worldwide communism. if there's anything that history has taught us in the last 100 years, it is this. when a mad man speaks, we should listen. we have seen what mao did. we have seen what stalin did. we have seen what hitler did. intention.their we would be fools to not take a look at what they're doing. i am not willing to risk your safety, your security, or the sovereignty of the american people over foolishly failing to look at the obvious at what is happening in the world today. as for marriage, i believe very strongly in the traditional definition of marriage between one man and one woman. throughout all of history, that has been the definition of marriage, between men and women. i stand for that.

that is the basic unit of our society. it is where children are reared. i stand for the traditional definition of marriage. host: representative michele bachmann, thank you so much. c-span is in iowa. we have been this week, looking at the iowa caucuses. you can go to c-span.org for more information. c-span will be at the gop caucus in urbandale this evening. c-span2 will be in treynor, iowa. that is all for "washington journal" this morning. we will be back again tomorrow. thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012]

>> and 1972, at the iowa caucuses have been the first chance for people to vote for the nomination of presidential candidates. this last cycle, mike huckabee won the iowa caucuses. senator mccain went on to get the nomination. we are going to look at the candidates and how they fare. coming up, a caucus training session. at 11:40, one of ron paul's campaign appearances yesterday. then live to the white house for today's briefing and and the caucus reaction. our live coverage begins at about 7:00 eastern today. we will have cameras to show the

voting followed by the statewide result, reaction, and your phone calls. c-span2 be live at 7:45 p.m. eastern. you can also follow the presidential campaign online at c-span.org. you can also read what candidates and political reporters are saying at social media buzz. president obama is back here in washington following a 10-day vacation in hawaii. tonight, he will host a live web chat with iowa democrats as their counterparts focus on the iowa caucuses. we will get the white house reaction to recent political events at 12:30 p.m. eastern here on c-span.

a look now at preparations for tonight's iowa caucuses. we went to a training session with precinct leaders and secretaries from scott county, iowa. >> thank you all very much for coming. we have a great crowd. i called the bettendorf community center to set out for 130, but they said they only had 80 chairs. i am sorry for the confusion. we are trying to accommodate as

best we can. welcome, everybody. i would like to start by saying the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. thank you. many of you are new people and i would like to welcome you to being involved in the grass- roots process of scott county republicans. my name is judy davidson and i and the chairwoman of the scott county republicans.

melissa with registration is our secretary and director of social media. jane murphy also serves on our executive committee. i would like to also give a big thank-you to all of them. this is a wonderful process. for me, it is very fond. the executive committee has really worked hard in getting everything together. carolyn and jane, i have to mention to all of you. why does it take so long? every packet is individual in terms of numbers of things and percentages of things. i really appreciate their help. is not glamorous work. thank you very much. [applause]

before we go through the packets, i would like to talk about a few general comments regarding the caucuses coming up. if you have not had a chance to meet your counterpart tonight, please try to do so before you leave. the caucus chairs -- we were saying it was important for you to come. secretaries, also crucial. reporters, it was not necessary for you to attend if any of you are hereby you are welcome. if you could maybe look on the list and find their name and if you happen to see them get a chance to introduce ourselves to them. thank you all for your service and dedication. i really appreciate and i know it is a busy time of year for all of us. january 3 would not be my choice. we were put in that predicament. we had to step it up a little

bit and i appreciate you taking the time. this is a grassroots activism at best. you will have a chance to take part in history making. a couple of overall strategies. in terms of projected attendance, in 2008 which was a big year, we had about 5700 caucus attend the voters. for this caucus, we plan for 20% more. so we hope we were accurate in that and very close to that. that means we are anticipating over 7000 caucus voters. so your caucuses will be very busy. if you know of somebody who might be able to come in and help you, we have a caucus chairman, secretary, and reporter for all precincts, but

the more the merrier in terms of the process and so on. that is why it would be good to me your secretary. we work very hard. another thing that we saw from 2008 is that it is not necessarily good to have many caucuses in one building. parking tends to be a problem. registration tends to be congested. this year, we have a total of 29 buildings,. some of the larger caucuses, we are anticipating over 5000 people. we are hoping we will relieve some of the contestant. please be sure -- i have been finding this is a question when i talk to a lot of people -- please help me to try to spread the word to tell people that we do not caucus at the same place

that you vote. that is a big misconception. people say to me i voted at mark twain school. you do not caucus at the same place. the other thing that is crucial is to let people know where they caucus in 2010 or 2008 may not be the same place that they are this year. so we are trying our best to get the word out to everybody through e-mail. i hope that times might do a story on all the sites. we sent out press releases. we have a blog. we are tweeting about it. we are doing our best to get the word out, but i know some of the people will still go to the sites that they voted or maybe with a win last year.

>> what about putting signs on the doors of the voting precincts building saying that -- >> we have a. god it. i am going to review that a little bit later. we will go through all that later. signage. when we talk about 2008 and 2010, that was another thing we got comments from people saying they did not know where to go. it was confusing. we had these -- we have these handy outdoor signs that each of our site leaders -- one person is in charge of each of those buildings. tonight, we are going to have a 50-minute meeting. i am going to ask that you take two of these signs and a brick. the bricks are in my car. they go right in there to hold them down.

so, a couple of the bigger site, we have three signs. we hope that might help. as you will see later, we have directional signs and signs that say the precinct identification. we are doing our best to alleviate any confusion or congestion or questions. ok? there are -- let c. if something should happen and you cannot serve as temporary caucus chair or secretary, please be sure to give us a call. the earlier we can fill -- the earlier the better we could fill that spot. that is why we handed out the names and phone numbers of your counterparts.

so, as a chair and you know if it is 5:00 and you cannot attend, could you please either call your secretary or your reporter and they can come and get the packet and take over to run the caucus. ok. if you know in a van, please just give us a call at headquarters and we will try to make accommodations. i am very proud and pleased to say that we have a caucus chairs for all of the precincts. we were able to do that. we were also charged for finding secretaries and reporters for all precincts. that is 190 slots. everyone has a caucus chair. i am pretty proud of that. that is partly due to all of these people standing up here.

site managers, i ask that you get there at 5:30. precinct chairs or caucus chairs, please arrive by 5:30. if you would like to get there early and make sure everything is set up, the doors will be open at 5:00. we have found with all of our republican events that republicans tend to get to places early. the earlier you can be ready, the better. our official word on when we are letting people and is 6:00, and caucuses start at 7:00. if you get to your building and everything is set up and your manager and chairman are good with it everything is ready to go and people are standing

outside on a cold winter night and it is all right for you to let them in early, that is fine. primarily in case there are problems, which we do not anticipate, we are saying the latest the doors will open is 6:00. the site manager situation is for some precincts, where kay is the only caucus chairman for her precinct, she is also the site manager. we are going to give her -- each site will have a set of maps that are posted back there and some other things. there are a couple of buildings that have several caucuses. todd, where are you? i think there are four precincts caucusing there. todd will be the building

manager for the. by next week, we will have emergency people for those facilities. so if there is a problem with a facility, you will be able to call the cell phone number of somebody who can help you. the registration process. you must be a reduced to republican to vote in the caucuses. visitors are allowed. if somebody is not 18 but they will be 18 by the november election, they can register and they can vote. if somebody is 17 now the they are going to turn 18 on november 1, they can register and they can vote at the caucus. any questions on that? >> [inaudible] >> november 6, i think. >> [inaudible] >> pardon me? [laughter]

that is fine if they want to change their registration. they can do it that night. we are going to talk about that a little bit. it is just like voting, unfortunately. you can do same-day registration but there are some things they need to prove who they are is who they are. today and yesterday, we got a lot of calls of people who want an absentee ballot to vote at the caucus. somebody said that a campaign told them to request an absentee ballot. that does not happen in the caucus. no absentee ballot voting. you must be at your caucus to vote and a registered republican. any questions on that? yes? >> [inaudible]

>> you can change. >> you were talking earlier about people standing in line. what do you do with the people coming at 7:30 -- >> the caucus is called to order at 7:00. depending on how busy it is, maybe you could have a registration person there check them off. it is likely you will have already done the presidential ballot at that point. he will have to engage that by how busy you are. we are going to have to try to have someone at the entrance of the building. that might not be the case. you need to be there and be in when the meeting is called to order at 7:00. >> but you are not going to lock the doors? >> no, we will take them. now we are going to talk about

the registration process. if you look in your bags -- thomas, can i use yours? can i use you as an example? you should have a check in procedure. that one right there. can i use this one to show people? ok. you all should have these little sheets. these little sheets came to us today hot off the press. mary was gracious enough to bring them to us. this is one of our 12 hours of stuffing ted. these sheets are current

registered republicans in your precincts'. so, when somebody comes in -- you should also have instructions for caucus sign-in sheet. it looks like this. when somebody comes into your precinct, you have your registration forms here, you ask their name. their name is on here, you follow the instructions, and i believe you have to fill in the little line saying that they have attended. you have all of these instructions. if they are not on here, -- >> [inaudible] >> big bag. should have a pink sheet on top maybe. if they are not on here, they have to complete a registration form. now, the problem may occur that

somebody went to the auditor's office between now or perhaps the last two weeks and january 3 and registered as a republican in which case the registration update probably did not make this list. so if they tell you i am a registered republican, it has not caught up to this list. they have to register again. if it is not going to hurt them if they register again on january 3. ok? so just have them fill out another registration form. >> [inaudible] >> pardon me? in the other packet, yep. yes? >> are you supposed to fill in the little bubbles? >> it says right here. make sure the person is at the correct precinct caucus because

sometimes they might be at the wrong one. make sure the spelling is correct. if they are not there, fill in the form. verify their address. fill in the circle. if you fill in the wrong side, -- here are all of the instructions. >> [inaudible] >> well -- >> [inaudible] >> i would say that would be a good point. fill in the bubble, yes. these are old instructions. thank you for pointing that out. said that is the registration -- so, that is the registration. you also have in that bag -- whose are these? thank you. you also have in that bag just a plain registration form like this.

this is for our information. you may notice there is an e- mail address on that form but not on the bubble sheikh. i know it is a lot of stuff to fill out -- bubble sheet. this is for us to have their contact information to add to our master list. if it gets crazy and you want to disregard this, i understand. so the addition of registration form is for our purposes. ok? >> [inaudible] >> yes, yes. >> [inaudible] >> one of the 3. in fact, hopefully two or three of you. >> with the registration, we need [inaudible] >> yes. >> most of them will come all at once and will become very impatient.

voter registration lists are incredibly inaccurate. they are going to have to sign a new registration form which can sometimes frustrate them. so, a lot of patience on our part. i will have at least 10 volunteers signing in. i encourage you to have this many people helping you to sign them in because it will make the whole process smoothly. please start recording your volunteers now. >> that is a very good point. you can use your secretary and reporter to recruit more people. ok? you will see an indication of how many people as we go through your envelope. yes? >> [inaudible] >> yes, helping with. >> what does the voter

registration form look like? oh, in that book. nevermind. thank you. >> all we have covered now is the state registration form and our information form. ok, so people have come in, registration has gone gray, everybody knows where they are going to be. >> [inaudible] >> we are going to go through that. we are going to start going through this packet. put all of your registration stuff away and take out the stuff from your other packet. what?

maybe verna has it. is she in your precinct? then verna has it. >> [inaudible] >> there is not an e-mail address on that, is there? we want their e-mail address. if they do not want to mess around putting their address or anything on, at least ask if

they can print their name and put their e-mail address because that is how we are primarily communicating with everybody. yeah, i asked the state party. it would be nice to have e-mail addresses right on their but it did not happen. >> so you are saying we cannot ask them to add their e-mail address? >> no. >> i would have them do it while they are registering. have someone responsible for collecting it later. again, that will slow down the process. >> right. people can fill it in as they are sitting there. that is fine, too. i do not want you all to get hung up on that form.

getting the clock is going on time is the priority. if you have a bottleneck and this is becoming too much of a pain, take them into your caucus and when you start, ask people to pass them around and complete them as they are seated. any more questions before we move on? tom must have it. i apologize. everybodies packet is not necessarily in the same order. i would suggest if you pull out the orange sheet, the caucus agenda which is what we are going to go through right now. does everybody have one? yay!

we are going to go through the agenda quickly. you are the temporary chairs. so you start the meeting and say you are the temporary chair, the pledge of allegiance, and the purpose of the caucus. elect precinct leaders and county convention leaders. make sure that everybody has signed in on the computer sheet. if somebody has not signed in, they need to do so. or if they are not on the computer cheat, they need to reply -- they need to complete a republican registration form. you need to give people two things when signing them in. when they either give you their completed republican registration form, you can hand them a presidential ballot which is in your packet.

can i see that for a second? that is not a. right here. they are probably in a rubber band like this. we estimated 20 percent and more ballots for everybody than 2008. ok? now, if you look on your rubber band, carey says she is precinct share. we wrote number 84. that is the 20% higher attendance. you can look at your number and know how many you might be expecting at your caucus. ok? if by chance -- let me move on to this first. then you give everybody a little packet of these colored ballots which i have to send the republican women who were here or 16 hoursuspent about 12

stapling about 12,000 of these by hand. >> i am a woman and i did not get any. [laughter] >> are they in there? do you have them? we will get them to you. they are in a little plastic bag. we anticipated the same number, 20% higher. these are to be used for if you need -- there are a couple of other votes happening. you have to vote for your permanent secretary and precinct chairman and county convention chairman. most of the time, you can do that by hand vote and count. most of the time there is not a problem. if for some reason because there

is a lot of interest this year and what is happening politically, if there is a contested race for a precinct chairman or county convention delegate and those trying to get this position would like a written ballot, you have seven different sheets of color here. everybody take out your pink sheets. that is how you can keep that straight. yes? >> [inaudible] >> it is in there. we are going to go over that. when they fill out a completed voter registration form, and that should be on your orange sheet, give them one presidential ballot and won colored ballett. ok. so the temporary chair calls the meeting to order. guess? >> the few of you who are not

familiar with -- >> there is a sheet in their fourth. -- for that. thank you. the first order of business after calling the meeting to order is to elect a permanent chair. in most cases, it should be all of you because some of you were elected officials already for the republican central committee and you are going through the process of caucus chairman training and the same for the secretaries. that should be the case for all 63 but not necessarily. you ask for nominations for caucus chairman. the temporary chair should be one of the first ones who raised their hands up and there should not be a problem. the secretary then record that on form a.

yes? >> [inaudible] >> yes. you do. you are putting in the time tonight so i think you should have the honor of doing in. you count the votes, declare the winner. the secretary fills in. then we move on to secretary. everyone has a temporary secretary. same procedure. ask for nominations from the floor. the secretary takes a vote, put it on form a again. number 7 on the agenda, one of the new positions is a reporter. i wrote this line before i was happy to say we are pretty much filled except for i think four slots. if you do not have a reporter,

you might ask somebody to serve as a reporter. their only job is to call in the results of the president -- of the presidential ballot. that should be fairly easy for somebody to find. then, the lincoln bag. most people, you will find, are there for the presidential ballot. it is unfortunate to say, but sometimes people leave after that. before the presidential balloting, we are going to ask them yet again to help us defray the cost to put on this caucus, to read the facilities, to do all the printing, our signs that we have to pay for. so, if you could please hold up the bag and tell them we are

going to be passing it around. if people have $5 or more, or less, we will take every dollar -- if everybody gave a dollar, i would jump for joy. but we are not going to say that. we are going to ask if maybe they could throw in a $5 bill. if you could throw in the dollar or $5 or nothing if you think is appropriate, explain to them that we have to raise every penny that we earned. this whole process cost us a lot of money. pass it around. >> what time -- at what time do we take personal checks? >> that is fine. >> read your number up in the corner of your bag. >> you could. if you want. that could be fined. if you want to do that right

now, you can do that right now. >> [inaudible] >> the way it is supposed to work and then know this -- if they give more than $10, they are supposed to write their name on the back because we have to report that for disclosure. >> [inaudible] >> you need one? you can have this one or at the end i will give it to you. ok. yes? questions? >> [inaudible] >> correct. thank you. ok. petition papers. some of you have them in your packet. petition papers from candidates. they look like this. you might not all have the same ones because we still have representatives running in the 2010 election and some of your

precincts may be appropriate for them and some might not. we can either pass them around at this point or if you want to put them at the registration area for people to sign. that can cause another thing for them to sign. i would suggest having them pass it around. it does not mean those people are endorsing that person. it only gives these candidates the names they need to be put on the ballot. ok? bruce is this? thank you. conducting the presidential poll. here is the ballot. everyone should have a ballot already. each presidential campaign is allowed one representative to speak on behalf of that campaign. 5 minutes per person. they do not have to take five

minutes. that is the maximum. you should ask if there is anybody here -- i would go in alphabetical order. at the top, starting with michele bachmann. "is there anyone here from the michele bachmann campaign?" "anybody here from the herman cain campaign? " he is still on the ballot. they need to be given the same opportunities. after everybody has a chance to speak, have people vote. yes? >> [inaudible] somebody is going to say as long as we don't go five minutes, can this person talk, too? >> no. only one person. i think a number of congressional candidates are going to be making the circuit. both candidates are not allowed to speak.

if anybody comes to your precinct and says i am running for state senator, can i talk for a few minutes, no. if they give you a hard time or anything, call one of us. ok? yes? >> am i being told that one person can stand up and speak for their candidate? >> yes. >most campaigns will have identified somebody to do that. most campaigns are working hard now, finding somebody, to ease their reading a letter on behalf of that candidate were speaking. if you want to be that person, you can be that person but then you should probably contact the campaign. >> that was not the way it was for the last caucus. >> yes, it was.

if nobody is there but maybe somebody feels compelled to speak on her behalf who was not contacted before, that is ok. that could very well be the case. but most campaigns will have contacted somebody to speak or they will probably have a prepared letter to read. if not, offer the opportunity to somebody else but a can only be one person. yes? >> the chairs at usually do not make a speech. i would suggest it is inappropriate for the precinct chairman. >> ok, so try to find somebody else. >> i was going to say the same thing. during the last caucus, i was contacted to the campaign leader

person. i did not do much except get up and speak at the caucus. i was definitely contacted through official channels. >> [inaudible] >> and if there would be to people who want to speak for somebody, should we flipped a coin or arm wrestling? >> let's let them figure it out. any other questions? >> [inaudible] if you have more than one person who wants to speak, then what? >> then you just pick them. only one. you can do it by alphabetical order or however. due in in it and then on big u.s. way.

-- do it in an unambiguous way. rock, paper, scissors. [laughter] >> [inaudible] >> i think that is a good idea. if you are the only person who wants to speak on behalf, i may say you relinquish your job as the chair for that particular time and then you speak. >> if these people are going to make an effort to come out in cold weather to the republican caucus on january 3 and they are going to speak their piece and they are not allowed to speak, i am concerned about that.

>> they are not going there to speak. they are going there to vote. it is a state party rule. one person, five minutes. they are going there to vote. you could be there all night. >> [inaudible] >> when you register them. ok, we are going to move on. yes? >> if you have more than one, what is the "why?" >> state party rule. they send me an e-mail. every candidate has one person, five minutes. if there is a problem with that, they can call the republican party of iowa or contact your site manager. that is what i would say. it is a state party rule.

all the campaigns have been told. it should not be a surprise to any of the campaigns. we are trying to move on so we are not here all night. regarding number10, you take your ballots, you can go count them. each campaign has the opportunity to have one person to observe the counting process. so we have how many candidate? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 candidates. the caucus chairman is counting with the reporter. you could have eight observers there, one from each campaign. so you tally up your votes. there is a new form that i did not know about until 11:00 today.

it was probably in your big bag. does anybody have that handy? it says straw poll. can i have that for a second? i did not know we were going to have this until about 11:00 today so i apologize. this was sent to us from the state party. our real straw poll was in august. it is the certificate of our caucus results. after you count up all of your ballots, this is where you record them. yes? >> are you saying that the chair is a part of the accounting process? >> yes. >> and they stay right in the room with everybody waiting?

>> very informal, right. >> is it a requirement that the chair person do the counting? you usually have other volunteers and then you continue with the agenda. >> if you just want your reporter to do it, that is a good point. it would probably be better to have your reporter go and a couple of other volunteers to go observed. each campaign is allow one observer. >> to diminish the chaos, is it ok to step out of the room? >> sure. im' with you. >> is it necessary to announce that someone can come and counter? >> i would maybe ask somebody that you now. -- you know.

or your reporter. we did not ask the reporters to be here tonight because we were limited in space. that is also the reporter's job, to help observe and count. >> do you announce that? >> yes. they are given the opportunity to announce. one person on lake. ok? now, -- that is all right. >> the observers are not counting. >> correct. they are watching. now, along those lines, we have not yet been given a phone number to call or how we are going to report those results. [laughter] and there is a reason for that. because there have been some

electronic funny business going on. >> [inaudible] >> because of that, they are staying a little bit tight lipped on that. we will get that process to either the caucus chairman of the reporters or your site managers. when i am alerted to the process, somebody in your caucus will know what to do. so i was hoping to initially put in number on their to call but they do not want to release that the. yes? >> [inaudible] >> i am sure they are figuring it out. i am sure they will not just have one number. i am sure they will. this will have 99 counties reporting in so they will have a way to do that. moving on to number 11, the presidential poll is a good

thing. yes, roger. >> i am sure you have a self on with you. >> ask all of your reporters to bring a cell phone. >> in the past, i have invited representatives to listen in and phone it in. what does it reported is what is found in, those numbers. -- phoned in, those numbers. >> if you have eight people observing and they want to stay there while they are reporting it, that is fine. ok, thank you, roger. one of the most important parts is the elected creasing chair people. -- precinct care people. -- chair people. two precinct chair people are

elected. that central committee meets every other month. they are the voting members of the central committee, and they are the front-line people when we talk about asking them to maybe make a couple of calls in their neighborhood or to try to walk through their neighborhoods to get republican votes were to help us with other activities. a very detailed list of what the responsibilities are is this hot pink list. next on the agenda as you can see, number 11, you might read in advance. to do not have to read the whole sheet. if somebody is interested in being a precinct leader and they want to read what it is about, feel free to give that to them. each precinct is allowed two

people. your next vote is electing precinct leaders. please encourage people that we will be asking them -- i do not want to scare people away, but we will be asking them to commit a little bit of time because this is one of the most important elections in national history. any questions on that? the secretary records that again on form a. if you have to conduct a paper ballot, conduct a paper ballot. if you can do it by a show of hands, do it by a show of hands. question. >> [inaudible] with they be allowed to stand up and introduce themselves? >> sure. >> because of the pretty big

turnout we are expecting, there could be a pretty big turnover. [inaudible] -- what they have to do in order to be an effective precinct. >> our first committee meeting will be in february. february 13 on the orange sheet. we will talk about what they precinct leader does a little bit more in depth. and answer some questions about the role of the precinct leader. ok. the next order of business. elect county convention delegates. who has a blue sheet that i can look at? thank you. each precinct -- everybody gets

different numbers. based on the 2010 election, and the amount of republican votes, each precinct get a different number of delegates alotted to our county convention and alternate delegate. two delegates and one alternate delegate. asked if anyone is interested in going to the county convention march 10 at the mississippi valley fair grounds. there is a fee. i believe i have that down there. $15 per person. thank you. registration at 12:30, the convention begins at 1:30. if you have two spots -- maybe if you have three spots and

three people want to go but you only have two spots, maybe the third person will say i do not want to go that bad. >> what if they are on willing or unable to pay the fee. >> we have tried to cover everything. do we have an extra? does everybody have a blue sheet? there, you have it. here you go. you don't have one either? there are extra ones in the kitchen. jane has the extras. we have extra forms for every buddy. ok. so, county convention, $15 to go as a delegate. if they can pay that night, it makes us all have to call and

hound everybody for their money and we do not have to make another 300 or 600 calls because and downs we have to call people two or three times. if they can pay that night, please fill out on this yellow sheet. if they paid, put yes. if not, put no. ok? any questions on that? we have an envelope in your packet that looks like this. to put the money. can everybody make sure to write your precinct on there so we know which one is? if they cannot pay that night, we put self-addressed envelopes in your packet. could you hold up one of them? thank you, thomas. give your delegates and envelope to put a check in to

mail it to us. we will still probably have to make 100 calls. that is the process for that. record the names on the former. who is is this? then we move down to the delegates for the county convention. same process. if you are allowed two regular delegate, you get one alternate. there is an alternate fee of $10. it is the same process for collecting their money. if they do not have their money that night, it is ok. if you run out of self-addressed envelopes, that is ok. we will call them. >> are others allowed to pay for someone else? >> sure. that is fine.

>> [inaudible] can't hear you. if no one steps up to be a delegate, there is nothing to do about it. we will try to find delegates for all of your precincts. yes. >> somebody asked me if they could be an alternate to save $5. is there a rule for not letting them do that cholesteric >> there is no rule against that. if they put their $5 and the lincoln bag, we will take them. there is no rule against. you might tell them that all the money that we collect for the convention, in we have a lot of materials to prepare for that, a lot of printing.

we have to rent that says there are a lot of expenses incurred. those fees are only a portion of what we need to cover our costs for the caucuses and the county convention. ok. thank you. ok. next -- we did alternate's. jr. delegates. senator hammerl;ink will be conducting a two new delegates session at our county convention. so, and the two new delegates are welcome to attend. >> we are going to break away momentarily as the u.s. house is meeting now for a brief pro forma session.

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the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's rooms, washington, d.c. january 3, 2012, i hereby appoint the honorable steven c. latourette to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, john a. boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by our

chaplain, father conroy. chaplain conroy: let us pray. loving god, we give you thanks for giving us another year. we give you thanks also for the first session of the 112th congress and your sustaining us with your presence, wisdom, patience, and love. may the positive work done for the benefit of so many millions of americans be an offering to you and a fulfillment of your will that all your children would be loved and cared for. we ask as well your forgiveness for the smallness of actions on some occasions and the inability to work together when so many were adversely affected. we know that this is not what you wish for us, not what the american people wish for our nation, and not what the members of this people's house have been elected for. we ask your blessing now on

each member of congress that they might be their bestselves in representing not only their constituents but also the entire american citizenry. they have taken oaths to do so. give them the strength and the wisdom to succeed. we thank you as well for this marvelous forum, for the important business of this nation has been done in the past and will be done in the upcoming second session. may the work being done be guided by your spirit. may all that we do be done for your greater honor and glory, amen. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant o section 3-a of house resolution 493, the journal of the last day's proceedings is approved. the chair will lead the house in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the house will stand in recess subject to the call of the chair. >> would somebody like to give

an example of a resolution? thank you. i don't think you'll have to many arguments. ok. a couple of other housekeeping business. you will see you have red and yellow sheets. we have a fund-raiser coming up on february 18. oute asking you to send these flyers. we did not give you enough for one of each. we were trying to save. most people should be able to get these. then we have another sheet that i do not necessarily have on the agenda. you can put these out where people are registering, or you

can pass it out at the end. these are the social media outlook -- facebook, twitter, and phone number. these are information sheets. before you adjourned, make sure you have everything -- your lincoln bags. police. make sure you have all of your a, b, c, d forms. everything that you can collect, collect. >> [inaudible] >> hi as majority -- highest majority. reforms.he reforof your

you each should have a list in your packet of the site managers. take all the stuff to the site manager. the site manager will bring in on wednesday. we have a 12-hour opportunity from 8:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. bring everything to our headquarters. you'll have to sign our. a precinct leader brings stuff to him. make sure they sign on the outside of the envelope. return -- well, ok ? yes. >> [inaudible]

>> i would take a vote between those todds. >> that is the tie-breaker. >> inside the bag. >> take all of your forms to your site manager. keep all your stuff if you're the only person at your building. there'll be instructions about where to come to our headquarters. thank you. take all of your forms to the site manager. the site manager will collect everything. there will collect the signs so we can hopefully use them again in 2014. and then we get to start working more on that process and committing that to the state party.

any questions? roger. i have some other things to say. roger. >> question about the process. sometimes the resolution of -- there is a process that goes through and i'm hoping -- i circulated a brief explanation and hopefully i can prevail upon the committee to see that it is being circulated and it might be of passing explanation of the process so people will understand how worit works. perhaps that can be done and there will be brief statement that you can read and it will be hopefully self-explanatory. >> thank you, roger.

everybody should have a notebook with paper. we try to give everybody a supply of pens. you probably will need more. in my be a good idea to bring a stack of pans from home -- it might be a good idea to bring a stack of pens from home. the district and the state convention. parliamentary procedure. we should have a short form of parliamentary procedure in your packet. poling places. if somebody does not know where they are going to vote, they have a couple of options. they can look at a map and for representative where they live.

take a look here or look on this one and they will say where they are caucusing based on the map. if they cannot find their place on the map but they remember they voted at the first assembly of god, look here. the precinct is b-12, so they can find their caucus. there will be signs in the packets that say -- "precincts caucusing here are," and there will be a list on the door, d-31 and d-41, so when people come up, they know what precincts are

out there building. signs that say "republican caucus." if they are not in the packet, they will be in the building packet. everybody has directional signs to be put in their building with arrows that go that way and arrows facto that way. -- and go that way. that warrows that you can go put b-31 on the door of the choir room. we are trying to make it as easy and as clear for everybody. yes. tape?otch >> in the packet.

do we put that on the site manager packet? that is why they have to get there earlier. >> could be signs for national polling places saying the caucus will be held -- the caucus will be a bit north skcott -- >> you mean not the actual polling place? we did not do that. you can see me after. you'll have one of these if you know where your polling place is. that would be a good thing as a volunteer if you like to do that. voting, voting. general election. question, steve?

>> do we phone in the presidential pole, one name and one number of votes? >> they have not told me. >> what are they asking us to report. >> the results of each of the -- it is not just scott county votes. one county might get 5000 votes here, but in another county, that candidate might just get 300 votes. however there reported, they will have to report the total for each candidate. question, robert? >> that is a good idea. it would not be trouble to bring a piece of tape and a handwritten thing at the polling place.

on the speakers, maybe have a colored sheets one-minute warning so you can hold up for a time limit. >> ok. same-day voter registration. you need to have this sheet. it talks about the kinds of identification needed for same day voter registration. i would post these may be at the entrance to your room or your building rather than keep it down so somebody comes up and says, "i want to register today," you might over time to read this. you can read this -- drivers license, i.d, the whole process. you have several of these so people can read that.

>> so somebody not in the book -- >> they must complete -- ok. >> another question i have -- the election. we have to send them here. will we have a map? >> everybody will have one of those maps. they will be able to look at the map or you can look up where they voted last time and that will tell, the precinct. >> with regards to the county delegates process, but do you have to be a precinct delegate to be a county delegate? >> you mean a precinct leader? no. there are seven county delegates but we of six people per precinct -- but we have six

people per precinct. there is a sheet in the packet based on the 2010 election and how many republicans voted. >> does it matter about precinct? >> yes. that is how the formula is based. that is district and state. correct. to become a county delegate, you are voted on at the caucus. county delegate voted on at the delicate -- caucus. >> precinct leaders and county delegates. >> correct. other questions. >> what if we do not have enough

ballots? >> i thought about that. my suggestion would be -- without giving everyone $1,000, a takeoff your last calolor, initial it, and give it to people to use as their president to person and they can write their candidate's name on it. if they buy has a better solution, i am open to that. you could if you had to. the key point is initialing that. that is another thing to do. do that if you run out of ballots. you will be the one in control. >> we did it run out of ballots last time.

we had no book paper and i cut it up. i hope that doesn't happen. to have something available. >> have something in mind. those are the position papers i talked about. anybody else? >> as of november 40, if people registered afterwards, do they still have to register at the door? >> if they are not on the list, and you'll get complaints. people will say, i i did "i di" we are working hard to preserve the integrity of the process. we want to maintain the integrity.

>> that issue comes up all the time. i work for the county. they will have an old voter registration card that they have had for 30 years. they are off the rolls. it is a state law process. it will save less time in the general election. >> for the registration forms, here's where we go into the hours of packet stuffing. kay is expecting about five center people at their caucus -- 500 people at her caucus. given you -- we have enough blank registration forms to fill half of the projected

attendance. so you should be good on the. if you want to bring more, you can bring more -- you should be good on that. >> you need to have volunteers helping you with registration, maybe a separate table to fill out new forms so they are not standing in line. collecting the ballots, some way to helping in the voting when you're voting by hand, somebody to do your timing for you. recruit volunteers that will make the evening so much better. that is not just because i'm from a big caucus. >> in advance. chris. >> [inaudible] >> the doors will open at 5:00

p.m. we're asking the site managers to be there at 5:00 p.m. as a caucus chair, you can get there by 5:00 p.m., but as a minimum, 5:00 th 3030. 30. they could help you with that. sure. sure. that is another point. people can come and observe. we have gotten calls from people across the country who want to come and observe. that is fine. we have gotten calls from a lot of media, national media, which is exciting, but it could be confusing at some point. we have a media person for that night.

we have these media credentials. we're going to try to give these to people before that night so that you know who they are. if somebody walks in with a camera or microphone. it is not required. there will be media that shows up that day and they might want to go from one caucus to another. it is not required. it is only an extra added benefit that we're trying to alert all of you who that is. any immediate -- any immediate questions that might should go to carol. her cell phone is listed. any security questions should go to tom. his phone number is listed.

other than that, you can call any of those people for questions or any problems. if there are any problems at your site, first contact your site manager because they will have a cell phone number for somebody to call. if they're only 10 chairs set up and you're expecting 100 people. ok? >> would you want to know if they don't, with a tag, who is coming in? >> that would be nice but i do not want to ask you to do something else. do not feel like you're neglecting registration. that would be good. we have some cameras here today. have c-spanate to

filming us tonight and film in this training. i understand we will be aired at some time. the neat thing is when they send me the link, i will send this to all of you regarding this training. if you feel like you might have a question -- >> next week. >> next week? you can click on the link for the filming of tonight and hopefully give your question answered that way. >> whatever they want to do. >> the question was what if somebody comes in with a laptop? they likely would not be able to get wireless. >> regarding the meeting, they love actualities.

they have microphones and will want a comment. --referring questions to me >> if somebody comes up to and says, can we talk with you, of course talk with them. if there's a question about where they should go or about the county party or why this site was selected or how we came up with numbers of things to give to people, or any immediate question that you cannot answer -- >> carol's fault. >> any other questions? ok. yes? >> [inaudible] >> i ask that same question in october from staff members --

there was a caucus training for our executive committee and i asked that same question. i didn't get an answer, did i? what happens if there's a blizzard? they did not give me a clear-cut answer on that. they said they would just go with that. so watch the news. if you could take a look -- if you're a site manager, if you could stay for just 10 more minutes, we have maps to give you and other information. please come up here. thank you, everybody. [applause] ok. site managers come let's get started so we can be done. ok. we're going to hand out packets

per buildings. let's pass these out. we will name a building and raise your hand. armstrong? john, can you help? wood? we don't have anybody here. the community center. >> west high school. >> the middle school. bill matthews, where are you? and everybody gets maps. some get two maps.

here. >> black hawk hotel. who has the black hawk? ambrose? >> he is not here. riverdale heights. >> radisson hotel. >> radisson -- i think that is melissa. ok.l wait, wait, wait. jane, you help out passing the maps? ron sebastian is not here.

mark twain elementary. who is that one, tom? knights of columbus. he is not here. ivy center. that is the whole building. pat is helping you because you will be busy. hoover? hoover? >> hopewell. >> central high school. where are you/ hank? -- where are you? cody. s that back to jay.

he is not here. hey! nice to meet you. we're passing out the maps. number scott high. radisson is melissa. your map is on the wall. radisson is julie. >> woods junior high. 9 riverdale. -- >> river dale. is that you? >> that is where they vote. >> armstrong. who is our strong elementary? could you pass that back -- who is armstrong?

you were supposed to have one. ivy center. vy center.nson, i've the cent >> blackhawk hotel? >> hank, you are at central, right? we don't have to do that. thank you, tom. thunder high school. is that you? bill matthews, where are you? kay side. kerry buyer. cody jay. could you pass that back? and black hawk. i think that is tom. you did not

get y you did not get your -- ok. right. we will get these guys going. fastet's get this going as as we can. thank you very much for your dual responsibility. please try to get more people to help you. you have another responsibility as being the site manager. tom is going to be working on getting cell phone numbers for each of the facilities and will send an e-mail wants to get all that to you. please make sure we have your e- mail address. if there is a problem with your facility, you will know who to call.

if you could arrive at 5:00 p.m. todd, i will keep picking on you. when you get your building, and checked each of your rooms and make sure the doors are unlocked and that the lights are on. make sure it it is set up. if not, call your emergency contact. we gave everybody extra pens. if you can, bring more. you should have tape in your packets. now you have a map. put the map where you will register people if you are a single precinct. we are asking people to have a registration table so people can

look. those maps are to serve for people to figure out their precinct. tom? tom? >> you have tables with registration and i'm hoping multiple locations. >> at your location, probably three. >> for a lot of the systems. before you leave tonight, we have signs for you to take. please take two of these signs. central gets three, and west high school, you get three because those are bigger locations. then i'm gone to give somebody the keys to my car. i'm parked in the back of the

parking lot. if you could please get a br ick for each of the signs. so check your entryway. put these out when you get to your site at what you think is an appropriate spot. check your entry areas to make sure you have enough registration forms. if not, call your emergency contact. put your precinct map -- if people are not sure where they should go, they can look. everybody has extra forms, after registration forms and texture of everything. as people enter, if they have questions, tell them they need to beat a registered voter.

complete a form if they can. if they are confused, they can look on their maps to determine their address and look at the site locations, or they can look and see where they voted last time. when the caucus is ready to start, we would need to have somebody fill out the registration area. you need to have one of your volunteers stayed there and direct people and answer questions. ok? what is your question? >> do you have to be a resident of the precinct to be a volunteer? >> not to be a volunteer. anybody could be a volunteer. but to vote -- ok. sure.

we will take volunteers. probably not somebody who is 6 years old. that is fine. you can take younger people. we're trying to get young people involved. teen-agers are great. if you trust them, of course. at the end of the caucus, everybody needs to bring their stuff to you. we have a 12-hour window from 8:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. you have to bring everything to our headquarters. if you cannot, please call us and we will make other arrangements. rest and recover. about these signs. they did costa some money and we want to be able to use them the next time -- they did cost of some money.

>> the location manager should have received my e-mail regarding the training for next thursday. >> now you are off the hook for thursday. >> will go to send out the telephone contact numbers or to make sure you receive that previous e-mail -- i want to acknowledge mary, scott nelson who worked on the caucus committee as far as the locations go. the have been in securing the emergency contacts. >> we will visit the sites and locations before hand to make sure that everything -- the people of the facilities know what they are expecting a. we're trying to do whatever we can to make sure that everything is covered.

although, there will be things that are not within our control and we will do the best that we can. >> in this packet, i have four precincts, right? ur ofdon't know, for five. everybody got for each precinct in reporter and a secretary, their name and phone number. so you know who those people are. a way to get volunteers is to make the call your secretary or a reporter and say, do you know three people you could bring to help? >> the murders in numbers again. >> an e-mail to you. >> other questions. you need to get signs from mary.

can i give somebody my keys? can you meet them at my car and take a brick? ok, thank you very much. i appreciate it. good night. >> oh, good. ok. thank you. >> does anybody have denver high school by accident? denver high school? >> on the c-span knows, our live coverage begins about 7:00 p.m. eastern.

we'll bring you the latest on the campaign events and how the candidates are lining up. we allow cameras showing you the voting, fall by the statewide results and reaction from the candidates and your phone calls and reaction. c-span2 will be live with the western iowa caucuses. candidates have been making several stops throughout the state today. michele bachmann is wrapping up a visit to what western des moines high school and ron paul is also speaking to students there. newt gingrich will be talking to voters shortly. lots of campaign ads are running and a lot of spending on campaigns. >> born and raised in iowa. she fought obamacare as other

republicans were cutting deals with obama. she will fight for deep cuts in spending and to restore our economy and to create real jobs and she will never back down. michele bachmann for president. >> i approved this message. >> america is in trouble. >> government has become too big. >> we cannot afford to make the same mistakes we made in the past. >> he went the other way when he got paid to go the other way. >> this election is about trust. >> ron paul has been so consistent from the very beginning. >> he tells the truth about what he believes. >> he never once voted for a tax

increase. >> when he says he will cut $1 trillion in the first year, i believe it. >> ron paul. >> ron paul. >> i am ron paul and i approved this message. >> i think we all care right now and we're concerned about our country. i believe in him. i believe he has the experience. i have seen as a husband, a father, and the governor. everything he does, he does well, and he does with his heart and commitment. if there is a time this country needs mitt romney, it is now.

>> it is about saving a vision of america. the challenge of each of us. it is time for this pessimistic president to step aside and let america's optimism to build a greater future for our children. ♪ >> if you can get out of here in this cold and wind, you can get out on tuesday night and you confined eight few people to bring with you -- and you can find a few people to bring with you. [cheers] you can find campaign commercials on c-span's website.

we're asking will the winner of the iowa caucuses become the gop nominee on facebook? you can weigh in. we will be asking tonight for your response as the caucus results. all that our facebook page. this morning ron paul said he is optimistic that the i was support -- the iowa support will turn out big. polls show and an hourly troweling mitt romney -- trailing mitt romney.

[applause] >> can everybody hear me? let's get this party started. [applause] it's time to get going. my name is david fisher and i am proud to be co-chairman of the ron paul presidential campaign in iowa. i want to do a real brief review: the history of the modern day tea party movement. the date was december 16, 2007, the 204th anniversary of the -- 234th boston tea party a. the location was a grass roots- lead online 1 day fundraiser for the ron paul presidential campaign, a data resulted in over $6 million being raised for the campaign in that one single day. the epicenter of the activity on that day was in boston, of course faneuil hall where the keynote speech was given by rand paul. the tea party has gone to washington since then and the

tea party has come to iowa to talk about the importance of the ron paul presidential campaign. i am proud to introduce the honorable united states senator from the commonwealth of kentucky, dr. rand paul. [applause] >> all right, all right, what a crowd! anybody here for ron paul? [applause] [cheers] when my dad asked me to campaign in iowa, i said i will come if i don't have to wear a tie. [laughter] it looks like we have some young people here. [applause] there is energy and it is overflowing and did they get it is coming tomorrow. we will win in iowa tomorrow. [applause] [cheers] i get to go around a lot and give speeches and i was at a buffet recently and was up there near the front and there was a guy in front of me that had two plates of food.

he was piling up a third plate of food. the guy next to him said, "you're not going to live very long eating like that." i said, "my granddaddy lived to 105. he said, "i bet your granddaddy did not live to be 105 living like that." >> he lived to be 105 by minding his own business. [laughter] [applause] anybody here want their government to mind their own business? [applause] [cheers] we are borrowing $40,000 per second. we are borrowing over $2 million per minute. in the short time we will be here today, we will borrow over $70 million. admiral mullen said the biggest threat to our national security is our debt. erskine bowles, head of the debt commission, said that the

most predictable crisis in our history is the coming debt crisis. even ben bernanke has said our debt is unsustainable. there is only one candidate in this race who would balance the budget in one term. [applause] there is only one candidate who would cut $1 trillion in spending. [applause] there is only one candidate who understands the conservatives and liberals will have to get together to cut spending. the conservatives will have to understand that not every dollar spent on the military is sacred or wisely spent. [applause] liberals will have to understand the same.

not every dollar spent on domestic spending or welfare is wisely spent or sacred. spending will have to be across the board. [applause] there is only one candidate who has never been accused of flip flopping. there's only one candidate who has never taken a congressional junket. there is only one candidate who stands above head and shoulders. lobbyists say it is incorruptible. [applause] there is only one candidate who the soldiers trust, one candidate -- one candidate who has received more contributions from active-duty soldiers then all the other candidates combined. [applause] that candidate is my father. please welcome ron paul.

[applause] [cheers] >> look at the crowd. carol. hey! [chanting] >> thank you, thank you. we have a short time, but i am glad to see so many. if you get to chanting, we will not have time for this piece. -- this speech. it is great to be here. this crowd is amazing. we suggested we get a few people out of these whistle stops and encourage everybody along, but this is almost like a real rally. this is great, wonderful. [applause] the enthusiasm has been building. i have been in the business of

promoting a cause of liberty for many years and it has changed over the years. for a long time, it was subtle and quiet and i did a bit of -- did it by voting devoting all the time in washington the way i thought i should vote, frequently that required me to vote no. today, the enthusiasm has increased. it is a big difference from four years ago when there was enthusiasm and excitement and the college campuses were coming alive and the federal reserve for became an issue. many people back then were talking it was time to change our foreign policy. today, 70% of the american people are saying it is time to get out of afghanistan and come home. [applause] [cheers] the excitement has built steadily and the campaign has been remarkable in the organization. the funds have come in, as was mentioned earlier, even four years ago, raising $6 million

in one day, which is historic, but the funds are still coming in, which is a vote of confidence. the idea that military personnel sent a lot of money to this campaign more than the other campaigns -- the enthusiasm is growing by leaps and bounds. the crowds are getting bigger and the issue, as far as i'm concerned, there is only one issue -- they talk about foreign policy and monetary policy and economic policy. there is one issue that has made america great and the issue you can answer all your questions on -- individual liberty. that is the issue. [applause] it was the abuse of this liberty that provoked the revolution and the writing of the constitution. the constitution was written as a document though we were coming together into one country -- the document was written and

intended to strictly restrain the federal government. that is what the constitution is all about [applause] . [applause] yet today we have a federal government that has grown by leaps and bounds and the best demonstration of that is the spending which never ceases, one administration to the next, it is always increases in spending and today when they talk about cuts, you know they are not talking about cuts. if they are talking about tinkering around the edges and nibbling away at the proposed increases. we are talking about real cuts and shrinking of the size of the federal government. [applause] you cannot do that on less you -- unless you raise the one significant question and that is what the role of government should be. if liberty is the most import issue, the most and poured -- most important responsibility of

government is to protect liberty and not to be the policeman of the world and not to have a runaway welfare state. [applause] >> we will break away as the u.s. house is coming out.

the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. this being the day fixed pursuant to the 20th amendment to the constitution for the meeting of the second session of the is 12th congress, the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's rooms, washington, d.c. january 3, 2012. i hereby appoint the honorable steven c. latourette to act as

speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, john a. boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. chaplain conroy: let us pray. loving god, we give you thanks for giving us another year. as the second session of this 112th congress begins, we humbly ask your divine presence as the members of the people's house attend to their noble responsibilities, send your spirit of wisdom to be with them. watch over each member of the house and their families during this session. grant that they might be wise in their deliberations, charitable in their interactions with one another, and judicious in the execution of their duties. may all that is said and done in the coming session be for your greater honor and glory,

amen. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will lead the house in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. pursuant to section 4-a of house resolution 493, no organization or legislative business will be conducted on this day. pursuant to section 4-c of house resolution 493, the house stands adjourned until 10:00 a.m. on friday, january 6 >> the house returns on friday. the meeting beginning at noon on the third day of january. the house and second opening the second session of the 112

congress. they will be back friday at 10:00 for a pro forma session with legislative work resuming on the 17th. live coverage here on c-span. there was some thought that there could be a recess appointment made by president obama today. market watch pointing out the president could use the brief seconds to recess o. point. it would have to take place in the few seconds between the end of the first session today in the beginning of the second session of congress that you just fall, but there are news reports but that is not likely to happen. stephen dennis tweedy no recess appointments from the white house today according to a senior administration official. we will keep you posted if we hear anything about up here that the president is back in washington today following a 10- day vacation in hawaii.

live coverage from i what this evening, 7:00 here on c-span. -- from iowa this evening, 7:00 here on c-span. up next, our conversation from this morning's "washington journal." our next guest is the spokesperson for the ron paul campaign. who makes up the constituency in iowa? >> we had evangelical

christians, home schoolers, working-class, young people here did we have probably the most diverse constituency out there. that is because he really supports liberty and freedom. the wonderful thing about freedom is it brings people together. there is a piece for everyone in freedom. host: washington post as a blur of talking about rick santorum weighing in. it says he is taken swings at your candid that ran paul. >> rick santorum is willing to say a lot of crazy wild thing freedom brings people together, and he is willing to work with broad coalitions. sure, he finds common ground, but also the most conservative member of the congress.

tuesday he is in line with the is simplydavid kissinage false. he can bring to the progress of some independent, conservatives. that is what we need, someone who can bring us together to deal with the horrible problems we are facing. >> you mentioned the ways you see ron paul was having conservative values, but one feature of iowa voters is that they tend to poll as religious conservatives. how are you making inroads with the evangelical base? >> ron paul is a christian. we are christian family. we are regular church attendees. in i think the message that we send to evangelicals and

religious conservatives is that big government in washington is the biggest threat to our conservative christian values in the heartland. i think a lot of evangelicals get that here again that washington is the engine behind no child left behind and the political correctness driving religion from the public square. we have to get the government out of the way so we can protect values in real america. host: jesse bennette with the ron paul campaign. here are the numbers to call -- if you are an iowa resident, you can call us -- taking a look at a story from " abc news" --

is he delivering the message of confidence that he could win this race, or does this article indicates that he might not think he can win the race? we would not be in the race if we did not think he could win. we have to be sober and realistic. he is taking on the entire is publishment here yet the monetary establishment, the big spending establishment in washington. we have to realize the hurdles we face when we take all of that

on. we have to be sober about it. we cannot promise everyone that he will be president tomorrow. he does not have a deep personal desire to be president. he is not motivated by personal ambition. he is motivated by a desire to fix this country and restore core american principles of limited government. i think that is a very positive thing. that makes him more motivated by personal ambition -- promoted by government and personal confession. he does not sit around when his head hits the pillow and fantasize about being president. he fantasizes about returning our country back to the american traditions of liberty, personal freedom and responsibility. i think that is what we need in the president right now. that is what he will deliver.

steve keying it said if elected president, he would actually be dangerous. -- steve king when said if ron paul was elected president, he would actually be dangerous. this is something that he told "the hill." guest: i think rep king is misguided on thinking that is dangerous. our tactical military right now, we can have both on the ground anywhere in the world launch from the united states within 13 hours. we can project power all around the world with nuclear submarines, bombers, air force. we do not need to have troops stationed all over the world. right now we have 900 bases scattered around the world, and

it is bankrupting us. why do we have 50,000 troops in germany? why do we have 30,000 in south korea? president paul will bring troops home so we can defend our borders, spend a ton of money, taking care of people at home, making sure we of a stronger national defense that we can repel any threat. quite frankly get back to a much more pro-american foreign policy. i do not think that is dangerous at all that is the foreign policy that we need. that is the form policy of the founding fathers, and that is what he will bring to america ron paul will be president of the people vote for him. joe is responding to the article we just mentioned from "abc." let's go to cleveland, ohio, and

hear what justin asked to stay. democratic calller. -- what justin has to say. caller: i saw your andrea mitchell interview yesterday, and that was a really good interview. one of my prediction is he will over perform due to the independent siding. i to be president clinton supporter myself, but not anymore. thank you very much. go wrong paul. -- go ron paul. guest: that is why he would be the best nominee in the republican field, because of his tremendous crossover support. he has tremendous appeal to independents and democrats. that is good for the republican party. it is also how you win general elections. finally, it is what our country needs. our country needs to unite people and bring together

democrats, republicans, conservatives, libertarians. bring them all together and get working on the serious problems we face. host: do you expect them to cross over and joined the independent process tonight? guest: there will be a lot of independent coming out. we welcome anyone that wants to come and vote for ron paul and vote for liberty. i am not that optimistic that met -- that that many democrats will do it. i do not think that is where many of the votes come from, but that said, they are welcome to come. i hope i am wrong. i hope 20% of the democratic party comes, it registers republican votes, and they stay in the republican party and build a broad coalition based. host: stephen wright's i would

consider ron paul if he did not run on the republican platform. let's go to iowa city were bread is on the line. -- where brent is on the line. paul willr: i think ron pull out a victory tonight. here in iowa city we have a lot of young, well-thought out individuals, and i think we will pull the young vote out tonight, too. host: tell us what your want to do tonight. do you consider yourself a young voter? caller: yes. we're going to rally together and lead him to victory. >host: the caucus is happening ofa lot time were a lot colleges are on break. there is not opportunity to get students in math from the universities.

will that affect things? caller: i was city has 15,000 students still in town -- iowa city has 15,000 students still in town that i am confident will be at tonight. ron paul brings a real change. we will see that tonight. thank you. guest: we are really counting on the youth vote tonight. it is always assumed that the youth vote does not turn out. , take a look at ron paul and realize your future depends on the real change that ron paul can bring. we have to do this. i am 34. i look at the future.

i have a young daughter. i look at the future, and i am worried. we need to take action or we will lose the promise of america, and that is serious. host: what about the issue of school being out of session, it will that have an effect? guest: we were projecting the iowa caucuses would be doing reedbird way back in the summer. we planned for it. it adds an extra layer to make sure we have people called. we cannot just go walking through the dorms and dragging people to the caucasus, however, we are still contacting students and letting them know. we're letting them know where they're printing -- precinct locations are back home. we have planned for it. host: jesse benton is the

national campaign chairman for ron paul. and do you still feel that way? guest: that has always been our goal, a top three in iowa, top three in new hampshire, and then we go on to the early caucus states. we have great organizations in multiple early caucus states. we're going to roll forward into louisiana, nevada and maine in february. super tuesday with looking at minnesota, kansas, colorado, north dakota just to name a few. we have boots on the ground. we have been sending mail, contacting boaters, and we're working hard. we're the only campaign that has this organization throughout the country. we're the only campaign outside of mitt romney that has a comprehensive plan to win the love of hundred delegates necessary to be the nominee. that is why i make a very

strong argument that now the campaign is coming down to ms. romney and ron paul. status quo antiestablishment versus real change in the grass roots. -- status quo and the establishment versus real change and the grass roots. host: romney said on ms nbc, it is hard to predict exactly what is going to happen. i think i will be among the top groups. last night he was more aggressive thing he would win and eventually the republican nomination for president. and the use see that as more ground for your camp? -- do you see that as more graround for your camp? guest: the worst thing you want to do in this race is over promise and underperform, so i am told he was -- so i am sure

he was told to backpedal a little bit. if you want real change, please come out for ron paul. if you are happy with the status quo and the establishment, the butter from the is the choice. -- the governor romney is the choice there. caller: what i love about ron paul is he wants to abolish the federal reserve -- maybe not abolish it, but he wants to fix it. we have some real serious problems with america, with the federal reserve. and i think he gets in there and start to fix it and will stimulate the economy. a second thing is, and this has nothing to do with ron paul, and i want all of the politicians to know this, it is known the united states government has contacts with aliens from other

planets, and if they do not come clean, the legacies will be affected. thank you. guest: i do not know very much about aliens, but i do know about the federal reserve. we need to get a handle around the far reserve. ron paul has been on this for 30 years. most recently he was able to lead a broad coalition and congress to get legislation passed into the final reject financial reform bill. brought together every single republican and over 100 democrats, including the most conservative members of the house and some of the most progressive liberals of the house. we were able to pass it through hard grass roots lobbying and get it passed as part of the financial reform package. dr. paul wants to do more. he is going to bring the leadership to the oval office.

we will get our hands around a better reserve and stop printing money, stop bailing out wall street and foreign banks in doing that on the backs of the poor and middle class in this country. host: here is a question by e- mail from maggie in florida. how'd you marry his libertarian views with his pro-like views? -- pro-life views? guest: he is very right to life use. he is an ob/gyn. he is delivered over 4000 babies. he would push legislation that could be passed by simple majority, into law by president to remove jurisdiction over

legislation from the buffer court -- federal court here yet turn it back to the states and allow states to decide. i know what would be a pro-life state in six months. i bet we would have 30 per-like states within two years. he supports the right-life amendment to the constitution. we would have to sign that and come together as a people and a consensus and pass the constitutional amendment to defining life as the beginning of inception. he will be the most pro-like president -- pro-life president probably ever, because he will allow states to pass their own boss. at the same time he will work for a long-term consensus solution bypassing our right to life amendment. -- by passing a right to life

amendment. caller: i am an independent but i vote along republican lines. i am really disappointed in the candidates we have. a lot of them are filled with hatred. dr. paul talks about small government. he has been in government for our for 35 years. when he got into government his salary was $44,000. now it is $184,000. it is like a family business. that does increase overhead. there is hypocrisy. what do you have to say to that? guest: that is the top charge. he has led the charge to cut congressional pay. other thing you might not know

about him is he refuses to participate in the congressional pension program. he thinks it is too much. i think it is it that anthony wiener will retire at $50,000 per year pension when he had to resign in disgrace. he does not participate and that and will not accept it. you're right, a career politicians are strangling the country, but he has been fighting against this publishment, against the washington machine four years. if you are looking at him personally profiting, that is just not the case. he is caught himself millions of dollars by taking himself out of his medical practice. if he kept delivering babies, he would be a lot wealthier today. he has a passion for liberty. he feels an obligation to be involved in speak out, an

obligation to work with this real change. our country is at the point where we need this real change and people are waking up to that. thankfully he is still there to lead us back. host: jesse benton is the national campaign chairman president for ron paul. the has worked on numerous winning political campaigns. he served as co-founder and senior activists for ran paul. not to be out of turn but there is a question of age. and how old was his dad when he died? gary says his choice of a vice

presidential candidates will be critical. host: his dad was in his 90s. hisuest: he's that was in 90s. he walked over 3 miles per day. -- walks over 3 miles per day. his mind is sharp and his ideas are young. i also look at his age as a real benefit. he has the wisdom and benefit and experience to look at the problems we face to be able to be steady and unwavering in the face of all the challenges that he will face as president. whoever is president of the united states it's going to face a lot of scrutiny and challenges, and his age and wisdom and brett of experience will give him the backbone to

stay the course and help get our country back. host: sheeler rights by e-mail and said that she thinks congressman paul is too old. -- sheila writes by e-mail that she thinks the congressman is too old. what do you think his age does for a reelection bid in four years? guest: again, he is the fittest guy i know. anyone concerned about is h, come down to our town in texas when it is 100 degrees and the humidity is 100 percent and go on a 20 mile bike ride around town. they will see if they can keep up. host: syracuse, new york. chris on the democrat line. chris, you are on the program. and move on to china. republican calller in texas. caller: i am a newfound

republican. i to be a democrat. i have been watching ron paul, and i basically changed parties because of him here did in the nicest way i would like to ask is there any way that not just c-span, but all the journalists on at least five stations with you get any more shameless about hedging against ron paul? every angle you cover is so angled against him. he must doing really phenomenal polls.in in the online you would not breathing -- you would not read his name unless he was getting 95% in the real polls. perhaps someone should go to the other taylor -- trailer and

take a clear look at how you come across. guest: well, i think he raised a valid point, and i do not think mainstream media quite understands what is going on. i do not think they understand the depth of the support or understand the issues. i do not entirely blame them, because i do not think we have seen anything like this before in american politics. we can get frustrated or just keep chopping wood and press forward, and i choose the latter option. i do not wring my hands. do i get frustrated from time to time? sure, i give him and just like you. i'm going to press onward. we are going to use campaign resources, which do it -- due to the generosity of donors is very substantial. we will keep pressing on and work with the media and keep pressing on.

there are some journalists that are starting to get it and some that do not here yet we're want to push ahead. we will keep chopping wood. host: silver spring, maryland. caller: happy new year. i wanted to take a couple of comments, may be one question at the end. and i am a middle-aged family man. my daughter will be five and a couple of weeks. that is really what this is about for me. what an exciting day and an opportunity to finally stand up for the real change we need in america. freedom, civil liberties and the wars -- end the war spirited i am cautiously optimistic we can pull this thing through. i of one question, and i want to ask, what is campaign doing to

monitor the results? i will be praying for you guys tonight. guest: the calller is an example of why he is the most viable canada against president obama. people say they want real change, and this gentleman was a cover crop year did he realizes ron paul brings real change. they will work to solve our problems. we are monitoring the results very closely through the long- term activism here did we have had multiple supporters on i was state central committee and have been working very closely with iowa republican party to make sure everyone is above board and have a lot of confidence in that. the chairman has been a real gentleman. we feel very confident.

there will be a centralized location where we will have representatives watching their total calculated, and we are confident everything is above board, and we will continue pressing through with the process. host: the you think voters are still troubled by the druze headers -- do you think tg voters in iowa are still troubled by the news headlines? guest: it is not what is talked about for 35 years of public life. and he was delivering babies on an obie schedule. he should have been more on top

of it. he has apologized and taken responsibility. i think anyone that is the insurer or is bothered by this stuff needs to go look at the speeches. he has given literally thousands of speeches to millions of people of the past 35 years. but look at the speeches and transcripts. he supports individual liberty and dignity of individual rights for everybody. host: robert is avon, conn. -- is in avon, conn. caller: want to thank the road to the white house coverage for giving ron paul and supporter some time. i am wondering how you are holding up to the bias and non- biased media?

i am a surfer, and i've seen pretty interesting comments being made by the other candidates, but almost nothing by ron paul. i am wondering what your future ideas would be to get by this? as you know, it seems like most of the media out there treat every day average person the way that if you do not follow their ways, you're left behind. what is your thoughts on giving by this sheet will kind of activity if you do not belong to other candidates? guest: i think you raise a very valid problem, and that is there is a lot of big, special interest establishment corporatism in the media, and they are guarding their turf. they do not want to properly cover of canada becker

challenges their status quo. i think you also brought up one of the best ways to challenge that. c-span recently had on greg robinson from the iowa republican i do not always agree with what they do or say, but they get out unbiased information and real grass roots commentary. i thhank them for doing that kind of stuff. we need more independent journalism and worst of online. i challenge people out there to supplement your reading with reading blocks. if you're eating your course of news for the day, have some for the mainstream, from cable, some from the internet. the information is out there. and eat a full course the fate of information every day, and that is how we will step ahead of this thing. the other thing is we have to

realize that the news business, the news industry, they are in the entertainment business, too. they want to appeal to the people. they want to reflect the attitude of the people and what the people are demanding. another thing is you need to contact them and say i am a consumer and what this. there is lot of competition out there for the advertising dollars, and for the eyeballs of people. but with your dollars. let news organizations know when your displease. -- vote with your dollars. also, let them know when you are happy. but when you get a fair shake, we're told this is amazing.

we have ron paul on for an interview, and we got 3000 emails thanking us. be involved in the engaged consumer. host: let's listen to ron paul on sunday saying whether or not he would run as a third-party candidate. >> i have not even thought about it except for when it kept asking me about it. why would i even considered doing anything like that? i do not like absolutes. i do not want to say i will never do so and so, but i have no plans in doing it. we are doing very well. people should just be a little bit patient. and host: ron paul on cnn sunday appeare. what you think about your

candidate's viability for a third-party candidate? guest: well, if he decided to run independent, he would be very viable. there have been multiple polls that show him starting off in the 20's. that said, there is virtually no chance he will run independent. he just does not want to do it, and i do not blame him. our system is so biased against independence. he has his home in the republican party. paul would sayauran political parties are empty vessels unless we can view them with values. he is trying to have the republican party with the values of the founding fathers of the constitution. the platform of the republican party says they stand for. i do not see an independent bid in his future. host: there is an article in "

the wall street journal" -- howhat do you make of that as pt of your coalition? guest: sure, dr. paul is the peace get a bit. the piece can get it has a great -- great canadat history f winning. nixon was elected in vietnam. barack obama one as the peace candidate against john mccain. george w. bush want running criticizing the clinton foreign policy for intervention in somalia. no policing ran

the world. dr. paul understands that peace requires strength. he understands to be able to have peace we need a strong national defense. we need to bring troops home. we need to rebuild the military, and we need to quit the trillion dollar foreign wars. dr. paul will deliver a strong national defense. he will make america strong and mature we of the greatest military in the world, and he will bring peace. host: let's hear what germy have to say on the republican line. the first question i have for you is on newsletters. and it is irrelevant as far as i am concerned, and i think

corporate mainstream media is playing that up way too much. my question for you are relating to how ron paul communicates items to people, and basically most of the public i think is pretty ignorant because they follow what ever mainstream media has to say. when he says we're broke, and he constantly says we're broke, he never puts it to the point of explaining how we are broken, how it affects people personally. he does not say your money is worth less. he does not say things like when you go down to the grocery store or put gas in your tank you get less and less for the valuation of our money. i think he has a problem where he does not communicate how it personally relates to people in this country. it does not relate to the state of this nation and spending ever were also in the world and need to bring the money back for our standard of living will continue

to decline until we do that. and guest: you bring up a great point. you hit the nail right on the head, and that is what we're trying to explain to people and communicate. it is difficult, and it is tough. you are right, we can do better. we need to continue to do better, because we need to wake up the entire country. fortunately we have woken up a great chunk of them. he is only striving to do better. he realizes he is not the perfect messenger. i think he is the best we've ever had, but he realizes we can do better. the campaign can do better. we need to continue to fine-tune the message, and i think you are right, one step we can do is try to continue to personalize the message and let people know how it affects them what does it mean that our deficit exceeds the gdp. what does it mean that the fed is creating trillions of dollars

out of thin air. what would that mean for the purchasing power of the dollar. how will that affect seniors when the value of the dollar declines? it is a big message that is powerful and important. host: of the work from illinois road as an e-mail that says -- a from illinois broke as an e-mail that says -- the same what happened to ron paul? guest: i would disagree that his legislative record is not impressive. i think congress is very unimpressive. he has advocated and voted know so many times. often struck by himself voting

no, sang stop this unconstitutional government. -- often stuck by himself voting no. -- saying stop this unconstitutional government. i think that is unprecedented to bring together such a broad coalition to pass such substantial, meaningful legislation. ron paul is very open that just electing him president will not be a magic bullet, but the elected him president would send a tremendous message to the people in washington that people are demanding real change. we will only get real change when the people's attitude reflects that. congress will follow if the people demand it. sending ron paul to the oval office will send a tremendous message that there is time for change. ron has very pragmatic tools at

his disposal to pass the plan to restore america to cut one trillion dollars to get the budget balanced in his first term. that is the veto of the debt limit. it would eliminate 1.7 trillion dollars in what we consider phonied debt to the federal reserve. due to massive spending out of control it would put at less than one trillion dollars and of but i wrote the limit. he would introduce this plan to congress and say i think it is, where -- common sense. he would say how can we tweet and modify this plan? come together and bring people together. make sure we honor the seniors and veterans. make sure we have the strongest defense in the world come and get the budget passed. he would have optimistic of

saying we have this one chance in meaningful budget reform, because if you don't, i will veto any attempt to raise the debt limit. having the bully pulpit to say we're not going any more into debt. we will have to come together and work on cutting come get this budget balanced, it will have to happen, because i will veto any increase in the debt limit. host: one more call in for mr. benton. caller: thank you for taking my call. and we the people were broken when a presidential candidate cannot articulate liberty, but recently on the jan nicholson show an iowa ron paul was not able to articulate the meaning of liberty. yesterday he said "protect

liberty" in his ", but how can he protect liberty when he does not know the definition of liberty? therefore, he does not have my vote. guest: well, ron paul will not get everybody. i think he is the most outspoken eloquent advocate of liberty. he has been speaking about this for 45 years. he is not always the most perfect messenger, but he tries. i do not think anyone has spoken more consistently and more passionately for liberty, and that is why i am so proud to work for him. host: jesse benton is the national campaign president for ron paul. we're watching to see how he performs tonight in iowa caucuses. thank you. >> here on c-span will take you live to the brady press briefing

room reading to hear from j kearney. president obama returning this morning from hawaii. -- jay carne. later today he will meet with leon panetta. -- jay carney. it is also possible he will be asked about the appointment of the consumer financial protection bureau. politico and other news organizations and the recess appointment, if it does happen, it will not happen today. the president today will do a little politicking as the republican caucuses happened in iowa. there are democratic caucuses happening as well. the president plans to address supporters tonight from the capital hilton here in washington to democratic caucuses in iowa. his remarks beginning at 8:15. he is supposed to take a couple of questions from the democratic caucus the worst. -- caucus goers.

one of the caucuses from central iowa and on c-span2 on the western part of the state. that coverage getting under way at 7:45. a [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012]

>> waiting for the start of the white house briefing with jay carney. a meeting with leon panetta for president obama as he prepares to outline the military cuts come at the cuts to military spending. "the new york times" reporting that he will outline his strategy at a news conference this week, and the specific cuts have prepared 260 billion in cuts for the next five years would be detailed in the president's annual budget submission to congress. they will be debated and almost certainly amended before approval. also today, the pentagon

reporting the pentagon has answered an iranian warning to keep aircraft carriers out of the persian gulf to clear american warships will continue regularly scheduled appointments to the strategic waterway. george little said the navy operates in the gulf and accordance with international law to maintain a constant state of high vigilance to assure the floor -- to assure the flow of c commerce. -- sea commerce.

>> this is funny. this is here from the last time the president spoke. [laughter] does not gather dust, that is for sure. and thank you for being here for your daily briefing. i hope everyone in this room got some down time with their family and friends. everyone needs a break some time, and i hope you took advantage of the break the president took. we're back, back in action and ready to go to work for the american people. as i know you are on behalf of your readers and viewers and listeners. with that, i have no other announcements. i will go straight to "the associated press." >> can you give us a sense of

how the president plans to follow the iowa caucus returns tonight? is he watching on television, planning on getting updates from advisers? i know he will speak to supporters on the democratic side. >> i have not had that conversation with him yet. i know, because i know him and is not a big tv watcher when it comes to news. he reads thing either on paper paper or on line. he will, as you mentioned, it be delivering remarks to eye with democratic caucus goers from washington via video link. he will use that opportunity to think his supporters in iowa or

what they did four years ago in showing up at the caucuses in record numbers and delivered him an important victory. i think i can remind you that night in his speech he gave after his win and i what he made some promises. one of them was to end of the iraq war. the other was to succeed where others had not succeeded and deliver a broad health care reform to the american people. another was to make progress in rgy.n energy here di the fourth was education reform. he will talk about those things that have been accomplished thanks to his supporters in iowa and all the work that needs to be done. that will be his focus this evening.

like many of us, he will be interested to see what the results are and the other party's caucuses. no more orhe is uas less interested than the rest of us. >> no more? [laughter] >> in the sense that he knows what his focus is right now, which of continuing to work on the american -- on behalf of the american people, and with the private sector and through executive action to grow the economy and create jobs, to help protect the middle class and expand it. that is what his focus is. how long the process takes and the other party to pick a nominee is really anyone's guess pure you. he is a lot of work to do before he engages aggressively in the general election campaign. that will come in due time.

>> in ohio, can you give us a sense of whether there is a broad [inaudible] >> i do not want to give you specifics. he will be carrying an economic message. he will carry a number of the themes you heard him talk about last year in the fall and early winter. he will talk again about how his commitment is to do everything he can as president, working with congress and independently from congress to grow the economy and create jobs, to protect the middle-class, to expand it and make the middle class more accessible to those who aspire to it. that is his number one focus. going back to iowa four years ago, that was his number one focus then. so i think those will be the

themes he will hear from him tomorrow. i do not have any more specifics for you. >> should americans be worried about what appears to be an escalating conflict with iran today? the pentagon says there is no way they can do that. the you think this is something we should worry about? >> i think it reflects the fact is in a position of weakness. and they're under continued pressures for the continued failure to live up to the international obligation. they are isolated in seeking to divert away from the attention of economic policy. this is a measure of the impact that sanctions have been having on iran and the broad international support for taking -- putting pressure on

iran because of the refusal to live up to international obligations. i think one measure of that is a story that was in "the washington post" about the dramatic decline in the currency. and that is not the latest. i stood before you in november and december and talk about the obvious impact that isolation had been having on the economy, and the effect that it have on things we were hearing from the leadership, and on the economy itself. i think that continues, and i think this is a more indication of that. >> "the new york times" today has details on the defense cuts the president proposed in

february, and i understand there will be a news conference later this week they leon p. anpanett. is the president concerned about the overall ability of the united states to defend itself, and the question of whether the united states will still be able to fight two wars? >> let me talk about the strategic review, which recognizes we are at a turning point after a decade of war with new challenges and opportunities that call for reshaping of our defense priorities. to meet these under constrains the president made sure to his team -- made clear to his team that are top priorities are met. this is ongoing and will ensure we are able to meet the challenges of this moment responsibly. maintain military superiority. maintain military superiority. the president has