rebuttal. he will begin first in this round. ms. rodriguez. >> do you suppor support a state senator's proposal to buy $1.2 billion of land south of the lake to send border south to curb the discharges to the st. lucie and covers apache rivers and how do you plan to push this in congress and is not whaif notwhat is your solution? >> to convey water south towards the florida bay the way that thi proposed getting any funding for this program i've said often that i would like to be a member of the committee of transportation infrastructure. it's that committee that passed the resource development act and as the next member of congress i will go back to that committee and worked to get the next set of resources we need to buy that

land south of the lake okeechobee i think it is one of the most important things we can do. it's making sure we find ways to convey that water but we have to do more than that as well. we have to m-mike sure w made se always keeping saltwater estuary is salty and freshwater fresh and find ways to keep sewage out of the waterways as well. >> what i support israel's solutions and with all due respect, the senator knows as well as i do that that stands zero chance of passing in the next session you have to have cooperation from legislatures all over the state and it's not going to happen. we need to utilize the land we have, tens of thousands of acres in to stop the water coming into the lake okeechobee need to deal with the water runoff that has nothing to do with the lake in the district and secondary runoff and my opponent i understand this committee.

i promise we worked with these agencies the last 25 years that he has to remember this multiple democrats on the committee and his own willingness to reach across the aisle and work with everybody isn't going to solve anything starting with this problem. >> i like to think that i know as well as anybody how to overcome challenges and i think if there is one thing i know it is this whether you believe you can do something or you can't, you are probably going to be right. i think we will find a way to bypass land and i'm going to work to do it and if you are a person that doesn't believe that it's possible you're not going to have the passion that is needed to accomplish that mission. [applause] >> your rebuttal is 30 seconds. >> i do think there is a piece of the solution that requires the land south of my opponent is a one-stop solution and that is in the case. isn't the case.

there's multiple components to this problem. we have to be able to bring everybody to the table and that includes agriculture in particular for now i opponent after taking their money and saying he gave it back but didn't want to vilify that and here's what i can tell you if you vilify anybody that needs to be part of the solution of the e problem isn't getting solved. >> your question for the candidate. >> social security if nothing is done to social security the way it's set up right now the board of trustees estimates it will no longer be able to pay full benefits beginning in 2034. what do you propose specifically to do to extend the life of social security? >> first of all, we have to realize first and foremost our seniors that have gone without an increase for multiple years now i support a mandatory increase right now 2.5, 3% every year to help them with the

additional cost of milk and bread and groceries. property taxes are going up and we have to look at sensible solutions together because these issues affect seniors and democrats all across this country. we have to make sure we are able to continue this important program that has kept millions of seniors out of poverty since its inception. i believe strongly in protecting social security. my father relies upon social security and medicare. i've been the forefront saying one of the things my opponent disagrees with is that the system stays in place exactly as it is for those receiving

benefits right now and goes anywhere near close to receiving benefits but for somebody at my age not to give away my wife's age, we graduate the age where people our age start receiving some of these benefits so i can continue to last because we have to answer this question at its peak there were 16 workers paying in for every one recipient of social security and today there's only three. we have to figure out how we get that ratio back up and that's one of the solutions they offer and the other thing i will say is we are not going to be up to make the programs last in the way we want to without saving the economy and getting ourselves out from under the failed policies that resulted in a less than 3% growth the last eight years. >> you have 30 seconds for a rebuttal. >> not sure what his answer was that we can look at raising the age of raising the cap for 118,500 with 80 plus% in this country don't even make that to begin with our small businesses and if you ask them to raise the

cap of 250 they are going to pay themselves on hundred 15,000 take the rest of the distribution. we need to look at solutions together on both sides of the aisle how we are going to deal with this problem and quit using the talking points and not getting anywhere. one of the things my opponent said over and over is we need to print more and i don't think randy understands the economics of just how dangerous it is to print more money when you consider it one of the more dangerous things for seniors and retirees and people on fixed income is inflation because the cost of the living will go up but the pricing for dollars. in terms of benefits will not and that is one of the most dangerous things he has been saying.

>> it's been a very divisive time up in washington, d.c. with the presidential campaign nearing. who do you support for president and why or why not? >> everybody has heard me say if the election were held today, donald trump would still have my support. i'm not going to pretend to anybody even if the candidates haven't gone out and said and done things that should never be excused i think for each of us it comes down to how those things they've said and done affect our lives personally. for me when i look at the two candidates i can tell you hillary clinton has been party to leaving one of my personal friends, chris toronto, leaving him dead in benghazi and when i think of her wearing the hat as commander-in-chief and my friends on the battlefield today that isn't something i can allow to happen. beyond that she's wrong in terms of iran and get snow and immigration, wrong in terms of so many other issues affecting

the country and that's one of the reason donald trump will still have my support today. >> i'm voting for hillary clinton and i believe she will be the best commander-in-chief, she will bring bring in a job d strengthen the economy and protect the national security interests. but i don't know how you could vote for a man who vilify us women, who promotes sexual assault on girls as young as 10-years-old, who degrade women and rank them on a system of one to ten. to me it's about character and to have somebody like that in the white house, the most powerful person who degrades women at every level is just a nonstarter i couldn't support that.

it will be donald trump or hillary clinton and as i said it's going to be personal for each of us. the fact she left my friend did i did not -- benghazi means i could never support her. >> i continue to honor brian for the sacrifices that he is talking about what this is about character. it's about the moral compass, and again to have a man sitting in the oval office who talks like he talks and degrades wom women. he wants to destroy the equality in this country and that the human rights for everybody shouldn't be president. >> let's move on to some questions submitted social media. the first is with a rebuttal by mr. perkins.

this is from benjamin who wants to know if the voters approve the medical marijuana amendment to the constitution, will you support federal legislation to make the federal standards the same, you have 90 seconds to answer. >> i tell people often if you were to classify me with a label it with the conservative but i'm also a libertarian. i don't want the federal government involved in places they shouldn't be involved. article one, section eight specifically delineate the power of the federal government and tells us everything should belong to the state. marijuana is one of those issues. whether it's something that should be allowed in answer to your question i would support whatever the state i state and a decides and beyond that, there has to be a decide whether we are talking about recreational use and what the states decide for themselves and the medicinal

use and what is approved as some sort of medicine and that is what has to be spoken about as well. can't you have 45 seconds for a rebuttal. >> people in the state of florida, we don't differ on the federal standpoint on this particular policy, so again i would leav leave it up to the se in this particular case to make the decisions that the people decide to make. >> the second question is for mr. perkins with a rebuttal. this was submitted tasks obamacare has enrolled millions of uninsured has done nothing to reduce the cost of insurance or medical procedures. what is one significant change you would like to make to the affordable care act and you have 90 seconds to respond. >> one is to provide medical

insurance for the loved ones in need and it has provided as you said, millions of americans with insurance that they didn't have before. but understanding how to solve the problem to begin with, the insurance in our own company has gone up the last two years. i understand why insurance companies are leading the exchange and companies like mine the burden is being passed on them however the speaker speaken speaking repealed so we need to take the problems and solved it but we also have to work with our insurance companies and deal with the cost of prescription drugs and medical malpractice. there's a reason they have to charge the premiums they do. i want to work with all the businesses. we have to continue to provide affordable insurance for every american has a right they should have. what do you need from congress is a government regulations, tax structures, what do you need from congress so that we can make a friendly environment and so that we can ask you to

provide the things we need you to provide which is health insurance for everybody in this country. >> i think that we can all agree the affordable care act has left millions without coverage and without the doctors they wanted and plans they want and people without jobs because of the people who couldn't go out because of the premium hikes in florida we are seeing on average 17% premium hikes and if you have humana health care you'll see a 36% hike. now the question that was asked, the number one thing i would like to see changed in the affordable care act is making sure people get to go out and decided the plan's best for them and not the federal government to determine what will be placed on th the plan. that is the biggest problem in this. >> but to move on to round up number two with specific questions from each candidate.

you have a direct question for mr. perkins. >> you said you can work across the aisle that they blasted you for the part after the treasury editorial board meeting how can you convince the voters that you can and will listen to the delegates and have a civil discourse to reach a compromise and do you believe that you owe him an apology? >> i'm not sure on the second question. i built a very successful business from one person mowing lawns 32 years ago to one of the more successful management companies today. i know what it's like to provide insurance and i know that the decisions that have to be made. i've actually done it for the last 25 years and worked together with both sides republicans and democrats the local and state and federal level to build the business upi

am very proud of today. it's also about being able to work together. i'm a problem solver and i know how to find common ground problems with anybody to get problems solved. he agrees with donald trump that they need to be exterminated. i can tell you this for sure, if i'm elected, i will go to washington, d.c. and knock on doors on the first day and be invited to solve the problems we have in this country. >> some comments are not even worth replying to. i can tell you i don't need an apology but he did say some things that were distasteful. to try to make a joke about somebody that lost their life in combat by saying i'm not man enough to stand up to him i don't know if that is the kind of person that can work with

other people. i can tell you it's been my experience to work with people from every background it didn't matter how many pennies were in their pocket, it didn't matter where they came from i worked with everybody under the most austere possible conditions that you could probably never imagined in your life and still got the mission accomplished. >> you have a direct question. >> your opponent brought up some contributions i wonder if you can bring this up. i believe they totaled 11 or $12,000. but those people from the sugar industry also hosted some fundraisers where you raised a lot more money and in the primary and the general election they said you should have chosen that as well can you explain why that is? >> when i instructed my team to

go back to that is exactly what they did and i provided lists to you and others outlining my relationship people that i know from my time at harvard and the advocacy around the country, people i know from the nonprofit organizations that had nothing to do with the sugar industry for political reasons my opponents are trying to say they are somehow tied to the sugar industry but i will tell you this. i am new to politics. i don't know every single play here in the game or every single lobbyist and they make mistakes and that is part of what you get that this is the other thing you get out of somebody in politics. when i make a mistake i'm not afraid to go out there and fix it. and that isn't something that we see across the board in washington, d.c.. >> the five or $6 million at the republican party and the outside groups first of mr. christ

anything i said, so i apologize to all if the outside groups painted me as saying things i didn't say but the fact of the matter is he was at their homes and he said on january 15 he gave the money back but returned after the primary. subjects were asked to beat koufax. he's taken money from the outside groups and companies that represent all of florida. >> you have a direct question. >> both of you talk about lowering taxes on the middle class and strengthening the middle class again but with different routes on which you believe you should get their. what do you believe should be the income threshold for the taxes if you do choose to increase taxes on wealthier americans? >> first of all before we start making decisions, we have to

realize what the collateral effect might be on the other side. we need tax reform in this country that i just want to sit down with an economist and other agencies and meet with other members who've been here for a while dealing with these issues so to stand here and say today i'm going to give a dnc isn't realistic. we have to put more money in people's pockets but we have shown by raising taxes in this country our government isn't efficient with the money we are bringing in as we continue to raise taxes. we need to deal with the fraud, waste and abuse and become an efficient government and i'm going to export every single way to do that. i'm going to assess the situation and meet with the experts. i've been dealing wit with numbs ever since i was 19-years-old and that's one thing i do understand. >> you have 45 seconds for a

rebuttal. >> this is one of the most paradoxical plains that lowering the tax rates actually increased the revenue. this has been true with jfk, ronald reagan and anybody else to give an example when ronald reagan delivered at the top marginal tax rates from 70 to 28% of the revenue went from roughly $500 billion to nearly a trillion dollars. that's one of those examples to see why we shouldn't be looking to raise the tax rate lower it if we want to bring increased revenue into the economy. if you ask yourself why it's because we allow people to invest in their community because they keep more money in their pocket and that is what we need to strive to do. >> on round three hour panelists have questions each of them will have 60 seconds to respond and then 30 seconds for a rebuttal. >> what should the federal

government do about decreasing the number of police involved shootings or do you see this as a state issue? let me repeat what should the federal government do to decrease the number of police involved shootings or do you see this as a state issue? spec this is an issue that affects everybody. here's what i can tell you carry it when i go to washington i will sit down and work with experts. i'm going to come back to my district and sit with the police chiefs and sheriffs and ask them what do you need from congress to improve the community relations, training with our officers. what does the federal government need to give you to keep communities safe obviously this is a problem we have in the country that has to be addressed but it's not going to get solved unless we understand some things are at the local level and this is one of those that belongs at the local level working again with our police chiefs and rank-and-file members not just

the leadership in law enforcement they are patrolling on the streets every day and they say what do you need from us to help you do your job to reduce these shootings taking place not only district 18 but throughout the country. >> training, training, more training. that was the solution to make sure we were proficient at our job and one of the things we need to do to make sure every law enforcement has access to in order to conduct their job well. one of the things that is peripheral to this issue is the idea of body cameras and should law enforcement have those and that's something that should be decided by each locality and precincts for themselves. i personally have spoken with many law enforcement officers and while they see this as another person of equipment that could be burdensome also many of them see it as a vital piece of equipment to document what's going on as they are out there on patrol and i've met with many

of those officers did say if the precincts decide they have the ability to fund these and if they need help from the federal government as they often get these grants for different law enforcement agencies that we should be out there making sure they have the funds they need in order to make sure that these incidents are unaccounted for. >> earlier my opponent said i like to print money. the bottom line is we have a tremendous shortfall in the budget right now. i would print money to solve the problems and the fact both of themost ofthem are fighting dayd week to week. i would print money to solve problems on all of the technology and training as i said when i spoke for the law enforcement because if we print the money today it's going to return a dollar in investment in the next ten years so it's not costing more we are just printing the money and it will save more down the road and it will improve the quality of life and save lives.

sometimes you need to make tough decisions, fund those things now and they will return on investment in the near future. >> what you heard again is proposing that we print more money and as i said already for our seniors, for everybody on a fixed income to have somebody running for congress but thinks that is the solution to go out and print more when it's going make the cost for you to pay your air conditioning bill that much more expensive when the amount that you are bringing in isn't a doubling that some of the biggest concerns you should have a anybody seeking office is that they will be the party to inflation and i don't think my opponent understands the economics of the issue. >> your question for the candidate. >> do you support a pathway to citizenship or legal status for the estimated 11 or 12 million people that are in the country illegally and if not, what should be done about those

people? >> i think it is unfortunate that the rule otherule of law wo those that came into the country illegally and whether they simply crossed the border or overstayed their visa i personally am not a proponent for the pathway to citizenship into those that made their first endeavor breaking the wall that isn't to say i wouldn't be going to an idea of a work status for those finding a way to be here and contribute to the society as a conversatioisa conversation io it ibut if it is to not respecte wall of the land i find it difficult to grant citizenship to you as an individual. >> you have 60 seconds to answer. >> i understand with a budget is and i've been dealing with tough decisions but last three years in my own company. what i'm saying is you want to solve the problems the seniors have today you have to find that today so i will make the tough

decision to do that. i do support a path to citizenship but i understand we have to secure the borders and enforce the law first and for most. foremost. the issue we might support millions of people it's never going to happen its fantasyland quite frankly. i would rather take that billions of billions of dollars and put them into jobs and schools into training and infrastructure, water projects throughout the country. i want to take the 12 million people that are here now and bring them up and allow them to start paying taxes into the system that will add to the money the federal government collects to talk about a lot of these things and allow them to buy their own health insurance. so yes the citizenship has to be seven, ten, 12 years down the road that's what i support. >> i can tell you someone as a hispanic dissent are incapable of looking at this issue and saying that is the beautiful thing about discrimination it doesn't discriminate against anybody, it affects everybody in

the same way. i am not a proponent as i said for finding the same pathway to citizenship for those that have entered a legally. i do think we need to reform the way people are granted access and certainly reform what's going on for those here illegally and hopefully we have an opportunity to address this more. >> you have 30 seconds for a rebuttal. we need to enforce our immigration laws and strengthen the borders. absolutely without question but again, i support the path to citizenship, seven, ten, 12 years whatever that might be to make sensible decisions in this country. >> your question for the candidates? >> president obama said in recent talks about the muslim communities and muslim countries they've damaged our standing on the international stage. would you be mindful of how you speak in that it is

representative of the area and how do we go out and build bridges? >> you have 60 seconds to answer. >> anybody in this room or this country, this will go to the little boy that washed up on the beach and drowned out the little boy when the building was bombed and we saw him loaded up in the ambulance. but we have walls that exist in the country right now and we need to rely on the fbi and/or other agencies. there is a process in the country right now that's two and a half years but i'm willing to sit down with other members of congress and the fbi and other intelligence agencies because they have the data. we have entrusted them to protect the country and make smart and educated decisions. i'm going to sit down with them and have an open conversation as the two and a half year timeframe enough we need to increase that to three but i also support any young child around the country whether they are syrian refugees or from any

country that we should be willing to take in with our open hearts, any child around this world and find a home for them and provide safe and loving homes for them. >> i try to be mindful of every single person i'm speaking to and be respectful to every person regardless of their background. that shouldn't indicate that we should have a weakness to identify problems that we see for what they are. we have a problem around the world and we have a problem in this country with the threat of radical islamic terrorists and if we are afraid to utter those words, if we are afraid to mention that and talk about that, we will never be able to overcome the threat because that is one of the things you need to do with any problem you face is be able to identify what it is so yes certainly i will speak respectfully to those in the

muslim community that i will not gloss over the issues that are related to the radical islamic jihad or some affecting the breadth of this entire world. >> they are radical extreme terrorists. we agree on this and speak the same words, however we are a passionate country and we have to address these things on a smart and sensible basis. we have the intelligence agency and the fbi. i love this country just as much as you do and i will do everything i can as you would with other members of congress to make this part and the tough decisions to keep the country safe and free from fear will not only here but with our friends around the world. >> to practice their tourism has been my life's work as i mentioned in the opening comments i have a unique perspective that luckily most will never have and i don't wish upon anybody and i can call you

when we are talking about terrorists entering the country we need to look at a number of things, making sure there is no pipeline for them to be trained. making sure they can't come through one of the borders making short we have security professionals because that is not always the case and making sure we have common sense betting for those with behavioral detection that are used with some of our friendly allies like israel. >> let's take some questions now from social media that was headed. do you think global warming is real and it's happening right now or do you think we need to study it more? you have 90 seconds to respond. >> i do believe in climate change. i dive into water. i've been doing it my whole life so i can see the effect in the coral reef and total gross and he's kind of things however we have to do it in a smart and sensible way.

we have to protect our american businesses and american companies. we have to pass the smart regulation and environmental rules as we are trying to deal with climate change and global warming that we cannot do it in a way that is hurting our own businesses and keeping them from being as competitive as they want to be. we have to stop asking the companies to take a full burden of the rest of the world. we have to make sure the rest of the world in china and the other nations enforce the rules and regulations before we start forcing rules and regulations on our american businesses that are costing us jobs and competitiveness we have in this country. yes i care about the environment and our companies and jobs that we are losing and wages to provide insurance and pensions and the quality of life for all in the country. >> you have 45 seconds for a

rebuttal. >> it's something i think very passionately about and i study the environment as a student at harvard university and i can tell you much of the research is still not completely conclusive which is something i think allows a lot of people to question what's going on with climate change. beyond that i can tell you there are a number of important responsibilities all of us need to pay attention to. we need to make sure we understand we have an economic and a social responsibility and environmental as well and we need to look at all of those equally when we look at the legislation we are going to put forward for the country so people can still live and have a prosperous nation. >> another question from social media, dusting rights i'm a small-businessmall business owng seven days a week. how will you help small business owners with taxation as well as being able to actually afford health insurance for the self

employees. these are some of the biggest issues is making sure we get the federal government out of the way whether it is in terms of the amount amount they have to o word with you to pay to cover people with health care like the affordable care act. i already mentioned as one of the statistics to say on average we will see a 17% premium hike in terms of the cost. this is one of the hurdles to those individuals having that ability to have more dollars in their pocket and go out and invest in their business and the product and infrastructure so they can be more productive but one of the others is making sure we don't have a federal minimum wage. i think it's one of the interesting points on the stage george bennett asked this question when he said at that

time when they were talking about just $10 an hour minimum wage but the congressional budget office said at the time it was $10 an hour would cost as much as half a million jobs and right now if he wants to talk about raising it to $15 an hour, that is something that would take every single small business from palm beach all the way to fort pierce and make it impossible. i understand small businesses go through and i understand everything in between the banks used to be banks end up with a much more conducive environment for success 30 years ago and it is today. than it is today. we have to deal with the regulations.

however, my opponent talks about health insurance and we paid 100% for the employees and their families but he also wants to put it back out there. the only reason we had to go with obamacare to begin with is if you put it back out without a commonsense approach to insurance companies are going to drive up their rates impacted those that are high for the millions of americans who didn't have insurance they won't be able to afford it anyway. let's get to the fourth and final round from the panelist. these are specific questions directed at each candidate. >> you touched on terrorism earlier and i would like you to expand. do you support putting more boots on the ground and how can we stop attacks by u.s. citizens and do you support banning the sale of guns to those on the no-fly list?

do i support boots on the ground, i have boots on the ground as we speak and i think very cautiously about where any of my friends are in danger i think about that. it's very personal to me but as i mentioned, we need to make sure there's not a pipeline to come into the united states of america and commit attacks. those that are being inspired in the united states of america and elsewhere around the world it's by what is going on and that's where it becomes so important that we go out and eliminate the threat in those countries and i can tell you this is something that unfortunately due to the policies in this administration we have a bigger problem than we should have had when this team had a time when we could have defeated them with nothing but a couple of special operation forces and now we have to send in a large military group in order to defeat them that is a major problem. beyond that, i've given you a

few solutions to that. number one we need to make sure that we know the individuals that want to come into this country and that we are using behavioral detection. we need to be smart about the people we are letting into the country because we have to remember above all it is the rights of the american citizen to be protected by those that are in office. >> you have 45 seconds for a rebuttal. >> my opponent and i do not disagree on anything. however unlike my opponent, i'm going to go to dc and sit with my friend who i've known for 15 years who's been at my home and i supported the candidacy of i'm

going to say i have to make tough votes not only keeping the country safe in the decisions we have to make to send our men and women putting boots on the ground again. and i need your help with that s and i will sit down with intelligence officials and tell them what do they need from us is to put more boots on the ground that is a decision i'm going to vote for. i've listened to the experts because it is going to take more than my opponent to make those decisions and it should. >> you mentioned a couple times tonight that you are pro-choice on abortion. what is your position on the amendment since they prohibited the use of federal money to pay for most, i think the democratic party platform advocated getting rid of that. what is your position on that?

>> not only was i a thousand% pro-choice, i'm a thousand% pro-choice and i will never waver on allowing a woman's right to choose. we do not need to send another man to congresmajor congress who try to tell the women of this edition she should make on healthcare or other decisions that a woman has the right to make for herself. if we want to bring that back and discuss removing the amendment, then i will have a vote then that time comes and i will exercise my vote along with the other members of congress when it comes to that particular issue. >> my opponent has called me radical and extremist many times without any provocation and without any reason to do so.

i would like to see him answer this question because it falls on the most radical views that could exist. he said that he is 100% a pro-choice individuals with that's not made that you are a proponent for partial-birth abortion and that few believe the unborn have absolutely no rights because of that is your opinion, i believe that you are probably ranked among the most extreme on the stage. >> we are in a little short on time. >> we have seen a lot of turnover in his office in the last 15 years since i've been here. will you commit a result of this area and this office so that when you gain traction on issues thewe don't lose them in two ye. >> i'm going to give you time to respond. >> i commit myself on hundred%.

i'm honored to any of you are considering me to represent you and i told people as long as there is an issue we've spoken about this evening with the greatest tax reform or social security i understand as one person i'm not going to go up o washington, d.c. and affect these issues i have to work with other members of congress out. another site in the senate and presidenthe president of the und states of america to get things passed. the one thing i can guarantee is if you have a problem come if you need me to be a loud mouthpiece for you and go out and represent you against a federal agency harassing you, i will be the loudest possible voice i can be and that is how i will fight for every single one of you across the district. >> 30 seconds for a rebuttal. >> it's not about abortion.

it's about a woman's fundamental right to choose the decisions that are best for her with no exceptions. however unlike my opponent, and i say this very humbly i do not need a job. the only interest the only special interest outside of the money taken, the only special interest i have would be the people of district 18 that i represent and yes i will be dedicated -- >> we have time for closing statements. you have 90 seconds for your closing statement. >> august 30 i was voting and i saw my name for congress on the ballot. how a kid from a small town in miami and grew up in a working-class family who's been working hard as any other american potentially have the honor to represent this district in congress was very humbling. however when you talk about the seniors prescription drug costs and mental health issues in our

children, the opioid epidemic that is destroying the fabric of the country, the seniors are more dependent than ever for $12$120 marmont i'm pretty surer seniors when they worked their entirhisentire life didn't expeo into retirement on food stamps to get by on a day-to-day basis. obviously the issues unique to this district are algae in the waterways, single mothers, veterans, first responders all the challenges that we have in this district and throughout the country. and my opponent is extreme and radical. when you want to go to make the first mission to defend planned parenthood 100% and you don't want to deny a woman's right to choose and strip away the community from equality and human rights. when you stand behind a man like donald trump was that repulsive

and vulgar things against women i pretty sure that puts you in the extreme radical part of the party. i'm a problems organized in doing it my whole life. i know how to work with people i will find a common ground and solve the problems this district has for everybody, every independent, republican, democrat. >> you have 90 seconds for your statement. >> my opponent has proven he's committed to saying things that are false. i'm not going to predict who is going to win the race. i can tell you one thing i won't lose after is my integrity. people ask me often what made me get into this race and i can tell you i don't remember the exact day but i do remember the moment as thatmoment as i was lt walter reed medical center i was looking across the room at my wife holding our six -month-old son who was a much more emotional time in my life as i didn't know it but i looked at her right then and i told her

i'm not going to let the best defense i give the country and i'm not going to let the best example i ever said for our children be something that's behind me or in my past and that is my commitment to you this evening, i will fight for you every single day with everything i have inside of me the same way that i did on the battlefield to fight for you without regard to any personal gain or any personal sacrifice and to do everything i can to fight for the issues important to you every day as your member of congress.

north carolina governor is running for reelection against attorney general cooper a democrat and libertarian candidate cecil. topics include hurricane recovery efforts in this state's transgender bill. this was held at raleigh north carolina and is courtesy of w. ral tv. >> voters will soon decide who will lead our state for the next four years.

tonight, hear from the candidates running to be your next governor, where they stand on the biggest issue i issues at they want you to know before you cast your ballot. thank you for joining us for the final debate of the governor's race. i'm david with our bureau chief and we welcome the candidates. the next hour we will ask them to share their thoughts on a variety of topics including storm relief, education and the hospital. >> here's some background on the candidates. >> entered politics in 2010 when the run for the 12 congressional seat. he is originally from oklahoma and served in the army. army. he's never held elected office. democrat roy cooper is finishing his fourth term as the attorney general. he was first elected in 2000 after serving in both the state house and senate.

he graduated from unc chapel hill. north carolina 74 the governor his term beginning in 2013 was the longest-serving mayor a record seven terms. he grew up in guilford county and graduated from college. >> we would like u this to feel like a more open conversation to. there's sure to be follow-up questions and discussions and we are hoping you will talk with each other. >> at the end of the evening each of you will have a minute for closing statements and we drew to see who would get the first question and first goes to mr. cooper and ben mr. cecil. >> to help the state recovery if

elected what will you do to make sure that tens of thousands of people who've been directly and dramatically affected are taken care of? >> that is a great question. my prayers are with the 26 people that lost their lives and families but i am so proud of the way north carolina came together and responded to a hurricane hitting our coast. the thing i'm very proud of with my team played together is not only did we have a great team that was deployed early and across the state anticipating every type of hurricane scenario, but i'm also very pleased that we had enough money in our rainy day fund to pay for the money that we have to have in the future to help these people recover. sadly the attorney general just in the last month in one of the hardest hit cities spoke against having so much money in the rainy day fund which would have been a huge mistake had he been

governor and had we not had sufficient money of all the things we had the most rain we've ever seen in decades. but the thing i'm putting together and announcing is a long-term hurricane task force with people from throughout the east and we are going to look at housing because that's the number one goal repairing the infrastructure and roads and in the short term my goal is to get people out of shelters and into permanent housing. >> mr. cooper. >> i grew up in north carolina and it is unfortunate that people have gotten hit there again. in 1999 we had hurricane floyd, and it devastated eastern north carolina. i was living in rocky mount at the time and i remember the governor calling and wanting me to meet him at the airport but i couldn't get there because all the roads were flooded. as a state senator an and majory

leader of the time, i introduce legislation that provided for hundreds of millions of dollars of relief for eastern north carolina and i know what kind of rebuilding process that seeks to make sure we get people on their feet again. i've been all over eastern north carolina talking to people. we need to help them immediately but it's going to be a matter of weeks and months and years to get the housing, to make sure we get business is coming. and this is one of the most difficult places in our state with our economy right now. she knows i've always supported a strong rainy day fund. that's where we got the money to be able to help because i have supported my entire career. he asked for money from the general assembly and they passed the bill that provided for $500,000 to defend and bring

lawsuits in house bill number two of all things that is earmarked in the disaster relief fund and he didn't even veto the legislation. what we need is to make sure north carolina is ready for this and we need a strong leader that knows about rebuilding. we've done it before. >> i was immediately struck with the flooding when that came through although my heart goes out to all of the citizens in north carolina with the flooding again this time i know it is just a repeat of the previous flooding and indicates a lot of things that were not corrected the first time. i-95 was closed again. you have to learn from each flood and spend the money to

correct those things that happens and that will come from the attacks two years one way or another whether it is federal or state. but we have to help those people and a lot of them need help definitely. >> ..