they understand the importance. the foreign leaders of free-market countries out there understand the important role that america has to play and must play for the entire world to be a safer place. america uses her power for preservation of peace and the pursuit of liberty and freedom. in the course of human history that's very unique. we are not about building empires. we are not about leaving our troops abroad permanently except to protect our allies. we should be proud of it and we shouldn't have to apologize. all the stuff about seating -- taking our seats in the nation. i'm not saying we are better people. i'm saying the founding fathers of america got it right. as long as we don't screw up they started and by the way we could screw it up. as long as we don't this country will remain the greatest in the world. i want to close with a final story and take questions people ask me because i outlined in the

book leadership in crisis all the challenges facing our country. energy policy and education policy in the war on terrorism but i'm not a cynic at all. i'm not a pessimist at all. i believe our best days as a country are ahead of us not find us and if you don't believe that or you want to recharge her patriotism or sense of hope and faith i invite you to the best party will attend. the ceremony when the troops return home from service overseas. as governor tried to go to every departure in every return. we have 3000 national guardsmen in iraq this year and almost 1000 guards off of our coast. they have been activated for hurricanes. we have guardsmen in haiti and afghanistan all over the world. we have given medals to the troops to thank them for their service. i visited with the families of those that have paid the ultimate sacrifice and that have lost a child or grandchild. i would say the story of one of the thousands of national

guardsmen. i met him for the first time back in 2008. he was coming back from iraq. he had been gone for almost an entire year. his unit had been over there and we were waiting for a plane to come. i was on the tarmac and i ended up visiting with the families. i've met young woman -- one young woman. she was a young wife and a young mother so excited her husband was coming home. she said governor i'm not complaining. she said when he enlisted by signed up to be single a single mom. i'm proudly served his country but it's only been home for the birth of our child and he's been gone the entire time. i'm excited is coming home. that young man was excited to be coming back as well. you get a picture of your child by internet or e-mail is not the same. watching them grow and turn into a -- so eventually the plane landed. as the plane landed in the church were getting off the plane they were swarmed by their

spouses and parents and the kids are waving flags and parents had features of their children. everyone is so excited that their loved ones back home safe. i lot -- i got lost in the confusion and i heard this woman calling out my name saying governor general will you come over here? i go over there and she said i want you to meet my husband. she said would you get your picture made with us click she gave her camera to a friend in the friend was trying to figure out the camera. the camera's different. i was waiting for for the friend to figure it out and i started to sing with her husband had asked him about the unit in the progress in iraq and what they have done over there. it was back in 2008. i asked this young soldier a question i never should have asked. before i tell you the rest of the story i will remind you i was a -- governor. nobody told you what you are

supposed as they're not used to say. i was curious i said sonia been gone for almost an entire year. i'm just curious when you get home tonight was the first thing you want to do when you get home? [laughter] now i thought maybe he would want to t louisiana shrimp or crawfish, take a hot shower. his wife interrupted me and she wouldn't let him speak. i don't know what she thought is going to say but she said governor i will tell you what he's going to do. she said he is going to change a year's worth of diapers. that's what he is going to do. i said i can't save you from that, good luck. the second time i saw him monthly nurse giving a talk and he came up to sing afterwards and he said remember me governor? he said thanks a lot i've been doing nothing but changing diapers ever since i got home because of you. the third time i saw him, a

thousand guardsmen have been activated and what an amazing job they did. they moved 46 million pounds of sand rock and dirt to fill and dozens of passages. on ellmers island they built a half-dozen of those passes. using everything from blackhawks and other helicopters to graders and everything they could to build these all are because. at ellmers island they were using graders and they work 24 hours a day under the big lights in the heat during the day and during the night and they built these land bridge is and thank god they did. the they built a land bridge and they would get past and be trapped time and time again. then they would go back and if that land bridge hadn't been there they would go straight into the estuaries. that was one of our last lines of defense.

to help supervise the work to see what they were doing the young man driving looked familiar and he said governor do you remember me? it was the same young man had come back from iraq in 2008. that's what's amazing about these young men and women. i still couldn't help myself when i said the last time i saw you each has had one child and i'm curious have you had any more children? he's -- i said i know you wanted more children per year and he said governor when we have time? i have been deployed or do that in a culture that celebrates celebrities for being famous. i came home shortly after and my little boy comes running to the front are yelling daddy is home, daddy's home. so happy i was on before went to bed. he grabbed my legs and i lifted

him up and he still yelling daddy is home. i said sean i can hear you, i am home. he looked at many said dad show me your badge. i don't have a badge. he goes you mean you are not a state trooper? assets on i am the governor of the great state of louisiana. he thought about this for a minute gave me a disappointed look that only son to give his father. do you think you might become a state trooper one-day? i said some i will work on it. we are blessed to live in the greatest country mr. the world. don't let anybody tell you otherwise and don't for a minute forget our best things are ahead of the thought behind this. thanks to the fact that they are men and women willing to run towards war and not afraid -- not away from it. our real heroes aren't famous for being famous but our reviewers are the men and women

that serve us. my publisher will be mad if i don't say "leadership and crisis" 15 more times. i would be happy to get you to your questions. thank you all. [applause] thank you all very much. [applause] [applause] >> thank you all very much. i know we have a few minutes or a few questions and i will be happy to take questions. yes maam. [inaudible] >> the question is this mortgage loan impact status. she said thank you for not using at teleprompter. i can't read teleprompters.

i will leave that for the president. on the moratorium but they talk about the moratorium. first of all let's remember how we got this moratorium. the secretary of interior and maybe a sub inspector general's report that basically said folks from the national academy of engineering and elsewhere. those experts made specific recommendations about how chilling could be done more safely in the gulf. but the department did was they added the sixth of moratorium to those recommendations. eight of those experts immediately spoke up and said wait a minute we never saw the moratorium. we don't agree with the moratorium and we don't think it will make drilling more safe in the gulf. it may may be clearer now than we have seen once the scene of an explosion loss of life but it is also chair that they want the federal government to do its job so our people can go back to work. we don't want them to have one-size-fits-all moratorium. there were recommendations like

redundant equipment and more federal expect more federal expected on every rate. there were recommendations to do well pressure test that would make drilling more safe and here's the frustrating thing. when we talk to demonstration he didn't understand how it works. they said don't worry about it the rigs can't go anywhere and the oil is still there. somebody has to tell me a setting that equipment -- sending those jobs overseas helps our country. how does it help her country and another frustrating conversation we had a remember talking about this books with your check from bp and when i say i don't think bp will give these unemployed laid-off workers checks for the seven don't worry they can get an employment check. are people don't want an unemployment check. they want to go back to work and then going back to work is good for not only believes in the gulf coast but our entire country. on paper they listed the

moratorium. the reality is they haven't issued a permanent moratorium. they have begun to issue more of the shallow water permits and it's still not a normal pace even though it's a different environment in the deep water. the secretary of interior scheduled to come to my state tomorrow and i'm hopeful they will say they will provide a predictable rate is for environment because the company will tell you they can follow the rules as they know the rules are. the fact that they're censored and it goes back to what is a beginning this demonstration does understand the uncertainty of tax raise the uncertainty about cap-and-trade in the uncertainty about the moratorium. a quick story, the largest company in america. they want to fess up to $3.4 billion in my state-building across five faces the most modern steel facilities in the country. 1250 permanent jobs average pay $75,000. they spent tens of billions of

dollars buying the land. several months ago based on our conversations and what you are doing in the state if we build america we will build it and we cannot and he also told me this. the days of uncertainty out of washington especially the cap-and-trade build them out of the house they're looking at brazil. i'm glad they chose a month ago to proceed in ways the anna think of the jobs we missed while they were waiting for congress. explain to me how sending those jobs to brazil helps our economy so the greatest impact on the moratorium has been the uncertainty. what they didn't understand, the multi-national companies will be fine. they were good african make their money at the fabrication shops. the restaurants the small to medium-size businesses the mom and pop businesses for louisiana workers they can't wait. they're the ones being impacted.

that they thought this was good news. they said it would only cost eight to 12,000 jobs in the gulf coast. the private industry estimates are higher than that. try to tell those families. their mortgages have not gone away and these are proud hard-working people to work along the coast. they want to go back to producing energy for the countries of the moratorium and papers no longer there but in effect it still is. i think the federal judge said it better than anyone. he called that arbitrary and capricious. we just want them to listen to our experts. the moratorium is clearly an example to the detriment of my state and our country as well. we will do one more. >> hi governor. professors and students are always apologizing for america and trying to lift them up as

the greatest economy in the world. in my class was taught that it's the greatest country in the world so my question is why do college professors do this and how we combat this to keep telling our country why america's greatest country on the earth? >> thank you being here. i think the other college students for being here as well. let me share a couple of my experiences. let me say this, i had a great experience, got a great education or brown. there is something about metal sharpening. i heard most of you that defenses and the thing was a good thing to hear this. i don't stand up here to complain and tell you we need affirmative action for conservatives on her university campuses. the story i repeat in the book about talking to the president and i asked him the question.

larry sommerset university wide wide -- we were talking about diversity. you guys look at diversity and so in different ways. what about intellectual and ideological diversity? we were having a conversation with jesse ventura the editor from "washington post", pretty interesting group of characters at this point. the vast majority will admit that they voted for democratic candidate. if you look at college faculty they will be decidedly more liberal than the general population so i asked president summers to talk so much about diversity. they are not proportionally here on your campus the way they are in the rest of country. he said the reason that is, evangelical christians tend not to send their children to harvard and he said that's probably good for them and good for us. i think he was being honest. he wasn't trying to be offensive

i'm not here to criticize larry summers. he said they are not what we would expect in the regular -- there's the country but a good thing was was interesting that he said that about almost any other group there would have been protests in boycotts and outrage. i remember as a student he talks about some of your experiences i remember being a class where we had to write an essay and it seems that everybody in the class was trying hard to be more of a victim of the person next to them. brown has a wide array of students with different back rounds but there are a lot of upper middle class students with great experiences and i look around the campus and i see these worship people read they are getting a great education. every paper he turned and talked about how awful their childhood was and they have been these victims. i work paper about how happy and blessed i was somewhat a great family i had paid my professor

sent the paperback saying he just thought they were happy. [laughter] i don't even know what that means. i was happy. when i went to brown it was a presidential election year and i went there and i wanted to join the college republicans. they told me the college democrats the marxist liberals the democrats and conservatives if we admit her publicans found to -- i started a chapter and we became the biggest club on campus. we had 300 students at world and 100%. it turns out every single republican on campus and every other student pretty much disagree with us. i can tell you how may times on classes where people said you are the first person i've met that believes and thinks that way. i think you will have much richer educational experience

than your fellow students at the go-to classes where buddy agrees with them. as long as you're willing to stand up and speak up or you believe then you will have to defend it with articulate well thought out well reasoned policies and explanations for why you reach your conclusions. that was a great educational experience and you may have professors that assume if you are compassionate person you believe in liberal policies and if you are intelligent ugoda for president obama. it's a great opportunity to challenge yourself and be forced to respond to those arguments. in terms of wife profession is -- professors are that way. where the most folks going into government service, that's not to belittle. accomplished intellectual part conservative professors and government leaders but

conservatives taking noonan wrote this describing in her book and character was king talking about ronald reagan about when he ran for president stopping to think about whether this was an appropriate use of his talents and time and conservatives don't normally aspire to that. we raise our children we don't say if you work really hard one day you too can work for the federal government. that's not the dream in a conservative family. they don't say if you work hard monday you will like we have become a university professor. i think we need to look at work in our college campuses and government. ever recommended the book may be we as conservatives need to spend time doing that and maybe consider missionary work. don't do it full-time or for a lifetime. do for a while and go back to the private sector about to the real world. conservatives are out there paying the bills creating jobs running businesses. in other words making this country grow and survive.

i would say this when they solicit donations from alumni a guarantee they were a lot more conservative than the professors teaching a classroom. in terms of i applaud you for being here. most importantly the worst thing you could do is to bend popular peer pressure. the worst thing you can do is to say well professor please get a 90% of students believe it and i need to believe it too. the best thing we can do stand up and say let me tell you why i think america's greatest country. america if it wasn't for america , america save the world. if you think about open-air inner third time. america is working to save the world. go back to world war ii. america stood between totalitarianism and freedom and freedom loving countries.

it stood between communism and the free world and now the war on terrorism. we have allies don't get me wrong but it's america taking the lead. where would this world be? where would your beloved european countries be if it hadn't been for america not once, not twice but three times an hour in the bucknell can see your. many of them are our allies but many of them are trading liberty for security. we are a young dynamic running country and we must not make that trade-off. i had a professor at around the told me this and i will leave it does. he was a professor and he said the you're too smart not to be a socialist. [laughter] i said ashley you are too smart not to be her publicans they left it at that. he said fair enough i will he be alone. i want to thank you for having me and i urge you to get "leadership and crisis." thank you very much for hosting today. [applause]

>> >> joining us again is senator rand paul. his second book, of a government delays. >> altered your government there are 41 different agencies to carry firearms and the government. and applied to the police or

fbi but the department of agriculture has a s.w.a.t. team fish and wildlife, a fishing and wildlife and raided a gibson guitar with guns drawn to call the computer equipment and there would did not let them know what they were accused of for one year but then it was to break a foreign regulation of law in india. those of the stories that we write about it. >> host: how come we haven't heard about that? maximum then you have one couple was selling bunnies in misery they were fined $90,000 for having the wrong permit the government said you can pay on the web site $90,000 but if you don't pay in 30 days it is 3.$1 million. this is what the government

is doing to bully people. they're doing the same to confiscate people's land you cannot build on it because it is a wetland even though there is no water or stream or pond. >> host: as a senator what can you do? >> we have looked we have constructive legislation so on the wetlands we say to the clean water act decision cannot discharge pollutants into navigable waters your backyard is not navigable water and a dirt is not a pollutant so we are redefining so they don't put people into prison. a woman in mississippi was 84 months in federal prison without parole for putting clean dirt on her only and. >> when you talk to your colleagues about the

incident what you hear? >> some are horrified. eight co-sponsored by bill the other 92 i am not sure what they're thinking about. when you tell the american people how they are harassing and abusing and imprisoning people for people you can go to an amish farmer some have been arrested for selling votes to their neighbors. >> host: will you be taking these issues nationwide? >> we will talk about it wherever people will listen because government is out of control and government is a bully and someone has to stand up to the bully. >> host: november 2012 post-election what did they clarify for you? >> we need to do something to grow is a party we are in

danger of becoming a dinosaur from new england they are solid blue if we don't figure out what people want we will not win as a party. i do think they are conservative we should balance the budget but they don't think we should be at war everywhere all the time the a lot more tolerant policies for putting people in prison for possession of marijuana at the wheel bike to see more local judges i am not encouraging people to use it but we should not put peoplehood in jail either. >> host: this is your second book for you to a larger first forum on booktv. the premise of the first book. >> the teapartier goes to washington in about the teapartier movement was an extraordinary movement one

of the biggest to happen in politics. lot of people were showing up, hundreds of thousands and it transformed the way we think about things that people began to question whether or not though laws passed by washington and like obamacare was constitutional if they gave the government the power to do certain things. >> but the november to trouble election? >> and not want to talk about 2012. let's talk about the future. we have to figure out how to appeal for a bigger electorate's. >> are you running for president? >> that is classified. i will be part of the national debate it is too early for that decision. >> host: government bullies his second book from senator rand paul.

>> good morning and welcome to the heritage foundation. >> good morning welcome to the heritage foundation and pleased to welcome into the

auditorium. [applause] i will add words of wisdom as your watching us on television what a great opportunity we have to hear from the best governors in the entire country. rick perry is the lone star state 47 governor and has defended taxes conservative

values fighting for principled solutions and work to implement a clear vision for more jobs, better schools, safer communities in a brighter future. it sounds like our kind of governor. has a result texas is consistently rank as the nation's best place to do business and create jobs. i am sure some of you know, that texas leads the nation in job creation with more jobs being than any other state over the past 10 years. texans are safer because governor perry has pursued a border security strategy to put more boots on the ground, more helicopters in the sky more resources into the hands of texas peace officers with the exploding drug related violence across the border.

he has refused to raise taxes the first texas governor to lower state spending and has now done it twice. as governor to rick perry uses the line-item veto to cut $3 billion of proposed spending and lead the battle to pass the most sweeping lawsuit reform closing the door on junk lawsuits making trial lawyers rich while driving doctors out of the state, were out of the professional together. since the approval these reforms the practice claims have fallen and access to health care is increasing across the state as doctors have applied to practice in texas.

i am sure that makes him more concerned about the recent passage of health care reform one. in 2,005 the governor signed a historic $15.7 billion property tax cut for homeowners and businesses that included new taxpayer protections against appraisal increases. in 2009 he secured a tax cut for 40,000 small businesses and protected their rainy day fund. governor perry is a fifth generation texan as the son of farmers in the tiny west texas town in one of the first of his family to go to college earning a degree in animal science. he was also a member of the corps of cadets and a young

leader he has a science in the business and he knows how to the inspiration lee. between 1972 and 1977 governor perry served in the united states air force flying tactical aircraft in the middle eastern part of the world in a lifetime member of the nra and american legion post 75. he served as the commissioner of agriculture and the texas house of representatives. he married his childhood sweetheart and they have two children. we're delighted to once again welcome governor rate parity -- rick perry to the heritage foundation we are delighted how to improve america and his new book fed up which are copies available for you he will

sign if we have time. governor rick perry. [applause] >> think he very much it is an honor to be here today back at the heritage foundation this foundation has ben a singular standard of conservative thought for some time and i just want to say thank you for what you have done. to day is almost one week since the american voters sent a bold and simple message to the nation's political establishment. wasn't complex but short and sweet to say we are fed up and we're ready to take your

country back. americans are obviously fed up with the democrat party that set aside their interest in favor of expanding government, raising taxes taxes, doing the bidding of labor unions in personal-injury trial lawyers and activist judges. americans are fed up with the repeated incursions into their liberties. however their disdain for washington does not stop the party line is americans are fed up with democrats and republicans that have championed stimulus programs to support a government giveaway. voters understand the true threat posed by a mountain of debt and are increasingly perplexed by bankrupt federal programs like social

security and they're deeply frustrated by officials you do nothing to address the serious problems. the american people are fed up with bureaucrats to tell them how to live their lives to call the shots in the one that they must buy the kind of food that they eat or the light bulbs. there also fed up with elected judges to tell them when and where and how we can display the ten commandments. this simmering frustration erupted into an overwhelming landslide, for republicans on election night. looking at the historic gains in the house and the senate, some commentators call that a republican tsunami. i refer to whom accentuate

the positive to echo what senator marco rubio centcom this was for conservatives in washington, a second chance. it offers a second chance to republicans than democrats to set aside is accepted way to do business inside the beltway to get in right starting with the sensational one dash essential constitutional limits. i wholeheartedly believe the tenth amendment cast a very narrow path for government government closest to the people truly governs best so

the powers not delegated to the united states by the constitution in the car reserved for the states respectively or to the people and in my view the federal government with a shameful disregard of the tenth amendment pushes us backwards down a slippery slope. with the precept of the bill of rights to end up compromise the essence of our republic could be lost forever with our god-given freedoms. the words of the tenth amendment are a rallying cry for such a time as this reminding citizens that elected officials of their responsibilities that includes those officials who

rode that wave of dissatisfaction into the statehouse. i believe 19 legislatures switched to republican control looting and to north carolina and alabama which would be experiencing republican leadership for the first time since 1870. that is a long time to wait. but we must ensure that it is worth the wait. at the state level my fellow governors and i need to work with legislators to improve the wisdom of our founding fathers. in the limit the power of the federal government and entrusted the challenges of day-to-day governance to the leaders and james madison wrote in federalist 45

common powers from the opposed constitution to the federal government are few in defined. those that are to remain from state governments are numerous and indefinite. if he were here today, i would have to wonder if mr. madison would look at today's leaders in washington d.c. to say they are humble? [laughter] i believe he and his peers were incredibly clear in our nation's success was proof of the wisdom for a long time. but in short free people work harder and take better care of one another than those who were crushed under the weight of oppressive government that freedom helps america grow into the greatest nation that the

world has ever known. bar none. unfortunately it is threatened because we have allowed washington to expand at the expense of liberty. maybe it was the siren song of earmarks. but we have allowed for the creation of a monster. the federal government current role directly contradicts the principles of limited constitutional government that our founders established to protect us from my freshman sharon with this balance of power that subjugates states' rights to federal comments led me to write the book the book fed up -- a lot of people don't

think of roosevelts new deal but it is a legacy of the federal program including a social security program that is not only bankrupt but also had very little to do with america's emergence from the great depression. and i congratulate scholars for popping to

indiscriminately kill any leader who would be courageous enough with medicare and medicaid cost to end up with $106 trillion of unfunded liability and $0 set aside to pay for that. that is the sort of thing they do in texas. a prime example how responsive and effective government can be when closer to the people. to lead the nation and is in

job creation and half of the jobs this year were created in texas. since 2005 for out of five jobs to 80 percent of those were created in texas and the jobs created by texans and they work long hours in a fiscally conservative environment. there are four simple principles. first don't spend all the money. we left up words of a billion dollars in a rainy day fund. with a predictable and stable requirement to take

the risk so they know what the cost will be. to reform the legal system to come down substantially on the john claus suits to be tied up in the courthouse instead of creating wealth and doing good. in to put into place accountable public-school at the skilled work force will be available if you want to move from another state like many are doing from california the 153 businesses from the first of the year to relocate from california to texas. my fellow republican governors including bob

mcdonnell they get it. not tuesday it is problem free nirvana. the challenges are real. but with those debt problems have their work cut out for them however the difference compared to the federal government is drastic. $520 per capita in debt. and that the same time the average texan days $6,291 of local taxes $1,750 is but a

whopping federal taxes even take away the national defence is twice the local and state tax combined. and they see the difference in value between the state and the federal government and they're really ready to get the constitutional balance. the vote totals reaffirms that for me. people push back against a washington establishment spending too much heroin too much with the views of our citizens part of the election of firms the power of individual americans and

in a powerful way repudiates the overly controlling central government. we need to keep the dialogue rolling how limited government will maximize our liberty. our citizens have elected leaders willing to fight and it is time to hold the leaders accountable. for example, repealing and defunding nationalized health care in its entirety is vitally important to become as you cannot go through that kind of legislation piecemeal and then parse every element. start with the premise the states can handle the questions better and look to them to support that process. support the state.

not punish them. the new leaders in washington and those who profess to be a conservative should vote to handcuff the big spenders and simplify our tax system amending the constitution to restrict federal spending, a balanced budget amendment would be the perfect tool for that to protect future generations from this administration to run rampant. me back my fellow conservatives in this room i don't see storm clouds on the horizon. i happen to see some of our greatest days ahead of us come up bright future the future is contingent upon a return of our values and individual freedoms.

to restore a constitutional limit will take a massive effort but we are more than up to the task. the people who are willing to die on a foreign battlefield in defense of freedom for others, and to shelter complete strangers in the aftermath of stores like katrina, have a heart and compassion to tackle this. with second - - with conservative groups like the heritage foundation and bull breeders from the elected class everywhere, we can recapture what is great about america. restore this nation to pre-eminence in the world as a beacon of individual liberty and economic prosperity and there is no greater cause in our time

than that. thank you for coming. [applause] i will be happy to attempt to answer your questions. >> make sure you get a microphone before you speak. and please identify yourself. >> i write for the pakistan a spectator of. it was refreshing to hear you on npr but you have any backlash from some segments of the party by not trashing islam?

he said we have to work together. >> i think i used the example of my friend, not to only a personal friend but a businessman in texas. i am sure there a lot of ladies in the audience that no his product the he is a great businessman to talk about the issue of ground as hero and he said i know how to take care of this bill the synagogue and a mosque and a church. we have a great muslim community in texas. businessmen and women who our dear friends and supporters, of a substantial number whether the indiana

house is in houston or a large pakistan the population across the state and working together it is very important democrat or republican and independent board in the of those that the future of our country clearly lies in finding the things that bring us together and not separating ourselves by culture or religion. recognizing clearly those who reduce their religion as a radical islamist they are the enemy of all. >> the teethirty is credited

with the republican tsunami but have you see that movement from here? hall will they work with the republican party between the two blocks? >> i give it teeth party great credit for a number of things. one of them is there are more people read the united states constitution in the last 18 months may be in the last 50 years. i get that credit to the two-party. if for no other reason, their engagement as a positive impact on our country. politically, i saw the teapartier went to many of their defense focused on

fiscal conservatism and small government their mantra day after day a diverse group of people from all across the political spectrum. i suspect their engagement still will be positive and i hope they will stay engaged for a number of reasons the least of which is to hold the feet of these elected officials to the fire when it comes to the constitution to respect the tenth amendment allowing the states to become the laboratory of innovation to compete with each other. i will share one story that crystallizes it very well. cnbc does the yearly ranking of the state's, a metrics of

business climate, the best date to do business and in august texas was number one. number two was virginia the first-round call i got was from bob mcdonnell and was very upbeat and gracious and said congratulations to be ranked number one in the cnbc poll. enjoy it because we're coming after you. [laughter] that is exactly the type of competition and the spirit that should happen in all 50 states. not having watching tin mandate on high though one-size-fits-all whether health care or education or transportation policy, those can best be addressed at the state level.

frankly they can be done more efficiently, more effectively and we can help save washington in substantial amounts of money in that process as well. >> i am with the huffington opposed. george to view bush is talking about his book right now could reflect on your predecessor at the governor's office and head of the republican party talk about the need for them to reclaim the lost opportunities of the past does that extend to the bush administration? >> read the book first off. i will refer you to that. republicans are not unscathed. democrats in the supreme court all get on the radar screen.

the torpedoes have been launched. they hit the targets. nobody is perfect in this zero or walks away unscathed and appropriately so. >> what about the medicare prescription drug program? >> read the book. [laughter] >> over here and. >> dash governor -- i governor i am a student. >> it is wonderful to be raped in the top 25. -- ranked in the top 25. >> hopefully speaker boehner will lead the effort to repeal and the attorney generals are going to court

so what do you and your governors to in the meantime to slow the implementation and the burdens that have been put on you by the federal legislation? >> one of the aspects of the book is to be talked about how the state's can be engaged in a conversation as i said in my remarks there is a lot of political figures that social security as a ponzi scheme. my oldest child is 27 my baby is 24 and they know social security will not be there for them. what are the options? that is one of the roles that the governor can play to lead that conversation. many of us would like to be in charge of those pension

programs and medicaid is said good example of the last week right after the election our texas house had a study groupon how to better deliver the health care cost. we think we could save the federal government $40 billion of health care delivery cost if they let us do it in the state and frankly more people would be careful -- covered to deliver the health care better. and saturday night the speaker reelect had a meeting talking about how the governors. the message from john boehner is clear that he was

listening and finding a solution to the challenges that face us as a country emanate from the state's and not washington d.c. and there will be a real partnership there like we have not seen possibly in decades and decades. >> said morning governor. and the freshman at george washington university disputed the one of the most politically active schools in the country. we have aspirations to enter politics but was it a vice which to give to install -- aspiring leaders of integrity? >> find some campaigns campaigns, actively involve yourself with public policy in and find out if it's what you think it will be. find a campaign to working

in as well as an office somewhere pretty your intern the find the places for your passionate i tell young people on a regular basis this is a great country because people who came before us caved back it doesn't matter if you join the peace corps or marine corps. to our state and country and communities and in that you will find your place. >> the last question and spend a dime in turn your heritage.

heidi think the republicans for the year entitlement programs without those that cannot invest a lot of timing? >> standing up to tell the truth in not being afraid i tell people if you need a reason exhibit a y am not running for the presidency i wrote the book for our love this country and i love texas and wanted to be a powerful in great place to live and for that to be that way pacs have to not be afraid to tell the truth to push back for those that do nothing bin be more of a fear monger they don't have to tell that to my children

they are ready know there is no social security for them if they don't stand up to address the issue. the twentysomething men of young country point something and a good and powerful and a solid foundation so to do that there to stop spending money on programs we don't have. god bless you dash 95 -- [applause]

it is my pleasure to welcome you this morning to present friday before labor day i appreciate your time and attention. we do have a system or plan of action in case there is an emergency.

if there is the problem followed her. please turn off your cellphone it creates the problem with our sound system and it can also be distracting to our speakers. i will introduce our panelist first before we launch into the substance of our discussion today everybody knows we are not talking about iran right? [laughter] it is the throwback to the past to talk about non-strategic nuclear weapons with the russian relationship. i am enjoying it today by a three experts who all participated in most of the dialogue we conducted with the russians in october then in june. on my immediate right is

director and senior fellow of the of russia and eurasia program and well-known author i don't think we would overlap at the carnegie endowment but next to him is the ambassador who controls the non-proliferation initiative former ambassador to the ukraine saw his experience has been invaluable to our discussions. then we have former deputy assistant general for weapons of mass destruction policy at nato and we go back a long time.

i am going to try to limit my remarks what were some of the conclusions and then we will give each panelist a couple minutes to give their impressions of the dialogue have a change in what they thought were the most interesting outcomes but i think i need to set up for you. i did not printed reports in deference to the environment but there are the links and they're all on our web site there is a report from the first workshop in october and even longer from the second workshop in june. this project was sponsored technically by the navy that

advanced systems for combating to be windy. and here is the important part, the grant was awarded fiscal years 2014. things were a lot different than they are today with the russian relationship the objective initially were to explorer verification modality if you could sit down officially with the russians to negotiate in arms control agreement, how good you think about that? of course, this change over time and initially the first agreement set the groundwork this second meeting was to look at the hard core issues

but instead we have russia annexation of cry me at the state department verification compliance report, the first official allegation of the imf tree the and sanctions pancake new start implementation and moving along may be more slowly. because of this, but we decided to do is focus on confidence-building. what can we do? so we met in vienna with seven russians and 10 americans and one european and we quickly realized we do need vital european voices in this dialogue.

we didn't do much better with two more in june but if we move forward we will include several more so in the october workshop coming we had three different sessions of political factors, confidence-building and three spent an afternoon in working groups to come up with specific recommendations for but don't want to overwhelm you with all the details there in the report but in october , we rallied around that arms control is never easy in the time of crisis it is not easy but is still an important bin you if you can use it to build transparency and trust. in october all participants

had official limits but interestingly enough in october, they're russian counterparts were quite clear. we are curious about european security it is and global security is not a new cold war. in june that tone had changed quite considerably that affected the things that we talked about. we spent a good deal of time as we have representation and we talked specifically about verification technology and that was an area we believed could be fruitful even just longer term technology developments

and confidence building measures, limited data exchanges and of course, the a sistine. >> so we would cast the net widely. a long list of things that we talk about but obviously the russians are big on changes on the presidential nuclear mission. the idea is if you have a good baseline of non-strategic nuclear weapons to ruth for word from the baseline.

they are more squeamish but in october we said we cannot reaffirm that we have no intention common no plan and no reason to deploy a nuclear weapons on to the member states. and we could not commit. >> these are from october to june. >> on that confidence-building measure area but the multi lateral confidence-building measures were the heart is bilateral at the moment that were

desirable but not easy to accomplish. so that is a very narrow avenue. police still talked-about visiting storage sites and thinking about some of the things we have done in the past. for example, that trilateral initiative between the russian and the u.s. and fissile materials. and though longer-term the ada to focus on crosscutting technologies like information and data storage to soften the focus away from verification and more to monitor. things that we have done in this area we may think about

in the future. then we had a third working group to talk about political opportunities but probably that is impossible right now but everybody agreed we need to create stability and transparency the june workshop was a heavy focus. i really will try to freeze through the next two slides. we tried to say we have a menu of ideas so i drove down so i ask each participant to come up with two specific ideas we will

circulate the a the paper is is i run the web site for the workshop. and in those ideas i would ask people to focus on military doctrine doctrine, transparency, the technology development and safety and security of their weapons and this was a surprise topic. is an counterintuitive if your relations are not the best can you talk about sensitive topics like the of security of nuclear weapons? we decided it was worth a shot there was exercises with cooperation with russians in the past in limited ways so we have a menu of potential

cooperative factions we could take there. the idea paper b.a.t. is with transparency, it is pretty evenly divided but why not go through all of them here because it would bore you and a lot on there but ino's steve will talk specifically about military a doctorate in the there is a lot of topics we have to talk to the russians about and specifically given the statements by putin and others officials, we need to clarify some topics even on

ballistic missile defense. transparency, i apologize this is the dark, a lot of different ideas for the kind of information may might exchange with the russians. than one particular topic was the alleged it imf. but what with those of the rigid violations umbel sides ? >> it is the lots of stuff from our labs i would get some experts and there is no lot of work to be done on line authentication