i lost my mother and father in 1987 to a drunk driver and i went through a long, long process of grieving, finding my faith and recovering. so i feel to some degree that when i see people who go through this terrible black tunnel and i know there are people here who experienced this, one little pinprick of light when tragedy hits your family. i feel like when i'm in the room with those familiesand maybe even when i talk to the troopers or whatever , i'm absolutely convinced that the lord will give them a big crown for what they do.i just happen to believe it. and ... [applause] so anyway, it's been a real honor to be able to meet these folks and particularly

your folks from michigan. i want to tell you that i wanted to be here today because i had such a great time being in michigan. it started in, i don't remember if it was a shopping center in detroit. i remember walking in and the place was absolutelyjampacked . and everybody was so nice and you know, there's that thing, what is it? michigan nice is maybe what they say? i knew a little bit about michigan but i never really spent a lot of time in michigan and i have just absolutely fallen in love with your communities and with your folks and i asked them you know, i was in what

is it? grand valley peak? this was with all those students in an unbelievable experience at grand valley. and then i went to lansing and we had the most incredible group of young people. look, i want you all to understand something particularly when i'm with the young people. folks, i don't want anything. i've had an unbelievable career. when i finish my next couple of years, i will have held public office for 30 years. i just want to tell you, it was so remarkable. i was elected to the state senate, i was 26 years old. my mother and father came, i don't have any relatives in ohio, came from pittsburgh when i won on election night. my dad carried mail and i'm a 26-year-old ohio state senator, the youngest in the

history of the state. served four years, went to congress and got to spend a lot of time with my dear friend pete . and it was a great experience. i spent 18 years there and most of you know, we built a team, we balanced the budget, reformed pentagon, unbelievable. totally unbelievable and a lot of times, no surprise here, i fight with a lot of people. but you don't know what it was like to try to balancethe budget . you don't know how much truth to power needed to be said when you reform the military. it's not easy so you, thank god i had a mother that was the role model for me who was always willing to say the things she thought and i've learned from her and then i went out for 10 years and had a great time and never thought i'd get back into politics and then to be in

and get elected governor, i was showing some people the other day that i used to look through this door of the governor's office and i was just a little aid in the legislature and i look through and now i am the governor and i finished this term and the state is doing really well, to go into places like grand valley and going to places like lansing and i never made it to ann arbor because i couldn't get out the morning i was supposed togo, i love talking to young people about finding a purpose . it's just, it was so great to be ableto do it . and at some of the other places, traverse city. god, i remember that. i woke up, they had those chocolate cherries, is that what they have there? and i carry these boxesaround forever . they all melted in my little suitcase. but i remember that morning because it was, the place was

just jammed again and people were so hopeful and i thought we had so much fun and i thought i was in the up. i didn't know what it was. and then we flew up to marquette. okay? and here's the thing, when we got up there, everybody's on their devices all the time, right? everybody's got their little devices and i told everybody turn them off.look at where we are. and it was like a winter wonderland. i could not believe how beautiful it was. and then we went to the little restaurant there in marquette and had some sandwiches and there were so many people there who were there with their kids for the hockey that was being played that weekend and then we walked to the place where we were doing our town hall and it was absolutely jammed and the people were lovely. and then one of the other

things that happened, one of the emotional things that happened, we went to, i don't know if it was the slovenian hall, what was that we went to? the ethnic call? i wanted to release and they didn't have any, i was disappointed but i tell you what happened. we had a beautiful event and in that event a lady stood up and had a picture of her son who had taken his own life. and we talked about the issue of mental illness and how we need to reach out. another one of those poignant moments that change me throughout the campaign. i've mentioned peter hoekstra. david nicholson. i took talking to raising money for me area i think his father, i don't know it if he wanted to kill david or kill me or maybe both of us but davidnicholson , he's just fantastic and of course arlan

meekhof who, he's just great and tom leonard, brian kelly, these were people that i got to spend time with and got to be close to. i don't know where our paths will ever cross with ohio and michigan but i want to tell you, i'm down there in columbus read if you need anything just need to let us know, let me know. i will never forget the wonderful experience that i had in your great steak and i so enjoy the rivalry, it's so deep and so cherished and i think it's just fantastic. the last thing i would say to all of you is, i wish i had some statistics and i didn't put them together this morning but when i was getting ready i was thinking about the changing demographics of our country. now, i am not somebody who believes you tell people what they want to hear in order to

get their vote. i've never thought that was leadership. i've always felt, i'm not big on poles, i just don't like polls, it's too boring to me. i don't believe that leadership is, i find out what this table wants, then i show up and tell you what you want to hear. i happen to believe that leadership is telling you what i think, having gathered information and talk to people, lots of people, i like to have a lot of people around when i make decisions but to convince you of what i think will lead to a better tomorrow. so when i look at the demographics and i see the significant increase in asian americans. when i see the significant increase in hispanics, when i take a look at a republican party driving effort to try to convert young people and i have to tell you i was at ohio state when ronald regan,

i was with ronald reagan, we went to st. john's arena in columbus and when i walked into the arena there was a scene i would never forget. they would put these barricades up to keep the kids from coming up on stage and ronald reagan got up on that stage and it was like he was the greatest superstar these young people had ever seen and they could not get close or press close enough to where ronald reagan was and why? why do 1 million people show up in the vatican city to see 100-year-old pope? pope john paul or, you know why? young people gravitate to where they feel there is somebody who has strength and is a leader and has ideals and can get them to believe that having big dreams can work out or that big dreams can come true and out party has to be in the long term

and in the median and the short-term, unifying, a lifting and a hopeful party. and it's going to be the great challenge between republicans and democrats, this third-party stuff is never going to work because there's no infrastructure to it but the party that can enunciate the hopes and dreams and the unity is the party that going to do well and with changing demographics we can't keep talking to the same old people because there's not enough of us to talk to. it just won't work. for me, throughout this election season i'm going to spend an enormous amount of time with senate and house members, either challenge, i'm headed to philadelphia on friday to help one of the biggest congressional races, i'm going to be traveling the country helping the senators get reelected, i know mark kirk in illinois and i'm looking forward to helping

kelly in new hampshire, kelly by the way is a huge star in the republican party. we need more women to have these leadership roles. look at our chairperson here in michigan. how about her, she's great. [applause] so you know, maybe one of the things i could do if it could be helpful to you , i'll come to michigan and we can, if i can show up and we can raise some money or i can come up and help some candidates, i'll be more than glad to do it, okay? i'll be more than glad to do it but i hope you will have a great rest of the convention and i just again from the bottom of my heart want to say that ilove michigan . i love being there, i love so many of you and let's just deepen this bond and these relationships and i'm here to serve you. >> just outside of cleveland

this morning, house speaker paul ryan and other members of the republican leadership to the texas delegation on party unity, national security and domestic issues . >> good morning. please your head. i knew that would work, they told me by phone that would get everybody quiet. i'm not going to leave you in the prayer yet but we will have somebody to lead you in the prayer. let me say good morning to everybody, welcome, thank you for attending, it's a joy to have everybody together. just a couple of quick housekeeping comments i want to make to you, we're on a tight schedule and we seem to be running late every day getting everyone in the room. so these are not formal delegation meetings, these are optional meetings, you come for breakfast, you get the year the speakers. somebody asked me yesterday can we pass a resolution or

... there aren't any resolutions.the only way to do that would be having a majority of delegates to give me a request for a formal meeting which i would then call up because i've been directed, i wouldn't but governor patrick would. if you all want to do that that's fine but if you don't do it that way then people come later and i didn't know this was a meeting, i should've been there to vote and you get into all kinds of stuff. let me quickly touch on what happened yesterday, i know there was a lot of frustration, a lot of confusion. i spoke with, can you all hear me? i spoke with the secretary of the convention, susie hudson, she's also the secretary of the rnc. she is a very fine christian woman. i've never heard her either miss misrepresent the absolute truth. i asked her yesterday privately, i said tell me what happened and she said

there were nine states that had signed a visit to petition for a rollcall vote. the important vote occurred, three states and withdraw those petitions and the region she told me asked what was the reason for that, she said because we were told the delegations had been misinformed as to the purpose of the petitions though they went through them so when they went to do the boat there were six, you get seven states to order a rollcall vote, there were six and before the voting was completed another state on that list had pulled their name so there were five. texas was not one of the states that had submitted the number of names, you had to have a majority so that was just fyi if you were wondering, i asked her about that too, there were only 11, there were six by then. the reason it was handled the way it was was because they began to do the votes and they could not hear, there was so much noise they couldn't hear the other

delegate from utah who was going to make a motion for the microphone. they went back in and settle down, came back and i said why didn't they just announced that the number of states was nine and they had three pullouts before they even began to vote? she said you can't do that, you have to first take the votes then one of the state whose authorized can go to the microphone to be recognized which as you saw was recognized for utah and that's when the information about the number of states was released so can i just share my heart with you for a second? [applause] it's very challenging to be a state chairman, to be a national chairman. i hear so much criticism and i'm really surprised by area we have a phenomenal national chairman, rance previous is extraordinary. we should applaud him. [applause] under his

leadership he's been very generous to the state republican party, your party. he's been very generous, he financed field operations, you all kind of votes for us. is a very strong leader and to hear people complain and criticize him without cause is surprising to me. i know no one ever criticizes me, i don't understand. somebody said to me one day i'm really upset you, i said you'd better get in line because i have lots of people upset me. so when that comes up today she is going to, let me close out that thought red please extend grace and understanding in some of the people that are being accused and judged and criticized in a very unflattering way, those of us that are people of the christian faith, these are people of christian faith, reince priebus is a person of the christian faith, they're doing the best job they can

they're not trying to pull some rules, they're just doing their job and try to do it as well as they can as we are , as your leadership of your party and the staff. we had an event last night where a sponsor was very gracious toward the last minute, trying to say hey, we probably should have provide buses and people are complaining because they had to walk to the bus. i have muscles now i didn't even know i had. i have an apple watch that tracked my steps so i could use it and brag to my wife how much i exercise that day and it was like 6 and a half miles or something. i'm like, oh my gosh. here's the deal. people don't want to walk two of us, i get it. but the problem was when i talked to the guy running the bus he said we are prohibited by the secret service from getting any closer so we have a station, we have a route that we have to follow. i said could you drop us off a little closer?

they dropped us closer, it was kind of been to do that. i don't know if they were authorized but they did it. it was within the purview of what they can do. [applause] they had an issue with respect to communications yesterday. we've got people's cell numbers, were going to send out text to our delegations when things are changing, do the best we can to communicate with everybody and if you have other people you know, please make sure you bring them in and say are you aware were doing whatever and we will get together as a big family and do the best we can. all right? we have 155 delegates, there's 152 alternates, that's 307 members of our delegation. we ordered breakfast for 400 people. that cost the state party $400,000 so people bring lots of friends and there's some delegates that don't get breakfast so that's what happened yesterday, i covered everything that people are

complaining about or talking to me about.that's okay, i don't have a ton of people complaining because we don't know there's an issue, we never can fix it so i'm not bothered by that at all. also, if you would join me in congratulating lieutenant governor dan patrick, today is his 45th wedding anniversary to his wife who's a retired schoolteacher. or the one. [applause] so of all the places they could be on their wedding anniversary, he's here, she's not. so please pray for him that his wife will be understanding. >> she's the most patient woman you've ever met. >> she's very kind to allow her husband to be here with us so that you for your service to our state and

being here with us. without further ado i'dlike to ask doctor robert armstrong to lead us in the invitation. chairman robert scoble will do the us pledge . rhonda lacey is out of district 31 will sing the star-spangled banner and e kegler will follow with the texas pledge so ... go ahead. >> .dear god we just thank you for this day other. we thank you that you have blessed us this day and called us this day father for a higher purpose lord.

invisible with liberty and justice for all. please join me in an incredible anthem. josé can you see by the dawn early light. what so proudly we hail at the twilight's last gleaming whose

broad stripes and bright stars for the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming. and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. josé does that star-spangled banner yet wave. where the land of the free and

the home of the brave. under the texas flag one state under god. see mac. >> we have a quick item of business this morning the organization committee met yesterday and it's appropriate for them to get their report. that was a joke.

so next up what i was explaining the organization committee met yesterday so this morning is when they are able to get their report. let's think them for being a part of that committee for us. so we have a rather lengthy organization meeting it was terribly long it lasted all of about 20 minutes. and it took more longer -- took much longer to do the roll call than the order of business. there is was only one item that had to be corrected. apparently we had two national committee women in texas. apparently we have nominated rahman armstrong to be our tally person.

to talk about how we promoted unity. we notice the committee usually is just a compilation of what they said to us. we want to do something texas. we wanted to provide to each delegate let's make america great again. this is the ronald reagan slogan . we provide a little card and then we also go to each delegate. and we said this is from the texas delegation in lieutenant governor patrick provided some things. were so thankful for you all support in the committee.

we tried to make it a little bit more texas. we were the only one so we stood out. >> next up is our incredible former director. >> thank you for the e-mails. >> thank you. is everyone having a good time? i know that yesterday was a little chaotic trying to figure out the buses into general sessions is exhausting. day one is always the worst because no one knows where to go. but hopefully you are familiar with the quicken loans arena

after been there twice yesterday and understand where the food courts are and the buses and your seats and so today will be a little bit more smooth hopefully. if there are changes to the schedule we will be sending text message here kind of pay attention to your phone if you're not a texter. we will ask the delegates to spread the word and spread the information. if you are with somebody who doesn't do texting if you could share the information with them. the photo yesterday at my understanding is about 100 people. they think they were short by about 100 people. everybody didn't get there in time for the photo. our bus got lost. it was interesting. i am working on a backup plan

tentatively thinking thursday morning after the breakfast we will do it. my question for you guys is do we want to wear the texas shirts again? [applause] you will have to be into outfits on thursday. he would wear the texas flag shirt to breakfast and then you have to change unless you want to wear your texas shirt twice in one week. i have the marriott for sure. there is no staircase here so getting 300 people in a photo without a staircase as is going to be difficult i am wondering.

i just need to talk to the hotel staff and make sure that they are going to be able to accommodate us. i will have those details for you all tomorrow. and we will probably text it out also. as of yesterday, we confirmed that we have some very special guest joining us at the end of today's program. they may already be here he is very gracious and usually gets an honorarium for speaking and he has offered to come offered to come but i also think he is going to bring an option item or two with him to help cover

some of his travel expenses and time. if you all are interested in what he is auctioning off know that the value is more than just item the item itself. it's helping to cover the expenses of his being here and his nonprofit organization. i think that is all i have. do y'all had any questions for me? >> [inaudible] >> we would let you and even if you were in your jammies. i did have a few people ask me about getting onto the floor if you are an alternate. the rnc does not have a sergeant of arms program there is no david halverson at the rnc unfortunately, the only

way you can get onto the floor if you're an alternate if you physically meet your delegate to switch credentials. i can do anything for you. i'm not even on the floor. if you're an alternate and want to see that your delegate is on the floor the only way to do that is to physically find him. if your delegate and you are trying to find your alternate date are seeded in section 117 on the third floor of the quicken's loan arena. go there. i think you guys should all had each other's contact information. that is the only way that you all can switch places if you physically find each other. so if you all have nothing else for me i think that is all i head for you. i will turn the program over.

>> so the state of texas besides being the strongest and most powerful party in the nation of 36 congressional members 25 art republicans but what else is unmatched that you may not be aware of unmatched in history of our nation is that texas members of congress our chairman of committees. it's never been done before. i'm very grateful that members of congress had really come and be a part of this delegation. it speaks volume about our confidence of the party.

i would like to introduce the chairman of the homeland security committee. obviously in the very difficult times in our world and our nation one of the most important committees in congress he is a guy that keeps us sane. would you predate -- would you please welcome congressman tran one. [applause] >> wow, what a night we had last night. i was so proud to be a texan. fourth generation texan but when i spoke last night and looked over and saw all of the texas shirts out there the

great evening. it is time to come together as a party it is time to defeat hillary clinton in this election. as tom mentioned in by the way he is doing an outstanding job as a chairman of the rpt. we have more republicans of any state delegation and we hold more chairmanships of any chase -- state as well. the most in the history of the congress. so we are going to work on the leadership thing but we are all part of leadership we make decisions at the table. and as it should be but i just want to comment, first of all it was an honor to speak in a prime role.

but we heard from the victims of illegal immigration, and what this administration has done to facilitate that and as i mentioned last night we need to end sanctuary cities. we need to keep dangerous people out of this country. that is what i do day in and day out. working with the intelligence keeping bad guys and bad things out of the united states. we could do a better job. and finally once and for all and we know that our nominee will do this, we need to secure the border. and get it done. [applause] and then we heard from the the men were there at

benghazi in to see the mother of the son who was killed in benghazi in the disrespect that hillary clinton showed to her. to not even acknowledge her as immediate family. that shows you the type of person that she really is. i had been cast to be on the national security team moving forward and i will be talking about hillary clinton quite a bit. i think my role will be one of the attack dogs to make the case as a prosecutor that i used to be against her. they talk about leaving behind. that is exactly what she has done. she was the architect of the failed foreign policy of the obama administration. she is responsible for

benghazi in the death of our ambassador and three americans. she was responsible for isis. i know that as a strong statement to make but let me make the case for it. she was only in baghdad one day for three hours you may not know this. to me as a top diplomat not to meet with the prime prime minister of a country that you know is not very stable and then to not have the status agreement imploded and al qaeda and iraq reared its ugly head. if the fbi director wanted to do that we could make it a political indictment against her.

i talked about last night and we talk about this a lot. reagan was the first president i have the opportunity and the great honor to vote for. he made the case and this is what won the election for him are you better off than you were four years ago. the question of today is are you safer than you were eight years ago. [applause] resoundingly everywhere i go and i talk about this it's obviously no. almost on a weekly basis were seen a terrorist attack overseas and unfortunately were seen more and more in the homelands in the united states and now lately we are seen are police officers under attack.

[applause]. they say black lives matter. they say every life matters. cop lives matter as well. and i have an african-american guy on the streets just last night say that to me. sir, thank you. they are the last line of defense affecting us. we need a new commander-in-chief that will lead our military to greatness and restore the greatness of america. as i said last night the islamic terrorists fired the first shot but we will certainly rest assured fire the last. it is my great honor and i do

think the point because this administration won't call it what it is the basic military principle get to defined their military. we can't put our have in the sand and call whatever the enemy is radical islam we need to say that [applause]. it's my honor to introduce the speaker of the house paul ryan who is here today. i consider him to be a very good friend and colleague of vice presidential candidate paul is actually very happy being the chairman of a very

important policy committee. a funny thing happened on the way to the office john weiner left and our conference drafted him. he used to see george washington and others be drafted to run for president. you don't see that very often people like power too much but paul ryan did not ask for the job. he was drafted by our conference to serve in that position. very proud of the work he has done to bring together all of the factions within the republican party which we all know exist. he sits down and listens. he is a consensus builder to get good things done. he has been to texas and i will say four times and the very short time that he's been

speaker of the house. and one thing you may not know about him when our delegation went to him and he said, speaker , we had have a ban on crude oil. since the carter administration and if we are going to lift the ban why are we not lifting the crude oil energy van that is hurting texas. and paul ryan listen to us and our delegation and paul ryan of the speaker got that done. we passed that bill and signed into law. it will be one of the greatest things for the texas economy that we have seen in a long time. we will turn it over to the speaker of the house paul ryan. [applause]

>> let me say one more thing. he is from wisconsin so don't hold that against him he has put a better way forward and the agenda. i'm proud to of been a part of that team. paul put me on the national security team and thank you for your great work. [applause] >> good morning. it looks just like the wisconsin breakfast only the crowd will be about a sixth the size and all of those cowboy hats will be replaced with cheese hats. other than that it was just like a wisconsin breakfast. first of all good morning.

convention can be pretty darn exciting sometimes here's what i want to say we have got really big problems in this country and in our party we had had a really big family discussion. you have horn frogs. the wisconsin badgers. we have all of these teams. you are so into and those rivalries. especially when the big 12 was the big 12's. it's russ. -- it's rough.

i am a big hunter. their names are boomer and sooner. so we go to the neutral that neutral territory in dallas and one side is the burnt orange and the crimson. but when one of the teams advances to a big bowl game or a national championship don't you root for the aggies if you are a longhorn. my entire premise has just been obliterated. let me tell you what we do. this is what i do from where i come from. we fight like heck against ohio state in michigan and when it doesn't go our way or

they make it to the rose bowl or they go to the national championship we root for them. we are in the same conference. start thinking that way. good grief. it explains everything right now. all right, so the point i was trying to make my wife went to high school in texas. just a few weeks ago and i have to tell you the one thing that i really appreciate she was in the texas culture and friends. you have an appreciation for freedom. you really do. and i don't know that you know as well you almost take it for

granted. it is inspiring. i have to tell you because not every other place in america is like that. have you been to san francisco lately? so we are in the struggle in our country and we as conservatives and republicans we all hold deal -- deer to the same principles and sometimes we root for different team. sometimes we have a different idea they are advancing the principles. the team whether it was running the wishbone or the 43 defense. we may not agree with that we

may not root for that but at the end of the date we want to win the game. at the beginning of this year he took this job without really much notice it wasn't really the plan to begin with. i kind of feel like the dog that was caught the car that was never teasing in the first place. but we decided okay, wait. this country is really going in the wrong direction. we were elected by our constituents to go fix that. and we will not fix it if we are divided among ourselves. we will only fix the problems if we unify. [applause] >> and the best into the right in the moral way to unify is

to do it around sound principles. [applause]. and the vision of these principles is what we all sort of described as the american idea. something you really know well and depreciate appreciate in texas. the condition of your birth does not determine the outcome of your life. self-government. government by consent. free and upright liberty. you know it. so the beginning of the year we all agree on these principles. let's come together and work on an agenda that actually advances those principles. i wish we made 2012. a crisper contrast on the direction of the country. [applause] so that's what we

set out to do. so in january we decided ted was just getting started. we decided we are to get an agenda and put it together. we roll it out at the beginning of the summer and take it to the country. here is your choice here is the better way. the kind of election we have to have it for can have the election that gives us this ability is a mandate election and affirming election not an election where we out blast and beat up the other side but an election where we say to the country if you don't like the direction america is going, seven of a ten americans don't then we have a better way. here are the principles that we used it to put it together. we set up a whole game plan at the beginning of the year we chose our offense and you have guys who are in charge of

writing the border security plan. this guy knows what it looks like. you had people and semi chairman in texas only the huge upgrade. i see the people in this room, they know what they're doing. some of our units in our conference. lamar smith was a chairman of the judiciary committee. he is one of these guys that is going out the regulations he is one of those guys that is really one of the leaders in our congress and obviously in our delegation. [applause] we have this new young guy. ..

>> so, here's what we set out to do. we decided, what were the big issues we need to fix and fix fast and let's do a bottom up all of us work together through listening sessions, consult with the people we like, know and trust in these areas and put it together and take it to the country. number one, we have to look at the fact that there tens of millions of people in this country, able bodies slipping through that cracks. if you take a look at the welfare we have in america today , they basically are designed to replace work, not encourage work. [applause]. >> that's not working, so we went to move people from welfare. we don't want to pay people not

to work. we reformed welfare 1996 and worked great. work requirements, time limits and lowered child poverty and got moms in the workforce and was a great idea. it was one program. there are dozens and dozens of others from the federal government that had not been reformed, so we have shown what a better way of fighting poverty looks like, going out root causes instead of treating symptoms of poverty. we have got to take on that status quo and as conservatives we have the moral high ground here and we can show what true upper mobility looks like. give me bottom up upward mobility over the bernie sanders hillary clinton class warfare politics any day of the week and we will take that. [applause]. >> then, we decided what we got right now is not to national security.

there is not a national security strategy employed in america today. we have an administration pulling it in and adding the pile for the next administration, so we got people like mike mccall and bob goodlatte and all of these members of congress that know what they are doing like max thornberry, chairman of the armed services committee. [applause]. >> and a comprehensive national security strategy, 67 recommendations. how do you secure the border, how do you rebuild the military, what does adoption not goes against isis actually look like and how do we secure our country. number three, these regulatory states, we have a real regulatory leviathan, out of the country micromanaging our businesses and killing our economy, so we have a complete wholesale redo of our regulations like dodd frank everything else plaguing our economy which brings me to number four in guys like john radcliffe. the bigger problem is that we

are losing self-government. that's like the founding principle of the country and a so when you have a country founded on national rights, national rights and equality of opportunity, not a quality thou come, we have to take on this real elephant in the room-- no pun intended. [laughter] >> this government that the bureaucrats are running our laws we've got to take back article one of the constitution. with the take back that we write our luster are representatives. [applause]. >> all these rules and regulations will come back to congress for a final vote before they go into effect. [applause]. >> that's how you restore government by self-determination coming of your-- you are against obamacare? how many know we agree? okay? for the first time in six years we have finally got consensus on what we would replace it with.

patient center, freedom producing healthcare system and what it looks like. number six, we have got to strap this tax code. the irs is well-liked-- way too inclusive. [applause]. >> we show you what postcard sized tax reform looks like. we show you what progrowth looks like the point is we are leaning on the on the line and putting out their. we are putting out a specific agenda for taking our principles and applying them to the problem of the day and offering a better way. better .-dot gop. everyone worked on producing this because we want to take this to the country and run on this and litigate this. we went defendants so that if and when we when we can do it. [applause]. guess what? hillary clinton isn't going to do one of these things. she isn't going to do a darn thing. she's against all of these

things. she's against these principles we believe in. this is a binary choice. it is either donald trump or hillary clinton. if you are not for donald trump and not voting and showing up, you are helping hillary clinton. it's pretty much that clear. [applause]. >> i went to close with this, i mentioned how texans really understand freedom, but i don't think you quite fully realize that until a couple of years ago. you see, when-- where my wife is from which is on the north side for decades and decades-- [laughter] >> you have been able to go hillbilly hand fishing by yourself with your own bare hands. it's an exhilarating sport and i encourage it. [laughter] >> but, it was not legalized in texas until two years ago, so now you can knew no caps fish on both sides, so congratulations

for fully realizing your freedoms, texas. thank you very much. remember, we have to unify. remember what this is all about and this is about winning and taking our country in the right direction. thank you very much. go get them. appreciated. [applause]. [applause]. [applause]. >> i think we would all say that we got a pretty phenomenal speaker of the house. would you agree? all right. moving right along and speaker ryan, thank you so much for coming in and being a part of our breakfast. so, our next speaker is one of

our sponsors. he's the director of policy communication for expedia. expedia come i did not know this until this morning, but expedia has a pretty good size footprint for the size of the company in texas, five offices around the state of texas and 1500 employees we are very fortunate to have yet another company involved in keeping texans employed. but, they have also been very gracious to be one of our sponsors, so at this time i would like to ask you to welcome philip minardi who will come up and make an introduction. [applause]. [applause]. >> morning. whose idea of a sick joke was it to follow the speaker of the house of representatives? [laughter] >> i must have lost a bet somewhere.

welcome i would say the speaker deserves one more round of applause for the hard work he is doing as speaker of the house. [applause]. >> good morning and welcome to day number two. how is everyone feeling? good? it's going to be a long day, so stay with me here. my name is philip minardi and i have the privilege of having policy communication for speedier. hopefully, many of you know the brands that make up our company, orbitz, expedia, travelocity, hotel.com. , hotwire, home away and many more. hopefully, you have used them to search, compare and book travel for yourselves and your family. to help me get a better understanding of the audience here this morning, raise your hand if you use one of these companies to book travel here or for your family and vacation somewhere? i like that. let's connect later. want to hear about your trips. well, i know are all looking

forward to hearing from senator john cornyn and i don't want to take up too much of your time to get to that, but i think today's theme is jobs in the economy for the convention and i figured we would share a quick story about two other texans and at the end of the next few minutes i hope to leave you with two takeaways, supplying you with another incredible story of texas innovation and arm you with a better understanding of the unique place texas has been the history quote unquote sharing economy. now, our story begins at a local community coffee shop in 2004. this was with two men, brian and carl. carl is a tcu class of 79 alum, so you know he has to be a pretty smart dude. come on now, you can do better than that. there we go. these two men sat down to

discuss a new business idea. both men had family's. with three kids and a passion for travel. but, the hassle of jamming a growing family of five into a hotel was not the ideal option for either man. so, they turned, like many do, to the whole home vacation role model. but, the problem if you can recall in 2003, 2004, before the silicon valley craze took off was that having to scour newspaper for vacation rentals or find a vacation rental property manager was incredibly difficult. so, these two jarman, both men saw an opportunity, like vote-- most texans do pick they hopped on planes and scoured the country and chatted with vacation rental home owners, managers and hosts, anyone that the industry touched and anyone that would listen and over the next 15 years the two men built one of the most innovative

travel websites around. it was formed around to simple concepts, to make it easier and more affordable for families and friends to travel the world together. the company that brian and carl eventually launched in 2005, was home away. today, over 1300 individuals are employed by home away across texas at our headquarters in austin, and five other locations are at the state. expedia also has many employees across the state. we have about 1500 texans employed by expedia brands. [applause]. [applause]. cement as many of you know, today short-term rentals are not use just for vacations. they serve a broad variety of purposes including hosting families that are remodeling their home in fort worth,

business people staying in town for more than a few days and to accommodate families during medical stays at places like baylor or the heart institute. they help own note-- homeowners in almost every district of the state become micro- punch pursuers and to help you make ends meet, save for retirement or just welcome travelers to the unique communities. you all should take pride in the fact that the sharing economy first took root in texas. the idea was born in texas, supported in texas and still calls texas home today. as the popularity of the short term rental continues to grow, it's important that all levels of governments have effective laws for property owners and short-term rental platforms like some such as galveston and nashville have been successful at crafty insensible short-term

rental policies while unfortunately all-- other cities like san francisco and portland have implemented overreaching burdensome and restrictive laws on communities and homeowners alike. in the final analysis, home away and expedia are supportive of reasonable and effective regulation that can achieve compliance and protect property rights. now is the time for leadership on this important issue. now is the time to apply innovative policy solutions to this most innovative travel industry. but, enough of that. let's get to the main event here. this man needs no lengthy introduction. he has served this estate faithfully for over three decades as a district judge, member of the texas supreme court, your state ag and for the past 14 plus years as a member

of the united states senate. a man wish suspected-- respected for his leadership, temperament and his judgment. ladies and gentlemen, take a sip of coffee and please join me in welcoming the honorable senator john cornyn. [applause]. [applause]. >> good morning. it's great to see all of you here this morning and i know you must be exhausted. the bad news is that you are only about halfway through the week. but, thank you for being here. thank you for your warm greeting or containing i are delighted to be with you. i was thinking about where we are in this election season and i was reminded of a statement by ronald reagan in 1976, when he

lost the nomination for president of the united states and of course he was enormously disappointed. i know those of us who perhaps had other choices in the republican primary for president this year have experienced disappointment, but in typical ronald reagan fashion he quoted an old scottish ballad. he said, i am hurt, but i am not slain. i will lay me down and bleeding while, then i will arise and fight again. and so he did. [applause]. >> and so we will. thinking about reagan and the speech he also gave an 1964, for barry goldwater peered do you remember that speech, a time for choosing? what an incredible speech and there was a statement that he

made in that speech that just resonated with me and the times we find ourselves in because even in that speech 52 years that go ronald reagan spoke with a little intellectual elite in a far distant capital that believed they can plan better for our lives than we can for ourselves. if that doesn't describe the obama administration and the last seven and a half years, i don't know what does. [applause]. >> so, here we are at the republican convention here in cleveland, ohio. this is our time for choosing and i wanted to make the point that speaker ryan made, that not withstanding the fact that many of us might have voted for and supported other candidates other than the presumptive nominee who will be the nominee of the republican party, it is time for us to come together in unity

behind the trump candidacy for president of the united states. [applause]. >> because this again, my friend, is a time for choosing for the future of our country. speaker ryan talked about the fact that more than two thirds of americans believe that we are on the wrong track. you see, people dissatisfied across the board with the political status quo. i know so much focus has been on the republican primary, but have you been watching what bernie sanders has been doing to hillary clinton coming within an inch of it being her for the nomination of the democratic party? after all, it is the republican party that is truly democratic in the sense that we lead the grass roots-- roots to select our nominees. [applause]. >> we don't have super delegates

that determine the outcome before it even-- before the contest even starts. but, as you think about the reasons why a feel like we are on the wrong track just think about our national security environment. where china is exercising incredible belligerents in the south china seas threaten to block the sea lanes that are so necessary to national-- international peace and international commerce. think about the fact that notwithstanding what ronald reagan did when he said to her down that wall in 1989, leading to the end of the cold war, we now have a new cold war with russia and vladimir putin who has been emboldened by all of the messages that the obama administration has been setting, which demonstrates that we are weak and not willing to assume a leadership role in the world. obviously, north korea continues to be a huge threat to the

united states with intercontinental elastic missiles and nuclear weapons that could potentially even reach the western coast of the united states. then, there is the global war of isis, islamic state embracing a radical ideology that not only threatens peace in the middle east where the president drew a red line he failed to enforce, thus sending the message again that there was no consequence to violate you read new line. seeing this and this poisonous propaganda not only spreading the middle east, but threatening us in the homeland in places like garland texas, but for the grace of god and of the great of the security guard these two gunmen from phoenix might have done a lot of damage like we saw in a san bernardino and we saw down in florida. well, we have hot wars still raging in iraq and afghanistan. at the same time that valerie

jarrett says that barack obama has kept his promise to end two wars. obviously, it has not happened. james klapper, the director of national intelligence has said in his 50 years of experience in the intelligence community he has never before seen such a vast array of diverse threats to the united states and international order. so, this is my friends, from a national security perspective a time for choosing, but not just national security. it's about the economy. everywhere i go, small business men and women who are trying to create jobs, trying to provide for their families tell me about the strangling overregulation they feel from this administration. whether it's the department of labor, environmental protection agency, you name it that off of that soup of federal agencies. they are not trying to do their best to regulate in a way that

protects the public. they are trying to disfavor and kill businesses that they don't agree with. through tire that they're baking arrangements or strangling them with regulation, but unfortunately perhaps the best example of the bad policies that would be continued by hillary clinton is obamacare. obamacare has been an unmitigated disaster for the american people and we all know it. [applause]. >> i was just talking with some of the representatives of blue cross blue shield, which may be the last company standing when it comes to providing insurance on the individual market in the state of texas and around of the country, where they predict that their insurance premiums will go up 6% this year alone in the individual market because of the regulation, because of the mandates, because of the requirements of obamacare. what does that mean to us as consumers?

its means that people who are experiencing flat wage growth because of the obama a: finding increased expenses that they have to pay, which means even shrinking paycheck and an ability to provide for their families. people who have insurance find that their deductibles are in the range of $5000 and they are effectively self-insured because obamacare was a mistake when it was initiated and has proven to be a disaster in its implementation. i would just remind you what president obama said when he sold this what i recall to consumer fraud on the market people. he said the price of healthcare for an average family of four would go down $2500. he said if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. he said if you like your policy, you can keep your policy. none of that which has proven to be true. so, it's no wonder, to me, that

the american people are so upset with the direction of our country, but i just want to make the case in closing that this is our time for choosing because we know what hillary clinton will do if she were elected president of the united states. it would be four more years of the failed obama national security and economic policies that have been a disaster for the american people, that has put us on this wrong track, but if you look at federal judges, we know that there is not to just one vacancy that has been created by justice scully is death. we know the next president they will have opportunity to appoint not one, not two, but may be three supreme court justices. justice scully a was right when he said when the american people finally realize that the members of the united states supreme court were not apply in a written constitution written laws, but rather substituting their value judgments for what

ought to be the policies of our country and the direction of our country, they realized something terrible was a mess and we need to make sure that our candidate, our nominee, president trump will be able to nominate those vacancies for the united states supreme court and all the lower courts. [applause]. >> if you think about those regulations and strangling small businesses and making it impossible for them to create jobs and growth economy. can you imagine what the party of bernie sanders and elizabeth warren under hillary clinton administration is likely to do? she is not only going to maintain this current policy and this overregulation, she's going to make it even worse particularly in the financial sector where people cannot even get access to credit because of dodd frank an overreach their. again, texas in so many of these

areas has shown the way for the rest of the country. i agree with governor perry when he said some people talk about the texas miracle. he said, but a miracle is a supernatural event and while we has truly been blessed by providence, the texas model billy explains why our state has been so successful. because we believe in getting out of the way, getting off the backs and getting our hands out of the pocket when it comes to the government interfering with that free enterprise system and the opportunity that that has always presented for our country but, the obama, has been opposite with attitude has been what additional regulation, what additional cost, what additional burden, what additional obstacle can replace them from the free enterprise system and have it produce-- continue to produce jobs and grow the economy. well, the outcome has been pretty obvious, so whether it is

judges, whether it's economy and whether it's regulation, whether it's jobs, whether it's national security, to me the choice is very clear, so ladies and element, fellow republicans, friends and texans, let's do everything we can to defeat hillary and elect donald trump, the next president of the united states. this is our time for choosing. [applause]. [applause]. >> i know normally he is up here, but he let me come up to be able to introduce our next speaker because he is a friend. he is my congressman and so i just wanted to say eight couple words about him. one, he is a congressman from

congressional district 21. i have-- exactly. i have known him for years and, you know, he is the chairman-- let me make sure i get this right, science, space and technology committee. he's been that chairman of a number of other committees over the years and has served him a but the one thing i think that is so important that you know about him is that he does come out into the grassroots. you will see him hold town hall meetings. he does conference called and if you are in dc and you want an appointment with him how you can do that and sit down. he makes time for us, the grassroots. that's an incredible man, so please help me welcome my congressman lamar smith. [applause]. [applause].

[applause]. >> thank you. thank you. tinian, thank you for such a nice introduction. the only thing i would add to that is that i am a first science committee chairman in 21 years to issue a subpoena. i have issued 10 targeting this administration. i'm just getting warmed up. [applause]. >> those subpoenas have almost always been directed to the epa because i think that they are trying to impose on the american people and necessary burden some , cost what-- costly regulation. that's what we are trying to stop. this is a unique election. we all consider it to be unique in different ways, but i think it's an unusual election because we are actually choosing two branches of the government, the presidency and the judiciary.

john cornyn mentioned a while ago not only are we picking the president, but we are picking someone who will nominate at least three new supreme court justices, talking about the replacement of antonin scalia, justice ginsburg has said she will retire than men next president has chosen. we are very happy about that. [applause]. >> and two other justices will turn 80 in the very first term of the next presidency, so we are determining the future of the country for the next generation when it comes to the supreme court and they affect every aspect of our allies. we are picking two branches of government and by the way if you see a list of donald trump nominees for supreme court, they are outstanding. everyone of us would support any one of those individuals for the supreme court. i might augment that list and say we ought to put john cornyn on it as well. for candidate for, donald trump, i think also stands out because

he more than a lot of people is synthesizing the fact that he is for the working man and women of america. donald trump spoke to the republicans in dc about three weeks ago and actually, that the most important sentence he spoke was in response to a question he was asked. it was almost a throwaway line, but to me it symbolized that entire trump campaign. he said, i am not a politician. i just get things done. [applause]. >> i think that's what separates donald trump. [applause]. >> donald trump also has a campaign platform that we can all agree on kirk he wants to secure the border. he wants to replace obamacare. he wants to lower taxes. he wants to renegotiate trade agreements and he wants to repeal executive orders. that alone will change the country and it said two thirds of the american people thinking

we are going in the wrong direction we will have two thirds thinking we are going in the right direction. at the other thing donald trump is doing that i think is so important is that he is the only candidate i have never heard of writing for president who is willing to combat and take on political correctness and media bias. [applause]. >> when it comes to media bias, we ought to remember that we don't just have one opponent on the ballot, we had two opponents , a democratic opponent and we had a very liberal national media. that is going to cost us a lot of points unless we combat it and when we talk about the national liberal media, just remember, don't let them tell you what to think and you can't believe what the national media says. [applause]. >> i started to caucuses in congress, what is the secure borders caucus and the other is that media fairness caucus to combat media bias, but i think

it may be the greatest threat we face in america today because if the american people don't get the facts, they can't make good decisions and if the american people cannot make good decisions we are going to lose our democracy. so, media bias is a threat to our country and is a threat to our democracy. [applause]. >> there is no worse example of media bias than to watch with the media says about donald trump when it comes to immigration. every single day there is an article in the paper-- day before yesterday it was a post that said donald trump said that all immigrants are rapists and criminals. have any times have you read that? but, what he also said before they took it out of context and misrepresented what they said-- he said he said immigrants and they were talking about illegal legal immigrants and he said they are good people. i'm glad they are coming, but

he's a legend the point that we ought to be willing to defend and he was talking about illegal immigrants sometimes be criminals he knew what he was talking about. one third of all federal prisoners today are illegal immigrants. they have committed some of the worst crimes. they have committed the rates in the murders and everything else. when you talk about one third of the federal prisons today being illegal immigrants there are about 3% of the population. that means an illegal immigrant is about 10 times more likely to commit a federal crime than a member of the public, so donald trump was right in what he was saying and we ought to defend him and put it in context. [applause]. >> if you need to persuade someone to get excited and enthusiastic about donald trump, give them a choice on two words they want to think about, hillary clinton or supreme court and that should take care of it.

when we talk about hillary clinton, don't you think after she has made tens of millions of dollars using her government jobs again, don't you think that's really enough for hillary clinton? i don't think we need to reward her anymore. and do you know what hc stands for? highly careless. [laughter] >> to summarize everything, remember this, hillary hillary, triumph with trump. let's make america great again. [applause]. >> we have had some great

speakers, haven't we? so, let me share with you a bit before introduce our next speaker because i want you to know when my passions as state chairman has been to begin to admit our party back together again. we have become very fractured and it's impossible to win without being unified. so, i tell you that because there is a comment made at the national-- national committee meeting in fort worth, and when he said when we are unified the impossible becomes possible, but when we are dis- unified what's possible becomes impossible. when we see that and you have heard a lot of talk this evening-- this morning about candidates and we started out with 17 candidates and ended up with one. i wear this have because that's who i support for president. let there be no question. the media will do everything in

its power to give you reasons not to vote for our nominee and for you to stay home. that's what happened with mitt romney. peoples that i can never vote for someone like this. ladies and gentlemen, it was part of the democrats gave to convince you not to vote and that's what we will see this time, so is your state chairman i have given 135 speeches around the state since i was elected, but i have said this across the state, every conservative in texas should be a republican because our product-- parties the conservative party. every republican should feel comfortable in their party, absolutely essential. so, as we move into the rest of our members that will speak today, our next speaker is someone that has been very helpful to us and help to our party. he's always been very kind to take my calls and i call him several times and he is very helpful to getting the legislation that is important to us-- in spite of what you may

have heard, but he's also been very helpful to get legislation that's important to conservatives through the house and we will touch base on some of those issues that haiti has been behind the scenes to ensure come to pass, so ladies and gentlemen, would use these welcome-- please welcome joe straus. [applause]. >> thank you very much, senator. thank you all. thank you very much thank you, tom. it's good to be with everyone this morning i have to tell you it's a bit intimidating to follow a kolber of speakers we have heard from so far this morning. i sort of feel like the fourth string quarterback going into the last couple of place. i know my job, take a knee and try not to fumble. [laughter] >> it really is an honor to follow a couple of longtime friends of mine and really

mentors and public service to me and that is senator john cornyn and my conversational lamarr smith. also honored to be on the same stage this morning, we heard from chairman mccall who did a fantastic job last night at the convention and of course, the real speaker of the house, paul ryan. i'm grateful to speaker ryan not only for coming by this morning, not only for having the good sense to send his kids to summer camp at our camps, but i'm also grateful to him because he has accepted an invitation that i gave to him to come by tomorrow to an event that we are hosting for republican state legislators from around the country but i will talk about those efforts at the moment. i also want to not forget to thank chairman tom meckler again for his outstanding strong evenhanded and fare leadership of the republican party of texas. thank you, tom. so, i also know that part of my

job is to get you out of here before they start clearing the tables and serving lunch. it's already been a bit of a long morning, but a good one. so, let's me briefly touch on something that should make all texas republicans proud and that's the success of republicans in the texas house of representatives. i think dan flynn is here and maybe a few other hospitals are here and we are glad to have you. over the last three election cycles, we have grown from 76 republicans in the texas house to 99. we had-- we had a razor thin two-seat majority with 76 to 74 just back in 2009, but voters across texas how chosen republican representation for two simple reasons. number one, they believe in our principles and a number two, they trust our candidates. often, it was those of you in

this room who are responsible for getting semi- house republicans elected. i want to thank you for that. we depend on your energy and your hard work and you have not let us down. that's why the republican majority is as strong as ever. public service is not just about winning elections and building up your majority. it's about what happens after you take that oath of office. clint eastwood-- you may remember from the last convention was once elected a small-town mayor out in california. he said one time, winning an election is a good news bad news thing. the good news is, okay you'd are now the mayor. that is as, okay now you are the mayor. [laughter] >> but, i think there's a lot of good news from the texas house of representatives and what we have done. we balance our budget.

we have $10 billion in reserve in our rainy day fund a. we have cut property taxes, business taxes and fees on texas citizens and have kept their business climates strongest in the united states. we have improved transportation without raising taxes and moving away from relying on polls and that. [applause]. >> we had increased choice in education by creating more high-quality charter schools. we passed-- [applause]. >> and as you may remember we passed the strongest voter id law in the united states. [applause]. >> we have increased a fairness in our judicial system and we have made an unprecedented commitment to border security. you sent republicans to the texas house in big numbers to

deliver conservative results and that's what we have done. now, let's keep this moment i'm going. as i mentioned earlier i am chairing the republican legislative campaign committee this year for this cycle, which supports our candidates all over the country. it's a job i'm honored to have and the good news there is an bad news is we have a lot of ground to defend. our party now has a majority 69 of 99 legislative chambers in the united states. [applause]. >> at that is more majorities than ever before. democrats have lost 900 state legislative seats across the country during the obama presidency. apparently, president obama is as that good as protecting democrats as hillary clinton is a protecting classified information. [applause].

>> so, very involved in supporting state-level candidates across the country, but my most important job this fall is in protecting our majority in the texas house. i'm here this morning to ask for your help in that mission. summit very very good legislators and linda koop and anderson in the dallas area and rick and john in san antonio, my backyard, they are facing really tough challenges in november and there are others around the state who are as well and as anyone who have ever watch closely the texas legislature, you know how important a few votes can be. a republican incumbent has great record to run on and please help make sure that their constituents, if you live in those areas all about it. so, please keep working for our candidates in the texas house along with everything else it do. take nothing for granted and

let's defend this solid red majority in the texas house. as i wrap up, i want to thank you again for allowing me to be here this morning with such distinguished other guest speaker's. we hope you enjoy this convention even if it is in cleveland. it is one that i'm sure that none of us will forget anytime soon picked thank you for what you do for the republican party and most about thank you for what you do for the state of texas. thank you all very much. [applause]. >> all right. so, the next beaker will be a surprise to you. do you like surprises? i like surprises, but i only like the good surprises.

our next speaker is a former marine sergeant from colorado. in the midst of his third trip to benghazi, he was a part of a cia security detail that responded to the terrorist attack on september 11, 2012. our speaker bravely fought to save the life of many of team players and he is here with his wife margaret. please join me in welcoming john titman. [applause]. [applause]. [cheers and applause] [applause]. [cheers and applause] >> thank you.

[cheers and applause] >> thank you. yeah, i have no idea what i'm going to talk about. you know, last night was definitely a trip. yeah. at-- it's kind of funny because this whole political thing that damned down my throat pretty quick, but i'm learning a lot the process and talking to a lot of the guys out there and that they are kind of-- a lot of us don't understand the whole delicate thing especially a lot of the guys i run around with. it's a kind of crazy how you have some delegates protesting trump nomination because i guess their candidate lost or something. you know, but, i mean, he has

more votes than any other republican candidate ever in the history of the us. [cheers and applause] >> seems like they are doing exact same thing that obama is doing, the populace with this, but obama once that. that's what i feel like. you know, back on the whole thing like a lot of the stuff we would like to say last night i guess i can say now, but you know. [cheers and applause] >> we got like-- well we were only supposed at 14 minutes, but i think we took 25. it's kind of hard to tell a 13 hour story in 14 minutes. i don't know how anyone can support someone who would sit there--

[inaudible] >> she will sit there in the situation room and take pictures while they get bin laden. to me, 30 americans are more important than bin laden. [cheers and applause] >> and it is the same with the whole administration. she gets elected and they will keep the same people there now. you know, the whole-- they did the same thing she did, joint chief of staff had to go to a branch. they are our generals and supposed to protect americans and it's more important to go to a branch with foreigners then making sure 22 year career state department guy that was probably one of the most respected state department employee in decades goes missing and gets killed, but they are more worried about getting branch. you know, to me that's disgrace to--

[applause]. >> is a disgrace to anyone who's ever served our country, military or civilian. you know, their job-- they are our backbone and what keeps us safe and we rely on them. secretary of defense says yeah, i told him to get the order. well, why didn't someone fire because something didn't happen. [applause]. >> i don't know how the dod can tell a select committee in congress that we are not going to give you the information you are asking for. to me that looks more like a military-- i thought it was we the people, not the government and then we the people. [applause]. >> maybe i don't know the process, but reading that report

that i read, they come back and say we have assets at studebaker, but we are not going to tell you what it is. well, why not? they asked for it took your job is to answer to the people. we are in a lot of trouble if she gets elected. [cheers and applause] >> i mean, that clinton that abandoned american troops since somalia. they abandoned state department is manning contractors pretty much sense obama got elected. jeer square was a prime example. you know, he got the four black

contractors premature in prison for defending the us state department after maybe they initially opened fire too soon, but back then suicide bombers were driving the cars in the convoys. i want to go home. i'm going to shoot that car if it ain't going to stop. you know, you got the state department-- [applause]. >> and you have hillary's state department doing the investigation, yet they found rounds and all the vehicles, but yet they said they found no casings, so they never got fired at. now, we have for americans who are they risking their lives to save state department lights and now they are in prison. that's what you will get when hillary gets in. more people getting pretty much screwed over. you got that marine major who had information.

will, of course, he was on a secret, but he thought it was more important to save some people's lives, so he sent the e-mail through yahoo. now he is being discharged from the marine corps because he sent classified information and set it through nonsecure server. people want to sit there and say, well, he's in the military and you are under different rules. yet, you are. but, she's commander. she should be on a higher level of rules than we are. [cheers and applause] >> but yet that e-mail he sent was more like direct information

whereas all the e-mails she had actually had names of people that could actually get american civilians killed, not other terrorists killed. yeah, she lives by a different set of rules. clinton's lead by a different set of rules and we all in the fbi pre-mesh disgrace that entire justice system in my opinion. [applause]. yeah, that's pretty much my rant does anyone have a questions? [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] [applause].

>> anybody got q&a little thingy you are looking at it. [laughter] >> trying to get a little bit better at it. which one cracks the consulate from the chief the base, there is no way in hell that this administration could give orders that fast. [laughter] i mean, it took them three hours to figure out if they were going to have a meeting about the attacks. i think it was three hours, but anyway the other one, the bad thing is you got a lot of military guys and civilians that

actually give a standdown order, but there got their job and their career. i'll be damned. i would rather have my country then my job. you know, i got former cia operatives that actually contacted me and said they have had guys that are choice of state department told and do not go, but like i said it's all hearsay until someone house some components to step forward. [inaudible] [laughter] >> they did until they found out i owned guns. [laughter] [inaudible]

smack when he said military men and their security clearances-- our security clearance is what's called derivative classification authority. we have to go with the original classification authority to decide what does what is not classified work there are about 40 or 50 of these people in the united states as defined by executive order and do you know who is number seven on the list? secretary of state has original classification authority. she is the person you go to to say what is classified-- [inaudible] [applause]. >> one more. >> we all know about-- has there ever been an account on how many you all killed?

>> my personal opinion i pray to god i did not kill any of them because i would rather maim them because life over there being the main is 10000 times worse than being dead, but no. we heard there was a mass grave between 30-- 22 my 30 people, but they were like saying they didn't know if it was related, so who knows. they probably fed them to the dogs or something. i am being serious. thank you. [applause]. [applause]. >> okay, so. >> you have a front-row seat to every minute of the republican and democratic national convention on c-span.org or

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in richmond virginia heard a case challenging north carolina voting restriction as discriminatory. the new line requires voters to produce a government issued id. .. >> we're happy to hear argument in north carolina state conference of the naacp. ladies and gentlemen, we know you have prepared a lot of things to say, and there are a lot of issues here. so if you can try to organize yourself so that you get to your

most important issues in the time allotted, we really appreciate it. thank you. with that in mind, ms. baldwin? >> good morning. anna baldwin representing the united states. the order of the presentation this morning, i'm going to be addressing the united states sectioning two claim under both its intent and results prong. ms. hair is also going to be focusing on the results prong, and ms. riggs is going to be addressing the plaintiff's constitutional claims and also any questions about implementation. >> ma'am, your brief reads like a closing argument, which i might find persuasive if i'm a trier of fact, but that's not the case here. if the inference is drawn by the

district court, aren't they due due deference? >> well, your -- >> to me, that's the core of the case. >> certainly, your honor. under the pullman standard, if the district court applied the wrong legal standard, the facts aren't binding. so to start with the intent analysis, there are critical errors in the legal analysis in the district court's analysis of the united states intent claim that framed the analysis. we have to start with the fact that in passing h.b. 589, the north carolina legislature acted to block growing african-american political power just as black north carolinians had begun to experience real political gains. in looking at this claim, the district court failed to take can account of the fact that even as the defendant's experts testified, in north carolina the best predicter of voting behavior is not party registration, but race. and so a proper intent analysis would have required the district court to expressly consider whether passage of h.b. 589 was motivated in part by what the supreme court called the

troubling blend of race in politics. the district court committed legal error in failing to analyze plaintiff's intent lame through the framework that the supreme court set out in black v. perry. >> are you referring to the section two intentional discrimination or the 14th amendment intentional discrimination, and is there a difference? >> under the 14th amendment and section two, it's the same standard. and the united states is pressing its claim under the guise of section two, but the standard is the same. the question is, was the legislature's action motivated in part by a racially discriminatory purpose. >> so in any event, you are presenting a constitutional argument here, and yet there's a section two results argument. should we reach that one first? >> your honor, we think that understanding the section two results claim in this case, it's helpful in the tenuousness

factor in particular to look at the intent claim. and the parties would ask the court to reach both the results and intent violation because of the nature of the relief we're seeking. we're seeking relief under section 3c of the voting rights act which requires the finding of intent. >> and your colleague who's going to argue last is going to explain that to us, right? >> she's going to be addressing the anderson verdict constitutional claim. but in terms of the intent claim, the racially discriminatory intent claim is necessary under the voting rights act to retrigger a preclearance and coverage requirement under section 3c. and so that's why that finding needs to be made under the intent claim. >> so looking at the legal error -- >> well, we understand you on everything, but i think my colleague's question to you was, you know, in your first brief you did the intent claim first. in your second brief, you did your intent claim second. so which, which is first in your heart? >> your honor, we think that

both are very strong claims and that -- and with respect to both, we're not -- >> really? the question is going to typically we don't deal with a constitutional issue if we can resolve it on another ground. >> so i think -- >> question is here with section 2 the, should we first address that, and if we reach a resolution there, of course, you would like for us to go for your remedial reason to the constitutional question, but shouldn't we start at least there? >> well, i think, you know, in terms of what's very practically important, the court, the parties were all aware of the fact that there is an election upcoming in november. and so the importance of having some kind of remedy in place and having a reversal and an injunction enjoining the provisions that are discriminatory that can cleanly be done under the results claim, that this court could simply correct the legal errors the district court -- >> and it couldn't be done under the intent claim? >> well, the intent claim too because there's a legal error in failing to account for in the intent analysis racially polarized voting, you know, the

seismic growth of the black electorate, the significance of turnout. >> well, i, you know, as my other colleague said, i think we understand all those arguments. basically, what you've done in your first presentation now is go over your brief with us, and you can rest assured we read the brief. i'd be a little more interested in the specifics if you can give them to me. for example, did you present at trial any expert data predictions on what the 214 voter turnout would have been without the new statute? >> no, your honor. in fact, we explained why that's not possible. dr. stewart testified that in order to predict what 2014 turnout would have been, not just doing the simplistic comparison that the district court did to 2010, you need more elections, more states, more data in order to do that. >> we know what it was under the statute. did you make, did you have any expert try to make a prediction

what it would have been if you hadn't had the new statute in place? >> well, there's some factual testimony, your honor, that you don't even need expert testimony. we know that if the statute hadn't been in place, the more than 1600 voters who cast out of precinct ballots and whose ballots weren't counted, those ballots could have been counted. we know that for the i believe it's nearly, over 12,000 voters who registered after the close, the book closing period after the 25-day deadline but before the election, those voters would have been able to take advantage of same-day registration. but those voters couldn't do that under this statute. so the notion that if we're talking about turnout, the notion that, you know, the united states and the plaintiff didn't prove that this law impacted the number of voters who were able to vote, that's simply not true. there are thousands of voters on the uncontested factual record who were shut out of the political process under this bill. what the district court did in

its results analysis, the critical error there is looking to two numbers rather than the numbers i've just cited of voters who were concretely shut out of the process. the district court said what was turnout in 2010, and what was turnout in 2014. everybody's experts testified, plaintiff's and defendant's alike, you can't measure the impact of an election law just by looking at those two numbers. in 2010 you had a 10,000 -- a $10 million senate race, you had a $100 million senate race in 2014. of course, that's going to have an impact. and also in looking at turnout, of course, the statute prohibits laws that have an abridging effect as well as an outright denial. on in the record we've clearly proven outright denial, but it's wrong to set up a standard where you have to show that voters are concretely shut out and don't take extraordinary efforts to overcome that burden as the record in this case showed that there were extraordinary efforts organized by churches to

counteract the effects of this law. >> i have another factual question. you know, you talk about the 72 new early voting sites. is there any evidence in the record in terms of whether they were located in black or white communities or republican or democratic areas? >> well, your honor, i think one thing that i'd like -- >> i'm interested in your explanation, but is there anything in the record about that? >> i don't believe so, and if i'm wrong, i'll let my colleagues correct me on that. >> okay, now. >> so one thing that i think is important to clarify in our challenge to the early voting changes in 589, the united states is not challenging the only portion of the law that defendants have asserted a rationale for which is, you know, equalizing the locations within counties. we're not challenging that. we are challenging the cutbacks to the number of days of early voting. and that is something for which the defendants have had no rationale -- >> i thought part of your