[applause] . hillary clinton is unqualified to be president of the united states . [applause] she put intelligence information on her server because she thinks she's above the law. her plan probably was, she thought she was going to get elected and she would pardon herself. [laughter] but on a more serious note, she's disqualified from being commander-in-chief because when for brave americans lost their lives in the service of our country in benghazi, she lied to the relatives she lied to their families and anyone who lies to the families of americans who lost their lives in the service of our country can never be commander-in-chief of the united states of america. [applause] if we lose this election, we lose more than an election. i believe we lose the american

dream. if we lose this election and bernie sanders or hillary clinton win, obamacare becomes permanent..frank becomes permanent. this crazy deal with iran becomes permanent if we lose this election, the debt will keep going and our military will keep shrinking and our reputation in the world will continue to decline. these are the consequences of losing this election. we cannot lose this election. we must win or what is at stake is not simply what party is going to be a charge for what is at stake in this election is our identity as a nation and the people. here's the good news. the good news is, i believe with all my heart that in this election we do what needs to be done and in the years to come, we do what needs to be done. all that america's greatest days left my right hand. if we do what needs to be done, the 21st century as a chance to be the greatest chapter in the amazing story of the most

amazing nation in the history of all mankind. [applause] but to achieve this, we must return to the principles that made us great to begin with your limited government. a limited federal government, not the federal government that's in charge of everything. the federal government that's in charge of only a few things like national security and the rest, leading up to the states because i trust our state and local communities much more than i trust congress or the federal bureaucracy. [applause] a limited government based on the constitution. on saturday, we were tragically reminded of what's at stake in this election. we lost anthony scalia. in the history of the republic, there has never been supreme court justice that understood the constitution better than he did. he understood the constitution was supposed to be applied

according to its original meaning. it is not a living and breathing document that means whatever you want it to mean and now he's gone. the next president will replace them and i'm still going to be in the senate for another year. this president will not get to replace antonin scalia. [applause] this election is about the second amendment about the constitutional right we have to protect ourselves and our families and when i am president weare going to defend the second amendment not undermine it . [applause] this election is not just about limited government, it's about free enterprise. i look at the state of south carolina under the leadership of your governor and i've been seeing this a bunch, even before i got to south carolina. america needs to be doing what you are doing here. why are all these companies moving here? why is bowling and michelin and bmw here. is it because of your high taxes? number as you cut taxes.

is because of your burdensome regulations? no, it's because you reduce regulations. is it because your government wants to stick their hands into everything they are doing in your your business? number because you have a governor and leadership that understands government does not create jobs. the private sector creates jobs. [applause] free enterprise is the only economic model in the world where everyone can be better off without making anyone worse off. free enterprise is the only economic model in the history of the world where you can make poor people richer and you don't have to make rich people poor. that's why we believe in free enterprise and that's why when i'm president of the united states we are going to re-embrace free enterprise and make america the single best place in the world to start a business, to grow a business and create the best paying jobs of the 21st century. [applause] the one thing the

federal government does have to do is provide for our national security. and one of the main reasons why barack obama is such a terrible president is because he is a terrible commander-in-chief. look what they are doing to our military. today, we are on pace to have the smallest army since the end of world war ii. the smallest navy in 100 years. the smallest air force in our history. you know what the average age of the us air force plane is now? 27. that means the pilots are younger than the planes. that is not a good sign. and it's not like the world has gotten safer. there's a lunatic in north korea with nuclear weapons. the chinese are stealing our inventions, attacking our

computers and taking over the south china sea. vladimir is selling instability in europe and the middle east. iran is going to get a $100 billion of sanctions released and what are they going to do with 100 billion? they're not going to build orphanages. they're going to build up their military and one day acquire a nuclear weapon of their own and radical islamic jihadists are growing, particularly isis. the most powerful, well-funded, well organized and capable jihadist group in the history of the world that now has affiliates in over a dozen countries. in the face of all this, we are gutting our military. this is unfair to the men and women in uniform that serve us. we are still asking them to go into harm's way but now we are asking them to do it with less people alongside them, with older aircraft and equipment and with rules of engagement that do not allow them to win and that's why i want you to know if you vote for me and i'm elected president of the united states we are going to rebuild the us military because the world is a safer and better place when america is the strongest military in the world. [applause] when i'm president

were going to have a real war on terror.not the fake one that's going on now under barack obama. a real one. it's going to look like this. the best intelligence agencies in the world are going to tell us where the terrorists are in the best military is going to destroy them. and if we capture any of these terrorists alive, they're not coming to south carolina. they're coming to guantanamo bay and we are going to find out everything they know . [applause] and as part of our national security, we are going to take care of our veterans again in this country. [applause] this is my favorite part of the speech in south carolina because it's pretty amazing. i asked all the veterans if you would raise your hands so we can thank you for your service. [applause] [cheering] it's amazing. literally, half the people in the crowd raised their hands. maybe if i should ask if

you're not a veteran, raise your hands. what we are doing today is our veterans is immoral. did you see the headline yesterday in usa today? the headline was amazing. here's what it said, i'm paraphrasing. calls to be a suicide hotline went to voicemail. you think anyone's going to be fired over that? do you think anyone is going to be held accountable? they may get a promotion. they may get a year-end bonus. this is not acceptable to nikki haley is a governor of a state with a lot of veterans. i'm a senator from the state with a lot of veterans. a quarter of the calls to my office these days are about va benefits. her husband, the first gentleman of the state is a veteran. my brother is a veteran, he is here today. he has an green beret from 68 71. i know what you are thinking. i thought that was his dad.

>> that's so wrong. >> listen, he's 21 years older than me. my mom was 19 when he was born and i was 40 when i was born. my parents were very optimistic people. my sister was born after me. and true story, he drove my mom to the hospital when she went into labor with me. those were different times back then. my dad was at work. back then, they just call the dad and said yeah, you had a boy. but the doctors thought he was the dad so, i can tell you my parents are so proud of his service to our country as our entire family is and as we are of the first gentleman as well and the sacrifices your family made while he was deployed. we don't take care of our veterans today. we had a record number of

veterans today committing suicide. homeless people unemployed and waiting in long lines at the va. there are good people at the va. there are good va hospitals and we thank them for what they do. we thank them for what they do, but when i'm president of the united states, if you arenot doing a good job at the va, you will be fired. not bonus , you will be fired. and i'm when i'm president of the united states, our veterans, if they are unhappy at the va will be able to take their benefits to any hospital or any doctor they want to go to. [applause] i want to close my thinkingyou all just for being here again and i want to thank you for your vote . 2016 is not just another election. it truly is a turning point in the history of this country. what kind of turning point is what you are going to have to decide. it can be, as i said, the greatest era in our history

ahead of us but we are going to have to explain to our kids why we inherited the greatest nation in history and they got something less than that. i want you for a moment to understand what it would feel like to live in a society that tells you that no matterhow you work or how hard you try , there are only certain things will be allowed to do because of who your parents are. what i just described to you is the human condition for thousands of years. do you realize that almost everyone that has ever lived and in fact, most of the people alive today around the world live in a society like the one i just described? most of the people that have ever lived lived in a society that said the event you are only allowed tobe what your parents were. no matter how hard you work. no matter how hard you try, no matter how good you are you can only go so far. there is one exception. the united states . [applause] you know this in your ownlife . you notice in your own life for in this country we are all a generation or two removed from

someone who opened doors for us that had been closed to them. we are a nation of go-getters. we are the descendents of immigrants and slaves and people that overcame extraordinary challenge because they refused to accept these artificial limitations. and why are we different? why was that possible? it began at our founding with the profound truth that our rights do not come from government. our rights come from an all-powerful god. it is on that principle we were founded. our rights come from god. the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to pursue happiness. and it is the fact that we are based on that principle that for over two centuries, each generation has left the next

better off. now the time has come for us to do the same. now the moment has arrived for this generation to do its part. we will not do our part if we stay on the road we are on right now. we will not have done our part if we allow this country to be moved in a direction that abandons all the things that made us special. and that's why we have to win. not justthis election. we have to win the future and that's why what you are going to do here on saturday is so important. despite the challenges we face , and the challenges we face are real. we have a incredible opportunity not just to unite the conservative movement but to grow it. to take it to people who don't vote for us now. people who for 25 years have been told the republican party only cares about the rich people and the democrats are the party of the working class. that is a lie. that is a total lie. the government hurts people that are trying to make it. big government traps people that are trying to make it in poverty. today we have safety net programs that trap people in poverty. we have safety net programs in this country that have become a way of life and the lifestyle. only free enterprise by the opportunity, the only free

economy provides a opportunity to start building out of the spare bedroom of your home and this is what we need to be again as a nation. that will only happen if we win this election with the right people and the rightcandidate. and that's why i ask you for your support because that's what i will do. if i am the president of the united states i will unite the conservative movement but we will grow it.we are going to take our message to people that are living the way your governor and i grew up . we're goingto take our message to the hotel maids that i see as i travel around the country . as they come down the hallway with their little cart with the towels stacked up and the soapboxes, a lot of them have heard that my mother was once a mayor so they want to talk to me about it. and we have heard that the american dream is still alive in them. the reason they are working that job is so their kids can be anything they want to be. we are going to take our message to the father that drives a taxi and night so he

can go to school during the day. so one day he can have a job that pays more and give his kids the chance to have everything he never wanted to be. we are going to be the party of parents struggling with the cost of living. were going to be the party of the single mother who makes $10 an hour and is trying to raise her kids because the father of those children has abandoned them so she needs to go back to school and become a paralegal or a dental hygienist but she can't because she has to work full-time in school is too expensive. were going to be the party of young americans facing thousands of dollars in student loan debt, often borrowed four degrees that will not lead to jobs. we're going to be the party of the people willing to work hard and sacrifice, do not just achieve a better life for themselves but a better future for their children. we will take our conservative message not diminish it, not water it down. we are going to take it to people that are living the way we grew up, to people living paycheck to paycheck, the way i grew up. someone asked me, what is paycheck to paycheck?

it's when you write a checkon wednesday even though you don't get paid on friday so you dated saturday. that's paycheck to paycheck . [laughter] i'm not saying i ever did that because the press is here. i'm just saying, i know what it is. we are going to do what needs to be done in this generation because i refuse to be and you refuse to be and nikki haley refuses to be part of a generation that hasto look our kids in the eye and explain to them why it is that the incredible america that changed our life is no longer around for them . that's what we are going to do and let me tell you what history is going to say about us if we do what needs to be done. history will say this generation of americans, like the ones that came before us, we confronted our challenges. we solve our problems. we didn't pass them on to our children.

we did what needed to be done and because we did the american dream just survive. it reached more people and changed more lives than ever before. because we need did what needed to be done our children became the freest and most prosperous americans that ever lived. because we did what needed to be done, the 20th century wasn't as good as the 20th century, it was better. it was a new american century. we are going to do what needsto be done so when our time is done and history writes about this moment it will say that we, those americans alive here and now in the early years of this new century , were the authors of the greatest chapter in the amazing story of the greatestnation in the history of all mankind. so i need your vote and i thank you . god bless you. >> i just want to say to everybody, this is one of many bruises i will take from marco rubio. so if i'm going to do that, i need you all to go out on saturday. i need you to go contact 10 people. i need you to jump on facebook. i need you to go on instagram, take a picture of us. i need to make sure we have the highest turnout we've ever had in south carolina.

we make presidents. let's make marco rubio the next president of the united states. god bless. [applause] [cheering] [music playing] >> .

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>> more endorsements coming out of south carolina of the republican primary tomorrow. congressman mark sanford endorsed ted cruz for president just days after nikki haley gave her support to marco rubio, which we just saw. and sanford served two terms as south carolina governor. he was succeeded by governor nikki haley in 2011. we will hear from ted cruz himself during a live campaign event with reality tv show that dynasties phil robertson in west columbia. we take you there live at 5:30 eastern on c-span two. after that, donald trump speaking north charleston live at 7:00 eastern. that will also be here on c-span 2. >> i am trying to decide which

candidate to support. i'm trying to decide between the governors who have executive experience or some of the other candidates like cruz and rubio. >> the most important issue to me is national service. there are more than 5 million young americans thatare ready to step forward and serve their country for a year with programs like americorps, peace corps . >> next, jeb bush talks with supporters at a town hall hosted yesterday by the columbia tourism and lodging association in south carolina. during his remarks, former governor bush outlined his plans to improve the military, schools and the department of veterans affairs. >> good afternoon. i'm retired admiral bob and. i'm here on the half of governor jebbush .

i retired from the navy as a four-star admiral and my last job was commander of the us atlantic fleet where we had about 160,000 sailors and marines who work day in and day out to help defend this country. i know everyone in this audience shares the same value , the same goals of how important it is for this country to be protected into the future and that's why i represent over 40 admirals and generals and a lot of other men and women in uniform today and retired saying we need a leader in the white house to be our next commander-in-chief. that's why we represent and support 100 percent governor jeb bush so without further ado, i would ask everyone to rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance.

i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. and to the republic for which it stands one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all you thank you. please be seated. at this point i would like to turn the microphone over to bobby williams of the lizards ticket restaurant. bobby? >> i'm from birmingham. i go to john carroll high school x we went to the same high school in birmingham alabama.great to be with you, sir. >> thank you. i'm bobby williams. on a local restaurant tour. my family's been in business year 27 years. i'm so excited about being able to introducelindsey graham . lindsay has earned a reputation as a common sense conservative

problem solver with a strong military. he wants our defense to be strong and i think we all agree with that.as a business owner, i'm proud to think that senator graham is a leader who carries a focus on cutting wasteful spending, reforming entitlements and getting the government out of the way so businesses like mine can continue to create jobs. on a personal level, i got to see senator graham up front. my son christopher worked in his washington office for three years. what i found out about senator graham is he is honest, he's hard-working, he's fair. he loves our country. he loves our state. he's made south carolina a better place to live because of his hard work. it is myhonor and pleasure to introduce senator lindsey

graham . >> thank you very much. wow. i feel like it was my own funeral. in 50 years, now you can deliver that. anybody been to lizards ticket? jeb, you are going buddy. were going to get you off that low-carb diet. i don't know, the low-carb menu is pretty small but my family owned a restaurant also. my dad owned a bar, restaurant, poolroom and liquor store. that's why i'm qualified to be your senator.you get up early, you work hard, you've got to go to work every day whether you feel like it or not. anybody own their own business? literally, my mom and dad never had a day off except sunday because they closed the liquor store on sunday. the bottom line is, i know what it's like, bobby to be in small business and so does jeb bush.

ladies and gentlemen, i have never been more worried about the small business world that i am today. never elect somebody for president who never bought a car. as barack obama. much less run anything. a community organizer is probably not the best training to be commander-in-chief, would you agree with that? how about having somebody who's been commander-in-chief to be commander-in-chief. jeb bush was eight years commander-in-chief of the florida national guard. i've been with him for weeks now and i've had people who served under him in florida , the two adjutant generals who were serving with jeb as governor , talk about his handling of eight hurricanes and four tropical storms in 16 months. about him making 150 phone calls to families who have lost a loved one in iraq and afghanistan. about his trips to the region. about his steady hand during tough times. don't you think that's a hell

of a lot better than a community organizer? [applause] jeb said, don't cuss anymore and they are, i did it. so on our side, on our number one candidate is crazy. other than that, we're okay. and i say that understanding that i don'twant to give crazy a bad name . and here's why i think he's crazy. you've got to be crazy to believe that george w. bush intentionally lied to the american people about the iraq war. [applause] that comes from kook land. most democrats won't go there. but people who go there on an island and you don't want to take them off the island. and this is not crazy, this is offensive.

that president george w. bush was responsible for 9/11. that offends me. does it offend you? [applause] i've had the honor to be in the oval office. with president bush and president obama . it is a very special place to find yourself . i had the honor to be in the oval office with president bush when he had to adjust his strategy in iraq because the war was not going well. it's during these times you learn about leaders. because our calculations about iraq proved not to work out. war is an uncertain thing so rather than following the polls which were universally about leaving, republicans and democrats were ready to cut and run. myself, john mccain sat down with president bush and his

military and national security advisors. president bush listened intently. he said, i'm all in. i don't want to see a poll, i want to know what's best for our country to secure the future of america. i believe that jeb bush has the temperament, the judgment and the experience to win a war that we can't afford to lose. the next president of the united states is going to be a wartime president. donald trump doesn't understand this war. he doesn't understand what makes america great. if he did, he wouldn't say the hateful things he's been saying. [applause] ted cruz is a first term senator who could make sunday a day off. nobody works with him. in ted's world, everybody is

wrong except ted. in ted's world, there's not much common ground. marco rubio is a talented man who i like. i was not ready to be president at 44. jeb bush is ready to be president that are than marco rubio. [applause] jeb bush decided not to expand obamacare. john kasich felt like that was the right thing to do. the bottom line is that ben carson is the nicest man in the world and if ben carson is mad at ted cruz, that says a lot about ted cruz. so we are down to jen. i went with jeb when i got out because i believed, having been around all of them that this was the man that could pull our

country back together. saul howard problems because he did it in florida.do you want to win this election as republicans [applause] here's the question . you should embrace a man who won florida by getting 60 percent of hispanic votes. if we can come anywhere near that, we win going away. how could he get 60 percentof the hispanic vote? my being a governor for everybody and proving to hispanics that conservative principles work for them . we got the best candidate in our midst. we've got the guy who's ready to be president on day one, who understands the jobbecause his dad and brother had . and i tell you one thing, i like the bush family. they represent south carolina values much better than trump values.

i don't know what trump values are. they are foreign to me. they're not what i can relate to. so to the voters, saturday i ask you one thing.give jeb bush the momentum he needs to become the alternative to donald trump, a man that jeb bush has stood up to while everybody else hit in the corner because they are worried about the consequences of taking on the bully. what got me on jeb's team more than anything else is that he called me to ask my advice about the war when we were competitors. that shows a man with confidence. and we talked about how to win this war and i am confident he understands but when he stood up to trump and nobody else would, that closed the deal for

me. if you can't stand up to trump, you're not going to stand up to hillary or bernie or putin. we got a chance in south carolina to reset this race. people ask me, why would i get involved? here's my response. how could i not? the next president of the united states, jeb bush. [applause] >> thank you lindsay. thank you, buddy. thank you all. thank you. thanks, guys. thank you, lindsay. thank you so much for your leadership, your patriotism, you're being a phenomenal senator for this phenomenal state. lindsey graham is probably the single biggest, most important expert on national security in the united states senate and he is supporting me which i'm

honored about because he could have been supporting one of his colleagues or he could have stayed out but he believes that i've got the right stuff and i'm honored to call you a friend and you have been a phenomenal advisor and a supporter during this journey. i want to recognize a few people. roland martin, anybody know who: this? anybody fish around here he's right here. [applause] roland , roland is, he lives in naples florida. he's a floridian and had never been involved in politics before but he saw me in action as governor of florida trying to protect wild florida to making sure there are a lot of fish so people can catch that and he could have tv shows talking about people catching fish. he's a guy and it's great to have you on the trail. he's a small businessperson as well and knows what it's like to deal with all the massive amount of regulation that exists right now in our

country. i want to recognize my brother marvin who's the smart bush. [applause] martin is smart because he stays below the radar and doesn't get to deal with all the cameras. he's had a great life and he's a great brother, great supporter and i just appreciate him being here. i want to recognize the love of my life next week we will have been married 42 years. my wife is here. i met her when i was 17 years old a while back and it was, for the guys you won't believe this. the girls sometimes think this is cool.it was literally love at first sight. i fell madly in love. it was like a lightning bolt hit me and it changed my life. my life can be divided in all sorts of ways but the principle way is bcf ac and ac.

before columba and after columba. thankfully the statute of limitations has run out on the before columba part but she gave me a purpose in my life that has kept me moving and i couldn't do this without her and i'm proud of her for all the things she's done as first lady of florida and just being a loving wife. finally, i want to tell story about america and that relates to my near-perfect first grandchild. her name is georgia elena walker bush. we call her 41 in the family because she's named after the greatest man alive, my dad. georgia bush is, let's see if i can get this right. a mexican texas canadian iraqi american. columba is from mexico, i'm from texas. people in texas think it's a sovereign nation. my daughter in law was born in canada and her parents are iraqi. so low and behold, there she i . georgia elena walker bush is a

texan iraqi american. quadro hyphenated american and when she fills out the form, when he turned 18 it will say not applicable. and that's good. because we better start filling out our forms as not applicable. we should stop dividing ourselves up in our disparate parts andallowing politicians to do the same . [applause] my aspiration to run for president is to resolve the differences, focus on the things we have in common. create a sense of common purpose again of what is to be an american citizen. restore the confidence and optimism that should exist in this most extraordinary country on the face of the earth and we will never do it by having politicians prey on our fears and angst and divide us up and also to different ways. president obama is a gifted man. i sat behind him while he's

given speeches with a teleprompter. he plays it like a stradivarius violin. he is gifted when he can deliver a speech but there was nothing in his background that would suggest he can make a tough decision.that he can for consensus, that he was a leader. we are electing a president of the united states, it is the ultimate leadership job in this country. you can't be a backbencher and file an amendment and call it success when you are president of the united states. you can't blame everybody else for the problems that exist and be a successful president. you have to make tough decisions and i think it's important for people in south carolina and this country when they think about who they are going to support. past this prologue. we can't take a risky bet. for seven years we've languished as a nation because this gifted man had nothing in his background that would suggest he can lead and he hasn't. he hasn't. he passed .frank, obamacare and the stimulus. janet down the throats of the other party. not a single republican vote

and from then on out, it's all been done by executive order. my way or the highway. executive orders that in many cases he doesn't have the constitutional authority to do. i believe we need to get back to the business of protecting our democracy by respecting the constitution. i'm going tomake a few promises here today. the first one is, when i'm president of the united states, on day one, first minute , whatever happens, it happened on my watch. i will accept personal responsibility. i will be held to account. i will bring my predecessor. i will accept responsibility and run to the challenge to fix the problem rather than try to figure out the way to avoid the controversy and cut and run. i will be a president that does just that. [applause] the second commitment i will make to you is that i love the constitution

and i will not travel over it. we will get back to the business of having respect for the constitution. no executive orders you don't have the power to do. no allowing for the divide to get bigger by simply doing it your way without consulting. not trying to force consensus. here's what i believe to be true. people that disagree with me, people that have a different view than i do are bad people. they just might be wrong and there's a difference between demonizing someone that disagrees with you but allowing and pushing away when you never have a chance to forge consensus and respectfully saying, you might be wrong. to have a dialogue, to create consensus. great presidents don't push themselves down to make themselves look better donald trump, can you imagine donald trump in the oval office the way he behaves? shouting profanity? insulting women ? hispanics?calling john mccain a loser because he was caught.

my friends, john mccain is a verifiable legitimate american hero and no one should say something like that. no one should disparage . [applause] it's not a sign of strength to talk people down. it's not a sign of strength to disparage the disabled. we need a president that tries to lift our hopes up and accept personal responsibility and goes about the business of forging consensus again so our democracy works. and the place where the president is most needed right now is restoring america's leadership and presence inthe world. we can't fight fight by videogame . that's not how it works. people need to know, our friends need to know we have their backs and our enemies need to fear us. america has a unique role to play in the world. it's not the world's policeman. we are not an occupying force. the language of the left is wrong on this.

we used to have a bipartisan consensus that are leadership created peace and security and the way you create peace and security is to rebuild the military so when the president talks, and i would argue that maybe the president should talk a little less. no more red lines and no trash talking, calling russia a regional power and allowing them to invade ukraine. no more talking about pivoting to asia and the asians wonder where the pivotal place in the rest of the world wonders why are you pivoting away from us. no more calling isis the jv team and then allowing a caliphate the size of indiana with 40,000 jihadists organized to destroy our way of life is what they hate and what they will attack. talking less but backing it up with a military that is so strong and so fierce that people know that if they are going to act in the wrong way there will be a consequence that is severe.we need to rebuild the military to make sure they have the best equipment, the best training, the best support because they are patriots.

they are the ones keeping us free and we need a commander-in-chief that will have their back and i pledge to you that's exactly what i will do. [applause] and as it relates to the culture in washington, we need to change it. when i was governor of florida i came up from miami to this little sleepy town called tallahassee 10 miles south of georgia and i turn that place upside down. not to be disruptive for disruptive sake but to say this is not working as well as it could. this is florida. this is a state that should be in its ascendancy each and every day. in florida, we had eight balanced budgets required by the constitution. i left office with $9 billion of reserves. for those who follow budgets, that was roughly 35 to 40 percent of general revenue. that's a serious amount of money reserved for a rainy day

and we had quite a few. we need that in washington dc. we need a balanced budget amendment in washington and need to start moving toward a surplus again. i know how to do this because i did as governor of florida. in florida, the reason we had reserves that were high because i had line item veto power and i used it. 2500 separate times totaling $2 billion. they call me veto corleone. it was supposed to be an insult.i embraced it and there was a discipline that came. legislators put line items in the budget, we call them turkeys instead of portobello. in washington it's called port. we call them turkeys for some reason there and i would take them out of the budget and there was a sigh of relief for some because i would go back home and say i tried to get it done but the mean old governor was the guy didn't let it happen. i would love to take that responsibility in washington dc. the next president should have line item veto power to be able to bring veto corleone a two washington dc, to bring order to the budget.[applause].

in florida, we did something no other state that i'm aware of it. now if you have done it which i'm grateful for. we eliminated lifetime employment protections for government workers. not to be punitive. not to be mean-spirited but to simply make the point that government is the servant, not the master of people. and how can you be a servant if you have lifetime protections, no matter what you two? in florida, we changed that. the government was reduced by 13,000 workers, 11 percent. no one came close to that during my time. we didn't do it to be punitive but we sure as heck had a better service oriented state government, i can promise you that. the economy grew. we created 1.3 million jobs in florida. we led the nation in small business. income grew by 4.4 percent of the government as it related to

the size of our economy and i'm proud of that. it was not an easy thing to do. when i ran for reelection there were thousands of so-called volunteers that came down to try to defeat me because god for bid if that contagion of civil service reform would cross the state line and go to other states. thankfully, it has but it hasn't come to washington dc and we need career civil service reform and the elimination of lifetime protection for employment in washington dc as well. i know how to do it and i will fight for it to happen. [applause] and organization of 340,000 employees. a massive bureaucracy on clinicians and doctors and nurses and psychologists, all of whom do great work and are striving to take care of veterans but a system that is completely broken. insular. protecting the economic interests of the employees at the expense of veterans. last year, hundred $40 million

of bonuses went to the department of veterans affairs management. they were trying to apply against private sector principals to this department run amok. here's the deal. part of it was to get bonuses for reducing the waiting list which are atrocious. they did it. they reduce the waiting list in some parts of the country. they reduce the waiting list but veterans didn't get care so bets died.only three people have been fired. here's another promise to you. heads will roll outside the department of department of veterans affairs when i am president. we will reform and fire the incompetent people making it harder for veterans to get the care they deserve because they heard it. [applause] in florida, we created the first statewide voucher program. the second statewide voucher program, the third and the largest virtual school where anybody in the state can go to get a course in the florida virtual school.

choice matters. parents having choices improves quality of education. all schools get better when parents are empowered to make choices they otherwise wouldn't have. that's how life works, right? you are better because the restaurant next door is constantly trying to innovate and if you don't innovate, they will go next door. choice matters. competition matters. the one way to improve the department of veterans affairs is to give veterans a choice, to allow them to see their private doctor if they want to. the private clinic that may be more convenient. a local hospital instead of traveling miles and miles with massivebureaucracy around whether or not you can use the choice card. we should liberate this and i promise you the department and the clinics and hospitals will reform themselves or they won't have anybody showing up . that's the way you reform how washington works. you've got to have a zeal for this. you got to have first-hand experience both in business and

government to make it happen and guess what? i do.in fact, i'm the only one that has the zeal for reform and the proven record to make this happen. i think we need to change the culture and reform washington so we can get back to the business of higher sustained economic growth where everybody has a chance at earned success. this company is not to get in line country. it is not a top-down country. it's a bottom-up country. it's a dynamic country. we are a dynamic people. we should never allow the government to stifle the ability for people to dream the biggest possible dreams. that's what that risk in this election. if we allow the left, hillary clinton or god for bid bernie sanders to be president of the united states, the lifeblood of this country will be sucked away. it will all go to washington. we will be told what line to get into. it doesn't work. it might work in other countries not in america.

we need to shift power away from washington. we need to simplify the tax code. we need to stop the symbols of always trying to pick winners and losers. let markets work. let freedom ring. let people pursue their dreams as they see fit and we will create high, sustained economic growth where more people have optimism about their future. [applause] in 1998, 1994 i ran and lost and it was a great experience. losing is actually one of the best things you can do if you are interested in proving herself, right? you never learned when you're successful. you think it's all perfect, it will always work out. when you get knockback is when you adjust, when you learn, you grow. and 94 was a growing experience. in 98, i decided i was going to campaign a different way. i was going to wander around a little bit and listen and learn.

then hopefully lead. so i went to the 250 schools because i believe that the time our public s education system wasn't hitting on all cylinders. we were 50 out of 50 in graduation rates. no one typically in florida, whenever we were low said 48. we always say thank god for filling in the blanks for the states that the 49 and 50. everybody filled in the blank with florida. there was a reason for that. we had dumbed down. we had a high school graduation requirement of eighth grade level. and i went around and visited 200 schools january through november. remember schools are open in the summer. i was going to three or four schools and i had very marked different views about education then and still do. i can see it, people looking at the back of my head like i had horns. i was scary to people and i wanted them to know that i had a heart for the kids in the system. i may not agree with their system of governance but i have a heart for them and the

students so they could learn. i will never forget, i was at the school in seminole county in central florida and this kid was taking this test, practicing for the test to graduate from high school. it's an eighth grade level requirement back then. eighth grade for high school. didn't make sense to me. he had already failed it three times, if he didn't pass at this time he wouldn't get his high school diploma. he had already passed all the courses which was surprising to me. how can you pass the high school courses and struggle with an eighth grade test? there are all sorts of reasons they said it wasn't working but i saw him looking over his shoulder as he was trying to answer the following question. a baseball game starts at three. it ends at 4:30. how long is the game? he couldn't answer it. now, we spend more per student than any country in the world. florida was below the national average but as a nation we spend more than any student in the world other than the benelux countries, literally. we had a child going from k all

the way to 12th grade who couldn't answer that question. it broke my heart. and it made me angry. and it gave me a sense that we needed to reform the system and i went all in. i took bureaucrats in them. [audio lost] fast-forward, last year i met a woman named tanisha meriwether. she's 25 years old. an african-american, brought up in jacksonville on the other side of the tracks, a term we hope we wipe off the map in this country. i'm so tired of seeing your zip code matters.it's what you do in life that matters, not where you are bored. that's the problem. [applause] tanisha told me her story. she told me she was held back two years in a row in third

grade, one of what was because we eliminated social programming in third grade, the site insidious idea that you passing the kid on when they are reading to learn. how can they do math if they can't read? we eliminated that. that was a provocative act, i promise you. there were people upset about this but we cut in half the functional illiteracy rate but she was held back and she was an angry girl. she told me the story and her godmother for now about the tax scholarship program, the largest tax voucher program in the country. 80,000 kids go to private schools because i opened up the system for them. and tanisha got to go to a christian school. in her first week, i'm pretty sure i know what happened. a teacher put their arm around this child and said i love you. probably, she hadn't heard that often in her life. you can do this. you are capable. jesus loves you. it's a christian school. you can say that there.

and we will do this together. and tanisha overcame the two years she was held back. she graduated with her age group.she was the first in her family to graduate from college and this year tanisha meriwether is going to get a masters degree at the university of central florida. [applause] why do i tell you this story? i tellyou the story because a conservative , reform minded conservative won't win unless we are on the side of the tanisha meriwether's of this country. we will never win i being reactionary. we will never win simply by being angry, describing how bad things are. we will never win dividing people up in their disparate parts but we can win because our philosophy is the winning philosophy. if we run a campaign without arms wide open, with a hopeful, optimistic message, campaigning in every nook and cranny,

thinking about the tanisha merriweather's, whether they're a small businessperson that's ready to give up because of all the incredible rules imposed on them or a person who's developmentally disabled that is tracked and wants to be able to live a life of purpose and meaning but the system doesn't provide for that to happen or a kid can't read whose parent desperately wants them to go to a school where they can read. across the board we need to be on the side of people that don't want to hand out. they don't want to get in line. they want to pursue their dreams as they see fit, on their terms. that's america at its best in the next president better be on the side of people that want to dream big dreams and tear down the barriers they can do it. that's my mission and if you believe like i do, we are on the verge of the greatest time to be alive but it requires real leadership to fix the mess in washington dc. i ask for your support and if you're not supporting me, i ask for your prayers because this

is a fun journey but it gets arduous from time to time. i hope you will vote for me on saturday and i hope you get other people to do the same. thank you very much. [applause] the must've forgot he wrote that. he and i don't see eye to eye much of anything anymore. i love reading. the last book i wrote is the john mentioned book on my dad which i love because i got some insights about my father that i did not even

know. i like reading. i hope you do, too. fantastic. keep reading. good for you. [applause] >> hi. the trend, military spouse, mom, and volunteer. having faced a 15 year war, aging aircraft and a failing medical system how do you intend to motivate attired and debilitated and disillusioned force

especially now with the threat of terror united states? >> first, i'll look for lawyers off the backs of the war fighters. trust the military to do his job. the commander-in-chief doesn't asked any ability. you create the strategy and then have the back of the military rather than imposing conditions on the net make it hard. saw the authorization to use military force as it related to syria. then they put so many constraints on it it did not have the viability that it should. the constraints on the war fighters the fight against isys. the international standards of war fighting. we don't need to impose additional ones.

the sole idea, they don't idea, they don't believe that we need to spend more money. we have aging equipment. the air force, the planes are older than the pilots, some of them i like grandparents of the pilots. the 52 was launched during the era of harry truman. how big is the navy right now? lower than it was at the start of operation desert storm. moving down to 1910, the military, the army levels are down to 410,000 in the next three or four years. reduce the marine force by 15,000. half of the marines are not qualified for readiness. they don'treadiness. they don't meet the

standards of readiness. all of this requires money. there are more civilians than men and women in uniform. procurement processes need to be reformed dramatically. not every government program is the same. the way that they compromises one side says we need this, the other side says we need this. the way they compromise is by getting what they want. this is the 1st priority. it would be a clear signal that we are not doing this and a half hearted wife. that is the 1st step. secondly, as it relates to people that are serving, the deployments will be less arduous. that is another element that is clearly going to help morale. the other thing is sure people that are listening the service and keep us safe

that when they come home department of veterans affairs is going to be fixed. i think that would help to make a total commitment the transformation of this departmentdepartment into the 21st century. hillary clinton when asked about the department of veterans affairs said republicans are exaggerating. i have not met a veteran that thinks this is an exaggeration. everyone of them say the exact same thing, they are not getting what they need. if they do get it, it's because of someone breaking the rules inside the apartment -- inside the department. there are great people that work in the department but the whole system needs to be turned upside down. those are the ways that you can restore the military, but you have to be all in doing it. the final thing is that the best way for the military to

work is that they are not deployed because we are so fierce and strong and committed that people tags of behavior in a way that creates a more peaceful world. when they are weak and vacillating the opposite effect take place where you see the chinese building a military base hundred miles off the coast, russia invading ukraine without much consequence and now threatening the baltics and eastern europe. you see this because we are weak, israel no longer feeling that the united states has the security umbrella it once had. they know that we have the back and our enemies fear us , we lessen the chance of employment which is what they need to get back to. >> one 2nd. >> i like that. another issue i have, the

republican debate in the 1st thing they see, you attack donald trump. it is a repetitive thing. i'm not saying there is anything wrong with it, but we all expected to happen. i you scared of him? i mean,, something is up. >> he's not a conservative. he is the leading candidate in the conservative party. he has hijacked our party. i have been a conservative all my life. [applause] he says we don't have to reform social security. yeah, we do. you know this. he says we don't have to. he says we will have to spend more money on the military. yes, we do. he admires the single-payer system. it will be an unmitigated disaster. he has talked about things as it relates to guns,

healthcare,, healthcare, the economy that is out of the mainstream of conservative thought. but for mebut for me who i could was going to take them on if i don't? [applause] she will hold it. >> good afternoon. we hear a lot about competitiveness. recently said that mexico is the new china. how do you plan to restore global competitiveness? >> great question. it is not talk about competitiveness. talks about unfairness. competitiveness is really -- the better question, how do we compete?

well, but having regulations that are not destroying our ability to invest in our own country. we are 49th in the world in terms of ease of doing business. more businesses are closing them being formed.than being formed. it is not because someone in the middle of the night sought out the entrepreneurial dna, 330 million americans. it is because we stifle the massive rules. we need dramatic reforms. can we build the interstate highway system? it would be impossible. we could not build the pentagon. the pentagon was built in less than two years in a swamp in 1941. it would take 15. it would take 15 years to get a permit to start construction. we cannot watch them into that. we could not lead the world

if we were starting where we are today. regulations. our tax code is creating this bizarre relocation of s-uppercase-letter side of our country. we're the only country that is worldwide taxation.has worldwide taxation. the tax it twice, in effect. we went to territorial taxation and allow for this to trillion to be repatriated, you would see massive rebuilding of our infrastructure and our industrial capacity to allow us to be competitive. if we allow full expensing, eliminated the carveouts and deductions, a simple code where you fully expensed capitol invested you would allow for us to be competitive. brought job training in the 20th century is that of having thethese systems of job training you would be more competitive. for education system was not mired in bureaucracy, politics and unions we would have rising student achievement and more people college and/or career ready and would be competitive.

if we embrace instead of pushing away by approving the xl pipeline, allowing for leasing offshore and onshore with deference to the states, south carolina might not be as excited as virginia, but we should expand the ability to create low-cost energy sources to allow us to be competitive. that is how you become competitive. as it relates to trade we should be tearing down barriers.barriers. if china is unfairly trading with us we have the wto to seek damages and effect. a 45 percent tariff across the board, anybody follow history? the last time that was tried. if you know the answer would be very impressed. they created a global

depression.a global depression. thousands -- millions of people lost their jobs. we had declining income for a decade. that is the dumbest idea. if you want to be competitive fix the things that make us less competitive and enforce trading laws to make sure industries are on an even playing field and we will outcompete everyone. [applause] >> you have a mic coming your way. >> i would like to thank you for your plan for social security. would you be able to get those plans started? >> going to have to. first of all, i have for camera staring at me. these are my friends from aarp. they come to all the events. [applause] they are the politest.

quickly, we need to create a solvent social security system. preserve and protect. startingprotect. starting in 2023 to raise the retirement age. over 30 years you get to 70 and 65 early retirement. mymy proposal is to lift up the minimum benefits. it is no longer a supplemental retirement system. is the primary source of livelihood for too many people. prosperous unknowable is an appropriate. we would raise the level for those that have lower benefits and suppress the benefits are people higher income.

do that and a few other things and you create a solvency. how? you have to have a plan. across the board. most detailed plans on our website. trump says social security is not a problem. there will be mandatory cuts within the next less than a decade if we do nothing. that is the path we are on. i have been examples. we need to restore it again. they did not ascribe bad

motives to one another and they work together and built the team to save social security. it just requires a leader saying it is a high priority. this along with medicare and medicaid and obama care, all of these entitlements of the cookie monster that eats the whole budget. you have to be engaged to make it happen. governors have a better skill set because they are required to. you cannot just dial it in, cotton on, focus group things. avoid having the conversation.conversation. you can do as a senator or reality tv star. governors have to create an agenda for everybody. this her.

>> i really appreciate you being here today. >> i appreciate you being here. >> i watched msnbc last night. one of the things -- >> it is not a town halla town hall unless it's like this. >> i understand. he did take questions. one of them was about entitlement reform. he basically said don't touch that because we will lose. but i have toi have to say that makes a lot of sense. hillary clinton and bernie sanders are not going to talk about entitlement reform. why can't the republican and democratic party come together, sit down and work this out that both parties come out and simultaneously say we want to fix the problem. >> well, it could be possible.

you have to 1st admit there is a problem. it is not possible. the idea, trust me all take care of it, really? that is not being honest with courageous. it is not showing integrity. we have a problem. if you don't lay out a detailed plan how do you engage with the other side so-called 3rd rail approaches foolish. nothing ever works when you don't have the courage of your convictions. donald trump doesn't have a plan. it is not he is saying i will defer it. he doesn't have a plan. the idea that somehow we will be attacked -- i want to be attacked. i wanted to be a debate if you don't have the convictions what is the campaign going to be about?

nonsense. it should be about powerful ideas. i am all in on this. respectfully disagree with your political view. >> i want to thank you for coming here today. cannot be sure that you can change america and bring hope to the us again? >> yes.yes. yes you can. that is what the mission is. i find it interesting that is not yournot your generation but the one right before you, all in to socialism. the example four years ago millennial's by two to one believe socialism is aa better form of economic policy and capitalism. wowser.

no place in the world is that worked out that way. then you have a candidate like bernie sanders proposing a bunch of free things. we are in a heap of trouble if they want to triple it can make it worse. there should be people marching in the streets to say fix this mess. instead, they are doubling down on more. single-payer system and people seem to think that is the right approach. it would destroy the country and create burdensome debt that would be completely unsustainable. the devils we have today are horrific. 19 trillion with an anemic economic growth to create huge burdens for the next generation. if parents and so hope comes from doing things like there

are many small businesses. five pages, two forms. the fire a 16 -year-old high school student for summer job 66 pages,66 pages, they have got to fill out 66 pages of form sort. they created jobs. it has just gotten ridiculous.

>> that is the burden that we now have. the ease of doing business as we are 49th. it is time to fix it. i know it because i was governor i also know know because i have 32 years in business. i started a business with my partner. we went through the credit crunch. 1990s. the largest bank in florida the definition. the credit crunch comes and all of a sudden the regulations change and we became the biggest burden.

linda recast how we went about our business. we were challenged in through through it. our business continue to grow. more barriers and fiction you place on how business operates the harder it is to start a business much less sustain it. sixty-seven pages, security clearance, the chinese have everyone. we don't have a firewall protection for the office of personnel management. think of the treasure trove of information that is just how bureaucracies buildup. buildup. if you don't challenge it consider greatest joy in my life is been to answer the following question. go create that environment.

that is what we need because we have lost our way across the board. having the experience of signing the front and back side has given me a little bit more advantage. it certainly does. been successful in a lot of ways. it is also seen the downside. his success should give him some sense that we are in trouble. we don't need more rules. we. simplify the rules unless the friction. i have that experience. the other guys don't. they have no life experience. have not had a setback in their personal business life or political career that would alter how they think, allow them to grow, let let them push the pause button and reflect on how you grow

as a leader. at this point in time we need someone who has a proven leadership record. >> a lot of people my age have concerns with the bush name, because it is a bad name but because you are the 3rd bush. what is your message to that concern? >> i can sell you 1st hand, i'm not trying to break the record. i hope people will here my plan. your age group, generally the concerns are how will i pay off my student loans. the student loan program is nationalized. the federal government now operates it. the forbearance rates have grown exponentially. default rates are growing. people are stuck. they are financing higher education, wants the best in

the world, certainly much more efficient, but the costs are out of control. .. is going help young people a lot. the first run of the ladder can't be obtained. if you're not growing at that rate, you end up -- people are

stuck. there are people sitting on their parents' coach with cheeto stains on their shirts. high-sustained economy is successful for young people. getting rid of obamacare should warm hearts of young people. the face of itself existence is mandate that young people have to participate because they're healthy. this thing is a disaster, they are forcing young people to do what they don't want to do so that less healthy people, ie, older people can get health care at a subsidize price. this has not worked out well for young people. the last seven years, change, of course, but not a lot of hope, restoring hope is reversing policies to give chance to rise up again. you, ma'am, you're anxious,

you're about ready to burst. your hand has been up for hours. >> first of all, thank you, i know there are a lot of people praying with you. >> thank you. >> i know that you know more than anyone the difference between homelessness as a way of life and homelessness as no option. from the clients and the people that i've worked from veterans that couldn't readjust to elderly that had al seemers or didn't have support or placement that died with me and no one else, there may be lofty plans behind the curtains but as something who is in the trenches humbly, i don't think mental health is being addressed adequately in this country. >> i agree. i think there's a growing belief

that that we have gaping holes in the mental system, when you deal addiction, mental health and addiction, if you can imagine the world where people reached full potential that being a better place than what we have today, this is a place that needs to be addressed because people are being held back. a couple of points that we think are important, we talk about moon shots, you know, kind of the aspirational goals. i think one has to be a moon shot to discover the brain. think of the challenges that exist today in america that are growing, alseimers, dementia,

huge problem. it was be a phenomenal gift for our society. [applause] >> autism, autism is growing for whatever reason. we don't know exactly why it is. people have theories about it but it's a growing challenge for families and that's a neurological disease, addiction, if we could figure out why some people are more disposed to be addicted and others aren't, you would find a solution to a pressing problem that, you know, crosses all lines. this is a challenge that there are no -- everybody knows somebody that has had the challenge of alcoholism or drug addiction and the mental health challenge that is go with that are so compelling and the costs are so amazing that first and foremost research and development to deal with the brain. we have phenomenal medical devices and drugs to deal with

physical ailments, we lead the world. the brain hasn't had that advancement. it would be a great benefit for our society. secondly, we have to fill the gaps. there should be no homeless veterans in the country, none. i mean -- [applause] >> we shouldn't push you away because you're acting an your mission, we should have partners in this. this should not be a federal responsibility solely, this should be a bottom-up responsibility where we focus on outcomes and getting back to the way america works best, bottom

up where government plays a role in supporting communities. yeah. >> they are also a ministry of faith, that is the driving force. but you are talking about people who are ill-qualified to handle. people would get sent to facilities and medication and released on the street and the people that are trying to work in the field to help, they're not equipped to handle -- >> i'm getting to that part. >> forgive me. >> it's a really important point. i do think there's a pushing aside community-based organization that is are driven by their faith and we need to restore them front and center as part of this. the third point which is the point that you were making, we need reforming of the criminal justice system. federal guidelines -- [applause] >> 50% of people in the federal system, which is the most expensive, surprise, surprise

the federal government has the most expensive prison costs, 50% -- >> you can find all of c-span's road to the white house coverage online. we leaf jeb bush to take you a lye event with texas senator ted cruz. [cheers and applause] >> you know, i've been in a lot of political battles since i was in washington. i came in 2010, big wave of tea party crowd to change washington. well, there were members of our parties that didn't like the changes that we wanted to impose to return to the constitutional republic of limited government, free markets and individual liberties and when i was in those battles sometimes in a majority but sometimes in a small minority.

freedom-love who were plan to go -- planning to defunct planned parenthood. as we fought to repeal obamacare so we could have american-centered health care, i've been in a lot of those fights in washington. but i can tell you we are in the fox hole and we are fighting president obama and his policies and nancy pelosi and harri reid, and when you're in that fox hole, you look around and see who is in there with you.

and i can tell you one person on the senate side that was in every single fight with us and that was ted cruz. [cheers and applause] >> i don't get my endorsement either. i endorse mark from north carolina that vacated chair recently with speaker boehner stepping down. i endorsed mark meadows for congress and i've endorsed ted cruz for president of the united states. so when i was correspondented by all of the candidates in this race, i started checking the boxes. and some of the candidates check a lot of the boxes, they believe in jesus christ, check, they believe in the constitution and separation of powers, check, but

ted cruz checks every one of my boxes and then some with a sharp y in bold because he's the person that said we can shut the government down with the powers to defund this horrendous takeover of healthcare in this nation. when we were fighting a bill known as the comprehensive immigration reform, when you hear comprehensive, you ought to reach for your wallet or run, when we were fighting the comprehension reform bill, we were trying to kill it in the house, there was one senator who came over and met with us at breakfast, at lunch after hours in our offices and we strategized on a way to kill the bill on the house, which we did, by the way. [cheers and applause] >> that senator was ted cruz.

he's been in those battles with us, and that's why i'm so happy to give him my endorsement and support him all the way through tomorrow night and we are going to name the presidential preference for south carolina. [cheers and applause] >> before that next president comes to this stage, let me introduce another great american, who's heard of the duck commander? [cheers and applause] >> whose heard of phil -- bill robertson. bill robertson going to the un and telling them how we feel. in the late 80's when i was cutting my teeth as duck hunter, probably the only who know what

vhs are, i watched the duck commander as they shot ducks. i started learning about a man that played quarterback with a man named terry bradshaw. you know who that is? terry went after the bucks in nfl, bill robertson went after the duction and said, i think we are both pretty happy. this is a guy who is a real leader that we can look up. >> amen. >> he doesn't mind telling people exactly how he feels and what he thinks about jesus christ and ted cruz. y'all welcome with me the duck commander bill robertson. [cheers and applause]

>> tell it. preach. [laughter] >> how about one that stands up? i have to put my sword somewhere. south carolina -- [cheers and applause] >> south carolina i started to wear my suit. [laughter] >> but it occurred to me -- it occurred to me that i don't own a suit. [laughter] >> you wonder why i don't own a cell phone or computer.

you said -- >> it's okay, i can hear you. >> we can hear you. >> stick this one in that one. [laughter] >> there he goes. >> yeah. [cheers and applause] >> here we go. south carolina, i'm a jesus man. [cheers and applause] >> you know why, because i'm a product of the 60's, you see bernie sanders? [laughter] >> i repended and he didn't. [laughter] >> i will have to admit, i'm 970

now, have you ever heard the gospel preached during an election cycle in your life? [shouting] >> me either. so this is what you do, you folks in south carolina you have sinned, right? me too. you are going to die, right? [shouting] >> 6-foot deep all of us, right, that's a fact. now, it presents two problems for us. what's happened is that we've appointed men or women to determine for us what is right, what is wrong, what is good, men

decide what's evil, men decide what your life is worth. that's the way adolf hitler was. he said, these people here, i don't think they're worth anything. he tried to conquer the world, south carolina. he was famous for murderer, south carolina, right? you know why? there was no jesus, right? no jesus there. they started in on pearl harbor, you talk about brutal. they along with adolf hitler.

any jesus with them? zero. that's two out of two. we are going through a little history here. then the communists came. we had the cold war for seven years, joseph stalin slaughtered millions, the nazi slaughtered millions, the japanese empire and so did the communists, was there any jesus with the communists, wasn't there. the latest crop shows up, now it's isis, what are they famous for? [shouting] >> no jesus there either. now we brought it up today, here we are, do you not see a pattern? when you remove god all mighty the father, son, jesus and the

holy spirit from out of your life, out of your ideology, you get him out of the way, then look out because the murderer is fixing to start. every time because they determine men do you're not worth anything. 60 million unborn children innocent children, we were all in their mother's womb at one time. we had to do something about these guns, they kill 60 million with a little knife about that long. commandment number 6 was written 2,800 years before gun powder was invented. evidently we had a murder problem if we could only have

done something about those spears, rocks, think of the lives we would have saved. south carolina, who really is doing the murdererring, the instrument or the person? well, sure, that's just a little intro. i don't have but ten minutes. [laughter] >> keep going. [laughter] >> imagine what you would get if you had an hour. [cheers and applause] >> the supreme court building of the united states of america, these supreme court building has a number of places where there are images of moses with the ten

commandments. moses is included in the east front as you enter the supreme court courtroom. the two huge doors have the ten commandments engraved on each lower portion of each door. you can't miss them if you walk inside the building. and a display, are you ready for this, of the ten commandments is also engraved over the chair of the chief justice. why would the founders made sure you put the ten commandments on the doors on the side of the building and hang the ten commandments above the chief justices at head so nobody will ever miss it. what they were saying is you bet

everything you do when it comes to law, you vet it through the bible, god almighty said, don't murder. [cheers and applause] >> god almighty says marriage is between a man and a woman. [cheers and applause] >> it is nuts for even us to discuss what marriage is because we know what it is. you mess with that, you mess with that. oh, there's no god. ia -- a solution made us, the ocean out there, that's what made us. i'm like, where did it come from, we think comets brought all the water in here.

that's a lot of comets and a lot of water. you said if theyever found water on comets, no. you want to mess with the almighty, incidents, prevalence and cost of sexually transmitted infections of the united states, you want to legalize unnatural acts, sexual acts, men and women just decided, what does the cdc say about morality, 50.5 million infections are in men alone while 59.5 million are in women. for a total of 110 million of americans with std's in a given

time. [shouting] >> don't you get it? that's fact, you want to argue with the center for disease control, go ahead. one out of three of us are carrying a disease that's sexually transmitted. there are now 39 million diseased, 36 million have the disease, hiv, aids. 39 million are dead. 36 million more have it. god says, don't do that. clean woman, clean man, they marry, you keep the sex between

the two of them, you won't get a sexual transmitted disease ever. [cheers and applause] >> god was right all along, therefore, see they gave me but ten minutes. [laughter] >> what brought us here south carolina, you know what brought us here? look back 240 years, bibles and guns, right? [shouting] >> you say we had to have faith in god almighty that he would bless us, he would find the greatest nation on earth and the fire power to defend from the brits, south carolina, we won t

-- the nazis came, it took bibles and guns, right? [shouting] >> we won. took some pretty loud explosions toward the end. we talk a lot of fire power. what sent them back? bibles and guns. the monois the cold war, they got into an arm's race, don't get into a spinning war with their congress. they'll bankrupt you. and you know what it'll take to send isis back to where they came from? anywhere you slice it, right? [shouting] >> hey, if you haven't, i would be remised, i said and you agreed that you all have sinned in many ways, so have i, have

you ever been high, drunk and layed, that would be yeah. but if i started interviewing each one of you and you told me what you've been up to, what do you think south carolina? >> 6-foot holes, sinners. god became flesh, your calendar documents it. it is now 2016a.d. year of our lord. we all count on jesus even the atheist. i will remove all of your sin, i remember when mine were -- you say when did you repent, bill,

1928, how has life been, i'm rich and famous. [cheers and applause] >> thank you, however all the riches i'll ever mask can it remove my sins, south carolina? no. what about fame, maybe they'll erase me from the death? when they killed jesus he standed back on the earth and said, check this out guys, you have a better story? maybe if obamacare, that might help. [laughter] >> save your money because all the doctors that are checking you, they're going 6-feet deep too. you say, we're not getting out of here except through jesus, his death on a cross and

recureotion. what we do in louisiana, and boy, do we ever do it, how many have you marched when they said i believe jesus dead, i say confess with your mouth and jesus is lord. i said if i was in canada, dude, i would have to cut ice hole but you're in luck and you're in louisiana and the temperature is about 40. so i walked him out in the river and baptized him and he went back to canada rejoicing. [cheers and applause] >> that and you teaching your children and you rebuking your

children, you correct your children and you train them to be children of god. that and that alone is what will change your nation. i say we all get together, you say, why are you behind cruz, he's a bible man, she's a jesus man, no different than our founding fathers, we are just like them, we are just like george washington. cruz and i both we are just like him. we are not thomas jefferson, we are like john adams, james madison, therefore,i say we ought to put religion in everything we do including politics, let's turn the country around and get on with it. [cheers and applause] >> come on give it up for the

gospel and phil robertson. [cheers and applause] >> how many know we have a big day tomorrow? let me introduce to you the next president of the united states, senator ted cruz. [cheers and applause] >> god bless the great state of south carolina. [cheers and applause] >> heidi and i are thrilled to be here with you. isn't she going to make an

amazing first lady. [cheers and applause] >> and let me say it, all the school-aged kids when heidi is first lady, french fries are coming back to the cafeteria. [cheers and applause] >> call me crazy but i think card board belongs on a tray and not on top of it. [cheers and applause] >> you know, i have to say, south carolina and texas, we have a whole lot in common. two states where southerners, we have a whole lot of military veterans. [cheers and applause] >> we're gun owners. [cheers and applause] >> we love god.

and we are fed up with the corruption in washington. [cheers and applause] >> you know to understand the connections between our great states, you need to do no more than remember the south carolinaans who came down to texas and spilled their blood at the alamo. travis, came down to help texas fight for our freedom. one of those south carolinans from the alamo, a letter that hangs in my office to this very day. february 24th, 1836, to the

people of texas and all americans in the world i am besiege by a thousand or more, i have sustained a continual bombardment for 24 hours and have not lost a man. the enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion. i have answered the demand with a cannon shot. and our flag still waives proudly from the walls. i shall never surrender or retreat, i call on you on the name of liberty and patriotism and everything dear to the american character to come to our aid with all dispatch. if this call is neglected i am determined sustain myself as long as possible and die like a

soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor and that of his country. victory or death. signed william barret travis. [cheers and applause] >> those are the words of a south carolinan who loved and he told those prepared to stand and fight to step across that line. you know, one of my favorite former senators phil graham, back in the mid-80's he was a conservative democrat and he was leading the effort to get conservative democrats to support reagan's tax plan.

he was telling them that story, this is the moment to step across that line and those democrats said, but phil, every one who stepped across that line died and phil without missing a beat said, you're right. and everyone who didn't step across that line, they died too. and nobody remembers their names. [cheers and applause] >> we are standing here with patriots. let me say to the men and women of south carolina, thank you for sending a principle, constitutionalist freedom fighter like jeff duncan to represent you in the united states congress.

[cheers and applause] >> you know, there's a reason jeff and i both need food tasters in the member's dining room and just today another south carolinan endorsed this campaign. [cheers and applause] >> i think my favorite moment with mark is when he was your governor and walked into the state legislature carrying a live squealing pig. now that's a man who knows how to cut pork. and how about phil robertson? [cheers and applause] >> i love that man.

talk about a man who loves jesus and isn't afraid to admit to anyone and everyone to proclaim his name with no apology and with nothing but joy. [cheers and applause] >> i will say one of the coolest things i've had the pleasure of doing in this whole presidential campaign was heading down to louisiana going duck hunting with phil robertson and the whole robertson clan. [cheers and applause] >> you know, we did a whole video of me in the cameo and face paint and my daughter saw that, they thought it was the funniest thing they have ever seen. our daughter said dad, you're not that cool which is indisputable, but i have to tell you that man could shoot a

shotgun. listen, as a texan i know a lot of folks who can shoot and for me, you know, i can hit a duck if it's close and maybe somebody hold his feet so it wouldn't move, what are you shooting at? i wouldn't have even thought in a million years to shoot at a duck that far away. he pull it had shotgun and then the black lab would take off, head to the horizon, i'm like phil, you lost your dog now. and then next thing you know the duck came back with a duck in his mouth, how on earth did you do that. [laughter] >> but phil is the man who is not afraid. here is a thought of e