>> all right. >> mr. romney is the only one who continues to be competitive against mr. obama in the general election. mr. romney will be the nominee, if that is the case. >> we will leave it there. thank you for joining us. i appreciate your time. >> thank you. interesting questions. >> let me turn to our two reporters. let me begin with you, amy. there is a meeting over the weekend. all of this talking on this friday. what do you think is going to be happening? what is the story? >> what was the most fascinating thing was the fact that they do not want to have a role to play in the picking the social conservative to coalesce around before what could be the definitive primary of this campaign. if mitt romney wins in south carolina, it is basically over. i do not think they have to

convince anybody to drop out. if rick perry finishes way back in the pack, i do not see why he would stay. newt gingrich has said, i have to do well or i am out. that attrition is going to happen naturally. i am surprised they do not want to be more active than playing a role in helping to shape this contest. they seem to be saying, we will let the voters decide. let us go let us be seeing romney. it is not a strong force. at the end of the day, we need to coalesce around mitt romney? >> one of the funniest things was amy's question on electability. that might be the inevitable direction where the party is headed. we want to have this social conservative show down at some point. maybe we will head to romney.

>> why does this meeting matter? >> there is a sense that mitt romney is this close to capturing the nomination. we are very far away from the rest of the primaries. he still has a lot of delegates he needs to collect. south carolina is going to be a very important place. we have seen the consternation from social conservatives throughout this process that one candidate could not coalesced support come up money, organization, to be that bold

color against the pastel of mitt romney. that is why you see these folks. do we really wanted to end this sent? do we really think he has been vetted properly? do we really want to say that we have put him through all of his cases? if so, we have to be ok with the fact that we are going to nominate somebody very early in this process. that is a lot of what this meeting is about. >> south carolina primary, in the end, when it is over, as it is unfolding, what should viewers be watching as far as data? >> if you can get in the determination of where the evangelical voters are going, that would be a big thing i would look for.

>> i would look at where john mccain did well. it is the coast through the columbia area. dad is where mitt romney needs to do well. he does not need -- that is where the mitt romney needs to do well. as i am watching the data, i will watch for those areas and the counties around columbia and up and down the coast. >> thank you both. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> tomorrow, we will hear remarks from republican candidates and their wives. starting at 11:00 with rick perry. after that, rick santorum. later, jon huntsman.

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>> hi, how are you? good to see you. >> thank you for coming to see us. >> great to be here. >> i like that sweater vest. it looks good.

good to see you, thank you for coming out. >> thank you for coming to florence. best of luck to you. >> thank you for coming out again. >> we just signed up to help with your campaign. >> good to see you. how are you? thank you, a bid to be here. -- good to be here. >> i was most impressed with you. >> good morning. >> thank you. >> thank you for coming to south carolina. >> it is such a pleasure to meet you. >> thank you.

>> how are you? good to see you. hey, buddy. >> god bless you. >> hi, folks. how are you? how are you? >> we appreciate your help. >> my husband came and saw give the other night. >> thank you. -- and saw you the other night. >> thank you. good to see you guys. thank you. >> you are taller than you look on television. >> good to me you.

-- good to meet you. >> i want you to meet this little girl over here. >> absolutely. hello, sweetheart, how are you? nice to me you, katie. that is pretty impressive. jim bob and michelle are here. do you want to turn this way? there you go. thank you, katie. god bless you. bless you, thank you.

are we on time? >> it is good seeing you again. >> how are you? how are you? good to see you. thank you, thank you. hello, folks, how are you? good to see you. went out for the lunch and you ran into a political rally. >> we were at the right to life rally and we saw your daughter. that is what brought us here today. >> thank you. >> can i get a picture?

>> there we go. >> hello, a first-time voter. >> thank you. >> i have some students that want to meet you. >> do you want me to sign something for you? >> you are saving the day, thank you. we are so excited you are here. >> thank you.

how are you? nice to see you. how are you? hey, guys. >> good to me you, man. >> hello, how are you? hey, buddy. there you go. very good. >> can we get our picture taken with you? and your autograph? >> one, two, three. >> we are voting for you. >> thank you. >> we have some students right back here.

>> i think i said aloud to most of those guys. -- hello to most of those guys. i think we should has already. -- shook hands already. >> thank you. >> hello, how are you? you have the best seats in the house back here. nice to see you, thank you very much. >> thank you very much.

>> welcome to florence. >> god bless you. we support you. we pray for you. >> we need to win florence county. ndistinct] >> we were coming here to go to dinner and a movie.

>> [unintelligible] >> i support changing the mission from the fed. it should just be focused on stable currency. >> [inaudible] >> i think this is a constitutional money system. it is overseen by the federal

government. the reason we have independence is that we do not have a politicized money system. would you want president obama are running the money system? someone has to run it. >> it has to be a federal system. >> hold on. it is either going to be a federal system and the government runs it, court and all the sides -- are outside system. -- or an outside system. people have to run it. that is why you have to make a decision. t want the politicians running it or do you want a separate board running at? it is according to the constitution.

>> i am not going to argue with you about it. >> the constitution allows the congress to manage the money supply. they had given it to this particular organization. it is within the purview of the congress to do that. it is always losing its value. even we had a gold standard, the dollar lost the money. it always loses money.

there will always be a loss of money. you have to have some or little inflation otherwise the economy stagnates. >> [inaudible] >> i agree with that. good to see, thank you. i would be happy to. >> thank you. how are you? >> welcome to florence. >> bid to see you, thank you. -- good to see you, thank you. bless your heart, thank you. do you want to get started? let's go ahead and get started. >> good luck to you, sir.

>> thank you. >> thank you for coming to florence. >> thank you so much for this huge turnout on this beautiful sunday afternoon. i want to now turn it over to the congressman. >> hello, florence. you can do better than that. hello, florence! thank you for being here. we are on fire. we were down in myrtle beach today and rick gave a fantastic speech this morning. everybody was on their feet.

we have had two primary so far. we have had two primary so far, right? the first was in iowa, okay? they narrowed the field, right? in new hampshire, they always say it is the first and the country, right? in south carolina, we pick presidents. that is what we do. yeah, baby. i have known this guy for a long time. i know the people in this race, and we have some good people in this race. ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you something. we are at a crossroads in this nation. i left a group of national conservatives last weekend. the consensus was, we are at a line in the sand. we are at a point of time in this nation or we're going to take it back and we will restore

it to is greatness or lose it forever. this guy standing behind me is the guy that can restore this nation. i will take that, come on. thank you. there is more to being a president than being a president. there are a lot of guys that got to love the three right. -- two of the three right. you have to have a good head on your shoulders. you have to be good on the national security. there is something special about a president of the united states. and you have to have a good head on more than that, you have to have a good heart. [applause] he has to know where his strength comes from. when it comes to a faith, when it comes to family, and when it comes to freedom, there is nobody in this race that

represents our values, are south carolina values, like the next president of the united states, a center rick santorum. -- senator rick santorum. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. i appreciate that. he is our state chairman in south carolina. he is a strong conservative and he has been at my side as we've traveled around the state. it is great to be back here. we had a town hall meeting not too far away from here. we had a few less people than we have today. we have a little more energy and enthusiasm. there is a good reason for. this is a very important election. you have a huge responsibility in south carolina.

the field has narrowed a little, but not very much. i suspect that after south carolina, it is going to narrow a little bit more. maybe a lot more. it is very important for you to speak out loudly. the values of this state, the values of this state and the voters in the republican primary in this state, are conservative. they believe in limited government. you believe in a limited federal government. right? [applause] you believe that -- you believe in strong family, a strong community, and faith at the center of our country. i talked about that this morning at the faith and freedom coalition. our country, if you look at it, is unique in many ways. the strength of our country is

really in the bedrock institutions of faith and family. if you think about what has built this country, it is strong families, faith, into the children and grandchildren who built this country, who built this country to believe in going out and working hard. talk about american values. of course, the values of faith. but hard work, people went out and burned it. -- earned it. there was no welfare system, no government handouts. your ancestors wanted to be free, one of the opportunity to be able to reap the fruits of their labor. to have a government that respected them and that freedom. keep limited government, and

rely upon local communities and strong families to rise up a great nation. that was unique in the course of human history. every other country in the history of the world did it differently. we tend to forget that in america. america was unique in the history of the world. before america, all other countries were ruled from the top down. they were ruled by kings and emperors. there ruled by people who grabs and held power. and told the people that they were doing so for their benefits. they were -- they would be benevolent and care for their people, just like you hear the politicians in washington say to you now. they will care for you. they will make things better if you just do one thing -- give up some of your freedom and give them more power. that is the deal.

it is always the siren song haunting generations. give your freedom and give your power up, and someone else can do it for you. your life will be easier if someone else takes care of you. this is the ultimate siren song of barack obama. he believes that he can run the health care system better than it you count on the private sector and the free market. he believes he can run the banking system better than you can and the private sector. he believes he can run the auto industry better than the free market. he believes he can run everything, top to bottom, in cooperation with their friends in big business. i get a kick out of the fact that people say conservatives, they are the folks behind big

business. that is a lie. conservatives love small things. small government, small business. they let the opportunity for people to be able to grow and exercise their freedom that is what conservatives believe in. they believe in the opportunity society. one where everyone can pursue their dreams if they work hard and they take risks, and they get rewarded for that risk. not condemned by the government for taking those risks. this is the essential struggle in this campaign, between two different visions of america. one vision based on the principles of our country. that all men are created equal.

that is the foundational principle upon which america was founded. that we are -- our rights come to us from god. government is limited to protect those rights. if we did so, if we took that leap of faith, it had never been done in the history of the world, that rights come from god and good to each and every one of you, not the king, not the emperor, but to you, man, woman, everybody. revolutionary, unheard of in the history of the world. we changed the world. i think america sometimes, we need to stop and reflect about how exceptional we are. not we as in each and everyone of us, but we as a people. as a posterity, as our history has shown. we have transformed this world

in ways that go far beyond any other civilization in the history of man. why? because we believe in you. to serve the god they worship. that is what freedom is about. for the first time, we had a country that honored that. that understood, there have to be institutions. they will be local, families, churches, to help mold the moral imagination of our people. john adams said, when the constitution was ratified, the constitution was put in place to protect those god given rights. he said our constitution was

made for people -- it is wholly inadequate for the government of any other. here is america's god given rights. the moral code that the creator laid out for us. i hear all the time, some of the republican side say, we need to put these social issues aside. all we need to worry about is economics, cutting taxes, cutting spending. they do not know america. they do not understand america. if all you think we need to do to get this economy going and get this country on the right track is to cut government and reduce taxes, you do not understand america. america is a moral enterprise, not an economic enterprise. [applause] there was a book written this past year by a harvard

professor. he interviewed a chinese dissident, someone who came from china, who used to work for the chinese government. the mainland china. he worked for the chinese government during the time they decided to transform themselves, open themselves up, become more like us from an economic perspective. they were studying, the communists were studying at america, trying to figure of what was it that made america the greatest country in the history of the world. they put this commission of all they're smart people, of which this man was one. they were convinced it was the american military that made america the poorest country. that was not it -- the greatest country. that was not it. we thought, maybe it was the

economy. this free enterprise system, the economic structure is what made america great. they realized it was not that. they said, it has to be the system of government. these fundamental freedoms that made the difference. it was not even that. he said 20 years ago we figured out what made america a different than any other country in the history of the world. the answer, faith. faith. the moral obligation we have to live moral and decent lives. to do with our creator says, which is to provide, work, provide for ourselves. to love and care for your family. to be your brother's keeper. to love your neighbor. this moral foundation of america that is still vibrant,

contrary to popular opinion, contrary to the folks who cover us from new york and los angeles. this is still a country that is a faith-filled country. it is a country that still believes in those basic values and principles. it is the reason we still are the greatest country in the history of the world. we need someone running for office -- [applause] we need someone running for office who is someone -- someone who will present a clear contrast. people ask, how are you going to bring people together? i say, by doing the opposite of what this president is doing. [applause] every day barack obama reminds us how divided we are. he does not remind us, he points

out how we are divided. he encourages the division. the 99 versus of the one. this class against this class. this ethnic group against this ethnic group. this labor group, this man is constantly putting one group against another. all for some political purpose. it is disgusting. [applause] it is beneath the dignity of the president. [applause] you want to know why washington is dysfunctional? it is because we have dysfunctional leadership. [applause] we go back and we look at times when even though there were differences, there have always been differences. do not underestimate the fact that america is a united country.

there are real differences. there always have been. the greatness of america was that we were able to have great leaders come along to remind us who we are and what binds us together. we are not bound together like france. we are not bound together like italy. we are not done together like russians are. we are not an ethnic group in america. we are made up of a variety of different races and ethnic groups and creeds. what makes us an american is different than any other country in the world. it is because we share a common value system. it is an idea. when leaders go out and they tried to sell the american public a fundamentally different idea of what america

is, when they tried to rewrite history as this president is doing, then you have great friction in society. you of doing things that americans, in their hearts, note is not who we are. one of -- you are doing things that americans, in their heartsm know is not who we are. people sitting on the sideline and finally felt that punch. this is not the america i know. i cannot sit on the sideline anymore. i have to do something. america is at stake. and so it is. this is your charge, south carolina. the fight, you move your primary

of so you could be first in the south. -- you fight, you moved your primary up so you could be first in the south. iowa, a tie. iowa is not quite done yet. they are still certifying that election result. [applause] we will know what that is in a couple of days. do not count as of yet. -- us out yet. so a tie. thanks to the good people of iowa, i was one of the folks that tied with mitt romney. [applause] then we went to new hampshire. really interesting thing about new hampshire, over half the people who voted were not republican. [laughter] no wonder mitt romney did so well and jon huntsman did so well. [laughter]

but among republicans, we came this close to coming in second. we did not spend a single penny on broadcast television, did not spend any money at all. we only had five days to campaign. 6, because we spent one of those days here. we came from 1% and finished in fourth place. behind people who spent millions and ahead of the person who spent millions in congressman gingrich. as far as the conservative candidates running, we finished first in both of those races. if we can do that again here in south carolina, if south carolina can coalesce and say, here is the conservative candidate who we want to draw sharp contrast between our

vision of america, the founder's vision of america, your ancestors vision of america, what made this country great, and barack obama's vision. remember, i want to share with you a quote he give less than a year ago. he was responding to paul ryan's budget. he listed all of these entitlement programs, from medicare to unemployment to food stamps to medicaid, he listed all of these programs and said america is a better country because of all these programs. he said, he was reading his teleprompter. you probably cannot see my teleprompter. [laughter] he said, i would go one step further. he did. he said, "america was not a great country until these commitments. -- commitments."

barack obama sees the greatness of america and the government handing out poverty in america, the tendency in america. -- dependency in america. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, we have a tough choice in this election. you hear in south carolina are going to make that choice as to whether we are going to have somebody who can paint that different vision of obama versus the vision of our founders, the vision of the leaders who have been able to bring this country together and move this country forward. there are others in this race, good people. the contrast is just not there. the contest is not there between someone who is for a huge

government health care system, called obamacare, that is going to rob you of your freedoms and make each and every american dependent upon the federal government for your health. we need is someone who has never supported something like that. someone who has always supported free markets, always supported solving our problems like america solves our problems, from the bottom up, not the top down. [applause] unfortunately, the man who is leading the polls in south carolina is someone who's plan was the basis of obamacare. in an election where this is the central issue, and freedom, the traditional values of this country, free markets, free enterprise, not top-down government control, what with

the people put out someone who will lose that issue with. who is wrong on that issue? he says, it worked in massachusetts. it did? they have the highest health care raids in the country. massachusetts had a huge tax increases to pay for this. they got huge amount of money from the federal government to pay for this. -- amounts of money from the federal government to pay for this. it is exactly what is going to happen with obamacare. of all the things mitt romney has flip-flop on, it should have been this one. we need this one who can paint a clear line about the role of federal -- we need someone who can paint a clear line about the role of the pro-government in your lives. -- of federal government in

your lives. you have the chance to speak bluntly about the kind of leader you want. the country was feeling pretty down about itself. a lot of folks are right now, looking at america, having our credit rating drop, this deficit exploding, threatened around the world, we had that situation in 1980. the race came here to south carolina. again, just like in 1980, the people were told, we have to win. just focus on winning. we have to pick a moderate. someone who can appeal to moderate voters. that is what the establishment

is telling you. that is what the media is saying to you. here is what i would say. as i travel around, one of the things i hear all the time, you guys, i want you folks to go to washington in stand up for our values. how many times do i hear, we are sick and tired of you folks going to washington, sing you a going to do one thing and then compromising our bodies away -- saying you are going to do one thing and uncompromising-- then compromising our values away. we are tired of folks not standing up for what they believe in. if that is what you want from us, that is what i want from you. do not compromise on what you know is best for this country because someone else is telling you that we can win.

i hear all the time, when you compromise, you may get a bill passed, but we are not winning. the same is true in this election. we need to elect a president, a nominee who can defeat this president with a mandate to make big changes in america. [applause] so south carolina, vote your conscience. vote your values. do not compromise. do not believe the pundits. you can even believe the polls. the polls are showing that in all these key states, i am doing as well if not better than governor romney against barack obama. [applause] do not listen to the siren song. stand up, fight for what you know is right for this country

and help us out in this election. i would be happy to take questions. yes, sir? >> i would like to ask a personal question. >> the quote just between you and me. -- it will just be between you and me. >> what was the greatest disappointment in life? -- your life? how did you respond to it? what did you learn from it? how do you think it will make you a great president? >> let us my i had the opportunity to speak at a church. -- last night i had the opportunity to speak at a church. i was talking about my journey and hell that shaped me as a public official -- and how that

shaped me as a public official. i do not know what else could top the greatest disappointment in your life other than the loss of a child. we had to go through that. you can tell, it sticks with you. karen always says, we lost a son who was born and lived two hours. people come up, they have lost a child, whether the child died in womb or shortly thereafter for many years later. they would come up and say, i know it is different. karen always said, you do not have to explain. on a scale of one to ten, the loss of a child is always a 10.

that process for me, going through that in my life, given the fact that by some -- i do not know, some miraculous coincidences, happened to occur at the time where i started to get involved in a battle in washington. it was a battle about aborting children later in pregnancy who had conditions like my son. i had never been involved in the abortion issue before that. self compel -- i felt compelled for a variety of reasons to step up and fight this battle and lead this battle. it is always a hard thing for a person to do in public life to fight on the moral cultural issues. we all know those are flash

points. people have very deep feelings. you can have deep feelings about regulation of interstate commerce, but it is not the same. these issues are personal, the right to life, the right to choose. those are intimate decisions, personal ones that are deeply held, and as a result, tend to be very divisive in our country. it is one thing to be pro-life and check the box is, it is another to get out of the foxhole and fight. when you get out of a foxhole people look at it differently. they look at it differently. they treat it differently. when i started to do the

paillette work, when they read the paper, they used to think my first name was "ultra." i was the altar-conservative senator from pennsylvania. -- unltra-conservative se nator from pennsylvania. you are labeled -- ultra- conservative senator from pennsylvania. you are labeled. they say, you are too much of a social conservative. i say, i am as passionate on these issues as i am on limited government and freedom. we know you are, but you would be better off if he did not talk about those things over here. i decided to talk about those things during this debate in september, 1996.

i get up on the floor of the united states senate as i listened to dianne feinstein and barbara boxer make the case as to why we should keep this late term abortion procedure legal. we should keep it legal, they said, because parents find out that the child is disabled and they should be able to kill that child. it is better. i found that stunning that the very people who would say that would, at the moment that child is born, would argue that society has to pay for health and support of the disabled child. if it is in the womb, that child can and should be killed. i was struck by that. i got up and said my wife is 19

weeks pregnant at that time, we have a sonogram. i have no idea what is going to say. it does not matter. whatever happens, we are going to love that child. we found out our son was going to die. we did everything we could. he was born prematurely and lived two hours. if there is one thing in my life that gave me perspective on life, understanding god in my life, i was a very angry man at god for having the courage to stand up and fight for what he believed was right and then a week later him taking my son. it was a tough time.

it took a lot of prayer and a lot of understanding. i figured out, it was my wife who gave me the understanding. she did not just shake her fist at god and feel bad, she vented. she wrote letters. she wrote letters to my son, during the pregnancy, during the difficult time and afterward. she eventually had those letters published. it is a little tiny book, published by a little tiny publisher who never published a book and has never published 1 cents. -- one since. that book reached dozens of people. it saved, at least, hundreds of lives. people who understood the dignity and humanity of that child in the womb through those

letters. a look at that and now understand that my plans but not always the best blend. my plans are not always the best plans. plans are hard to understand, but they of the best plans. -- are the best plans. [applause] >> she agrees with the. her dad want to talk to you. can you say hi to everyone? [laughter] have at it. you go right ahead. say, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [laughter]

here is her dad. >> thank you for being here. is big about restructuring the federal department, -- you speak about restructuring federal departments, what about abolishing some of these departments, department of energy, department of education? returning some of the power to the states to make those decisions? >> i know politicians like to go up and say i'm going to abolish this department, this department -- just kidding. that does not mean anything. it does not mean anything. ok, i'm going to abolish the epa. there are dozens of laws that are on the books that the epa

enforces. if you abolish the epa, who is going to enforce the laws? somebody will. you can say, i'm going to abolish the epa. some other organization is going to have to do what the epa is doing. it makes no sense. it cannot do that with an executive order. [applause] i would get rid of five department, i will cut this, i will cut that -- he has been in congress 21 years and test one bill. -- passed one bill. [applause] let's be honest about it. let's look at someone who has done something to make a difference, gotten rid of federal entitlements. been able to reduce spending, programs. i have done it.

the key is, it is what i talk about on my web site, it is not about abolishing a department, someone is going to have to oversee environmental policy. the question is, what do the laws say, what should they be saying, what kind of the ministers do we have in these departments? the problem with the epa, when we look at george bush, there would not be as many people screaming about george bush's epa. because of who is running the country, who the people elected. i am not worried about going in there and abolishing the epa in the sense that we are going to get rid of the obama administration, put in people who share the values of the people in this room, understand that we are responsible to be good stewards

but we are not slaves to creation. we manage and store creation, not the other way around. -- steward creation, not the other way around. [applause] we act responsibly and care and conserve our resources. we also utilize them as we were supposed to do, as we have dominion. [applause] right? [applause] it is a different philosophical viewpoint. here is the problem. i am not going to be president for -- at most, eight years. what do we have to do? abolishing a department does not do anything. changing a lot does. eliminating the laws do. [applause]

what i have done is not a sound bite. it is a way to fix this problem. we have to go through all of these laws and look at the flexibility that these laws give regulators to make new laws. the obamacare bill has 700 places where it says it gives opposition to the secretary of health to create legislation to rewrite obamacare. it gives broad discretion, that is the problem. look at what happened in charleston with boeing. here is a classic example where if you look at what an unfair labor practice is, it is anything they say it is.

congress did not want to get specific into the top job of saying what it should be. -- and do the tough job of saying what it should be. if we redo the act and have specific things that say you cannot claim an unfair labor practice because the business locate a facility in some other state where they have a better opportunity to make a product, that should be in a lot. it is not. -- profit, that should be in the law. it is not paid as these come up for reauthorization,-- it is not. as these come up for reauthorization, and we will make sure these changes occur or we will veto them. [applause] yes, ma'am.

>> welcome. >> thank you. >> as the nominee for president, are you prepared to go toe to toe with obama? >> i hope you got an impression of that today. i believe in running a campaign that talks about the issues, that hobbs of the differences between candidate. -- that talks about the differences between candidates. we did not go out and make claims that are not actually based. -- factually based. we do not have to make up things. a lot of candidates have been upset about of the romney and what he has been doing -- about governor romney and what he has been doing.

romney and in which have been running a hard-campaign. -- and newt gingrich have been running a hard campaign. fine. if you do it legitimately, that is fine. i think congressman gingrich has made the point that governor romney has not been accurate. i have just run into this today. he has ed out that says-- has an ad out that says i voted. i did vote that someone who is a felon, who served their time, who came out of fitial, after all of that sentencing, they could go out and apply to have their voting rights renew. ed. governor romney has said it rick

santorum is for felons voting. that is a lie. there are only two states that do not allow that. to mislead the people as to what our record is on this is yuck. why would we? i expect that from barack obama. i did not expect that from a republican running for president. we are better than that. [applause] yes, sir. >> i want to ask you a question about the event. -- defense. obama is doing the same thing. with all the issues we have with the arab spring, iran, china

building a navy, all the other issues in the world, maybe i am wrong, tammy, that is the novo one job of the federal government -- to me, that is the number one job of the federal government. [applause] >> it is the note 01 responsibility of the federal government. -- number one responsibility of the federal government. if you talk about the principal responsibility of the federal government, the first is to keep the state from foreign aggressors. if you look at the problems in this country, as far as spending, i get a kick out of congressman paul and says the reason the budget is going out of whack is because the military

complex and all the spending in defense. it is not true. 50 years ago, but that comprise 60% of the federal budget -- defense comprised 60% of the federal budget. today, it is 20%. if something has gone to 20%, why would someone say that is the problem? it is not the problem. the problem is entitlement spending, domestic discretionary spending, interest on the national debt. all of that has grown. not defense spending. what we need to look at is, why is the president of the united states taking the area of the budget that is not growing and targeting that as the only place he is willing to cut? the only place he is willing to go after? he has half a trillion dollars

so far. another half a korean dollars he has proposed. he has proposed -- half a trillion dollars he has proposed. he is trying to manage the decline of the military. why? he does not think america is a source for good in the world. he wants america to pull back. he believes america is not a positive influence on the world. we would be better off, the world would be better off without america. that is what the president's policies in the kit. what he does believe is the welfare state-- policies indicate. what he does believe it is the welfare state should get bigger. 100 years ago, -- look at the

british empire today. why? just like so many countries, you have leaders who have lost faith with the people. we start to look inwardly read and understanding how we are and project out. -- rather than understanding how great we are and projecting out. it is a declining idea of america. it is an america with fewer people, few were resources, more government control. oft is barack obama's view america, one that is pitting one group against another. does that sound like america to you? >> no. >> we need a leader who

understands the role of the american military. i want to cut $5 trillion at out of the american budget. we are not going to take that out of the military. we are going to keep the american military strong. [applause] i am the only republican candidate that has said i will not cut the military. everyone else as it is on the table. it is not on the table. -- everyone else says it is on the table. it is not on the table. [applause] everyone else has no national security experience. i served eight years. i work on national security legislation, foreign-policy legislation. for eight years, i was a ranking member for a short period of time or a chairman. everyone of those national

defense authorization act that we pass, one a year, we were able to pass a bill, our portion of the bill every year. not one time did my ranking member, who happened to be joe aneberman, ever have amendment on the floor. we were able to work together and build a strong national security coalition. people think that cannot happen anymore. it can if you have folks who want to work to gather and believe in the basic values of this country. we did that. it should be done. it must be done with national security. it is too important to be otherwise. one last question. >> welcome to south carolina.

with the job issue in the state and all over the country, why has the keystone pipeline project been swept under the carpet? it is 20,000 jobs right off the bat. >> the question is on the keystone pipeline. i support the keystone pipeline being built. go look at the mouth of the oil and gas pipelines running the same route. there are hundreds of them. the idea that one more will be injurious is silly. it is politics. it is that the core of every decision president obama makes. political decisions for one group, what he needs to support his campaign. it is a coalition of different special interest. that is his campaign. in this case, it is in criminalists.

it is not about reducing oil prices -- in this case, it is environmentalists. it is not about reducing oil prices. it is about winning the election. it is about power. it is about with the kings and emperors used to do. they would tell you, such they love you and did everything to control you and keep power in their hands. that is the obama model. -- they would tell you that they love you and did everything to control you and keep power in their hands. that is the obama model. open up and more -- anwar, offshore, a deepwater. [applause] weekend drill and drive energy prices down. -- weekend drill and drive energy prices down. look at natural gas prices. we were building a liquefied

natural gas terminals. now the natural gas prices are $2.70. why? if you listen to barack obama in his energy speeches, all he talks about is the way to solve the energy problem is to get you to put more air in your tires and drive smaller cars, do all these things on the demand side. economics 101, he only took economics 50.5. [laughter] he forgot about this thing called supply. it can decrease the cost of things. he does not want more supply. pennsylvania has the second- largest natural gas field in the world. we're drilling new wells every year.

that is why natural gas is as cheap as it has ever been in this country. it is dirt cheap. heating prices are coming down. electric prices will come down. the markets work if you let them. that is the difference between a clear contrast envision -- division -- a clear, contrasting visions with someone willing to go toe to toe with barack obama. there are six candidates in this race. only one has ever gone toto with a democratic incumbent and one -- twice -- and won -- twice -- me. [applause] once in the house in congress and the 60% democratic district

and once in the senate against incumbent in a state with 500,000 more registered democrats than republicans. you ask them if i was tough enough to go up against them and take out an incumbent democrat. i was able to win another congressional seat the 70% democrat. when i ran for reelection for the senate in pennsylvania, i won by six. we have won tough races in tough states building coalitions. we win those states, you can go to bed. it is over. [applause] it is up to you, south carolina. you will speak on saturday. will you reflect your values?

are you going to make the boat as to what america needs in the most important election in our history? are you going to compromise and go with what the pundits say on who will win? will you vote like you did in 1980? in 1980, you had a choice to make between the establishment candidate or the hard-core conservative, this rabble rousing hard-core guy named ronald reagan. south carolina voted for reagan before he was the reagan we now remember. you saw something in him and said yes, this is what america needs now. you gave reagan the chance to be the reagan we know. everyone says there will never be another reagan.

back in 1980, there was not another reagan. but south carolina stood tall, voted its values, it gave america what south carolina fought american needed -- thought america needed. it made all the difference. do the right thing for our country. god bless you. [applause] thank you. it is good to see you. thank you for coming. thank you. i like the sweater-vest. thanks for coming out.

doyle said. did you get the picture? i appreciate your help. -- go ahead. >> can we take a picture of you? >> we wish you the best. >> thank you. you are on tv. everybody is watching you on national tv. [laughter] you can look at yourself. >> how do you think -- the endorsements in texas? >> we feel good about that. the conservatives are coalescing around a campaign. that is good for south carolina and as we go forward.

this was the third state. we have a long way to go. thank you. >> you have my vote. >> thank you. >> do you remember mike? >> wonderful. hey, jeff. how are you? how are you doing? >> can i get a picture? >> sure.

>> thank you, sir. >> let me do this real quick. there you go. >> it is good to see you. >> a wonderful guy from florence. >> let me get it right. she is a coquette. >> god wants you there. >> help us out. i want to see good numbers from south carolina. help us out with more votes. get some more for us.

thank you. thank you, ladies. it is good to see you all. small business. it is good to see you guys. thank you. how are you? thank you so much. they want me to sign andre's butt. >> is andre here? >> there you go, buddy. an excuse?

>> it is educational. >> you want a note? >> going to the debate, free pass. >> what is your name? there you go. >> santorum nation. >> thank you. >> where am i taking it? thank you. bless you. now they know. a woman ahead of her time. there you go. >> we're getting all the candidates to sign it. >> there you go. >> good luck.

>> thank you. >> fell last one. then we have to head back to myrtle beach. -- the last one. thank you, south carolina. take care. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012]

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[indistinct chatter] >>, tomorrow, our road to the white house coverage continues. we will hear remarks from candidates and their allied -- wives, starting at 7:00 -- 11:00 a.m. eastern. they will be inching questions from a group of moms at a myrtle beach. >> the south carolina primary is

saturday, january 23. since 1980, the winner has gone on to be the republican presidential nominee. we take you to the event. >> i think you have to say, this has been a failed presidency. he did not try to make it bad, he did not know what to do. >> we have a message that is going to appeal across this nation and in the states that are necessary for us to win this nation. >> candidates get their message out and meet voters. >> another one where we do not know what we are accomplishing. we do not know why we aren't there. >> we are going to use our national security, our elements of power. we need to make sure they are in our national security interest. >> i heard the love dogs. the you want to hold her? >> take a picture.

we will put it on our web site. >> find more resources at the campaign website. read the latest from political reporters and people like you at c-span.org/campaign2012. >> i believe it is important to emphasize that while it is great to have this memorial to his memory, and it is great to have a national holiday, and it is great to have schools and hospitals named in his honor, it is also important to not place too much emphasis on martin luther king the idle, but not enough of this is on martin luther king, jr., the ideals. >> take a look at martin luther king jr. online at the c-span video library. video library.