>> we do have a major federal jobs program. [cheers] [applause] >> several months ago, i had

introduced this and we will implement from the white house a jobs program which would rebuild a crumbling roads and bridges and a water system. [cheers] [applause] >> this is the united states of america and our roads and bridges and water systems and levees and dams should not be crumbling, our rail system should not be behind europe and japan and china. and if we invest a trillion dollars in rebuilding the infrastructure we become more productive and more efficient and we can create up to 13 million instant paying jobs.

and here is another issue that we have to deal with it is enormously important. and that is to understand that the trade policy that we have had been a grotesque failure for the american worker. [cheers] [applause] and is a member of the house i have voted against certain things. against permanent normal trade relations, because i understood and i believe the vast majority of americans understood that the function of these trade

agreements was to allow corporate america to shut down and outsource the low-wage countries and bring their products back through here. and in my view if corporate america wants us to buy their products, the time is long overdue especially here in the united states of america. [cheers] [applause] and that is why i have helped to lead the opposition in the senate to this disastrous transpacific partnership. [applause] [cheers]

>> and i want to say a word about this. and we can go on for a long time, it is not just that the fast-track would force american workers to compete against people in vietnam that make 56 cents an hour minimum wage. it is beyond that. and i will tell you a story which demonstrates what these trade agreements are all about. and it involves an integral part, called an investor state resolution process. >> you know a few years ago they had a president who was an oncologist and knew a lot about cancer. what this guy tries to do and what he did do he worked on very strong antitobacco legislation, trying to keep the kid of his country from smoking.

and i think that that's a good thing. given the fact that smoking causes a huge myriad of diseases, i applaud people that do that. but phillip morris disagrees. what phillip morris dead is a result of trade language which is included in this he went to an international tribunal and sent to the tribunal that what uruguay's doing is in violation of the trade agreement because they all are harming our future process. that is right. so phillip morris said that we can make a lot of money by addicting children to nicotine and they are taking our ability to take away them getting hooked on cigarettes. so we will see how that resolves

itself but that tells you everything that you need to know about these trade agreement. and the bottom line is very clearly is what is good for future profits is what trade agreements are about. [applause] [cheers] [applause] >> let me be as blunt as i can be in telling you if i have a midland already. let me tell you something that i think many of you already know. that is a result of the disastrous supreme court decision at the citizens united

case. and by a five to four decision the supreme court rendered one of the worst decisions in the history of our country and they said you already own much of america and we are going to give you the opportunity to own the united states government. and people like the koch brothers and others they said hey, that is great. and what we have always wanted to do to own our government and

we are trying to make the rich rich and the poor poorer. and it's so important, it's important because it impacts every other issue of concern. if we have a congress or governors or state legislatures that are owned by the billionaire class, we are not going to address the problem facing working families. and that was one clear campaign that i will have a litmus test for my nominees on the supreme court. [applause]

[cheers] [applause] until anybody that i nominate will make it clear that this country that they are going to hear citizens united and vote to overturn that decision. [cheers] [applause] [cheers] and i want to see a vibrant american democracy, where we are not looking at 63% of the people not voting, we are looking at 90% of the people voting. and i want to see a democracy i want to see a democracy with anyone regardless of his or her

views and this could be beholden to big money interests. and this is why after we overturn a constitutional amendment, we move to public funding of elections and brothers and sisters and people do not fight and die for american democracy to allow a situation to arise where the koch brothers alone, second wealthiest family in america this family will spend more money on this election cycle than either the democratic

audience or the republican audience. brothers and sisters if you step back and we look at a situation like that what you are not looking at, you're not looking at a democracy but in oligarchic form of government and we have to stop that. [cheers] [applause] and so being at university i want to touch on another issue of just enormous consequence. and in a highly competitive global economy we need the best educated workforce workforce in the world and what that means is

that we have to encourage all of our people and that includes related people, older people, to get all of the education that they can regardless of the income of their families. [cheers] [applause] and so if you think about where we are right now today in the absurd situation which currently we are in in our highly competitive global economy, hundreds of thousands of bright and young qualified people are unable to get an education not because they lack the ability but because they lack the money

and what kind of insanity is it that we say to these people that we don't want you to be scientists or engineers or doctors or nurses. because you just don't have the money. and it will make every public college and university in america tuition free. [cheers] [applause]

>> and let me tell you what that means. it is not only that it's going to make life easier for kids in high school to know that they can go to college but that it will permeate all levels of education. i am sure those that are in the sixth grade, they may have gotten the message and their family doesn't have a lot of money they are not going to go to college and why should they study hard or do this or that. but when we make it clear to every kid in this country that if you work hard in school, you will be able to get a higher education that will transform this nation. [cheers] [applause]

[cheers] [applause] and some people think that this is a radical idea. it is the most commonsense idea that we can think of. and right now countries like germany and scandinavia even countries like chile, they understand that the future in investing in their young people and that we should do the same thing. but when we talk about higher education we also have to understand there are millions of young and not so middle-aged people who are today being crushed by horrendous student

debt. >> and you know -com,-com ma a young man that i know, not so young anymore, graduated law school deeply in debt and today he is still paying the debt off at 9% interest rates. in what sense does it make to you can go out and refinance your home today at 2% or three per, you can buy a new car with 0% or 1%. but because he committed a crime of wanting to get an education you are stuck for the rest of your life eight and 9%. [applause] [cheers] [applause] and so part of that legislation will allow people that have student debt to refinance or student debt and lower interest

rates and what it will also do is end the absurdity of the federal government making billions or of the interest rates paid by low income and working-class families. and when we do that we can cut these interest rates but people today. and the critics have said that this is an expensive proposition, and they are right. this led to ration costs about 70 billion dollars per year and that's a lot of money. we are all going to pay for it by attacks on wall street

speculation. [cheers] [applause] and as a result of the fraud and the recklessness of wall street, this country was plunged in the worst economic recession since the great depression. millions of people lost their jobs, they lost their life savings and they lost their home. the time is not only to pass a speculation tax on wall street but the time is to break up the major financial institutions in this country. [cheers]

[applause] >> is a bank is too big to fail that bank is too big to exist. [cheers] [applause] and i suppose that means i will not get much money for my campaign from wall street. [cheers] [applause] but we will survive without them. and so let me touch on an issue which i think addresses our responsibilities as human beings and parents and i've got four kids in seven beautiful grandchildren. and that is that we have the

moral responsibility to make sure that the planet you to our children and grandchildren is habitable. [cheers] [applause] [cheers] [applause] >> the debate is over. maybe with the exception of fox television. but other than that, scientists have almost unanimously told us that climate change is real and it's caused by human activity in the emissions of carbon and it's already causing devastating problems in our country and around the world. and this is what they have also told us. they have said that while the problems are very serious right now, they will only get much

worse if we don't seize this sort country and short window of opportunity to transform the energy system away from fossil fuels and into a energy efficiency and sustainable energy. [cheers] [applause] >> what the scientific community tells us and this really speaks to our responsibility of custodians of this planet what they say is if we continue business as usual and we do not transform our energy system, that by the end of this century the planet earth will be between five and 10 degrees fahrenheit warmer. and what that is going to mean is that there is more and more

drought as well as more flooding and more extreme weather disturbances and more acidification of the ocean and rising sea levels and it will also be a huge national security issue for the entire world because when people do not have land to grow food on or water for agriculture or to drink there's going to be migrations of people that are going to be in international conflict and there will be more and more war. but francis made this point just beautifully. [cheers] [applause] >> and what a hero for this entire planet. but francis has been that we have one of the important religious leaders on earth.

and we are speaking out in a way that no one will ever speak out about what inequality is doing and now speaking out on climate change god bless hope frances. [cheers] [applause] and when i was in college way back when a few years ago the issue that motivated young people across this country was sole rights. at that point in time we had folks giving up their lives fighting in the south to desegregate the south and fired for voting rights for african-americans. some of those heroes were killed trying to do what they did.

in my view today, one of the great issues today facing our younger generation is to stand up and demand that america lead the world in transforming our energy system. [cheers] [applause] and when we do that when we when we have a transportation system that is energy efficient and we have a strong rail system and we move aggressively we create millions of jobs as well. [cheers] [applause] so let me say that we have a word about another issue that we

have got to finally deal with. the united states shamefully is the only major nation on earth that does not guarantee health care to all of our people as a right. [cheers] [applause] all people have health care in canada as a right. germany, scandinavia, austria. every european country has health care for all of their people as a right. and today in america despite the modest gains of the affordable care act, we have 35 million people without health insurance and we have even more that are underinsured with large deductibles and copayments. what we have to do in my view

is have a medicare for all single-payer program. [cheers] [applause] [cheers] [applause] and it makes no sense at all. 35 million people are uninsured, more of them are underinsured the health care outcomes are not particularly good as we have a particularly higher infant mortality rate than other countries and we have a low life even many other countries and yet we end up paying almost twice as much per capita for health care. and that is why we have to get the private insurance company out of health care.

[cheers] [applause] [cheers] [applause] and i am the ranking member, which means leader of the opposition on the budget committee, i would like to say a word about the republican budget that has passed last month and i'm going to tell you this because the media forgot to talk about it. and it's important that we talk about it for the following reasons. and i am perhaps the most progressive member of united states senate. [cheers] [applause] >> it should not be surprising that i have disagreements with all republicans on almost every issue. and it's not surprising. but here is what, this is what

the republican budget dead. and the reason i break this to you is that i do not mind being opposed by the billionaire class and all of their friends and i accept their hatred with joy. [cheers] [applause] because if they hate me and what i stand for then i know that i am doing something right. [cheers] [applause] [cheers] [applause] and this is what i do not accept. and that is to many working-class middle-class people, those continuing to vote against their own best interests. [cheers] [applause] and i would like to say to the

republicans in colorado. i would like for them to tell me whether they think this budget of the republicans makes any sense. and here it is. 35 million people without any health insurance what the republican budget bid is throwing additional 27 million people off of health insurance.

you. >> and what we did over this 10 year timeframe and what we did is cut them by $90 million. and so republicans here in colorado and across the country families that are struggling to send their kids to college and this is what we need to consider in the most important college aid federal program for

students. and at a time when millions of individuals are struggling to feed their kids, there are massive cuts in nutrition programs. so do my republican friends in colorado think that kids should go hungry in america? and i don't think that they do. furthermore, we had a number of republican candidates for president who wanted to cut social security. and so our job is to get the word out. to our republican friends, to start voting for themselves.

[cheers] [applause] >> all of us are aware that in this country we have made progress in a number of areas in terms of becoming less discriminatory. and in terms of civil rights and women's rights and gay rights. but all of us know that a lot more must be done. and it is not acceptable that young african-americans are walking down the tree in a city in america come and they are being brutalized by the police. [cheers] [applause] [cheers] [applause] >> i was working very closely

with those come including police officers that have an enormously difficult job and those that do their job honestly and as well as they possibly can. that is right. and when a police officer or any other public official commits a crime that crime needs to be punished. [cheers] [applause] >> so let me we have all been very patient and i thank you for letting me ramble on. let me conclude by saying this. but i want you to think big and not small. i want you to understand that it is not utopian thinking to say that every man woman and child should have health care.

it is not utopian thinking to say that working families should have quality and affordable child care. or to say that college education should be available to all. [cheers] [applause] >> we can do these things and more. we can create the greatest nation that anyone has ever seen. if we stand together. but we do not let people divide us by race or whether we were born in america were born in mexico, whether we are gay or straight. [cheers] [applause] >> so i look forward to working with you all. in creating the pool and sham

political revolution that this country needs. thank you all very much. [cheers] [applause] [cheers] [applause] [cheers] ♪ ♪ >> we will have more live coverage this week. we will hear from governor bobby jindal who is expected to announce that he is entering the 2016 presidential race. he would be the turkey and republican candidate to do so. the live coverage starts on wednesday at 5:00 o'clock p.m. on c-span3. >> like many of us, first families take vacation time and like presidents and first ladies

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>> thank you very much. it is such a big honor to be here with you today and i think that we all come here today with heavy hearts for those individuals in charleston. the individuals who were gunned down in an absolutely heinous hate crime inside of their place of worship. that deranged individual did not just take the lives of black americans. he gunned down nine children died. and there's something more basic to our humanity and our ethnic heritage and our nationality. we are all made in the image of a loving god. we cannot let hatred and

violence break the ties that bind us together. we need to proclaim loudly every day that we are one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [cheers] [applause] and may the peace that surpasses all understanding fill the hearts and minds of the people of charleston. and may justice be served in memory of our brothers and sisters in christ. those substantively killed. as we shared with you my journey started in 1950. in a rather different place at a

very different time home was a place called paint creek. you had the ability to be in abilene, texas. you had the other direction and soon you are approaching the end of the earth. [laughter] and i grew up on a cotton farm. and for years we had an outhouse. mom baited us on the porch and the number two washtub and we never felt poor. we were rich in spirit and it was the fabric of our community, sacrificed expected of every neighbor when families face the hardship and hard work was the code that we live by. and i took those lessons with me when i left the area. my love of freedom, and duty to

country, i went out to the texas a&m university. but it wasn't until i flew those aircraft around the globe to places like south america, turkey, that i learned how special it is to call yourself an american. and i learned and i know that america has experienced great change. but what it means to be an american has never changed. and we have never changed. we're the only nation in the world founded on the power of an idea that is all of us here created equal and that we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights and

among those are life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. and our rights they come from god and not from the government. [applause] in america, the people are not the subjects of government the government must always be the subject of the people. [applause] and it's always been the case that there has been a social contract between one generation of americans and the next to pass along the inheritance of a stronger country that is full of promise and possibility. but social contract has been protected at a great sacrifice and it has never been more clear to me than when i took my father to the american cemetery overlooks the bluffs above omaha each, on that peaceful windswept

setting. including 45 pairs of brothers. , 33 buried side-by-side. and a father and a son two sons of a president. they all traded their future in a final act. and that is no accident. but those headstones are facing west over the atlantic and tour the nation they defend it in the nation that they loved the one that they would never return home to. it struck me standing in the midst of those heroes, that they look at us and silent judgment and that we need to ask

ourselves if we are worthy of their sacrifice. and the truth is that we are at the end of an era of failed leadership and we have been led by a divider that has sliced and diced americans pitting americans against them for political purposes, six years into the occult recovery and our economy is barely growing. and the economic slowdown is not inevitable but the direct result of bad economic policy. and the president's tax and regulatory policy have slammed the door shut and it has shut the door of opportunity for the average american trying to climb the economic ladder.

resigning to stagnant wages and personal debt. weakness at home has lead to weakness abroad. the world has descended into chaos and they construct this alternative universe where sean p. diddy combs is contained. where this was just a setback. where the nation cannot be acknowledged without fear of causing offense where they can be trusted to live up to a nuclear agreement. and this goes for the president's withdrawal of

troops. this president failed to secure the peace. my friends, we are a resilient country. we have been through a civil war and two world wars, we have made it through the great depression and even through jimmy carter. we will make it through the obama years. [cheers] [applause] >> the fundamental nature of this country and we will again eight years ago, americans were promised hope and change. but now one in five children in this country live in families

and one in 10 workers are unemployed and underemployed or just giving up. and these americans live on the outskirts of opportunity. and they create few jobs and little hope with scarcity of opportunity. especially where everyone is included. where everyone has a stake in the country and everyone has hope and i'm talking about real hope for a better future. it is time to change the culture in washington that an offense only insiders and instead let's bring this nation a revival of opportunity for everyone involved. you know, let me share with you a story from the scriptures. and we have to say we know that

the lord came to save the lost. one of these great stories, he told it a despised tax collector that he saved an adulterous woman from being stoned. and then there is a woman at the well over in chapter number four. the jews at that time would usually walk around the area and they didn't do that. he met a woman who was an outcast. and an outcast even amongst american women. she went to draw water from the well and to her astonishment,

when she got to jacob's well, she encountered this jewish man. and his name was jesus. and instead of ignoring her he asked her for a drink of water. and jesus knew the history. he knew that she had five previous husbands and that she was an outcast in her own land. but with one simple request he showed this fragile woman that she was of value to him. and that she had something to offer. my friends, every human being is of infinite value. every american has something to

offer. unlike jesus, none of us can do this but we can offer leadership that includes the hopes and dreams of every american. we can offer hope to the millions of americans living on the outskirts of opportunity and people left behind as the government grows while opportunity shrinks. to those forgotten american drowning in personal debt in working for wages that don't keep up with the rising cost of living. i come here today to say that your voice is heard. i know that you face rising health care costs. and skyrocketing tuition costs. and you know i'm going to do something about it. the families mired in poverty

without hope of finding a good job. you are not forgotten. i want to be your champion. for small businesses on main street, those that are struggling to get by smothered by regulations and targeted by dodd-frank. i hear you, you are not forgotten. and i am running to be your president, all of you for the unborn as well, those whose potential is god-given. whose conception is part of god's infinite grace. lives matter and we will do everything we can to protect them. and a lot of candidates say that -- they try to say the right things about protecting lives but no candidate has done more. i have passed a parental and

sent law and a sonogram law so that mothers facing an agonizing choice can witness that beating heart within them. [applause] >> and this includes outlawing abortion at 20 weeks. after eight years of a president whose rhetoric always exceeded his record, it is time that we elect a president whose record speaks louder than his words. [applause] and it's going to be a show me don't tell me election. on the issue, no one has shown more unwavering condition to protect unborn children not every one of them is born into ideal circumstances.

but in god's eyes there is no such thing as an unwanted child. [cheers] [applause] >> let us always stand for life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, let us build an america who has a promise that is greater in the days ahead than it has been in our past. thank you god bless you thank you for being here with us today. >> more now from the faith and freedom coalition conference with scott walker. the second term republican has not officially entered the presidential race. there are four democrats and 12 republicans who have announced their candidacy. >> good evening.

[cheers] [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you. [cheers] [applause] >> you know, she said it all, it was perfect. i would like to begin by thanking all of you for coming out. i appreciate the prayer, but if we could pause for just a moment and offer up prayers for the nine brothers and sisters in christ who were taken on wednesday, to offer a prayer if you would tonight not just now but for the families and for the friends and the fellow church members and others in charleston and in your community and for all of us in the country. it's not just about them but

about all of us trying to find a way to bring the country together. so causing a moment on that. we thank you. and yesterday, i didn't get to see it in person but i have read a little bit about the intake court hearing yesterday. i refuse to recognize his name those that perpetrated the crimes other than to say it was racist and evil, it was nothing that i think we all condemned, not just his acts but his beliefs as well. but i have to tell you that as you saw that intake or where they had the first initial action, looking at someone that could commit such an evil act, having been there apparently for an hour, and adding in that church, listening to the word of god and as frustrating as that would be to see that in these

family members in the friends i wasn't there to see it at the people talking about forgiveness and about hoping that god could reach his soul and i have to tell you that one of my favorite verses was yesterday it's in second grampians and verse number 12 where i should say that paul is talking about a thorn in his body and thinking about the pain and where he says to him that my grace is sufficient for you. and that's great to say, and much less ethical circumstances but that they lived it and they showed a and the community, the state, country, the world what it means to be a christian. as awful as the week was, what a

wonderful testimony to rent all of us even in the darkest of times we will see if there is a way to minister and witness. he used to say that we are all called to be ministers and that was an opportunity there. and i want to say right off the bat it was a great chance to be with penny and ralph who i have known, swapping stories earlier but only five years ago one they started putting things together in wisconsin i said i think that i still have one of my own coalitions there and my good friend is one of the first leaders, to think about this thinking about those days and the impact it had on us i

mentioned that i met a young woman about a year ago and it was so touching because when we were at marquette, we helped with a crisis pregnancy programs to help people going through difficult circumstances going into college at that time and it was interesting. but the daughter of someone who had been at college had given up her child for adoption who is now in her 20s who came back and be united and work together and she came up and introduced me because she knew that we had been involved in if there's ever a reason to doubt this at that moment, that made it all worth it. and it's moments like that. [applause] and so i also want to say this repeating it again tonight when you think about freedom, i'm going to talk about that tonight but it's not just in our state where we need to be at this

country, the most important thing to think about is freedom is endowed by the creator and defined by our constitution and i was just in philadelphia today. bring congress have worked on that. >> before we go a step further i asked ms. simple request if you have served our country in the military were serving today or if you are a family member of someone that has served today, please stand up and be properly recognized. [applause]

[applause] >> we can talk about freedom but it doesn't happen without men and women like those that you saw standing in those that they represent and the families that they represent. it's so great to be in philadelphia earlier today, but to be here, to think about the founders, touching and that i was thinking about all the challenges that we face in this country. ..

>> >> one part of that is respecting believers whether christian or jewish that is what it was all about. and i am frustrated thinking and today's society is only certain elements within his fundamental for all of us over the last few months battle state by state to have that inherently written

into our constitution to protect religious freedom those we have not had the battles the others have not in my state's constitution and and in our country's constitution but defense the rights for every one of us to worship were river ship to not have been infringed going forward

>> 111 but we went beyond that. in my own state we make changes from collective bargaining to say we get rid of seniority and tenure. instead of based on merits. [applause] we can hire and fire based on performance to put the best and brightest and i get

tired to hear conservatives don't care about education. we do but we put our faith and parents would and put that money to use in the classroom not in the bureaucracy that is why we are for government at the public sector to start charter schools and enhance the program for virtual in homes opportunities to the trust parents make the best decision if given the choice is going forward. [applause] one we passed major pro-life legislation and concealed carry that they should have themselves when we even did something that we said we require a photo identification to vote to

the state of wisconsin. [cheers and applause] >> i tell you that not to brag too much. [laughter] one average attended governor but wisconsin for president since reagan was last reelected. one and then to talk about it to pray about it because we knew how tough it would be considering how tough that is for republican to win our state we have two reasons. my two sons.

one but we were worried our state was having a hard time but we stepped up to rand the election and we won. also the state assembly and the state senate. >> but we didn't just do that. but surely there after the my apologies along the way but the occupied movement had wall street but at madison wisconsin at the state capital after they lost they went to new york and one of the members of congress remember why those protesters came to the capital is 14 senate democrats went to illinois

to stop eventually they figured out a way to change things they got the bill passed then they gave me one of my favorites tickers one walker beats 14 runners. [laughter] [applause] one but that was not enough so they tried to take out the supreme court justice then they try to take out six members of the state senate then they tried to take out with the 20 or 30 or $40 contribution that is the most potent thing you could do along the way bin because of all that the first lieutenant governor in the country for a recall

election one. [applause] the reason i tell you that is because so many were a part of that are across the country from all 50 states 70 percent of the donors give $75 or less. a true grass-roots effort is to make it possible but as an inspiration going forward no doubt we could do it anywhere in america with the house and senate and right here in the nation's capital [applause] to refocus of three simple things of growth reform and safety. some people get a little confused but i will leave

tomorrow i cannot state too long in washington 60 square miles surrounded by reality of love to see the monuments it is the great reminder that i have to get out of town and. sometimes the president and hillary clinton gets confused a big growth the economy by growing washington. 67 the top 10 wealthiest counties were around washington d.c.. we'll understand and to go to cities and towns and villages people create jobs. not a government we need to get the government out of the way so we can put people back to work again. [applause] the best ways to do that is get government out of the way.

repeal obamacare to put patients and families back. [applause] and then through this country and continent to fill the economy going forward. we should reform the tax code to lower the burden so i would imagine so why are you so obsessed lowering that tax burden? for those employer rates that they are lower today than four years ago. people wonder why i obsess with that. so we celebrated our 22nd

wedding anniversary. [applause] either day critical thing and made critical mistakes right off the bat. i went to a close to restore and bought something at the price it was marked at. it was $29 and denies sense that i get the insert that is another 20% off if i remember the fire if i am lucky that would give me a 30% off then i take it up to the front then she pulls out the cash then they tell me

they pay me to buy the shirt [laughter] but it feels like it. how does a company like that make money? they make it up in volume they can sell you the shirt or reduce the price to broaden the base and make more money off of volume. taxpayers' money you'd have to pay those higher rates but is it nice if the rates went down in the base was broadened? it used to be called the laugher curve. it is a part of that we start to fix things like the marriage penalty nudges the tax code we are encouraging policies not discouraging marriage. [applause]

it is only biblically and morally sound but apparently that if you have a mother and father involved to raise a son or daughter that we can prove it children are much better off so it is the great thing for those economic reasons going forward. second so in washington the president and hillary clinton believes the measure of success is how many people are dependent. medicaid, food stamps, unemployment. that is the measure of read measure of success should be the opposite. how many people are no longer dependent on the government? [applause] sometimes those in the media

say they will push people all but two understand freedom and prosperity comes from empowering people to control their own destiny one. when i was a kid my first job was washing dishes. then i started to flip burgers at mcdonald's. my friend paul ryan grew up 15 miles from the he was flipping burgers but his manager told him he had to afflicted in the back because he didn't have the skills to work to register. [laughter] if it's true. but growing up in the small town at the first baptist church for the men's

clothing store is my brother and i and my grandparents we didn't have indoor plumbing and tell them what not to junior high school. and then to realize we did inherit a family fortune from the family but if you work hard and play by the rules you can do a anything you want. think about that. is great to think about that because it isn't the answer with the qualifications they need to succeed. that one of the classmates ever said i want to be dependent on the government

nobody said we would love to become independent and along the way an amazing people want and those i have been blessed to meet tell me the reason they came to america was not become dependent on the government but it was one of the few places left in the world it didn't matter what your parents did or what class you were born into you could do and be anything you want the opportunity is equal if you don't remember anything else remember this there is a reason why america we take us a day off to celebrate the fourth of july because we celebrate our independence from the government not our dependence on it. [applause]

>> the third thing to talk about why the safety safety? some people called national security and when i see a video of a jordanian pilot burned alive in a cage, a christian is from egypt around the world be headed because of their faith that isn't something you read about but feel in your heart and soul. even though as a governor i don't deal with this day in and day out is a list of my priorities. [applause] i cannot tell you how frustrated i am with this president administration. he drew a line in the sand and allow it to be crossed.

we have isis that is a jayvee's clyde that calls iran a place we can do business al remember as a kid back in the late '70s we would tie yellow ribbons around the tree because my friend was the investor rain held hostage they held americans hostage 444 days. iran is not a place we should be doing business with. [cheers and applause] i think about how mixed up the doctrine is with foreign policy we have a president who earlier this year at the graduation ceremonies stood up to tell the graduates the

number one threat to the military today is global warming. i have the message for you mr. president the number one threat to the military and america and though world is radical islamic terrorism ended is about time reduce something about it. [applause] [cheers and applause] rita president for those that treated as such. we need to send a message once and for all we have a

leader in this country who has the courage to look the american people in in the eye may not be easy to say for a day or week for a month but that is not like we grew up in the cold war our enemy today is like a virus if we don't take it out it will take us out. weedy the courage to say on behalf of your children and mine i will take the fight to them instead of waiting for them to bring it to us. [applause] there is a lot at stake with the next election and the choices that we make. do we continue a third term of the president's failed policies to be intricately

involved in the horrible policies or do we elect not just a republican but one who can get things done? consider this. we have one of the best fields the republicans have had for president since 1980. we have not made an announcement yet but we formed the at testing the waters committee you can go to scott walker.com to get more details we could offer something unique there is a lot of good people better friends of mine but there are two groups. there are fighters who fight the good fight but we have now won those major fights and a group of people who

were good at winning elections but i would argue to throw at it in the ring which would make as unique is to fight the good fight over and over and over again not just what republicans won or conservatives that the americans want someone in the white house you will wake up every day how will we fight and win. that is what we need going forward. [applause] i just want to end with this as challenging as these are i am optimistic about the future i love america.

we are a can-do country but we don't want dash we have it cannot get it done government with the right leadership we can make america the great to get. but they have done similar things in this state has an immediate source of optimism but it comes from philadelphia what makes me optimistic is because of our history and i am reminded from where i came from earlier today. dimension as a small kid i grew up in a small town dad was a preacher it was tough because i loved history i thought of our founders like superheros bigger than life

so after we were married we had a chance to go to philadelphia i was all pumped up and excited and ready to see where this superheros worked for went the national park service and made our way to independence hall. the son was coming up and i was ready to be blown away. literally not much bigger than where we are right now. i looked at the chairs and the desk and it dawned on me. these were ordinary people who did something extraordinary. they didn't just risk their political career, business ventures, they were patriots who would risk their lives for the freedoms we hold

dear today. ladies and gentleman i would tell you moments like that inspired me that what has made america great, exceptional, the greatest country in the history of though world is all throughout our nation's history in times of crisis economic, fiscal economic, fiscal, military, spiritual, what has made america amazing there has been men and women of courage thinking more about the future of their children and grandchildren in their own political future. i would contend to you now this is one of those moments this is a time in american history. this is the moment an opportunity we can look back

to tell future generations generations, we were there and he did that call and did what was required to make america great again and i have every confidence with your help with a good fortunate to of god above us we will make america great again. thank you for coming out tonight. [applause] >> senator ted cruz republican of texas talking about politics and policies that shape our lives but i want to talk about the

personal first how did you come when dash become such a good debater? >> as a kid i like to argue. tied around the family dinner table they would talk about politics, a great issues of the day and it was always likely purpose of my parents were both very different people and both of them shape's me but my father fled cuba as a teenager he was tortured and came to america was nothing. that had a big impact on me at home to be engaged in the political world i remember some years ago i was having dinner with friends in said when did you get involved with politics?

i'm not sure why that is. sometimes your spouse will say things about you that obviously you're too obtuse to see it yourself. think of your family when i always said it is an incredible blessing to seek freedom because there was always an urgency not just pick up the newspaper but in understanding have principles bin it and women in office is how we protect ourselves from charity with it starts with genuine passion. >> did anybody teach you the skills? >> in high-school i was very

involved with a small nonprofit from houston and they had students study free market economics and then reread give speeches on the free market economics then be formed a group that was five high-school students to spend hundreds of hoursading "the federalist papers" the debates on ratification and we memorized the constitution. so we would go to a rotary club will use it there to have lunch we would set up five easels at the front of the room we wed right down the constitution from memory than the definition of

socialism government ownership and the distribution of the economy you cannot identify it so finally we will have a quote from thomas jefferson it expects what never was and never will be in four years of high-school i gave up for its 780 speeches on free market economics and they would pay $58 a $100 scholarship money for each speech so i was paying for college that i have to tell you at 38 or 14 years old to stand in front of several hundred business people was terrifying more than on the floor of the senate but it was an incredible experience

so that played a formative part how to answer questions or think through fundamental issues. is in college job was very active on the debate team because she would learn how should formulate an argument and how to persuade. >>host: why does the constitution still work today? >> it was an extraordinary act and it started with two revolutions in america one was the bloody revolution but in the there was a revolution of ideas where men and women have been told that sovereignty originates on the top that kings and queens have all sovereignty of power in any rights or

grace from a the monarch to be taken away on a whim ameritech began with a revolutionary concept that our rights not come from the keating zero or queen or president but god almighty and sovereignty resigns with we the people so we hold these truths to be self-evident that they are endowed by their creator those for revolutionary words fetid is "life liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" that led directly to the constitution but it wasn't -- but it was not a monarch but the sovereignty the people establishing a government.

the constitution was to bind the mischief of government. that was the extraordinary understanding to write about factions and today we call them special interest. the framers understood human nature. said they saw it deliberately to divide power between the three branches of government and the federal government and the states and local government. medicine explained the whole purpose power is divided can seize the entire government it is the unchecked power mean said it could be abused that checks and balances was

designed to fight against each other that was part of the constitutional design grid lock is a way to slow down the attempt of one branch of government to expand power. it underscores that right now one of the profound dangers of the obama administration that the president obama is the most lawless president we have never see that he claimed to unilaterally ignore and change was. retardation and founded on the understanding no man is above the law especially the president and a blunt the that is front and center that people to read in the act of control president who refuses to follow federal law with the rate get back

to the checks and balances that protect the individuals >>host: you have a chance to ask the founding fathers a question what would you ask? >> what intrigued you the most about the constitution? >> is a terrific question. i don't know if i have an answer i would love to sit down with madison to pick his brain to listen to him think about how the establish institutions that will persevere. the united states has been an anomaly in history philosopher thomas hobbes said the experience of man

that has been the idea that men and women have been oppressed to be ruled by tyrants in the united states of america i believe powerfully in american exceptionalism what they designed to kraft the constitution is the rest from mankind where everyone's rights are protected start with nothing it achieve anything and that was the danger have you checked against the abuse of power? that has been the state of nature for the history of mankind. what we see now would have

been deeply troubled washington franklin madison and jefferson and it would not surprise them. they understood the lust for power and they were designing a nation and constitution to reagan that in. one of the things i think they did not count on is for congress to be so submissive because congress has taken it from the president to be based on those branches check each other we have senate democrat several blocks stand up to the president even when he ignores the law and the constitution it is unprecedented and likewise are unwilling to stand up the system does not work if

the branches to check each other in that component the bipartisan corruption of washington, i don't think the framers anticipated it would get this bad. the anticipated human nature , but what we see right now is corrupted it is both parties we need fundamentally to get back to the framers envisioned the free market principles that made our nation great. >> have you had a chance to talk to the president? >> briefly but not at great length one of the strange things about president obama is he does not deal with congress or talk to members of congress you certainly not republicans not even democrats when democrats talk privately one of the things they've been to about

the president largely ignores the members of congress. he says he has a phone and of penn. it is curious. he has come over of a few times to have lunch usually when he wants to lecture but as a practical matter he is very little interaction and is one of the reasons why harry reid said that was to do nothing senate because he spends his time to vilify and attack the opposing party. >> you tell the story of your father to me q bin and your mother from canada but your relationship with your dad has evolved. >> my relationship with my

daddy was always my hero and a larger than life when i was a young child living in canada moving to calgary for the oil and gas business either of my parents for christians at the time they were drinking far too much and my father left us that three years old and feedback and decided he did not want to be buried anymore or remain in the home to be a father to his young son. he spent a number of months back is in houston and a colleague from the oil and gas business invited my dad to a bible study at the helm of the insurance agent and

my dad said blood of the things that struck him was the peace he sought in the questions that were gathering their. description refers to read as peace that passes understanding. one had a son that would beecher and steal from her to pay for his drug addiction but yet he was flabbergasted and could not understand how that could be. that night he kept asking questions i said the pastor is coming by to kernite you can keep asking so he came back and spent a number of hours arguing with the pastor and my father is a very intelligent man and as a mathematician and computer

programmer and he argued and was convinced he could prove with and finally my father said what about the man into that was never heard of jesus? the pastor did not take the bait but said i don't know about that man the you have. what is your excuse? was in he said that hit him like a sledgehammer he fell to his knees in the caver christian and asked jesus to save him and transformed him he drove to the airport and flew back to my mother and me.

>> do you remember that moment? >> i don't. i was three years old for i know the story because my parents told me. i can only assume during that time when the there was probably drinking even more but i have no recollection myself but when they came back to gather my mother became a christian as well then the fates pleasanter girl and a literally save their family would have been raised with a single mom without my dad without him giving his life to jesus. >> you lost a half sister how do you get through that? >> one my father was buried as a young man and had two little girls early ben the

father divorced when they were about six or seven. my sisters the oldest trick the divorce very hard. there with live with their mom during the year so i was an only child but during the summer they would come live with us though i was the kid brother with two older sisters. miriam was bright and pretty and full of life but also her parents' divorce really impacted her and she was angry. as an angry teenager and proceeded to make a series of bad light traces as a

serious drinking problem, a drug problem she made decisions, i got married to a man who was in and out of prison and was physically abusive, she had a seven me -- us son in was a single mom her addictions got worse. i remember, a young lawyer just order to practice law and miriam took a serious turn for the worse. she was in prison -- prison in that a drug addict she went to a crack house and was living in a crack house with his boyfriend of hers and my nephew was since

sixth grade and his mom was completely unable to care for him so my father flew up and we drove to philadelphia. i remember we left our wallets and watches and everything in my apartment we do know fevered be shot or robbed repacked truck and took her to a denny's in reset down with her to talk sense into her. when she wished just angry. why did you the bus? that he missed a swim meet in high-school and i will confess of is probably not the most understanding kid brother my father's junkers

sister i guess was imprisoned and tortured in castro's jails but yet she raised as a single mom and i said i am sorry your parents got divorced sometimes life is not fair. i am sorry your father in this case with meet but look at what as you have not been imprisoned in you have a son. but her demons and addictions so we struggled with what you do. i had just target practicing at a law firm had 100 grand in student loans and my parents were broken declared bankruptcy earlier so i took

a cash advance for $20,000 and i use that to pay for joey to go to valley forge military academy. it ended up he lived there and it provided us safe place of order and discipline for one year which he desperately needed for crack the ended the year very am was doing better. not a great but no longer in a crack house she had rated somewhat so joey went back with his mom. then a few years ago miriam passed away with an overdose with the coroner ruled as accidental but she had went to sleep she had forgotten

what she had taken and then never woke up. >> says you have seen the drug abuse firsthand. >> it is an enormous problem and an addiction is a terrible disease. to i come from a family where my mother's family is irish and italian and we have more than a few irish drunks pergamum mother's father drink way too much he was a mean man not physically abusive but emotionally abusive he was mean and regular. -- yell at her she is strong with the spine of steel the

first person to ever go to college with. he did not think there is any reason for women to be educated. in to get accepted to rice university and at the time when the terrorists no tuition that is the only way she would have gone he dealt with the ravages that to be an alcoholic at a level most did not encounter he could not work. he drank to such abuse he destroyed his body he died

as a relatively young man but looked like he was 90. it was an addiction that consumed him. >> you went to princeton and harvard how did you pay for that? >> when i was in high school it was our challenge with the'' -- oil and gas industry but in the mid-80s the price of oil chromatid and when that happened they went out of business so i found myself at age 17 financially independent and voluntarily. and to talk about giving

speeches i won a scholarship to the american legion, the vfw whereby i had won a scholarship money and i took student loans. of princeton i had two jobs so i worked to different jobs to help pay my way through school and that was challenging. both princeton and harvard i did not come from a wealthy family. i graduated from very small christian high-school there were 43 people in our class. no one had ever gone to the ivy league college one that

was a change from anyone going anywhere. it was pretty intimidating for girl dynasties that were their generation after generation with tie-ins of industry -- titans of industry across the globe i remember one of the people in our class was a princess glove greece and listed in the student directory. what am i doing at a place were classmates are princesses and billionaires'? but it was a wonderful experience. i certainly learned a lot. >> you got the law clerk to

the chief justice at the time. how does that come about and what you learn? >> that was so wonderful opportunity to clear that the court of appeals in the u.s. supreme court and chief justice rehnquist hired me and that was an unbelievable experience. he was an extraordinary man staggering intellect. deeply present that was the most startling aspect unbelievably down to earth i am convinced he would not have interacted people any differently if he was a plumber. born in the walkie the 18 he enlisted in the army and was in north africa and world war ii and was listed as a

sergeant what a wonderful statement the chief justice was not an officer to say i would already q he would say not anymore. [laughter] he was a wonderful man. so the chief himself was a law clerk with the most exceptional justices to ever serve on the court. he would typically interview 12 law students you had to be at or near the top of

your class with strong recommendations. but he was so smart he did not need a law clerk he could do the job with his eyes closed. said the interviews he was looking for people he would not mind spending every day with for one year because she spent a lot of time city is getting to know you. the toughest question if i would be willing to play tennis with him every week. he played tennis every week with his clerks and i said absolutely it sounds like a lot of fun. i am not very good. he laughed. what he did not know is that was supposed. i was horrible.

this single thing that was the most daunting the dollar have to play tennis every week so i took lessons to get ready for go so during the interview at the end i said mr. chief justice i should tell you why and bittersweet to be here and he said what you mean? i said we're in the finals semi rockets are getting ready to sweep orlando with the back-to-back nba championship and i had ticket -- tickets to the game tonight but i came here and he cracked up laughing. he said i think he made the right decision. i am convinced the only reason i got the clerkship

is said made him laugh. so he hired me and was an incredible friend and mentor someone i expected. >> and you wanted to be a guard for the houston rockets. >> i am not sure i'd even be a water boy. that came seven the year before from 94 i have some talent but athletic is not among them. >> you met your wife during the bush campaign? >> we were both there full time i was doing domestic policy she was doing economic policy we were both in the '20s she is beautiful and vivacious blancs

southern california girl in her second year at harvard business and i was smitten complete the rebate january 3rd 1st day was january 5th and i took her out to dinner. it ended up being four hours and i asked her tell the history of your family starting with the birth of your grandparents and i just listened. she is an extraordinary woman. the daughter of missionaries her parents were missionaries so she lived in africa and kenya and in nigeria to her dad is a dentist so they would do dental work and her grandfather was a missionary over 30 years.

and she is exceptionally strong will the. -- weld and one of the things that she told the story her family is the seventh day adventist that strictly observes the sabbath they had both gone to the schools if they very much wanted her to go to the adventist colleges she did not want to she wanted to go to liberal arts heard dad did not want her to but she battled with her father. she actually started her first business at six years old a bread baking company and she and her brother would bake bread every day after school then on sundays it would sell the bread to local apple orchard it was

called pieties bakery and sold thousands of love's eidenshink that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that you take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion thousand dollars. she said if you will not pay i will pay it so she used the money. that story resonated with my mom's background to stand up to her father there heard dad is a wonderful man he climbed mount everest to talk about intimidating father of lot talk about one who has climbed mount everest. one of the things and allowed me to fall in love with her is she has a