to achieve anything like that in the next few minutes but i understand how he built this church. let me say that i am thrilled that we have young people from the rock springs christian academy. i believe that day, personify three principles that we should start with to talk about where we are and what we are doing. the first is, at its best, an election were free society -- should be worthy of the young people who are going to be our future. the fact is that the next time you see one of these dishes, negative ads, ask yourself, why would they do that when we have a chance to have an honest, positive conversation about what we need to get done to help the young people of america have a better future.

second -- the fact that they go to a christian academy is a good reminder of what the founding fathers had in mind. the northwest ordinance was written by the original congress of the articles of confederation in 1787 to organize ohio, illinois, indiana, michigan and part of wisconsin. it said that religion, morality, and knowledge, being important -- you need schools. this was brought to my intention in the visitors' center -- one of the secular, anti-religious staff added to this to take out the first three words, and put out knowledge being important within the schools. but this is not with the

founding fathers wrote. they wrote it that religion, morality, and knowledge are important. and they would have always said, if you have to choose between character and memorizing, choose character. character shapes the person for a lifetime. all too often, the modern school system and the anti- religious bias teaches situation ethics -- a lack of any kind of values approach, which is leading more people to seek an alternative education. something that fits the values of the founding fathers. with morality as one of the benchmarks with which we build our education. i am happy they can grow up in a context that fits the founding fathers. we will be deciding, this fall, what kind of america they will

grow up in. we are faced today with the most radical president in american history. [applause] i think his vision of america -- and the values that he believes in, and the way in which he interprets reality all represent a radically different future from what the founding fathers had in mind. i wear, as a reminder, this is the commander in chief pen, this is the flag of that washington flu at valley forge. washington was the commander of the american army for many years, only spending one week at mount vernon in eight years. he was in the field against the greatest empire in the world.

when the constitutional convention met, they asked him to provide -- preside over this. when they asked him to write that he would be the commander in chief, he had a very good understanding of the word, commander in chief. there were presided over by someone who had been a commander in chief. let me say a couple of things about being a commander in chief. the men and women who served under you, -- when they are killed, you do not apologize to the enemy. [applause]

when you have enemies who were determined to try to kill you, you owe it to the american people to tell the truth, about the people who are opposing us. we have been systematically misled -- this is much deeper than obama. we had the same problem with the state department under bush. there is a willful refusal to be honest about the people who want to kill us. we have to have an honest discussion. when churches are burned in nigeria, do we get an apology? no. when churches are burned in egypt, do we get an apology? when they refused to allow a church or synagogue in the entire country, do we complain about bigotry?

when the number of christians in iraq dropped to 500,000 -- and 700,000 christians flee the country, how can we call that a victory? how can we feel good about that experience, when a christian minister is sentenced to death as he was last week, where is the government? what complaint are we making? what are we doing about religious bigotry? and when the government that we are sustaining with soldiers who we are paying -- equipping and training kills young americans, we have a president who apologizes. this is disgraceful. this is exactly the wrong thing to do. [applause] if this election was about

nothing else, it should be about the choice between strength and appeasement. between standing up for the young people in uniform and apologizing to the enemy, about telling the truth about those who want to destroy us in being afraid to look the truth in the face. this election is about much more than that. this is the most anti-religious administration in american history. it is not just a war on the catholic church. they wanted to redefine what a religious person was. there were so off the mark because -- when you get the supreme court telling you that you are wrong, do you know how wrong he has to be to lose 9-0? [applause]

and i want to promise all of you, on the very first day, if i end up as the nominee and we win the election and i become president, this is up to god and the american people -- if this happens, on the first day, shortly after the inauguration, i will repeal every single anti-religious act of bigotry by this administration. [applause] let's be very clear. the elite media has done everything to totally distort

what is at stake over the battle over religious liberty. this is not about the fight over contraception, this is about if the government can impose on a religious institution -- this is why they thought -- it established the principle that they were slaves and the british parliament could do whatever it wanted without their boat, or their voice and they said, we will not become slaves. we will stand for what we believe in because that is the cost of freedom. [applause] what is at stake in this fight is the principles, if obama can tell you the insurance you have to buy, he will tell you what york -- what car you can drive, where does this stop? they will tell us what words we are allowed to use, they say it is a hate crime to describe a

person who wants to kill you. this is not for me. in the road to serfdom, centralized planning leads to dictatorship. this is george o. -- or well, in "1984." -- george orwell, in "1984." he fought the dictatorship began with your mind. they could not let you know the truth. this is the kind of fight we are in today. we are in this with the elite media and the academic world, as we are with obama. every one of those groups have people in them who would gladly live in a country that has forgotten where our rights came from.

i got involved in this in 2002, when the ninth circuit court ruled that the pledge of allegiance was unconstitutional. i decided that with such an anti-american decision -- that somebody had to systematically start doing something. you'll find a 54 page paper on how to rebalance do -- the judiciary based on nine years of work. i am tired of the 50-year offensive, that has tried to drive got out of our lives. [applause] we did a movie about pope john paul going to -- poland. it is amazing.

the polish communist dictatorship would not allow prayer in school. i wanted to think about a government so anti-religious. do you realize the polish communist dictatorship kept tearing down crosses? i want you to think about a government, -- that would say that the cross -- in san diego had to come down, and that the mojave desert cross from 1984 had to come down. we should not kid ourselves. we are at a crossroads in american history. a crossroads in defining who we are. we are the people whose creators themselves -- they created america. this was an ideal. they said that we held -- we hold these truths to be self-

evident. they wanted to understand the truth of god. this was a radical idea. we did not always live up to this. we had slavery and women had a secondary role for a long time. but now we are the most open society in the history of the human race to allow people to participate and pursue happiness, no matter where they come from, when they become american. they have enormous opportunities they did not have at home. [applause] the central principle of american exceptional ism, which i am qantara barack obama does not understand, we are endowed by our creator, with certain

inalienable rights, to pursue life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. this is vital at three levels. it was asserted that god is each one of you, personally. power comes from god, to you. the government never loans power to you. this is the opposite of the obama model. he believes in the european system, or the government is a system of power and we are merely subjects. we believe in the american system, where we are citizens and the government should be our servant. fundamentally different. [applause] they asserted that these rights are available. that means no president, no judge, no bureaucrat can come between you and god.

that is why his decisions are such a threat to the very survival of our civilization. it gives the government power to come between us and god, and that is totally unacceptable in this country. [applause] and finally, among these are the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. happiness in the 18th century, this meant -- wisdom and virtue, not hedonism and acquisition. and you are not guaranteed happiness. you are guaranteed the right to pursue. there is no concept among the founding fathers that there should be happiness stamps for the under happy -- there was no suggestion that we needed a

federal department of happiness to the annual happiness assessment, -- [applause] and if you had said -- that someday a politician will say, i will take from the overly happy and i will redistribute to the underlay happy -- the founding fathers would have said, what kind of arrogance would believe that someone thinks they know enough and have the right to judge each and every american's right to be happy and then to decide which ones they will take from and which they will give too? this is not freedom, this is a dictatorship. [applause]

here we are. we stand at the edge with these young children, and they will find out in their lifetime, courage that we have, how much discipline that we have and how willing that we are to do what it takes. the fact is, america hangs in the balance. those young men and women and risking their lives across the planet deserve from us, they deserve the kind of commitment to reestablish a historic america based on power from god and to repudiate, decisively, the anti-religious bigotry, and the anti-american bigotry of the elites who have lost sight of who we are and what we do. thank you very much.

[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> thank you so very much. you may be seated. as we think about america and this great nation that we live in, and think about the signers of the declaration of independence. you realize that 47 of the signers had a seminary degrees. 93% of them were from a christian church. within eight years of signing that declaration, they started 121 bible societies. we were founded on the right

stuff. [applause] i would like to do one thing. this was not part of the program. around here, it goes with the flow. [laughter] and that with the speaker, i met with the -- i met with the speaker, i met with the speaker a year and a half ago. i started to say, i do not know if he remembers it, but it riyadh, he remembers everything. i met with him in a private room. we spent two hours, we spent two hours praying in discussing things. he said something to me, he said, i am willing to surrender 10 years of my life. he said, you know, it would

really be easier for us to walk away. but i am grateful you did not. [applause] i would like you to come and stand here. i would like you to come and stand beside him. i would like you to come in stand behind him. one of the greatest presidents in our nation was abraham lincoln. abraham lincoln said this, "i have been driven to my knees by an overwhelming conviction that i had nowhere else to go.

my wisdom and all about me seemed insufficient for the day. -- day." that is where we are at. my wisdom and all about me seemed insufficient for the day. what i would like for us to do, i would like you to join your heart. i want us to do something. i thought, what is the greatest thing we can do for speaker gingrich and his wife? i thought, we could pray for him. so let us pray. our most kind, gracious, heavenly father, i thank you for this day. i thank you for speaker gingrich, mrs. gingrich, and their commitment, their love for you and our country. i am grateful that they have

stepped forward. i pray protection upon their lives as they travel all over our nation. i pray that you will give the mercy. i pray that he will keep them safe. the scripture says, but they that wait upon the lord shall renew their strength. they shall mount up as eagles. they shall run and not be weary. they should walk and not faint. many times we should get tired. i pray you help them when they are weary. i pray you give them strength. i ask you to give them supranatural favor. if any man lech wisdom, let him ask of god. i pray your wisdom, i pay your guidance the palms beautiful couple. i pay for the speaker's two daughters, son-in-law's, and

grandchildren. i pray that you will bless them. i pray you will keep them. make your face to shine upon them, and be gracious to them. lift your countenance upon them. made a spirit your peace. if we pay this, -- pray this, thinking you for america, for the land of the free, for the home of the brave. we pray this in the name of your son, jesus, the limb of glory -- lamb of glory. until you come and we pray, amen.

now, i need you to do me a favor. i need you to do me a favor. the speaker has a commercial slot. he is going to be in my home state tomorrow. he is going to be in tennessee. we are excited about him being there. he can only stay so long. when he has to leave, but the conscientious and say, he has to go. if he misses his flight, he will not make it. we are going to have the speaker here. when he has to go, when his people say, this beeper -- the speaker has got to go, he would stay all night if he could. when the speaker says, i have got to go, let's allow him to go. god bless you for being here.

thank you for this. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] [no audio] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

>> we will continue with live coverage monday night with a campaign rally for rick santorum. he will be addressing supporters in michigan. that gets underway at 7:30 p.m. eastern on c-span 3. looking at some of the primary contests coming up, on tuesday, michigan and arizona residents had to the poll. 59 delegates are at stake. on march 3, washington hosts their caucuses. the following tuesday, super tuesday, 11 republican contest

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you are listening to the news and weather station. >> next weekend, a book tv and american history tv explore shreveport, louisiana. gary joiner on the louisiana army's failure. a look at the over two hundred thousand books of the john smith and number collection. then a walking tour of two cities with neil johnson. on american history tv, sunday at 5:00 p.m. eastern, from the airport space, a look at the base's role on 9/11 to mark the history of the b-52 bomber. also, visit the founding fathers autograph collection. and, medical treatments during

the civil war. next weekend on c-span to and c- span 3. >> virginia republican governor bob mcdonnell joined us sunday to talk about his support for mitt romney. he also spoke about the virginia bill that would require women to get an ultrasound before having an abortion. >> we are here at the national governors' association winter meeting with the governor of virginia, of macdonald. good morning. the headline today says that the national spotlight turns heart -- harsh amid abortion debate. is this going to hurt the republican party with women voters and independent voters? >> despite what you read, we are focused on jobs and economic development and transportation,

economic reform. that is the agenda i laid out six weeks ago. we are focused on protecting innocent human life and providing women more information. there are bills that have attracted a lot of attention. the things we are focusing on have to do with fiscal and job and transportation and other issues. there is always a controversy, there are different things. we believed in standing up for the right to innocent human life. >> why did you change your position? >> i did not change my position. it was not my bill. during the course of the process, the 2000 bills or so, we recommended a change. it made it clear the state was not going to require any invasive medical procedure. i did not think that was right. a practice that was not necessary because doctors do

those things anyway. i thought it was a clarification. it is still a requirement to have an ultrasound. they will have the full right to know all of the information available. it was accepted by one house. i think it will be accepted by the other. it will help women have information. >> you have endorsed mitt romney for president. yesterday, you said a lot of americans are seeing him as a ceo and not connecting with him. if he loses the michigan primary, what does it mean for his campaign? >> he is not going to lose. he has really turned the corner up there. he is a ceo, that is a good thing. people have gotten that impression and have not connected on an emotional basis. that is what they know they need. we do not have a ceo. we have someone who is playing the blame game. no plans on energy, on jobs, and

debt reduction. we do not have leadership. i think people want to see a sea of. they are connecting with him because he has a great record. he attended the olympics around. this is the kind of person we need to lead right now. >> make that one on one connection. >> there is so much passion. we want to win very badly because we see this leftward lurch. there is more big government, taxes, regulation, intervention, less energy, lost jobs. we are not happy with the direction of the country. people want a candidate with passion. we have had five front-runners in six months. there is a searching that is going on. this is ok. it may take a little bit longer. obama and clinton begich and up until june, in 2008.

>> -- beat each other up until june in 2008. >> governors of pick sometimes to be vice president candidates. what qualities does a vice- presidential candidate need to have? >> you are talking about the guy who has the job held by thomas jefferson. i am in love with my job. it is up to the candidates. sometimes they find someone who might supplement that things that they're résume or characteristics minded couple met in of. it is a -- characteristics might need. you want someone who will be a good messenger. if i was making the call, it is not my call, i will leave it to you. >> governor bob macdonald, also

chairman of the governors association, thank you so much. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> governors gathered for day two of their annual winter meeting. one topic, a limit in childhood hunger. among the guests were tom vilsack and representatives from walmart. this is about an hour and 10 minutes. >> all right, the meeting of the national governors' association education and early childhood development and work force is called to order. we will see some more filter in has the original meetings conclude which has been going on. i am the governor of arkansas and chairman of this committee and honored to be joined by our vice chairman, governor bill has

learned from tennessee. together, i think we have enjoyed this committee over the last several months. a bit of housekeeping -- those of you who have yourself owns on, please put them on vibrate or silent or something else. we have one of our own weapons, the secretary of agriculture is a governor, too, or used to be a governor. he can appreciate what is going on with most of us better perhaps than most folks involved in the federal government and we are grateful that he is here. briefing books for this meeting were sent to governors in advance and can be found and a blue binder in front of you. they have the agenda and background information and updates. you all known for joan wodiska. she makes the members of the nga look good. she is so confident and we will

hear from three distinguished panelists and after their formal remarks of our panelists, we will have the opportunity to have a discussion with questions and answers and comments. i am looking forward to today's discussion and i did most of the folks here will be as well. as governors, one of our greatest and most solemn duties i think is to promote education and the well-being of our nation's children. one of the impediments to that is security. 10% of the children in the united states today are about 8.5 million children are food insecure. that means at times, the quality, variety, and the quantity of children's meals are inadequate. this is a serious threat for every state. this undermines the economic vitality of our states because hungry children have a much tougher time learning. i am personally involved in this topic and have devoted a substantial amount of time and resources to this issue in our

on stage. freedom from hunger is a fundamental and basic human needs. as governors, we are uniquely positioned to draw attention to this issue and bring people together to end childhood hunger. we have the bully pulpit and our respective states to be able to call the attention. lack of proper nutrition during school year or seven months contributed to a cycle of poor performance. numerous studies show that when a child's nutritional needs are met, the child is more attentive in class, as better attendance, demonstrates fewer disciplinary problems, and shows better academic performance. properly nourished children are active her participants and the education experience which benefit to them, their fellow student, and the entire school community. governors across the country are working to eliminate child under through a broad range of innovativet ofhe nga meeting in 2010,"share our strength"talked

to me about childhood hunger in my own state which had the highest percentage of children classified as food insecure. that was then and is still unacceptable to me. it undoubtedly is to all other governors. we share our strength approach and we signed on and started: no kid hungry campaign in arkansas, we have made significant strides to improve access to the programs that provide nutritious food for children and for their parents. that means our kids will perform better in school and have a brighter futures and most importantly, it means kids will have enough to eat and will not go to bed hungry. the campaign has cost arkansas level. -- little. they invested private money to develop an infrastructure and we of -- we developed a coalition of business leaders in education professionals and others with strengths to share. the lancers as the lead nonprofit agency and might

administration is committed to leading this effort with generous support from corporate partners including wal-mart and others, is working to increase participation in federal food and nutrition programs. that includes school breakfasts, some meals and enrollment in the supplemental nutrition assistance program. it is working. the caseload was increased. we did this by training volunteers and staff of more than 50 local agencies in outrage. -- outreach. in 2010, we served 263,000 more meals at summer feeding sites than we did during the previous year. we did this by courting the efforts of our state agencies and increasing the number of sites where kids could get a meal during the summertime. we have added 71 additional

after-school programs and we serve an additional 88,000 meals in the first month. under my watch leadership, who launched an even help the program to support a new breakfast in the classroom program. anecdotally, one of the impediments to breakfast in the classroom was the stigma. more often than not, a lot of young people who were eligible and needed breakfast in the classroom were reluctant because of peer to peer stickman pressure. by providing it and making it available for all the children, notwithstanding their social or economic status, it removes the stigmata and allows a greater opportunity for greater participation. we have to make it a priority in childhood hunger and it is our responsibility that our kids and their families have those resources by making sure no kid goes hungry. we can elevate not just the

basic need but also that educational opportunity and that learning achievement. i would like to ask our vice chairman, governor chairmanhaslam from nine neighboring state of tennessee for any opening remarks that he would have. >> thank you, governor. [inaudible] [unintelligible] a promise to share back. what i was trying to say is this is my third nga meeting and we primarily bragg and we still. we brag about how well we are doing and we still good ideas from other folks.

i think the governor beebe gave us a taste of that. we plan to do vote today. this session comes at an important time for us. congress in 2010, passed the healthy under free kids act to which we authorized our nation's child feeding program. we have the honor today of being joined by our secretary and former iowa governor pierre tom vilsack who will offer his unique perspective on the role that governors would peg in addressing childhood hunger as well as opportunities for state and the federal government to parker as a look at the new child nutrition laws. we'll hear from representatives from two major companies who are leading efforts to partner with governors to solve childhood under issues. one of the opportunities we have today is to understand better how we can create and leverage public's-private partnerships or maybe it is as simple as part 9 with wal-mart

or dominion to address child under issues. with that, i will introduce our very first honored guest. he seems to be on a downward trending career path. he is now the secretary of agriculture but at one time he was a governor and before that he was a mayor. you're definitely heading the wrong way career-wise. he is the 30 as secretary of agriculture and was appointed by the president in january of 2009. one of the things he is working on as revitalizing our rural communities. i am fairly certain your states like tennessee in that our biggest economic challenges tend to be in the rural areas. the former governor understands that well and i think it is one of his well-placed praise and serving our natural resources and providing a safe and nutritious food supply. he is targeting child under and obesity, things we know are both a larger issues to our

country prior to this, he served two terms as the governor of ohio and before that was a state senator and mayor of mt. pleasant, iowa. mr. secretary, on behalf of the nation's governors, welcome back. >> thanks very much. it is an honor to be here today. i know how important these meetings are and certainly appreciate the opportunity to be back as the -- at the nga which is a great organization and a great opportunity to talk about common goals. we share with governors a deep concern about the future of our children. nutrition is an extraordinarily important aspect of a child's first years. it is important that children receive interest as food and we are doing our best at the usda to make that happen. when i was first asked to take this job a president obama, the first set of instructions and directions he gave to me after he offered me this opportunity

was to make sure that children were well fed her that was his first direction. we notice statistics and they are startling. we have youngsters who are food insecure and living in food insecure house but we have nearly one/story of our children being obese or near obese. we have been very aggressive at usda. we have been spending the last year since the passage of an acting the rules and regulations that will govern. this is the first update in milstead is that has taken place within the last 15 years. is the first non-inflationary increase in 30 years in schools and we estimate that over the course of the tenures of the act, roughly $3.2 billion will be provided to schools to provide better access to meals and more nutritious meals. we also recognize the important role that states play in the administration and oversight of

these programs which is why the bill provided for nearly $100 million to state to defray administrative expenses. it is designed in part to better correlate the standards for these mills that youngsters are receiving at school with the dietary guidelines based on recommendations from the institute of medicine. you will see more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, more low-fat dairy. you will see less sodium, less sugar, and less fat. it has also expanded efforts to try to make the program more streamlined. the use of direct certification is making it easier for schools to administer the program hopefully saving resources. we have also provided for expansion of the program to include foster care children which addresses some of the concerns we had about youngsters who are in transition and

whether this program would be available to them. the foster care child expansion allows that to happen. we have been working on a pilot basis with a number of states to see whether there are ways in which areas that have significant high levels of low income families might be able to get by with not even have an application process because 80%-90% of the students will qualify saving resources for schools. part of this act encourages more physical activity and i would be remiss if i did not acknowledge the first lady's efforts with her let's move the effort. it is not just calories in, it is calorie out. this provides transition time for schools to comply with these requirements. the extra reimbursement this year will kick in beginning next school year for those school districts that are now living up to the standards.

we have some encouragement for schools to participate in the u.s. and healthier school challenge. there's a small monetary reward for schools that comply with the standards of this challenge. requires better nutrition and more physical activity and would encourage the governor's ear to encourage their school districts across the country to apply for participation in this program. it is a very good program and will encourage expansion of food programs for children. this bill also takes into consideration the caloric content for the first time and measures that caloric content based on the age of children we are very much involved in this and we are involved in making these mills a bit more delicious. sometimes good food has been not necessarily presented in the right way. that is why we enlisted chefs from all over the country to come up with innovative and creative recipes to make good food delicious. usda.gov is where you can find recipes and i would encourage schools in your states to take advantage of those new recipes.

in addition to the healthy younger free kids act, the budget also includes $35 million to create a competitive opportunity for the purchase of cafeteria equipment. in order to encourage and improve meals that some schools will need to take a look at the possibility of preparing meals at school but don't have the equipment and we are hopeful this grant program could help over 10,000 schools provide equipment. let me say a couple of things about the times when school is not in session. this is one of the critical periods of time where we all face and that is one of the reasons we have begun to partner with a theme-based organizations to see if we can expand the number of summer feeding sites. schools -- students are in school for 180 days per year but not in the weekends or during summer vacation. we have expanded significantly

the number of participants in our summer feeding programs. we will continue to do that and continue to provide resources for that. it is fairly clear that we have to reach out to the non-profit private sector to assist us. we have to figure out ways in which we go to where the youngsters are as opposed to having youngsters come to where the food is. in my small town of mount pleasant or my children were raised, during the summer, i could found most of the kids in one of two places -- at the ballpark at a little league game or at the swimming pool. we need to figure out ways where we can potentially have mobile food opportunities that would provide nutritious snacks to youngsters. we are heavily engaged in trying to improve the messages we sent through our vending machines in schools. we will be forthcoming in the near future with the standards for competitive foods in schools.

despite the concerns about bake sales, we will not limit itself. we understand that is important. if you have a vending machine, we want to make nutritious choices easy choice and we found that indeed, youngsters will react favorably to nutritious snacks and they will continue to buy from those attending machines. -- of those vending machines. we will continue to work with schools on continuing education. schools have been facing difficult budgets and are looking into ways in which they can streamlines course selections. sometimes that selection involved nutrition education. we are encouraging folks to find creative ways during the lunch hour to provide educational opportunities to youngsters. there is no reason why the cafeteria work force cannot provide some degree of assistance in this area. we know there are a number of schools actively looking at this type of concept. we are also working with schools to make it easier for

them to link up with producers in their area giving schools greater capacity to use geographic preference in the selection of foods so that if farmers and ranchers are producing food in the local area that that could create a new market opportunity for them. it could still keep the wealth by them in the community and provide safe and nutritious food for youngsters. let me just finish by saying that we are very committed to working with the states as best we can within the confines and restrictions that congress has provided in the healthy younger free kids act. the snap program is one where we're working with states and have seen a significant increase in the enrollment and part of that is because states

are doing a better job of out -- i want to commend the governors for their efforts. we have seen the result of people learning about these programs that they are beginning to sign up for. i am proud of the fact that the error rate in this program working with governors across the country is at its lowest level in the history of the program. the fraud rate is at its lowest rate in the history of the program. we continue to try to maintain the integrity of this program but also make sure it gets to the folks who are in need. the snap program is remarkable, roughly 46 million people receiving benefits, and the interesting thing about those benefits, only 8% of the people receiving benefits are on cash welfare 92% are not. that means that you are providing resources to senior citizens, to working men and women, and two children and to people with disabilities. those four groups make up the

92%. a lot of these recipients are children. in addition, for every dollar that is invested in this program, $1.90 of economic activity is generated. it makes sense that more food is being purchased, more food has to be stocked, shelled, package, processed, so it affects all down the line for it is one the reasons why nsap is used -- snap because 90% of benefits are spent within 90 days of being received. it is an important -- is a program that is important to maintain and ensure the to integrity and we are conscious of that. we have enjoyed working with the governors and we appreciate the state's efforts and better out reach and look forward to the opportunity to answer questions you may have. >> thank you, mr. secretariat i am gratified about your sensitivity and emphasis to the

summer feeding program. it is an area that all us need to expend as much help in the private and public sector as is possible. i recall an article or at least a chapter from the books"the outlyers," that had a chart demonstrating the three economic groups and their relative test scores. they tested these grade school children at the end of may and divided the class with high income, median income, and blue -- and low income children and the scores in those three groups were relatively the same. there was very little difference between the test scores and all three groups at the end of the school year. they tested the same kids in august after the summer had been completed and it was a marked difference between the test scores in the low income

students and the medium and upper income students. part a that can be attributed to a number of reasons separate and apart from nutrition to the extent that we all believed that the kid that as congress does not learn or a kid that is hungry does not progress or a kid that some great might regress, there has to be some element of nutrition and food insecurity in those -- during the summer months that contribute to some of those statistics. your attention, the department's attention, to the summer program is greatly appreciated. i think all the governors recognize there is more we can do and more the private sector can do and we will hear from them in a little bit. they have been wonderful in terms of trying to augment the summer issue. i have a question and then i'm sure everybody else has questions -- i am concerned about what is in the built with

the minimum price for school lunches that are paid for by children who don't qualify for the program. i and understand the bill calls for $2.46 but you gradually get there with incremental increases. i am worried about whether or not this can have a chilling affect on some the families that might just be above the borderline and whether or not we will see a drop in the participation in the school lunch programs. i also worried little about the relative difference in the cost of living. if someone has an $80,000 per your job in manhattan that has a inevitably less buying power than the same in kentucky or in arkansas or other places. a static figure that does not take those considerations -- goes into considerations is a discrepancy.

will there be any consideration given to the relative differences in terms of the effect on families? >> that is a great question. the reason why congress included this was based on experiences in schools, we were finding that the school districts were basically using the free and reduced reimbursement to subsidize fully paid males. that was a concern that congress needed to address. they tended to do this and a gradual way by -- to the extent that milk prices had to increase forkful paid students and it would do so over a period of time and not increase dramatically in one year. the theory is that perhaps by doing this, you will actually have the reek -- be adequate resources in that program combined with the reimbursement

level increase to provide more nutritious food for all youngsters. we will monitor this. we don't want to discourage participation in the program. at the same time, we want to make sure that folks who need the help get that help and folks who may not necessarily need as much help don't get as much help. we don't want school districts basically using the money from the federal government that is supposed to subsidize the free and reduced lunch folks from basically shortchanging them and providing a lower cost mail for those who can afford to pay. our reimbursement levels tested based on the geographic areas and i will look into that issue that you have raised. we will keep an eye on it but rest assured, the goal here is not to discourage participation. is to make sure the resources are used in the way they were intended. >> i think it is incumbent to provide information to you from

all of us so if we see decrease participation that we don't expect you to find it all out and we should do our part to communicate that information to you we will instruct our people in our state to give us that data and see if there are any trends in that regard. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012]

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the second that i wanted to discuss with the administrator, homeland security programs. over the last several years,

these programs have been cut. making it increasingly difficult for some to maintain national programs. several have been put forward to consolidate them, including ways to provide greater state flexibility in the use of those funds. the most you -- most recent proposal was the budget 13 proposal, consolidating them into a new program. including a change into how states apply for, received, and measure the grant funds. we will continue to work on the legislative strategy, working with congress and the a administration that your

priorities are represented before congress and the administration. i am happy to answer any questions now or in session. >> thank you for the update. i would point out that you have allowed us to condense the policy and, in this case, less is more, so thank you very much. question, governor? >> no, it was an excellent presentation. thank you very much. i hope that we will not leave before making a decision. i understand the council of governors has a specific task in front of it. perhaps we need to make sure that we do not operate at cross purposes with the council of governors.

absent a resolution of that possible dilemma, we would have to come to grips with this national guard question. sending the letter will not work unless we come to grips with the question of what congress may or may not do. specifically armed services committees. have you been the chair three years out of time -- having been the chair, i can tell you that they are diligent and are working on it now. in the senate committee, we need to get on it and get on it right now. we need to do something that is more than sending a letter to the staff. i think that we need to ask each member to take it upon himself or herself to get ahold of the congressional delegation.

more specifically, the members of the requisite committees, making sure they understand what needs to be done. the question will come up, where do we get the money? i do not want to hurt anyone's feelings, so obvious that will. we have got to take a look at what works and what does not work. what is useful and what is not. we just did the dual status command. with regard to the arm wrestling that had to go on in northern command, there was an infrastructure that was put together. it is a command in search of a mission. dreamed up in the rooms filled area. -- donald rumsfeld era. it first pulled out of the

existing command. i asked at the time where they were going to get the personnel. i said -- you mean all of the existing commands were 15% over personnel? no, that was not what it was. i said we had to figure out where the money was coming from. my suggestion was needed to take a good, hard look as to whether or not they really needed that, now that we had the dual status command structure set up. norad has been drafted in. this is the jack in the launch response factor. just crafted in there for no other purpose other than to try to find something for the northern command to do. it is a command in search of a

mission. i imagine that every general in here knows what we're talking about. i, for one, and going to do it. there is an infrastructure there. it is in colorado. i think that the effect is probably not that great in terms of the state, but we will have to take a look at it. i do not want to break anyone's rice bowl. by the same token, if we do not come to grips with this, we will wind up on the short end. >> we appreciate your depth of knowledge on this. from my perspective and i think

it is something that should be taken up on monday. i remember that you brought that up in the previous meeting as well. one of the collective messages that we agree upon is the context that we need with the governor's. we support all military. i think that we need to continue that discussion, to put it more in context. >> the first governor, as the chair mentioned, is preparing their own platter for the hill on tuesday. that is already in place. second, i think it is important for us to recognize that secretary panetta had nothing to do with that budget.

give him our message and see what his response is? how can we work together to get back about whether we have a receptive audience in where we go? my position, and i think our position, is not to cut us. what we have always said, the principle that we have set forward, is to work with us. especially when you are undertaking the preparation of a budget. we know that there has to be cuts fairly and equitably. it is a disproportionate tax. it is taking the tax out on the guard.

failing to recognize the local experience level and the lack of expense so, those are the things we want to communicate to the secretary tomorrow and report back to you all what response we got. >> precisely my point. hands off now, and although i can say is the zero shares as well. and i do not see it, or at least i am not aware of it. i may not have my finger in every crossed t and a the

budget, at the moment. presently, doing their fair share with regards to the context of the air guard, who is having to of resorb at this point. all i am saying is that everyone else should do at least as much as what is being asked of the guard. the guard is essentially the vessel that is being dipped into and everyone else is standing around and watching it happen. whether it is northern command or the degree and live with it. generally, they can stay eager to the och and it expressed our perspective as governors and it

will give us an opportunity and monday to have that expression and the guards are born -- important to individual states. and without of such -- without exception, any comment that i got from anyone who had comment -- contact with a guard member was positive. i will tell you other areas of government that i have my finger on. i do not want to say it is not always the case, but it is never the case. those of you men and women who provide such a professional and high-level service, thanks seems inadequate. as i speak to individual governor's governor, thank you.

[applause] >> thank you. i want to thank the other generals as well for your time. to my fellow governors, i hope that you realize, as i do, the

value of continuing this committee. this was a new invention for us. it is where we like to keep committees to a limited number. or the nation that will not happen by itself? to clarify the policy positions. if there is no other business, this completes the session for the day. thank you very much. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012]

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eastern, we'll have closing coverage from the meeting. we'll hear from the vice chair of the nga. that will be on c-span2. virginia republican governor, bob mcdonnell, joined us sunday to talk but his support for a republican presidential candidate, mitt romney. he also spoke about a bill that would require women to get an ultrasound before having an abortion. host: we are here at the national association's governor meeting. bob mcdonnell, could morning. governor, a headline dispatch today that mcdonnell's national spotlight turns harsh amid abortion debate. will this hurt the republican party with women voters and independent voters come fall?

guest: despite were you read some of the papers, is job and economic development, transportation, that is the agenda that i laid out six weeks ago when i give my speech. i believe in the right to life of protecting innocent human life. there's been a couple of bills that got me lot of attention, but overwhelmingly the things we're focusing on have to do with jobs and transportation and other issues. any time we take these imported shoes, of course there are different opinions. -- important issues, of course there are different opinions. host: why did you change your opinion? guest: i did not. i suggested an amendment. we recommended a change. we just want to declare the state will not require an

invasive procedure. that is in regards to legal concerns from my attorney general. i thought it was an important clarification. it is still a requirement to have an ultrasound. the will and will have full right to all the information that is available. is it was accepted by one house, i think it will be excepted by the other. host: you have endorsed mitt romney for president. guest: i have. host: a lot of americans are seeing him as a ceo and not connected with him on an emotional level. if he loses and michigan, what does that mean for the campaign? guest: first of all, he is not going to lose. i think he has turned a corner up there. he is a ceo. that is a good thing. i think stylistically, people ought not gotten that connection. that is what they know we need.

we did not have a ceo right now. we have somebody who was out playing the blame game. no plans on energy, on jobs, on debt reduction. we do not have leadership. i think people want to see a ceo. on an academic level they are connecting to him because he has a record on economic development, spending, he is the kind of president we need to lead. i think there is some of passion in the republican base. we want to win very bad this time because we see this left way that president obama is taking the country. more intervention, less energy, less of jobs. we are not happy about the direction of the country. people want to see a candidate with passion. obviously, a searching that is going on. this is ok.

it may take a little bit longer. i think there'll be a united republican party around mitt romney. host: your the head of the republican association. governors are sometimes pick to be vice president and its spirit what qualifies as a vice president need to have and the selection of particular? guest: i am in love with my job and being head of the republican governors association. that is up to the candidates. i think they sometimes find they will supplement the things were there resident or characteristics might need a little complementing on that is a completely stylistics and generally. you also want someone philosophically in tune with you will be a good messenger for the conservative cause. that is what i would say.

it is not my call. i leave that up to the national pundits. host: governor bob mcdonnell, also chairman of the republican governors association, to a very much. guest: thank you. >> this morning on washington journal, our guests include governor sam brownback. at 8:00 eastern, we'll speak with kenneth goldstein about the latest technologies and customized political advertising and collecting voter information. at 8:45, beryl davis, at the government accountability office will be on to discuss implementing reduction of improper payments. "the wallstreet journal" -- "washington journal" live this morning at 7:00 eastern.

>> this collects the power and then you can charge your iphone, cell phone, all that stuff directly. >> what you are seeing here on this ship, you're actually seeing an area that is 165 million wells. each of which can sequence a small piece. >> the technology itself is using two cameras. one that looks out, and one that looks in the eyes. so we know exactly the person is interested in. >> tonight on "the communicators," a fifth and final visit to the consumer electronics show in las vegas. at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >> republican presidential candidate ron paul was campaigning in michigan on sunday ahead of the state's primary on tuesday. following an event in hudson bill, he spoke with reporters for about chemical -- for about

10 minutes. >> we will take questions. >> hello. >> you talked about cutting a trillion dollars out of the budget. what do you cuts in order to not spend that trillion dollars? >> we documented in our plan. about half comes from overseas and cuts back on militarism, but not defense. we close down all the bases and we just come home. that is a big hunk of money. we go back to 2006 budget line. instead of having automatic increases, ours is to do the opposite. lower the trend line and go back to 2006 and get rid of five departments. this will get you a trillion dollars. >> if you cut spending by a trillion dollars, how long does it take you [inaudible] >> that probably will not shrink thedebt itself. it gets your budget balance in

three years but that is how big the problem is. it stops the bleeding. they are only proposing to tinker around the edges on the proposed increases. now that we have the statistics that are gdp per capita is worse than greece. nobody wants to cut anything. they have been taught that cutting is bad when you are in a recession. >> you have been asked about this a couple of times now. given that you and mitt romney are different in so many anyways, why aren't you going after him harder? >> most of that has been concocted. my first ad was directed towards them as a flip-flopper. he and i do not agree on foreign policy or monetary

policy. i think it is best for my campaign to go after people who are the so-called anti-romney votes. there used to be nine and now there are only four of us. >> you have had to very large rallies so far. will you come to ohio and campaign the same way? >> i am not the best one to ask my exact schedule. it is possible, but i do not know where it is on the schedule. we are thinking about three or four more states that our caucus states.

i know i am going back to the state of washington. i am going to alaska. we have to go where we can pick up delegates. so far, we are doing quite well. >> nato and u.s. have pulled all personnel out of the embassies. [inaudible] how do we reach an agreement with a government that we do not trust? >> there really do not exist. karzei is hardly the government. he could not win an election. it is chaos and we are responsible for much of the chaos. the sooner we get out of there, the better. >> we do not need a strategic partnership? >> someday, they might be more stable and want to talk to us. to think we are going to keep

using troops over there until we get the guy in government that somebody wants, it is not going to work. >> [inaudible] your thoughts on that? >> on virginia? >> you are going on tuesday, aren't you? >> for the rally on tuesday night, yes. that is the case. nobody else is in virginia. it is a tougher job to spend a lot of money state wide. we will go and we will work, but to what extent, i do not know. >> there was a strong showing for you in michigan. >> i have not come up with a

number. just so we get some delegates. >> [inaudible] what is your argument? >> of the appeal and the authority given to the unions under the national relations act. it is called the national right to work act. it is appealing the artificial authority given to unions to have an automatic close shot by a 51% vote. >> [inaudible] what sets you apart as the other candidate? >> most people do not have much trouble figuring that out. first is for a policy, dramatically different. the foreign policy of non intervention. civil liberties, and nobody else is talking about the national defense authorization act or the patriot act. a distinct difference between the other republicans and

democrats as well. the parties are exactly the same. monetary policy, the one that addresses the serious flaw in the monetary system. there is a lot of difference. >> how will those things impact to michigan? >> if they hear the message and understand it, they will be super supportive. i did not see any way we can get out of this mess other than this way. >> [inaudible] gingrich has suggested that mitt romney should drop out. what are your thoughts? >> i do not think it is my place to tell mitt romney when he is supposed to drop out. that is political talk and i do not do too much of that. >> [inaudible]

you were pretty clear during your speech, but just thinking about it, it seems like a daunting task. generations of people are used to this one. >> the daunting problem is continue to do what we do and have run away inflation. the fed is popular and i talk about the fed. my position is not quite that way. the fed will self-destruct and it will disappear sunday. i advocate competition with the fed, allowing parallel currencies to operate the way they do worldwide. you can do that domestically. it loses value, they could save in a gold bond. this is something that allows a transition period it. if we were serious and wanted to move more quickly, you could

look at the history after the civil war. they went off colds in 1861 but they had a restoration act in 1875. they quit printing money, they did not have debt. the gold price went from $200 an ounce to $20 an ounce. bring the troops home and have a different foreign-policy. right now, the best thing is to allow people to use constitutional money. when people try to use gold and silver, they can get arrested. there is no legal definition of a dollar. it used to be defined in terms of gold. if you start using gold and silver as money, you get arrested. ok, very good.

he had a church in detroit for 20 years or so. he was an assistant pastor. he is with me today. >> that is not why you decided to campaign in michigan? >> it was nice that we could come. he does not live too far from here. we have three events tomorrow across the state. >> do you stay with your brother? >> yes, we did. >> good seeing you again. >> thank you, dr. paul. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> you can watch congressman paul's remarks on our website,

c-span.org. >> newt gingrich spoke to supporters at rock springs church on a sunday. but former house speaker is on a campaign bus tour in his home state. the primary is march 6, also known as super tuesday. his remarks are 20 minutes. [applause] [laughter] >> you know, when you have an introduction like that, probably the most wise thing to do is say thank you and sit- down, because that was remarkable. [applause] [laughter] [applause]

i am not going to promise to achieve anything like that in the next few minutes but i understand how he built this church. [laughter] let me say that i am thrilled that we have young people from the rock springs christian academy. i believe that day, personify three principles that we should start with to talk about where we are and what we are doing. the first is, at its best, an election were free society -- should be worthy of the young people who are going to be our future. the fact is that the next time you see one of these dishes, negative ads, ask yourself, why would they do that when we have a chance to have an honest,

positive conversation about what we need to get done to help the young people of america have a better future. [applause] second -- the fact that they go to a christian academy is a good reminder of what the founding fathers had in mind. the northwest ordinance was written by the original congress of the articles of confederation in 1787 to organize ohio, illinois, indiana, michigan and part of wisconsin. it said that religion, morality, and knowledge, being important -- you need schools. this was brought to my intention in the visitors' center -- one of the secular, anti-religious staff added to this to take out

the first three words, and put out knowledge being important within the schools. but this is not with the founding fathers wrote. they wrote it that religion, morality, and knowledge are important. and they would have always said, if you have to choose between character and memorizing, choose character. character shapes the person for a lifetime. all too often, the modern school system and the anti- religious bias teaches situation ethics -- a lack of any kind of values approach, which is leading more people to seek an alternative education. something that fits the values of the founding fathers. with morality as one of the benchmarks with which we build our education. i am happy they can grow up in

a context that fits the founding fathers. we will be deciding, this fall, what kind of america they will grow up in. we are faced today with the most radical president in american history. [applause] i think his vision of america -- and the values that he believes in, and the way in which he interprets reality all represent a radically different future from what the founding fathers had in mind. i wear, as a reminder, this is the commander in chief pen, this is the flag of that washington flu at valley forge. washington was the commander of

the american army for many years, only spending one week at mount vernon in eight years. he was in the field against the greatest empire in the world. when the constitutional convention met, they asked him to provide -- preside over this. when they asked him to write that he would be the commander in chief, he had a very good understanding of the word, commander in chief. there were presided over by someone who had been a commander in chief. let me say a couple of things about being a commander in chief. the men and women who served under you, -- when they are killed, you do not apologize to the enemy. [applause]

when you have enemies who were determined to try to kill you, you owe it to the american people to tell the truth, about the people who are opposing us. we have been systematically misled -- this is much deeper than obama. we had the same problem with the state department under bush. there is a willful refusal to be honest about the people who want to kill us. we have to have an honest discussion. when churches are burned in nigeria, do we get an apology? no. when churches are burned in egypt, do we get an apology? when they refused to allow a

church or synagogue in the entire country, do we complain about bigotry? when the number of christians in iraq dropped to 500,000 -- and 700,000 christians flee the country, how can we call that a victory? how can we feel good about that experience, when a christian minister is sentenced to death as he was last week, where is the government? what complaint are we making? what are we doing about religious bigotry? and when the government that we are sustaining with soldiers who we are paying -- equipping and training kills young americans, we have a president who apologizes. this is disgraceful. this is exactly the wrong thing

to do. [applause] if this election was about nothing else, it should be about the choice between strength and appeasement. between standing up for the young people in uniform and apologizing to the enemy, about telling the truth about those who want to destroy us in being afraid to look the truth in the face. this election is about much more than that. this is the most anti-religious administration in american history. it is not just a war on the catholic church. they wanted to redefine what a religious person was. there were so off the mark because -- when you get the supreme court telling you that you are wrong, do you know how

wrong he has to be to lose 9-0? [applause] and i want to promise all of you, on the very first day, if i end up as the nominee and we win the election and i become president, this is up to god and the american people -- if this happens, on the first day, shortly after the inauguration, i will repeal every single anti-religious act of bigotry by this administration. [applause]

let's be very clear. the elite media has done everything to totally distort what is at stake over the battle over religious liberty. this is not about the fight over contraception, this is about if the government can impose on a religious institution -- this is why they thought -- it established the principle that they were slaves and the british parliament could do whatever it wanted without their boat, or their voice and they said, we will not become slaves. we will stand for what we believe in because that is the cost of freedom. [applause]

what is at stake in this fight is the principles, if obama can tell you the insurance you have to buy, he will tell you what york -- what car you can drive, where does this stop? they will tell us what words we are allowed to use, they say it is a hate crime to describe a person who wants to kill you. this is not for me. in the road to serfdom, centralized planning leads to dictatorship. this is george o. -- or well, in "1984." -- george orwell, in "1984." he fought the dictatorship began with your mind. they could not let you know the truth. this is the kind of fight we are in today. we are in this with the elite media and the academic world, as we are with obama.

every one of those groups have people in them who would gladly live in a country that has forgotten where our rights came from. i got involved in this in 2002, when the ninth circuit court ruled that the pledge of allegiance was unconstitutional. i decided that with such an anti-american decision -- that somebody had to systematically start doing something. you'll find a 54 page paper on how to rebalance do -- the judiciary based on nine years of work. i am tired of the 50-year offensive, that has tried to drive got out of our lives. [applause]

we did a movie about pope john paul going to -- poland. it is amazing. the polish communist dictatorship would not allow prayer in school. i wanted to think about a government so anti-religious. do you realize the polish communist dictatorship kept tearing down crosses? i want you to think about a government, -- that would say that the cross -- in san diego had to come down, and that the mojave desert cross from 1984 had to come down. we should not kid ourselves. we are at a crossroads in american history. a crossroads in defining who we are. we are the people whose creators themselves -- they

created america. this was an ideal. they said that we held -- we hold these truths to be self- evident. they wanted to understand the truth of god. this was a radical idea. we did not always live up to this. we had slavery and women had a secondary role for a long time. but now we are the most open society in the history of the human race to allow people to participate and pursue happiness, no matter where they come from, when they become american. they have enormous opportunities they did not have at home. [applause] the central principle of

american exceptional ism, which i am qantara barack obama does not understand, we are endowed by our creator, with certain inalienable rights, to pursue life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. this is vital at three levels. it was asserted that god is each one of you, personally. power comes from god, to you. the government never loans power to you. this is the opposite of the obama model. he believes in the european system, or the government is a system of power and we are merely subjects. we believe in the american system, where we are citizens and the government should be our servant. fundamentally different. [applause]

they asserted that these rights are available. that means no president, no judge, no bureaucrat can come between you and god. that is why his decisions are such a threat to the very survival of our civilization. it gives the government power to come between us and god, and that is totally unacceptable in this country. [applause] and finally, among these are the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. happiness in the 18th century, this meant -- wisdom and virtue, not hedonism and acquisition. and you are not guaranteed happiness. you are guaranteed the right to pursue.

there is no concept among the founding fathers that there should be happiness stamps for the under happy -- there was no suggestion that we needed a federal department of happiness to the annual happiness assessment, -- [applause] and if you had said -- that someday a politician will say, i will take from the overly happy and i will redistribute to the underlay happy -- the founding fathers would have said, what kind of arrogance would believe that someone thinks they know enough and have the right to judge each and every american's right to be happy and then to decide which ones they will take from and which they will give too? this is not freedom, this is a dictatorship. [applause]

here we are. we stand at the edge with these young children, and they will find out in their lifetime, courage that we have, how much discipline that we have and how willing that we are to do what it takes. the fact is, america hangs in the balance. those young men and women and risking their lives across the planet deserve from us, they deserve the kind of commitment to reestablish a historic america based on power from god and to repudiate, decisively,

the anti-religious bigotry, and the anti-american bigotry of the elites who have lost sight of who we are and what we do. thank you very much. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> thank you so very much. you may be seated. as we think about america and this great nation that we live in, and think about the signers of the declaration of independence. you realize that 47 of the signers had a seminary degrees. 93% of them were from a christian church. within eight years of signing

that declaration, they started 121 bible societies. we were founded on the right stuff. [applause] i would like to do one thing. this was not part of the program. around here, it goes with the flow. [laughter] and that with the speaker, i met with the -- i met with the speaker, i met with the speaker a year and a half ago. i started to say, i do not know if he remembers it, but it riyadh, he remembers everything. i met with him in a private room. we spent two hours, we spent two hours praying in discussing things.

he said something to me, he said, i am willing to surrender 10 years of my life. he said, you know, it would really be easier for us to walk away. but i am grateful you did not. [applause] i would like you to come and stand here. i would like you to come and stand beside him. i would like you to come in stand behind him. one of the greatest presidents in our nation was abraham lincoln. abraham lincoln said this, "i

have been driven to my knees by an overwhelming conviction that i had nowhere else to go. my wisdom and all about me seemed insufficient for the day. -- day." that is where we are at. my wisdom and all about me seemed insufficient for the day. what i would like for us to do, i would like you to join your heart. i want us to do something. i thought, what is the greatest thing we can do for speaker gingrich and his wife? i thought, we could pray for him. so let us pray. our most kind, gracious, heavenly father, i thank you for this day. i thank you for speaker

gingrich, mrs. gingrich, and their commitment, their love for you and our country. i am grateful that they have stepped forward. i pray protection upon their lives as they travel all over our nation. i pray that you will give the mercy. i pray that he will keep them safe. the scripture says, but they that wait upon the lord shall renew their strength. they shall mount up as eagles. they shall run and not be weary. they should walk and not faint. many times we should get tired. i pray you help them when they are weary. i pray you give them strength. i ask you to give them supranatural favor. if any man lech wisdom, let him ask of god. i pray your wisdom, i pay your

guidance the palms beautiful couple. i pay for the speaker's two daughters, son-in-law's, and grandchildren. i pray that you will bless them. i pray you will keep them. make your face to shine upon them, and be gracious to them. lift your countenance upon them. made a spirit your peace. if we pay this, -- pray this, thinking you for america, for the land of the free, for the home of the brave. we pray this in the name of your son, jesus, the limb of glory -- lamb of glory. until you come and we pray, amen. now, i need you to do me a favor.

[applause] i need you to do me a favor. the speaker has a commercial slot. he is going to be in my home state tomorrow. he is going to be in tennessee. we are excited about him being there. he can only stay so long. when he has to leave, but the conscientious and say, he has to go. if he misses his flight, he will not make it. we are going to have the speaker here. when he has to go, when his people say, this beeper -- the speaker has got to go, he would stay all night if he could. when the speaker says, i have

got to go, let's allow him to go. god bless you for being here. thank you for this. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] [no audio] ♪

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