called at the foreign office that i want them to think of it as the british office because their job is too bad for britain, protecting our security standing up for values in pursuing our prosperity playing a vital role in the conservative plan to secure a better future for britain. by the way, that includes securing the future of britain's overseas territories because

with the conservative government there will be no sellouts, no backroom deals, no betrayals of gibraltar or the falkland islands. [applause] we will defend their right to remain proudly british for as long as that is their wish. in this uncertain and dangerous world conservatives never forget that the first duty of government is securing our nation from external threats. over the course of this summer, we have seen our national security challenge on multiple fronts. russia's aggression in ukraine the barbarity of isil, civil war in syria, crisis and libya conflict in gaza and ebola in west africa. we conservatives know that we

cannot simply wish these problems away. we cannot turn our backs on the world. when disaster strikes, we have the compassion to act. when our values are threatened we have the confidence to stand firm and when the evil rears its head, we have the courage to confront it. [applause] nowhere is that courage going to be needed more than in confronting isil. with their twisted ideology their brutal regimes of beheadings rates and murders they are the antithesis of everything we stand for and left unchecked they would transform swathes of territory into a haven for international terrorism, threat to millions of people in the middle east muslims christians and ecb's alike as well as their own citizens at home and abroad.

an affront to humanity that we must defeat. britain is one of the world's major military powers. we could not in all conscience stand by as american french church damien and emma roddy pilots confronting this menace while we look the other way. it is right that britain shoulders its share of the burden and a great coalition of nations that has come together to defeat the menace of isil and we should be proud that we are doing so. [applause] so let us salute the bravery of our armed forces who once again are putting themselves in harm's way in the interest of the nation. [applause]

of course it's about more than abstract. our strategy is comprehensive. political reform in iraq humanitarian aid for the displaced, weapons of the kurds and a concerted international efforts to cut off isil's funding disrupt the flow of foreign fighters and deal with jihadis attempting to return -- return to the shortage to the shores. isil can and must be driven out of iraq. in syria we will continue to support the moderate opposition who are bravely taking on the isil as well as the self but they cannot win this fight alone. so we are backing the coalition's in syria cleared that the way to peace and serious bias in the defeat of isil defeat of isothermal book aside and a negotiated political settlement. and to those who say that to defeat isil we must do a deal with assad, i say you are mistaken. it was assad's brutal rule

against his own people that are allowed to isil to take root. assad is the problem and he cannot be part of the solution. [applause] a few hundred miles to the north we face a very different challenge. for decades, britain stood firm in the face of the nuclear threat from the soviet union shoulder-to-shoulder with our american allies until we achieved a triumph of freedom over communism. in a 25 years since that victory we have extended the hand of friendship to russia offering investments, trade and partnership. but by his illegal annexation of crimea, by supplying the missile that murdered 298 innocent people on flight mh-17 and by sending russian troops into eastern ukraine, putin has torn up the rulebook and chosen the

path of confrontation. we should be proud that britain has led the way in securing far-reaching sanctions, sending the message that russia's illegal behavior will not be tolerated. [applause] and neither will we allow our nato allies in eastern europe to be bullied. let me remind mr. putin that a threat to any nato member will get a response from us all. that's why we sent our jets to the baltic earlier this year and they will do it again if we need to. [applause] because nato and its principle of collective self-defense protected us through the dark years of the cold war and it will remain the cornerstone of

our defense policy today and going forward. [applause] as serious as these challenges are and write it is that our national security should be the number one priority our foreign policy must also support our long-term economic plan and protect our national sovereignty. under this government our embassies around the world have a clear mission to break open markets, attract new investments, boost british business and create british jobs and its working. our worldwide exports are up 20% since 2009. but nowhere is the need to secure our future prosperity and to protect our national sovereignty clearer than in negotiating a new settlement for britain in europe. [applause]

nearly four decades ago like millions of others in britain i cast my vote, my first-ever vote in favor of our membership of the common market. like millions of others in britain i have watched aghast as that common market has morphed into an institution with the aspirations of a super snake pushing ever closer to imposing red tape and regulation, who bring a powers that properly belong to the nationstates. that is not what i voted for in 1975. it's not what the british people signed up to and it's not the way to build a dynamic and competitive europe of core pretty nationstates. [applause] so reform there must be and i will be perfectly frank with

you, i've always been prepared for the possibility that britain would would be alone in arguing for it. margaret thatcher used to say there's no shame in being in a minority of one so long as you are right and all the others are wrong. [applause] the fact is we are not on her own anymore. slowly but surely the others are coming around to the need for change and to those who say it will never happen i say under this government it has already started. after 13 years of labor surrendering sovereignty to brussels signing of a power after power and treaty after treaty, casually giving up 7 billion pounds of rebates so hard won by mrs. thatcher, for the first time by standing firm and making the arguments we have started to reverse that trend.

david cameron secured the first ever cut in the e.u. budget. we have got britain out of euros on bailouts delivered the biggest reform effort of the common fisheries policy, and reduced a referendum against more powers going to brussels vetoed the creation of an e.u. military headquarters and we have done all that although i think coalition with most brussels loving bunch of europhiles we could ever wish to meet. [applause] just think what a proper conservative government could do. [applause] as i have visited over the last 10 weeks e.u. capitals and met my european counterparts it's clear that the penny is finally dropping. reform has to happen because the current system quite simply has

run out of road. they know that the e.u. will be weaker without britain and so they understand that reform must address the british demands set out in the prime minister's bloomberg speech, because i referendum means that reform has to be substantial, has to be a reversible and it has to satisfy the british people. my political priority between now and next made is to lay the groundwork to marshal their forces and build our battle plan to persuade cajole and convince every single e.u. member of the need for change and change the works for britain so that when we wake up with a conservative government on may the eighth next year we will already be in pole position to get the best deal for britain and europe. our goal is clear. a europe where powers flow from parcels to make nationstates and not the other way around. a europe of the free movement

not freeloading, a europe of cooperating nations not a european -- a europe of open markets and free trade agreements with the world and beyond. europe that can outcompete the best in the world without red tape and regulation is weighing it down but most of all, most of all a europe on which the british people have had their say. [applause] because when it comes to the election next year there will be a clear choice and in a referendum in 2017 with david cameron were no say under ed miliband and labor. we conservatives trust the people and only leave the conservatives will deliver that referendum. no if's, buts. [applause]

so whether it's european bureaucracy, russian aggression islamist extremism or syrian civil war we have a plan in place to deal with the threats to our competitiveness, our security and our sovereignty today and to build a better future for britain tomorrow. after four years of conservative government we have a success story which we should tell with pride. britain is once again an outward looking self-confident nation building economic success at home and walking abroad. with our partners around the world we will defeat the threat from isil. we will stand up for democracy in ukraine and is a conservative government we will deliver that referendum. so when it comes to may the seventh next year the choice will be start. ed miliband and labor offering a bigger deficit a weaker economy

shrinking international presence and no say on europe or david cameron and the conservatives delivering growth, jobs stronger britain and that vital in our referendum. conference or message is clear, britain cannot afford five more minutes let alone five more years of labor. only the conservatives will secure a better future for britain. thank you. [applause] [applause] last week candidates for california's 57th congressional district map for debate in san diego. democratic invented -- incumbent scott peters is challenged by carl tamayo and what recent polling is called a tossup race. here's a portion of that debate now.

>> this is why washington is broken. you get all the special interest to load up this big bill thousands of pages long and we crowd out the issues that people agree on. here's an issue that i think everybody agrees on. we need to secure the border. we need to secure the border first. we need to put the resources and the attention and accountability behind securing our nation's border. not only so that we can prevent an immigration system where people get to run to the front of the line but also for national security issues. who knows who is able to cross into our border in terms of terrorist groups that may want to harm the american people so border security is a critical prerequisite. instead of focusing on something that democrats republicans republicans and independents back and look at the polling nationally and here in san diego latino support a secure border democrats to support a secure border but members of congress want to put poison pills into

these pills have become thousands of pages long and they sit there and point fingers at each other. think we have to focus on issues where we see great unity in this country, securing the border first should be a single subject bill and i think you would get bipartisan support if we focus on those areas of agreement. >> this is the magic of mr. demaio trying to confuse the issue. we had a bipartisan approach. part of it is securing the border. they want to build a fence all the way across the border and virtually double the size of the border patrol. republicans and democrats agree on this compromise. we can't get a vote because the speaker of the house mr. boehner who is supporting mr. demaio won't even put up for a vote and listen this is something i wish everyone would do. u.s. chamber of commerce and the labor committee the farmers and farmworkers the faith community in the tech community all agree and we also know business analyst the harvard business school says this is one of the most important things we could do to get job creation going and

get the economy booming and how important would that be to san diego? all we need is the speaker to put this before the house and we would have immigration reform the next day. >> this is part of the debate held last week intended to putting candidates for california's 52nd congressional district. you can see the entire debate anytime on line at c-span.org. >> here a few of the comments we have received from viewers. >> i love c-span. i get up and watch it every morning and on weekends the

whole book reviews and a whole weekend is terrific. the other thing i really watch very little of the major television channels nbc, abc and those because i think that your programs have more to do with what's going on in everybody's lives so thank you very much. >> i would just like to leave a comment for c-span particularly the c-span "washington journal" program. it's quite incredible to me how c-span has one neoconservative advocate or propaganda staff if it's not from "the wall street journal" it's from the aei or foreign policy initiative or of that ilk and there's no counterbalance. >> i just want to say that c-span is a very good program and a very interesting program.

it is educational and it's also helping me keep abreast of current events. >> continue to let us know what you think about the programs are watching. call us at 202-66-3400 or e-mail us at comments at c-span.org or send us a tweet at c-span hashtag comments. like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >> last week maryland governor martin o'malley spent -- spoke for the portsmouth democratic party. it's his third visit to the granite state this year. this is one hour, 10 minutes. >> i'm supposed to see you later on. >> hi, how are you? >> good evening, governor.

[inaudible conversations] >> how are you doing? >> thank you. if you just go over and speak to john. >> sure. which one is jp? >> hi. this is my wife gail. >> how do you do mr. o'malley? >> you know my son justin. he's a big supporter. it's nice seeing you. she is wonderful. >> good luck. >> thank you. >> i can stand up a little longer. >> the hip thing? >> spinal stenosis.

>> thank you. great to see you guys. thanks for being here. >> it's good to see you. >> how are you john? is this your tv producer? is the friendly? >> he belongs to you. >> thank you. >> you never know. >> it's nice to meet you. >> she is running senator clark's campaign. >> it's good to see you michael. >> i saw him. danny was sitting in the corner. >> is she going to win? >> of course she is. >> she should.

>> i hear you have got a great band. >> well thank you. >> this is terry. >> it's good to see you. how's it going? >> dave allen, he's your new treasure in the state. >> good, a very good guy. very nice of him to step up like that. >> senator. now you are the happier of two senators. [laughter] >> she's pretty tough. >> what's so special about her

she has support. >> that is the desired quality. >> it's good to see you. thank you for supporting the senator here. >> i am anti nice to see you. >> it's good to see you. we have a nice crowd here martha. >> it's all because you are here. >> thank you. she is a charmer too. >> this is the counselor in portsmouth. >> it's good to see you. >> it's good to meet you as well.

>> that's good, democracy in action. regarding the longest-serving? >> how many years? 27? how many? >> 36. >> that's good. did many great people vote for you? not many great people in new hampshire? >> laura and i both come from maine. >> how long have you been on the council? >> this is my fifth term. we only do two years so that's not that long. we are all here writ large so we all turnovers but every two years --.

>> it keeps everybody close. even your marriage. and knott. >> how many terms if you then and now martha? >> six terms and a senator for four terms. >> which do you like best? >> they are very different. >> hi. >> roger stephenson. my daughter todd at the baltimore leadership school for young women. >> my daughter is a teach for america teacher. she's in her second year in baltimore city public schools. >> jackie worked in the baltimore public schools developing curriculum and testing

testing -- and knott p ifs microstation. it's my crab tie. >> the climate in maryland is terrific. >> we have got a lot of shoreline. >> i'm on the commission here. we have a lot to learn from you. >> we have a lot to learn from each other. it's happening fast here. thanks a lot. >> what is your daughters named? >> my daughters name is grace like amazing grace. your daughter's name is? >> jacqueline stevens. she's doing a great job. >> i would love to meet her sometime. thanks a lot. >> yes maam. >> i'm the chair of the working

cultural center. if you come back to town come see us. >> i would love to see you. >> going back hundreds of years? is that a lot of shipbuilding? >> yes. >> we are just opening it up now. we have been working on since 2000. >> up we don't remember we forget. >> i'm very honored to have governor om malik here from maryland and when i was looking over all the things they wanted me to say about you i

realize. >> are those the things that governor hassan asked you to say about many? >> she will in a minute. .. >>

>> >> great to have someone who appreciates to come here. you will sign it for me. [laughter] since 2006 this gentleman has been fine and upstanding man as governor. [applause] i just have a few highlights of his career. i will just speak a little bit about his role and the

things you have done. you were in the legislature for seven years. and an appointed assistant state attorney for the city of baltimore and the baltimore city council 1991 through 1999. lookout. [laughter] and chaired the legislative investigation. so you can see while he became governor and then there and also he brought with him a very strong financial background that has just enhanced the

viability of the state of maryland. those are just a few items. his wife cady, is a district court judge and they have two daughters. and two sons. and their members of the st. boniface catholic church. end they play a mean guitar. [laughter] >> just to say a few words i will be introducing you at dinner. >> so i will not but he is great to. and welcome. [applause] >> thank you very much for being here this evening to support martha. she is an outstanding leader

and this state produces so many strong women what is in the water here? [laughter] it is wonderful to be here on her behalf and hopefully will see some of you had dinner as well. thank-you for having us in your home a few months ago. it is true that i do appreciate architecture but that half is not mine. [laughter] it is the people of maryland but it was great to see when you came down. i love your governor her effectiveness to get things done and whole -- and get people together a unanimous bipartisan budget. [applause] we have been able to get difficult things done with votes from both sides of the aisle but we cannot get an animus -- unanimous vote on

adjournment. [laughter] >> also figure to my friend for coming up and also john cole who is here somewhere. jennifer has been working appear from maryland as part of our leadership. [applause] >> i figured at least it was what we could do censure opponent was from maryland. [laughter] let me tell you briefly if you have known her probably longer than i have, but i just want to say a couple words. there is good news on the horizon. i have had to go around the country to speak to dinners and you can get a sense for our country is going from the attitudes of our young people. i am absolutely convinced we have 200 years of creative

service still in front of us. there is still emerging in the country and awareness how our economy works when it works well. it is a balanced approach and combination of investments and sometimes raising the floor so when people work hard and play by the rules they don't have to raise their children in poverty. also there is a new way to govern and being done by your own chief executive. not left or right or moving people forward but measuring performance. it is not locking people out of rooms but to create a bigger circle because the more perspective we have around the problem the more likely we are to come up with the solutions. [applause] and there is a third awareness that is emerging in the marseille club that all her life has been at the forefront of this.

a deeper understanding of the vital connections we share. and their importance of strengthening them. the connection between our build environment and the natural environment between the quality of our own lives and the other living systems of this environment and our relationship and connections and to one another but also through our past and what that tells us about the connections be will have through our children's ability to build lives. where every person gets up there shot to be successful to give their children a better way of life. and martha is that mindful servant legislature --

legislator that is a hallmark of the democracy here in the granite state. people who have worked on a number of things but they bring wisdom for them service of others to realize that in fact, there is a lot more that unites us than denies us. and you are very, very lucky to have her. coming from my friend so i encourage all with you to work hard. send her back strong. and also a gene and carol, you all are leading the country and leading the way. we had a little bobble people have a sense of what can happen if you go off to ideology. but collaborative and mindful leaders will sign it -- to solve our problems.

thank you very much. [applause] >> and another big round of applause for our speaker. [applause] >> thanks allot. >> did you see the looks? [laughter] and that is his wife. down there. spiro agnew. all the first lady's of maryland. >> we can show you. [laughter] these of the women of the granite state.

[inaudible conversations] >> thanks for coming. >> that's right. [inaudible conversations] how are you doing? good. good. >> i have over 200 people coming. [inaudible conversations]

>> i have won back when it with too much time at the beach. >> where were we that day? >> maybe that was two years ago? you had that great irish skin. that is george? >> absolutely. can you do us a favor?

deal with your -- do you live here? >>. >> i live along the coast. >> excellent. >> we have a construction company in boston. >> get has developed a lot. >> we still get together. what do? >> thanks for coming

tonight. thanks a lot. come around. thank-you. >> this is my husband. you know every person there is the spouse that puts up with a lot. >> we see people taking swings at us. >> i have some bones to pick [laughter] [inaudible conversations] plus you have a very courageous woman.

[laughter] and wendy? >> but she went down. >> she keeps telling you of the connection. president one of great race but he is also very courageous public servant and integrity will be the attorney general in maryland. it is looking good cynically hopes so. [laughter] >> that could be you to. >> this is my second. [laughter] has the deputies stepped up?

>> no. he forced the resignation. but there is a leader in the office was part of that leadership team that won the primary for the republican nomination so the goal is to make sure he can keep that. >> good luck to you. >> you are county attorney? criminal and civil? >> know. is all county they don't break it up by districts. >> exclusively criminal prosecutors? >> i did that for a couple years in baltimore city. then the licet the budget so much we went from six to three with the entire state. that was a big mistake can still trying to get back. >> not the quality of justice. >> no.

>> it is hard spending, much less justice does he want? >> we cannot predict that. >> as much as he can get i think. >> exactly. >> good luck to you it is an honor to me use gimmicky banging on doors. >> three losing a lot of weight? >> no. they feed me too much. last time i put 40 pounds on. >> early? >> we have to have you run around. i run the dog in the morning barbara thank you.

>> i could not have broken in here without you. >> hello. nice to meet you. >> we all have our problems. [inaudible conversations] how are you tonight? deal like it? [laughter] what committee? that is fun. [inaudible conversations] good for you.

>> at least they have the opportunity. butted has been that way forever. but i tend to be with you i will say hi to some of your neighbors. neighbor. your neighbors?

hello. >> was begun on a statement of fact. hello. [laughter] thanks for being here. [inaudible conversations]

good. you get to bring people together. >> i bring them together. yes. >> nothing wrong with that. >> hello i am running for state representative. >> this sounds like an. >> knock on the door. they're not looking for your autographed that i am looking for your e-mail. [inaudible conversations]

en no reference to deny. but next year, yes. now you know, everything i know about politics. [laughter] how are you? hello again. deal make that appear? >> every day. >> what about your videos?

be careful. [inaudible conversations] but the rest of about. it is pretty good.

it is good to see you. good to see you. [laughter] to read a letter to the book? [laughter] you read these? leer everything. >> hello. that is all great.

and then they said there is a funny person. [laughter] >> yes. [laughter] it is good to see you. give me an update. >> i tried when i get my car. >> 8q -- thank you. >>

[inaudible conversations] o that is great. which one is set? may be that way? >> how are you? how long? >>.

>> okay thanks a lot. [inaudible conversations] [applause] i had a special honor to welcome our guests here tonight i am honored our friend martin o'malley is your governor martin o'malley has worked over the last eight years to expand middle-class opportunity to put maryland on the map to a better economic future for all citizens. he has bought to strengthen the state's public schools and businesses to create

jobs and invested in infrastructure improvements and stood up for marriage equality, and signed into law a measure for minimum wage. [applause] martin o'malley knows that people and everyone counts. and he knows how to put that core democratic principle into action. governor o'malley has a fantastic record of progress that will keep maryland families strong for generations to come. and he is a fantastic example of what democratic governors can do and are doing across the country. [applause] >> so it is really wonderful to be here in portsmouth the mayor spoke earlier and a you have this city in many

aspects remind me of my city of baltimore. also it is good to see other friends from campaigns past in the gary hart days and stopping by all coordinated campaign headquarters about -- boy given a standing group of men and women working on your campaign. [applause] i can see that we should call chairman buckley that little speed wobble that we had? i know governor your people appreciate good leadership and they feel a lot better for the direction they're headed thanks to you in the good work you have done. i could not help, i want to share with you, just a few words of encouragement. i know when you tune in to

some of the cable shows you get discouraged and it is easy watching gridlock in congress. but i have been traveling all around the country going to as many places as i can to help the democratic party and his charismatic is any leader is unless we stick together and we are strong. but as i have travelled around the country and i hear three really positive things to happen in our country and just in the course of the program, one is there is an emerging consensus how our economy works when it is working. and you saw that. people realize there's more to making your economy work with the corporate bottom

lines and valuable things with the dignity of every individual that the economy built from the middle up not the middle out but the young people. [applause] some of us, some of your parents thought wittingly and dunnville unwittingly the secret to prosperity was to become more separated and distant from others. but you guys have a right and you call our country back to the truth but it is our connections to one another that make us strong and we need each other so we knew that every day in terms of our choices but the third

emerging trend is this. and your case you see it in your governor's office. it is a new wave of leadership by men and women who were solving problems all across america. is not about ideology but solving problems. it is not about bureaucracy but doing the things that work. is not about a chain of command inviting more people to be a part of solving our problems together. that is the maryland and american way we're the greatest problem solving people on the face of the plan as you have 37 days to go until election day. are you ready?

let's all join hands. 38 days. that means your 30 days away from reelecting our governor. [applause] we're 38 days away from reelecting or congressman porter and 30 days away from another term for united states senator shane. [applause] it is true when you demonstrated here in the great states of new hampshire. and then to underline the word resident to show a man from massachusetts what it

means on the college the granite state. [applause] and we succeed when our congresswoman trump's her do nothing opponent. and we succeed by electing maggie to continue her leadership. [applause] she brings people together to get things done. a bipartisan budget and expansion of medicaid to secure new transportation funding so new hampshire has modern transportation infrastructure. and they have driven down unemployment to the lowest level since 2008. [applause]

i want to ask you something to understand why all of these offenders -- strong men are attracted to the women. [laughter] shouldn't they be running for office in their own home state? [cheers and applause] the think women should earn equal pay for equal work? our ready to move america forward again? but it is important to preach to the choir otherwise they may stop singing. [laughter] i wanted to share and talk about the history of us of baltimore and maryland and new hampshire and america.

back in 1999 and i was elected mayor of baltimore my city had become the most violent and abandoned city in america. between the baltimore we carried in our hearts and the one we saw on our streets there was the big difference. the biggest enemy was not drug dealers or crack cocaine but the culture of failure and why they could not do anything if they were smart should not try. we set out to make our city work again. and then began relentlessly to close them down. and we expanded drug

treatment into recovery and after one year of life saving progress we turn a bright light directly on to the heart of despair that grab our city for far too long. we launched a campaign that we called in one important and powerful world -- word, simply, believed. the first ad we we encourage local affiliates to air the first one simultaneously the same night. it was a form a commercial. as you walk with the young 10 year-old african-american boy in his life in our city it begins with a homeless man gaijin drug dealers and suburban buyers and hypodermic needles and

ultimately been wondering where his little sister had gone because she left to go buy candy at the corner store and he finds her. that he finds her in the center of the group of first responders and other young victim of drug dealer crossfire killed in the drive-by with tightly braided hair eyes wide open lying in a pool of blood the narrator's voice says the people in baltimore are in a fight for their future in one we have been losing one life at the time. people say give up we have lost. for the strong and the brave. the fight is not over.

how to make a stand together. and then those words be leased. believe in yourself. believe in us. baltimore. believe. from three very difficult and painful weeks we swear we were not receiving any kudos from the booster business community. why did we run them? it was in order to change the future. calling to people to take action to call 1800 believe. call the police department believed in us. get someone you love into drug treatment. networks and is widely available.

100 believe. did you know, what? it did work. the people of baltimore rallied. and of course, as you might suspect it was not about the signs or bumper stickers that something deeper the belief there is no such saying is that over the next tenures banks to courageous first responders who gave their lives in space of duty. is the first major city of america. [applause] >> i share that story with you this evening because believed friday's - - drives action we as americans are going through time of misbelief with more excuses and action more etiology than cooperation.

lease seemed to have lost that shared conviction we once had that we could come together to solve problems to make things better for our children and theirs. between the efforts we carry in our hearts and the america we see in the headlines. america and our hearts are those that work hard and play by the rules can get ahead. the american and our headline is too often a place for wall street profit. richer than ever from those paychecks for becoming smaller and smaller. the american and our hearts remains the nation that it created by choice this land of opportunity that has sought the world over where to many kids are

shortchanged by the inadequate education too many cannot go to college and those that do often come out and take months and months or longer to find the job. this reminds me the story of the prizefighter. and finally has the opportunity and says it is not with the a their guy is doing to you but what you're not doing for yourself. [applause] whether we think we can or can we're probably right but i have had enough of this cynicism and apathy in death of giving in too low expectation of one another.

remember the greatest job generating opportunity in the history of the free world and we still are. [applause] for 235 years we're the country that led the world over and over in large part by making one another stronger here at home. do you think it is time to do it again? >> think about it the patriots that made our country great. to pray for their president to succeed. [applause] and our founders they

revered learning they aspire. they inspired american courage and would never ever abandon the war on poverty to declare war on women, workers, war on workers or the sick or hungry children. [applause] of course, even i know it is best for our country if our republican brothers and sisters and they are our brothers and sisters come to the table of democracy off friday is to help us solve our problems. from the left and their right wing but as democrats and americans we have venice been set -- responsibility right now.

about a stronger middle-class and a better future by the choices we make no. after hoover america needed roosevelt after eisenhower we needed kennedy after reagan we needed clinton after eight miserable years of george bush american needed barack obama. [cheers and applause] no president inherited a bigger deficit bigger job losses or as large the deficit as president obama. thanks to his leadership america is moving forward again. 64 months in a row of positive job creation and we have more to do. 54 months of positive job creation. [applause] that is 142,000 jobs.

there is still too many neighbors unemployed. and out in a battle every day is about the country we carry in our heart. these teapartier republicans of the wealthy economic roles as friends him and and and business, a limited capacity. they actually see our country as a place for a privileged few. for those who see the future of less for our country we should ask the very serious and honest question, it would be good for our country?

homage would make her children smarter? how many graduates would make it more competitive? how many hungry american children camino longer afford to feed? picture their faces. they're understood the truth about the american dreams but the strong remake your country the more she gives back to us and our children and grandchildren. we're not going to solve our problems by doing less. we must do more. we must do more together. that is what we have done. to create new jobs and new economies but to build a modern economy with a purpose. into investor children's education to rebuild infrastructure and to make

opportunity more affordable for all and a stronger middleclass is the cause of economic growth. we increase the earned income tax credit becoming the first day in the nation to pass a living wage a lot. [applause] and we increased minimum wage at $10.10 per hour. why? because it is the right thing to do? yes but also the smart thing workers earn more money and businesses have customers and the whole economy grows. it does not trickled down from the top. it never has, and never will maclaurin does not grow from the tassel down a thriving economy is built from the middle out and middle of the stronger middleclass is not

the consequence of economic growth or a luxury byproduct, it is the center of all economic growth. [applause] but of course, the test is always results. doesn't work? maryland is now creating jobs with one of the fastest rates of the region over the last four years. we have not only achieved the highest median income in the nation but also raided one of the top states for upward mobility another's are wrestling with that issue the u.s. chamber of commerce which is hardly a mouthpiece for the maryland democratic party made as the number one state in america for innovation and entrepreneurship for the third year in a row. progress is not just

creating more secure future so to expand the collective bargaining rights. reaction we support teachers and value the work that they do. [applause] and advocating purple -- people away with refugee children seeking refuge from war in extreme poverty in central america we are a good and generous people. [cheers and applause] with the belief of every child's potential we pass to the dream acting mayor lin said dream of every human being passing marriage equality in maryland. [applause] [inaudible conversations]

>> i am. my name is mary. really? yes. i love it. >> you noticed? >> i did. >> good luck. thanks a lot. >> thank you.

>> i wonder where easing about our federal policy? >> we need to grow this economy will never retire the deficit unless you make better invest -- investments to make the economy grow. the president if you look at some of the reductions over the last few years years, president obama spending increase has been small compared to any other president in modern times. but we're not doing is what we used to do even with reagan the amount of discretionary investment with infrastructure the rose and the research and other things we need to restore the balance. we can do that to get a real growth of wages to go on the

right direction it appears scary when you put it on the horizon comes into balance. i guess another way to say it on a smaller scale in baltimore is make a lot of cuts to do difficult things but most important was to stop shrinking and losing people because by making the city safer we finally started the gross. -- the gross. like immigration reform could help the longer-term back trends. >> how about that? >> with the election in baltimore. >> tell me your name?

>> carl gables been met good to see you. i have not seen you 20 years. >> that is what i said. >> i moved up here 20 years ago. >> i remember that. good to see use the mackey found his way. >> thank you. it is great to see you again. >> there are some people that i need to call. but i want to introduce you to my mother. [laughter] >> you were great. larvae doing a picture? those are free. >> in that case you alcan get one.

>> it is a pleasure to meet you. is your only son? >> i have three to firemen. >> absolutely. >> that was slow. >> push the right buttons. >> thank you. no, no, no. i will do this for you. i will come to you. there really good.

that is the book. >> thank you so much. i just want to tell you my a said trade in the war on poverty i never experienced eye you describe it i'll never forget. it just brought a halt to the surface for me. unbelievable life experiences. it was the beginning. from west virginia and kentucky coal my god. you are amazing and so wonderful.

>> did decent hard-working people. thank you very much. >> as a decent person the last time we talked you were finished then you went for a pizza and were sitting there. the guy gets a picture and you put your pizza down and you got up and posed than i was down on one knee. [laughter] and you came over and helped me get up. [laughter] >> another sign of old age. >> don't forget my books. >> another picture?

he has like three chapters. there rigo. >> good to see you again. >> how were you? houri? i did not know. are you heading account? >> yes. thanks to be here to help with the audience. deal ever send young people look to the campaign? and jennifer. she is working for the governor. >> that's great. we saw her at a fund-raiser.

smith and they told me to send more people. >> we had 200 young people said resonates and we could deploy them to a number of states and a number of races. that's good. with idealism and energy we can use the help. good luck. >> you have a part of this area? >> no purpose of my district starts literally just south of portsmouth. newcastle. they used to be represented at of part of the southern state but then with redistricting it was changed. . .

>> this afternoon secret service director julia pierson resigned her position. a "washington post" article noted that she resign during a series of security lapses by her agency, including a recent incident in which a man with a gun was allowed on an elevator with president obama. it came just 24 hours after she