>> stacey: thank you for having me here. >> c-span's washington journal live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up friday morning the milwaukee journal's discuss paul ryan's congressional career and his legacy as house speaker. be sure to watch c-span's west virginia r washington journal. join the discussion. >> coming up tomorrow morning live coverage of a how to a do a better job of overseeing the federal government. among the speakers, inspectors general from the security agency and justice department. live at 8:30ene here on c-span 2. you can watch online at c-span.org and on the free c-span radio app. >> ohio governor john kasich is a potential candidate in 2020.

he delivered remarks at the gala in manchester new hampshire, his remarks are about 40 minutes. >> john kasich was a congressmen for nine terms, and he served among other committees he served on defense, and budget, and among his notable achievements were the budget act of 1997. the balance budget act of 1997. who would have thought it. after that he was in the private sector for a time, he worked for fox news, and he was an investment banker, although now i think they're both the same company. [laughter] and he was governor of ohio for two terms and i think that he would probably say that he is

most proud of his achievements as governor of ohio and i hope he talks a little bit about that. he ran for president in 2000 and he doesn't remember me telling him this, but i told him he shouldn't do it. and in 2016 he ran for president. and what i should have done is endorsed him, but i didn't. [applause] but he's here tonight as a favor to the school which is a little school with big ambitions, and has done a lot to teach a lot of people the first amendment and communications and broadcasting thanks to our friends at mur and the governor has agreed to say a few words and then do a town hall q and a as he told people up in the back. you don't have to ask him a question that he's probably answered a hundred times in the

last two days but i'm sure there are things that you would like to ask governor kasich, and that he would like to speak about, so john, it's up to you. [applause] >> i'm moving down here because for those that saw me speak and move around, i don't want to die in this pit. [laughter] so -- i'm coming right down here. mr. asy the great photographer who has taken photos all over the world. it's a dangerous job and he's been in difficult places and he is going to be honored tonight. congratulations god god bless yu for your work. [applause] let me just hit the nail on the

head. if i run for president again i have no clue that the union leader would endorse me. i don't have any idea what would happen. it doesn't matter. because i think it's a national treasure. a national treasure when you go through the history of presidential campaigns, and you think about all the things that happened in those offices and all the things that happened on the steps of the union leader and nothing -- i don't think how many times joe tells me the story of when john kennedy said that i don't know if there's a worse newspaper or worse publisher in william lobe in america. if there is i don't know who they are, and he laughed and it was a remarkable scene at the union leader and i can remember also of course that i don't know why it's etched in my memory but the vivid recollection of edmnd

musky i like joe a lot. he's an enigma. you can't figure him out. his daughter was for me for president and he should have listened to her. she was terrific. [laughter] this nacky lobe i'm so glad to be at the first, second and third reception and there you to give and to help support this school. do you -- you have to understand how important this is. i got a list not just of -- i learned a little bit about nacky lobe and bill lobe and her courage and how she modernized that paper and now that school where these young people can go and learn, but marie coivellen,

a new feature form of private war celebrates the life of maria solven. she was working for the sunday times while killing the civil war in syria. a veteran war correspondent colvencovered numerous armed conflicts around the world since 1986, reporting on war and misery, in the middle east, africa, the balkans and east asia. in 1989 in the jungle she became upon a camp of women who were facing certain death. refusing to abandon her her reporting reached the west and led to their evacuation. her career produced many stories of courage and persistence, getting the story under the most harrowing circumstances. in the process she suffered ptsd, but was undeterred from going back into harm's way.

in 2012 she and her photographer were killed by artillery fire while covering the syrian civil war. marie, we honor you. we respect you. and i guarantee you to all of us that the lord is honoring her. and then there was how was an ad winning mexican journalists -- a weekly newspaper dedicated to investigating crime corruption and human rights. he wrote several books on drug trafficking, including his unflattering portrait of even el chapo. in 2009 after particularly hard-little expose of drug trafficking in the recently's

notoriously justice system he escaped injury when a grenade was thrown into his neighborhood office. in may of 2017 he was pulled from his car and shot 12 times by 12 hooded men. that's courage. i don't think i could do it. you go out there, you travel, you go to really difficult places, people shoot at you, they spit at you, they curse you. why do they do it? they think it's a gift. it's a gift of courage, to be able to apprise all of us of so many things that happened in the world. and the press, is the one thing that holds the rich, the powerful, accountable. so we normal swlinses can make up our minds about the current state of affairs. about our culture. about the world.

about what we can do and think, and take actions about certain injustices. so, joe, it's a great thing for me to be able to be here and it's a tremendous honor for me to be able to be part of this. this is one of those things that you'll -- you just don't forget. it's stored away in the back of your head. as for me, as you all know, two years ago, i didn't go to the convention. it was very, very difficult for people to understand in my own home state. they kept begging me to go into the arena a and i said you know what how do i go into an arena when i'm the skunk at the party. i never endorsed donald trump. because i learned -- [applause] i learned a whole lot in new hampshire. you know when i started out and joe says talk about your governor, but i started out

talking about my incredibly great record in washington. nobody gave a flip. [laughter] he balanced the budget, what is that about? so as i learned as time went on, here, in this great place in this great state, is it was never about the issues. it really is about the people. and it is really about today as i even met with your governor today, who i think has done a terrific job and i'll tell you why. i believe that politics today is about something bigger than just these issues. not that issues don't matter. but it's about the soul. it's publicity the fact that if you want to be a successful leader, whether you are a manager like your great manager coria, or whether it is in business, with people who are

inspiring, what we learn is that when leaders can communicate to people, that they can live a life a little bigger than themselves, it makes an unbelievable difference in the way the world spins. what i found here is the more i could talk about the personal issues that people have, and we all have them. you know with some people many of us in this auditorium are fortunate. but we can't escape some of the difficulties and evils that we find on this planet. but there are many people who don't sit in this auditorium today because they wouldn't know how to get here. people who were nervous about their healthcare, people who were struggling with their income. people who have family members, i was just talking to a lady who was a volunteer here tonight and she came to me and she said my son now is 4 years sober from his heroine addiction.

all people want is for you to listen to them, to be able to understand what's going on and to have compassion. what i have learned and dislike about the president is instead of being a unifier and someone who can dig deep into somebody's problem, and say yes those are problems and together we can fix them. he has played a blame game and allowed people to consider themselves victims. he's allowed to have people be told that this happened to you because someone did it to you. it's not personal i completely disagree with it. i was willing don't endorse the guy, and don't go to the convention for this reason. i thought he was not a unifier and i held out the hope for a couple years he would find his way. and i'm not convinced he can't. i don't know what that means, i

don't know ultimately what the political situation is, but i know what the anecdote is. and i remember it's not just which president who's letting us down. it's politicians across the board who have not shown the leadership qualitiies of putting somebody else before them and their political career. it's hard to do. it's hard to do because no one wants to do something that's going to cost them their job. you don't either. but sometimes the principle matters more than the short-term what object that you're clinging to. in my state in the eight years people want to know what is your legacy. i said well nobody cares about legacy because it only happens when they're dead and at that point you're not caring a whole lot about what they're saying about you. but what i've been proud of is that we are balanced, we do have structural balance. we do have surplus money, all

that is good. we are up over a half a million jobs and the reason that's so important is that's a politicians ragreatest moral purpose is to provide an environment for job growth but there's something else that's happened. that i'm particularly proud of. and thank the lord and my mother and father for putting in me a sense of compassion for others which the lord had kindled in my heart. not that there aren't days where that fire is doused because it exists. but most days that i think i can slow down and listen to somebody else. and whatium so pleased about is that we did not leave anyone behind. early on we talked getting health insurance for mothers and fathers who couldn't get coverage for their autistic sons and daughters. so we took care of it. and somebody in the small business community said well that's just going to drive up

the cost. i said well i guess that's just tough because we're all in this together. and it was negligible as you would expect. i was concerned about the minority community, when we saw a young boy shot and killed in a park in cleveland and a couple driving a car who were -- who died through multiple bullets through the car who were unarmed. the grand jury's -- they thought there was no liability or on anybody. but i knew that as a result of that we were going to fragment our society, our culture, our state. and so we put together black and white, and law enforcement, and academics and community activists and we reached a whole series of things that will protect the police but also protect the community. went through the problem of medicaid expansion. probably something that wouldn't

fit into the ideologiy of the union leader. but let me tell you what i thought. if i can take the money and treat the drug addicted, if i can treat the mentally ill and keep them from sleeping under a bridge, if i can help single moms with children be able to get healthcare so they can go to work, what a great thing that is. i'm not going to be to do it if it's financially easy. if we can't afford it we're not doing it. disrupting the economy and costing jobs would be worse but we figured out how to do it. we figured out how to help the small businesses be more profitable where they don't pay state income tax. we killed the death tax because we didn't want to punish people to who worked a lifetime and we are currently working on killing death, but we haven't made a lot of progress. we are working on legitimate gun control and i'll tell you what it is. it's called the red-flag law.

if you know somebody in the workplace or somebody in your family who poses a threat to themselves or to others, you can approach a court and you can have that gun removed if the court finds that person unstable. that is not a violation of the second amendment or even erosion of it. but it makes good common sense. and we haven't been able to achieve that. i'm concerned about the environment. we're here to be good stewards of the creation we've been granted. all of these things have meant that from top to bottom, no one's been left behind. that's what i'm proud of. because we didn't play the political game or put our finger in the air to try to decide how to do this. now the credit of that goes to my staff, my team, and most particularly to my mother. who was nothing but a troublemaker and intelligent woman who always spoke out. i learned that from her. so the future for all of us is

this. and i want to give you an early christmas present. something i talked on the trail and got away from for a while but i'm back to it again. understand had that nobody has ever been like you before. no one has ever been like you who lived before and no one will be like you who comes next. you see you're special. with special talents, special gifts, and an ability, an ability to have a destiny that can help us change our world. and the anecdote to all the anger and all the division and partisanship, we should be angry about it, but we need to realize when we use those gifts in whatever way, that woman whose son was a heroine addict whose now being helped by people, they're changing that guy's world and we never know when small acts of doing well can have an exponential effect on

the way the world spins. i believe this. we have to believe in ourselves because the greatest strength in our country is the ability of all of us to work where we live, to band together and send a message to those who are in charge to get their act together, and to make this a stronger state, community and nation. if we do it, we're going to be fine. and it will unite all of us in a way that we're all hungering for today. so with those brilliant opening remarks i'm going to take some questions. [applause] who wants to go first? >> okay, i never take the first hand up so i'm going to go to this lovely young woman. i. >> i live in a house where cnn

is watched on one tv and fox on the other. i'm nbc, i'm in the middle. fake news is all over. how do you deal with making an open and free press something that's stable? >> i think that first of all, people say the press is liberal. it's always been liberal. what are you kidding? it's like you go to college and they say the university is liberal. of course it s that's the way it works. my doctor is conservative, and the engineer who built the bridge is conservative and i'm glad about that. what my job is a consumer of news. let me tell you some of the websites. i look at bbc and cnn's websites, i read the newspapers and i put all that together and figure out what i think i should believe. and part of the response of the media is to make sure they're

not giving in to hits and collision, and but if it bleeds it leads has always been -- tom griffith is with us tonight, that's why it works. there's also a responsibility that a guy like griffith has that says i'm not doing that story tonight. that goes too far, it's too salacious for me to do that. so they have to restrain themselves but i don't want the government, i don't want us running it down. i want us to search for a cafeteria, i'll have a little bit of fox, and cnn, and go over here to msnbc, i'll pick up the union leader and make my own opinion. but the young people today at -- ask me what about people who absorb what they want. and i said well that makes you boring. because one of the goals in life is to be an interesting person.

and involved and engaged person. if all you ever get is the stuff that you agree with, then your horizon is limited so it's in all of our self-interests to want to go out there and explore words that we didn't know anything about and test our arguments about the things we think. it makes us more interesting, more compelling, and i think that's really good advice to those kids. so just don't know one way, and to all of us just explore. keep an open mind. listen, you're smart. just the thing about the american people i think. i hate when politicians say -- and the american people want -- what do they know what the american people want? but i know the more i provide diversity in my mind to the things that are out there, the better i am and the younger i am and the hipper i am and the more excited i am and the more energetic i am. so knock the calls down and share it a little bit.

how's that ma'am? can you do that? who has the fox news on? expose them to some other things as well. i used to work there you know. i don't work there now. and by the way you may somewhere in the not too accident future you may see me back in the media again, it might be fun. we'll see. >> something you said earlier governor really struck me. you said it's not so much about the issues it's about the person. and while i tend to agree with you in the landscape that we live in, we knew that donald trump wasn't a good person. before we elected him. and we knew you are a good person. i think most of us certainly any of us who met where you personally know that you're a dam fine person. you really>> you don't know me l

enough. [laughter] >> i'm not here to say that donald trump is not a good person. i may not like his tactics and approach but i don't question his worth as an individual. >> well i'm not putting those words in your mouth. i'll get to my question. my question is can someone like you or someone else like you win the next presidential election on personality versus issues? >> let me be clear. it's not personality. it's not like who can tell the best jokes or -- it's not that. i think that it's giving people a sense that you get them. you understand them and you want to work to help them. and that doesn't mean you go along with everything. a young woman who works for the a a clu says we have a lot of

issues we want to talk to you about your state. i don't know what she wants. but that doesn't mean i'm going to go for it. but i want to give her a hearing and thinking about it that's the way we do things in the office that we have. we hear things that are -- is that you? but we want to think about things. there's controversial issues at the aclu weighs in on. i'll give you one. the death penalty. i've let people go and gave them a chance to go from the electric chair from execution to time life in prison. some people want me to abolish it. i'm not going to abolish it. but i do understand the seriousness and the gravity. i've never spoken about this before. the g-raivity of when you have a decision like that to face. i'm not trying to tell you have to be soft.

soft is not what i'm talking about. what i'm talking about is the ability to listen and let people know you're going to consider them and particularly if they are in trouble. if they are in trouble then you have an obligation in my opinion to say where are you, i don't want you to be stuck. you know it's funny i went to visit one of my daughters in college. she has questions about does she want to stay at that college. you know what i told her? i said sweet heart you're not stuck. the worst thing you can do to somebody is get them stuck and feel like there's no way out. you want to be able to communicate to people you're not stuck but don't make false promises, and don't be mr. softy. i think people want leadership, firmness, and toughness but they want a kind heart. isn't that what we loved about reagan. he was a guy, who was tough, teflon. because people thought he really

cared and we always go to reagan because he was an extraordinary guy. he really was. he had that strong spine but he had a good demeanor and people had the sense that you know what? he kind of gets me. that's what made him so good. one of the things that helped george bush win was the young bush, people said well i could have a beer with him. and so it's a sense you get about the kind of leader that we want. and i don't mean to pick on republicans because when you thinking about it, harry truman, right or franklin roosevelt who had an unbelievable strength about him, we admire those kind of people but we don't want to think that they're living in another world and they don't get us, does that answer it? yes, okay. who's next. how about you young lady right here. >> so one of the things that we

touched on tonight is hyperpartisanship and how we can find the middle ground or focus on the people. i think one thing that's interesting is the role of a third-party option or an independent candidate and i know that in new hampshire there's been a lot of debate about that. the libertarian party -- so i guess my question to you is do you think that a third party or independent candidate could be viable on the national level, and do you think the media has a role in that? >> that's a really good question. first of all, third parties historically, and i'm not a his torian like my college doug price. third parties i've always paid attention to them or read about them. they've brought up an issue that the two major parties were not addressing. i i think that's a good

analysis. you had pero that talked about the death. john anderson talked about financial reform and elections. you had third-parties running during the vietnam war. the fact is you saw teddy roosevelt ran because maybe he was angry he wasn't president anymore but he was a big factor with the bull moose party. but i wonder if today, pretty soon people aren't going to be driving their cars they're going to be driven by computers. pretty soon we're going to be using data analytics to determine the kind of healthcare we're going to have. pretty soon we're going to see all kinds of magical inventions that are going to change the very way we live which we need to prepare for. so an era of all this change why wouldn't we think there couldn't

be fundamental political change. i think it's possible. but i think you're right about the media having some responsibility. i'll tell you my own story. when i came to new hampshire i had i think one or two percent name id and i beat everybody but trump. so i'm getting ready to go to south carolina and i exceeded all expectations. anybody who exceeds expectations gets on a rocketship into the consciousness of america. . . . . .

. >> so talking about foreign policy, what are our allies thinking? are we biding our time until

we think of the next election? are we at such a point to have such dramatic effect looking back? . >> first of all, europeans meeting with their ambassadors which is interesting to invite me to their embassies or whatever, they are wondering if this is america or the aberration of america. in other words, , we can deal with this for four years, if it is eight years it is a different deal. my concern about foreign policies because i can buy better products at cheaper prices because of competition

we are all revolving we do other things the rest of the world does not do. when we have a global environment with lower prices and better quality items that doesn't mean every trade deal is great or free and open trade is very good but it allows you to have a relationship with other people. and then you get to understand them. so when we withdrew from the ptt it was a bad decision because one of the great shadows is china and we should stand up against china but if we stood up with our friends in europe who are getting ripped off as well there is strength in numbers. first of all, i don't want to

go through the litany but here is what i'm concerned about. since world war ii if you see potential conflict in the world the united states can use its prestige economic to keep the party from engaging in conflict or war which is celebrating which then led it never really ended going from world war i through world war ii because the idea was never again to have america in a position to help mediate the dramatic and stark differences that arise between nations.

if we don't do that, who will do that? and if we have war? think about that i read about the losses of world war i and world war ii with the great global wars and the people whose lives are lost. people just don't remember that if you don't remember your history they say you are doomed to repeat it. sometimes it feels like maybe we are doing a lot more than we need to for the rest of the world but one final thing, i am so glad i was born in america and my children were born in america not guatemala, syria, russia, china. as a result of that, i will stand strong for my country.

>> one more but then your staff wants to get you out. >> are we going anywhere tonight? . >> my question relates to foreign policy i came here five years ago but we are incredibly grateful for all of the support that we have here. [applause] but at the same time for those challenges our own family and friends and face every day back home. i'm sure you understand the us media in general to organize the syrians for their rights

and freedom and the same applies to politicians killing hundreds of thousands of syrians for those extremist groups that syrians are the first victims of so now your position how word you tried to bring the support to syrians? . >> there are so many mistakes made early with what we could have done because the sod is a butcher that will be tried in a criminal court but going forward we will have leverage because of reconstruction and as a result of that we don't want to give up the leverage

in terms of trying to settle that down because of extremely complicated and extremely difficult but that reconstruction money is important to play a larger and larger role and i am so pleased to see that, what's the name of the town? they may have averted a terrible catastrophe. we are all concerned about the issue of immigration. but i believe of the problem that we have they all can to be solved at the border so why do we go to where the problem is like we try to do in columbia and with a security

program to help them to destroy these cartels they don't want to come they can stay in their own home and then we need to reach out. and then with that caravan we really do need more silent judges and points of entry and i would ask you to think about this. when you have a mom who lives in guatemala or one of those countries and the daughter is threatened with rape and the sun will be executed where will you go?

where will you try to go to rescue your family? i can tell you or i will go so sometimes before we jerk we need to think about the impact in other people i think i'm headed to washington as i said earlier you heard about the change of that obnoxious name and they will not be known as the redskins. [laughter] [applause]