captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2008 . embe police force today and we'll double the police force by the time the convention rolls around so there's a lot of activity wis point i feel very good about where we are. >> is the history that there's as mayor ns, more buckman put it, at the republ democrat? >> i think it's about the same. i mean, hen't done a carefulysi- >> what intel are youabouwhat's? >> we sent a team to chicago, as did tampa, and we're sort oftyp.

i think you know, if chicago is an indication, you know, there will be a lot of it, a lot ofoing into both conventionou know, how much of a presence, a demonstration activity we'llave least if chicago is an indication we may see less than what people expect going into it but we'll be ready for whatever is t worried aredamage? >> you're always worried about making sure you do everything you can ma make sure this is a safe environment, not only fore even for demonstrators themselves and our security protocols are aligned around trying to make sure that we strike the right balance between protecting first amendment rights but also making sure everyone is safe. >> mayor anthony foxx, one of

the things you're renowned for , you've done that partly with light rail, trying to make charlotte more transit friendly. tell us about that. >> haar lot is a student of what's happeine starting to see migration from other places around the country and population growth even during the session. one of the an auto dependent area you start to get had this sprawl effect. about 20 years ago charlotte undertook to be progressive in trying to adopt transportation strategies that had land use strategies aattached to them so light rail is a part of that. we have a nine-mile light rail that extends to the south, hope to get it extended later this year but we're aligning residential development alongside those lines by pre-zoning the property so that

that piece of business can be dealt with and developers do what they do best, put up units investment along the south corridor line which is the one that exists today. we're going to try to do everything we can to advance our business strategies. when you build it, people will come and they want to live near it. that's part of the way we try to reverse the effects of sprawl. >> you're the proud papa of this feast that's coming to town. you've used it in ways, a excuse to build some projects you'd like to do anyway. what have you done in preparation for the convention? >> i've lost 15 pounds so and i'm trying to lose a little be the first lady's initiative of let's move. we're already engaging organizations in the make a real dent in that issue before the convention so we can talk about

what we've done at the convention. we're working on engaging youhe the past. i made a promise to engage 1,000 youth in this convention in meaningful ways so that those would be 1,000 kids who had an opportunity to be engaged in helping stage this historic event. >> so if i'm a young person at charlotte, what can i do? >> everything from internships, we did a kids convention recently where we staged a mini nv they got a chance to do interviews just like this. >> did they get cupcakes? >> they didn't get cupcakes. you're a high class man. economic inclusion is another legacy. charlotte for the first time ist the economics of the city haven't correlated as rapidly as the demographic changes so we

have implemented ahead of the curve effort to involve minority and women owned businesses and other diverse businesses in this convention and in fact this convention is the first convention that will be the party to have a stated minority in women participation goal which is incredible. >> what's the goal? >> a third of the spend would be at a minimum given to those diverse businesses. >> women and minorities together? >> yes, and folksdisalities ands as well. finally, i'm going to talk about my legacies, we are also working very hard on the issue of sustainability. charlotte is the first to take a business district and aspiring

carbon footprint, going to reduce it by 20% over the next five years, doing it not through the public sector but the private sector by proving the business model of what those reductions mean in terms of versation in two seconds. first the e willemember from pl breakfast today is how did you lose 15 pounds? cupcakes. [ laughter ] i get up and swim, run, do a variety of things and d the biggest thing that i've been working on avoid stuff like that. >> tel eat more and less of. >> i eat more vegetables and april lot less meat. i eat meat probably two or three days a week and try to stay awa source of weight for me. >> stay away from bread, right? >> yeah, bread, flour, sugar, that kind of stuff. kind of like that. anthony

foxx? blaine ruthemeyer? >> thank you for everything you're dng1o ca you're doing in charlotte in order to help prepare the city? are you bringing in taxi cabs from other cities or other employees from other areas? >> good question. we will use about 250 buses to bring our delegates in and out of the central business district for convention actime oesf thos local. some of them will be coming from other places. we actually got dispensation from the general assembly to allow us to use black cars and that sort of thing fromr states to come in and be part of that piece with helping us with

the logistics. we have a lot of assets in charlotte and looking forward tow those assets off from a travel standpoint. >> yes, sir? >> bill fulton from smart growt. mayor foxx you spoke eloquently about your downtown and the light rail, your predecessor, a republican, did the same. mayor buckhorn expressed the idea showing off tampa's urban renaissance might actually get a bunch of republicans excited about cities, and nevertheless this whole thing still is viewed as a largely issue as the transportation bill outcome showed and i'm wondering whether you think or how might you your and highlighting your cities and the urban renaissance of those cities and these partisan events to actually make those issues maybe even less partisan. is that possible? >> yes, i do think it's possible

to make them less partisan and in fact, miss torqually, they have less partisan. one of the folks i most admire on transportation issues is the current u.s. secretary of transportation, ray lahood, who is a republican, and he talks a lot about the way these infrastructure investments pay off for our country, they pay off in direct jobs in terms of getting can construction workers and engineers and architects and others employed from a perspective, but then when you look at the ability of cities to but also to create morer mobility choices for people, it's really charlotte is growing by 30,000 new people every single year et >> excuse me, two-thirds ofn kl

else where? >> yes. largely it's south carolina's health care system so health is becoming an increasingly companies of our economy and and others that are playing a big role in the economy so people are coming for all kinds of reasons. i'll tell you that from the standpoint tis question, our challen challenge as a is thousands of new people every thout raising our airhout adding toimes t and the congestion and transit for a growing pl ch mr. tell us about your >> this is the the dnc convention t shows lotsn support of president obama, which is going to happen in north carolina this year. >> what are the chances of president obama repeating in

north carolina? >> i feel very good about it. >> you're alone. >> no, i'm not. [ laughter ] i'm not alone. o, it is.ot a commonly held it is. you got to be down on the ground like a mayor, man. >> if president obama wins north carolina, it will be because why? >> it will be for several reasons. one, people thatent thlked into saw. they know that we were losing 750,000 jobs on a monthly basis before he took office, and that to have the country go from that to 28 months of private sector job growth in a row is a pretty huge accomplishment. they also know that this president is focusing on building the countddle class ou opse down, and i think people are really going to get that when they have a choice that fall. >> if he wins north carolina do

you think the convention will have helped? >> it will have helped absolutely. >> being used as an organizing tool to get volunteers involved and identify -- >> absolutely, you know. let me tell you, north carolina has never hosted a convention, never, and the las carolinas was in 1860, so there's a lot of pent up energy for this type of activity. so trust me, i think there's a lot of energy on the ground, and i think the president's going to do just fine. >> sir? >> thank you for doing this. hi, mayor, frank ordanius from "the charlotte observer." on fund-raising there have been some goals, haven't raised up to goals, 150 million well below the goals. the host committee said that fund-raising is r hasn't given any specifics and the spirit as you just said of an open and accessible convention, can you tell us how

close, how much have you actually reaffirm that we are right on track, i feel very good about where we remember, we are doing s that's different than any convention in history to not take money from corporations, packs and lobbyists. with all due respect to my friend and colleague, mayor buckhorn, the convention down in tampa is doing just that. that's sort of the way these things have gone in the past. we're building a different type of airplane, and i think it's working and we're going to have a great convention. >> this different type of airplane, but can you say a percentage, the $37 million goal, are we, what was told was 10 million, can we say it was closer to 50%? >> i can tell you we're right on track. there's a track right there and

we're right on it. >> ie y name's caroline, and wee seen three north carolina democrats confwregressi candidates say they won't be locks ing in carolina, one of from the bank stadium. inner party politics, why you think that's happening and howit's affecting the morale and the fund-raising and the spin of the press you guys have been getting for the convention and the party? >> my strong guess is if you look back at conventions on both sides, there are people who choose not to aattend conventions who are elected ofrficial candidates for office and largely what you will find is that those folks aren't attending because they're out working in the fields to get reelected or to get electedrs p reat dge anyone for that.

convention, for those who come, it's going to be exciting. there are goinf g people in elected office, seeking elected office and great democrats from around the countryng tbe part of this convention so it's not a concern. >> mr. mayor, do you think this three-day convention will be the model for the snut do you thifu? do you think it makes the sense or do you see us going back to the fore? >> i see it as the model. 2008 was such an aberration in the sense that there was so much intrigue about the nomination process all the way up to almost the end but even there by the time the convention came around you knew who the candidate was to be. i think conventions are going to become increasingly more about storytelling, about the narratives that both parties want to cast on major issues confronting the country. i think that's still a very lu conventions,#z toó they're

fights over who the nominee is, reason to have the convention. i think part of the that in courtrooms every day in this country, it's part of ourt democratic process. >> mr. mayor you decided not to run for governor this year, you're one of the best known rising young democrats in the country. you're 41. your new slimmer self, now that there's less of you, what do you see as next for you? >> ll can say grace over as we say in north carolina with what i've got on until this convention and we've got some major projects that i want to see get done inarloe, a got two young kids. i have a 6-year-old and an 8-year-old, and they've been, they've never known me to be anything other than an elected

official, and over the last week i actually took some time over july 4th to actually sit down and have dinner at home for a little while and you know, the tug of home is always there, so who knows. >> what are they going to do during the convention? one boy, one girl? >> one boy, one girl. they are going to be with us a lot during the convention. we're going to try to put them bedtimes but we want them to have a good experience with this convention, and my daughter, you know, to be honest, she really ill happen et malia and sasha. but we'll see. >> i'll bet that could be arranged. >> i don't know. >> and last quon you mentioned the plate, where should we go to eat? what's the burn steakhouse of charlotte? >> for those of you who are not worried about, you know, your weight, we have lots of really good places. as mayor of the city, i just i cannot tell you one, but i can tell you where to go, just go,

triangle street, the main strip, go down to the south park area, we've got some in university city but i'm not going to pick one because i'll get in trouble. but wh tell you is that we'veome great farm-to-fork restaurants that otte and that's whe spending a little bit more of my time lately. >> i think now to the first lady there, that will get your kids to meet malia and sasha. >> i'm working on it. >> i thank rich gould of holland and nate and thank you for coming out early and thank you to our politicwho made this hop and all of new livestream land and mayor foxx, thank you for a great conversation. good luck. looking forward to seeing you on your turf. this was really great, thank you. thank you. i'll take your carry your cupca. full service.

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websites and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. oklahoma senator tom coburn says one of the biggest threats to this nation's existence is the government's overspending problem. his remarks came during a recent three-day western conservative summit held in denver, colorado. senator coburn is author of the newly released book "the death bomb." his remarks are 50 minutes. -- >> is where the true fires in colorado really should be right here in this room, right, and those of you watching on facebook and as the streaming here all afternoon, did you enjoy mr. bennett, bill bennett? great guy. wow. what a wealth of knowledge, powerful, powerful man and tonight kevin hewitt will be joining us, i hope you'll be here for that 7:30 and the reason i bring up those two specifically i'm steve kelly

with 710 knus and it's good to be here from kelly & company. now you can see why i'm on the radio, okay? i have the face for radio. thifs thinking about this, the conservative camp this is what we do to throw logs on the fire, while our state is literally on fire and i'll talk about that in a few moments and introduce our guest who will then introduce senator coburn who is here and his new book requesting the debt bomb." we just had the senator on last week. it's incredible, you're in for a treat here. think about what happened. as i was think being this week, are you exhausted or are you exhilarated i wonder? are you? i mean, you think about this last week, ladies and gentlemen, arizona had a border, i'm not being facetious, albeit porous, arizona had a border last week, and this president, president

barack obama not only won't defend arizona and you heard governor jan brewer here yesterday, he not only it wt h offensive with the department of justice, a hotline, if you have any trouble getting into the country, by the way, illegally. call the hotline. that was last week. also last week, and you heard the senator talking about it and bill bennett and everybody else talking about the supreme court, last week you saw the largest the history of humanity, the largest tax increase so the government can penalize or tax us into forcing us into buying something that we don't want. that happened last fek that, th states attorney general found contempt of congress for lying for stonewalling and not releasing all these documents.

that happened just in one week and on top of that we here in colorado saw 346 homes burnt to the ground in colorado springs, 257 up north in the hyde park fire. while this president came in full campaign mode by the way yesterday and i begged him on the radio yesterday you may have heard it, please, don't land. just fly over it. don't land. and he -- [ applause ] thank you. he did land anyway, apparently he wasn't listening to me, but in full campaign mode, using this opportunity, i hate to say t folks, but as a photo op, and he said on top of that, and i don't know if you caught this, he said, they've been doing an outstanding job, and truthfully, those fighting the fires have been doing an outstanding job, and they deserve our applause here right now. [ applause ] but on a federal level, on a federal level and outstanding job while no less than five

c-130 tankers retrofitted ready to fight the fires sat, it's not outstanding. they were out sitting on a tarmac and this president and the governor didn't get them in -- how many homes could we have saved if we would have just acted? no, this is not an outstanding federal government. it's an overwhelming and oppressive federal government, we're seeing it, and that's why we are here today and i so thank you for the opportunity to be here. i want to introduce a gentleman who by "the national journal" for the last three years in a row has the most conservative voting record, just gone through a primary competition he survived successfully but in all soberness and all somberness, it's his district, district five right now, that people continue to lose their belongings and we are losing forest land. the fifth congressional district of the state of colorado, this man, i've had a chance to talk to and have become friends with and you've heard him on the radio show a few times and he's going to talk not only about the

fires but he has the pleasure of introducing our keynote speaker this afternoon to kick this off. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the podium congressman dug lamborn. doug? >> thank you, steve. and john andrews told me to say a few words about what's happening in washington and down in the district. steve also alluded to that so i'll do that briefly and then proceed with a great introduction that i'm so honored to be able to give you today, senator tom coburn. but like steve was saying, this has been an overwhelming week in a lot of ways. back in washington, we voted, i voted, with many others, to hold eric holder in contempt of congress. [ applause ] we also had the discouraging decision on the so-called patient protection and

affordable care act, and like someone said under nancy pelosi, congress created this mess, so congress is going to have to fix this mess, and we're going to do that if we can take the senate in january. [ applause ] it will also help if we have the white house and then the bill won't get vetoed, with a literal 50, 51-vote margin we can repeal obama care, and that will be our first order of business. [ applause ] that was going on in these fires. there are now 1,300 firefighters from around the country working in colorado springs, el paso county, the pike national forest, unfortunately when the 65-mile-an-hour winds started up tuesday afternoon, it got beyond their lines of containment and came into the city limits, right on the edge of the forest, where there are some beautiful neighborhoods, and as steve

said, 346 homes were destroyed and we know of two people who have died. so our hearts go out to the families to those who have suffered loss both living the lives lost and the property lost. i was talking to a gentleman last night, a great friend who lost his house, and a lifetime of memories went up in smoke and dealing with everyday things now, how do you pick up the mail when you don't have a house? there are so many things that are now going to have to just start all over, so please keep them in your thoughts and prayers, and then as steve also mentioned, i had a primary election on tuesday night. i won at 61-38%. [ applause ] against an opponent who claimed to be a conservative but he was trying to remove the most conservative guy in congress, i don't know what that was about. he spent $700,000 to $800,000 of

his own money i think just trying to buy a seat in congress, but the people of colorado are not that easily swayed. they need to be persuaded that they're engaged, they're intelligent and i know many of you, if not the bulk of you here today are from colorado, and other states as well. so you just can't do that. so i'm really happy that that came out so well, but it's been an overwhelming week, and so that's the latest, john, and john andrews is such a great guy. i served with him in the state senate in the early 2000s. he was the senate president at the time and we worked together on some good things. i was the president or excuse know not president, chairman of the state affairs committee,