it is also true that it is difficult for women in some ways. when they get into acquisitions of authority are sometimes caricatured differently. i certainly was as a ceo. sometimes they are scrutinized and criticize differently because it is different it is new and that makes it hard.

away i think we should think about this is to recognized that human potential is the only limit this resource we have in this world. it is fell only resource we need to solve every problem we have and attack every opportunity in a successful way. women are half the potential of this nation. women are the majority of voters so it just makes sense. if you look around women's potential hasn't been fully cap to. that means something for all of us. i think we should be tapping everyone's potential, men and women and make sure that regardless what somebody looks like or what their gender is for where they come from or what their circumstances are that their life is defined by possibilities and they can go as far as their god-given gifts carry from. then we will have arrived as a nation men and women alike. >> we will switch it up and go

to a social media question from facebook. michael is asking what are you going to do about the illegal immigrants in the country? >> it is such an important issue because for obvious reasons but it is an important issue as well because i think it's continued existence as a problem in our nation is corroding people's faith in government. how long has this been going on and we haven't solved it. i would start by doing the basics. we have to secure the border. it hasn't been secured for at very long time. people have been talking about it, something the federal government is responsible for if we don't the problem gets worse, we have to secure it because enemies figured out we have a porous border.

when government doesn't do its basic job people lose faith in government's ability to do everything, that is corrosive to our democracy. secondly we have to fix the legal immigration system. the legal immigration system has been broken for decades, 15 visa programs, just overstated and nobody cared, letting the wrong people go home, letting the wrong people in we have to fix legal immigration system. and finally, what people are doing here illegally. when you come here illegally and changed illegally you don't get the privilege of citizenship because there are a lot of people who play by the rules worked hard to become citizens. maybe you know some. a study, they take the oath, take the privilege of citizenship seriously. i don't think it is fair to say someone who hasn't gone through

every of that just gets the same privilege. perhaps you can earn legal status at some point, perhaps your children can become citizens. americans are compassionate people but we are fair minded people too. i think we need to be fair to those who worked hard, played by the rules and earned the privilege of citizenship. >> let's get to our next studio question. >> thank you for taking my question. someone who earns minimum wage which is $7.25 an hour, less than $300 a week is barely an up to pay rent loan otherwise necessities. if elected president what policies would uni to assure the strengthening of working families, business and the economy and is an increase in minimum wage one of those policies? >> first i think a minimum wage is a classic example of a policy that is best carried out in the state's because if you are here

in new hampshire it is not the same set of economic conditions or expensive living as l.a. or new york city so to me a national minimum wage doesn't make a lot of sense. secondly i pink if states raise the minimum wage and many have and i don't have any problem with states doing that but people have to realize there are trade-offss. one of the trade offs as we have extremely high youth unemployment in this country and one of the many things young people do is start in minimum-wage jobs. lot of people starting minimum wage jobs not because they want to end up in minimum-wage jobs but because they want to learn skills that allow them to get a better job. i say to young people having started as a secretary, not being paid very well, i say don't wait for the perfect job just get a job because any job you get you going to learn things learn skills, learn

about yourself, learn about the world around you. when we make it harder for businesses to hire young people worry about that because young people don't get the skills they need. the final thing i would say is the most important job creation engine in this country is small and family-owned business. the nine person real-estate firm i started out in, a family-owned auto body shop the my husband frank started as a tote truck driver i come from the world of technology and we celebrate steve jobs and bill gates that the people we should celebrate our the nail salon dry cleaner, quarter coffee shop, long care company, real-estate firm because they create two thirds of the new jobs in this country and employ half the people and for the first time in u.s. history we are destroying more businesses than we are creating and the businesses we are destroying our those small and family-owned businesses and unless we get the engine of growth going again we won't get the middle class growing again.

>> almost out of time for the tv portion of our program but i want your perspective on this. people complain about the influence of big business when it comes to government. given your former positions does that offend you when you hear that or do you agree with it because you have seen it? >> is true. let's be honest. as the seat of a $90 billion company i may not have liked regulation or taxation legislation but i could hire accountants and lawyers and lobbyists to try to change it or to understand it or take advantage of it. at 9 person real-estate firm can't. that is why we are crushing the small family-owned businesses. the truth is big government and big business and big labour get all intertwined and they work the system. if you look at something like dodd-frank, big piece of

legislation regulation, ten bank's too big to fail became five thanks too big to fail 3,000 community banks of gone out of business. they can't handle the complexity. >> we will pick back up and a net but we are signing of the television portion of the program, thank you for joining us thanks to our audience. this will continue on line in our mobile apps, another 30 minutes more of questions for the studio audience, all that commercial free, thanks for watching, have a great night. >> good evening and welcome to our "conversation with the candidate" c reese. our guest this evening is for maryland governor republican bob ehrlich and tonight we get to know where bob ehrlich stands on key issues. i will be asking a few questions and after a break the studio audience will ask questions in a town hall style format but before that let's look at the

candidate's biography. bob ehrlich was born in 1957 in maryland in a suburb outside baltimore, he studied political science at princeton university and cocaptain of the football team graduated princeton in 1979 and got his law degree from wake forest university school of law, moved back to maryland to work for baltimore law firm and ran successfully for the house of delegates. in 1994 the republican was elected to united states house of representatives and would serve four terms in d.c. is a congressman in 2002 he was elected governor of maryland served one term during which he enacted maryland's first-ever charter school of. today bob ehrlich continues to practice law and is considering a run for president because he feels the country has an insecure economy, culture and sense of national security. bob ehrlich is married with two sons. >> with that, bob ehrlich welcome to the show. every once in awhile it happens. you are here and the unique circumstances, thank you for being here. you have been in the news a lot because of what is taking place

in maryland, particularly the city of baltimore. >> it is tough times not unique to baltimore. people think there is insight into what is going on and there is some specific insight being a west baltimore kid, but these urban areas, depressed areas, this particular area has not seen a lot of economic development in many years. the issue of race plays into it. played into the decision with the governor whether to move the national guard into town, so called lessons of ferguson militarization, all those issues come out, talking before the show, but mother who now has gone viral just literally in my view tangible example of love, running to her child to literally save her child but

also brings up issues about denigration of the family where are the fathers, what about the quality of public education, many do not have very good marks concerning the ability to educate kids. this is a familiar set of issues but it is personal in this context for me right now and you are tired of seeing me on tv but hopefully something good will come from this. >> we could spend the entire area thought about this topic. but a couple different things, how do you think the leadership reacted in the and the aftermath? >> larry hogan the governor was my appointment secretary. i started in politics with him worked for his dad. he has done a pretty good job and i think i understand the reason the guard was called in when it was. than a year receiving some not so good marks. the issue of allowing, it appears this is the case i originally defended her but it

appears the calm down to the police was allow property destruction, that resulted -- given space if your car was as clean them and the space your car was torched if your business was between them and the space your business was torched. >> you disagree. >> i do. a couple hundred cars were torched. dissing you saw, that was a symbol of this neighborhood people shopped there. this neighborhood this area is a pretty tough area. she is receiving some criticism. i thought she misspoke, her staff did not fix it. in reality appears she meant what she said originally which was give them space to do their thing. >> the reality, we will get to some other issues in the course of this hour but a couple other things.

you are considering a run for president, no news to you that there are others in the field. >> there is? >> some of them have some name id. >> i didn't know most of them. >> with such a wide open field what motivates you? >> i have been in congress and in a state legislature, i have written two books i care about our country, i have a 15-year-old and 11-year-old i care about where we are and where we are going and don't like where we are or where we are going particularly the european style progressivism brought to our shores under the obama administration and as you introduce me you talked-about this sense of insecurity concerning our economy culture and national security. it is why i wrote my second book and have been in new hampshire my seventh or eighth time. >> a couple minutes to go about foreign policy is a major issue with all the candidates talking about this whether it is isis, a

nuclear deal with iran or our general approach to people. >> nobody can say they are surprised. the president said no preconditions, i will sit down with tyrants, miscreance, bad guys of the world, no preconditions and as a result we are paying the price, you see the intangible forum with cuba and iran and it is a sense of weakness and acquiescence and indulgence that the greatest force for good in the history of the world is throwing out and as a result our allies are not trusting us and enemies are not fearing us. >> how would you deal with isis? >> i would not call them j z. the intelligence was they were serious and we are renting iranians, a position of weakness. >> the nuclear deal with iran? >> i don't know how anyone can have an opinion on it because

nothing has been defined yet. snapback, how will you have a snap back sanction if you have to go through the u.n.? >> they have a right for nuclear program? >> henry kissinger wrote in the wall street journal three weeks ago our policy is known nuclear era and. now is a nuclear iran on a schedule. that is a destabilizing force in the world and the sunni world is saying what about us? the great issue for the next president is going to be do you extend the nuclear umbrella to those arab allies like the saudis the jordanians, that will be difficult question because the denominator has changed. >> we're just about ready to take a break but a lot of people think we don't need to coalition builder, a lot of people think we do and the immediate reaction toward isis. >> you always need coalitions but a position of strength get what you can.

you operate again, what do we get in cuba bowe bergdahl, a couple terrorists backed out fighting as. appears this president is pre dispose, i think it is a philosophical approach to the issues, predisposed to be relatively weak and indulgence. remember the initial apology tour he began his presidency with an apology tour to the world. we never heard about all the american blood spilled over the years for the muslim world for example. it was an apology tour. the president thinks we are in imperialists country. if we are an imperialist country we are the worst imperialists in the world because the first question the american public asks whenever we put our boys and girls in harm's way, when are they coming home? when are they coming home? we are great country and you're giving me the sign. we are not imperialists and we

shouldn't be weak or apologetic for projecting american strength and protecting our interests around the world. >> after the break we will get to our studio audience. a lot of topics to cover. be right back. >> now conversation with a candidate continues. >> welcome back. our conversation with former maryland governor republican bob ehrlich. time to get to our audience and bring in questions from them. let's get right to it. our first question is from memory, good seeing you. >> welcome, governor. my question is what is the biggest impediment republicans face in getting one from their party elected president? >> young women and minorities. the democrats painted a narrative last time that a lot of young women bought into, the anti woman thing, mitt romney

was going to -- the birth control pills. you saw silly as in colorado, republicans are against birth control, a lemonade birth control. these ads might be silly we might laugh at them but people buy them and a couple cycles ago you had two republican candidates with their comments about rape. these two candidates. in politics they take those comments which were horrible comments and they play into the narrative and the narrative place out and negatives work and in politics people say they hate negative ads. negatives didn't work nobody would use some. they work, trust me. the biggest problem is the gender gap. democrats have a gender gap call but male gender gap. women vote more than men and the female gender gap republican candidates is there.

it is in very stark terms. it has something to do with abortion but less to do with abortion and it used to quite frankly. it has to do with the messaging from the party as well. if you are young woman with kids and you don't have an education, trying to make your way the want to hear republican candidate talk about independence and entrepreneurship and freedom? the democrats talk about we are there for you and we're going to help you, we will have a social welfare state to support use of part of it is the messaging the comes out from the party's. i do think we can do a better job. with regard to minorities, particularly hispanic vote, looking at the new deal coalition. i am german married a polish girl, that used to be that was the coalition. that was 50, 60 years ago. what is the base of the

republican party today? suburban ethnic immigrants second, third generation. as a result with regard to hispanics i think in the hispanic community generally we can really do better, do well. there are a lot of values with republican values and we need to do a better job selling it. that leaves immigration. this is important. we have to pay this immigration bill security and sovereignty we can get the details in a second but as long as democrats have this ability to say they are anti-immigrant, if they don't care about you, and play that narrative we have a problem as a community. it is y mitt romney loss. african-americans, this is a show unto itself. this is gigantic. mike steele is my lieutenant governor, first african-american in the state of maryland. i have been to lots of black churches and talked to lots of

black pastors. the disconnect is real. mike steele was impeached as a result of his skin and it was racist. we got to get to a decade our country where it is okay to be black and republican. mike was pro-life and catholic too. right now in certain segments of our society that is not the case. i used the term reaching out because it is a 2 way street. i do believe i am cautiously optimistic very optimistic concerning the hispanic vote. the women vote we need to work on. african-american's we have a long way to go. >> sorry about low one word answer. >> a complex question but guess what, that answer, that answer is a function of where the country is going to go. because if we can do some of that mix of progress we can win the election. >> next one from the audience,

dina, take it away. >> welcome, governor. how do you suggest we preserve and perhaps expand social security? >> raise the retirement age, fix the disability of social security, has increased fourfold over the last six years i don't think claims increased over six years, and i think we have to make these difficult decisions. i write about this in my second book. we are living longer. the life tables are what they are. we are not in the new deal anymore. i think the next president at some point has to get serious about entitlements. not just social security. it is also medicare medicaid, we need reconciliation bill in congress that we can get enough democrats to vote on.

president bush tried as you know tried, he was absolutely absolutely crushed in trying to reform social security. as long as class warfare is a component of the attack on social security it will be difficult to attract democratic votes to get real reform done. real leaders lead. i will make this point, the analogy. ronald reagan sat down with tip o'neill. they said they didn't agree on anything and they sat down together and they agreed on comprehensive tax reform that lasted until now. we need comprehensive tax reform. they sat down together, presidents lead. to achieve in title reform, social security, medicare, medicaid you need a president to lead. this president doesn't even talk to congress, this president doesn't talk to the senate. it is not his comfort zone. we need a president who will go

up the street, sit down majority leader, minority leader, coalition together and lead the country. as long as republicans do it unilaterally republicans are going to get crushed just like president bush. >> thank you for the question. >> the disability is going to be bankrupt in less than two years with >> what about eliminating the cap. on social security. >> everything should be on the table. after testing medicare, it is in my book. >> thank you for the question. you have to be honest with the numbers. >> erica. all yours. >> everyone screws up my name too. >> welcome to new hampshire. there's a growing opportunity gap in america which we are seeing across geographic, racial and partisan divides, lower income kids often scarred school behind and have difficulty catching up with their peers.

do you think public investments in early childhood intervention such as preschool can reverse this trend and ensure that all kids regardless of background can have an equal opportunity to succeed? >> the objective evidence doesn't show it as successful as you hope it to be. but i am for all of the above when it comes to school full east. getting back to baltimore i have fought these fights in the past, i thought the unions, i thought the status quo. i am a scholarship, i had an opportunity to get ahead in life because i'm is given a scholarship to a private school because i was that we. a lot of kids are not athletes. i can tell you this. in the fights i had in maryland they were pretty significant and i lost. i lost. the unions and the progressives beat me. i am talking about schools where 10%, 30%, in my view when we

accept that, multigenerational dysfunction we are denying kids their constitutional rights. it is immoral and bottom line is after all is said and done we are making our society more unsafe. i have been to more jails, not as an offender, i have been to more jails and all of you combine. trust me when i tell you is this. a lot of these kids were sent to dysfunctional schools but the two denominators i heard were the two elements i heard most often, i didn't have adapt and i started with marijuana. when you add those two elements to dysfunctional public schools we had literally denying these kids their constitutional rights. as someone who has fought these battles in the past we need to be for all of the above. it is dysfunctional, private vendor, charter, residential

charter, don't care what it is, because when you go home tonight and you think about what started this right at the other day a, think about the education those kids are receiving and think if more dads in homes telling their son not to show up at that protest rally and start looting maybe baltimore is not the story of the country today. >> keep moving. a piece of legislation you may have heard of, governor. >> obamacare. >> my family lived across promotion city md. in delaware for eight years. a little closer to home my wife and daughter have complete coverage for preventive health services and my 19-year-old son gets to stay on our family health plan for another seven years. my question to you is what would

the bob ehrlich administration do with the affordable care act keeping in mind almost 40,000 are benefiting from medicaid. >> i think it is going to be decided, the supreme court case. we are going to have a mess because the cells theirs are going to go away and my alternative is if you like obamacare keep obamacare. if you want more freedom to secure a health insurance policy that meets your circumstances, not one size fits all from washington, that means your health care needs, we should be able, you should be able to secure that policy by having policies across state lines. this is going to be a future issue in american politics when the supreme court comes out the way it is going to because people will lose their subsidies immediately and states do not pay as obviously state networks. concerning medicaid if the issue

was just expanding medicaid the president should have just said and let's expand medicaid. it would have been a much more honest way to do this. the way it was brought about was negligent, sloppy, a lot of people have less to lease, deductibles of increased. it helps some people and hurt other people. for those on medicaid has generally helped but if that was the goal, if that was a great grand plan to get more people covered the president should have said let's expand medicaid let's do it. he didn't do that. is happening incrementally. with regard to medicaid there are problems in that program as well and i like governors having more waiver authority to implement the program. >> thank you for the question. a lot of governors in this race. >> governors are good. >> next question from laura flanagan. >> since improving the employment picture is dependent on new housing starts did you have a plan that was significantly improve the conditions for new housing

starts? >> please read my first book, the chapter about mortgages. >> you know how this started. do you care to give me your view how it started? >> i want to hear -- >> she doesn't. i know what happened. >> i am real-estate agent. >> politician went out and said you can get a mortgage regardless of your income, regardless of your credit rating, regardless of your ability to achieve a down payment. and with mortgages, fannie and freddie, we can't sell these, what happened to the president said we will load the standards. what happened? we sold those mortgages and what happened then? one of the worst recessions this country has ever seen. i was on the house banking committee.

i am an athlete. when the community investment act became the subject of such abuse what happened was advocates said to the banks if you want to get a good rating you will write these mortgages, sub prime mortgages. fast forward, the banks write them the world goes down, the economy goes down and what happens on the back side? the obama administration says because you wrote those mortgages you will pay significant finds and everybody not just blaming one group but politicians never paid the price, the rating houses were intimate, fannie and freddie. the whole industry bought into this notion it doesn't matter what you make, doesn't matter what your credit rating is and that is wrong so you have a lot of reforms and initiatives in congress. stress tests, might be a couple

hundred billion under. there is some good housing reform proposals in washington but the bottom line is this. we need to get away from this sense the president is moving back again in danger territory, if you -- i was raised in an apartment. if you can't afford a house is okay. you don't have a constitutional right to a house if you can't afford it. we want you to buy a house. it is about america, it is the foundation of this country but it is okay to live in an apartment for a while if you can't afford a house, it is [speaking in native tongue] to get your credit rating up. >> keep going. >> we are up already? we're coming back. >> we can't afford that sort of mistake again and the president needs to be in that regard. >> the federal government has unmaking sure these banks don't get too big to fail.

>> the general prospect. >> dodd-frank has real problems and needs to be reformed seriously and republican congress can do it. >> thank you for the question. like i said we were just about done with this half hour, that is all we have for this portion of the show but when we are signing off on television in conversation with bob ehrlich on line and our mobile apps as well you will find a full 30 minutes more of questions from the studio audience, all of its commercial free but for now thank you for watching, have a good night. ♪ ♪ >> welcome to our conversation

can with -- "conversation with the candidate" series with our guest is ohio governor john kasich. we are getting to know the governor and where he stands on key issues. i will ask a candidate questions and after a break we will bring in our studio audience and they will take up in a town hall style format. before we get to all that let's take a look at the candidate's biography. john kasich was born in mickey's rocks, pa. in 1952, he graduated from ohio state university in 1974 a use later was elected to the ohio legislature he served for 18 years as member of u.s. congress from central ohio and was chairman of the house budget committee. after leaving congress in 2000 and running for president he worked for lehman brothers as managing director in the investment banking division and a commentator for fox news and a presidential fellow at the ohio state university. john kasich has written three new york times best selling books. in 2010 the republican was elected governor of ohio, he is a fiscal conservative who

believes in this quote responsibly. john kasich is married and has twin daughters. with that good to see you thanks for joining us. you look strongly at a presidential run 16 years ago. how have things changed? >> back then i was talking to a lady in a kitchen near the sink, we bring getting along just great and i am thinking i may have this lady as a supporter and joy looked at her watch and said what time do you think the candidate is going to get here? it is a little different now. i had a pretty strong record. i came off of balancing the federal budget, one of the chief architects of that. we had strong economic growth but i wasn't really known, was awfully young and if you do it once might be lucky if you do it twice. it means something so as governor of ohio has significant turnaround $8 billion in the hold, $2 billion in the black, largest tax cut in america as a

governor, strong economic growth and not ignoring people who find themselves in tough situations, the mentally ill, drug addicted, working for giving them a chance coupled with personal responsibility, get on their feet and matt out their god-given destiny. that is a little different. i am little older, have a pretty good record. we will see what happens. >> for those who know you, probably aware you say what is on your mind, you don't get boxed in with party ideology. >> i am a normal guy in a big job. always have been. my father carried me on his back, my mother smart and opinionated but came from a family my grandmother didn't speak english. you come from western pennsylvania we are pretty much the same, we just straight on and it is a great opportunity to have the career i have had and take advantage of it and i don't care about focus groups or

that other stuff. >> you don't mind mixing it up. a good example in baltimore and the missouri of late, you put together a panel to review the training of law enforcement in ohio including someone, one of your biggest critics, how important is that? >> you have to bring people together. what is lacking in america today is all the fighting, when we fight and don't have solutions our families get weaker the country gets weaker. when we can unify and pull people together we get stronger. this is what people are hungering for whether you're republican or democrat we have the same anxieties and wants to see solutions. what i did in ohio was months ago, i put together a task force to attack police and community. the head of public safety the use to run highway patrol coupled with a woman who is african-american liberal always on msn b.c. but it is interesting, her son is a police officer she sees things from two sides, she has been fantastic, we had clergy,

elected officials, business people and a series of recommendations the we think will help us unify in the state of ohio and avoid the problems of low you can fix it all. it is challenging but we are doing our best and not just about a passport, she has to do things, give people hope. they have to see economic growth is not just mr. for a few but economic growth and opportunities available and were everyone requiring many reforms which we have been into for four years. >> we will take a quick break but i want to get to this. a lot of governors in this potential fuel. the question most often asked is what experience do you bring when it comes to foreign policy? a major discussion whether it is the iran deal or dealing with isis. >> i served on the armed services committee for 18 years. between my executive experience and foreign policy experience the fact is i may be the most experienced and one in the field

if i enter the field and at the end of the day national security is about a strong economy, good intelligence and well thought out foreign-policy and all those things lend themselves to national security so i have been involved in so many decisions that affect us over the time i was in congress and as always been a great interest and remains one with me. >> how would your approach the different from what republicans suggest we do dealing with isis or iran and the difference from the administration? >> a short answer or a long one? i don't know what the other people are for to tell you the truth but early on i think one of the sets of relationships that has to be rebuilt our with our allies around world. these relationships have been eroded. with isis you pay me now or pay me later so i suggested months ago that we form a coalition with our european partners with some of our allies in the middle east, formed a group and fight isis and that includes us being

involved with something, boots on the ground fine. i am not a nation building, i don't want to go over and convert all along, go over there, do your job and come home. is important to deal with isis and stop them before they get bigger and the problem is more complicated. in terms of iran i don't like this agreement for a variety of reasons, one is the proliferation of weapons that could lead to a dirty bomb by one of these groups. we see hamas and hezbollah, that is the first thing the other is the proliferation of all these weapons and when we proliferate the man everyone is building nuclear weapons it makes for a far more dangerous world. my daughters are 15 years old and these are challenges they will face in their lifetime, dad will do what he can to speak out and pursue policies so they can be economically more successful and savory in what has increasingly become a dangerous world. in regard to the iran negotiation the administration has fallen in love with this deal and when you fall in love

with things you go too far. is not smart to do that. you have to be very cautious in what you do with an agreement like this. the conclusion that in ten years maybe we will trust them more i don't like that idea. i pressures them more and there is an undercurrent in iran the we see with people who live very well off, the rest of the people in iran denied and there is angst among young people. i think with pressure on we will get better results. >> plenty of issues to talk about. come back after the break to our studio audience and bring them into the conversation, stay with us we will be right back. >> welcome back to our wikipedia -- "conversation with the candidate". ohio governor republican john kasich. and the first question from and

through. >> my question is will the 2016 presidential campaign have an inspirational message for the country and if so how would you describe that message? >> we can't keep fighting one another. it has to be positive but not just positive like pie in the sky. we have to let people know that the number one thing we have to do is have economic growth because economic growth allows people to pursue their destiny and beyond that talked-about fighting poverty get somebody a job. that is what we have to do. economic growth. the other part of this is this. everybody has a stake. economic growth can't just be the usual suspects. it has to be for every one. in my state, the state of ohio which is always close at the end of the day, almost 64% of the vote 26% of african-americans, 51% of union households, 60% of women and 86 out of 88 counties

and the message is let's girl. let's not leave anybody bob heintz so we pay attention to those who have mental illness who sit in our presents and want to release him and put them on their feet. we pay attention to drug-addicted, and the working poor, they don't spend time in emergency rooms thicker more costly driving up everybody's health care so we can all be in a position to get health care and don't have to pay for that and get them on their feet and get a more prosperous. the concerns of americans are basically the same among democrats and republicans. will i keep my job, make better wages? 5 is my job like get another job? what about my son or daughter? will they have to live with me until they're 40 or will they get work? what about this culture the seems to be falling apart? how do we restore common-sense? this is republican or democrat, is american. the person that can say america's best days are ahead

and can demonstrate that they have been able to achieve some of that is the message the we need to cheer and the person we have to look for. in my state we were flat on our back and now people are extremely hopeful. not everybody but we try to solve problems. when everyone feels they're part of it that is what america is about unified, not divided. >> thank you for the question. take it away. >> our nation is $18 trillion in debt. the nation seems to lack the political will to even implement $4 trillion ten year debt reduction plan. how do you envision addressing that? do you believe these combinations of factors are national security threat? >> they are. national security also involves strong u.s. economy. you don't have that you have

problems. i was budget chairman. i spent ten years fighting to balance the budget. we went through government shut down and reopened it, negotiated it and paid down the largest-in modern history, first time we balance the budget since man walked on the moon. i left washington with a $5 trillion surplus and before i knew it they sped away. we need a balanced budget amendment. we need to amend the constitution to require the congress to balance the budget. i was in congress and i saw why we needed it and as governor if we didn't have a balanced budget requirement in a high we would not be balancing budgets. politicians will find reasons to avoid a special interests would continue to pressure people and have more spending so we need that discipline. secondly can you get it done? can you balance the budget? you can't use focus groups, holes, whom love you, you got to do your job and think outside

the box, innovate don't lose the high moral ground of pushing solutions that some people are not going to like. my first year in office in ohio we were $8 billion in the hole, 20% of general revenue fund, we had lost 350,000 jobs. the debt was hanging in the balance today, we are $2 billion in the black the largest amount of tax cuts in the country including killing the death tax, credit is strong. my first year in office i had 28% approval. you have to work to do that poor lead. a few years later a massive victory. people respond to two things, things are getting better and maybe i am going to get included. to balance that budget we need to shift a lot of programs out of washington, job training education programs, medicaid ought to be block granted, infrastructure programs, we

should keep that money at home instead of sending in there and they send it back with less and then what we said, there are some many ways to do this. is imperative we get this done because this debt is going to strangle the next generation. this is what i would do. >> next coming from roof. >> greetings, thank you for taking our questions. in your book every other monday you spoke about dealing kindly. >> did you read that book? >> not all of it. feeling kindly with widows, orphans and the downtrodden. as a future recipients of social security i am concerned what we can do now to protect what we have and to ensure that the generations with your daughter's in it my grandchildren will have something to fall back on. >> there are more 18-year-olds

that believe they will see a ufos than a social security check. that is not good at that creates to zane for our leaders and our government. i have a plan and to deal with this thing back in 99, and 2000. i know george bush's commission on social security looked at it. at the end of the day there wasn't the will or the bipartisan support. it is important that we reform this and all entitlement programs but i won't give you some, quote, clever solution today. you need to think differently. in our state we have a medicaid program to help those who are the poor, the disabled. that program was growing at 9% when i became governor. our first budget grew at 3% and we didn't have any benefits or take anybody of a role. how did we do that? how is that possible? we did it because we innovated, we thought differently and there

are ways to put these programs together in such a way it that we treat the people who are currently on it fairly have a good transition program and the youngster may experience an entirely different program. i am not prepared to throw that out. i have dealt with it before. we have to deal with it again and if you are going to fix social security, republicans and democrats have to agree to do it. if it is only one party the demagoguery will start, people will be framed and that the end of the day you won't accomplish anything. this country cannot make it with constant fighting. it just can't make it. it is only going to make it when we get people to stick to their principles yet be willing to compromise to get the solutions because if you don't the problems of entitlement, immigration, education, all these problems just get worse and it weakens our families and our sure fernand we have to deal with it all and do it together.

>> next one from social media, on facebook. >> in some ways or another. i don't actively manage it but we use it. >> glen campbell on facebook. >> lynn campbell. glen's brother. >> how can the inequality gap be reduced? i can only assume that means income inequality. >> there are a lot of things lot of different groups. first and foremost is education and skills. we have an agrarian system where we put all these people in the classroom and teach all the same way. that is not the way we learn. we all learn a little differently. secondly we need real world experience. we need to set our kids free to get experiences in the work in which they are interested that gets them excited about learning and teachers from wyatt learning really matters. in our poorest communities we have a mentor ship program. that matters because you need to

sit with kids and show them the future and the possibility can be. in cincinnati where the graduation rate in the traditional high school 63%. in a school down there, high school, and the minority students with mentoring program, one hour a week, the graduation rate is 97%. these kids see the future, they see hope. in addition we got to make sure your programs are working, make sure you have lifetime education, that you are constantly training workers. all these things will contribute to giving you more values so when you have more value and skills as a worker you get paid more money but early childhood is important. i was talking to folks before the show, make sure those kids who are not getting a good start will get a better start and all these things fit together. job training, training people for jobs that exist, don't train people to the basket weavers lived there are not a lot of jobs in basket weaving or

political science for that matter. somebody said to be the other day, just kidding, this is a joke, my son is in political science, there's a great job for him. what is it? selling shoes at nordstrom. bottom line is get yourself range, get yourself trained for something that will be you to success but i have to tell you there is an element of our society some of our young people wake up in the morning and they hear gunshots and they are afraid to go to school. those kids are not lost but they have got to be taught about work. many of them don't know who their parents or their father is. they are lost. work with him. get them to a baseline where they understand personal responsibility where they understand they can really be something. is remarkable how they can flourish and become really successful summit is not one thing. everything i mentioned we are doing all these things in ohio

because we think it is critical everybody has a chance to rise. >> thanks for the question. george as the next one. >> one 7 done this. you don't take from the rich to give to the poor. we are not a robin hood society. my father used to say we don't hate the rich, we want to be the rich. this idea of income redistribution i don't like that. give people skills give them the hope let them see the future, that is what we need to do. >> take it away. >> you are all dressed up. >> utilizing development and diplomacy as part of a comprehensive foreign policy approach to -- proven to strengthen our national security to benefit our economy and

spread humanitarian values. do you think that the lack of balance in that area would have america lose its global influence as a leader? >> first of all there is a chunk of corporate welfare, businesses going and build dams and people don't want them. we displays the man to make more a agree. these programs should be designed to show the good faith of america so i will tell you a story. in the late 90s 5 this thinking how we could be transformed foreign aid. the agency for international development was created to get people to move from developing to developed. 1 move from developing to developed. the program is not working well. doesn't mean parts that are not working well but i was relief in thing about this is somebody asked if i would meet with the rock star bono. i said what does he want? you wants to talk about foreign

aid. he came to see me and i sat down with him and realized he was serious. that song i still haven't found what i am looking for is not about his guitar. is about meaning in life. so he said to me i want to do debt relief, give these countries and opportunity to get on their feet sell i made a speech on the house floor about this program and said what a b-2 bomber flies over alaskan village and the men are shaking their fists i want the women to say you may not like the americans that they vaccinated our kid. that shows the kind face of america. if you are going to do for unaided has to be real. it cannot be based on lining somebody's pocket and has to be something that will be humanitarian in nature. what george bush did in africa after what we did with bono was phenomenal. drinking water initiatives, anti hiv initiatives. all these things have come together to give us a kinder

face so is part of the national security policy but it has to be done right, you don't throw money at problems and think they're going to go away. we don't want to send money so some dictator put in his pocket and people never see it. one of the great organizations are doctors without borders. how about these people? amazing what they do. it should be an important part of what we do but we have to make sure effective and works and shows people the kindness and the heart of america. >> one more facebook question. time is flying. question from stephen hemingway. what is your stance on upholding the constitution do you follow it to the letter or consider it a living document that should change and evolve over time? >> i am in favor of the constitution. i am not sure -- we want to preserve the constitution. it is an enduring document. we have amendments to the constitution, very difficult to get through. i talked about an amendment to

the constitution that calls for a balanced budget. takes 34 to call it, 38 to ratify its of the founders were pretty brilliant. the constitution is enduring. would appoint judges it would be people with a conservative view of the constitution. i appoint judges now so i appoint conservative judges. that is the way i think. i don't know how to give the mullet this test but i want to know where a are. if we need change we have an amendment process to do it but things like this second amendment should be inviolate. >> a couple minutes ago. you said recently in new hampshire people don't like what i have to say let's play more golf. >> i didn't save that. i hope people will like what i have to say and if they don't write what i have to say i am not happy, i will be disappointed but i will play more golf. in other words i said the other day i am free as a bird. i am not here to calculate. i am not here to go out and say

i will take a poll question put your fingers in the air and tell me what you think and that will be my position. i am here to be as good as i can to be a leader so i am not going to try to tailor things. i don't have focus groups. i have never -- we have pollsters at times in reelection but that is not what drives me. what drives me is looking at something and trying to fix it. my going back into public life is not something my family was thrilled with. i had a private sector job, i had a great time. it was enjoyable but i reported for what i've thought was my responsibility. if i got in the job and didn't do what i want what i wanted to do, i would the cheating myself and my family. in the case of this, coming to new hampshire if i'm not myself with my trying to be? this is what you get. i hope you like it. any idea when you will have an answer? make up your mind?

>> you will be one of the first thousand 2 known. >> thank you very much. that is all the time we have. this conversation with candidate governor john kasich continues on line on our mobile apps. questions from our studio audience commercial free but thanks for watching, have a great night. >> here are our featured programs for this weekend on the c-span networks. saturday morning setting at 10:00 eastern on c-span the internet and television expo in chicago for what consumers can expect for the future in innovation, speakers include comcast chairman and ceo brian roberts, technology columnist and author karen switcher and tom wheeler this sunday morning at 10:30 president obama is at georgetown university discussing ideas on how to liberate poverty in the united states. on c-span2 saturday morning at 10:00 eastern on booktv live from city hall in gaithersburg,

maryland for the gaithersburg book festival with pulitzer prize-winning author david schiller. former u.s. representative tom davis and martin frost and for obama adviser david axelrod and sunday evening at 9:00 on afterwards president of the american constitution society caroline fredericks and on the impact of labor and employment laws, working member and their families and on american history tv on c-span3 saturday afternoon at 2:00 eastern on oral histories remembering the liberation of nazi concentration camps with an interview of greta wiseman klein on her life in the jewish ghettos after the nazi invasion and the 1945 death march she barely survived lose sunday night at 6:30 on the presidency u.s. naval war college professor john hour on the relationships winston churchill developed with american presidents during his political career. get our complete schedule at c-span.org.

>> c-span2 providing live coverage of the u.s. senate floor proceedings and keep public policy events endeavour we can booktv, for 15 years the only television network devoted to nonfiction books and authors. c-span2 created by the cable-tv industry and brought to you as a public service by your local, cable satellite provider. ..