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>> good evening everybody and carol had a chance to recognize a lot of important people but she did not give us an opportunity to recognize herself so thank you to carol for moderating and hosting . all of you are out here for tonight's debate, this is what the american political process is really all about. you taking the time to be here and asking us important questions about the future of our community and country. my name is lee zeldin, i was born and raised on long island, my wife diane and i are raising here are beautiful quick twin dollar daughters. i spent four years on active duty in the army, i've spent the last nine in the army reserve with the rank of major. i served in the new york state senate for four years, during my time i successfully led the fight to repeal the fda payroll tax for 80 percent of employers, cosponsored by the nation's

strongest property tax to increase middle income tax rates to the lowest level in 16 years, created a wire program for our veterans of posttraumatic stress disorder and wrote the law that protects military families from protests at military bearings. i was elected to congress in 2014 and have been focused on my new year of american strength agenda to protect america's security at home and abroad. to grow our economy and more private sector jobs. fight for veterans, first responders, improve the quality of education in our schools and bear our nations infrastructure on healthcare, safeguard our environment. all issues i'm sure are important to all of you. during my time in months in congress i've been able to get three bills passed that help our veterans that i introduced two proposals. we stop the sale of palm island and to preserve and i got my counterterrorism bill passed, my common core update bill was passed as was my safe bridges act to direct funding to new york for our

state and local bridges. the east end healthcare clinic for our veterans in mantorville and i'm looking forward to tonight's debate, thank you all for being here. [applause] let me remind the audience to please hold your applause, thank you. >> thank you. hi, good evening everyone. it's great to be in westhampton and i want to thank the league of women voters and everyone else who is here today for doing this. i think an election, hopefully an election of our lifetime because i we never go through the drama we are going through now. i want to thank the students that took the time to come out tonight because this is your generation we aretalking about. we're talking about the future of this country and the many things that are at stake . many of you know me. my name is anna thorne-holst,

i had the honor of serving as your town supervisor for the past six years and as councilwoman for two years before that and i made the decision to run for congress because this is by all accounts the most dysfunctional, ineffective and mired in partisan politics congress in the history of congress. according to a recent gallup poll, no more than 11 percent of americans feel congress is getting the job done for them. i've devoted my work in this community, i raise my four kids in this community and devoted my work to addressing issues surrounding common quality and lack of opportunity. many of you know i started the egg around school and i started that school because i wanted to bring this community together. along racial lines, religious lines, cultural lines and make sure early childhood education was available to every child in this community. regardless of what school district you were born into.

i went on to run a childcare center where we did the same thing and brought head start programs and an opportunity to go to college and much needed social services. as your town supervisor i led the way on managing our budgets, cutting wasteful spending, cutting multimillion dollar deficits, spending the aaa rating and making sure that government serve you in the most efficient, cost-effective way and protecting the taxpayer dollars. we have so many issues to talk about that are not happening in congress today. fixing the aca. fixing immigration reform. college affordability. protecting social security and medicare.so many issues, i could go on and on and i look forward to your questions and i look forward to an informative meeting. thank you. [applause] >> okay.

first question will be addressed to mister zeldin first question from the league of women voters. who do you support for president and please explain why i endorsed donald trump over hillary clinton. i have some serious issues with hillary clinton and her record. this is not just about electing a president every four years, it's also about the future of our court for maybe the next 40. icare deeply about national security . i want to see our economy grow. i believe we can do a better job negotiating trade deals to help the american worker, the american company, the american company, the american economy as well. i have been a vocal opponent of common core going back to my time in the state senate and it's important to improve the quality of education and

i have been outspoken with that as well. honestly,neither of the candidates are perfect . i've met both of the candidates have their flaws but between the two of them, i have quite candidly, hillary clinton, with the conflicts of the clinton foundation, the fact that she mishandled classified information and had a server in her basement, these are crimes that werecommitted and unfortunately every single day , we have people going to court for much less infractions, yet hillary clinton is not being held accountable for the crimes through the judicial system and that is deeply unfortunate. i don't think it's any coincidence the attorney general had a meeting with former president bill clinton a few days before the decision was made to not pursue any charges against hillary. again, on the department of justice building it says when

law ends, tyranny begins and the fact that hillary clinton isn't being held accountable, not only is he not qualified to be president, she couldn't get a job in the file room at the fbi. so her candidacy is a nonstarter. i disagree with her strongly on much of her positions on issues. i don't want to see my country be more like europe. i would like to see us get stronger with regards to immigration, cracking don down on illegal immigration in the united states, providing more opportunities for people who are here legally. there's a process, i have a lot of compassion for the person who is not here yet in the united states of america because they went to their consulate and said howdo i pursue the american dream? hope, opportunity, education

because they are following the rules, they are not here yet so hopefully on substance , policy, we will be able to focus on these issues during the remainder of the debate on policy and substance because the future of our country, not just the next four years, defeating isis and securing our country, securing our military and taking care of our veterans but for the future of the supreme court for the next 40, that is why i support him over her. >> i don't see how anyone can support ... a sexual predator , an individual who disparages a gold star family. an individual who makes fun of people with disabilities. i don't know how anyone can adjust their moral compass is in elected office and understands what it takes to be in elected office and thinks it is okay to support

someone who is all of what i just said. but on top of that, as they shone in debate after debate, six debates now and on the stump that he is entirely unqualified on every single one of the issues that face us in the united states of america today. the contrast is hillary rodham clinton. she made a mistake with her email server, there's no question about that. she's taken responsibility for it. i don't know if anyof you saw the editorial in the east hampton star today .my opponent has said that hillary clinton belongs in jail. as has donald trump. the east hampton star put it very well today. only someone who thinks that the law of the land is

equivalent to a third world banana republic who doesn't understand the law would make a statement like that. i would remind you that mister zeldin is an attorney and a statement like that means that you have a very simple ignorance for the rule of the law in a country like ours. it means you are also neglecting to understand that making inflammatory statements like that is untruthful and misleading. and we have to candidates. one that is going to win the white house, that is going to make an appointment or several to the supreme court. one of them, hillary rodham clinton will make sure that appointment will get rid of citizens united, will get dark money out of politics, the coke brothers, etc. for which my opponent is a happy recipient. they will make sure a woman's

right to choose is protected. and will work to make sure that all of the things that matter to us in district 1, when we are talking about tax reform, that takes the burden off the middle-class the way our tax code is written today and ships it on to the top couple of percent of earners in the country today. makes sure that corporate taxes are not lodged outside of thiscountry. immigration reform . i could go on and on and i'm supporting hillary rodham clinton because she is the only one off-line to run for president among the two front runners. >> the second question will go to miss thorne-holst quest it's from us at the press newsgroup. siena college and newsday recently conducted a poll of first district voters, a

small sampling of 650 but it still provided interesting insight into the district beyond the current rates. it found that most voters in the district want a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants and think that climate change isa real and looming threat . the same time, most wants obamacare repealed. and on guns, the democrats are overwhelmingly in support of gun control while republicans and to a lesser extent independence describe themselves primarily as second amendment supporters. how can one candidate from either party truly represent such a divided district? >> i think that it is important to understand we are a country that today is very divided. but when i got elected to the town board, i got elected on

a people, not politics platform. i got elected that i was going to be there to serve people, keep the politics out, find common sense and common ground solutions and i believe that to everyone of these issues, there is such a thing. we have to to deal with the immigration issue today. we have somewhere between 11 and 15 million undocumented workersin this country today . if we don't solve that, and, with a bipartisan solution to that and i will remind all of you that there was a gang of a plan that was a bipartisan solution that was passed in the senate that didn't make it to congress but it was a bipartisan plan to solve all these issues. gun safety, 80 to 90 percent of americans polled on that want to see common sense gun safety solutions, in other

words, background checks, closing loopholes which say that you can go on a computer today and harm yourself. they want to make sure guns are kept out of the hands of terrorists. people with a criminal record, domestic abuse, etc. 80 to 90 percent of americans have answered a poll saying that they want to see that. i think there's a bipartisan solution to that that absolutely protects the tenants of the second amendment, all of which i agree with. the affordable care . there, too if congress were not so mired in partisanship the way it is today, it has common sense solutions to that as well. a number of economists have weighed in on that, talked about how we do it. everyone agrees that pre-existing conditions should no longer be a reason for why people cannot lie or

get kicked off their insurance plan. a bipartisan agreement that kids should be able to stay on their parents plan until they are 26 years old. i believe that if congress put forward a plan today to make sure that pharmaceuticals could be negotiated, that there would be a bipartisan support for that. there's a great example of the kind of medications that are now fabricated outside this country where the tax dollars from the sale ... [audio lost] >>.

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with our record the table to make sure we do get more, to work with the village of westhampton beach because 13 and 15 drawings as part of the plan, they want under adjustment made and we are doing what we need to do get that done in the final products here you know, we do have to tackle immigration in which we can to do-- because we have had eight republican president and democratic president and every, nation the last 10 years and they have not pass this one solution pro of the problems i am not here blaming republicans or democrats. i'm saying there is so much that there is agreement between the two that we should pass. why hold hostage when everyone

agrees? if you look at my record for the last 21 months it's been filled with getting congress to work with local officials and people in washington on both sides of the eye out. >> thank you. 's third question goes initially to mr. zeldin. >> this comes from a student. what would you tell young voters the solution with the current state of politics, what can they expect from you? be specific. >> i think it is great you are here. get involved. there are so many people who are now eligible to vote won't vote and by the way if those who are eligible to vote, that includes people in their 40s, their 60s who are not voting. what is sad is going to knock on doors and i asked the question why are these four houses not a my list, because they are not registered to vote. get active. participate or don't let anyone tell you you are too young to get involved.

some people say wait your turn, do your time and maybe one day you will have a chance to run for office. people say how did you run for congress when you were 27 and i say it's easy, download eight form, submitted and now you are a candidate for the u.s. congress for clown for your local school board. run for local talent officer county or state. just get involved and participate you don't don't necessarily have to run. there are many ways to contribute. many decide to join the military and other work want to be firefighters or teachers or police or started nonprofit and help to mystic-- victims of domestic violence there are many ways to leave this world better than you found it, but that what you want esparza future of our community in the future of our country and you are doing this by being here tonight. it doesn't matter, truly when you go to the voting booth and you are circling in-- way back

when we used to pull a lever and now it's different. you circle the box for whoever you want and you can tell people were not, but purchase pay. if you're voting for me, the election is november 8. if it-- if you're voting for my opponent it is november-- no, just kidding. november 8 is the election and make sure you're getting your friends involved as well. they may be thinking they don't want to participate. you cannot wake up november 9, complaining about the results of any election if you did not vote if you want to complain about the results of any election, you have to participate. i think it is great you are here. when you go off to college and you get involved in the local races they are, maybe decide to take a class on political science, major in it or study international affairs are foreign affairs, philosophy, whatever you pursue that is your

interest and passion, just go after it 110%. >> thank you. there are a lot of young people there interested in this election and really paying attention. i'm a little worried about what they are seeing and i think that it is perhaps bringing some attention to this and my sense among young people that are paying attention to this and seeing what is going on on the presidential level and it seen how that discourse has evolved into a referendum, really, on whether we elect a sexual predator, whether we like someone that chooses to make fun of people of different race or religion. i think and people are looking at that.

i look at my own for kids who are in their 20s and they are out there talking to everyone about this, not because their mom is running for congress. and they are used to that. but, they see a generation, which is their generation that is worried about will college be affordable to them. are they going to be able to refinance their college loans? are their kids going to have access to early childhood education? are they going to be able to age in place and stay here on long island? is there going to be housing and jobs and a transportation system that works for us right here on long island and for this next generation? these are big issues at hand. this is also a generation that has seen their parents lose their job. they have seen their parents and

them lose their home. with the mortgage meltdown that happened just within this last decade. they are seeing people losing their farm and not being able to afford the barrels-- bills) long island. this is a generation that is very wrapped up to speak, to vote, to be a part of this. i think the whole bernie sanders movement showed that. and i see that amongst my own kids and i see that amongst other kids that i talked to out there and understanding what is at stake here, also, in terms of the supreme court and understanding that a woman's right to choose and your access to women's healthcare is at stake. the environment is at stake. this is a generation that is

learning in school and understanding even though my opponent here is not believe in the science behind climate change and that it is caused by human action and that we have a moral responsibility and an economic responsibility to deal with it. kids are coming out-- >> thank you. >> next question. let's stay with the student questions. how do you feel about black lives matter movement? >> ms. throne-holst. >> you can, anna. >> thank you. >> movements start for a reason and we have a very rich and complicated history of movements in this country. but, they start for a reason and they start because a group of people feel the need to express themselves and feel a need to

organize themselves. my foster child is part of the y p100, which is black youth project 100. these are young activists, mostly african-american, but minority latino kids who concern themselves with their opportunities going into their adulthood and concern themselves with feeling safe, with feeling like they have opportunity and when we see what has evolved, unfortunately, into a divide between the understanding of what black lives matters about, which is wanting to have a voice and wanting to come to a table and have a conversation about how do we all feel safe and part

of that is getting guns out of the hands of people who should not have guns. 30,000 or more people die at the hands of guns in the united states of america today and we do not have common sense gun safety laws. my opponent has voted 28 times a procedural motion that would allow common sense gun safety, taking guns out of the hands of people on the terrorist watch lists from coming board. he dances around this subject, but that is in fact what he has done. and when we are talking about protecting the men and women in blue, that is equal importance. one of my biggest honors, my time on the town board eight years was that i also served as could police commissioner of the police department and we went through some tough times. most of you here will remember

that, but we worked very very closely together and we worked on community policing. we worked on sensitivity training. we worked on making sure that this was a place that's tried for diversity and a strive for community placing and a partnership in community. that's a conversation that we need to have on a national level, today. and we need to come together and that is not what is happening in washington today. that is what i would like to be a voice for is bringing everyone together for this very important national conversation. >> mr. zeldin, same question. >> when anyone is unjustly and violently targeted, that is an important cause for anyone to

take to make sure that doesn't happen again. what i don't believe is acceptable is when that motivation and inspiration results in innocent courageous, law enforcement in different parts of our country to be murdered. when there is someone who is unjustly murdered and there should be accountability. someone should get into a lot of trouble if they broke the law. what is absolutely not the answer is when it crosses that line where you are alluding the local area that you are supposed to love and targeting innocent business owners. when you are taking a man or woman who is wearing blue somewhere in this country and they leave their family to keep the arc zero not to just family safe, but strangers as well and of their family never sees them again.

so, what is important is for everyone to come together understanding that violence is certainly not the answer to solve this in consideration of the fact that all lights in this country manor. now, my opponent says that-- just claimed that i voted 28 times against a bill from peter king to prevent terrorist from purchasing firearms, which is interesting because i have been in dc for a few weeks and a couple days ago it was thought-- 27 and what you will see in her tv ads is that it's 25 times. you don't have to take my word for it. if you look at the tv ad yourself that this 25 different bills. you can go home and type them in for yourself. one example, comprehensive addiction and recovery act number one priority who everyone

that once to combat the opioid-- republicans and democrats are working to get it done with a $.3 billion to help combat the heroine and opioid use epidemic in this country. who would've thought that honestly there would be a tv ad that would be a against getting the campaign where this and 24 other bills would be displayed attacking me saying i voted against p kingsville to prevent terrorists from being able to purchase firearms. peking voted the same way i did on all 25 bills. these 25 bills and you can look it up yourself have nothing at all to do with guns, nothing. that no part of the process, not right now after the bill is passed and signed into law, not at the beginning of the process and not when it was passed to the rules committee or on the house floor or back to the house committee. i think it's important to you that as we sit in front of you that we have the ability not to

just say what pulls well, but we want to be honest with you and that is a flat out lie. >> excuse me, are you using a red card? [inaudible] >> issue may, but you have to show me. >> we have had several debates now and i think it's time we separate real fact from fiction and the fact of the matter is that the way it works on the floor of the house of representatives, when a bill is introduced by member of congress on anything the majority can either vote for or against it, but as part of that procedure and member of congress can say i would like to bring on a motion because i believe there is something more pressing and i

would like to bring forward a procedural vote to bring forward and in this case peter king's no-fly know by legislation, that has now happened 25 times before we cut my commercial and a three times since, 28 times. i have the dates right here in the circle. mr. zeldin has had the opportunity 28 times two voted to bring forward peter kingsville on whether to prevent terrorist watch list individuals from also buying guns. he voted no every single time. this is fact. i have it right here and yes, if you google those bills, those were different bills, but the motion was brought forward when they were voted down to preempt them by a vote on whether to bring forward mr. kings bill on

no-fly know by. the question is simple. if you had a before you today would you vote yes or no for an? do you support peter king's bill on no-fly know by? >> mr. zeldin. >> there was one thing in there that was very honest. she said those were different bills. when you look at the tv ad it lists 25 bills and it's absolutely true that all 25 of those bills had absolutely nothing to do with guns. i'm not holding up-- i could hold up a book. on telling you to go on the internet and look at it yourself. you can look at the tv ad. it lists 25 different bills and you will see 25 bills have absolutely nothing at all to do with guns. that was the one little nugget of my opponents answer that was

absolutely accurate. and if it was pete kings bill, why was it that every single time peking voted the same way i did? y? because when you fight really hard against the heroine and opioid abuse epidemic that is right here in sumter county, the worst county in the entire stay as far as being targeted with abuse and it's a personal issue. i have been to a lot of wakes myself where families are being torn apart because of it, so i took this cause up. i have multiple press conferences, formed a coalition with republicans and democrats in the house and senate to figure how to get this build a and just think that that bill number because i voted for it, is now one of 25 bills that had nothing to do with guns that will be used in attack ads to try to get you to vote for my opponent. why's that?

because it pulls really really well. if you can convince voters that your opponents once terrorists to purchase firearms, well i have been doing my part my entire life to make sure there is no threat to american security here at home or abroad. i will continue to do my part. but, it's outrageous when i fight to make sure there are no more weeks to visit to use an attack ad against these outrageous. >> no applause, please! i would remind the candidates that that question from a student asked for their opinion of black lives matter. both of you were discussing matters that are of interest and aren't important in this election, but we are asking our audience what is important to

them and what they want to hear, so i would ask you to try to stay within the parameters of the question. >> i'm going to defend myself, no-- though. >> then you will have to use another red card. clec how many red cards are we entitled to? >> you have had-- you both have eight total of three of you have beached used one. the next question is to mr. zeldin. >> this comes from the week as well as the audience. picked up people would like to know regarding obamacare if you feel it needs some fixing, which i think a lot of people do. specifically what would you change. if you want to get rid of it what will you put in its place specifically? >> we need to do something with obamacare. i would not have voted for it if i was in congress when it came up for a vote and i certainly would not vote for it now. in january, i voted for late--

legislation to repeal and replace obamacare which the president vetoed in parts of obamacare like covering people with pre-existing conditions allowing children to be able to stay on their parents policy, those are two components for example, that liberals and conservatives, republicans and democrats agree upon. so whether you want to keep obamacare as is or someone who wants to repeal and replace it those are to come but-- components that are in all of the different versions we see. we need to have more choice. in new york state we have just one loan co-op, which went under and 200,000 new yorkers, some in the middle of cancer treatment and in the middle of cancer treatment they were no longer covered. not if you would be covered in the future. there needs to be more options. there needs to be more plants. we need the ability to purchase plans him outside of the state with more providers locally willing to honor those plans from out-of-state.

we need to create more pre-tax incentives for people-- it exists right now to have affordable childcare to reimburse at a lot of different expenses related to you, your family, your spouse and kids. we need to have more of a pretax benefit for people to cover some of those expenses that unfortunately, they don't have enough money to get treated. as a result of them not having enough money to get treated they may end up with a more chronic or expensive long-term ailment that would cost more. the policy as it exists now and the lack of competition and affordability and by the way one other thing that's really important as we have a lot of small and medium-size businesses among island and to give them more of it ability to work together to get a more competitive plan for their employees. right now employers are telling their employees that they're getting less and have to pay more.

i hear too much about higher premiums, higher deductibles, canceled policies, longer wait times and it's not working. the math on its own, obamacare collapses in 2017, so we have to get something done with obamacare so whether you want to talk about fixing it, improving it, replacing it, the fact is in 2017, this has to get done if nothing gets done on its own. i have favored the repeal a replacement plan, which was vetoed by the president and i continue to favor that plan as well, but health republic of new york as the example and what happened when a business model where you put the freelancers union in charge of creating a policy and when they figured out the math did not work they marked on the policy and when they went to new york state to fix it new york state told them know that they were not allowed to do it. we have to get smarter and the way we deliver this. >> the intention with a portable

care act was to things. want to make sure all americans had access to affordable health coverage and quality healthcare. and to start to reduce what are the enormously high cost of healthcare in the united states of america. we pay somewhere in the realm of 30% more for almost every medical procedure then you do elsewhere the world today. that's part of the reason. what i have written the bill differently? yes, i would have. today, we have, again, a congress that will not come together and work on this. there are so many bipartisan solutions to that that are mired in the partisan bickering going on and that's what's got us stalled. when you talk about repealing

and replacing, but you don't actually put forward a replacement plan. there has been no bill, no comprehensive plan put forward under the repeal and replace, so it's a lot of talk right now. so, why congress doesn't get together and solve this i think is a big problem for her today, 20 million more americans are insured before the affordable care act. we are at a all-time low in terms of people uninsured in the us. but, and we are starting to see the cost of healthcare going down, but we still have very big problems. the income bracket has to be fixed in terms of where people qualify for tax credits and tax reductions in order to be able to afford their plans. we have to be able to negotiate pharmaceuticals. i will give you a frightening

example. there's a company, an american company that is manufacturing pharmaceuticals in ireland in a tax haven. they have the hep c cure. it is something that affects veterans today more than any other population. of a comeback and they are infected by hepatitis c and many others. the cost of producing that drug is a dollar a pill. they charge $1000 per pill. we do not have the ability to negotiate that today. we got to get rid of the cadillac tax and we have to make sure that the fraud and abuse that is in there, over $200 billion worse-- worth of unnecessary medical procedures are ordered today and they are not stopped. there's a bipartisan way to do

this and we have got to do it. >> thank you. okay. of the next question, which is our sixth. >> i feel compelled to point out this was actually my list when i sat down. seems appropriate now. there is a proposal to prevent people on the government terrorist watchlist for buying firearms or do you support this proposal and why? >> thank you. as you know, i absolutely support it. i think it's imperative that we get guns out of the hands of people who shouldn't have them beat a terrorist, be they people with a criminal record will be they people with a mental health record, be they people with a domestic abuse record. let me go back to this because it's time you stopped being snowed by wet he's talking about. the fact of the matter is there is a procedure that happens on the floor of the house of representatives where when a

bill is brought forward there is an opportunity to vote no on that and ask for a preemption for something that any members of congress think is more important. 28 times and i have them right here and yes if you google them or go on his website, what you will find is a bill and related, but the fact of the matter is that 28 times as part of that procedure, which is very commonly used on the florida house of representatives members of congress including congressman lee zeldin were asked to vote if they would agree to bring forward for discussion in a vote peter kings bill on no-fly know by. mr. zeldin voted no every single time. do i support the bill? yes, i do and mr. zeldin has

two's dart telling the truth. >> i wasn't actually suggesting you visit my website i was actually suggesting you visit any website. any website at all. by the way, if peter king, it was peter king's bill, why would he vote the same way i did every single time? because we are voting whether or not to consider, for example, a comprehensive addiction and recovery act. to the question-- >> excuse me, excuse me, quiet from the audience! >> which bill are you referring to? >> repeat the question, please see meche a proposal-- maybe you can explain.

>> excuse me see meche's call protect america act with legislation to prevent terrorists from purchasing firearms or explosions. legislation introduced in at two get beyond the soundbite and talk details because you have noticed there has not been any details discussed yet because there is substantive debate if you're concerned about this issue and i don't know a single member of congress in favor of terrorists purchasing firearms. i don't know one member of congress out of 535 who is in favor of terrorists purchasing firearms or explosives. you can be on either side of this and i will take my personal opinion. do you believe the burden should be on the government to show that the purchaser is a terrorist or should the burden or be on the purchaser to prove their night terrace? that's the main difference between the legislation peking introduced the legislation i introduced. i believe the burden should be on the government to show that

the purchaser is a terrorist in the legislation that exist but burden is on the purchaser to go to court and prove they are not a terrace. i'm telling you what my personal opinion is. 97% of the watch list are foreigners, so we are talking about 3% that this debate applies to and i know that 3% i has a member of congress who has three things on these topics with the director of fbi, director of national intelligence, secretary of homeland security i cannot tell you how someone gets on or off the list or why. what i do know is that people have been added to the list because the feds want to speak to a former college roommate of the person they added to the list. there have this then fathers added to the list, members of congress, us service members, us marshals, so part of the protect america act is to ensure we are cleaning the list of removing the names of people who should not have been on the list in the first place.

if you want to use the list for new purposes anyone to say that someone can't purpose eight-- purchase a firearm because they are on the list and you need to remove anyone that is on the list that should not be on there anyway. of the 3% that are not foreigners power-- are on there for different reasons, so i don't know of anyone being in favor of terrorists purchasing firearms. again, i'm asking you to visit any website. >> the next to question and just to let the questioners know we will have two more questions and then a question for the candidates to ask each other, so two more questions and this is addressed to mr. zeldin, initially. >> i would like to comment that the question that mr. shaw just asked was also from the audience and also on the league's list, so clearly it was a issue that everyone wanted an answer to.

my next question is a combination, again, of the audience and the league and its refers to climate change and i will just asked the question, what measures would you propose, which would balance the need for more efficient energy, environmental protection while preserving jobs in the fossil fuel industry? that is sort of the combine of what i am hearing from the audience and what the leak was asking. >> mr. zeldin. >> our climate is changing. we need to do more to be better stewards of the year, the land, our water. i have supported many different pieces of legislation that help protect the environment around us here on long island. the first congressional district is unique because we are almost completely surrounded by water. have secured funding.

in order to pursue clean green alternative energy. when, solar, water. when i was a new york state legislator i supported funds to allow people to make their homes more energy efficient. we need to upgrade the way that we are delivering power here on long island. we have some plans, new plans which are more economically and environmentally friendly, but you have other plans that are not economically or environmentally friendly, but held in operation primarily because the local area around the plan relies on the money to help pay their property taxes. we need to be smarter in the way we deliver power because we have plans that are outdated and are causing harm to the environment around us. i mentioned earlier my two pieces of legislation to help save and i got 26 to half million dollars secured for the national estuary program.

estuary goes deep into southhampton all the way around montauk highway. we secured 26 methylene dollars for that as far as conservation, at the end of last year the land trust, their top priority was to get a permanent extension of conservation easements allowing those in agriculture industry to be able to place an easement on their property, which has a more favorable tax assessment and allows the property to pass from one generation to the next. the epa right now is phasing out , actually getting rid of the eastern dump sites, though strictly above our district, but there is a debate going on as far as what to do with the western dump sites with connecticut's dredge ways to improve water quality, i introduced the long island sound restoration and stewardship act with steve israel and as for as long island to sound i believe that instead of the current plan

to phase out dumping in the western long island sound that we need to reduce that to no more than five or 10 years. there are many different ways we can be better stewards of our environment taking care of the year, our land and our water. i try to cover a lot of it in two minutes, but the key is to reduce our alliance on fossil fuels and become more environmentally friendly and pursue alternative energy, clean and green energy. there are opportunities with research done right here, good paying jobs, but also important research that we can lead the way for the entire country here in the east end of long island. >> ms. throne-holst. >> i think it's important that we recognize that science is on our side in this and it's important to work with science and the scientific community. the fact that the community is unequivocal in that climate change is real and it is one of the biggest threats to our

generation, but certainly to the next generation and when we are talking about this threat we are not just talking about environment. we are talking about the cost of economic impact of climate change. when we talk about the threat to us right here on long island, but also seen that there is a level of opportunity here, yes, we have to recognize that we are still partially-- far too dependent on fossil fuels. we are really can at sea level rise that's affecting the value in our properties and a threat to our property into a businesses. during my time as town supervisor and led the way to put together a program called solar eyes southhampton. it availed tax credits and the ability to tap into lower and lower costs solar rising infrastructure for your home. we partnered with nicer to and

that allows them to tap into an audit of the energy efficiency of your house and access low-cost loans where your monthly payment will be less than what the difference between you are new and old utility costs are. we are so well poised on long island surrounded by water. we have abundant wind and solar energy. we have the ability to get off of fossil fuels break here and now. the other big threat to our environment here is the next gen loading inner surface and groundwater's. we have talked about the idea of how do we sue a long island. well, you can't sue her long island the way it needs in order to stop and mitigate the problem around nitrogen loading, so i led the way on the founding of the clean water technology center at stony brook university which is now a national hub

research and development site to bring forward new technology to retrofit each everyone of your septic systems and start to treat nitrogen right on-site. it stands to create hundreds of jobs and that is the kind of innovation that we need to support programs that we need to roll out and we need the federal government to show leadership in that and that is not happening right now and when we talk about case this, they want to build a 5 million-dollar fossil fuel plant. i don't think it's okay to deregulate like my opponent did as a state senator. the burning of fossil fuels and the impact that has. i don't think it's okay do defund the epa. clec final question. >> >> this question came from the audience and we also had it on a

website. what is the single biggest way that you plan to help veterans in your first or next term in office cracks. >> very important question and it's a very question right here because we have the largest letter of population in york state and the largest homeless veteran population in new york state. i don't think we do enough. during my time as town supervisor, worked with the county veterans administration to make sure we had an officer from that of menstruation at town hall on a basis, so that our east and veterans did not have to travel all the way west to access the services. we also contracted with services for the underserved, which is a wonderful organization that provides services to veterans and they are now operating out of our senior center. we need programs that ensures

that every veteran that comes back has a job, has job-training , has housing and has access to medical care and mental health care. we are not doing enough. we have seen reports repeatedly over the last several years how our va hospital in northport is unable to provide the services. its underserved. my opponent held a congressional hearing seven weeks out from this election, just a couple weeks ago after having been in office for almost two years. he voted against the administration proposed budget that flashed the proposed funding-- funny by billion dollars, which reduced for about 70000 veterans lest costly health care. now, he denies that, but there is a record on all of this and i will work tirelessly to make

sure that the programs that need to be there heart rolled out to again make sure that every veteran that comes back with a job and access to job-training. there are not for profits that went to work on this with our educational system, with the companies on long island that went to hire veterans, but need to make sure that they are trained for its. and roll out those programs make sure that happens and protect medicare and social security because our veterans are as dependents on all of these programs. my opponent voted to create a voucher program, medicare and wants to tie social security to the stock market should. well, for someone who has managed a municipal budget for eight years where our pension system in new york is tied to the stock market, i know

firsthand how well that works. it doesn't work and tax payers in the pain the difference. and these are issues that, again, this dysfunctional congress is not coming together on and funding is been denied by the majority of this congress. >> mr. zeldin. >> at risk of spending two minutes on a really important topic the penny myself that's a few different things that were unrelated and untruthful i will focus on veterans, but i might use this red card. my biggest personal passion as a relates to our veterans is combating our veterans returning home with the mental wounds of war losing their life. juran sumter county we have to me veterans who feel isolated and alone. they don't realize that there are other veterans in their community going through what they are going through and there are people who they can call, strangers in the middle of the night that will drop everything

and come over to lend a helping hand. i created the support program, sumter county was one of four counties in new york state. the program has worked exceptionally. the county and a lot of groups have done such an amazing job to get help to our veterans that need it most. it's a saving lives. when we lose one veteran due to suicide it is one too many and some of these veterans-- i recently actually better year ago introduce legislation to take the program which is now in over a dozen counties in new york state and make it national, so whether you live in new york, anywhere in this country we need to get to the point where our veterans know that there is a helping hand, love and support and they should not give up. that's priority number one. i've lost more friends due to suicide with ptsd than friends that have died overseas in combat.

beyond that, the department of veterans affairs is doing a much better job in the way its operating its capital budget, the denver va hospital project alone is a billion dollars over budget. you have executives using relocation incentives him a bonus programs to get themselves set up with moves and getting themselves paid 127,000, $227,000 and when the office of inspector general for v8 said this case is need to be referred to the department of justice that apartment veteran affair turn on their own inspector general. we have veterans who have died on wait lists. we have had several state employees instructed to falsify weight timeless. we are going to have a new secretary of veterans affairs in january and they have to improve the culture at the va and they need to tackle these issues head-on. also, laws have to change.

the house recently passed the va ability act and they are working on try to get a final product passed before the end of this year because like the va hospital director the department veterans affair wanted to fire, but the review board said you can't in the law will not allow you to fire this person who should have absolutely been replace. improving the culture,'s changing some of the laws and managing money more efficiently are all very important and we could have a whole debate just on veterans because there is no end ever two ways we could better serve those who are kept us safe. >> thank you, mr. zeldin. at this point, if you would like to, mr. zeldin, you have the opportunity to ask one question of your opponent. ms. throne-holst, you will have two minutes to respond to that question and as i said at the beginning we would really like it to be issue -based. >> completely issue -based if just on a policy level, which

policy positions of hillary clinton do you disagree with? >> the other day that i supported her quote increase in accepting refugees from syria. over the proposed 10000 limit right now and i don't know where you got that from because i have never made that statement. what i have said is that i do think that we need to do our absolute sayer share on this issue. but, until we make sure that we have an immigration and vetting system that is absolutely airtight for this, right now it takes 18 to 24 months for a syrian refugee to even go through the consideration process. and if anyone is suspected of any kind of terrorists affinity

or connection they are denied. but, when we are looking at people being slaughtered, which is what's going on in syria today-- thank you-- i think we have to take our fair share of responsibility here. not letting syrian refugees into this country is one of the biggest jihadist recruitment tools going on today. not to being part of a conference a plan to bring stability is part of what's going on today in terms of jihadist recruitment. we have an absolute responsibility there. and i do agree with her stance on the nuclear deal. every military expert who understands this and there are many, both on the american side of this and that israeli side of this agree that we had an

absolute responsibility to make sure that iran did not build a nuclear bomb. we managed that. we stopped that. >> thank you. >> do you disagree with hillary clinton's positions? i'm just trying to understand-- >> mr. zeldin, do you want to use the red card? >> >> don't direct your comments to ms. throne-holst. direct them to the audience. those are your voters. >> i two minutes? >> two minutes. >> first off, i would encourage my appointed to clarify that she is saying because the question was what policies do you not agree with and the only thing that was mentioned was disagreeing on refugees, so i would just like clarification that might opponent is saying that she disagrees with hillary clinton's position on refugees?

i don't want to put words in her mouth. i'm just saying if that is what she disagrees with, but with the available time left, we absolutely disagree on a few different things that were just mentioned. iran nuclear deal gets up to $150 billion to the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism. iran is pledging to wipe israel off the map and they chant death to america on their holidays. they finance assad, syria, hezbollah and have overthrown governments. we have had to pay $1.7 billion to that iranians, money that we did not zero and we had to pay it the same exact time simultaneously to secure american hostages. that is called ransom people want to call it something else that's fine, but what's important to note is that since then we have had more american hostages that have been taken. now, you could call it an agreement, we deny mass for signature on the agreement, so

secretary kerry in responding to mean a letter said it's an onside political commitment the sides deals that have not been put out, but the ap has reported iran is responsible for correcting samples and inspecting some of their own nuclear sites. the leverage that about that iranians to the table was the sanctions relief, so if you want to deal with that of the other activities like right now while we are here talking about anything in the news today, but when you go home and you read what the iranians are doing right now because of what happened in yemen with america and you will see iran's aggressive behavior against us and we have no leverage to bring them to the table which is unfortunate. >> thank you. >> lets get some facts on the table here in separate fact from fiction. since the iranian nuclear do is implemented and i will read you real facts here; okay?

scoresheet iran's compliance has been kept and agreed to by the international community and oversight agencies that are now there to oversee. they have, as required removed and placed by aea, those are the international atomic energy agency monitors, storage two thirds the 19000 centrifuge use for a cranium arrangement. iran has ended all uranium enrichment, a process used to create the nuclear bomb. it has removed all nuclear material from its oneness secret facility, which was the one we worried about the most. it has reduced all of its stockpiles of enriched uranium from 12000 kilograms to

300 kilograms and is the core of a heady-- heavywater reactor, which was the other thing the international community worried about has been filled in with concrete. in other words, they have been incapacitated from building a nuclear bomb. now, does it run need to be very carefully monitored on this? there is no question about it. that was a part of the deal that i did not agree with. that oversight was not strong enough. but, again, the international community, national security experts, army experts, military experts, intelligence experts on about american, international and israeli soil believed this was the only way to move forward. >> thank you. mr. zeldin, we are talking about the iranian agreement, which is

important, but that question was not asked. now, it's your rebuttal again on the iranian-- you do have the use of one more red card. go-ahead. >> so, the iran nuclear agreements, when we had our navy sailors being embarrassed, photography, videography and then general's a given awards, that iranians, the russians, north koreans, chinese, we have enemies testing us and there watching each other test as. they do not respect a weakness. they only respect strength and americans-- america's foreign-policy needs to strengthen, but going back to this what we call on iran nuclear agreement, sometimes the word deal is used and again it is not even signed by the iranians. when we want to buy a car and we

say i will give you $10000 and to know you are giving me twice $5000 there is no agreement. there are material terms of this deal where both sides dispute like for example the americans said we are going to be able to inspect their military sites before, during and after the negotiations that iranians said you will never be able to inspect our nuclear sites. we said section relief will be bait-- phased in over time based off of compliance in the iranians said sanctions relief will be immediate and no suspension. we could go down the list of material terms of the agreement where both sides cannot agree and watch was made worse was that certain components that they cannot agree upon by the end was put into the verification agreement. there were more than one of these verification agreements. the levers that bring them to the table is the sanctions relief. we have negotiated away sanctions relief that brought

them to the table and we are propping up the wrong regime paired the are bad people. 2009 after an undemocratic election millions went to the street to protest and now he said-- we have millions chanting death to america. ballistic missiles are for us and all these other issues we need leverage to bring them to the table. >> ms. throne-holst, would you like to take this opportunity to ask a question of mr. zeldin? >> do you believe in a woman's right to choose? do you believe that roe v wade should be upheld? do you believe that planned parenthood should be funded-- >> anna-- i'm sorry, ms. throne-holst, one question. >> i will try to make it into one. >> excuse me.

>> i am pro-life and my daughters were born 14 and a half weeks early, less than a pound and a half when they were born and i am so blessed. my wife and i that these girls were given that ability to be able to be born into this world. we have every amount of admiration and respect for the doctors through the process, the nurses through their process, the power of prayer and we accepted prayer in about 16 different religions. our daughters are grown up to be strong, but i got a chance to see life at 25 weeks. its precious. when i was in albany, there was a debate about abortion. the debate actually taking place right now in state and federal governments is whether or not we

should be allowing partial birth late term. i passionately disagree with allowing late-term partial-birth abortions. we need to encourage more adoptions in this country. we need to do whatever we can to provide the best amounts of help for women, men, children with the entire planned parenthood debate taking place. when the videos were first released, one thing that gets left out a lot of the video, the entire debate was that the legislation itself doesn't take money away and put it in a treasury. it directs money to women's health centers that are included right here in our county. there are many women's health centers. that's where the money was going, so it was going towards women's health. during this time when there was investigation taking place into those videos.

it is obviously passionate topic for everyone, but it is something that i'm unapologetic. i unapologetically have many different positions that i believe in. i will want-- not change my answer from one audience to the next. >> okay. [applause]. >> please no applause. you will have your opportunity in a couple minutes with a give their statements. ms. throne-holst, would you please give your closing statements. >> again, thank you for coming out tonight. i am glad that the interest in this election is as big as it is because there is no question that both on the presidential level and right here on the congressional level you are looking at two candidates that are about as diamond agree opposed as they could ever be. i will just talk about what i think is important right here in

district one in new york, but also bills over to the national level. you need someone in congress that has an absolute track record of reaching across the aisle, working in a bipartisan way to find commonsense solutions. we need to resolve immigration reform in this country. we need to find a path to citizenship. we need to shore up our borders and make sure our immigration and visa system goes next to a functioning level. we need to make sure that long island is affordable. we need to revamp our tax code today. while giving it away to big corporations and big oil. we need to get the money out of campaigns. we need to overturn citizens united, which is where all the dark money going into politics today is.

we need to get commonsense gun safety laws in place to make sure guns are out of the hands of terrorists and any criminals. we have talked about it. the build that mr. zeldin is talking about is not supported by law enforcement, including former new york city police commissioner bill bratton. you can't have the one hand say government should stay out, but on the other hand that government should have the sole responsibility. it is one of the other. we have to do what we did on a local level in southhampton and cut the wasteful spending that goes on government and make it more efficient and make it affordable living right here on long island and also college affordable for all of our kids. .mac. [applause]. ,.

>> mr. zeldin. >> i think it is important to be able to work across the aisle with people at different levels of government and just today we announced 22 endorsements we received from east end officials with legislation that i discussed here tonight. all of these different bills were a product of republican and democrats working together. my opponent tonight talked about people, not politics. that all sounds good, but you wonder why no one, political party or elected officials, knowing that serve with her on the town board supports her race for congress including democrats that campaign against her in the primary. during these debates you say

there is a lot that you might say when you are desperate for a vote and you really really want to win an election so you say what ever it takes to get elected. what's most important is actually looking over the course of 21 months my office successfully resolved-- i mentioned legislation and all of the projects and making sure we have funds coming to restore our coastline or getting a new zip code for north hampton and riverside. legislation that we now have an act introduced by the chairman of the committee working with the southhampton town trustees when they needed help contacted new york state dep to get permitting done to open up the bay. i mentioned the national estuary program and we are probably

saving the land and water conservation fund and when you look at my track record, which is now completing the public comment. not to restore that coastline, these are all important issues-- you look at my record and not my opponent's slant on to win votes. i ask for your support on november 8. [cheers and applause] [applause]. >> think that candidates. i think the audience and again, if you haven't registered get out there tomorrow and definitely get out there november 8, and votes. thank you. [applause]. >> c-span brings you more debates this week from key u.s. senate races. tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern live on c-span republican

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>> on hillary clinton and i approve this message select this is me in 1964. i never thought our children would have to deal with that again and to see that coming forward in this election is scary. >> trump asked three times why can't we use nuclear weapons. >> i want to be unpredictable. >> what safeguards are there to stop any president who may not be stable from launching nuclear attacks? >> the commander-in-chief is the commander in chief. >> our next president faces daunting challenges in a date dangerous world. north korea threatening, isis on the rise, libya and north africa in chaos. hillary clinton failed every single time as secretary of state. now, she wants to be president. hillary clinton does not have the fortitude, strength or stamina to lead our world. she failed as secretary of state

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gallagher show live from new york city. all this week, live on c-span2. >> republican congressman david young is serving his first term representing i was third congressional district in his right for a second term in his challenger is democrat jim mowrer. they were met recently in a debate posted by i public television. ♪ [applause]. >> i was third congressional district, 15 counties, more than half a million residents across the southwest corner of iowa including des moines, 80, guthrie center, south of the missouri border including mount ayr and westward to council bluffs. even with that geographic diversity, the republican and democratic candidates are both

from the des moines central iowa part of the district. 48-year old republican david young calls vanmeter home, completing his first term in the us house of representatives. the democratic nominee, 30-year old jim mowrer ran unsuccessfully in the fourth congressional district two years ago against republican steve king. gentlemen, welcome to the special edition of iowa press and welcome to western iowa. looking forward to seeing areas of agreement in your campaigns as well as the contrast. we will be going on our end because this is an iowa press election special edition, we have an audience here in the iowa western community college arts center. they're watching and listening and not cheering or otherwise distracting from our discussion. we have also expanded this program to 60 minutes to accommodate additional issues and questions.

across iowa press table, des moines register political columnist and radio i was news director k anderson. >> jim mowrer, you're been a supporter of the affordable care act and as you have been watching the news and seeing these double digit in some states, even doubling the cost of buying insurance, isn't it time to junk it and start all over again? >> i appreciate the question and i want to thank you for, to thank you kathy and i want to thank iowa western and want to thank my wife chelsea who is here this evening for her support of the years. i want to thank my two sons, carter and jack for all of their support and hopefully they are in bed for my mother-in-law's sake, but speaking of my two sons my youngest son suffers from a rare nerve degenerative disease and there is no treatment and there is no cure, so it's never going to be affordable for uninsurancecomedy

to provide him with insurance, so that before the care act has done important things. number one, ensuring kids like him who have a pre-existing medical condition can get health insurance and they cannot be discriminated against for having health insurance. you can have your children on your health insurance until the age of 26. we now have the highest insured read we have ever seen in this country, over 90%, so we have taken steps forward, but on the affordable front we do still have challenges that remain and we need to address those and fix those. so, i in congress will look for those fixes of the affordable care act. i believe there are things that need to be fixed. >> such as? >> when you look at the relicensing's requirement, the, tax placed on folks that have held insurance deemed to be too generous in some cases, i disagree with those things that we need to address that affordable side of the affordable care act, but the

wrong approach is repealing the affordable care act which would go back to a time when even being a woman was a pre-existing condition. >> missed again, you have voted to repeal the portal care act, but when he first ran for congress you said you thought that a formal care act was here to stay at least while president obama was here in office. wears that table and what have you done to try to fix it, first of all, thank you, dean, k and kathy for the opportunity to be here in iowa western community college and jim, went to thank you for being here today and getting in the race and want to thank you for your service for putting on the uniform and fighting for our liberties and freedom, so thank you for that. i have always been consistent with my stance on the formal care act, the president's signature healthcare law. it's not working. it is causing people's premiums to go up dramatically about 30% will be the average next year and i want.

people have lost access to their doctors. people have lost insurance. i spoke to a gentleman yesterday where his premium is are going up from $342 to $1390. some of these premium increases and where they go, that's where a mortgage payment is that right now, so it's squeezing islands. there are some things in the operable care act that i would keep, some of the wellness provisions, making sure folks with pre-existing conditions were not kicked off in staying on your parents insurance up to the age of 26, but we need to empower islands with their healthcare dollars and transparency is an issue. i think we need to know what we are paying for before we go in to a provider crating quality

healthcare. >> are you prepared to say now that we are this far down the road to say, yes, we will keep 26 euros on their health insurance, but we will kick off everyone else who is already committed to being on the exchanges? are we too far down the road to go back now? >> time will tell, i guess. it's falling apart right now. even president clinton said it's the craziest thing out there circa governors on both sides of the aisle are seeing what's happening with the healthcare law and is causing people great anxiety and economic hardships. >> the base of kathy's question really is, what you have that letter there. what are you writing back to that gentleman whose premiums have increased threefold? what are you going to tell him? he's really asking what are you doing? >> we had a conversation last night on the phone. >> what did you tell him? >> first of all that i opposed

the affordable care act and where there are areas that these can be fixed i will do what i can for the people in this district. we have had opportunities in the last congress to make some fixes and i wanted to help relieve the burden for the folks in iowa. i think it is falling apart and i think we have to start all over. >> mr. mauer, would you support universal healthcare? >> the good news is that we have over 90% of americans who have health insurance, which is more than we have ever had, so i think what we need to work on is making the affordable care act work and make it more affordable >> how do you address the premium increase that the gentleman that congressman young just reference. >> the good news is that if you look at folks on the exchange, right now three quarters of those folks would still have access to insurance that would be under $75, so a lot of people still have access to quality and

afford a healthcare. we need to look to expand that and people that are seen undo premium rises we need to look at that and fix it, but unfortunately these are things we heard, rissman young say 2014 and he went to washington and did the exact opposite, which was about 12 times to repeal the affordable care act and i think that's the wrong approach. >> i been consistent with my position since iran in 2014 since i was four repeal and replace. this healthcare law has helped some people, but it's heard a lot more and we see these letters and hear from constituents about 30%, 40% increase in their premiums and it's not helping islands-- iowan overall. >> the natural question is what you going to do if you repeal, what's next? >> sure and i have talked about expanding health premiums

accounts. we need transparency in our healthcare system and we did ensure that those who have pre-existing conditions are not thrown off, but we need to also recognize the difference between states and innovations going on and what can be done. what was happening before was not perfect, but where we are now has become disastrous. >> many states expanded the number of citizens eligible for medicaid with the proviso that the federal government would send states money. after president obama is gone will you as a member of congress under which ever president takes office vote to extend that money or do you expect states to pick up that cost from here on forward? >> first of all we want to make sure that it stays there and people are taking care of, those were most destitute and i will work with any president and anyone in my party or crossed the lines to make sure that this is handled in a way where states have the some relief and are

also given power to have innovation and freedom to do what they think is best for the people in their state. >> mr. young, one of the goals of the formal care act was to make health care affordable for everyone and the idea was down the line the cost of healthcare at the doctors office and the hospital would actually go down at some point. and not just be an insurance program, the cost of healthcare reduction program work that has not happened at all, so mr. young mentioned liability reduction for example. are there ways that you see to ask a cut the cost of healthcare >> that's exactly right and again we see more and more people that have access to health care and coverage, which is a major, schmidt. we should acknowledge that, but when you look at the cost we knew to look at ways to reduce the cost and it will require fixing it, but unfortunately every time someone tries to fix it republicans hold another vote

to repeal it and we need democrats and republicans willing to get past repeal and get to the good public policy. >> ideas, though. let's say you have a democratic congress or a democratic presidents, i mean, what ideas are you going to bring to the table? >> well, i think we have to look at working with providers and he with a fake. what i mentioned before. when i travel around i talked to doctors and medical administrators and they tell me their concerns with the relicensing requirement and other bureaucratic pieces, so we have to work with all the stakeholders and i am open to innovation and working to fix it, but again unfortunately what we see from congressman young is simply voting repeatedly to repeal it. >> cocker spaniel, there is a lot of talk about there being a quote unquote rigged election. if you are in the next congress, will you feel compelled to vote

to expend money to states to improve the voting system or even to have some sort of uniformity across the entire country rather than relying on a hodgepodge state-by-state rules for elections. >> well, i have talked to a lot of our county auditors about the election and we have integrity here in iowa with our elections and i want to keep iowans in our state government in charge of our elections. i'm not so keen on federalizing the election system, but i am open to debates, but i don't believe we will have any problems here in iowa. >> after the 2000 election the federal government did send money to the state to invest in new voting machines. that's almost 16 years ago. is at their time for additional investment and more modern voting methods? >> i'm up for the debate. are not sure because we have not talked about in congress and i have not heard from folks in our third district.

>> well, it is something i have been hearing from folks who are concerned about the rhetoric we are hearing from donald trump, the person david supports for president and it's undermining our democracy. we need to invest more in our voting system. democracy is fundamental to our state or country and we do have a hodgepodge of different voting systems across the country. they're underfunded and we see long lines a lot of places with people waiting to vote. we need to fix our voting system , invest in it and restore some of the provisions of the voting rights act that were struck down by the supreme court. >> such as? >> investing in voting? >> no, parts of the voting rights. >> there is a bill in the house right now with representative john lewis that works to restore some of those revisions. >> would you support those changes in the voting rights act? >> i don't have the details, but i want to make sure that we are

taking precautions here and making sure we respect the roles of the states in the elections like we have for so long. >> this presidential campaign has overshadowed a lot of this season and also led to a lot of divisiveness, but i would ask you about unity. mr. young, how would you find ways to work with a president clinton should she be elected? >> just like i have done every day with folks on the other side of the island congress. it to doesn't matter to me what party you are in. of the successes i've had for the third district have been in a bipartisan way. >> are their pacific-- specific issues you might have in common? >> i wanted to make sure in the next farm bill we are making sure agriculture and the farmers have a seat at the table for renewable energy, cross insurance conservation acts are a few thing. >> mr. young-- i'm sorry, you

guys look so much alike. mr. mowrer how which you work with president trump and are there specific issues where you think you could work? >> i'm confident it will be president clinton, but if it is president trump i will work on any issues i could. one of the few things i agree with donald trump on is that i oppose the ttp, transpacific partnership. both mr. trump and secretary clinton opposed the trend pacific partnership and that's an area where i disagree with congressman young because i know he is a strong supporter of that , but i would work with any president on any issue i could, but i would also have disagreements with any presidents even if it was president clinton. while i support many of her issues i am sure there are things we will disagree on. >> when you came in here i saw you shake cans and thank each other for being here and we hear

your responses to the questions and many of until now have been evaluating both of you by advertising purchased by those opposing your election. we have a couple of those ads. one about each of you. first, jim mowrer in and out about your candidacy. >> beheadings. executions. deadly terrorist attack right here in the midwest. isis is a real threat and jim mowrer supports bringing thousands of refugees from isis right here. he supports a dangerous deal putting a rant on a pass to get nuclear weapons, a deal that gives iran billions used to fund terrorism. jim mowrer, risky, dangerous. >> tells me a lot about you with someone else's voice. what is your response? >> it's really makes me angry because i have a long record of

keeping our country safe. my entire career has been in service, serving in iowa army national guard, serving in iraq, serving as a intelligence analysts as a civilian and going to the pentagon were focused on keeping our country safe, so i have been very disappointed to see these attacks come from david young and his allies who have question my commitment to national security and i think i have a very clear record. on the own candidate in this race who has a clear direct, national security experience. that's what i will bring to congress. we have the lowest percentage of veterans serving in congress right now than at any other point in our nations history. a veteran brings a unique perspective and unique experience. i've always been committed to keeping america safe. it's what i've done. i know how to do it. >> congressman young, do you stand behind that add? >> it is not my ad. i will point that out.

that is from another group and i don't court in it because the you can't coordinate. i agree with that out, though, and i will to you i. that iran agreement is very flawed even the state department said funds, $150 billion will likely be used for terrorism activities. we have seen that the hostage situation, you are for that agreement. sunday night on a radio debate you said we can't trust a ran and there are a lot of other people who do not trust this iran agreement and support me because of my views on this and when his former commander of the island national guard. he thinks i have a better be on national history. >> mr. mowrer, had you know karen will comply with this deal and that it will not be able to get nuclear weapons? >> i don't know in knots why this deal is not based in trust in any way shape or form.

it's based on verification, so this deal has stopped iranian nuclear development in its tracks. when i said-- when i was a surveillance technician i was focused on iran i know about what they do supplying militants everything they are doing, i know a great deal about iran and this deal stops iranian nuclear involvement in its tracks. the commander of the israeli defense force, our strong ally in israel said this removes the biggest threat to israel's future for the foreseeable future and what i hear is not an alternative to the deal, but just criticism. there are only two alternatives, either going to war with iran to remove the nuclear threat or to allow them to continue to produce nuclear weapons, so i would like to hear what congressman young would do? >> people on both sides of the album for this deal was struck

said that sanctions were working. you say you don't know if it's going to work and you don't trust iran, but you support the agreement. i went here in the third district are worried about what's happening and getting iran more power and we also just gave them $1.7 billion. >> send americans to warn with the congressman is proposing is either invading iran or allowing them to continue development-- >> those are your words, gemma. >> wait a second. when you look at what's happened in north korea with economic stations, we have isolated them, but they were still able to developing nuclear weapons weapon. >> congressman, did you want to say something? >> those are his words. >> the other issue is about syrian refugees. how many syrian refugees should the us accept on a yearly basis, mr. mowrer, and are you comfortable with the process whereby they are quote unquote being vetted? >> i have always been committed

to keeping america safe and when you talk about the topic of refugees, the number one priority has to be that in making sure we keep america safe. the process we have an safe letting refugees as a post- 911 process put in place by president bush. it's in over a year-long process including conference of interviews, biometric checks, fingerprints, iris scan's it's primarily women and children. we have accepted 10000 refugees in august and commerce and young says he opposes those refugees, so my question to him would be does he want to send those 10000 families, women and children, back to a war zone and potentially to their death. >> the head of the national director of intelligence, the head of the fbi, secretary of homeland security said we don't have the proper vetting process in place to deal with what we are dealing with from syria and iran. i will trust their judgment.

>> so, you want to send them back? >> i went to protect america, jim. >> do you want to send them back? >> i went to protect america. >> what is your experience protecting america? >> when i was sworn in to protect and defend the constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic and i'm not going to take a chance. if they went to infiltrate our refugee system-- >> i know what it takes to keep america safe. >> we are going to reverse direction here. congressman young, this is a commercial hoping voters understand you. ..

>> we have jim mauer same week i approve this message, it ties you to the republican nominee, donald trump. what is your reaction? >> first of all i want to make sure that folks know that i have voted to increase funding for women's healthcare. by 7,800,000,000 dollars this past year. that goes to community health centers, we have over 200 and i want. i take healthcare seriously i want. i take healthcare seriously and as a member of the appropriations community voting for cancer research for women in cervical cancer research as well. you may remember about a year and half ago and there some videos out there talking about unfortunately the sanctity of planned parenthood in baby parts. i am pro-life,.

>> what about the aspect, do you have an address it donald trump was cut in there, looting and insinuating that you have the same view as the republican nominee, statue? >> he would like everybody to think that. everybody that. everybody has their opinion about the presidential nominees. i disagree with both of them in many ways. some things that donald trump has said i said are disgusting and their indefensible. these are our choices right now. they're both very imperfect. we will be voting for flawed candidates. regardless of who of who the president is, who the nominees are, who the leadership in congress is, they are not my boss. i do not answer to them, i answer to the people in the third district. >> just to be clear, think clear, think you said in the past you do not endorse but you will vote for donald trump. >> i did not endorse in the primary, but looking between the two candidates, i will because

of policy, because of things like my opponent here is for what the epa is doing, president obama vetoed the repeal of that. i think the next president if it is the republican nominee will allow that to go away. so it's a matter of policy to me and these are our choices. >> mr. mauer, that ad was tagged and i support this ad. do you? >> i do, absolutely. it, absolutely. >> even after you heard him explain? >> he supports donald trump, the present for president. he doesn't want to say his name but he supports donald trump or president. for president. their views on the policies are the same. he can saying bring up videos that have been debunked and people have made it have been indicted and have been proven false. i support planned parenthood. growing up with a single mother,

my wife chelsea and i understand that women can be trusted to make their own health care decisions. they should should be empowered to make their own health care decisions. is what's are very clear. he has voted to defund planned parenthood and that is donald trump's position as well. >> they said that there are aspects of what donald trump proposes they probably won't agree with. particularly with what would you not agree with? >> will the tone is really one of them. >> we will talk in a minute about trade. are there other aspects of his proposals, not necessarily about his comments or -- >> i agree with wanted to make sure the vote is secure. we have an issue right here in council bluffs, we did. a young lady by the name of sarah was killed by an illegal immigrant and got away. i introduce the bill into bipartisan calls sarah's loss. >> so are you for building an entire wall along the border and try to get mexico to pay for?

>> we need to secure the border. you can do it in different ways. i've been down to the border. i bent to the area near san diego, in arizona, texas, we have, we have different needs and different sectors. you have to have more votes on the rio grande, more horseback border patrol and then aerial vehicles in the sky. more coast guard in san diego. so. so different needs are different sectors. >> you can count on immigration as well, but i want to task you come are there specific things that hillary clinton has proposed if she is your president that you would not go along with question work. >> as i mentioned earlier were running for two very different offices, she's running for president i'm running for congress. i don't know if you point out areas where we might disagree, as i said earlier i promise you there things we will disagree on. >> it would be useful to know

where you disagree. >> i think there's only one real choice and one person who is qualified and has a clear record that can be president, that is secretary clinton. i think david supports donald trump was unfit to be president. his comments about to meeting women, attacking veterans, and gold star families have proven that he is unfit to hold the office. >> if she is president and send something to congress, a proposal that you know right now that you cannot support, what would that be? >> again, i don't think it is useful to look for individual policies. >> then let's turn to a policy that to a policy that he just race. sarah's law, do support sarah's law in reference to sir ruud who is killed by an undocumented immigrant who ran into her in a high-speed accident in omaha, right after she graduated from college. >> absolutely. we do have a broken immigration system. we do need to fix it. number one that is securing the border. we have to to do it in a competence of way.

i supported a bill that came out in the united states and its was 68 votes. an overwhelming bipartisan majority. it would secure our border, it our border, it would have the 11 million people who are here without illegal status register, go through a corrective process, pay a fine, learn fine, learn english, background checks, et cetera over that time. we have to fix our immigration system top to bottom. that came out of the united states and its and was never brought up for a bottom house of representatives. we have to have a representative was going to look to fix our immigration system in a conference of way. >> other components of that legislation that you support? >> it is hard for me to believe that he would not support sarah's law, do, do not hear a yes or no on that. as. >> as i said we need to fix our pipe immigration system.

the farm bureau, the chamber of congress. >> that's a different piece of legislation. >> i think we have to fix it in a comprehensive way. we can look at the individual pieces of it then you to be addressed and it absolutely is broken. the only way to fix it is in a competence of way, top to bottom. >> you try to answer and i will give you chance right now if you want to. >> u.s. about immigration per the borders were important. i don't like the 10,000 page a bills that are out there where who knows what is shoved in there. i like more peaceful approaches. i want to deal with employment practices. when they are smaller and more transparent you can really see what is in there. reforming our legal system, 40% of those here illegally overstay their visas. i want to to do targeted approaches to this and that's always going to be. >> you mentioned earlier the transpacific partnership. congressman young, tell me generally farmers and agricultural interest support that, labor unions do not. you support it.

>> i had a great opportunity to visit with farmers in the agriculture industry and manufacturing folks out the last few years. yesterday i did my harvest tour, do it annually. we can have the best deals out there, booming yields, but if we have no place to seller grains what is it all about? >> what you say to the labor union people in your district to say, this takes our jobs? >> there are provisions within the tpa that we passed before the tpp, the tray promotional authority which dealt with labor guidelines and sovereignty issues. there's the piece that goes along with trade adjustment assistance, just in case there's repercussions in her employment there's funds to help workers in those times to gain new skills.

there is an area in the pacific rim that is hungry for our goods and services. 95% 5% of the world's consumers are outside of america. if we want our economy to do well we need to start selling goods and services to others. china's right there as well. we can show strength there we will have respect their. >> you have previously expressed support i'm sorry opposition to the transpacific partnership. what you say to agriculture interest, southwest i was a big agricultural area. >> it is pretty remarkable that the one area that secretary clinton and donald trump agree on oppose the tpp because they know it will continue to ship american jobs overseas, something that congressman young supports. the one area they agree that it's dangerous for a future to ship our jobs overseas, he does support. so i grew up on a family farm,

when i talk to farmers they understand that we have to have trade deals that get a product to market, market, we have to have appropriate protections so the tpp does not have proper environmental standards in place. it will will continue to ship jobs overseas. i support number one big trade deals that have appropriate provisions in place. also the export, import bank. it helps small businesses get the products to market and move them overseas. the export import bank supports 1500 jobs in iowa. it cost the taxpayers nothing. it returns a 1,000,000,000 dollars to the treasury every year. david young opposes the export import bank. he voted against it, to shut it down. >> congressman it, to shut it down. >> congressman young, a response if you want to, the export import bank came up for reauthorization, a a have been fought with fraud, people went to jail and the majority of it went to the biggest corporations

in the country. some that don't pay taxes. so we reform then and we had it targeted to smaller businesses i don't think they need the backing of import export bank at all. >> i was supportive because it cost taxpayers nothing and it supports jobs and i was. >> i wanted to ask you mr. mowrer, is there a trade deal on the books that you think is a good example of making sure american jobs are protected. have have we ever had one that was good enough for you and for american labor? >> again we have to look at the protections in place. we have to have good negotiation that ensure the countries that were dealing with are paying their workers fairly so american workers can compete. that there is environmental standards in place, that they're not polluting and americans have to

shoulder that costs. we have to have good trade deals in the future. >> but is there one that you like, do you like nafta or calf to or do you agree donald trump that their bad deals? >> they have their pros and cons, but i think we have to do the cost-benefit analysis in the future to see if they will benefit more than they cost. we talk about the agricultural provision of the tpp, there is an analysis that shows there will provide short-term gains for some. the cost comes in continuing to shift american jobs overseas. that's not a good deal for americans. >> mr. young the next congress will be reauthorized in the farm bill. it would likely include subsidies for the purchase of crop insurance. should there be some effort among congress members to link

that to environmental stewardship? another words restrict the amount of farm chemicals that can be a apply to farmland? >> i don't know if we will get to the point where we are linking environmental stewardship with crop insurance. that debate will come. i know it is a big issue private crop insurance. last while there is a budget deal i oppose that took $3 billion out of the crop insurance program. farmers were depending on that and it was opening up the farm bill in the middle of it. i introduce the bill in a bipartisan way to restore the bill and it passed as part of the five-year highway law. in the next farm bill we want to make sure we analyze the crop insurance program. that farmers have skin in the game because taxpayers do as well in cases of those catastrophes and out droughts. water quality initiatives or something up and working on. being. being on the agriculture subcommittee there is an equip fund, i work for increasing funding on that.

there's a conservation bill that is bipartisan coming out. i don't want to dictate what happens here on our land from washington d.c. when it comes to impairment quality in the water issues that we have kind of a one-size-fits-all approach. but i want there to be resources. i. i care about it very much and have the most population dense county in the states, polk county. in the least populated county's adams county so we want to make sure we work together on this. >> mr. mowrer there are democrats in your party could do think the voluntary approach is no longer working in a sign for the federal government to regulate farmers, do you agree? >> agriculture is important to me, we have been -- when you look at the ability for my two sons to farm some day, hunt, fish, fish, have clean drinking water, these are very important things. when you look at the farm bill as a vehicle to help provide a safety net for farmers to invest in agriculture, and invest in the conservation techniques, it is a very, very good vehicle to

do that. that is what we do. i think think we do need to link incentives to behavior. the farmers i talk to when i travel around the district is that they want to do the right thing and are trying to do the right thing. they're trying to run a business and make a profit. >> so you would use the farm bill to leverage behaviors that might improve water quality? >> i. >> i think that funding efforts for farmers to put in nitrogen removal, buffer strips et cetera would be appropriate place to do it. the the farmers that i talk to want to do those things but they come at a large cost. so providing that assistance i think is the right approach and the appropriate use of the farm bill. >> what would you support or oppose federal restrictions

which would regulate the amount of nitrogen for example that a farmer could put on his or her land? >> if farmers provided the ability to invest in these areas into those things than they should be able to meet those criteria. >> if you wonder why were losing so many farms in iowa, it's because of the heavy hand by the federal government. the rules and regulations and those mandates that are choking farmers. i've a bill at the beginning farmer loan program that's making headways. i want to make sure the current beginning farmer loan program is extended to allow for environmental quality initiatives on the farms as well as purchasing unused equipment. the way that we are losing our farms is also through the death tax. i want to make sure the family farm is passed on from generation to generation. my opponent supports the death tax. >> you just brought that up so let's let you response. >> first let me say the death tax does not exist, there is an estate tax in place to ensure that billionaires like donald

trump who can go decades without paying taxes do pay their fair share to our roads, military,. >> what about changing and were talking about the death tax the estate tax a certain level. >> the estate tax i do not support any changes to the current system. >> so you would oppose hillary clinton's proposal? >> i don't support any changes to the current estate tax. >> what tax priorities would you have if you are in congress? limit to ones that you think are really important to help get the economy going and to possibly help with job creation. >> i think we need comprehensive tax reform. we need to lower the rates, broaden the base, close loopholes for big companies for things like giving subsidies to big oil companies. when you look at the tax expenditures, passing the

buffett rule which ensures that those who make more than 100,000,000 dollars per dollars per year through investments, more than $1 million per year that they pay taxes on that as if it think come. it's called the buffett rule because even warm buffett knows this is a huge loophole that people are taking a bandage of. >> is a goal to have more revenue coming into the government or less? >> right now we have a massive inequality in the country. the economy is doing better, unemployment unemployment is lower but people are getting ahead. wall street is seeing record levels. were seen the richest americans do better. those folks need to pay their fair share. >> will revenue go up or down under your priority? >> revenue for the wealthiest americans would pay more than their fair share to have veterans access to resources they need, that we have a a strong national defense or investing in our future.

>> mr. young, your to top tax priorities? >> i will work with anybody. the president. the president open the doors on lowering the corporate tax rate. if you wonder why so many companies are going overseas and not paying taxes here, be need to stop that. i want to stop that. lowering the corporate tax rates bring it down 15 or 20% that's a number that's been out there. in return you have to get rid of those credits it, incentives, deductions. the oil production tax credit and those kind of things. we have to look at the multitude of it. 75,000 the tax code. and there might be some that we keep such as the interested action mortgage, charitable giving. so for certain public policy we want to promote things. whatever it is in the end we have to make it permanent. we have to bring certainty to the tax code.

there is over 4,000,000,000,000 dollars sitting on the sidelines were people want to invest in the economy and create jobs. when you create jobs your credit more tax revenue and i want to use that to drive down the debt. >> you said your overall goal is to reduce or increase tax programs? >> bring certainty and i think more revenue would come in if there is more certainty and they're investing in the. >> and what you think of the warm buffett rule? >> i group my opponent on that. >> both of the presidential candidates have been talking about the need to invest in the nation's infrastructure. things like roads, but also things like airports. would you mr. bay to raise the federal gas tax or do you have some other taxonomic that would finance those kind of construction projects? >> i think we need to look at the different revenue streams available. i believe we need to invest in our infrastructure. our roads, bridges, schools.

when you look at what the america, when the greatest generation came home from war they invested in our education, roads and infrastructure. that's why america is the greatest nation on earth. that. that will require us to continue to invest in those areas. that sometimes means that we have to have the revenue to invest in those areas. it's very important. i was disappointed that congressman young was the only member of the delegation to vote against a bipartisan highway bill. all along while iowa has the third most efficient roads and bridges in the country. i will will ensure we invest more and infrastructure in iowa. >> my opponent, he knows this. he does i voted for the five-year highway bill in 2015 and it extended for five years and it was funded -- >> you can explain how he voted against it before he voted for

it. >> the underlying question that i started this discussion was, how do you finance infrastructure projects like fixing roads, bridges, and the nation's airports. do you raise airports. do you raise the federal gas tax are defined some other means i which to pay for those projects? >> with this economy right now and the folks in that their districts were barely getting by, i don't don't think it's a good time to raise taxes. among the transportation subcommittee and we are increasing funding. it will come out of general revenue. we have to make sure there's equity and equality out there was some of the new vehicles that are out there. i think you need to make sure that everybody's pain into the system, the pay to play. nobody should ride for free. >> one bel in particular ice support is a bipartisan effort presented by congressman john delaney from maryland. it has 22 democratic sponsors, 19 republican cosponsors, it has

unique funding mechanism that would allow american companies that currently have prophet sitting overseas to repatriate those money and put it into the infrastructure fund. there pay a lower rate by putting it into the fund and the congressional budget office predicts this woods for more funding. >> when budget have started to legalize marijuana in one way or the other, but federal law is still on the books. they are not being enforced. would you go into congress a vote to repeal those laws and let states manage marijuana how they want? would you enforce the laws and role back the marijuana laws that states are doing? or would you continued to look the other way? >> i think this is a state rights issue. i think i think it should be up to individual states.

if someone to legalize and have medical exceptions, etc. i think that should be up to the individual states. i think we need to update the federal law to reflect what's happening. the wrong approach is to continue to throw americans in jail for minor drug offenses. i think it is a states rights issue. >> do you agree? and let's ask about the reform as well. would would you roll back some of those nonviolent defenses? >> i'm on a a bipartisan bill to do that. nonviolent offenders would maybe those who do dumb stuff in their early years or whatever, i believe in second chances. i would put the drug king pins away but kids who might be busted for something, no. >> when you take those marijuana laws off the books that are being ignored right now? >> that's a thing. we have laws that are being enforced and i think they should be enforced.

i like to have states have more jurisdiction over these things. it should not be happening unless you repeal any kind of federal law. i am for moving marijuana from the schedule was to a schedule to under controlled substances because i think i think there can be some great research about the help of medical marijuana. i'm for allowing the oil to be used because there's a lot of families looking for treatments for their children and their loved ones. that's i'm also a big supporter of the 21st-century tears act. >> how would you deal with the jurisdictional issues, the border issues that arise when you go from state to state with -- cannabis oil. >> i think there should be agreements between states, may maybe a permit or waiver for that. there is not that potency within the oil that would get you high. >> what sort of gun restriction would you be an advocate for, if

any were you to be elected? >> i grew up on a family farm, gun owners, hunting, i'm a gun owner, i slept served in the military, i slept with a weapon in a war zone. i'm very comfortable with guns and i believe in the second amendment. we have to to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, of domestic abusers, so we need to have universal background checks. every gun purchased in this country, that person should undergo a background check. we also need to pass no-fly, know by which insurers people who are on the no-fly list cannot purchase guns. it's a very common sense approach. it's interesting because i heard david say that he's in favor of no-fly, no bite but he voted 27 times in congress to block it no-fly, no by coming to a vote. >> those were procedural votes and they were not substantive and didn't have the d process that i enforce. so i am for taking people who

are terrorist on the terrorist watchlist and taking away their guns. only if there is to process if there's americans on that list who shouldn't be on there. the second amendment is important in the constitution is important to me in this district. >> the nra says it's not constitutional what you're talking about. do you disagree then? >> i don't listen to them. i look at the constitution, we ran that through the judiciary committee and those protections for their for due process. >> i year ago you expressed the belief that there should be something that could be done to make sure people who are suffering from mental illness don't get their hand on the gun. so what in your view should congress do in that regard? >> i hear about the mental health issues all over the district, whether it's an urban or rural areas. it's a big issue for i wins. a cosponsor of a bipartisan bill that is made its way to the

house. it addresses this and takes the multitude of different health programs within the federal government and puts it under an umbrella. if you're talking about gun violence can to make sure those who are not mentally capable of understanding a firearm in a weapon and what it is for, they should not be allowed to have guns. they should be adjudicated in court to have it taken away. they should also be given a right to petition if they get better. >> we've talked about a lot of issues over the last hour. congress has been so dysfunctional, voters may not believe that anything you say would like to do is actually going to get done. how do you break to that dysfunction and make sure the things that you propose are actually a possibility? >> this has been a very divisive election. once we get past the election we need representatives

to go to washington and work in a bipartisan way to get things done. i have a record at the pentagon working with the state and territory governors as armies lead representative to the council of governors. i oversaw be on the office of business transformation where i worked with the house and senate i'm services committee, both democrat and republicans on the committee's. there's currently a post-9/11 caucus made up of iraq and afghanistan veterans. it's democrats and republicans, and they found a way to to work in a bipartisan way because they are folks who have put their country first refer they entered partisan -- >> and all the word that has been mentioned here all night is bipartisan. you are using, congressman young you have used it, and yet i don't think that your record, or your proposal, whose to believe that you'll work in a bipartisan way or your record reflects that? >> everything i've done is in a bipartisan way. i started a bipartisan task force with

identity theft and fraud. we've we've got amendments passed in a bipartisan way and that. my bill, to fix the crisis line has 350 yeas to zero nays. the work on the appropriation is bipartisan because i know how to get things done. you have to work across the aisle because if you just pick up the partisan fights not a lot gets done. you can override a veto. >> when david young is in iowa he says one thing, when he goes home to washington, d.c. where he's been for 20 years he years he does another. he says pay no attention to my record and the man behind the curtain. and. >> and you will do something different? >> i will. i have a record of getting things done and that's what i will do in congress. >> in the final half minute i will give to because why will then you deserve another term? >> check out my record.

i'm proud of it. my accomplishments in a bipartisan way, i know enough to not promise that i'm going to just get all of these things done in washington d.c. because i've seen what's happened there. those who promised to much baked break promises and that's why we have frustration out there. >> okay thank you for your time. we'll be back next week with another edition of iowa press, special reporters roundtable at that time on the final weekend before election 2016. that is 16. that is i will press on statewide iowa public television, 730, 730 on friday night and new non- sunday. for our hard-working crew here at the arts center of -- i am dean and thank you for joining us. [applause]

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>> today at the white house press secretary josh ernster was asked about the fbi director's announcement last week that his agency is looking into emails found on the computer of hillary clinton aid, who met aberdeen. here's what the press secretary had to say. >> what i have observed in the past is coming as a man of integrity, manna principle, man was well regarded by senior officials in both parties, he served in the bush administration, he is someone who has a strong bipartisan support when his nomination to -- so all of those things are true, they speak to his good character and the president's assessment of his integrity and his character has not changed. for example, the president does

not believe that tractor call me is intentionally trying to influence the outcome of election. the president doesn't believe he is secretly strategizing to benefit one candidate or one political party. he's in a tough spot. he is the one who will be in a position to defend his actions in the face of significant criticism from a variety of legal experts, including individuals who served in senior department of justice positions and by presidents of both parties. i'm not going to be in a position to either defend or criticize with regard to what is set in public. that is separate from the prosecutorial and investigative

decisions made in the department of justice. that is their institutional responsibilities, to make those decisions about investigations and prosecutions, independent prosecutions, independent of political interference. i will defend their right to do that. in fact, it is the responsibility. >> is a concern in at all to the white house that you have the justice department and the fbi basically griping at each other i'm basically saying some form of public or semi public bashing. you obviously have to work closely together to keep the country safe. is there an issue there that can be resolved so the justice department is not accusing the fbi of not following proper procedures? >> you have heard me discuss the president's view of director come his integrity and character. let me just tell you that the president has a lot of confidence in the attorney general of the united states, loretta lynch, to run the department. she is someone department.

she is someone who spent decades as a crew prosecutor. she is not new to this. a lot of that work was done when she was the head of the eastern district of new york. that is a position where these kinds of decisions are closely scrutinized by the media that is based in the largest city in our country. she's used to the pressure and the president has complete confidence in her ability to handle the situation responsibility and consistent with the institution responsibility that are with the department of justice. >> and california's 21st district david is running for a third term against a democrat. they debated at kj ett tv. this is 55 minutes. >> not from your local election headquarters. california's first congressional debate.

live with moderators jim scott, 17 news -- your local election headquarters. california's 21st congressional debate starts now. >> that evening. good to have you with us tonight. i'm jim i'm jim scott along with my colleague from kc to for tv in fresno. we welcome you toward debate tonight between the two candidates for california's 21st congressional district. >> we are broadcasting live tonight from the studio set -- in bakersfield. about 90 minutes north of here, up before we start our debate we want to take a look at the race, take a look at the 21st congressional district and see what is at stake. >> representing the 21st

congressional district in washington means covering a lot of ground. the 21st covers much of the southern half of the san joaquin valley including parts of fresno, kern, keane and tulare county. from a sexual bakersfield to the south to just south of fresno to the north. david has served in the u.s. house of representatives since 2013. the republican. the republican terry farmer has one big twice despite democrats having a double-digit voter registration edge. amelia plans to change that. they want to succeed where other democrats have failed. tonight, there is plenty to debate from farmworker overtime to a rising minimum wage and a plan to bring more water to the valley. it's two men with a vision for the valley. tonight said chance to make a case for the voters.

>> we have gone over the rules with the candidates here we just flipped a quite a few minutes ago. because of that will talk about the opening sent statements. mr. emilio huerta your first. >> good evening and thank you for allowing us to be here this evening. thank you for the opportunity to speak to residents of the central valley and the viewers throughout the county. i have been a resident of the center valley my entire life. i was born in the valley, i was raised her here, i attended local schools. i went to the university in bakersfield after graduating in three years. i went to law school and after graduating from law school i came back to the valley.

the family, my mother and i, we have always been at the forefront of trying to make lives better for working people here in the central valley. as young man i was a was a labor negotiator for united farmworkers. negotiating come collective bargaining agreements to improve wages, hours, working conditions for farmworkers route the valley. later in life, i was was able to represent many community nonprofit organizations is board shared legal aid, of the credit union, representing workers who were victims of wage theft here in the central valley. i know when i go to washington that i will be able to fight, to bring resources and represent the interests of central valley. >> thank you, we appreciate that. >> thank you all for this opportunity. i represent the 21st congressional district and i've had the opportunity to do so in the last three happier spray them a i'm a dairy farmer by trading currently farming with my family, my wife and kids still live on the farm nothing

has changed. my goal in life has always been to make things better for my community and obviously for my children having the same opportunity that i did. going to washington has been a huge learning experience but one that i'm very proud of of what we fought for. number one is water, and waterfront, and waterfront valley. something i spend the majority of my time on i will continue to fight on. i can sure we have revelatory process to allow businesses to be successful. also also coming home and spending time with my family, being part of the farm and trying to raise at the crop and key people employee and raise good kids for the next generation. things are having me. >> take you for being here. there some political ads airing right now television, airing a lot. want to start with that. my first question is going to be two congressmen, the democratic party's tried to tie you to donald trump is much as possible. the factory want to talk it a look at the political ad right now. >> republican congressmen valadao said he would absolutely

support donald trump. /education funding, trump even denied water is a problem in california. born and raised in the central valley, he worked for the united farm workers union. emilio huerta will invest in education, and job creation for all of us. >> congressman, i know you have tried to distance yourself as much as possible from donald trump in recent months. how do you respond to this at? >> one, it's dishonest. i never once supported those words that i support donald trump or they put the) and there is very creative. the local paper said they deserve an emmy award for that and i've had emmy award for that and i've had outside paper say the same thing. it is what it is. when that statement was made there's still 15 people in the

race. since he became the nominee, i separated myself myself and again a few weeks ago when he said those when the audio came out. it is what it is, it's applicable world and we expect that when we get into these races. >> mr. huerta what you say? >> i think the ad is pretty accurate. i think congressman valadao decided to distance himself and put some space between him and donald trump after he was politically convenient to do so. when mr. trump came out and condemned mexican immigrants and called them rapists and drug dealers, i myself myself am mexican american. i was very offended and i'm sure most residents in the central valley, the majority of which in the central district our latinos are were equally offended. it's an obligation as a community leader, as a congressional representative to stand up and condemned mr. donald trump.

mr. valadao did not wait until months later when donald trump was the presumed nominee for the republican party. he he is the first generation son of an immigrant. i don't understand how he can go home, faces parents and basically say that he agrees with donald trump and he agrees with the view of the republican party. >> if i may follow up here, that is not true, that's most import part of this conversation. i never said those words. i have never supported donald trump. i supported his opponents. so we end up with this sort of tie, but it's dishonest and others have noticed this as well. >> two weeks ago mr. huerta you said this. if out there i can change it. so i think it think it clearly represents what we stand for. can you ask plane what you were referring to? i can't change that, clearly represents? >> there is the question that was posed was was it your ad? it was not my had. it was an ad -- as i just

mentioned it correctly betrays mr. valadao position in respect to his views with donald trump of the republican party. he allowed the creation of donald trump and he enabled donald trump to be the republican nominee, their presidential candidate. he refused to stand up to donald trump, even to this day. he is not call for donald trump's resignation as his republican leader. >> he allowed republican leader. >> he allowed donald trump to become the nominee, did you. >> i thought that was decided the primary election. >> while he had the opportunity and republican party leaders had the opportunity to condemn donald trump or racism, bigotry and devices that. they stood on the sidelines and did nothing. >> so again endorsing his opponent and supporting his opponents is helping some of his opponents in the campaign. again making making statements that i would not support that. one point i think we need to be brought up is the fact that the

best they can throw at me is attaching me to someone i've never been connected to. >> that's it pretty strong place and speaks highly to what i've done in congress and my three nephews. i'm proud of my record and as the attacks, trying to connect me to summon up never been connected to. it's deceiving, dishonest, and for, and for those who care about the community and fight for and do the right thing, this is the best they can throw at me. >> just this week the validator campaign released a political ad that criticizes you mr. huerta for making a profit off of a land deal involving the ufw and low-income housing. let's roll that add. >> i am david valadao and i prove this message. it was 11 of the worst real estate scandals in central valley history. emilio huerta used his influence to take land for the united farm workers thousand ten to for low income family housing. but then, he sold the land to developers

for 1 million-dollar profit. using his power and turning his back on the families who needed an affordable place to live. emilio huerta, just another politician looking out for himself. >> we should point out that the state attorney general found nothing illegally about that transaction. as to the assertion mr. huerta that you acted in your own best interest and not of those of low-income families in fresno, how would you respond? >> that's false. i've never taken a minute to my position with regards to anyone to benefit myself or my associate. that real estate transaction was first of all is not rpd owned by the unit farmworkers it was owned by -- they had entered into a contract to sell the property. the buyer buyer back to serviceman came to me and asked me if i could put together a team to buy the property. we purchase the property and were

able to sell it and able to give the national farmworker service the money they needed in order to build educational radios and other affordable housing throughout. >> the investigation of the attorney general came as a result of false accusations from the l.a. time. and as you just mentioned the attorney general's office investigated and found nothing inappropriate. >> a rebuttal? >> it's unethical. when you try to represent an organization that is supposed to be out there to help people and especially the most vulnerable, and you for the stories and the things that they talk about and then you

find out there profiting 1,000,000 dollars and you look at what's going on the political front where you have pay for play politics going on, it's a scary situation. i think it's worth talking about a maybe it's not illegal, but does that make it ethical, right, moral? and you look at the face of those people and say this is okay to profit that kind of money? i don't think it's right. >> you said it was one of the worst land deals, real estate deals in the history of the central valley. that's a strong's statement. is that an exaggeration in a strong's statement. is that an exaggeration in any way? >> i think it actually does a good job betraying what happen. >> would you put mr. huerta the same group as david crisp. >> i couldn't i don't know them. >> probably the worst scam case in history during the boston boom of the real estate. >> images stack, think the difference between my history, my my work in the valley as compared to mr. bae-6, i have done housing for poor people. he's never built anything. built anything. i've done clinics with poor people i've done credit unions with poor people, this transaction you mention probably happen within ten years ago. even subsequent to that article by the l.a. times, continue to work with low-income community-based organizations with housing development corporations to continue to bring decent, clean, safe and

affordable housing to communities such as bakersfield, fresno, felix arizona, and community groups have been willing to work with me, i work attacks credit agencies from california, texas and new mexico, there's not been no hesitation from anybody to bring together a deal to benefit their local community. >> so the differences the accusation that i've never built anything, it's typical it's typical of someone who's never actually done anything outside of a check and built a business to undermined, put down, we employ folks, we built a business, we continue to build, grow, and provide for the academy. we talked about jobs than what we do for the community, especially when all the groups come to us as business owners and asked for resources and money to support their events, there's a lot of things we do in our communities

but to say that you've never built anything, i'd say the people who work for us and our employees enjoy come to work especially those have been with us for over 30 years shows that we've done a good job our community, we've created jobs in a business that successful. as the economy going provides the resource in dollars for community. what more than that you want. as far as helping out with clinics, as my role in the appropriations committee making sure resources are there so people can come in and help direct, but in my role i provided assistance and i'm proud of that record. >> let's move on. congressman valadao to many observers in the valley, this republican-controlled congress and we have now has done really nothing to move forward on the issue of immigration reform. to accept any any of the blame for that? if reelected what would you do to get this issue resolved? >> there's a lot of folks to blame on that. i would start with the president and start

with former speaker. at the very beginning of this congress there is an opportunity to get something done in speaker boehner told president obama do not do anything, let us do something. let us move forward. he chose to take a different take a different path and that ruin this conversation on immigration. these are not policies and things that a been a part of major legislation but overall immigration reform is something i'm very supportive of and continue to work on behind the scene with other members who are interested in it and try to prepare for the next round. i believe there's an opportunity. it's something i take seriously. i think there is an opportunity for us to just start out would be a mistake. the president to not help the situation when he decided to make what he did. >> a rebuttal? >> i think it is typical again political convenience.

he says to latino families in the central valley that he supports immigration reform but at every turn he does what he can to block it. in march of this year he signed onto house resolution to condemn president obama's order and he has the u.s. supreme court to strike down president obama's action in that regard. when he was in the appropriations committee he refused to sign a discharge position to allow the immigration bill to go to the floor. in the state assembly he voted to allow dreamers to allow and roll in college so they could it -- he voted against allowing dreamers to have access to state financial aid so they could continue their education to be a contributing members of our community. so at every turn he says he's for immigration reform, his party leader, his first leader has made an agreement with them

to not bring them to the floor. this is his party, his leader, and that is why we don't have true immigration reform. >> thousand very controversial issue. anybody who decides to run for congress and actually put their name on the ballot has to understand their congress to write laws. that was very specific for the president overstepping his balance to overhead laws. the president is an executive but congress writes the law. we have to reinforce that and protect that.

it has been too long. it's one of the poorest congressional districts in the country and it will remain poor. we need to invest in our

community in order to lift it out of property. valadao: one of things are passed in congress is the ever student succeeds at making sure we brought back education at the local level. it was signed into law by the president and one of things we did at the end of the year last year and something that will have a relevant pack. another thing that has to play role in all of this is making sure we have good teachers and luckily, while not luckily because of my hard work and education over the last few years i got the support of the teachers association and the national education association. they know i've been there for them in education. also making sure funding is there so we can continue to support vocational education. >> moderator: we will give you the last word before we go to break into you have anything to add to that mr. huerto? huerto: my daughter went to san diego and she decided to come

back with the idea of returning to serve our community. we need to invest. we are giving up on her children and if we continue to do that we are we are not going to be able to attract new industry and give give -- get the teachers and give them the opportunity to achieve the american american dream was a loser her. >> moderator: we'll take a quick right and back in a couple of minutes of the candidates from the 21st congressional district. >> moderator: welcome back. emilio huerto and david valadao. we thank you for being here. turning to huma security how should the u.s. proceed with the processing of middle eastern immigrants seeking entry into this country? is a something that is coming up in front of us. valadao: there's a process for the refugees have been sitting

and waiting to come into another president is trying to get 10,000 in last year and i think you cheat that number but it is something we have to be nervous about continue to watch because we don't have a way to know their background and to allow people and without, we can wait three years and a refugee camp of not knowing where they came from and what their real background is a scary situation that's why i been in strong opposition to a allowing so many entered i think we have to look at the different perspective. we are looking at these countries and their ability to defend themselves or having people take over the country. pulling refugees out of there if you like the numbers are against us and we pull the people that should be our friends and they are not helping fight. i think we should reinforce them and give them the opportunity. >> moderator: mr. huerto hillary clinton wants to greatly increase the number of immigrants coming in.

you agree with her on that? huerto: absolutely. the american people have always been generous with allowing immigrants to come into our country and i think that we have to be able to welcome the victims of war and people who have no other options and to be able to preserve -- not use religion or culture identity or their nationality as a litmus test but to look at the circumstances in which they have applied for refugee status in our country. and given the opportunity to become american citizens in the united states once they have been here for a while. >> moderator: if i made only takes a couple of bad apples to really cause problems. we have seen it here in california and florida, individual people homegrown terror is not mention terrorists who may come over from another country seeking refugee status. do you not feel there should be any vetting process involved with these refugees?

huerto there should be some sort of vetting process but there is no unique way to determine who is going to be a criminal and who has the predisposition to engage in a criminal act. commonality is not unique to a muslim or assyrian or someone from the middle east and so i think a litmus should not be a factor in determining who is eligible for refugee status united states. >> moderator: . valadao: we don't know anything about these people's backgrounds but i know it's a slow process and it's something i've looked into myself. myself. sipri to three or four your process but in three or four years is still not enough not knowing where they are raised or anything about their background or if they have a criminal record because there's nothing there. it's a scary situation and pulling them away from their home country to bring them to the u.s. and citizenship in a situation like this i think is absurd. you have to look at the situation and when you look at a country like that when we look for allies people to help fight the terrorists tried to take

these countries over we should work with them and if we need to put up more camps and make them more comfortable if we need to invest more i fully support that and allowing them to stay there in their countries with their families and friends of the communities they recognized. something had to pay attention to. >> moderator: of the next president decides to put american boots on the ground of the overall effort to eradicate basis from let's start with iraq is that something you would support mr. huerto as a freshman congressman? huerto: the entire international community should be prepared and to eradicating isis. i don't think we as soon united states should take it on the loan. the other countries impacted by other -- by isis. >> moderator: certainly not low-budget art soldiers be on the ground? would you support putting in a regular troops as part of the coalition course -- forced?

huerto there would have to be a compelling reason for sending our young and men and women overseas to fight isis. and only after we have had full disclosure the exact circumstances and the timeframe the intervention strategy for when those men and women -- valadao: i spent the past christmas in iraq. just a few months ago i had a chance to visit some of our troops along the sinai peninsula in egypt and it's something i've thought about a lot. i think we have to play a role in this. i think the u.s. has played a leadership role in the two continued to play a leadership role. every time i travel to these bases that we have her work with there are lots and lots of countries played a role in this. i've been briefed by the british and the canadians and i have

seen colombian soldiers out on the field so it's nice to see the coalition there but as far as making the decision to go forward to keep more on the ground you have to look at the intelligence and you have to look at the exact situation but it is something i'm willing to look at another conversation. again it's going to take a lot of background research and you'll have have to have the commander-in-chief that you you trust to stand behind those troops to make sure we are taking care of them when they are there and when they come back home. >> moderator: there's no such thing as traditional war, traditional threats threats. their cyber threats and threats to our power grid for example which could be destabilizing to our country in so many different ways. from review and congressman we will see review how vulnerable is aarp country's power grid and how all marble are we to a cyber attack and is a congressman would be doing to help protect america? huerto i am on the appropriations cyber attack in

electrical grid is something i've looked at quite a bit with him and i continue to put pressure on the secretary of energy in the department of energy in general. secretary moniz has heard from a quite a few times on the specific issue. we are vulnerable and the more we get into smart meters and things like that and technologically advanced system more computers vulnerable to more hacking and when you get into faster and stronger computers like quantum computers this is something that can play a role in something we are aware of. it's on my radar. >> moderator: mr. huerto how would you approach this? huerto: i've had the privilege of being briefed on national security issues but i truly believe we have to check your computer structure and protect their water system and their electrical system and we have to protect those resources and our

infrastructures so we are not subject to cyber attacks. it's appropriate to make the investment in the commitment to protect the american people and infrastructure have been as states. >> moderator: it's not a briefing where you get this information? it's public information and i know you don't have any classified credentials but there are hooks out there that i've had good friends recommend to me and their people and kern county that i've talked to me in computing technology to try to get ahead of this. >> moderator: let me ask about governor brown's agenda. he is address climate change and wants to reduce fossil fuels. he'd like to do it everywhere. mr. huerto do you support the governor in this regard? huerto: i support clean air. i support a clean environment.

we have the worst air in the country and there's very little movement on the part of congress to help clean our air and to ensure our families that live here that they would be able to to -- life expectancies are not shortened because of the bad air. we have to reduce carbon gas emissions and we have to have policies that will lead to a healthy and clean environment. >> moderator: the epa however continues to punish the southern san joaquin valley for our poor air quality even though in the face of new studies that show a considerable amount of the air contaminants and up down here come to us from northern california and some say we carry a disproportionate share of the burden for other people's pollution. is that a fight you are willing to fight in congress with the epa and let me start with the mr. huerto. huerto: absolutely, gray with you. a portion of our air gets

trapped and it comes from the bay area and it gets trapped here it has no way out. we have to begin to claim that they are put it's a man-made problem. vallejo maki bring up a good point that if he regulatory -- if we get rid of every single combustible pill -- vehicle we will never meet those standards. the air coming in before touches california does not meet the standards so that the rove problem. we all want clean air and we all want clean water but we have two continued to pay those fees of 20 or $30 million. every single one of the hard-working people in the central valley are paying fees for gold is not attainable and i have fought a multiple avenues to make sure we fix that. we have also looked at ways of making sure those fees are paid

to keep them in central valley. >> moderator: thank you gentlemen. the stand in the way of an effort to repeal or refund upon the character of health insurance prime -- premiums on the rise. i think we resented a story in fresno by the families premiums are going up into% rate wide view stand in support of this program? >> there are 20 million people here in the united states that now have health insurance that did not have health insurance before the affordable care act. there were many insurance companies including my own insurance companies that refuse to cover health insurance for my batter because she had a heart murmur which he was born. fortunately for her later in life that was not an issue so the affordable care act which prohibits insurance companies discriminate if odense folks.

sifting conditions and allow the children of working families to continue on their parents insurance programs until they are 26. there would be hundreds of thousands people in central valley that would be denied access to affordable health insurance. you are correct in the a perfect model but it's better than the alternative denying working families affordable health insurance. valadao: there are things in the affordable care act that makes sense. the precondition is a concern but you want to make sure people of preconditions are seen to get to make sure we find a way that continues to be addressed. the lifetime limits i have family members of my own who have struggled because they have hit lifetime limits. the problem with the affordable care act is everyone talks about the health insurance cards and i

know that makes people feel really good to the problem we have but that is people who have good insurance in the past to pay their bills now have their insurance card. they are going to local hospitals and their hospitals are not being reimbursed. i called my opponent in one of the things that was brought up was the fact that they are starting off the year with a half a million dollar deficit. they are on the verge of closing their doors and a community on the edge of the valley like that so far away from neighbors don't want to make sure to keep those doors open. they are struggling to keep their doors open. those reimbursement rates, the insurance is what it's all about. >> moderator: mr. huerto 30 seconds. huerto: my community-based clients have been primary health care down south in san diego county here in kern county. my own father was executive director of primary health care in fresno for many years. and i'm brother is a doctor and

kern county. the access money that has been brought to our community locally in western kern county there are hundreds and hundreds of farmworkers that now have access to permit health care that didn't have that before. >> moderator: it's time for closing statements, one minute each and by virtue of the -- coin toss mr. huerto u. offers. huerto: thank you for having us again. as i mentioned my life has been dedicated to helping working families in the central valley. as a negotiator and a lawyer representing women who have been discriminated workplace because of their pregnant condition and workers who have been denied insurance because of existing