streets tonight -- is weaving down the streets tonight. can you believe this? he is leaving everybody. who was the leader of the group? france. france wanted to go in first. of course, we have not seen them since, but they were there first and they got all the glamour. they took the glamour. so they formed a group and they go in and obama talks about the regime, maybe not, and we do not want to kill anybody, we do not want to hurt anybody, we want to change government, but we do not want to hurt -- nobody knows what he is talking about. while we are spending billions of dollars being the policemen of the world, china is spending and calling us stupid. an apartment was just held in a

building that i have in central park where. i get to know a lot of big people from china. some big guys. this was about two months ago. they stopped talking to me so much. they said, and do you believe we are talking to this guy? it is amazing. they sit there and before i did this, they said, competitors, friends, you do not believe that your government allows you to do this. another person said, are they stupid? i said absolutely, they are stupid. i do not blame them. if you do not know what you are

doing, you do not blame yourself, blame our leaders. they rip this country of what nobody has ever seen before. we have the president of china, a few months ago, and we give him a state dinner. when people are screwing you, you do not give them state dinners. if you do not do it. we send him home. you heard my statement right? what we do is we sit in my office for a couple of hours. we make a deal where you stop manipulating your currency or not. if you do not make a deal, you take mcdonald's and you go home. that is it. [applause] the chinese economy has grown so fast, it is unbelievable.

you say, how can our government -- our economy -- economy grow? the jobs do not come back for a long time. i think he mentioned five years. how can you have jobs come back, when every time i want to buy a product, like as an example, the . week by a television set from south korea. why are we not making them? i will tell you a great one. i like the people of south korea. it is great. i do business with them. they were wonderful.

we have this contract. it is going to be signed this afternoon. it is a big deal. the deal was so bad that one person would not sign it. a moron would not sign it. no one would sign it. >> our president is there and wants to sign, but they do not want to sign. it is not good enough that they want to with the hell out of us, they want to do even more. the times are different. all of the sudden, north korea is hitting them regarding the bombs. they say, we would like to sign contracts. you are a wonderful trading partner. we love you very much. do you mind sending the great george washington aircraft

carrier and about 17 destroyers, because north korea is a shooting at us. what do we do? we have this great aircraft carrier had over to north korea. we have a big portion of our navy going over there. and they stop. we sign a powerful agreement. then i say to start of that engine, that costs you probably about $1 million, just to see it is working. i have a great airplane. these are the finest engines in the world. i said, do not start it. i will take your word for it. i like to save money.

so listen to this. we send the george washington with all of the plains and the crew in the site chips. they did not pay us. they are stupid. our leaders are stupid people. it is very sad. there are so many stories like that. you know how many soldiers, thousands and thousands, in between north and south korea. they take our trade. what would i do? we are a lot different. i say, i will think about it. i think i will make you very happy by the way. we have thousands of troops.

we have a saying, in harm's way. with all of the billions of dollars you make, we are going to protect you. it they are in danger. we are going to protect you. we are going to make sure you are in good shape. you are going to pay for it. you are going to pay for it. do you want to know something? they would do it in two minutes. somebody said these people were so protective of president obama. it is unbelievable. some reporters comeuppance de -- come up and say, "you do not mean that." -- and say, "you do not mean that." he is good. he is good. i am telling you. are you all right?

take it easy. i've never seen anybody protected like this guy. if you look at what he is doing -- i said something and it came out about to three weeks ago. contractors? i have been telling friends. i have been thinking about it for a long time. when we went to iraq, it they said we are going to iraq and they have weapons of mass destruction. they did not. they did not knock down the world trade center. they also killed in terrorist. -- killed the terrorists. now it is like going to the harvard of terrorism. if he wanted to go to iraq, it -- if you wanted to go to iraq, it is the wharton school of finance for terrorism. the terrorist said "no way i am going there."

we have decapitated their army. they have no army. their army is corrupt. we put in leaders. the leaders hate us. i didn't even think a shot is going to be fired. this will be risky. a lot of people might not get it. the reporters do not get it. do you know who gets it? the people get it. you are smarter than the best. -- the press. i have been dealing with the press. some is fair and honorable. some are horrible people. i really mean that. they had a horrible relationship with a lot of people. some are great. not all. i said about three weeks

ago,upon information and belief, iran, which has been fighting with iraq forever coming years -- , years and years that is the way it involved. one would push 10 feet this way. then they go back home. okay? the real equal. -- they were equal. now we have decapitated iraq. i ran which is looking to take over the entire -- the rebels you hear the talked about the rebels carrying the flag. i hear -- have all we get rid of gadaffi? -- how about we get rid of gaddafi? why is not china doing anything? we do not get anything from libya.

we are ready in there for a billion dollars. we did not give anything from libya. i am interested in libya if we keep the oil. some said that is a sovereign nation. give me a break. why have since with iraq is similar. we spend a lot. we spend 1.5 trillion dollars so far. we can build a big chunk of our country for that. we go to afghanistan in we go to iraq. we go to school and we build a road. they blow up the school and we build another one. in the meantime we cannot get a fucking school built. -- built in brooklyn. it is unbelievable. when i heard we were going to iraq, somebody said we were going to the oil. i said that makes sense. that is smart. a k?

-- ok? now i am saying that makes sense. the second largest oil deal in -- oil fields in the world, it the second largest reserve in the world, $15 trillion. that does a lot to solve our deficit problem. does it not? $15 trillion. seconds after saudi arabia. -- second after saudi arabia. here is what we do. we go into iraq and a guesstimate their army. we have policemen. we have a police man over here. everybody hates us. what i say is simply very sinister. iran within 15 minutes after we

leave one not be fighting. -- leave, they will not be fighting. they will walk into iraq. they will take over iraq. there will take over the oil wells. we lost thousands of soldiers with the tens of thousands of soldiers. i see it in new york. they are seriously wounded people,. these are tens of thousands. we had 15 trillion dollars worth of oil that we will hand over to iran. i said it will not happen if i am president. [laughter] [applause] it will not happen if i am president. what we do is very simple. i explain this three weeks ago for the first time. we stayed. we get our great oil company. we get plenty to iraq.

it is now obsolete crap. they do not know what they are doing, and they never will. it did not know what they are doing. give me a break. we go into iraq. i am like an old fashioned warrior. in the old days when you had a war and you won it, it was yours. when we have a war, we go and, we lose thousands of lives, attends a thousands wounded, spend $1.50 trillion and then we leave. what do we do this for. i said we go in and we take the oil. i think bill o'reilly is great. he thought it was radical. somebody else said that it is a sovereign nation. we cannot do that. they got wiped out. they've got nothing.

if iran were not going to take it over, which that are 100%, not 95%. one of these bloodsucking politicians has been bullshitting and will get elected. they will leave and someone else will get elected. if that happens, i ran takes over the oil. did they become a force like never before in history. they've been takeover for saudia -- they then will take over saudia arabia. i would protected if they paid as. otherwise, i am not interested. i am not interested in paying any of them unless they pay. we have a great ally. think of this. we have a great ally over there. iran wants to blow them off of the world.

we cannot even beat bolivia. our leadership is weak and that that it. -- week and pathetic. they are going to have so much money. we do not do anything about it. when they takeover, there is no way we go back. we will not have the stomach to go back. what is going to happen to israel when you have them controlling crop bill probably libya. they are going to control everything over there. 99 cent of the people want to

break the peace treaty with israel. -- 99% of the people want to break the peace treaty with israel. did you see that? 99%. we have problems. we have week empathetic -- weak , pathetic leadership. we have incompetent leadership. i am going to make a decision. i love my life. i am having a great time. i built a great company. i have one of the talk shows on -- top shows on nbc. it is doing great. even the new york times certification in nice piece the

-- "new york times" wrote a nice piece about a talking how great the readings were. it is a great show. i've had to give a lot to step up. it is peanuts compared to the importance of this country. when i see what opec is doing, when i see what china is doing, china, it is hard to buy anything. semblance of what can you do? -- somebody said, what can you do? i would drop a 25% tax on china. the messenger is important. i could have one man say we are

going to do this 25%. you have said the same exact thing. it is a different messenger. i tell you what will happen. i'm a lover and not a fighter. you have been reading about that for years. i will tell you something. when they really believe that, when they do not have, does -- when they do not have obama bowling down to everyone. bowing down to everyone. everyone remember that?

we do not have obama having the state dinners. we have someone who is tough and smart. when i say your vendor have to put this on their comment they say when everyone knows they are abusing us. everybody knows they are manipulating the currencies. they are brought up on it. we take six months just to put it in charge. then we do not do anything. we are going to charge 25%. the real numbers should be 45%. we will start with 25. we can always raise it. when they believe the message, they are going to do wonderful. -- one thing. they are going to give us anything they want. -- anything we want. they came out with a statement

last week that this is unheard of and unthinkable. in 2016, china is going to eclipsed the united states. -- eclipse the united states as a great economic power. if you would have said that 10 years ago, people would have laughed at you. china is going to eclipsed us in -- eclipse us in four years. under the time doctor, that does -- under the trump doctrine, but that does not happen. do you know why. we are going to -- under the trump doctrine, that does not happen. do you know why? we are going to go to china? look at the deal that general electric made. it does not work that way. we let you very much. the one to sell to us.

-- when they come to sell us, it is like, come on in. we will pay you whatever the hell you want. you are not bringing in all your crap including your sheetrock that makes everybody sick. we make a much better project. you cannot compete price wise because of the manipulation. the first thing that happened is that they stop screwing around. here is what happens. about 60% of the will stop. -- of their sales will stop. we will increase the hell out of the employment. we will be building plants.

we will start building it. they make weaponry. i did not know we even had anything like that anymore. this is high technology stuff. wilcox is great. look it up. they make their own products. he will have thousands of those places. they will behave. if they do not behave, that is even better. we will start building our own. we will tell all these other companies that have to build your own factories. we got to put our own people to work. [applause] i will just go one step further. it can happen so fast. if you look at what is going

on, you look at what is going on. we cannot drill in the gulf. we cannot drill in alaska. official can tell you more about the environment than i can. i received a lot of -- my colleague can tell you more about the environment than i can, even though our receive a lot of environmental awards. a lot of people find this hard to believe. i received a lot of of our mental awards. in china and other countries, they burn whatever the hell is available. that smoke is spewing out of those chimneys. it is cheap as hell. over here we want to green technology. what are we doing? i believe in green. what we are doing with oil is we have to drill in alaska. we have to drill. we've got to drill. there is so much oil.

we have natural gas. we have enough natural gas that all of the oil in the united way -- the entire world put together. we have so much. we have so much coal. abu dhabi is very rich. did you see what they did? they are making all of their transportation running on natural gas so they can sell these to the united states oil. and i only say this. we had the potential to have a great country again. we are not a great country now. we love it. but we are not a great country. if i win, if i run and if i win, people have a rich country

again. we will have a great country again. we will be respected as a country again. [applause] thank you very much. thank you very much. thank you very much. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] the >> live saturday, the black-

tie dinner. later, -- >> later, and remarks from president obama and seth my ears. -- seth myers. this is live on c-span. all along with our polls and video clips. >> president and mrs. obama and visited alabama to view the damage around tuscaloosa. a wave or tornadoes -- of tornadoes hit the area on wednesday. the president and first lady visited the residents and stopped to see the damage done at a local elementary school. this is part of the motorcade tour and in remarks by the president and the tuscaloosa mayor. 400 deaths have been reported. officials believe that number may rise in the coming days.

there were 164 tornadoes on wednesday. it was a new record from a single storm system.

>> and michelle and i want to express our deepest condolences to not just the city of tuscaloosa but the state of alabama and all the other states that have been affected by this unbelievable storm. i've never seen devastation like this. it is heartbreaking.

it is we are just talking to some residents here you were lucky enough to escape alive but lost everything. they mentioned that their neighbors have lost to of their -- lost two of their grandchildren in the process. you are seeing the consequence of just a few minutes of this extraordinarily possible -- powerful storms sweeping through. tuscaloosa typically gets a turn -- a tornado it did during the season. this is something that i do not think they have seen before. in addition to all the families that have been affected, our biggest priority now is to help the community recover. i want to think the mayor for his extraordinary leadership. they are having to deal with this.

there are a lot of difficulties. one of the challenges the mayor is fighting,the assets of the city, a fire station that we passed, police resources of emergency resources they have been affected. the governor has done an extraordinary job of making sure that resources are mobilized and had them brought in here. i am very pleased that we have a fema director here is as experienced as anybody to responding to this disaster. we have already provided the disaster designations that are required to make sure that the maximum federal help comes here.

we are trying to coordinate between the state, local, and federal governments and do it seamlessly. we are going to do everything we can to help these communities rebuild. we cannot bring those who have been lost back. they are long side got at this -- they are alongside god at this point. we can help may be a little bit with the families dealing with the grief of having a loved one lost. the property damage which is extensive, that is something we can do something about. we will do everything we can to partner with you. this community was hit as bad as any place.

their communities across this region that have been affected. we will make that same commitment to make sure we are doing what ever we can to make sure people are ok. finally, as you walk around, three young people at the university of alabama were volunteering helping. one lived in this apartment. she is not here. what you are struck by is people's resilience in the way the community has worked together. that is a testimony of the leadership of the governor and the mayor. it is inherent with the

american spirit. we go through hard times but no matter how hard we may be suffering, we maintain our faith. we look to each other. we nature we are supporting and -- we try to make sure that we anda helping each other. i am sure that spirit will continue until the city is all the way back. he was pointing out that there is a lot of national media down here now. the mayor expressed the concern that perhaps the media will move on and a day or a week or month. maybe folks will forget what has happened here. i want to assure him that the american people are with him and his community. we will make sure that you are not forgotten. with that, which like to say a

-- would you like to say a few words? >> i like to personally thank you. thank you for coming and visiting alabama. as to fly over from there, it is not do it justice until you are here on the grounds. i want you to know how much i appreciate that. we declared a state of emergency early on. we ask the president for aid and to expedite that. they have done that. i want you to know how much i appreciate that. we have a counties across the -- we have eight counties across the state that had been hit by major tornadoes. this is probably the worst one. we have worse ones. you see the same evidence of

tornadoes all across the state. we have 210 confirmed deaths in alabama. we have 1700 injured. we have a number of people missing. we are going to continue to work in a rescue mode. we are now more in recovery mode. >> we are looking out for each other. >> let me say i am so proud of our first responders and the state. they have done an outstanding job. have all done such a fantastic job. we have a great team. we had the federal government helping yes.

when local, state, and federal governments were to gather, -- together,we can get things accomplished. that is what we are going to do. we want you to come back and maybe to go to a football game here at a later date. thank you for your help. >> i will gladly come back. >> thank you. thank you for coming today. the last 36 hours have been trying. you are going to see a story being written. these chapters will be filled with hope and opportunity. i have been using rowlands region -- romans 12:12. your visit here has brought a hope to the community. we are going to be a story that we will be proud said. -- that you will be proud of.

thank you again for coming today. >> thank you for your leadership. we have our congressional delegation here. i am absolutely confident they will make sure that the resources are available. to the local officials,i know that they have been personally affected. and then they will provide the leadership. they will do what is needed. the mayor said something very profound. he said what is amazing is that when something like this happens folks forget all their petty differences. politics, differences of the religion or race. all that fades away. we are reminded that we had each -- that we have each other. hopefully that spirit continues and grows. let's hope that that is one of

the things that comes out. thank you very much. >> president obama has announced a number of changes to its national security team with leon panetta replacing robert gates. that is as defense secretary and david -- general david petraeus as head of cia. track their careers and the early appearances on line at the c-span video library. it is washington, your way. >> the final launch of the space shuttle endeavor was called off due to technical problems with failed teachers. -- heaters. officials held a news conference late in the afternoon to discuss the delay and when the shuttle may be launched. this is about 40 minutes. >> >> good afternoon. the purpose of this briefing is twofold.

the launch team was meeting to develop a go forward plan for space shuttle endeavor. president obama was here. he has just left. people get a status on this. >> we will get a status on the visit of president obama and a status on the space shuttle "endeavor." the management team at kennedy space center like moses and our moses and our thi national officer marc.

mike. >> we have seen endeavor lifting of this afternoon. i would much rather be on the ground wishing i was flying ban on the air wishing that was on on the ground. safety always comes first. these guys will talk about the issue that we had in our plan to troubleshoot it. in spite of that, even though he continues with his visit to the kennedy space center, i think he really enjoyed it. i know his family did. he arrived on time. he got a great tor of atlantis. he came over to the lcc and met with the crew. he had a long conversation with them. then he met with the families and talk to some folks along the way. he was extremely supportive of what we were doing. he wished he could have seen the

launched to. he promised to support until this to look to a good future. a lot of times we speak of this transition from space shuttle to the future. it is difficult. to understand it is hard with folks who are losing their jobs. we will focus on doing bigger and better things. we will work on a program that will take as beyond our home planet. unfortunately, the shuttle come to an end. we are going to have a good future as we build a large vehicle and a rocket that will take this down to our home planet. we will make that happen. it is going to work. it will work because of the tremendously talented workforce we have here at the kennedy space center. i think it is great that he came down today. i think family enjoyed the visit. we will fly when the time is

right. >> thank you. plessy. let me back up and starts with an amazing job. less let let me laugh, the weather front was supposed to hits. it did not hit until much later. all that might go into the details. he did an amazing job of getting -- last night when we left, the weather front was supposed to hit around 7. it did not hit until much later. his team did an amazing job. i will let him get into the details. they did an amazing job of working ahead on what they

could end did an amazing job of getting that done. we had a long time during this this morning. they are doing an amazing job. they have a plan ready to execute as soon as the weather cleaned up. it is a great show of what the team here can do. we heard the weather briefing. we had a few little things to keep us there. we have did up. we have the heat your problem. basically, this stands for the -- then we had a heating problem. basically, this stance for the auxiliary power units. we use it to generate hydraulic power. it has been determined. we use this fluid to throttle the main engines. when you get in orbit, it cannot keep the heater on comet the hydrogen can freeze up.

-- heater on, the hydrogen can freeze up. it gets loaded up with a lot. when it thought, you are worried about the pressure spike. it immediately catches on fire and we would have a problem. that is when you get back into the atmosphere. there are two heaters. both are required for operation. we do have the redundancy. if you did this your last teacher, you and not have time -- heater while you were in corporate, you do not have time t to react. we had this problem. we would have noticed it. the ground control would have evaluated the response. we would have been able to keep it warm. we cannot really maneuver were

ever we want to do. we probably would have burned that system off. we would not have worried about it. it is not an early mission. it would have been ok. had you not caught this, it would have been an ok day. it is a good thing we did catch it. a gives us the opportunity to fix it. it is a pretty straight forward day. they made a very good call. we talked about before the air right amount of time -- for about the right amount of time. you almost get a free orbit

checkout. you have that cold hydrogen and oxygen cooling things down. we really got to see how this heater performs. we wanted to make sure. we did not have anything to do. it is what it means to us. the scheduled for launch on the sixth. the last of the on wednesday the fourth. they look like they are still in good shape. we will keep tabs on them. the pri had to go in the other side, we go back around the eighth are night. those a not very good launch date. -- if we had to go in on the

other side, we would go back around the eighth or ninth. those are not very good lunch date. we cannot do it on the same day. we will probably move it to the ninth or 10th. i will stop talking so we can give you more of the details. >> mike mentioned how well we did tonight. we recovered from the delay. to say it was for our five hours late probably does not sound that much. probably the latest is after taking on time.

fred is going purposely fine. when it chill down, the thermostat that controls the he chariton not come off. -- that controls the key to, it did notit did not command the heater to -- it did not come on. the term -- the thermostat kicks on. there is not much trouble shooting that we could do what we were still on the load. we have to give back again.

this and not work. at that point, and we nearly had a problem with that teacher. -- with that heater. we are not sure if it was the thermostat or the heater. we talked for a couple of hours. this was pretty straightforward. we do not like lifting off with that redundancy. >> we declared it at 12:16 today. texas 24 hours to do the tank. there is a little bit of hydrogen. today poll 24 hours. adobe the first time we can -- tomorrow afternoon will be the first time we can start doing this. we have to get our hands on the fuel line. we have to get our hands on the thermostat in the heater to see where the problem is. maybe around him and their time tomorrow we will troubleshoot. it involves taking missed and bring it on the thermostat. it is lower than the temperatures we could have

gotten. we may have to replace the thermostat and be in good shape. could be in the low control assembly. we think we can get in. but that would be an extensive job that would take some time to do. there is a lot to attend monday morning. we will see how the trouble shooting is going. there is a meeting sunday morning to see what happened overnight and a look at more trouble shooting.

we will see what has a chance hired overnight -- transpired overnight. that is where we are today. but talked to mark. it is funny the way the timing worked out. we were not ready yet to scrub. i talked him in there. i told him what was going on and that i understood. today was the are ready to go. we hope to get there by monday. we will not apply this machine until it is ready. today, it was not ready to go. >> thank you. we will take questions not yet. -- we will take questions now. we will start here in the front with marcia. >> two quick questions.

first, will you be able to make the first child? -- first tryout on the other side? as a navy had a chance to meet a -- and have you had a chance to meet with congresswoman gifford and any interactions -- i was just wondering if you had a chance to meet with congresswoman gifford and any interactions you might have had? >> we had a couple of days extra in there to do a little more trouble shooting. we have not given up. it is still a very viable option. every have to change it out, -- if we have to change it out, that is a significant deal. >> i did not get a chance to meet with her. i understand she is enjoying her time. she is doing well.

>> how quickly did he know this was going to be a showstopper? ticino there is only a limited -- did you know that there is only a limited number of rigid could go down? -- number of roads you could go down? >> you never like to give up too early. walworth talking, -- we were talking, but we want to remain fully convinced that we exhausted all possible options. that is why it took us some time to get to the scrub a declaration.

-- scrub a declaratiodeclaratio. >> one of the things the initial signature look-alike was one element of a heater on a line. if that is the case, the less can keep it mask. we can use the attitude of the order to keep. we saw it was the install tires during a people. >> we are right here in front. >> the uses on the other two were working properly. in any of the testing that is done, you work on that one apu only. the others are fine as it stands. >> that is exactly right. >> let's come over here. >> hello.

a couple of quick questions. are you tied to a atlantis? will we have a trade-off? at that you are saying you had -- i thought you were saying that you had problems with bowstrings the peters. and might confuse some what i heard? >> on the atlantis launch date, and they are not yet directly tied 121. we knew we go to the other side. discovery a weaker to before we ran into problems. this is all behind us. at some point we do start to bump. i know it is not a minute to -- imminent to have problems with the next one. we rolled over their in the endeavors so we can get it done regardless.

where most of looking at landing -- we were most looking at landing in staying in orbit. i think those were decouple. there are multiple features on a -- me to vote -- multiple heaters on string at the. -- b. string a was fine. it is a switch in the cockpit. it would ascend to power through an alternate route. we were switching to tread the alternate power feet. -- power feed. it was on the ship's side. >> one of these teachers comes -- one of the heaters comes on at a higher temperature than the others. the one that did not come on,we know there is something wrong.

the one second one comes on at a lower temperature. we are not sure about that one. we think it failed as well. the other to do not come on. it is probably a case where the feed is off. we are not sure yet. >> if you had to remove every place it, how many days persius -- how many days or ships would that take that -- with that tape. -- if you had to remove or replace it, how many days or ould that take?

i was also wondering if clarify on the unusual terms of the parking lot. it sounds as if that was done so the crews could practice. why exactly did they pull into the parking lot? >> i can talk to them at any point. we just let them start coming out. we give them a few more minutes to wrap up. knowing where this was going to go -- no one knew where this was going to go. it got to the point where we sit be redone with the discussion. this is the way it turned out. this is going to be a difficult box to changed out. there are a good 48 hours or so of retests. we have to lay out that detail plan.

a couple of days ago, saudi arabia said, let's raise the price. you will pay five or $6 a gallon for gasoline pretty soon. they want to raise the price of oil. we have nobody in washington to sit back and say that you're not. to raise that price. do you understand me? [applause]

it is unbelievable. we are in libya. the air of a leak, which is saudia al-arabiya and some other countries, they have money coming out of their ears. you see bridges to make the george washington bridge in new york look like a toy. we come home, and we are like a third world nation. you land in laguardia airport, it is dirty. i do not mind going over a pot holes in my car, but in a plane.

saudia arabia and the others say, we would like you to take them out. and obama said, ok. nato is us we do not have control of what we're doing. we form a group and listen to this one. france is the leader of the group. the wanted to go in first. they took the glamour. the rico in and we talk about the regime. nobody knows what obama is talking about.

the other thing about libya that really bothers me, we spend billions of dollars being policeman of the world. china spends billions of dollars a day find the world. and they call us stupid. an apartment was just sold in a building for $33 billion to chinese gentleman. it was on central parkway. many look at me and say, do you believe we are talking to the sky? it is amazing.

it is amazing. they sit there. competitors are friends. they say, we do not believe your government allows you to to the. some say, are they stupid? i say, absolutely. i blame our leaders. we have china ripping this country off like a nobody has ever seen before. and the president of china comes a few months ago to washington, and we give him a steak dinner. -- state dinner. when people are screwing you, you do not give them a state dinner. then we send them home. i say, we do not give them dinners. he either made a deal where use

of manipulating the currency, where you stop. if you do not make a deal, you take mcdonald and you go home. that is it. [applause] the chinese economy has grown so fast, it is unbelievable. you say, how can our government -- our economy -- economy grow? the jobs do not come back for a long time. i think he mentioned five years. how can you have jobs come back, when every time i want to buy a product, like as an example, the television. week by a television set from south korea.

why are we not making them? i will tell you a great one. i like the people of south korea. it is great. i do business with them. they were wonderful. we have this contract. it is going to be signed this afternoon. it is a big deal. the deal was so bad that one person would not sign it. a moron would not sign it. no one would sign it. >> our president is there and wants to sign, but they do not want to sign. it is not good enough that they want to with the hell out of us, they want to do even more. the times are different.

all of the sudden, north korea is hitting them regarding the bombs. they say, we would like to sign contracts. you are a wonderful trading partner. we love you very much. do you mind sending the great george washington aircraft carrier and about 17 destroyers, because north korea is a shooting at us. what do we do? we have this great aircraft carrier had over to north korea. we have a big portion of our navy going over there. and they stop. we sign a powerful agreement. then i say to start of that engine, that costs you probably about $1 million, just to see it is working.

i have a great airplane. these are the finest engines in the world. i said, do not start it. i will take your word for it. i like to save money. so listen to this. we send the george washington with all of the plains and the crew in the site chips. they did not pay us. they are stupid. our leaders are stupid people. [applause] it is very sad. there are so many stories like that. you know how many soldiers, thousands and thousands, in between north and south korea.

they take our trade. what would i do? we are a lot different. i say, i will think about it. i think i will make you very happy by the way. we have thousands of troops. we have a saying, in harm's way. with all of the billions of dollars you make, we are going to protect you. it they are in danger. we are going to protect you. we are going to make sure you are in good shape. you are going to pay for it. you are going to pay for it. do you want to know something? they would do it in two minutes.

somebody said these people were so protective of president obama. it is unbelievable. some reporters comeuppance de -- come up and say, "you do not mean that." -- and say, "you do not mean that." he is good. he is good. i am telling you. are you all right? take it easy. i've never seen anybody protected like this guy. if you look at what he is doing -- i said something and it came out about to three weeks ago. contractors? i have been telling friends. i have been thinking about it for a long time. when we went to iraq, it they said we are going to iraq and they have weapons of mass destruction. they did not. they did not knock down the

world trade center. they also killed in terrorist. -- killed the terrorists. now it is like going to the harvard of terrorism. if he wanted to go to iraq, it -- if you wanted to go to iraq, it is the wharton school of finance for terrorism. the terrorist said "no way i am going there." we have decapitated their army. they have no army. their army is corrupt. we put in leaders. the leaders hate us. i didn't even think a shot is going to be fired. this will be risky. a lot of people might not get it. the reporters do not get it. do you know who gets it? the people get it. you are smarter than the best. -- the press. i have been dealing with the press.

some is fair and honorable. some are horrible people. i really mean that. they had a horrible relationship with a lot of people. some are great. not all. i said about three weeks ago,upon information and belief, iran, which has been fighting with iraq forever coming years -- , years and years that is the way it involved. one would push 10 feet this way. then they go back home. okay? the real equal. -- they were equal. now we have decapitated iraq. i ran which is looking to take over the entire -- the rebels you hear the talked about the rebels carrying the flag. i hear -- have all we get rid of gadaffi? -- how about we get rid of gaddafi?

why is not china doing anything? we do not get anything from libya. we are ready in there for a billion dollars. we did not give anything from libya. i am interested in libya if we keep the oil. some said that is a sovereign nation. give me a break. why have since with iraq is similar. we spend a lot. we spend 1.5 trillion dollars so far. we can build a big chunk of our country for that. we go to afghanistan in we go to iraq. we go to school and we build a road. they blow up the school and we build another one. in the meantime we cannot get a fucking school built. -- built in brooklyn. it is unbelievable.

when i heard we were going to iraq, somebody said we were going to the oil. i said that makes sense. that is smart. a k? -- ok? now i am saying that makes sense. the second largest oil deal in -- oil fields in the world, it the second largest reserve in the world, $15 trillion. that does a lot to solve our deficit problem. does it not? $15 trillion. seconds after saudi arabia. -- second after saudi arabia. here is what we do. we go into iraq and a guesstimate their army.

we have policemen. we have a police man over here. everybody hates us. what i say is simply very sinister. iran within 15 minutes after we leave one not be fighting. -- leave, they will not be fighting. they will walk into iraq. they will take over iraq. there will take over the oil wells. we lost thousands of soldiers with the tens of thousands of soldiers. i see it in new york. they are seriously wounded people,. these are tens of thousands. we had 15 trillion dollars worth of oil that we will hand over to iran. i said it will not happen if i am president. [laughter] [applause]

it will not happen if i am president. what we do is very simple. i explain this three weeks ago for the first time. we stayed. we get our great oil company. we get plenty to iraq. it is now obsolete crap. they do not know what they are doing, and they never will. give me a break. we go into iraq. i am like an old fashioned warrior. in the old days when you had a war and you won it, it was yours. when we have a war, we go and, we lose thousands of lives, attends a thousands wounded, spend $1.50 trillion and then we leave. what do we do this for. i said we go in and we take the oil.

i think bill o'reilly is great. he thought it was radical. somebody else said that it is a sovereign nation. we cannot do that. they got wiped out. they've got nothing. if iran were not going to take it over, which that are 100%, not 95%. one of these bloodsucking politicians has been bullshitting and will get elected. they will leave and someone else will get elected. if that happens, i ran takes over the oil. did they become a force like never before in history. they've been takeover for saudia -- they then will take over saudia arabia.

i would protected if they paid as. otherwise, i am not interested. i am not interested in paying any of them unless they pay. we have a great ally. think of this. we have a great ally over there. israel. [laughter] . [applause] iran wants to blow them off of the world. we cannot even beat bolivia. our leadership is weak and that that it. -- week and pathetic. they are going to have so much money. we do not do anything about it. when they takeover, there is no way we go back. we will not have the stomach to go back. what is going to happen to israel when you have them controlling crop bill probably

libya. they are going to control everything over there. 99 cent of the people want to break the peace treaty with israel. -- 99% of the people want to break the peace treaty with israel. did you see that? 99%. we have problems. we have week empathetic -- weak, pathetic leadership. we have incompetent leadership.

i am going to make a decision. i love my life. i am having a great time. i built a great company. i have one of the talk shows on -- top shows on nbc. it is doing great. even the new york times certification in nice piece the -- "new york times" wrote a nice piece about a talking how great the readings were. it is a great show. i've had to give a lot to step up. it is peanuts compared to the importance of this country. when i see what opec is doing, when i see what china is doing, china, it is hard to buy anything. semblance of what can you do? -- somebody said, what can you do?

i would drop a 25% tax on china. the messenger is important. i could have one man say we are going to do this 25%. you have said the same exact thing. it is a different messenger. i tell you what will happen. i'm a lover and not a fighter. you have been reading about that for years. i will tell you something. when they really believe that, when they do not have, does -- when they do not have obama bowling down to everyone.

-- bowing down to everyone. does everyone remember that? we do not have obama having the state dinners. we have someone who is tough and smart. when i say your vendor have to put this on their comment they say when everyone knows they are abusing us. everybody knows they are manipulating the currencies. they are brought up on it. we take six months just to put it in charge. then we do not do anything. we are going to charge 25%. the real numbers should be 45%. we will start with 25. we can always raise it. when they believe the message,

they are going to do wonderful. -- one thing. they are going to give us anything they want. -- anything we want. they came out with a statement last week that this is unheard of and unthinkable. in 2016, china is going to eclipsed the united states. -- eclipse the united states as a great economic power. if you would have said that 10 years ago, people would have laughed at you. china is going to eclipsed us in -- eclipse us in four years. under the time doctor, that does -- under the trump doctrine, but that does not happen. do you know why.

we are going to -- under the trump doctrine, that does not happen. do you know why? we are going to go to china? look at the deal that general electric made. it does not work that way. we let you very much. the one to sell to us. -- when they come to sell us, it is like, come on in. we will pay you whatever the hell you want. you are not bringing in all your crap including your sheetrock that makes everybody sick. we make a much better project. you cannot compete price wise because of the manipulation. the first thing that happened is that they stop screwing around. here is what happens.

about 60% of the will stop. -- of their sales will stop. we will increase the hell out of the employment. we will be building plants. we will start building it. they make weaponry. i did not know we even had anything like that anymore. this is high technology stuff. wilcox is great. look it up. they make their own products. he will have thousands of those places. they will behave.

if they do not behave, that is even better. we will start building our own. we will tell all these other companies that have to build your own factories. we got to put our own people to work. [applause] i will just go one step further. it can happen so fast. if you look at what is going on, you look at what is going on. we cannot drill in the gulf. we cannot drill in alaska. official can tell you more about the environment than i can. i received a lot of -- my colleague can tell you more about the environment than i can, even though our receive a lot of environmental awards. a lot of people find this hard to believe. in china and other countries, they burn whatever the hell is available. that smoke is spewing out of those chimneys. it is cheap as hell. over here we want to green technology. what are we doing?

i believe in green. what we are doing with oil is we have to drill in alaska. we have to drill. we've got to drill. there is so much oil. we have natural gas. we have enough natural gas that all of the oil in the united way -- the entire world put together. we have so much. we have so much coal. abu dhabi is very rich. did you see what they did? they are making all of their transportation running on natural gas so they can sell these to the united states oil. and i only say this. we had the potential to have a

great country again. we are not a great country now. we love it. but we are not a great country. if i win, if i run and if i win, people have a rich country again. we will have a great country again. we will be respected as a country again. [applause] thank you very much. thank you very much. thank you very much. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011]

>> this weekend, a medical scientist during the civil war from scranton, pa., and bob dole looks back at his political career. an examination of a disputed election of a president. keep the -- get the complete weekend schedule, where you can also get to our schedule emailed to you by pressing the c-span alert button.

>> several potential republican candidates were mentioned friday to speak at the new hampshire chapter potential -- americans for prosperity foundation. several people spoke. the defense is moderated. time, a yellow light will come on. when there is no time left, a red light will come on. i will ask each candidate to stick to their time. candidates will be -- questions will be directed to the caidates. they will have as long as seven minutes to ansr those questions. each candidate will be asked to respond to it least two questions. -- to rpond to at least two

questions. it is my closet pleasure to begin the second portion of our program. in order to begin this program, you must be seated or take your conversations outside the room. i respectfully ask you to have a seat so we can begin our prentation. thank you. it is now my pleasure to introduce an individual who will serve as our moderator this evening. this individual served as the president of american for prosperity foundation in washington, d.c. he is the reason our organization has been as successful as it has been. in the last presidential campaign, president barack obama mentioned americans with prosperity -- americans for prosperity. that tells you we are doing something right. [applause]

it is under the leadership of tim phillips that we have received over 35 state chapters for the americans for prosperity foundation. he overss all of the grass- roots work that we do, the advocacy campaigns that americans for prosperity does it, and the educational work that we continue to do. it is my pleasure to introduce the president of americans for prosperity foundation, tim phillips. ♪ beautiful day ♪ >> this evening. thank you for that ki introduction and for the great work you are doing leading our americans for prosperity chapter here in new hampshire.

in states across the country, leaders like corey are leading our chapters and 1.8 million grassroots activists. our goal is simple -- to restore economic prosperity to this great nation of ours through limited government, more economic freedom, and less government spending and regulation. [applause] it is a real honor to be with you. i know that you are a quiet, retiring guy. i know it is tough to come out of your shell, but thank you. [applause] one thing about me you probably have not noticed, i grew up in upstate south carolina. there is an overflow room with an interpreter if you need it. [laughter]

it is great to see my home center, jim demint -- senator, jim demint. [applause] tonight we gather for a summit focused on government spending, a deficit, that, and the negative impact they are having on job creation and our prosperity. we are glad to have five potential candidates for the republican nomination for president with us. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. [applause] there are a lot of places you could be this evening, although i hear new hampshire is popular this time of year. thank you for sharing thi evening with us. our goal this evening is pretty simple. it is to ask you to detail your stance on economic issues and the policies he will pursue if you are fortunate enough to move

forward to the next level. you may notice, and i know you are stunned to hear this, president obama is not with us this eveng. [applause] [laughter] that may be surprising to some didn't how often the president, for some reason, mentioned americans for prosperity last fall. we thought for sure he would be -- he would want to come out. mr. president know this -- you are welcomeo explain your economic policies to our audience is any time. we will give youn open microphone to explain yourself. right? [applause] the truth is we have seen clearly with the -- where the current administration stands and what they had done. simply put, when it comes to budget deficits and debt, president obama's policies are literally bankrupting america. there is no doubt about that.

president obama has increased discretionary spending during his first two years by 25%. if you include the failed stimulus that was $814 billion more, it is a 65% increase in discretionary spending. i just finished reading a brilliant book called "rock debut with destiny." it is an account of the 1980 presidential race, one that elected -- elected a man named ronald wilson reagan. [applause] ronald reagan and president locked in ae tense struggle. the budget deficit numbers for that year came out in the fall. it was a shock to the american political system to hear the amount. does anyone want to know what

that amount was for the budget deficit in 1980? $74 billion. that number shot the american establishment and americans. it sounds almost like today, does it not? we use other words now, but the truth is this president will have three straight $1 trillion us budget deficits. the health care picies he has put forward will dry up health care costs for amerins while increasing taxes and spending trillions more in the years to come. meanwhile, o his watch, medicare has slipped further down the road towards fiscal failure. i do not know about you -- maybe we need to have a show of hands -- but i think it is the height of hypocrisy for this president

to call paul ryan and house republicans "irresponsible" for trying to do something about the budget deficit. do you agree with that? [applause] the format for this evening is pretty straightforward. we will ask our five participants to stick to it. presidential leadership is sometimes about following rules. if we want to get everyone in, we need to do that and still have a couple of questions free. we'll ask them to stick to 8 minutes with remarks on revitalizing the economy, spending, budget deficit, job creation. i am a liberal arts major from virginia tech, so we have high-tech system here. you have a yellow flashing light that means "cautioned." it is working. at time 48 speaker, it will go

read. we will then have two questions on the same economic topic for each and that will be it for the evening. thank you for joining us. we have the first speaker this evening, and that is governor 10 pawlenty -- tim pawlenty from minnesota. [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. or as president obama would say, you are welcome. [applause] had had enough of $4 a gallon of gas? have you had enough of unemployment? had you had enough of the federal government that is out of control? have that you had enough of barack obama? yes. it may,oo. -- me, too. you are role modeling a svice

of faith, family, and persistence to this state and the cause of freedom. it is a clarion call for new hampshire and all of america and we owe you a debt of gratitude. [applause] senator dement, thank you for your inspiring leadership. you are a clear voice for common sense. there's not much of that in washington. thank you for coming tonight. we appreciate that as well. [applause] i am delighted to be here with the other potential candidates for 2012 -- michelle bachmann, my good friend mitt romney, herman cain, rick santorum, and the others. these are all wonderful people. we are on the same team because we have the same goal -- taking ba this country and restoring america to its greatness again. [applause]

the question before us is about jobs, the economy, and government spending. to answer that question we should talk to the people who provide the jobs in this country. when you do, they give you a clear answer all day every day. it is not that complicated. it is at this -- get the government off my back. [applause] it varies a little bit by industry, business, employer, or sector, but some are barry concerned about taxes being too high. others are concerned about regulation, the time, expense, and the late. they are worried about energy costs that are skyrocketing. others are worried about workers,, unemployment,, or unfair -- or opt -- workers comp, unemployment comp, or

unfair practices. somebody who would te a risk, start something, grow something, add employees, buy equipment, conduct research -- all the things that takes to keep the economy going, every time the government takes over, they not only grow government and spend more of your money, but they do something else that is equally corrosive. they discouraged the american spirit. underneath this notion of america's greatness and america's prosperity is what makes us great is we are free. it is fundamentally different from other couries all around the world and throughout time. we are not the greatest nation in the world has known because we had the most people. we do not. we need to be more competitive

with our cost, but we are not the cheapest place in the world. we're the greatest nation in the world has ever known because we are the freest nation in the world. [applause] as government pushes in two families, neighborhoods, communities, places of worship, private markets, dr. norris -- entreprenuers. many of you know that i talk sometimes about costco, kmart, wal-mart. if you go to a store like that, you will often times a mom or dad with a grocery cart with a year's supply of chips in their car because they are trying to save money. they are trying to get the most

vae for the money they do have. they want that on the government as well and they are not getting it. we have a government in washington, d.c. that was fighting recently about whether to spend $3.60 trillion or $3.70 trillion. the problem was, they were only taking in $2.20 trillion. we need to fundamentally change this country. in minnesota, one of the bluest states in the union, mitt romney and i used to debate each other about whether massachusetts or minnesota was more liberal. we have changed my state. we cut spending and brought it below zero for the first budget cycle in our 150 year history. [applause] we cut taxes over my eight years as governor. we were one of the first states in the country to have

performance y for teachers statewide. we had pension reform. ito was the largest transit strikes in the history of the country -- bus driver shut down the chances system for 44 days -- i had people standing outside my window saying pawlenty is a weapon of mass destruction. in minnesota, i share that with you. to say as frank sinatra always sang about your, if we can do it in the land of mondale and humphrey and u.s. senator al franken, we can do it anywhere. [applause] it was not easy. with all due respect to other people in public office, some of them need a little encouragement. pushing them back up against the wall metaphorically matter i had the first government shut down under my watch in minnesota

in the 150 year history of the state. i set a record for vetoes in my state single season and won the most in history. the cato institute is a libertarian organization they gave only four governors in the country an a. louisiana, west virginia, and minnesota. i am proud of that. [applause] i just want to share with you in the minute i have left, working in the mills was not easy. working in the meatpacking plant or drivi a truck was not easy. of course, when you see those

big plants shut down in manchester or south st. paul and the faces of unemployment in your community and disruptions to your family and community, you see things not as a budget number, but as a matter of a family and of the bargain future. my mother died when i was 16. my dad lost his job f a while not too long after that. when you are young and your mom passes and your father is unemployed, you learn about hard work and individual responsibility, but we also know that in america ware strong people. i see a brighter future for our nation. that is why i am running for president. [applause] it will be formally and finally

announced later. [laughter] that is the secret to this country -- we are hopeful, optimistic group of people. we are not about thinking china is going to lead the world and we are going to be second, third, or fourth place. let's get to it and take back our country. thank you very much. [applause] >> governor, a decade ago, federal highways were at $1.80 trillion. today, they are more than double that. what are some of the specific policies that he wld pursue to get the spending under control and would it have to include entitlement reform, especially medicare? >> if you look at the federal outlays of about $3.70 trillion in the pie chart of federal

spending, looking at the red part of the pie chart being be mandatory or all of pilot spending, medicare, medicaid, social security, and interest on the national debt -- that read part of the pie chart is over the line. at the rate it is going, it will soon be over the three quarter ne. the blue part is defense. if you believe what i believe about defense, which we should not cut, then the real answer to the problem lies in the red part of the pie chart. bulk of that is the entiement programs. i believe we need to look the american people in the eye and tell them the truth. we need to speak courageously about the challenges we are in. do not scare them, but showed them the solutions and the way forward. in social security, it is time to say to the american people or

new entrants into the program, because life expectancies are increasing, we are going to gradually increase the retirement age overtime for new entrants into social security. we have to do it. i think we can get the bulk of america to agree to that. given the choices that we have in front of us, i believe we have to do at least this -- as it relates to the cost-of- living adjustments to social security, it is time we look the american people in the eye and say if you are wealthy you are not going to get as big a cost of living adjustment as if you are a middle income or lower income. those things will send a powerful signal to the world commodity markets, to our country that we can solve our problems and get these programs back on track. i believe a majority of the country will embrace that. on medicare and medicaid, i believe we should do what paul ryan suggested -- block grant the whole thing to the

laboratories of democracy, the states. [applause] medicare is a longer answer, but two things to note in particular -- we cannot have a 1950 system that pays providers based on historical cost without regard to results or quality. we have to align the money to the results we want. we have to have people have some skin in the game in terms of being in charge of their own health care and makg choices of what is best for them and their family, not having a centralized system run out of washington, d.c. with limited or no choices. >> thank you. thank you, governor. [applause] as you may know, new hampshire's house recently passed legislation that will allow new hampshire to pull out of the capping trade style energy tax system. -- cap and trade style energy

tax system. as governor of minnesota, you supported something that was similar in the early 2000's. ve you changed your views and approach to this issue? >> yes. a couple of years ago after considering cap and trade in minnesota and regionally, i changed my position and said it was a mistake. it was stupid. im sorry. [applause] it is a ham fisted. this was a couple of years ago. in a communication to congress, i said i no longer had that position. it was wrongly directed. it was directionally want philosophically. everybody has a couple of clockers in the record. that is one of mine. i am sorry. it was a mistake.

[applause] >> thank you, governor. >> our second speaker this evening is senator rick santorum from the great state of pennsylvania. please give him a big welcome. [applause] >> thank you very much. i am honored to be here in new hampshire. it is my 15th trip to new hampshire in the past year. i just came from my hometown of pittsburgh where i spoke at the convention. of wanted to speak to the n.r.a. one of the things they are always focused on -- i am a member and i get the magazine. the name of the magazine is a

"freedom." it is the core of what motivates me. what would your plans beat? the plan has be what is the core values that make america differt than any country in the history of the world? what made our economy more successful? what made our society more successful? it comes down to the document that is the why for america. the constitution is the how -- how does america operate? it is on the lips of every american, or at least used to be before the education system got to our children. "we hold these truths to be self evident that all men are held -- all men are created equal." our founders understood -- [applause] our founders understood that is

a lie. is it an economic understanding of the world? no. it i a more understanding. america is a moral and duke -- moral enterprise. all of us is created equal -- why? are they equal in any objective way? probably not. why is she equal? because she is a cool in the eyes of god, jack, and everybody else. the founders understood that america, if it was going to be a prosperous and great nation, had to have a "why" that held us together. we are equal and we have rights from god given to us and the government's role, very clearly,

was to be limited for the one thing. one of my favorite movies is "city slickers." the one thing of america, the whole purpose of america is to keep you free so you can provide for yourself, your family, the people you love, and the gaudy serve. that is the -- and the god you serve. that is the "why" of america. someone told my grandfather that his children had to put on brown shirt and march every day. he said he would give up that security that the government would provide for him. he worked until he was 72-years old in the coal mines of western pennsylvania. he sacrificed like every generation of americans.

he made sacrifices for one thing -- that one thing is what people are so animated about across america. it is the one thing at stake in this election. president of the united states two weeks ago said something every person in this room should know and repeat over and over again -- it is descriptive of what the problem is that is confronting america. he said in his budget rept to paul ryan -- he talked about the wonders of medicare, medaid, and unemployment insurance. he said this -- "america is a better countryecause of those policies." fine. then he said this -- "i will go one step further -- america was not a great country until tho programs." [catcalls]

can you imagine the presidentf this country saying america was not a great country prior to 1965? america was founded in great. it was not great because some politicians gave us stuff. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, if we want to revive this economy and this nation, do you want to know what motivates me? it is what jim demint's book was about. freedom. it is about freedom andrust in the americ people. trusting that each and everyone of you by serving your god and providing for yourselves and your famies and, yet been your brother's keeper of in your community, collectively we can do much better than a group of people in washington, d.c. designing things for us. [applause] [applause]