trumps america came out a little over a year ago. my name is jessica jensen and i'm the chief of staff at the foundation and i would like to welcome you all to the national headquarters and especially i would like to welcomwelcome the viewers onlins well as those watching on c-span to your day we are also joined by the interns, welcome. young america's foundation is a nonprofit organization committed to producing young people to the movement through lectures, i'm parallel to student conferences and initiatives and by providing the educational resources that students are not receiving in

their classroom. we need a young conservative movement by promoting the ideas of limited government values to free enterprise and for the next generation. the foundation's programs are shaped in great part by the leading conservatives who give their time, talent and resources to reach the students today. our guest today is one such leader who played a critical role for nearly three decades. the speaker of the u.s. house of representatives newt gingrich has been an ally in the fund america's foundation regularly addressing the programs and conferences before, during and after his time in congress. he's also addressed the students at the center in santa barbara california and along with his wife ambassador filmed one of the many documentaries to rendezvous with destiny. we are honored to host him for the first time at the foundation's national headquarters in virginia.

this is the importance of reaching and educating people with the differences that make america great. prior to his career in public service he taught at west georgia college and as the doese congressman once said, newt gingrich is a teacher that didn't stop teaching when he left congress. he represented the sixth district for 20 years and in 1995 was elected speaker of the house where he served until 1999. in the first speech, he told the young audience he felt compelled to public service at an early age noting some people have to be willing to dedicate their lives to protecting our freedom and our people. i have an obligation to do my share of the job and what a job he did. he is well-known as the architect of the contract with america that led them to victory in 1994 capturing the majority in the house of representatives for the first time in four

decades. the congress passed welfare reform the first balanced budget in a generation and first tax cut. as he rose to the ranks in congress however he remained committed to inspiring people speaking to the audiences throughout the 1990s and in 1997 he held a press conference in front of the students on capitol hill and was covered by every major news network on c-span. following his time, he launched the center for conservation and served as the chairman. including "the new york times" bestsellers and his latest book trumps america. naming him man of the year for 1993 peace at theaters as possible. exceptional leaders make them inevitable. he belongs to the category of

exceptional. at the young america's foundation we wholeheartedly agree. please join me in welcoming speaker of the house of representatives speaker newt gingrich. [applause] i'm glad you are here. he's also an intern with us and we are delighted to have him here today. i'm delighted to have the chance to talk with you and i think the young america's foundation plays a very important role. let me ask you a question of the tax case for those that are students at the present time, how many of you would say that there's a liberal bias on your campus? is there anybody here -- that's

great. anybody watching this will have the same this is abou of what tt and why the foundation matters. part of the reason i wrote trumps america is because we are in a long-term struggle that is a cultural civil war coming into those of you that are right now in the middle of classes where how many of you have a professor who you gave aid directly conservative answer under test will give you a lower grade? if you look at the news media it is an outsource of the universities. the universities became more

liberal, the news media followed the pattern and that is why you end up with the kind of news media that we have today although the intention is different. how many of you ar thought that hillary would probably win? this is a conservative audience and 95% of the hands went up. how many of you are confident that trump would win? this is part of why i wrote this because i had written last year a book called understanding trump which was because he was so different people would come to him and say i don't understand what he's doing or how he does it and so that both focused on trump but i think it

whether it is pretty well and it's still very relevant because it is large parts of who he is hasn't changed but i realized as i was watching what was going on a great deal of what you are looking through it and as a personality that its things happening in america. and you have to look at the larger picture of the america in order to fully understand the presidency. that is why trumps america is different and i have a theory about why the left is so hostile and it goes back to election d day. the team is going to break -- going to break the glass ceiling and have called on the left, weakness overseas that will

increase taxes. life was good. thathen they are suddenly starig at each other and didn't realize not only is she not going to be president, but that means donald trump is going to be president, and i think what happened was a traumatic event comparable to psychosis that the intensity and the speed of the change was so great that most liberals today suffer from apolitical variants and the part of the genius is that he tweets every morning so people go to bed trying not to think of the nightmare that is occurring and they wake up in

the morning and are about to be in a happy new day and suddenly realize he is still president. it's like watching groundhog day as a political film and that is a big part of why you have this extraordinary level of anger. it's one thing to save your ideological opponent but there is a deep part of this. he usurped the kingship sitting in the white house and shouldn't be there legitimately. of course he basically ignores all that and he grew up in the media market which is the toughest most competitive media market in the country and he learned by 1985 or so that if he

were willing to fight he would get coverage every day and he liked coverage so he spent the last 33 years fighting to. that's part of why we have this noise level up here. we have the lowest black unemployment rate in history. you would think liberals would be thrilled because after all this is a group that expressed deep concern, more job opportunities than ever and two days ago there was a report that came out but sai that said there now more vacancies than there are people looking for work. you would think that's good. the federal reserve in atlanta estimates that this quarter the economy will grow at 4.8%.

if that happens, it's not only more than twice as fast as ever under obama but it has to go back to the ronald reagan range of having a boom. part of that statement effective at the heritage foundation, a very good professional economist who said the size of the investment structure coming down the road, the number of companies investing is stunning. a canadian firm two weeks ago said virtually every company in canada is looking at moving people to the united states because the new tax code makes us the most competitive country in the world so you are better off tax wise to be here than anyplace else in the world which is and enormous shift. you will see money coming into the u.s. to build factories and create jobs and companies and at the same time, you have the

deregulation process and they've deregulated and cut red tape more than all the presidents since world war ii combined. that liberates businesses to invest. we are seeing the economy start to take off before the tax cuts because the process was sending signals that said you ought to go out and hire more people into two more things. the government isn't going to harass you and try to put you out of this is so they are already starting down the road if it's changing that but the te book isn't called trumps government, it is trumps america. there are interesting things happening out of government that will compel the change. we have a whole chapter on space because i'm passionate about space and it is our future. i'm curious how many of you would be interested if there was

an opportunity to go into space how many of you would be willing to do it, just raise your hand i'm curious. we lose 15 people a year at yosemite because they go hiking on these various trails. there are 200 people now that are frozen on mount everest but they can't get off because you claim it and it's dangerous but every year people show up and what you have is that the opening stages of moving from space as a very rare thing done by a small number of specialized people to a zone of pioneering and begin a large part of it see as an entrepreneur fits in but not the government per se. there's a book called space bearings that i recommend after

you of course finish grading trumps america. but it's fascinating because it takes for billionaires coming and we've not adjusted to get to the fact that there are people on this planet who are wealthy enough they are the equivalent of a country. they have that many assets so in a way as richard branson who runs the virgin atlantic and others has a firm called galactic and they now have a spaceship and it's successfully completed two flights and it iss designed to take six passengers and a copilo copilot up to about 60 miles which is at the edge of space so you would ride up and have 15 minutes taking pictures as seen from 60 miles up and he's put up a fair amount of money. he has hundreds of people who

will put on $250,000 to reserve a seat. the second person doing this is paul allen the cofounder of microsoft corp. about $46 billion he decided to give a totally different route. he is building the largest airplane in the world, basically two of the 740 sevens that are joined together at the middle, and it's designed to carry a bucket at about 50,000 feet and then launch it and his goal is to make going into space about the same convenience as getting on a domestic airliner so you would literally call ahead and say it was like to go thursday at 2:00 and you wouldn't have to go through training so again that is a mere space trip. the other example is who

invented the tesla and has done all sorts of things and one of his projects is space x. and he says publicly his goal is to colonize mars which again is very different from the model at nasa where they have a handful of astronauts that are trained to go visit for a little bit. he's talking about people like us just showing up one morning as pioneers. he figured out early on the biggest single problem is the cost. you use rockets once. imagine if every time you took off in an airplane that was the only flight to that airplane would make, how expensive commercial flights would be because of course you reduce the cost of. he's been designing his rockets so that they will take off and

then return. some of you may have seen the youtube video of the two rockets that come back down parallel to each other and land and his goal is to have every rocket used at least ten times. he will take at least 40% of the cost of getting to space and so suddenly you have a different cost structure. it's different things and different opportunities. the person who is the real example of the wright brothers and henry ford is just a besos who's been a space fanatics and he was about 12-years-old. he got rich for the purpose of going to space. amazon worked better than it was expected and he's now the wealthiest man in the world. i sat within a couple of months ago and he write a personal check for a billion dollars every year. no federal hearings, no government regulations, no

congressional investigations, just he hires engineers come inf the nasa bureaucracy. he just hires engineers. next year with a year after they will have a rocket called the john glenn which is a heavy lift rocket that is reusable and will literally put 5500 pounds into space and then will come back down t when they get refueled ad take another 5500 pounds to space. the goal is to do it every day, one flight per day. this is a revolution and the reason i used this example is us that is happening around the government, not because of the government. nasa provides certain facilities and has a long track record is the biggest digital memory but the truth is these entrepreneurs are just doing it. they are not asking permission or sitting around for planning

sessions. this is what you see happening everywhere. there's a firm you can look up cold -- called a udacity, audacity without the "a." it's about who invented the google self driving car and invented the earth view and talk to at stanford and offered a course on advanced computing and offered at online and he had 400 students who are registered and 53,000 people who signed up online which brinkley made the stanford judaica faculty pretty mad because they were paying tuition. out of a considerable number of them that finished th have fini, when he did the final, the top stanford student was number 400

the final exam. 399 those are people online who did better and he said he had a very sobering realization that as much as he liked his lectures, they were not the most effective way to learn tha somef the most effective way is to have a relationship where you could ask the computer over and over because the computer never got bored. it's very hard to ask a professor three, four, five times the same question. you get intimidated by your self can even professors willing to come you're not willing to put the computer doesn't care. so, he thought he wanted to develop and experiment with it so he built udacity which is an online learning system and promptly found a the universityf california faculty hated it because it was a threat. i once read a book the subtitle as pioneers of the future and prison guards of the past.

every one of these verses the stage coach, whoever was the last cycle doesn't get all that excited when the next cycle starts so he had the courage when they literally said you could not offer his material at the university system so he said i'm not even going to try and he started signing contracts to places like google an, apple, amazon, facebook. if you take his courses and passed them for the purpose of hiring you they are certified by those companies and he's discovered i can get a normal degree or a degree google recognizes i think i will try that. so it is an example of the beginning of because if we are going to go through artificial intelligence and robotics, we

will have so many jobs where people need to be re- educated that we need to think of new and better ways of learning so people can continuously upgrade their marketable skills otherwise the system goes to work. so for my perspective you see lots of changes going down the road. there's 90 drugs directly i curn the process for dealing with alzheimer's. there are 90 different efforts to develop something and it is a biggest public health cost we have come about $20 trillion between now and 2050, the equivalent of the entire national debt so it's a huge area to break through and serious effort on her way to develop a non- addictive painkillers if you could replace all of the opioids by having a painkiller that was effective without objection and that will come online in two or three years as we have a good understanding of the biology of doing that, but i look around to

see all these kind of opportunities coming down the road and then you see the left and the goal is control whether it is a government-run health system or school system you can go down the whole list and i think from the left standpoint, the world i'm describing isn't a happy and fun exciting optimistic world, it's a terrifying world. what if people got to just go out and be happy. what if they didn't really need that bureaucracy and if they could find a job and they didn't have to have somebody give them food stamps and so in a sense, the whol whole whole world viewe grow fast enough, create enough new jobs and build enough of a system is threatening if you are the left. second, the idea of making america great again by playing it to everybody so that you end

up with any american of any background having an opportunity to pursue happiness which violates the model which is we should be considered as individuals. the model is all that you should be broken up into groups and we should decide which group you should belong to and be mad at such second level of divisivened taking the country at heart and not putting it back together. in texas the poll came back senator cruz is now carrying the votes against a hispanic democrat, the governor is tied with the latino vote and they get a higher percentage than they would have gotten four years ago because again if you have the lowest rate in history, people talk with each other and start saying but if this is just working, maybe it is a good idea and so there are a lot of things

going on that represent a profound change. let me talk about one last area and that his understanding trump both in trade and foreign policy. i think it is funny that the europeans and canadians i have no idea how the meeting is going to go today but they decided that they are going to gang up on trump. it's funny because the fastest-growing economy is the united states so you might think, this happened to ronald reagan by the way when he went to his first meeting they basically treat him like this kid who didn't know what he was doing and he just sat on the cornecorner and had the fastestn the building suddenl world and e center of the stage so let's just start with that.

the other leaders might say what are you doing right but instead they are mad because he pulled out of the paris agreement and the iranian agreement and he's involved in the terrorist war and i noticed they came right back at him and pointed out for example they have 147% on farm goods. first it depends on us very heavily so they can get irritated that they can't fight with us. he's tried very hard to reform plan even though he has absolute control of the national assembly

because they are not that excited about being reformed. they have a long history for railroad workers have been striking today's weak for months to send the signal that we are not happy. imagine the chaos that causes so they are not necessarily the people that are in a good position to comment and decided they will watch over us but in addition they say something very profound. for world war ii until 2016 years the economy to prop up the alliances so if we need your help somehow you got a good deal and for a long time it made sense because the soviet union was the major competitor and number two, because we were half the world's economy. remember everybody else had been bombed. we were the one country that had

suffered any damage, so we were a huge portion of the world and we could afford to be generous. they said two years ago that the chinese stole $460 billion in intellectual property in one year. that's more than the total sales to china.

instead of putting a vague global system first that is going to create tension. if we go back they are not going to catch up in your lifetimes of these are the kind of changes that are underway that are amazing. to some understanding trump has a deep belief in his ability to

learn and ability to negotiate and one of the things people in the washington press corps gets that makes them different is he listens to everybody so when he was in saudi arabia the king was with him for three days and every time they were in public the king was next to him and they were talking and trump is listening. it's not just did you have a nice desert yesterday. he does this all day every day he picks people's brains and listens to them in ways where sometimes he will be talking but watching how you react and he will be feeding back information on what worked, that strong or that's not what he has enormous levels of energy. so, the traditional model which is i wonder what we should do about this leading to the

staffers and three from the brookings institution writing a paper so they all feel important and fighting over it for seven weeks and finally giving the president the paper his answer is i think i will call the president of south korea and china and talk to the prime ministers of japan and see how it feels. so the volume of information he takes is astonishing and his willingness to be tough. john paul use to say be not afraid, he didn't say have courage and trump operates a lot like that. i have no idea what the thing to happen in singapore. i think it is possible that they will have a very successful meeting. i think it is also possible that that morning at about this time they will decide it's not going to work and they will walk out

and that is the range of options. there was a movie called the rendezvous with destiny that is the life of ronald reagan and then we went a couple of years ago to iceland and there's a little house where ronald reagan and gorbachev met in 1987 and there is a great scene we had in the movie out of the news rooms where reagan was holding out for missile defense. gorbachev was offering him everything. we can have arms limitations, this treaty or that but you've got to give up your missile defense and he kept saying no i'm not doing that. so he's not going to give you anything and he said that's fine. so it breaks down, they walk outside and there's a great scene where he isn't normally this aggressive and is literally

in his face talking to him saying you did this, you made the mistake that you are going to regret this and it's clear that he is very angry. all of the regular people came back and said this is a terrible mistake. he had such a good deal all he has to do is give up this missile defense thing. six months later gorbachev came to an integrated every single thing reagan wanted and gave up on trying to stop the missile defense. i think trump understands that model if you are the most powerful nation in the world applying sanctions and can bring economic pressure to bear you don't have to say yes. it's the other guy that has the problem and so it's interesting to see how he negotiates next week.

how about if i just posted over for questions. you are practicing to be journalists, so here's your chance. they are going to rush up with microphones here. your first victim is right here. you have to be more assertive like you grabbed him when he walks by you. >> many of the entrepreneurs that you've mentioned a comment they found a lov lot of their success in the previous years of the obama administration so i wonder how that correlates trump's america. >> they were in zone the government haven't been able to screw up yet. i would argue that most of america is still relatively

healthy despite the big government but the impact of the large government and high taxes slowed everything down. they had the current regulatory environment and tax environment we would be probably 50% further down the road and we are right now. right here and then we will come back over there. >> when i talk to people about how black unemployment is at its lowest in history, the common response i hear is that it trumps doing that is obama. how do you retort that? >> i sa >> i say that it's astonishing that we had eight years where they never once got the growth rate of 2%. they were being told it was impossible to get to 3% and we were told that trump was elected there would be a depression, and we were told we should get used to the new normal. go back and just put in new

normal and search in your search engine and see how many left-wing economists show up saying people shouldn't be complaining. i was actually struck with this because i was in office when jimmy carter was president and we had a really small pier cove of economic growth with a higher inflation rate and carter went on tv one night and gave what became known as the malaise speech although he never used the word, but the essence of it was all feel miserable because we are miserable and it's our own fault and all of you who are miserable, i blame you. the country thought about it and ronald reagan had a line in the campaign he said a recession is when your brother-in-law is unemployed, depression is when you are unemployed and recovery is when jimmy carter is unemployed. [laughter] it is very similar. the left convinced themselves carper had the best economy you

could get and within a year and a half of taking office, we begin to change everything. you see the same thing here. i think it is hard to make the argument you can say we still need 2% growth and obama did bring a salad with a long period of one or 2%, so what is the difference in revenue and job creation between 2% growth and what is currently happening and he claims he has added $7 trillion of his policies but have added $7 trillion he wouldn't qualify with policies because it is so much more fun to say i added $7 trillion next month five more. the style he has which i think he learned early on as an entrepreneur. but i think it's going to be hard to argue if this continues we have a lot of things to do to

make this continue but if it continues i think what you're going to see is the reaction at what point did i get to tell you i think that's baloney and i'm confident that if they work out an agreement in singapore and they walk out front and announce the north koreans are giving up all their nuclear weapons by wednesday evening, "the new york times" headline will be dramatic effort by heroic kim jong despite the personality. [inaudible] >> i am in springfield and just wondering if you look at president trump's background,

he's been fairly liberal on a lot of issues in the past. pro-choice on the abortion question coming used t continuen favor of socialized medicine. i believe after the 2012 presidential election he actually accused mitt romney as being too conservative or heartless on immigration and yet now you look at his presidency and he is a staunchly pro-life anti-immigration policy who wants to overturn obamacare. what do you think accounts for the change in policy and change and i guess political direction on president trump's part? >> i tell people trump is not a conservative. barry goldwater, william buckley, what he is is the most effective anti-liberal in american history but it's not because he's conservative. it's because he applies common sense and so much of the liberalism is nuts if you apply common sense it just falls apart. i take seriously the story he

tells about the woman he got to know who'd been advised to have an abortion and her daughter was with her and she was telling him the story, that was the decisive moment. so i give him that one. there was a story that he would contemplate legalizing marijuana. you can't assume he's going to walk in the room having spent 30 years thinking this stuff through. he was an fdr democrat and as late as 1948 made commercials for harry truman and hubert humphrey and hubert humphrey was the anti-communist liberal running against the procommunist liberal in minnesota we tend to forget just how bad that was and reagan became the anti-communist and then when he married nancy, her father was a very right-wing medical doctor and gradually through the series of conversations he began to be more and more anti-tax and then was hired by general electric, a

wonderful book all of you should read called the education of ronald reagan which i recommend very highly. it is a short book and it's about time that he spent at general electric and he had as a mentor that is the government relations and i had worked with him for years when i read this book i understood what he was doing for the first time. it is that decisive a book and he learned how you deal with people. he went around the country and gave 375 speeches to the blue-collar audiences with q-and-a and picture taking so she had been interacting with blue-collar workers talking about ideas, but this guy that hired him wa as a very conservae person and ronald reagan wouldn't fly back then from 1946 to 65 he refused to fly. he had a bad airplane flight i think they were caught in a thunderstorm and he decided that was it.

he didn't fly again until in the fall of 1965 he gets a cold one evening from his brother in san francisco who says you know, there's a group of guys who would like to have breakfast with you in the morning and talk about supporting you for governor and he said well you know i don't fly and i can't get from here to san francisco that fast. he said you get to decide you want to be governor i will be at breakfast and he hung up and wouldn't take the cold. the next morning he goes out and get on the airplane and shows you how ambitious he was but for the period that he's working for general electric, he's riding a train. he didn't gamble and he read books and he keeps getting conservative books on the friedman unless he's reading the conservative economics and trump didn't do any of that. he made money and invented new

things like the apprentice and the best-selling tie in america and golf. he doesn't drink and it's not like he was hanging around being wasteful, just he is a business guy. he's not a politician. but the gap and how badly run the country was in his own ego that he could do a better job than anybody else because he got up that morning and thought i am donald trump. that's what propels him. i don't know. i don't hope into any kind of a checklist but what i will say is when he makes a decision there is a difference it's almost like there are two donald trump's. when it's a big decision come about iran agreement which for two and a half years he said was a bad deal and there were europeans approaching me before he finally ended the agreement and they said what can we do.

you either come up with a better deal or he's going to kill them. you have had two and a half years it's not like a secret. cutting taxes, the same deregulation, conservative judges. when you get down to the little things he's totally unpredictable. he couldn't predict himself because he's basically a free spirit on small things and i think you have to see him that way but your observation is right. he evolved into this an interesting question he evolved in response to an evolving evoly and in part in response to running as a republican populist in a field with 16 other people in overtime he realized h that e was going to put together a base that wasn't just personality, he had to have a frame of reference that enabled him to appeal to the large bloc of people.

the two came together late over here. one of you has to go way over here. i know it's tricky. thank you for coming. i met for dinner with the former national security adviser hr mcmaster the other night and he wanted me to send my regards to you. my question is when you were the speaker oatthe speaker of the hd wrote the contract with america. 20 years later and it kind of seems like congress is in a perpetual state of gridlock. what changes do you think we can make to get out of this, and do you think this is an issue of incompetence or partisanship? >> we are not in a perpetual state of gridlock.

we passed the largest cut in american history. they passed a number of other bills. but there is there's a very den divide, and i think there's at least two parts to what's going on. one is the gap between the right and the left as i describe it in trumps america we are in the middle of a cultural civil war and i mean that literally. cities arso these are profound differences about the nature of america and i think that makes it a real challenge. second, i think you have to have a personality who can deal with it. i personally would have had no idea how to deal with barack obama because i think he was a opaque. he spent all day with the greatest person on the planet, which was him and he was treated with contempt. unless, and there was no way to break through. i talked to a guy in -- ryan

when he was speaker, and i don't know what i would have done because the personality was hard to deal with. bill clinton for his weaknesses is a an astonishing human being and you can talk with him about a third of the time he would lie, but it's just a part of the process. and then you could figure out after a while which ones were true and which ones were not come often which once happened and which ones didn't. ..

>> is to call you so you need a seatbelt. >> fernando university of florida. to deregulate the governments how do you see the government shrinking? to reduce the federal regulations and will continue to find every possible way to

make it more faster and efficient. i suspect there will be some attrition but you have to handled very carefully in the middle of cancer research project that doesn't mean you can't find it to more cancer researchers. but my guess they are expanding homeland security and that's will continue giving the rights to a more dangerous world.

>> you're halfway through trump's first term where do you see the economy going? >> actually i divided council of america into two parts. the first half as we have accomplished up until now and then the second half what we have to do in the challenges. and that they will grow dramatically as the economy would be shocked 4.5% real growth over the next three or four or five years. to say this is a great project for someone. historically for 200 years

over 3% average look at the last two years of bush and the eight years of obama, even though it was slowly recovering at a rate below the historic level. if we stayed at 3.5% what would the economy look like today? and that we cannot grow much more but by historic standards we are probably 15 or 20% smaller than we would have been if we grew consistently at 3.5%. so this is what happens. if bush had not come out for a tax increase to grow through the early '90s.

bush coming out for a tax increase and to slow down the economy and then to health elect the first republican house in 40 years. >> julianna from calvin college and you talked earlier how the age of artificial intelligence like the american workforce has to be more fragile in response what do we do to become more agile? >> if you are back at 1800 a substantial number of people to have overwhelming the that majority of the population and if you said to them .5% of the

country that we have to sell somewhere but i think the same thing is true today. humans have a knack to invent the next goal of desirable things at a rate slightly past unemployment so over time to have a better job and better salaries with better commissions and i believe that humans or your generation on average will live over 100. and much healthier 100 your generation is like 64 historically people were worn out physically if you work in a steel mill you are physically worn down.

maybe we exercise that you are not burned out. so people will live longer i was speaking to henry kissinger and he works full-time at 95 and if you said to him we will make retire he would be bored to death. so people will live longer with a greater range of options so here is a model to look at have to build online convenient mentoring and learning systems to allow you to learn conveniently so if you want to go to bally for six weeks and take courses online i don't care. i don't thank you have to go to a campus to be available to

hours a week the professor is available if you think about how inefficient the current structure is and then rethink the finances i was talking to a relative of mine is that i don't have a pension but they have a 4o1k that they match so he has a larger ounce of money into his 4o1k but you have to think that each of you on average will have five or seven or more jobs in your lifetime. how do you change and evolve? and people will just learn to do that. >> i have an idea for your next book and i thank you are

the most qualified to handle this. it could be a donald trump's guide to handle the ever-changing nature of world events to use a system of computers to have an infinite number of possibilities of events that are taking place at any given time and if given a problem, reader participation it is your job as a reader to come up with the most viable way to handle this problem and have a system of grading it so we can vet those who should never run for president. >> anybody can run for president who has the guts to do and the american people can weed them out and it isn't

through a rational process but in the end who has the makings to be president? although it be fun to invent a game that would be president where a whole series of crisis and the reagan library has done this that takes the grenada operation and take student in and puts them in the situation room to say you have to make the decision and think it through and it is pretty good. >> college of the ozarks mitchell sanders you touch on conservative fiscal policy and attitudes toward government and i think larger portion of america is starting to agree with you but i think that a lot of people think about the

social policy especially my generation they consider themselves conservative fiscally but liberal socially so what do they need to do to adapt to that? >> i think it works itself out in different ways. on one friend you could argue that the whole question of gay marriage with your generation what you could call the left but on the other hand abortion is moved to the right and that development of technology that allows you to see the baby at an earlier age has had a devastating effect especially after the first 20 weeks so it is a more complicated pattern. but you build a majority around the issues part of the art of politics is to focus on

what you win on not let you lose. one of the things i am proud of as speaker i helped to write before balance budgets in your lifetime and i think we will get back to that and there are ways to do that that are very real i will do some short courses on how to balance the budget but the country is getting right to be my best reclaim control of its test i'm getting a hook so i will say back to where we started i think the young america foundation is important because we badly like yourselves who are willing to learn conservativism in debate conservative is a man stand up on campuses and later in newsrooms and in the long run

there is a high likely to go against the left but it takes people like yourselves who are willing to make the argument. i am honored to be here and thank you be 17. [applause] >> things to all of you for being here today and watching on c-span for more information go to our website as speaker will take photos out in the lobby so exit that way you all have a copy of the book we will do a photo line thank you for joining us we hope to see you again spee5 spee5 .

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