it is more complicated than just taking a proposal and putting it on the floor because it has not been scored for the congressional process. it would take awhile. i am not sure what the numbers would look like in the end, but it is an effort worthy of trying. >> elizabeth sinclair, tea party patriot from washington d.c. i was wondering whether you and your republican colleagues would get together on the steps of the capital and have little newt gingrich-style press conference, a fiscal contract for america, since we are in a catastrophe at this point. we don't have another year to wait, as you said. if you could get your words and those of your colleagues out to the american people who are angry, upset, very concerned,

and that's wonderful and measured as you are, we feel like we are in serious trouble and we need to get the word out to the masses. thank you. could you get out to us, please -- the fiscal contract for america. >> i took the lead on putting together a jobs plan, and the first element of it was fiscal issues. we cannot get the economy moving until there is more certainty as to what is happening on the fiscal side. my only again and to what you -- my only addendum to what you are saying is, i think it ought to be about both, the fiscal issues and how to get the economy moving. i talked a lot about tax reform today because that is something i am now going to be trying to promote. include regulatory relief,

lower health-care costs, and there are some sensible proposals to put the consumer more in charge. it has to include more energy development, exploration, and use, which would create jobs in states like ohio and elsewhere. as to include greatly expanded trade, access to customers outside the united states. most countries do more of that and we do. it will create enormous potential for more jobs here. we need to do a better job of communicating on those issues. high do not believe you can solve one without the other -- i do not believe you can solve one without the other. we had seven points, which seemed like a lot. it is critical. we have dug ourselves into such a deep fiscal hole, it is not possible for us, in my view, to get out of that deep fiscal hole without doing both spending reductions and smart, pro-growth policies to grow the economy and to be able to work our way out of it.

the overhang is now too heavy. i would hope that we as republicans and for that matter, republicans and democrats alike, should do a better job of explaining those challenges to the american people and understanding the challenges and coming up with smart solutions. it is not easy, as we found out in the process. there are very strong feelings on both sides of the aisle. on our side about revenues, and on the democratic side about entitlements. i give them credit for putting that on the table. and the republicans put revenue on the table in the context of pro-growth reforms. there were some very difficult political challenges we face in the committee, but there were some lines that were crossed. i think that forms the basis for an eventual solution. >> we would like you to stay all

afternoon. i know you have a schedule. >> let me take one more, alex. >> i am assuming the democrat convention included senator baucus. i was wondering if you expected support from him and others if you bring it to the full senate. why do you think democrats would not agree to a smaller deal of around $600 billion like we heard mentioned earlier? i am with "national journal." thanks. >> i have avoided talking about my colleagues on the committee, much to the dismay of our colleagues in the press. i do not want to start now talking about what happened behind closed doors. i will say that the chairman is very interested in corporate and

individual tax reform. he has made that known. he has done a lot of work in the ona as has senator hatch the republican side. i do think both of them are very interested. i believe there is a common approach to not just lowering the rates and broadening the base, but putting this out as a priority. they understand. -growth and deficit reduction. could you restate the second question? >> [unintelligible] >> it is too bad. at the end of today, there was a proposal to make significant progress to come about halfway

to the $1.2 trillion mark. i thought we would hit our goal to avoid sequester altogether. the $600 billion included slight changes on the entitlement side. there was also a proposal for $550 to take that out. even without any health care or entitlement changes, there was an opportunity to move forward. you will have to ask democrats why it was not acceptable. they said even that would require significant new tax revenue. that effort was abandoned. it is too bad. that would have taken us in the right direction in terms of dealing with mandatory spending. it would not have made some of the fundamental changes that need to be made, but it would

have taken us down that road as opposed to the sequestered that focuses almost exclusively on the discretionary side of the budget. you will have to ask democrats for more detail on that. thank you. [applause] >> i look at why the country does well or does not. i think is fundamentally a values thing. it is not national resources. natural resources. do you believe the future can be different from the present? do you believe you can control your future. and this is not universal. in the u.s., we have an exaggerated sense of how much control we have. it is good for us to have that. >> this sunday, your questions for david brooks on a variety of topics.

his latest book is "the social animal." republican presidential candidate herman cain was joined by his wife outside his headquarters in atlanta where he announced he is suspending his campaign. this follows allegations by ginger white who said he had a consensual, 13-year and extramarital affair with her. ♪ newsave got some we are taking names i am america one voice, united we stand i am america one hope to heal our land

there is work that must be done i will not rest until we have onwon i.m. america -- i am america is there no end to your own hypocrisy? you are only interested in political gain you play your games you stuff your pockets i have a feeling that the tide is turning i am america one voice, united we stand ♪ one hope to heal our land

i will not give up on this fight i am america ♪ [cheers and applause] >> you all are great. thank you, thank you, thank you. too.e ya'll, [chanting] >> let me first say that as

usual, the cain supporters are not warm-weather supporters. all of youank enough for all you have done, how far we have come, the things we have done. the things that we have been able to achieve. you know, i chose to run for president because the politicians in washington would not do their jobs. that is why i chose to run. they have failed to provide economic growth.

they have failed to get spending under control. they have failed to make us less dependent on foreign oil. these are some of the reasons that inspired me to run for president. if you look at the last 40 years, we have seen that same kind of failure. it is just that the mess has just gotten bigger. you were frustrated. i was frustrated. millions of other people were frustrated. it was out of that frustration that i made the decision to run

because the people in washington, d.c., are either playing the blame game or pointing fingers or throwing crumbs to the american people rather than the old solutions to fix the problem -- rather than bold solutions to fix the problem. america deserves more than that. [applause] since the politicians have continued to fail, i decided to run for president. you all responded as you are responding now. i thank you. i am honored by the deep support of so many people across this country. it expresses the frustration of so many people across this country. when i made the decision to run,

i did not fit the usual description of somebody that ought to be running for president. [applause] i had never held public office before. [cheers and applause] i did not have high name i.d. right now it is probably 99.9%. [laughter] i did not have a kajillion dollars. we learned that the voice of the people is more powerful than the

voice of the media. [cheers and applause] econdly, we have learned that message is more powerful than money. we proved something else. i grew up in a world of segregated water fountains. my father was a chauffeur. my mother was a maid. we showed that you did not have to have a degree from harvard in order to run for president. we showed that you did not have to have a political pedigree to run for president.

one of the biggest things we have shown is that we, the people, are still in charge of this country. [cheers and applause] today, we're one month away from the iowa caucuses. with over 300 million americans in our nation, i stand here because of you. if you look at the top three republican candidates right now and consider the president in the white house, we can say that i am in the final four. [cheers and applause] we are in the final four.

when you think of where i came from right here in atlanta, now to be in the final four for the presidency, this is a great nation. that is why this nation is so great. i tell you what, it is a powerful and humbling position to be in. proving that we could do this was one of the greatest things, one of the greatest gifts that you and i could give to this country. i have often said that one of america's greatest drinks --

strengths is its ability to change. we have created significant change on this journey. i am proof of that and you are proof of that. [applause] i am proof that a common man could lead this nation because i consider myself one of view, not one of the political elite. i am one of you. our nation is tired of hearing the politicians blame each other. it is time for solutions. asphalts accusations about me continue -- as the false allegations about me continue, they have distracted my ability

to present solutions to the american people. i have made many mistakes in life. everybody has. i have made mistakes professionally, personally, as a candidate in terms of how i run my campaign. i take responsibility for the mistakes i have made. i have been the very first to own up to any mistakes that i have made. even if the political elite do not think i handled it exactly the way the political elite handle it. i have handled it my way because that is the type of person i am. [applause] because of these false and

unproved allegations, it has had a tremendous, painful price on my family. these unproven allegations continue to be spinned in the media and the court of public opinion so as to create a cloud of doubt over me and this campaign and my family. that spin hurts. it hurts my wife, my family, me, and it hurts the american people because you are being denied solutions to our problems. herman!

we love you. >> here is why it hurts. my wife, my family, and i know that those false and unproved allegations are not true. [applause] one of the first declarations' i want to make to you today is that i am at peace with my god. [cheers and applause] i am at peace with my wife.

[cheers and applause] she is at peace with me. [applause] gloria! >> i am at peace with my family and myself, which is one of the most important things. that being said, becoming president was plan a. before you get discouraged, today i want to describe plan b. as of today, with a lot of

prayer and soul-searching, i am suspending my presidential campaign. i am suspending my presidential campaign because of the continued destructions -- distractions and hurt caused on me and my family, not because we are not fighters, not because i am not a fighter. it is just that when i went through this reassessment of the impact on my family, on you, my

supporters, your support has been unwavering, as well as the impact on the ability to continue to raise the necessary funds to be competitive we had to come to this conclusion. we had to come to this conclusion that it would be best to suspend this campaign. >> here is the good news. the pundits would like for me to shut up, drop out, and go away. well, as my grandmother who lived to be 104 years old used to say when somebody was dead wrong, bless their little

hearts. i am not going to be silenced and i am not going away! [cheers and applause] >> and therefore as of today, plan b. plan b. and i call it the cain solutions.com. let me explain why. you see, there are three audiences out there, folks, that we have dealt with, that i have had to deal with. there is the media class. there is the political class.

and there is we the people! [cheers and applause] >> it is we the people that got us to this point this far. it is we the people that want change in washington, d.c. it is we the people that are responsible for this massive movement that is going on across this country. i call it the citizens movement, the tea party movement, the conservative movement. it is a movement by we the people that are going to insist on change in the united states of america and plan b is that i will continue to be a voice for the people. [cheering] >> that's why today we're launching the cainsolutions.com where the people will choose, not the media, not the politicians, and the people will show that the people are still in charge of this country. [cheering] >> through this new

organization, i will still be promoting the biggest change and transfer of power out of washington, d.c. back to the people since this nation began and that is the 9-9-9 plan. it's not going away. i will still be actively supporting and promoting. a foreign policy that starts with peace through strength and clarity. i will still be promoting actively an energy independence plan for america. we can and we will become energy independent. now, i know that many of you are disappointed. i understand that.

i know that many of you are disappointed and i certainly understand that and i am disappointed that it came to this point that we had to make this decision. one of the reasons that i ran for president of the united states was such that i could change washington, d.c. from the inside. plan b is that we are going to have to change it from the outside. it will take a little longer. we're going to have to work a little harder, but we will change it from the outside. one other thing. i will be making an endorsement in the near future. i will be making an

endorsement. and i can tell you right now, it will not be the current occupant of the white house. that will not be my endorsement. america has learned something about this process of running for president. it's a dirty game. it's a dirty, dirty game. but i happen to believe that the american people are sick of this mess and if i'm not the outsider to get there, i happen to believe that the day will come when the american people will reject all of the distractions, all of the false accusations and unproved accusations and it will make a change because that's what we got to do to get real change in this country and get it on the right track.

and as i think about my parents who raised my brother and i right here in the atlanta area and they taught us three very valuable lessons that you share -- belief in god, belief in ourselves, and belief in the greatest country in the world, the united states of america. and even though i have had to suspend my campaign, i have not given up on america. i have not given up on the united states of america and here is why. look at our history when we have been challenged the most. it's when we the people have risen to the occasion the most. i happen to believe that we will do it again because we the

people are still in charge of this country. let me leave you with this. i believe these words came from the pokey monday movie -- pokemon movie, the media pointed that out. i'm not sure who the original author is so don't go writing an article about the boy, but it says a lot about where i am, where i am with my wife and my family and where we are as a nation. "life can be a challenge. life can seem impossible. it's never easy when there is so much on the line.

but you and i can make a difference. there is a mission just for you and me. just look inside and you will find just what you can do. just look inside and you will find just what you can do. i have had to look inside to find what i can do and here is what i can do. here is what we can do. we can put united back into the united states of america and move a shining city on the hill back to the top of the hilltop where it belongs and i will never apologize for the greatness of the united states

of america. god bless you. i love you. and thank you! [cheers and applause] ♪ listen baby ♪ ♪ ain't no mountain high, ain't no valley low ♪ ain't no river wide enough, baby ♪ ♪ if you need me, call me, no matter where you are, no matter how far ♪ ♪ don't worry, baby ♪ ♪ call my name ♪ ♪ i'll be there in a hurry, you don't have to worry ♪ ♪ baby, there ain't no mountain high enough ♪ ♪ ain't no valley low enough ♪ ♪ ain't no recover wide enough ♪ ♪ to keep me from getting to you, babe ♪ ♪ remember the day i set you free ♪ ♪ i told you you could always count on me girl ♪ ♪ that day i made a vow ♪ ♪ i'll be there when you want

me some way, somehow ♪ ♪ baby, there ain't no mountain high enough ♪ ♪ ain't no valley low enough ♪ ♪ ain't no river wide enough ♪ ♪ to keep me from getting to you, babe ♪ ♪ oh, no, darling ♪ ♪ no way ♪ ♪ winter's cold can't stop me, baby ♪ ♪ no, no, no baby ♪ ♪ i'll be there on the double ♪ ♪ just send for me, oh, baby ♪ ♪ my love is alive ♪ ♪ down in my heart i'm only a mile apart ♪ ♪ if you ever need a helping hand ♪ ♪ i'll be there on the double just as fast as i can ♪ ♪ don't you know there ain't no mountain high enough ♪

♪ ain't no valley low enough ♪ ♪ ain't know river wide enough ♪ ♪ to keep you me from getting to you babe ♪ ♪ there ain't no mountain high enough ♪ ♪ ain't no valley low enough ♪ ♪ night know river wide enough ♪ ♪ ain't no mountain high enough ♪ ♪ ain't no valley ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ far, we have been traveling far ♪ ♪ without a home ♪ ♪ but not without a star ♪ ♪ free ♪

♪ we want to be free ♪ ♪ we huddle close ♪ hang on to that dream ♪ ♪ on the boats and on the planes ♪ ♪ they're coming to america ♪ ♪ never looking back again ♪ ♪ they're coming to america ♪ ♪ home ♪ ♪ it seems so far away ♪ ♪ we're traveling light today ♪ ♪ in the storm ♪ ♪ in the storm ♪ ♪ home ♪ ♪ a new and a shining place ♪ ♪ ♪

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