are committed to the president's reelection. anything we suggest would be to help his reelection, converting stumbling blocks to stepping stones. we believe that we can be part of the president's team, whether it is a knowledge officially or not. that is the kind of relationship we would like to have with the white house. >> are you would like to be advisers to the president on this issue? >> absolutely. we would like to provide the president with information that he may not be receiving elsewhere. we pick up a lot of affirmation going to these job -- information going to these job sites and having town hall meetings with the people. we went to detroit, for example, and the town hall meeting became very, very contentious.

the people were angry with the president. they were angry with congress. they were angry with the host of the town hall meeting who was doing nothing except running the town hall meeting. i think that is an example of how angry they are. t if you look at the fact that unemployment in detroit may become a real unemployment may belmost 40%, we should have anticipated the crowd becoming boisterous. there is criticism on the right of maxine waters who said to the crowd, look, we understand. we feel your pain. but we are very hesitant to criticize the president because we all are proud o

him, you are proud, but you need to release us to criticize him so that we can make him better. that released as not mean the you'll find the congressional black caucus out attacking the president. i'm not going to do it under the chair. there is no official season of attack on the president of the united states. i'm going to support the president of the united states. we are different -- if we are different in how we see a particular policy, i think it would be ridiculous for me to not say, i do not like this policy and i think it will be harmful to a part of the populationecause i think it would be wrong to criticize a black president. that would not be helpful. we have to have a level of maturity in this country.

>> we are out of time. ank you congressman emanuel cleaver, a democrat from missouri. he is chairman of the congressional black caucus. we appreciate your time. >> good to be with you. >> same to our studio guests, thank you to both of you for your questions this rning. thank you for watching. enjoy your day >> president obama spoke in the white house rose garden. here's a look.

>> good morning, everybody. i want to say a few words about hurricane irene, urge americans to take it seriously, and provide an overview of our ongoing federal preparations for america will be with you in your hour of need. while the storm has weakened, it remains a dangerous storm. one of our chief concerns was the possibility of significant flooding and widespread power outages. we have been getting reports from that. many americans are at risk of power outages and flooding which could get worse in the flooding days. i want people to understand this is not over. response and recovery efforts will be an ongoing operation.

i urge americans to continue to listen for the guidance and direction of their state and local officials. before the storm made landfall, the department of common security and fema worked with our state and local partners to pre-position supplies and teams of first responders. the american red cross opened shelters across the region. we want to thank those americans for their work or the past several days which has saved lives and property. we have search and rescue personnel on alert as well as food and other needed resources. moving forward, fema is working to assess damage and assist in recovery. i want to underscore that the impacts of this storm will be felt for some time. the recovery effort will last for weeks or longer.

power may be out for days and we will support our partners in every way we can as they work to restore power in those areas. i will make sure that fema and other federal agencies are doing everything in their power to help folks on the ground. i continue to meet with secretary to oppose a tunnel and other members of my team to assess our response and insure we have to we need in place. as ever told governors and mayors, if they need something, we will know about it. we want to respond quickly and effectively. we will keep it up as long as hurricane season continues. while we're not out of the woods yet, i want to think everybody at the federal, state, and local levels who have responded to this storm. this has been an exemplary efforts of how the government should be responsive to people's

needs. worked to keep them safe and promote prosperity. i want to thank scientists to provide information for governors and mayors to make decisions, a disaster response experts who make sure we were prepared, national guard members and first responders to risk their lives and insure safety. all ordinary americans who love their country and volunteered to do their part. above all, the past few days have been an example of how americans opened our homes and hearts to those in need and pull together in tough times to help our fellow citizens prepare and respond and recover from challenges, natural disasters or economic difficulties. that is what is the makes united states a a strong and resilient nation. i want to thank all of those who

have been involved. now asks -- i ask secretary napolitano to say few words. >> i would like to echo his comments about hurricane i ream. we will be dealing with the impacts of this storm over the coming days and i urge americans to take steps to stay safe. dealing with a storm like this requires a three phase approach, preparation, response, and recovery. some communities are still responding while others are beginning to assess damage and plan for recovery. as a response assets are freed upper -- freed up, we will work with all other states throughout recovery period.

i would like to think it team who is working to respond to irene, including the american people. thanks to all of you who have prepared and followed evacuation orders. and your actions help protect your families and minimize loss of life but also freed up first responders. the department of homeland's security will coordinate to the federal response through fema, making sure the federal family is working as one to support the affected states. i would like to a bank -- thank craig who has been leading this effort. >> thank you. you look at these disasters, a lot of times to try to find a place of damage that tells everybody a story about what has happened.

that is hard to do because most of you forgot the virgin islands were first impacted. we had people who lost their homes and are dealing with recovery. we will repeat that process throughout the coast. when a disaster, and nobody's paying attention, we do not go home. we are working hard on tornadoes and floods. that is part of the mission we have, to work with our partners and the private sector the most of all the american people who we work for. we are there for the survivors. we're not going home just because it will not be on the news. we have a lot of work ahead of us. we will support local communities as they recover. thank you. >> thank you, everybody. craig and janet will keep

everybody posted throughout the week. there are communities still being affected. we're concerned about flooding because of the continuing rains will have an impact well beyond the immediate center of the storm. we will continue to monitor that carefully. assessments are being done in virginia. there are still search and rescue teams operating threat to region. we will keep the american people posted threat to our efforts which respects to response and recovery. ♪

>> republican candidate and former massachusetts governor hallromney held a twoown meeting. he criticized president obama's leadership on reducing the debt.

new hampshire is hosting the first presidential primary in february 2012. this is about an hour and 20 minutes. long time no see. [applause] good evening. that was sad. let's try this again. good evening. quite good evening. >> much better. i want to thank you for being here. this is an important time in our

lives. it is an important time in our history. we appreciate to get the time to come out and do this. i would lik to ask you to take a ment, take yourself off, put it on vibrate -- i had to check min. -- i had to check mine. i want to tell you why i take mitt romney should be predent of the united states. [applause] i have been politically active in new hampshire for about 20 years. there are very few people i look in the eye and note this man has what is right for our country in his heart, in his mind, in his address in may. there is no one kinder. if there is no one more thoughtful. there is no one better prepared to lead our country -- leave our country in a better economic state that it is. as you know, we are in a mess. i watched 90% of my income in real estate in this last cycle.

that is tough. i want someone to put new venture back to work. i in my opinion, that person is governor mitt romney. you did not come here to hear me, so i will turn it over to captain bill simon. thank you for being here this evening. we look for to a great evening. -- forward to a great evening. [applause] >> thank you for coming i am bill son. when i was invited to introduce the governor tonight, i asked staff member, could you give me a list of accomplishments and goals? she said, nope. very simply, just a why you support the governor for president. i did not have to go on line and look at anything, i knew instantly where my connection was. i fuy support his position

that whington needs to stop wasting our money. i liken the current in administration to the kids who visit your house on halloween. you have a bowl of candy and they come up to the door and you say, sure, take what you need. that is a good thing. instead, you have this is the shah of both parents in the bulk, fill their back, and they do notare -- shove both hands in the bowl, fill their bag, and they do not care what they leave for others. i would rather have in new hampshire representatives to tell me where my money should be spent. i would rather have andover residents tell me where our money shld be spent that was my connection on those two main points. without further ado, i would like to introduce the governor i hope in january 2013 will have to change the address on his

driver's license to 1600 pennsylvania avenue, mitt romney. >> thank you. [applause] thank you. very kind. thank you. thank you. what an honor to be here. what a welcome. you are very kind and generous to spend some time with me this evening. it is quintessential new hampshire for people to come together on that evening like this when you could be out enjoying a dinner, perhaps a movie, tv, or whatever, getting ready for a hurricane. if instead you are saying, there is a responsibility to get to know the people running for president. so you're going to spend some time getting to know me and decide if in the right one or if someone else is the right one. i want to thank matt for welcoming you and me here. he was kind enough some years ago to give me a picture, which

still hangs in my home. it is a picture of president eisenhower, one of my heroes. a man who was a national hero following the world war and helped guide our foreign-policy to make sure america would be strong and safe. i appreciate that from you, max. i appreciate bill introcing me. your leadership in the committee is recognized. your kind words were touching, and i should just sit down, but i have more i wanto say. i am good to say a word or two, then i will ask you for questions you might have been embarrassing questions or fine. i'll do my best to respond to them. then we will get a little chance to say hi to each other, get some pictures taken, and shake some hands. me and you, we have something you have not seen before. this was created today by my

team to illustrate something. it is a frightening thing here. he what's the tens of thousands of dollars going by sector by sector. hundreds of thousands of dollars going by in less than a minute. is is the amount of debt the nation owes. $14.60 trillion. i do n know who told politicians there was a number called 8 trillion, but a large debt and now they have borrowed it. this down here is how much each taxpayer's share of that national debt is. if you are a taxpayer, and most of you are in this room, recognize that this is what you of. that number is a lot bigger than it was 2.5 years ago when president obama took office. that number has been added bite $4 trillion. that has been added by another $30,000. every day that president obama is in office and fails to balance our budget were put forth plans to do that, that

number gets larger and larger for me and for your kids. it is unacceptable for you. it is immoral to pass along those debts to your kids. if i am president of the united states, i will get america on track to balance our budget and stop spendg money we do not have. [applause] i know that not all of that will be popular. i know that some of the things we will have to stop doing and stop spending will make people say, gosh, i wish we could keep spending that. i remember when i served as governor of the state south of he -- thank you for letting me cross the border to date -- when i served in massachusetts and we look at a budget gap by first year of about $3 billion, we took the budget and we divided our spending in two groups. since we did ithe state that we liked and then those things

we did in the state tha we had to do. we said the things we like we are going to have to stop doing because we cannot afford it. as i look at the federal budget, i am going to go through item by item, line by line and say, do we have to do this? is this so important to us, so critical that it is wort more when money from china for our kids to have to pay to keep doing? if that is always the measure. is this something we like so much that it does work mortgaging our kids' future? in my view, we are going to have to cut back on spending. number one on my list stop obamacare. we cannot afford it. [applause] it is bad government anyway. paul ryan and republicans and said you have to take discretionary spending and cut it back to the 2008 levels. if that takes sense as -- makes sense as well.

it's to be taken away from the federal government and returned to the state. medicaid is one of those programs. a program for the poor in our nation. it gets larger and larger. take the money, give it back to the states, that the states manage the programs for the poor in the way they think is best. the federal governments too large. that number up there suggest a government that has grown to well beyond anything anyone had ever imagined, even people like jfk and fdr. even lyndon baines johnson. they would be surprised at how big that number is and would be appalled. we have to shrink the size of the federal government and return much of what it does, if as much as we can back to the state's rickey managed for the people and people are closer to their elected representatives and can vote them out that they do not do a good job. i will do that. [applause] the fact that that number is going around like it is is a

pretty clear indication of presidential failure. but there are some other reasons to be unhappy with deeper than that. that relates to the fact that we have 25 million americans that e out of work. out of work, stop looking for work, or in part time jobs. 25 million americans. you are doing better here in new hampshire. i think the president could learn some lessons from new hampshire. heould learn that if you want to attract jobs and better than the national average, but igood to have a live taxes and small government. that is a lesson the good lawyer for new hampshire, but what he did instead became again as president is decide to put in place a nearly $1 trillion spending stimulus, spending more on government, adding 135,000 new government employees. the right answer was not to add government, the right answer was to shrink government and grow the private sector.

if they keep focused on energy and the things he really wanted. cap and trade to raise the cost of energy. if forced immunizations. stacking the national labor relations board. he wanted dodd-frank to regulate thfinancial services sector. obamacare to take away from you the right to have the medical choices that you currently enjoy. in my view, his agend is one of the primary reasons that this downturn has been so deep and has been so hard to get out of. it is one of the primary reasons that what goes around at the rate it goes around. it has gone around pass for a long tied. president obama, when he was senator obama, calls the fact that for the bush added to that deficit "unpatriotic." of what would you consider of his own actions as president when so many pple are out of work and with that number is racing around like it is.

i have a very different experience. i did not spend my life is a community organizer or as a politician. i respect people in both professions. i spent my life in the private sector. i inherited some important things for my parents. by the way, what i inherited financially, i gave away. but what i inherited from a culture standpoint i hold very dear. i inherited a willingness to work hard. my mom and dad taught me how to work. i learned something about america. when i was a young boy, my dad took me on a trip across the country with my mom, of course, going from national park to national park. he did the same thing with his grandkids. 25, 26 grandkids went on tour -- went on 30 days of trips with my mom and d going to national parks. i knew what he was doing. he was not just showing them the

beauty of america and the majesty of our mountains and the grand tour of the canyons, he was also teaching them something about the american spirit and the american character. i learned that. i inherited that from my mom and dad. that is something that does not leave me. the red meat from a book called "men to match my milton." you may not have read that book. it was written in the 1960's by someone named irving stone. i mentioned that the other night. i was on cape cod the other night and the owner of the home the estimate, as soon as i finish telling that story, he got up and "did that point from which the title was taken. i did not know it was taken from a point. it turns out the public who wrote the point from which that title was taken was from new hampshire. his name was sam walter.

"bring me meant to match might melton. bring me men to match by airplanes. -- bring me men to match my mountain. brink me men to match my plane." what was he talking about? he was not talking about covering our neighbors, but, instead, and parts of discovery, innovation, enterprise, if any new rors as we change the world. that is what america has done. if this is the greatest nation in the history of the world. what we have done, what we have invented, how we have shared liberty around the world. it is lifted people from poverty. has brought people freedom. if it does preserve peacon the planet. a strong america is the best allied peace has ever known.

this is an extraordinary land. i believe in america. i believe the principles that made us such a strong and vibrant nation in the past where restore our economy and preserve our freedom in the future. when the founders came together and formed this country, their brilliance and their vision is almost hard to overstate. they gave us political freedom, as you know. we got to choose to represent us in government. they swapped the relationship between state and citizen because, in the rest of the world, they need the state was the sovereign and the state was the servant. the swap that. now the citizen would be the sovereign and the state would be the servant. i also gave us personal freedom and economic freedom. we had the right to choose where we want to live and what we want to do with our life. what a remarkable land. those freedoms, political

freedom, personal freedom, economic freedom, brought people from all over the world here seeking an opportunity, not only for themselves, but for their children. if my wife's dad was born in wales. his dad was a coal miner. his dad said, "i have to give you away from here. we get to emigrate. if we have to get to america." like millions of others, they came to america. when they got here, it did not take them long to realize that an education was a big help to be about to realize their dreams, but they did not have enough money to send the kids to college. they got together and that a family conference and decided they could send one. if all the kids, all four of them, would save the money from their jobs and put it in a pool, they could put that money behind one of them to go to college. they did. it was my father-in-law. they all gathered the money. can you imagine that in your family? he seemed to be the smartest, as we will send him to college.

that would have ended up in a fight in my house with my five boys. they came together and sacrificed for their brother, my father in law, sent him to general mots institute of technology. he got his degree in engineering and started his business. of course, if he hired his brothers and sisters to work with them early in this enterprise. the nature of america. these freedoms brought people from all over the world and built as to what we are today. i believe in those freedoms. i believe that i have, by virtue of having spent my life the in the private sector -- in business -- and having turned around enterprises and not just what's bs being created, but actually created jobs -- i believe that is what the nation needs to get america back to work again and restore the values that will keep us prosperous. i believe this bill will enable me in a debate with back obama to elected him and say, "no, mr.. , you got it wrong. you do not understand that the economy works. you do not understand at your agenda made it harder for jobs

to be created. i do. i have created jobs. i know how it is done. i would do a better job of slowing down that clot and, hopefully, did it reversing a getting americans back to work." [appuse] i love this country. i believe in this country. i believe in the american people. i am convinced our future is bright i am going to tell you why as we answer some questions, but i am going to turn out to you and get your thoughts. if you have to advise, i am happy to hear it. that y have questions, i am abbey to respond let me turn to you. tell me who you are if you would like. if you want to be anonymous, you do not have to. if you live around here.

give me your thoughts and your questions. with that, please. matt started things off. let's do it again. >> governor, what are your thoughts on the turns of events in libya and what would you do if your president right now? >> let's talk about libya. i hope, by the way, that the president or the state department was in touch with gaddafi before the revolution and said to him "mr. gaddafi, if you attack your own pple, we will come after you. we will not allow a manitarian crisis." that is the old teddy roosevelt -- speaks softly, carry a big stick. i hope that happened. whenocuments are released sometime down e road, i hope weill find that happen. number two, the president came to the american people and said to us we have a humanitarian mission to fulfill.

we will put in place a no-fly zone. we heard the story and appreciated that. members of congress and the american people assented to our participation in the humanitarian efforts. then the president changed the mission. he did not come to the american people and describe the mission. he said we are now in favor of regime change. there was an effort to remove gaddafi. i am happy to see gaddafi give. the people of libya came together to get rid of him. i am at the the coalition, the natick team, was able to remove him. i am happy he is gone. bui sure would like our president to come to the american people and described to us what is our mission there. once gaddafi is gone, who is going to provide security? what is the nature of the rebels? what are they going to be doing? will this become as bad or worse than it was under gaddafi? these are answers i would like to hear from our president who

has the information about who these folks are and what our role will be. this is something he has not done yet. i think it is incumbent on the president to describe what our mission is there now and what the mission will be for libya. my own view is that america should be involved in actions of this nature -- meaning and balding our military troops- were we have a substantial interest, with the mission is clear and defined, and where our exit is also the clear and defined. the questions we've not heard with regard to libya. this budget as the american public a discussion we are grateful that gaddafi is either don or almost dawn. i think he is basically gone according to the most basic reports. now let's see what the president's budget plans are. by the way, i would like to hear a discussion about syria and egypt. libya as a population of around 7 million people. egypt has a population of around 80 million people.

egypt is the big power in the arab world. trying to encourage egypt to move towards modernity and not becoming a hostile neighbor to israel is extraordinarily critical to the american people. the president has a lot to talk about. i wish we understood what his foreign policy was. thanks, matt. >> im chris johnson. if there was one policy initiative that you could spend all of your political capital on and accomplished it before you left office on the domestic scene, what would it be? >> that is hard to say. two.e going to give me good. one is to get us on track to stop spending more money than we take in. balance our budget. two, did americans back to work. how do you do those things? they are connected, by the way.

we are not good to get america back to work if every on japan or in every business person in this country looks at america -- if every opera nor -- ought to ignore -- about the get people back to work? you have to make sure that the taxes for our employers, not higher thanhat for a employers around the world. right now or for the highest in the world. number two -- regulation and bureaucracy has to be modern, streamlined, up-to-date. regulation as to not only gets the bad guys, but encouraged the good guys. right now regulation is burdensome. it makes it harder for businesses to grow and invest. no. 3, you've got to have trade policies that work for us, not just for the other guys. with there are cheaters, le

china, you have to hold them accountable and make sure they did not take our jobs by virtue of cheating. number four, yet to become energy secure, independent of the cartels. that means developing our own oil, gas, coal, nuclear, went, and sold. america needs to be energy independent from the cartels. did we need to have institutions that teach our kids the skills for the transfer century. we have to have the role law. we after the government that spends less than it takes in the as a long list. but i had to get americans back to work. on september 6, if you had nothing to do, i will be giving a speech about the things you have to do to get america working again. it is not just working over the coming year or two that i am concerned about as important as that is, it is working over the next couple of decades making sure that our economy leads the

world. that we remain the place that is home of innovation. that remain the economic powerhouse of the world. only if we are the tier 1 economy of the world can we have a military that is also tier 1 and to protect our freedoms. i am going to work very hard to restore, not just the economy short term, but to restore our ability to compete and add jobs with high incomes of long-term. that is what i know. that is what i do. business, jobs, the economy. i am going to use my skills to get america back to work at to get that clock to slow down and stop. .hank you period [applause] >> i am dan hurley. thank you for bringing the cloc i spent my career working in the chance shot -- technology transfer field.

can i get your opinion of what is going on at g e but toe, it is not a good thing. >> all the people in the room who thinks our trade policies with china makes sense, please raise your hands. that is what i thought. we have watched year after year as china has manipulated the currency to artificially hold down the prices of all goods and services coming from china. that has helped them here and abroad. it has hurt us here and hurt us in operations abroad. it made them more competitive and has a hollowed out, in some cases, manufacturing. what else have they done? the install of our patents, of designs, are no help. they have not allard -- under our system of protecting intellectual property. when we sell an airplane, it i not just the steel and lar, as important as they are, it is

also the know how that went into building the aircraft and designing it. the steel listings routinely. in china they are selling microsoft software on the streets for a couple of bucks. but are selling movies for less than that. that is our intellectual property. they are stealing those things. as they steal those things, we lose the revenue and they go out and sell them to others. then, of course, they are hacking into our computer systems. doing it to corporations and taking technolog going into our government and department of defense tsteal technology and know-how. it is unacceptable. the president said he would take china to the mat. i have not noticed that happening yet. if i am president, and i will anunce this in september, i will be very clear which side about the consequences of their manipulative currency, other stealing our intellectual property. the consequences are the not enjoy e open access to our markets they had enjoyed in the past. thank you. [applause]

>> nice to see you. >> thank you. >> i have a little problem. i do not kw if i know what i am talking about. i had a business i started myself. i paid all my employees 50% -- 15% of their salary and their health insurance. now that i am retired, we had the government cutting pension plans. some of my tax dollars, i am sureare going to pay some of those pensns. i find it disagreeable that i have to take money out of my savings. ybe you can explain that.

on a lighter note, this is what i would like to have you do. i would like you to get my 401k growing as fast as that debt. your 401k is moving as fast th debt, just in the wrong direction, it is so afraid. [applause] you are talking about support for federal employee pensions. clearly people who work in government deserve a fair wage, compensation, and a fair retirement program, and fair benefits. at the same time, we have too many people working in the federal government. that number should be small. it does not mean we have to slash employment,ut as people retire, we do not have to fill those positions. secondly, people who work for government should get as good a deal as the taxpayers get. the compensation of people in the government should be similar to the compensation that exist in the private sector.

the benefits should be the same as well. the people who work for government should not get a better deal than the people who are paying their wages, namely, the taxpayers. i appreciate the work of federal employees and government workers, but i want to make sure their deal is comparable to that of the people that is paying for it. if those numbers get out of whack, and you are seeing them in some state -- even in my home state of massachusetts they are saying there are some things that are out of control and we cannot have collective bargaining anymore because it is out of line. we are going to get to be honest with faults and not keeping for things we cannot afford. that is what leads to the plot doing wh it is doing back there. i support efforts to be honest with people and make sure we have for government employees a fair deal, but not a better deal than the rest of us get. thank you. other questions? yes, sir. >> i am om barrington.

if we had had success through history, we are in a much different world than we are today. with your background and your level of success, recognizing that the probability is that when you take office you are going to have to deal with an economy that is virtually at a standstill, such as it is today, are there any things that you would do differently than this nonsense that we saw exhibited in washington in recent weeks and months? in other words, is the system broken or is it the people are not listening? how would you attack this with your expertise? >> you are talking about the

debt ceiling. when you talk about nonsense in washington, it is a long list of possibilities k. [laughter] i know there are people that ay, whity didn't republic since agreed to raise taxes a little bit? the is a reason that people were for a proposal that would cap federal spending so it could not grow faster than the federal government. government is too big. let me describe what too big is. when john f. kenne was president, government at all levels, federal, state, local, consumed about 20% of our economy, about 1/4 of our economy. today, it consumes 37%. and it is headed towards 40% of

the economy. we are inches away from no longer being a free economy. instead, being a government- dominated nation. a lot of us looked and said 37% is too much. you're spending is too much. we will not give in to give you more money to allow you to get even betigger. politicians in washington and in some states like california -- california has the highest tax rate in the nation. i think it is the most expensive ate from an income tax standpoint in the nation. they must have a balanced budget, right? no, they spent all that money and thenome. to give politicians more money and higher taxes, they will spend that and keep barring more. the right answer -- there are a lot of people that disagree with me. last night, and was at an event in lebanon, new hampshire. she said, governor why it should do say that we should only spend

what we take in? whynot keep on borrowing there are people that agree with you. i am not one of them. i will do everything by growing the economy and getting people paying taxes because they have jobs and cutting that off scale of the federal government. if we had a president that is a leader. the president -- i like him. hearing him, he gives great speeches. what he said when he was campaigning about bringing the nation together, that was very inspiring. he did not do it, but he said it. but he hasn't been a leader. a real - it's been disappointment. he is not a >> live, local, and late-breaking, presence apaa president. he's a ddd president. debt, downgrade, an the lake. we keep talking about making

sure that social security and medicare are preserved, not just for current retirees but for the young people. the president says if something should be done. republicans put ideas out and the democrats a demagogue them. where are the president's ias? whereas leadership? what will he do about that leadership? where is it? 's in naucket, playing golf. it is time for a leader to step forward. i intend to be one of them. we will get the job done and get america working again and stop the clock. thank you. [applause] >> hello. i had the pleasure of meeting you up the street here not too long ago. we talked little bit about the family. if the success of the society is the dependence on the strength of the family. it is my opinion that we have the focus wrong. we need to focus on family first, not all of these other issues. the product of the family is the

next generation. if the next generation is to be better than the last, which i hold to be a universal truth about the world, that all mothers with like the best for their kids in the future, then we need to focus on the american family. and i ask you make a pledge to make the family a cornerstone of your campaign going forward, i think it is by far and above the greatest issue we have in the country. if we can fix that and get a parent home during child-bearing years to raise the children with the code that they can live by and take into kindergarten and know what is right and wrong, what is fair, what is moral, what is ethical, what breeds character andntegrity, then we ar on a path to turn this country around. there is no question in my mind collectively be cannot do it. it is not an issue. the fact of th matter is,e have to get together as a family. if i can make my pitch one more

time to you and say, let's make a cornerstone of this campaign, because you can do it. you have a wonderful family, and people here have wonderful families. by the way, my name is bob lync and the family is the answer to this. if we can make that the cornerstone of this campaign, we can certainly work on these other trivial issues that we can get straightened out with a wonderful group of americans w are ready to do it tomorrow. >> my guess is you came from a good family. >> i did. >> tell me about your family. >> my father krupp in delaware, and at 11 years old, he walked off of his home during a depression enter the keys on the ground and walked away from everything the family had. that stuck with him. and got a leighigh degree in economics. he committed in and out of new york city his entire life. that is one of the reasons i

live in new hampshire. my mother was at home with us every day. i learned a great deal from her, and i love her dearly to this day. those values mean more to me than anything else we have spoken about her and with family, with friends, with neighborhoods, with communities, with states and a government working together, we n take care of this country in a heartbeat. we can take care of this world. i would proclaim that we need a goal, may be a dream first. maybe not martin luther's but we need a drink heard from the goals, from that come the objectives. if everybody in the world wants to make the world a better place, we can do that. i would be happy to come to work with you and help you out. it is for most of my mind. >> apparently so. >> i am watching -- writing a book carried it is called "guard rails, god and santa claus." >> important topic, critical

topic. what i inherited from my parents was a set of values. a lot of this country, derstanding of character. -- a love of this country. i was taught that self-esteem was earned. it did not come because i had a teacher that said, you should love yourself. i learned it -- i learned you had to work hard and achieve somethg, whether it is sports or school. my oldest son, i hope i can remember exactly what this was. my oldest son and his high school on prized it was given the prize. this was at graduation. i do not remember which you're at school he was cured he was in k-12, but he was in high school. an uprising got was this -- for his unselfish concern for others. >> i could not have been more proud. character is a big part of what do self-esteem.

so i love families that are able to teach kids values and principles that lift their life. i like the fact that buy large we recognize that a home has a mom and dad, and if you want to have a child, it is a good idea to get mared first. [applause] my wife taught as a volunteer at the mother caroline academy in boston. is populated with at risks girls. one day, she said, how many of you would like to go to college? almost all of their hands went up. then she said, how many expect to have a baby before you graduate from high school. almost all their hands went up. and she said, you probably cannot do both. and they were surprised. people had not td them that yet. we need to teach our kids ere

is an advantage to getting married and having two peoe share their resources. a lot of people did not have the hasrivilege -- there been divorce or death. but where there is a possibility, get married, have children, raise children, make that your highest priority. the most important thing that happened in my home, that which gives me the greatest satisfaction in life, is what my wife did in raising our five sons. i remember when my wife and i were yng marrieds, and we were talkinto my dad, i think he was 80 at the time. my dad had been a person of great accomplishment, both in business and in government. and he was famous in his era. and we turned to my dad and said, what has been the most important thing in my life? he said, without question, that which gives me the greatest joy in life is what your mother did in raising our children. there is nothing like kids -- except grandkids, they are a little better.

i want to tell you, if i am elected president, my wife and i will work very hard to teach our kids, not just my own five sons and their children, of which there are 16, but also to teach other kids in america the benefits of marriage and coming together. i want to make sure our programs at the federal level do not discourage marriage. if we have programs that say we will give you money, welfare, if you are single with a child, but you -- if you are married with a child, then we will not. if you do not get married, then you do not have our responsibility to care for that child. these mistakes lead to people deciding that in some cases it does not make sense to get married. we have to make sure we do not create disincentives for marriage, but create a model, speak about it, and make sure our programs encourage people to form families that have kids. you and i are on the same page on that. i want to see your book. yes, ma'am. >> hi.

this is falling on the question about values. i was raised by two physicians, and i come up early on, learned the importance of us being healthy in our lives. and i spent the last year working in kenya and uganda, working with people living with hiv who loved me because i was american and american help them get access to drugs. i am a medical student. i read a study that showed that there was a 96% reduction in transmission when people are on hiv drugs. so that means they can have healthy and productive lives. and they will not transmit the virus to their partners. ias really proud of president bush in 2003 when he started the president's emergency plan for aids relief. and i have been disappointed with president obama who said that he was going to continue that program and hasot funded at the levels that he pledged to. so i am wondering if you become

the president, which i am hoping that we are starting a movement here in new hampshire, will you commit to being a president deccan and aids,nother we know that there is a 96% reduction in transmission for this virus? because i think it is very important that america maintains the moral and ethical standard, even though we're fighting this deficit stuff. there are certain things we can cut more easily and more morally than other things. and i do not think the aids program is something. anyway, i am wondering if he will commit to being a president that can end aids. >> we do a lot of wonderful things to encourage humanitarian aid around the world and to help other nations. and i applaud that effort. by and large, i look for that ever to be done on a charitable bases by the american people, meeting by people making contributions to those things

that make a difrence and by president matching funding or encouraging. there are some of tsunami disasters and so forth, where america's contributions are really wonderful and marvelous. in some cases, our contributions to the world held our interest and keep america in a more positive light in the world. so you have to look at each of the things we do in light of those benefits. but i also want to say this, in some cases, as we give humanitarian aid or foreign aid to other nations, but i say, gosh, we're borrowing money from china and giving it over here and have to pay back china. why don't we get china to make a contribution? why are we borrowing mon from them to help someone else? [applause] we are a generous and charitable people, but at the same time, i did not look for our government to decide where we will apply

are cheere i look for our people to do that person by person. that is my preference. i will look at what the president is spending, but i am expecting those nations that are running huge surpluses for them to pick up the burdens of the world, as opposedo always looking to america. we as citizens will do it. we will support those things we think make a real difference. we will support those things that help our image and our values around the world, but i am going to be putting a little bit of pressure on other people to pick up the slack. thank you. hi. [applause] >> hi,. i live in dover. i'm an educator. i'm a mom. i am curious about preparing our students with 21st century skills, getting ready for college and beyond. i was wondering if he couldalk more about that.

>> absolutely. let me tell you what things i've learned about education. when i came in as a governor, i wanted our schools to keep doing well so met with people in our education department. they said, smaller class sizes would make our schools better. i said, that is expensive. or construction, hiring more teachers. what does the data show? well, we have 351 cities and towns. so we knowr kids, which kids in which towns are doing the best. and we know the average class from size. so we can compare classicize with how the kids are doing. so we plotted that out. there was no relationship at all. as a matter of fact, the school districts that spent the most per student and with the smallest cluster size, a cambridge, their kids were

performing in the bottom 10% of kids in our state. i looked at studies done by people who fall education, like the mackenzie institute, and they looked as schools around the world. they said classicize is not predict how well kids will do. they said spending does not predict terribly well how kids will do. overwhelmingly, what prects how well the kids will do is their home, their parents, and the quality of the teacher. [applause] and those nations which are excelling in education are those nations which say, we are going to try and hire our teachers from among the very best performers, the top 5%-10%. too often in america we do not do that. i would like to hire the best do this. i would like to pay higher starting salaries for teachers. i would like teachers to be promoted not bed upon tenure

but based upon how well they do with kids. [applause] kids -- our best teachers not to aspire to become administrators, but to continue to teach and to the pmotion within the teaching ranks. andme, it's about teachers incurred in the quality of education at the teacher level. we did some other things. when i say we, i am talking about my predecessors in massachusetts as well as myself. they decidedhat to graduate from a massachusetts high school, you have to pass a graduation exam. and that's kind of a sti. i put a carrot in place. i said, if you take the exam and your score in the top 25% of your high school class, we will grant you a four-year tuition

free ride to any massachusetts public institution of higher learning. we call the the john and abigail adams scholarship. we created incentives for kids to get a scholarship. probably know how well massachusetts schools are doing. there are four measures for testing how schools are doing. fourth and eighth graders are tested every two years in english and math. my fourth graders came out number 1 in the nation and number one in math. my eighth graders came on number one in english and number one and math on all four measures. for the policy of choosing great teachers, of having accountability and standards and providing incentives for people to perform, those things work in education like everything else. so congratulations on being an educator. i want to make your job easier. i did not mention school choice. we of school choice in my state. 50 charter schools. i like choice in education.

i like parents being able to choose the school where they think the child will do best. i want to provide that for more of our kids. thank you. [applause] >> first of all, thank you for being here. to follow on the education question, i agree with so much of what you are saying and it is a very exciting to hear as a teacher myself. does federal government played a role in the process, and what would you do when you are elected? the idea of the federal government trying to run schools. i think schools should be run at the state and local level. of course, the federal government sends a lot of money out. and in sending that money out, it could encourage school choice, cyber learning, better compensation for teachers. there are things it could

encourage. and so what role it will play has to be carefully measured. for instance, in my state, my predecessors devise a curriculum. we have a statewide curriculum. and the kids are tested according to the curriculum. i think it is working pretty well. if the federal government said, we like the massachusetts curriculum and mandate that all states use the curculum, i would say absolutely not. that violates the constitution. it violates my impression of what this nation is founded upon -- individual liberty and states' rights. i'm very reticent to have the federal government plays its heavy hand in education. encourage good practices and share those, make sure the money is spent well, yes, but schools should be run at the local level by parents, teachers, and not by teachers unions, by the way. we ought to put the teachers d

the kids first. yes, sir? i'll give you this one. and'm the father of 2 kids, i am very concerned about their future. in june you said, i think it is important for us to reduce our emissions of pollutants in greenhouse gases that may be contributors to the climate change and global warming. yesterday said about global warming, i do not know if it is mostly caused by humans. now i'll quote from the national academy of sciences on climate change. some theories have been so thoroughly examined and supported by so many independent observations and results of that the likelihood of subsequently been found wrong is a vanishingly small. ken suchonclusions and theories are regarded as facts. this is the case for the

conclusion that the earth's system is warming and much of the warming is largely due to human activity. my two questions. is the national academy of science reliable? if not, what do you use for your source? secondly, do you continue to support reductions in greenhouse gas emissions as in your book "no apology," through revenue neutral carbon tax or payroll tax cuts? >> payroll tax cut? let's come back. let me tell you what i believe about the environment. by the way, my book lays out. the nice thing about writing a book is that it is all right there. i will giveou an answer in a couple of minutes. but if you are interested in digging into it, you can read what i wrote. i wrote a chapter about energy and climate. so i will give you a summary.

let me tell you what it is. i think the earth is getting warmer. i know this room is. [laughter] [applause] i think humans contribute to that. i do not know by how much. could be a little, could be a lot. i do not know by how much. so i am not willing on that basis to say, let's spend trillionsf dollars trying to stop, in america, the emissions of co2. so what it leads me to is an energy policy that some call, and no regrets policy, meaning he would take action you would take any way that has the byproduct of reducing co2. so i would take as my energy policy, not a cap and trade approach, i oppose cap and trade. i would not put in place a gas tax or carbon tax. what i would do is to follow policies that get america energy secure and energy independence

of the cartels. what are those policies? use more natural gas. we have in abundance. we have learned how to drill not just vertically but horizontals and to capture all sorts of natural gas. we have hundreds of years of it. natural gas emits less co2 than coal. if we use natural gas, we not only free ourselves of foreign sources of energy, but would also reduce our co2. i like nuclear power. when we build our nuclear power plan, we should not put the diesel resurgent backup level at fault lines. i would like to see just drilling for oil, fi technology from clean coal. and so i want to use the resources. i want to see more efficiency. these things will get is on track to become energy independent and secure. as a byproduct, tehyhey reduce co2. it can't hurt.

i am not a scientist. i cannot tell you how much of the warm and i think we are experiencing is caused by human beings. it may be a lot, it may be a little, but again, my policy is not to impose trillions of dollars of additional costs and job-killing measures like cap and trade and carbon taxes on the american people. that is my view. thank you. [applause] thank you. i'm told i get one more question, then you guys get to go home and watch what ever is on thursday night. what is it? the red sox. we're one game up. i have to tell you a quick story. i was speaking at the citadel, and that is a school in south carolina, military college. all the cadets sitting at

attention. they look like they're were sitting at attention. i was telling jokes as i was getting my speech. when i tell a joke, there will look at the end of the aisle, they would not laugh. then i took questions from the audience. very prepared, sophisticated questions. then someone stood up and said, what you think about johnny damon have been traded from the red sox to the yankees? and everyone turned to see would ask such an important question. and i said, it proves only one thing -- we all hate yankees. that got a laugh. please. >> i'm eleor. if you become president, i would like to know what u do about the 12-20 million illegal immigrants in this country who are contributing to that? [applause] >> thank you. good question. it's an important question. a little story. i think it was four years ago, i

was in san diego at the border with mexico. we have a big fence there, two fences, separated by a couple hundred yards. i was there with border patrol agents. i said, the peoplacross in this area today? about 100. even with those fences. how did they do it? they come in groups. they are sitting across the border with binoculars and a watch and see where we are is agents. the storm across. they make letters of -- out of rebarb. they'll throw a ladder across, and then there into the shopping mall across the street before we can get them. i said, how are going to stop the flow of illegal aliens into the country? he said, secure the border with a fence and border patrol agents of an adequate number. and turn off the magnet. i said, what magnet? he said jobs. where u.s. employers hire people

they know are illegal and put them in jobs in the u.s. that is why they come across in large numbers. you want to secure the border with a fence and turning off the magnet. we do all sorts of things. we have cities in america that call themselves sanctuaries cities. we communicate to people who want to come here illegally that if they can find a way he, if they overstay their visas or come across the border illegally, they can go to that city and they do not have to worry. it is unbelievable. when i was governor, the legislature passed a bill saying that we should give to the children of illegal immigrants and in state tuition break. now, there are -- their r. demint, they said the kids have not done anything wrong. and did their argument, they said the kids have not done anything wrong. the crate bigger magnet, people come here for their kids. i understand that. if you come here illegally, that draws more people here illegally. if we want to secure the border

-- a fence and crack down on employers that hire people illegally. i would give folks that come here legally upcard, their visa number. employers would be able to check that against a federal database. if they have someone without a valid idtification card, because they are here illegally, and they hire them anyway, then we crack down them w- on them with fines orw worse. we love legal immigration here. will people who come here legally. i would like to bring in people with skill and experience. i would like us to have enough so the people the skills that we need to come here. i like legal immigration. i do not want to stop illegal immigration. i welcome the cultures and the

experience that comes from people from other lands, but i want to stop this president came in and said he was going to do all these things about immigration and made all these promises. for the first two years, he had a democrat house, democrat senate, and a democrat white house. what did he do? nothing. he waits until the election year and then starts bringing this up. why did he not deal with this when he had the ability to do whatever he wanted? he would rather make it a political issue than a practical solution. if i am president, i will take on this issue secure our borders, and make sure that our legal immigration system works for the american people. thank you. i appreciate the question. [applause] let me just close with this. i know it has become increasingly common for people

to be concerned about the future. we face extradinary challenges. that is one of them. $131,000 per taxpayer. by the way, who promises the government has made that are not funded. obamacare, medicare, social security, medicaid, unfunded promises in addition to another $62 trillion. the cost of those unfunded promises per household in america, according to usa today, is $532,000. we face challenges. that debt, those unfunded promises. we faced radical violent jihad who want to kill us. china, becoming the w global power. iran, on the verge of becoming a nuclear power. we face extraordinary

challenges, but i happen to be convinced that america has a brighter future even than our past. why is that? we are innovated, hard-working people. we are patriotic people. we love america. we place our hand over our heart during the playing of the national anthem. no other people in the world do that. fdr began that tradition in honor of the lives that were being lost in foreign places. he asked us to place our hand over our hard during the playing of the national anthem. i am convinced that based on our patriotism and skill that we have leaders that will tell us the truth and live with integrity and who actually know how to lead, that america will rise to the occasion, remain the economic engine that has always been, andemaithe hope of the earth that got indians for this great land. thanks so much. -- that got intends --that god

intends for this great land. [applause] >> very nice to meet you. >> i have met you before, haven't i? i am going to be in birmingham on the 30th. >> i appreciate that. >> how are you? thanks for the. -- thanks for the help.

>> what kind of business are you starting? good luck to you. thank you.

>> the know this guy here? do -- you know this guy here? we need to get a leader. thank you, great to be here.

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some say we ought to shrink the military budget. my view is, cut the waste and continue to strengthen our air force fleet. [inaudible]

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