captioning performed by vitac then vice president biden, did you hear him the other day? he said he's in favor of a new global tax. he's the gift that keeps on giving, you know that? [ applause ] i don't know how he intends exactly to apply that but i do know if he's planning on putting it on certain types of enterprises, groups of people we call companies or business, some of them will decide to go elsewhere and locate in another place. that's the problem with democrats. they just don't understand that some of their policies cause people to do different things. they create incentives to change behavior and when you apply taxes that other countries don't

have or when you make the taxes higher than other countries have them, inevitably enterprises will start up in other places rather than here. what we have here is such an extraordinary economic engine that leads the world. in part because the founders recognized in america we would be free to pursue happiness as we choose and establish a government that was limited and that encouraged individuals to build businesses and build enterprises. and as they do, that doesn't make us poorer. that makes us better off. america leads the world economically because we have always led the world in terms of our economic freedom. freedom drives america's economy. that's why we'll win. i don't know whether you heard david axelrod the other day.

on sunday. i don't have the exact quote here. but each said something to the effect of we got to get off the economic road we're on and take a new direction. i could not agree more. [ applause ] we have to make sure that we get off this road where more and more people are stuck into poverty, where it's tougher and tougher to be in the middle class, where gasoline price goes higher and higher, where the unions are driving what's happening in our schools. this is a very difficult road we're on. it's time we're going to get off it. i'm convinced that the president was also right the other day when he said that we're going to have two competing visions in the election in november. there's the vision which represents the road we're on, in david axelrod's words, and there's a different vision, which is the vision we represent. we can describe some of the differences. in terms of the road we're on, the obama vision, it means

trillion dollar deficits every year. it means a president who in four years who has amassed almost as much public debt as all the prior presidents combined. the alternative vision is the vision we represent. if i'm president we shall will cut federal spending, we will eliminate programs, combine some agencies and departments, we cap federal spending as a percentage of the budget and finally get on track to having a balanced budget. [ applause ] if we stay on the road we're on, you're going to see government getting larger and larger and larger and metastasizing itself into every aspect of life. do you know how big government is as a percentage of our economy today? federal, state and local government represents 38% of our economy. if obamacare is allowed to stand, they'll take that up to almost half of the total economy. are we still a free economy in a

setting like that? then if you take the things that government is trying to control indirectly, financial services, automotive, energy, health care, you go throughout the economy, they will directly or indirectly control over half of the u.s. economy. that's where they're taking us. i don't believe in an economic system run by government and controlled by government. i will return to america the principles of previous enterprise and economic tree freeh dom that drove us to be the most powerful economy in the world. [ applause ] one of the most dangerous aspects of the road we're on is represented by a president and a party who unfortunately take their direction far too often from union chief executive officers, union ceos. that's where they get their money. hundreds of millions of dollars.

and that's where they pay obedience. you look at the president's agenda as he came in. first of all, executive order, all federal projects, we're going to give them to union leaders, not fair rules where the best competitor get a chance to compete. no, we're going to get it to our friends and then try to stack the national labor relations board with people who tell boeing they can't build a facility in north carolina. then you have a setting in washington, d.c. where a lot of our schools are awful, people standing in line to go to a charter school. what does this administration do? shuts down our option. who do you think was crying for that but the teachers union. then we had opportunities to open enough markets, a productive nation like ours grows and it more successful if we can sell good to other nations. everyone else has figured that out. china and european nations over

the last three and a half years have opened up 44 different agreements with different nations, trade agreements. guess how many this president has put in place or negotiated in the last three and a half years? none. the three that were finally approved by the senate were the ones that were negotiated by his predecessor. these are the demands of the union bosses. and let me tell you, if anything were to kill america's economy, if it were not our deficit and the massive debts this president is amassing, it is his obedience to the union ceos. it is dangerous. i believe in the right of people to join unions if they want to, but i also believe that we have to have a president that will stand up for the american people, not just a segment of the american people. one of the things i'll do is to leaning the pay of government workers with the pay and benefits that exist in the private sector.

[ applause ] you know the road we're on with regard to health care. its road that says that federal bureaucrats can do a better job than you can deciding what kind of health insurance you ought to have. ultimately i'm convinced those federal bureaucrats will tell you what kind of treatment you can receive. that's where we're headed. if i become president, we will repeal obamacare and return to the individuals in america the responsibility and the right for their own health care. [ applause ] you know the road we're on with regards to energy. this is a president who says he likes all of the above. did you hear that? he keeps saying that. i scratch my head because his epa and other regulators have been trying to insinuate themselves into regulating natural gas and fracking. hopefully they're backing away

from that, i saw goodness on that today. they made it harder and harder to mine coal and use coal. put a moratorium on drilling for oil in the gulf. it does not seem like an all of the above energy policy to me. then i figured it out. the president does like all of the above. he likes all of the energy sources that come from above the ground, all right. so anything below the ground he doesn't like, coal, oil, gas. we all -- we all like wind and solar but we also like those below the ground and if i become president, we will finally have an energy policy which is focused on keeping the hundreds of billions of dollars we spend a year buying energy from other people, keeping it here and, by the way, one person we will buy from and that's oil from canada because i will build that pipeline if i have to myself. [ cheers and applause ]

>> the road we're on is one where every four years the president or his party, they talk about entitlements and the fact that medicare and social security are nearing insolvency. they also at that buck immigration and the challenges for the immigration programs and immigration policy. yet when they had a super majority in the house and a super majority in the senate and the white house, what did they do about social security and medicare and immigration? nothing. for them these are campaign issues. these aren't issues to deal with an improve. if i'm president of the united states, we will work together to preserve and protect medicare, social security and legal immigration. [ applause ]

i just want to mention the military for a moment. there does seem to be one place where the president is willing to cut back. and that's our military. would see the world as a safer place. when i look at pakistan and the nuclear weapons and the state of their government, when i consider iran and their rush towards nuclearization, even when i consider china and their claim to the south china sea. when i look at what's happening in the middle east, i don't think america is on a track to cut back on our military capability. we have fewer ships in the navy today than any time since 1917. our air force fleet is smaller and older than any time since when it was formed. our troops were, as you know, stretched to their breaking point in the conflicts we've had yet the president wants to cut

our numbers of troops. my open uview is very much consistent with ronald reagan and that the the best peace ever known is a strong america and i will defend our military. [ applause ] the road we're on is one of blaming and dividing. this is a president who time and again is looking for someone to blame for his own failures, someone to scapegoat. chairman previously just a moment ago described some of the people and groups he's tried to blame over the past several months. the list is getting longer and it's getting more intense as he feels himself under pressure, whether it's the 1% or congress or republicans or speculators, you name it. he's got someone to blame for all of the measures he described for himself. i will not apologize for success

at home and i will never apologize for american greatness abroad. [ applause ] and i will endeavor in every way possible to bring americans together because i subscribe fully, as our party does, to the principle of america being one nation under god. this is a great land and a great people with a great purpose. the president said we have alternative visions. true. we've seen where his vision leads. job losses, losses of homes, losses of savings. we've seen the vision of barack obama. just open your eyes if you want to see where his vision leads. the vision we have, the vision i have, the vision we share is one where once again the middle

class is growing and people are earning more money where kids can afford college, when they come out of college they can find a job. when soldiers coming out of the military know there's a good job waiting for them that respects their talent and the skills they receive in the military. the america you and i are going to fight for in our vision is one where we're known and respected around the world, known that our word means something, that our military is the strongest in the world, so strong that no one would ever think of testing it. it's a great thing about a strong military. you don't have to use it. just having it keeps bad people from diddioing bad things. [ applause ] this is an america that i see, that we see, with bright prospects for our kids. when you ask parents do you think the future will be brighter than the past? they say absolutely.

i see the road we're on, the debt is not getting bigger, it's getting smaller, we're balancing budget, jobs are growing again, enterprises are going up, incomes are going up. that's the vision i see. i also see a nation that's united. for me the image of america comes to mind in a lot of different mental pictures that i've had over the years. let me mention one to you. i was serving as the governor of my state and i got a call from the airport and they said that the remains of one of our servicemen killed in iraq was coming in on a plane, a u.s. air ways flight to logan airport. they'd called the parents and asked the parents if they could come to the airport to receive their son's body but the parents lived so far away they couldn't get there in time and they asked if i could go in their stead to receive the body and i said of course. our state capital is close to the airport, got in the car,

went over to the airport and on to the tarmac. this jet came in and stopped in front of the terminal and the people disembarked and the conveyor came down and all the luggage came off. finally when everything was cleared the casket appeared and it was brought down the conveyor and the soldiers that were there picked it up. i put my hand on my heart and the state troopers who were there with me saluted and as i was standing there and looking at that casket as it was put in the hearse, i happened to glance at the terminal. up there to my right is a big glass wall at the u.s. airways terminal at boston airport. it seems the people who came off the plane saw all the police down there and they stopped to see what was happening. and the people walking down the hall, they saw all the people lined up at the glass and

crowded up behind them. as i looked up there every single person i could see had their hand on their heart. that's the image that comes to my mind when i think about america. i don't think about an american difficult described. i think of an america that's patriotic, that respects the sacrifice of heros proved in liberating strife, that kind of pride in america. we're going to bring it back again and again by virtue of restoring the principles that made america the hope of the earth, our commitment to freedom, to unity, our commitment to respect, to free enterprise, to people being able to pursue happiness in the way they choose. these commitments are profound, exceptional. these are the greatest in the history of the earth because of our people, our place and the principles that made us a great

notion. we will restore them together with a great win in november. thank you so much. great to be with you. [ cheers and applause ] thank you, governor, and thank you senator mccain. we can assure you that we're not going to trade the vision of our

founding fathers for the dreams of obama. and we have a lot of work to do. this isn't going to happen automatically. it going to happen by being unified as a party. because if this is not just a bunch of talk and it really is a fight for the very idea of america, then we are committed to building this party to the concepts of addition and multiplication and not division and subtraction. so with that our commitment is to make this election about the big things, liberty, freedom, the constitution, jobs in america. we're going to have a great afternoon for everybody as well. we've got breakout sessions, governor sandoval tonight and we've got a lot of work to do. so with that i want to wish all

of you guys blessings and we'll see you soon. thank you. [ applause ] coming up on c-span, an update on afghan's security operations and rebuilding efforts. major general john toolan will talk about military operations having in two southwestern afghanistan provinces where 20,000 u.s. marines are stationed. watch this eventually at 10:15 eastern on c-span.

one of the things that i always remember because my office overlooked the building in the plaza was the plaza, there was a day care center in the plaza. some of the children were killed, others injured. during their recession period, they would always come play out here in the plaza and you would hear their voices. that left a lasting impression of course when they were silenced. my son, a dear friend of his in high school, she had just graduated and was working in the social security office and her father was a good friend of mine and when i got home that morning i had three different messages, first of all, wanting to know what he could find out about his daughter, secondly that it didn't look good and the third message was when he was crying. watch our local content vehicle's next stop exploring the history and literary culture

of oklahoma city. former attorney general michael mukasey was the key note speaker at the republican lawyers 2012 policy conference in washington, d.c. he explained how radical islam started a critiqued president obama's policy on terrorism. this event is about an hour. >> thanks to a towering intellect, superb work ethic, he excelled in school earning seats at columbia college and then yale law school. for the first 20 years of a fabled legal career, he worked at top shelf law firms in new york, taking off four years to serve as an assistant united states attorney in the southern district of new york.

he had a well-earned reputation as a premiere litigator. in 1988 president reagan appointed him to the southern district bench where he served as a district judge. in 2000 he was elevated to be chief judge of the southern district of new york where he presided until his retirement in 2006. among the many celebrated cases judge mukasey handled was the case of omar abdul ramman, the blind sheik. teaching the world how the american justice system works at its best and ultimately sentencing the sheik and his fellow terrorists to life imprisonment. he then returned to private

practice, having spent the majority of his career in public service, but a year later he answered the call to public service against again, when president bush asked him to become the attorney of the united states and guide the department of justice through some very stormy waters. at a press conference upon his nomination judge mukasey said the task of helping to protect our security, which the justice department shares with the rest of our government is not the on task before us. the justice department must also protect the safety of our children, the commerce that protects our pras sparts and the right and liberties that define as as you a nation.

he restored the nation's faith in a great and important agency, a faith i fear is once again imperilled. in february of 2009 judge mukasey retired once again from government service and joined the firm of debevoise & plimpton in new york city and continues to practice law. he continues to be a voice of reason, empowers our elected officials to protect our citizens from terrorism and tyranny. i'm thankful i don't have to figure out if i must address him as general or judge or judge general because through it all he is simply mike mukasey, a man for all seasons who has always answered the call to public service and happily for us

answered our call to share his wisdom with us today. i give you judge michael mukasey. [ applause ] >> i want to thank larry for what my notes before i heard it refer to as a kind introduction. i think i should change that to lavish introduction. i want to thank you for inviting me. it's a real pleasure to be in front of an audience that has both republican and lawyers in its title. that's a rare experience for me these days. but at least i'm assured that i'm speaking to people when they hear somebody talk about the importance of preserving and defending this country, about it being a country defined by a constitution and about doing so

based on newutrally legal principles, that they don't start to look uncomfortable and shift in their seats and begin to look as they're experiencing cognizant dissidence. i also want to stop and urge you, please, to finish your lunch. i've delivered many lunch speeches. i'm neither distracted or disturb by the merry tinkling of crackle and i would be upset if it grew silent and people were staring longingly at their desserts. your qualifications make the you ideal audience with hom to discuss what i consider to be a threat to the country and the civilization we all value and go further and examine whether

those charged with responding to that threat have their minds fully into it. first i think we have to understand the real nature and some of the history of that threat, which comes from islamism or political is latch as proposed to the religion itself and has been on display in courtrooms in this country and is -- this threat pose as question that's been with us since long before 9/11, long before this all seemed to some people to have started with what happened on four airplanes. and that question is how a nation that's defined by a constitution that sets meets and bounds on the government's relationship with religion can confront a totalitarian ideology that claims a basis in religion and regard the whole idea of

government as a sacrilege. how is it after ten years after 9/11 and 60 years after one of the islamists declared our religion was incompatible with his religious, 20 years after the first act of violence trayable to that statement, and after what osama bin laden said were at war with us, we still tend to grapple. in a sense we're constitutionally inkwipt to deal with it. here i mean in the sense of our written constitution and our national dna. perhaps because of bitter experience with the role of religious in the -- not just in the much celebrated discussed

bill of right, article 6 bars any religious test as a qualification for public office and there's the staebment clause of the first amendment which reads religious out of the public square to the point where even a prayer at an official school function, be it a graduate or a football game is forbidden. we tend to think of religious, if we think about it at all, as on one aspect of a person's life and a private aspect at that. so in a sense it's natural for people who live in such an atmosphere not to be on the lookout for hom religious is in the simply a part of life but a way of life and a life in which rrj has a big component. >> as a matter of fact of history, has been