yesterday newt gingrich made a comment which turns out to be pretty accurate. he said, he said that senator santorum is a big labor republican. and he's proved that again by doing the work of the u.a.w. and the obama team, linking up with them, taking one not for our team but for their team and trying to get them to vote against me so that they can have someone who they think is easier to beat in the fall. well, we're not going to let them do it. . where we think we have the best shot. this is a race to get the delegates by me. we have delegates here in michigan. where has he gone? 14. in arizona is a winner-take-all state.

this is my niece. i had to think about it. she has been here day after day. she has a couple of kids. i have a nephew over here. i appreciate this. it makes a difference. i think people what someone who understands the economy. that is what i know. i understand how it works. i'm running against a guy his here is an economic like way. does not know it takes to create real jobs. i do. i want to use that not to convince democrats to vote against me but to give them to vote for me. i would get that.

done.get this thank you for your help. >> why is michigan more difficult than you expect? >> i was down 15 points. now and looks like to close to call. i do not think they know what will happen. i do not think we could be 100% sure. the fact that we made of 15 points in two weeks is extraordinary. i am please our debate went well. senator santorum said he was taking one for the team. we pointed out that this is

different than the rhetoric you hear in a campaign. the american people want something that is right for america. the hardest thing about predicting what will happen today is whether senator santorum's effort to call democrat households and sell them to come out against mitt romney is going to be successful or not. republicans have to recognize there is an effort to get not our primary process. i need republicans to get out and vote and say no to the dirty tricks of a desperate campaign. >> i am pleased with the campaign. the candidates make mistakes. i tried to work hard.

i anticipate becoming a nominee. it is how to get jobs in this country again. there have been issues that come up. they can create jobs. this is something i know how to do. i know how the economy works. we have candidates battling it out. this'll be over in a day or two. crack>> [inaudible] your approval rates have fallen. >> there is no question then when you have a contest with four people they try to distinguish themselves. it still have an effect. people will see our flaws over

emphasized. i do think all of what has gone on during the primary becomes very much a thing of the past. my expectation is by the time november comes around the things we are talking about will be quite a different. i cannot predict precisely what they will be. a could be foreign affairs that emerge at the top of the pile. i do believe the economy and creating jobs will always be at the foundation. my record will be something which helps me in a good stead. >> [inaudible] >> it is very easy to incite the base. we have seen that if you're willing to say outrageous

things that are attacking president obama comment that he will jump up in the polls. i am not willing to light my hair on fire. i am who i am. i understand job creation. >> follow this event laser and complete coverage of the primaries in arizona and michigan. we will take you live to carrollton georgia were newt gingrich is ahead of the primary. >> we are so proud of our many volunteers to have been working here. thank you so much for your support. we believe america is at a crossroads and care deeply about the future of our country. there are all only a few months left before the most important

election in our lifetime. our only opponent is barack obama. we are committed to removing him from the white house. newt gingrich is the only candidates with the experience and knowledge necessary to reveal the america we love. he had a successful national record of creating jobs, balancing the budget and reforming government. today we need a leader who can clearly articulate why president obama and his policies are wrong for america. we need a leader who understands that we must contain and a defeat our enemies. we need a letter with bold solutions to create a better future for all americans. i believed that is my husband's.

my husband and an future leader of the united states. >> i apologize. i'm not exactly apologizing. that is one of the longest lines i've ever been through. i hope you can hear us. thank you for your generous time. he had been an enormous help. i am thrilled that he is with us.

you're doing a great job, sir. i also want to thank you for being such a great host and reminded me a much i enjoy coming back. thank you so much perr. a number of foreign colleagues from my college career and congressional career, i do want to take one second dimension the very first person i met when i came on campus in 1970. i was reminded of my age, something my doctor reminds me of.

several people came to and said they were [inaudible] they said my dad with your students. then they would say need my son. -- meet my son. i have been a fair amount of time. my colleagues are both here. i am very grateful. a number of state representatives have been here. i am thankful to all of their support.

i knew him as center. i knew him as a friend. it is great to be back. i want to say that they are putting all this together. you can imagine looking at the crowds of much a great job they did. thank you. i do apologize. it has been a long evening to get to this point. it is a great honor to be here. i thought i would take a couple minutes intel a couple of stories. i have not been near -- and tell a couple of stories. i've not been in this setting.

we think back to what it was like to teach share. -- teach here and the many thing sis i learned here. a couple of them a tell you something about professors. a friend of mine, it is angled toward his house, industry that was dying. they wanted him to hire a tree surgeon. she said if it falls during a storm it will hit the house.

he was like some college professors. he knew he was confident. our next turn neighbor was about 55. here is a pretty big guy. the three of us decided how hard can it be? we went down. he thought he knew everything. he said the will tie a rope about 15 feet up and then we will cut the tree till it is almost ready to break and then be able pulled the tree in the direction we wanted to fall. this is the example of why sometimes it is useful that a

mayor may not have an advanced degree. we said this is a very bad thing. we got the rope in place. we got sick a point or rethought the tree was about ready. it was leaning toward the house. we cut it so the angle was away from the house. we had figured out -- none of us are math majors. we got the tree and the road. -- the rope. it was a really big tree. it is only 12,000 or 15,000 pounds. it was as big as we thought we

were. our collective which is probably about 500. you have 500 pounds pulling in one direction -- [applause] [laughter] at least one person has already figured this out. it was just this. when the tree breaks, it is not matter that you are pulling. is double the direction of the trade. very slowly, they were right.

they were suffering. the tree was dead enough that when the top of it hit the roof of the house, it broke clean, leaving the rest of the tree falling on the art in an orderly way. -- on the yard in an orderly yard. so, thit punched holes in the ceiling. you have a tree hitting the house. the roof had holes in it. the concussion at that dropped plaster in the master bedroom on the bed. the last thing we saw was kit running up the yard with his white chasing him with a broom. the next day they had a tree

and paid forme by, the rough and the plaster in the room. -- the roof and plaster in the room. there were a thousand things like that you could do and you could learn from and you could make friends that became permanent friends. i would usually start with this story. a number of people decided they liked me because i was willing to mitt i was not really smart. everybody at some point has done something you look back and say that was really not very clever. that was one of them. one and the guys we talked with came from a very poor family in alabama. he had a master's degree from harvard.

he did not know it at the time. he was confused this red light. he did not figure out why this red light was on. nothing seemed to change so he thought it could not be very important. he never got around to finding out why the red light was on. he started his car and learned that the red light was a sign he was running out of water. if you wait long enough, your engine freezes up and israel and and you have to buy a new engine. after that he became a the most accurate changing of oil i've ever seen. at the time you think here's a guy whose books marketed in not quite get it.

yesterday we had a health conference talking about preventive care. i used that example. people learn that changing oil saves you a lot of money. one of our great things of how far as how to get people to learn that the same kind of prevention applies to themselves and save a lot of time in the hospital and money. these are stories that have carried through my whole life. i treasure the years i was allowed to do the french ships remain -- french ships -- friendships we made. we are running for president. i think this is the most important election in our lifetime. i think reelecting barack obama will be a disaster.

[applause] our challenge is to present a clear and compelling alternative so that the country has a really clear sense of the differences. the reasons they're making to run, and knowing that it will be hard and they're all the negative attacks, we thought that we should do but as citizens. i think we really need somebody who understands the scale of change we need to has really large ideas for a really large country and you can explain them in a way that enables us to rally the american people.

i would give you a couple of quick examples. the easiest one is the difference between president obama and myself on energy. president obama represents a very anti-american energy. he said three years ago you really think the american gas prices up to achieve a european level spirited out of the $9 or $10 a gallon. yesterday i had somebody come up and said i know now, i want you to tell her mccain i know what the president's 999 plan is. i said what is it? he said it is $9.99 a gallon for

gas. that is literally true. the problem the president has is he cannot run for reelection until the american people you're not paying for gases. i began to weeks ago to raise this issue. we do not have to have expensive gasoline are dependent on saudi arabia, iraq and iran. the result was he gave a speech in miami on energy. it was fascinating. he is clearly conflicted. you will see that youhe wants to tell us he is for less as a gasoline that he is not. so, what he is or is algae and

audi will someday be a solution. he said there are not silver bullets. there is a presidential panepen. there are three things he could do that would change the whole energy environment. he could sign the keystone pipeline -- [applause] that would bring 700,000 barrels of canadian oil a day to houston. it would open up for oklahoma, kansas, texas shipping by pipeline instead of tucks. -- trucks. he could reopen the gulf of mexico to developments. that is about 400,000 barrels a

day. or he could open of known areas in alaska that is about 1,200,000 barrels a day. how do you expand the american supply of oil tax that is 2,000,300 barrels a day just with three strokes of the pen. it will change the entire national debates of energy. there is a lagging at that. the fact is in north dakota, we have had extraordinary increase in oil production. it is on private lands. since it was on private lands, obama could not stop it. now they have discovered we probably have at least 25 times

-- 2500% more oil than people thought we do. as they are developing it, and has certain obvious side effects. they traded a huge number of jobs. it overstates how much unemployment there is. there are 16,000 jobs in the oil industry that they cannot fill. these were trained to do this job. they would probably be about zero% unemployment. in terms of when you develop energy, at the tree revenue for government. the state of north dakota has

had seven consecutive tax cuts. they have a multi-billion dollar rainy day fund. these are real changes. we can now bit gas where we thought we cannot recover. what difference does that make? in the year 2000, we expected to have a seven years' supply of natural gas. the ascension as you have to bring in liquid natural gas. we are now talking about 125 years. we believe there are ports to ship the gases to china.

north dakota and its shell gas goes from buffalo to dallas. it is a huge series of different formations. some of them are associated with oil. you'll see eastern ohio producing natural gas. a big now created 62,000 new jobs. -- i think it created 62,000 new jobs. it is an enormous threat to the left. it implies that the new technology and market conditions have a virtually limitless supply of energy and that we could attract the energy

in a way that nobody on the left could think about. why does that matter? if we could be independent producing energy, no american president would ever again bowed .o the saudi kingdo it is very important to think about what the iranians have been doing. they have been practicing closing the straits which is a bottleneck. the short-term answer -- the long-term answer is to produce so much oil in the united states that we do not care what the iranians do.

i think particularly matters because i think we have to develop a new approach to how we think about the middle east. i want to give you two examples. when we discovered that been a lot in -- bin laden have been hiding for seven years in a military city a mile from the national university of pakistan, at any reasonable person knows elements of the pakistani government had to have known that he was there. it is inconceivable that he could have hidden in that city for seven years and not have anybody asked who was in the big building down the street.

the pakistani reaction was not to track down the people. the pakistani reaction was to track down the people who helped the united states. the folks they have arrested are the people who helped us find him. that is not the behavior of an ally. we need to understand that. in egypt with the muslim brotherhood of the largest faction and with a more radical group as the second-largest faction, and they're holding 19 americans hostage. this is not something we need to tolerate. we have set again take immediately. we could cut off all their foreign aid. we could cut off the supply of

all other military equipment. other major equipment is american. there are lots of things we could do. that is not what is the ministration does. the most disturbing thing that we have encountered has been the recent incidents in which the afghans were killing americans, the president apologized to afghanistan. i want to be very clear. i think the commander and chief owes a great deal of loyalty to the people who serve the united states of america. i think the secretary of defense or the president could have said the following. we discovered that prisoners

were defacing the koran and ordered in messages to their allies outside the prison. we stopped them and confiscated the karan -- korans that they have to face buried notice to his guilty, not the americans. we did not deface the koran. it was people who are supposed a really passionate about the koran. cannot be defaced unless they do it. they are not us. i want to propose see how bad this is. in 2009, the u.s. army burned bibles and afghanistan. they confiscated bibles that have been sent to afghanistan and they burn them. this is our army.

did kristin's right? did they find somebody to kill? -- did christians riot? did they find somebody to kill? no. in nigeria churches are burned. does anybody apologize? in each of churches are burned, it does anybody apologize? in malaysia as churches are burned. does anybody apologize? in saudi arabia it is illegal to practice christian or jewish religion. does anyone complain? in iran last week, they found a christian minister a guilty and sentenced him to death. has anyone apologized? no one in this administration is prepared to stand up for any of our values.

they are very prepared to apologize to people who want to kill us. it is worse. saturday, they arrested a moroccan man who is trying to bigger out how to bomb the u.s. capitol. i will bet you if we had a test and i said what do you thing might have motivated a moroccan to try to bomb the u.s. capitol, that a substantial number of you would have picked that he probably believed in radical islam. do you realize that under the obama at the demonstration, an fbi agent cannot write that down? it is politically incorrect. we cannot tell the truth. an army major jumps up at fort

hood and yells -- and killed 13 americans and wound 33 others, has in his wallet of a " soldier of allah" whilst engaged in dealing with an american who he had communicated with you later killed with a guided missile -- who he later killed with a guided missle, but neither reports connected him to islam because it would be politically incorrect. the president to cannot tell you the truth about the people who were trying to kill you is a president cannot develop a strategy to protect you from the people who are trying to kill you.

i believe we need we need a fundamental rethinking of our entire strategy. we are not going to militarily change afghanistan. we have serious problems and how we are approaching this. we're trying to describe the cold war. how do you explain the soviet union? it was a bad week installing did not feel good? it is that kind of naive, it's childish, anti-intellectual approach that makes the obama administration is a dangerous. almost every american believes

we should have energy independence and we can build a political majority to drill in the united states to develop our resources and to create an enormous wave of energy. we do that, owe will creighton f royalties that if we are open ing federal lands, we would generate 16 trillion dollars in royalties. that is enough that if we set it to one side and balance the budget which i did for four consecutive years, i am the only speaker in your lifetime to balance the budget. if we went back to a balanced budget and applied the royalties to paying off the debt, we literally what in your lifetime pay off the national debt.

which means we would both be free of the saudis and the chinese bondholders simultaneously with the same strategy. in doing that in keeping 5 vendor billion dollars a year at home, we would also create 7 billion new jobs and be moving toward four% unemployment which should be our goal. in-process, i believe we could get gasoline somewhere between $2 and $2.15 a gallon. the elites on television and

newspapers have been saying this is impossible. how can he say this? i would remind you that when ronald reagan campaigns on cutting taxes and reducing regulations, they called it did you economics. i believe that we have the capacity if he had a president willing to help. he talked about opening up federal lands. we are not talking about yellowstone. we are not talking about yosemite. we the american people owns 69% of alaska. alaska is twice the size of texas. that means you can literally give the environmentalist half

of texas, they could pick a polar bear areas, the glaciers they like, and they would have 125,000 square miles that will be viewed in area the size of texas to develop. that is how big the potential is. i tried to remind people who seems to have amnesia and they do not learn the lessons of history. when i was speaker of the house, gasoline was $1.13. when obama was sworn in, gas was $1.89. i am not offering a radical solution. i'm not even trying to get back to a pre-obama number. i have taken a number that experts believe would generate more than enough capital to develop more than of the expiration to greet the scale of

energy we need. it creates that level of entrepreneurship. the president is moving in the opposite direction. here is my request. one primaries i tuesday really matters. it is clear that romney can raise more money because he can get money from all the people who got a lousy and the taxpayers. the money is coming back to you in the form of negative ads. i cannot match that. what i can do is match with people. we have 170,000 people who had not donated to our campaign. in 95% have given less than two and a $50. it is huge. -- $250. it is huge. i'll ask you to do a couple of

practical things. how many of you are on facebook? tonight on your facebook page, i want you to put "newt = $2.15 a gallon" i bet that get have a million people to see it for free. people ask you have any do it, to go to newt.org. there is a 30 minute speech for i explain it. there is the obama answer and then my answer to his answer. we have added together we can see a debate retake the obama segment and then i answer it. it gives you a flavor what the debates will be like if i debate obama. [applause] how many of you are on twitter?

we have #250gas. i like you to go there. we had a huge number of people signed up. it is beginning to go by road. finally, we are setting up people who will be glad to get support for me. we need every penny we can raise. all of you have e-mail accounts comedy not all of your friends. do not worry about where they are. sooner we will need their help. we are doing a little bit of fund raising that is fun. we have a place where you can give a 1 gallon of newt gas $2.50 or 10 gallons

gallons.llaons or 1000 when your friends and what can i deduct just ask them to give 1 gallon. -- can i do? ask them to give 1 gallon. our goal is to get above to under 50,000 donors as quickly as possible. -- 250,000 donors as quickly as possible. if we did not have the internet, this campaign could not have survived. the internet reduces cost so dramatically. i do think this is the most important election in your lifetime. i hope each and every one of you will make sure you vote. i hope you remind your friends and neighbors that they need to vote in the you will do all you can tonight electronically to reach out and help us be a part

of the campaign. we afford to getting to me. i appreciate your being here. thank you. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] ♪ >> thank you for being with us for our live coverage. tonight are the michigan and arizona primaries. results are coming in and a close contest for santorum and mitt romney. if they are in michigan. and if gingrich is in his home of georgia. ron paul is focusing on super

tuesday and is in the washington, d.c. suburbs of virginia. live coverage begins now purity has been speaking for a few minutes. -- live coverage begins now. he has been speaking for a few minutes. >> how many wars have we been fighting since world war ii? 0. none have been declared. they were unnecessary. too many dollars spent. to many veterans suffering. it does not solve our problems. i thought we receiver. what we need is a new foreign policy based on non intervention. it is much better to talk to people than initiate war against them. they keep saying that they take nothing off the table when it

has to deal with our enemy. why should we take off negotiations? why not diplomacy? should we take that off? i remember very well after being drafted in 1962 during the cuban crisis. it is dissipated rather rapidly because john kennedy said we have a problem here. they said we have a problem over here. they made a deal. we did the missiles out of turkey and a ticket out of cuba. we did not have to fight a nuclear war. why do we fight people cope have weapons tax reduced by people who have weapons? -- why do we find people who have weapons? now they're talking about attacking iran. there is no evidence they even

have a weapon. the cia has not even prove they are building one. the drums are beating. we have to be heard about this. this country does not need another war at all. another thing that happens or government grows too much, we do know about the tsa. our liberties are undermined under these conditions. violations have been occurred. they're being violated more now than ever. it is undeclared. we are in perpetual war with terrorism. to say we are in a war against

terrorism, that means we are against the whole world. we have a lot of bombs and missiles that we send. this is not the way to win friends. i tell you that. that is the way to build it. the undermining of our liberty should be one of our greatest concerns. the patriot act was passed after 9/11. i am convinced it they repel did it would have passed. next year when we go ahead and get rid of the page redact, we will college restore the fourth amendment act. -- we will call it the restore

the fourth amendment act. there's no doubt the founders were very important. we protected our papers and privacy. today there is none. they do not even need search warrant any more. the way they come busting into our house under the excuse that somebody may be using an illegal drug comment they use what seems. they do not have proper search warrants. can you believe that? the go into the wrong house is frequently in the shooting kill innocent people. it is out of control. the president a year ago and announced that it is a position that he now holds because he is the commander in chief. anything that is not prohibited he can do. i think he got that really mixed

up. a president only has the authority to do the things he is explicitly authorized to do by the constitution. i can guarantee you a file is to be elected president i will never go to a war and pursue a war without proper direction from the congress, a declaration coming from the people. i will not do it. [cheering "presiden paul"] >> for the present to prove his

point about the assassination, nothing says that we cannot reverse it. they have to be reversed. also, the defense authorization act. how does this go? this is an interesting subject. no matter where i go, the crowds know about it and concerns. i am convinced he did not hear it on the evening news. you are concerned about it. how many times where we asked about our position on the national defense authorization? this atrocious piece of legislation says the military can arrest an american system without a trial or an attorney and put in a prison

indefinitely. the most atrocious is there was one provision that was even worse. there is one that almost got past. it said if you are arrested in the proper manner and you were tried and you have a jury and you are found innocent, they claimed they would have the right to keep that person in definitely in a secret prison. that provision was removed. i cannot remember his name but it was a senator from kentucky that got that removed.

the problems are big. the economic problems are big. we spend too much. we have a monetary crisis. we are deeply over tax. we fight too many wars. it is on and on. the solution goes on. we have not been strict adherence to the constitution appear we can correct these problems. this is what we ought to do. our message should be loud and clear. it is such a wonderful message. it produced the largest ever. this is the biggest debtor nation in the history of the world. the keynesian economists teach that when you're in trouble you

are supposed to spend more money. kenya and imagine if individuals did that that there maxed out and they cannot pay their mortgages and they have two cards? you have to cut back. you have to work harder to pay your debt down. that is what you have to do. the answer comes really by understanding what personal liberty is all about. we have a natural right to our lives and liberty. liberty should bring us together. i am going to forget my speech. what am i going to do. literacy should bring us together. it, ite government doesn't

to be a disaster. the government cannot do this. the only take away more liberty once they embark on it. this should bring people together. it is not because we allow people to do things we might not approve of. people might be wasteful. they might have a private life style. the whole thing is everybody should join in the cause of liberty and let people be responsible for themselves. we were worried that we are not

a moral people. we drifted too long. we concentrated on the wealth. consumers.ca as long as it happens, the society is immoral and it does not work. it has to come from the people. grows, just think of how many young people have joined this revolution -- as this movement grows, just think of how many young people have joined this revolution. it is great to see the young people leading the charge. we also see others. once have been frustrated. they have dropped out.

this understanding of liberty is good. when this revolution is successful, it cannot be a monopoly. it'll be bipartisan. it will be bipartisan people. i want to close by thanking you for coming and thanking you for your excitements and giving my energy. thank you. we all have a response abillity. you make up your mind, what you need to do. everybody has a different job. the most important thing is to understand what this is all about. thank you very much for coming.

like all right, everybody. i will say it one more time. if the and not sign that to be a delicate and you are a resident, please go sign up before you walk out the door. we need you all to make that man president of the united states. thank you all for coming. >> ron paul looking ahead to next tuesday. he and mitt romney are the two

candidates who will be be on the ballot. you are watching live coverage of the primaries. we are expecting more results pretty soon. in a about one minute now, all polls in the state of michigan will be closed. once the second time son is finished, we will start getting results statewide and report them to you. google and ap have teamed up with an interactive map. this is what it looks like so far. you can see the county's on purple have already tallied for rick santorum. those and gold are mitt romney. very close there. we are going to open up our phone lines for 10 minutes. we divided them by the gop

candidate you are supporting. we welcome your comments on the race in 2012 and how it is fairing so far. >> how are you doing? to be in supportth of -- how are you doing today? i am calling in to be of support for newt gingrich. look at the candidates that we do have. i think there is one clear can get it out of the republican field that has the experience to come through and to be able to weather a storm. barack obama is going to be tough. we need somebody to come in with some action and experience. to be a part of what is going to be a republican field that is up

in the air. i honestly feel newt gingrich can do it. i appreciate you for listening. >> thank you very much. cnn is reporting mitt romney as the winner in arizona's primary at 41%. we will watch results tonight as well. next up, bill is a supporter of rick santorum. your comments on how he is doing and what you think of the campaign he is waging. >> i think he is doing really well. i think that we are seeing the mitt romney is having a much tougher time than he thought he would. rick santorum is calling it straight and calling him out on certain things. i think if he wins mich., he could just turn around and when the entire thing out right.

>> what issues matter the most to you? >> i have to be honest with you. the issues that matter most to me, of course, our jobs. also, as a christian conservative, there are bedrock issues that really matter a lot to me. no. 1 is the pro-life issue. another thing, of course, is the gay marriage issue. we have seen or at least perceived flip-flops from mitt romney on both of those issues. rick santorum is what he is. one thing, he shoots straight from the hip. you know exactly where he is coming from on those issues. he is staunchly pro life.

he is also against gay marriage, which i am. >> thank you for your call. you can almost send us comments on our twitter page or post on our facebook page and we will use some of your facebook quotes or tweets on our program. next up is a ron paul supporter. >> i just want to said, i have never been a politically involved. this year i had to finally do something about that. i do not know a lot about all of the issues out there like a lot of americans out there, but ron paul -- there is something about him that puts an end to the empathy -- apathy a lot of people my age have. i think you get our generation

involved -- you get americans more involved. we need to take our country back. i think ron paul is somebody that is going to take us there. i am from michigan. i am not a mitt romney supporter. i really think that ron paul is going all the way. >> you have twice referred to your generation. how old are you? >> 36. >> is the economy your number one issue? >> absolutely. especially in michigan given the economic times. other issues like our personal liberties, taxation -- he is straight up. he talks to you. you can understand everything he says. he seems to make sense. i really hope he does better in the polls. >> next is a miami call from a mitt romney supporter. >> i am sorry i did not

understand the appeared >> tell us what is on your mind. turn down your tv. i am sorry. we will have to move on. next up is paul from richmond, virginia and supporting newt gingrich. >> yes, i'm calling from virginia. the more i think about it, i listened to him -- i think it is actually a good idea -- enough is enough. newt gingrich is not on the ballot in virginia, it did me switch my support all the way. >> your call next up is body from lofton, oklahoma. he supports rick santorum. >> hello. i was just calling to say i am a

rick santorum voter. he is a more conservative guy, as far as that goes. i like his christian values, the same values -- he is a great guy. i would take any of the candidates over obama. we need to stop him. i do not like what he is doing as far as running -- writing a letter of apology when you have american soldiers dying. we need to back our troops more than we back all of these other people. if you guys are looking for a conservative person, it is definitely rick santorum. >> thank you for your call. a michigan collar up next. this is roy supporting mitt romney. >> i am just making a comment as far as -- all of the candidates on the republican party are all real strong candidates. however, some of the democrats

that are unhappy with president obama's policies -- out of the four republicans running, i would believe a democrat that may be making a choice to go republican would probably go with mitt romney because they would feel as far as being a conservative, he might not be quite as conservative as the other candidates. however, we might pick up some democratic votes with mitt romney when we go up against obama. >> next up from salem, mass., heidi is supporting newt gingrich. >> i think he is a better candidate for beating the obama for a couple of reasons. he has been in the house for a while.

part of this stuff -- i think the health care issue when it comes to mitt romney, what he did it massachusetts was a walking disaster. people from massachusetts to this they are pretty ticked off. >> thank you for your call. doccc sends this tweet -- next up is a supporter of rick santorum. tell me what your views are and what you like him as your candidates. >> i think he is a good honest person. he presents himself very well. is issues are really moving. if people would stop and listen to him, he has good ideas we need to act on. the way we are going now is down

a hill. i am a veteran. i served in 1970. i love this country. if the american people would get out there and vote -- just vote. it might not be for rick santorum, just get out there and vote. there are a lot of veterans to give their lives for it. the american people need to stand up and get the road going in the direction we need to be going. quit going backwards. we are losing. we need to gain our respect back. we need to tell these a rabbits and everything -- keep your oil. we produce more fuel -- we need to tell this arabs to keep your oil we have food. you can keep your will.

>> let's take a look at the google and ap map. this is an updated matt in michigan. at this point with 15.6% of results and, governor mitt romney on top with 40% to rick santorum's 48%. you can see color codes. purple is rick santorum, and gold is and mitt romney. next up is terry from boulder, colorado. >> i might disagree with ron paul on a few social issues, but i think he is the only candidate to really has told the truth and faced issues as they are from beginning to end. i really cannot understand -- maybe people are for newt gingrich, but they do not understand this guy has been unethical and his personal life and he has been unethical consistently in his public life.

i am totally supporting ron paul because of his honesty. >> thank you for your call. let's listen to dave murray. he represents a number of michigan newspapers. tonight he is live from santorum's headquarters. before we talk about the candidate strategies and the state, what is the atmosphere like at the headquarters? >> it is a very excited atmosphere. he was not supposed to do well before a couple of weeks ago. now he is nec corp. -- now he is neck-and-neck with the native son mitt romney. >> can you tell us from your reporting and analysis when that has happened? how has rick santorum resonated or has mitt romney fallen or stumbled with voters? >> i think it is a little of both. the romney's 2008 op-ed on

disk -- detroit companies going bankrupt has not done -- has not done too well in michigan. senator santorum also did not promote the bail out, but his social conservative this resonates with much of the rest of the state. up in northern michigan, folks are really more conservative. social issues that have come up recently tend to work in santorum's favor. >> what about this canada oppose a ground campaign in the state? -- candidate's brown campaign in the state? >>-- ground campaign in the state. >> the mitt romney folks are very organized. they are all over.

there has been a flood of tv and radio spots and phone calls. rick santorum has started to spend some money, especially on rrobocalls. he has drawn a large crowds without advance notice. he attended a rally with mitt romney yesterday, about 300 people there. there is a big crowd here as you can tell. they are excited. he seems to have made up for the lack of money with boots on the ground. he has excited people with the issues. >> want to talk to you a little bit about an anticipated turnout in michigan. looking back to pass turnouts, in 2008 869,000 people voted in the state. in 2000, 1.3 million.

this is a state with 7.3 million registered voters. what have officials been anticipating today? >> they think it will be a little lighter than normal. one of the reasons is negative advertising has turned a lot of people off. people tend to stay away. they think it will keep some folks home. >> covering this campaign in your home state, what has been the most interesting thing for you as you have been observing this your's connection between the voters and the candidates? >> senator santorum, when he walks out he is very friendly with people. mitt romney has tried to loosen up. he has tried to lose the image

of the wealthy person he is. he has appeared at events without a tie or jacket looking very casual. he has appeared at industrial places like an electrical shop. he used the machines as a backdrop. he is trying to connect with blue-collar people. rick santorum does very well with people. he goes into diners and is very comfortable around them. >> this state of yours has voted for a democratic presidential candidate in the last five elections. is michigan a swing state? what will happen as we move beyond primaries and more into the appeal to voters with the president as a major contestant there? >> that is a good question. president obama decisively won the state in 2000 a.

-- 2008. if we are not a swing state, we lose that. people told me this week they believe is gov. romney is on the ticket, they think he will carry the day as the native and son. that will resonate with people eventually. with santorum they do not think the choice is as clear cut. >> david murray has been covering this campaign for his organization. you can find them on the internet. he is at santorum headquarters. we will be back when the candidate comes out to speak. a hopeful crowd, but with 20% reporting, and gov. romney is a couple of points ahead. we are going to show you the candidates live speeches in michigan tonight.

senator john mccain in that state has our live coverage continues. right now we will take you to the ron paul rally that held a little while ago. the first person you will hear from is actually his son, senator paul. >> thank you. thank you. [applause] thank you. anybody here for the cause of liberty? anybody here for ron paul? now, i am only here for a short while. the let me out with a ankle bracelet.

this crowd is amazing. 2000 people packed in here. [cheers and applause] 500 people outside that the fire marshal would not let in. he does that some presidential candidates have to pay people to come here their speeches. some presidential candidates have to pay their campaigns to make homemade signs. but not the ron paul people. i come from the great state of kentucky.

home of henry clay, the great compromiser. my question to you is, do you need another great compromiser or an abolitionist? we have people on the national stage running for president who like to preen and pretend they are for limited government. there is only one champion on the stage of limited government. who is that? >> ron paul. >> when ron paul came back to congress, the wall street journal said this. his refusal to compromise was legendary. [cheers and applause]

there is only one man on the stage who would truly preserve your freedom, balance the budget, restore value to our currency, and save us from this debt bomb that is engulfing our country. there is only one man on the stage where the troops trust. only one man who has received more contributions from active duty military than any other candidate. that man is my hero and a candidate for the presidency of the united states, ron paul. [cheers and applause]

>> thank you. thank you. [cheers and applause] [chanting "president paul"] [cheers and applause] you are such a noisy bunch. what is going on here?

well, i keep saying we have to be a noisy so they hear us down here in washington. you know, many of you know that my wife and i have celebrated our 55th anniversary not too long ago in february. i have always had to be careful in february, especially for four years because she was born on february 29. she is having a birthday here tomorrow morning. [cheers and applause] [crowd singing "happy birthday "]

that is very important. but let's get serious now. i guess the revolution has arrived in virginia. i am delighted it is here. it is very appropriate that the state of virginia be involved in our revolution that is going on. our revolution is the american revolution. we had a pretty good start in this country a few years back. we have drifted away for many years now -- for nearly 100 years there has been a lot of forgetting about what the original intent was of the constitution. that is our goal, to restore the american public to the american people. -- to restore the american republic to the american people.

you know, they keep asking about winning particular states in this campaign. guess what, we are still winning a lot of delegates. that is what counts. [cheers and applause] you know, every once in awhile they include my name in the polling. that is always helpful. just recently there was a pretty good poll out. just yesterday or the day before. it says that we do the best against obama. [cheers and applause] now, winning the primary is very important. winning the general election is also very important. it is our message that appeals to the independents, democrats, and the republican base. very simply, it is the message

of liberty. the message of liberty is what we are all about. that means we have individual liberty. we are allowed to lead our lives as we choose. we have a natural right to our lives and liberty. should we not have the natural right to keep the fruits of our labor? there are a couple of ways that they undermine and take the fruits of our labor from us. one is direct taxation. the founders did not like that. they did not give us an income tax. that is why we have to start thinking about 1913 again. that is why we need to repeal the 16th amendment. [applause] to have big government, they tax. they had to have the income tax. then they had to have the borrowing. unfortunately, jefferson lost that argument.

there is a limit on borrowing. if they are too much, interest rates go up and have to quit. he have a gimmick introduced in 1913. that is, if there is a limit on taxing and there is a limit on borrowing, they said we will have a new gimmick. he would just print the money when we need it. [booing] [chanting "end the fed"] of course, if you want big government, that is what you have. you have high taxes and the borrowing. eventually they have to print the money. a the founders knew this and understood this. they warned us against it. that is what they understood it clearly.

they put it in the constitution that only gold and silver could be legal tender. there is no authority to print money and to have a federal reserve system and central bank. [cheers and applause] now, the fed has been around for 99 years. they have lost 99% of the value of our dollar from 1913. i am going to let you in on a little secret. the chairman of the federal reserve will be at the banking committee tomorrow. i might just show up and ask him why they are destroying our money. [cheers and applause] i can assure you, we probably will not get a straight answer.

obviously, the monetary issue is a very big issue. governments cannot grow without it. when government grows, liberty is undermined. since that time -- since the progressive era, we have undermined our liberties whether it is through the encroachments of the entitlement system. that was set up for those poor who are going to fall through the cracks. i think the best demonstration of that was the housing bubble. during the housing bubble, guess what? to make a lot of money during this time? the banks, the fatty -- freddie macs and fannie maes. they met all of the money. then they got into the gambling of derivatives and got into big trouble. lo and behold, the predictable crunch and bursting of the bubble came. when it came, they said "we are too big to fail." [booiong]

the fed and the congress bill them out. the very people that these programs were designed for to give everybody a house, they lost their jobs and houses. it is not resolved yet. the entitlement system tends to help the wealthy much more so than the poor. the core are deceived into believing that the government can produce wealth and redistribute it. there is a transfer of wealth from the middle class to the wealthy. that occurs with the destruction of a currency. the wealthy get wealthier. this is what has happened. wealth is ok of people make money honestly and they do not making by ripping us off and getting it manages from the government. if they give us a product -- [applause] if they give us a good product and they make money. that is different than if they

are in the military industrial complex for the banking system. they get the contracts and the bail out. that is not fair. it is not fair to dump wasteful products and all of the debt on the american people. with that said, obviously it should be liquidated. the banks that printed money and encourage wasteful spending, it certainly is true with overseas spending. just look at the waist that the wars have been going on for the last 10 years. the have added four trillion dollars to the national debt. we are less safe and we are broke. the very simple solution to overextension overseas is to follow the advice of the founders, follow the constitution, have a strong national defense, defend the country, but get out of the business of policing the world

and nation-building. [cheers and applause] you know, all my life. we bring our troops come to solve that problem. the sooner the better. [cheers and applause] fortunately, our defense would be stronger. people say we have to do this because we are in exceptional nation. we did have an exceptional nation at one time. we were exceptionally wealthy. we were exceptional with freedom. this idea we are so exceptional that we can use force and intimidation and moms and spread our so-called "goodness," it eliminates all of our good as if we believe we have the authority

to go overseas and tell people how to live. it does not work. [applause] a very simple solution to this, but the entitlement system and the warmongering that goes on, only send people to washington who you honestly believe that they really did read the constitution and that they understood it. and they will obey it. that is the kind of people that we need. [cheers and applause] how many wars have been fighting since world war ii? zero. none have been declared. they were unnecessary. too many dollars spent. to many veterans suffering. it does not solve our problems.

i thought we receiver. what we need is a new foreign policy based on non intervention. it is much better to talk to people than initiate war against them. they keep saying that they take nothing off the table when it has to deal with our enemy. why should we take off negotiations? why not diplomacy? should we take that off? i remember very well after being drafted in 1962 during the cuban crisis. it is dissipated rather rapidly because john kennedy said we have a problem here. they said we have a problem over here. they made a deal. we did the missiles out of turkey and a ticket out of cuba. we did not have to fight a nuclear war.

why do we fight people cope have weapons tax reduced by people who have weapons? -- why do we find people who have weapons? now they're talking about attacking iran. there is no evidence they even have a weapon. the cia has not even prove they are building one. the drums are beating. we have to be heard about this. this country does not need another war at all. another thing that happens or government grows too much, we do know about the tsa. our liberties are undermined

under these conditions. violations have been occurred. they're being violated more now than ever. it is undeclared. we are in perpetual war with terrorism. to say we are in a war against terrorism, that means we are against the whole world. we have a lot of bombs and missiles that we send. this is not the way to win friends. i tell you that. that is the way to build it. the undermining of our liberty should be one of our greatest concerns. the patriot act was passed after 9/11. i am convinced it they repel did it would have passed.

next year when we go ahead and get rid of the page redact, we will college restore the fourth amendment act. -- we will call it the restore the fourth amendment act. [applause] there's no doubt the founders were very important. we protected our papers and privacy. today there is none. they do not even need search warrant any more. the way they come busting into our house under the excuse that somebody may be using an illegal drug comment they use what seems. they do not have proper search warrants. can you believe that?

the go into the wrong house is frequently in the shooting kill innocent people. it is out of control. the president a year ago and announced that it is a position that he now holds because he is the commander in chief. anything that is not prohibited he can do. i think he got that really mixed up. a president only has the authority to do the things he is explicitly authorized to do by the constitution. i can guarantee you a file is to be elected president i will never go to a war and pursue a war without proper direction from the congress, a declaration coming from the people. i will not do it. [applause]

[cheering "presiden paul"] >> for the present to prove his point about the assassination, nothing says that we cannot reverse it. they have to be reversed. also, the defense authorization act. how does this go? this is an interesting subject. no matter where i go, the crowds know about it and concerns. i am convinced he did not hear it on the evening news. you are concerned about it.

how many times where we asked about our position on the national defense authorization? this atrocious piece of legislation says the military can arrest an american system without a trial or an attorney and put in a prison indefinitely. the most atrocious is there was one provision that was even worse. there is one that almost got past. it said if you are arrested in the proper manner and you were tried and you have a jury and you are found innocent, they claimed they would have the right to keep that person in definitely in a secret prison. that provision was removed. i cannot remember his name but it was a senator from kentucky

that got that removed. the problems are big. the economic problems are big. we spend too much. we have a monetary crisis. we are deeply over tax. we fight too many wars. it is on and on. the solution goes on. we have not been strict adherence to the constitution appear we can correct these problems. this is what we ought to do. our message should be loud and

clear. it is such a wonderful message. it produced the largest ever. this is the biggest debtor nation in the history of the world. the keynesian economists teach that when you're in trouble you are supposed to spend more money. kenya and imagine if individuals did that that there maxed out and they cannot pay their mortgages and they have two cards? you have to cut back. you have to work harder to pay your debt down. that is what you have to do. the answer comes really by understanding what personal liberty is all about. we have a natural right to our lives and liberty. liberty should bring us together. i am going to forget my speech.

what am i going to do. literacy should bring us together. when the government does it, it to be a disaster. -- liberty should bring us together. the government cannot do this. the only take away more liberty once they embark on it. this should bring people together. it is not because we allow people to do things we might not approve of.

people might be wasteful. they might have a private life style. the whole thing is everybody should join in the cause of liberty and let people be responsible for themselves. we were worried that we are not a moral people. we drifted too long. we concentrated on the wealth. we became consumers. as long as it happens, the society is immoral and it does not work. it has to come from the people. as this mu'min grows, just think of how many young people have joined this revolution -- as this movement grows, just think of how many young people

have joined this revolution. it is great to see the young people leading the charge. we also see others. once have been frustrated. they have dropped out. this understanding of liberty is good. when this revolution is successful, it cannot be a monopoly. it'll be bipartisan. it will be bipartisan people. i want to close by thanking you for coming and thanking you for your excitements and giving my energy. thank you. we all have a response abillity.

you make up your mind, what you need to do. everybody has a different job. the most important thing is to understand what this is all about. thank you very much for coming. like all right, everybody. >> ron paul with the supporters of a little earlier tonight. he is looking forward to the super tuesday campaign in that state. tonight the michigan and arizona primaries. in arizona, the race has been called for mitt romney by the associated press and other networks. we are still watching michigan with about 35% of the votes counted.

mitt romney ahead by a few percentage points 41% to 38%. ron paul who just heard from had about 12%. scene in mitt the romney's headquarters in michigan. we are waiting for the candidate to come out a little later tonight. we will bring you live coverage of the speeches when they come out to meet with supporters. later on, john mccain from the next -- part of our election coverage on c-span. he is here at c-span studios. jim is deputy editor of "daily briefings". he brings his experience from

boston, partly from the time when mitt romney was governor. with polls leading into tonight, i want to focus on michigan, it looked like there was a wider spread between rick santorum. we heard concern about romney. right now mitt romney is a couple of percentage points ahead. what are you making of the anticipation of today versus what we see in the results? >> i think gov. romney had a lot of built-in advantages. not just the money advantage, he is out spending two-one, but he is from there. his father was governor there. people know the romney name. he has a better organization than just about any other candidate you will see out there. ron paul has his own unique brand. rick santorum is running his

campaign basically on the back of an envelope. mitt romney has been planning this thing for years. he has the infrastructure in place from 2008. they have mapped out the delegate count. even if mitt romney loses tonight, which is unlikely, he will still be tagged the front runner because these guys have the architecture in place to run this through 50 states and approve the delegates they will need. the sexy had mine is the horse race. but the delegate count is ultimately what counts. -- michigan is a portion among the winners. if you are rick santorum's campaign, if you come in second after all of the anticipation going into it, how do you play this going forward? what i think the way you play it is to say, nobody figured us for a close second two months ago.

two months ago he was an afterthought in this race. he can point to michigan and say, this is a state where mitt romney is from. you read through all the advantages i have listed. you can say, we came within three or five points of mitt romney in this day. it shows we can win and rust belt states. rick santorum has an argument going into super tuesday with states like tennessee and ohio that we are the campaign that can carry middle america as opposed to mitt romney. >> things pretty testy between the mitt romney and rick santorum campaign, especially today over the issue of roroballs.

we are going to play one of those for our viewers -- robocalls. we are going to play one of those for our viewers. we will have phone lines open said you can talk. we have broken up lines by candidates who are supporting .h you can send a tweet @cspan. back to the robocall. let's listen in to what some michigan democrats heard and talk with jim about the campaign goes the reaction to this. >> by voting for rick santorum, a michigan democrats can vote in the republican primary on tuesday. why is it so important?

mitt romney supported bailouts for his billionaire buddy is but opposed the auto bailouts. that was a slap in the face to every michigan workers. we will not let mitt romney get away with it. join democrats that will send a loud message by voting for rick santorum for president. >> so jim sullivan, what were both campaigns positioning on these robocalls? what did the mitt romney campaign say? >> the mitt romney campaign is saying, rick santorum is in league with barack obama and the left. he is trying to under handedly make the argument that mitt romney is your choice if you are a democrat who was to see a

republican lose in november. he is reporting that rick santorum cannot possibly compete against obama. rick santorum's responses, i have the appeal across parties. he said this across the trail from iowa to new hampshire and beyond. he said i won in pennsylvania repeatedly. he said, one in a house district that was democratic. the point is, why not appeal to all voters? >> before 3 go to calls, let's talk about ron paul and newt gingrich. -- before we go to calls, let's talk about ron paul and newt gingrich. how much presence did they have in michigan? what was the strategy? >> gingrich sort of wrote the state off. the bet a fair amount on georgia, his home state where he is ahead in the polls.

he has a small but fiercely committed block of voters who will stick with him. he could bring the block of voters to the convention. those people are not going anywhere. you do not see people abandoning ron paul. those people are unwavering in their support. >> you heard the candidate in the event we just played before you came on talk about how it is all about delegate count with him. how does that percy? how does his focus on delegate accumulation work. >> the argument against him is you lost the ability to win a single state. his counter argument is i keep racking up delegates. as he marches along the where they are allocated proportionally, he can keep popping his total and proceeded to the summer. the money is unlikely to dry up anytime soon. ron paul has the ability to take

it to the convention not as a serious competitor for the nomination but as somebody who can affect the convention and affected the platform. to some extent, a lot of issues he has been talking about four years really entered the candidates lexicon. you saw them talking much more in ron paul territory than four years ago. >> i just want to ask you a little bit about the state of michigan and the voters. this is a google map. i hope you can see it. the purple is rick santorum. as you see the whole upper tier of michigan 29 has been strong santorum country. let's overlaid the 2008 results. we will put it right here on the screen. this area went to john mccain. how does a portion of the state that was heavily john mccain territory become rick santorum territory? >> i think an aversion is well

known as romney is, there is also an aversion to mitt romney. santorum has presented himself as the alternative to mitt romney this time around. some voters, if you just are not going to be able to make a sale. if rick santorum can pick off people who are wavering and staunch anti romney voters, that is a strategy. he has an ability to speak to a wing of the party in certain democratic -- demographic categories that mitt romney has been unable to reach. he has been making this disoriented comments about the height of the trees. that does not really reach or persuade people. rick santorum is really good at

connecting with people. >> will come back to gov. romney and his connection with yours. let's take some calls from our viewers. this is patrick from illinois. he is a rick santorum supporter. are you there? >> yes. >> your comment about 29 positive results. >> i was watching -- they are tied it seems like. i guess i was sitting around with my son and i wanted to show my support. i have been on the fund. i think rick santorum is a great candidate. >> what do you like about rick santorum? >> he seems like a family man. he seems like somebody who cares. he seems like somebody when he says something, he is not going to -- i am sorry. i am a little bit nervous. my son is listening to me. i am just a little -- a real big

supporter of him. he seemed like a man of his word. he may be that the shiniest canada, but hopefully that will show through as the election goes forward. -- he is not the shiniest candid it. >> how old is your son? >> he is 15. >> how interested in this campaign is he? >> not too much. we are a divorced family. it is tough. i am trying to show that america and family -- we still need to push together and stay together and work things out. it seems like that is a big problem. hopefully with families getting stronger and people waking up in america -- sorry, i am getting a little nervous. >> thank you for hanging with us on the phone line. a ron paul supporter named chris. >> good evening. to hear me? >> yes, we can. >> i support ron paul because i

found a lot of independence that really like him. something that is going to be important come november is simply, what will the independents and that doing? ron paul has had a lot of modern conservatism with a new understanding of liberty that is pleasant for everybody to hear. >> our caller talked about a personal connection he had with rick santorum. that is the scene you were bringing up right before we went to calls. he watched mitt romney connecting with people in the state. you saw his past bids. about his empathy that he expresses with voters, what does he have to say about it? what works and what does not work for him? >> it is not something that he addresses too frequently. he did talk this week about mistakes he had made. he admitted the two cadillac salon was a mistake.

mitt romney is not a guy that will we with charisma. he is not a clinton or reagan or anything like that. it is part of the reason he was elected in massachusetts. he ran against -- he ran with this club a problem solver, a fixer. that is how he sees himself. when it gets down to backslapping, he is not good at that. it is an open joke amongst the press. for a while, he was quitting out pictures of himself eating subway, as if that was a way to connect with people. it is not one of his strengths. his strengths are turnarounds, whether it is businesses or the olympics. he restored some fiscal order in massachusetts. he is not somebody who is going to convert people. he is not a tremendous retail politician.

it is not where he draws his strength from. he is a manager. he is an executive. he has been pretty successful with that. the change we have seen with past campaigns is he is more prone this time. the longer this goes on, the more you see him make comments, is unforced errors that make him appear so unnatural and awkward. it is one of the reasons he did not take questions for three weeks leading up to today. they do not want to put him in a position where he is prone to make a mistake. >> he talked about that today. the quote from his question and answer session was, i am not going to set my hair on fire to win this election. what was your reaction? >> he has an unnatural way of

speaking. you talk to people who have known him a long time, they say he does have a good sense of humor. i am not sure that comes across. it is old fashioned. he likes the three stooges and things that might have been a vote to 30 years ago or 40 years ago. he has trouble connecting on that rock, a human level. he has never pointed to that as a strength of his. he is a guy who solves problems. that is how he presents himself. when he is in a debate when he has this research, he can deliver a message, he is pretty effective. it is when he goes off script that he runs into problems. >> we have now reached the 50% reporting threshold. mitt romney widening his lead by 1%. 36% to 40% for mitt romney and

rick santorum. we are going to take our next call from new york city. a ron paul supporter. you are on. go ahead. are you there? your comments please. matt, i am going to move on. frank is from ohio. you are on. >> i am a world war ii veteran. i have noticed that newt gingrich and rick santorum are bragging about how they went along with clinton revaluing the welfare system. they did not be a body with the system. -- did not we evaluate the system. they took all those people and it put them in the va system.

now when i go for any treatment, they rip off social security for years. they are doing it with medicare. that is the reason why they are complaining about medicare going broke. you can thank gingrich and santorum for what happened on that situation when they crossed the aisle to vote with the kennedys. >> thank you for your call. we are running out of time here. on voting records, the records in washington, newt gingrich and rick santorum. >> it has been one of romney's big themes, these are guys who are washington insiders. romney's line is he has never worked a day in washington. he stayed here to make his

living in washington. gingrich did the same thing. that should be an effective argument. the problem is, he is appealing with that to the outside air wing of the party. he is the establishment candidate. it is difficult for him to pull. it is a powerful message. these guys are part of the problem. you do have a voting record you have to run against. >> we are told that rick santorum will be coming out to talk to his supporters in five minutes. we have a question for you from a viewer. is this the first time the candidates has appealed to the opposing party the way that santorum did? >> i would guess not. it is pretty of a consent forms case. i think that is uncommon -- it is pretty obvious in santorum's

case. i think that is uncommon. you saw it in new hampshire in 2008. a lot of times, like this, there is no democrat. a voter will think he can put -- get involved in the opposing party's contest. >> a comment about governor romney. his strength is killing business and sending the proceeds overseas. he tried to buy my business. i told him to go away, far away. next up, wes, watching us in florida. >> thank you. you have to look at newt gingrich because what is going on now is romney is trying to buy the election. santorum is an awful lot like to make carter. he jumped around and does not

know which way he is going. these guys have a lot of money in their campaigns, especially romney. what a they going to do when they get to washington? they are going to have to make all these donations. the same thing that obama did. if you go back through all those people and their friends, it all comes down to taking care of people. the same thing is going on in this election. gingrich has a few people backing him, but not near as many as these other people. if you put gingrich in office, you find that he is going to go face-to-face with obama. he can step back and say, you cannot blame me for any of the health care stock. -- stuff. one less thing about rick santorum, he used to be a democrat. never trust a turncoat.

thank you very much. >> the thing with gingrich is he has the argument, you have to pay your financial backers. the question is, what would he 0 sheldon and the gaming industry? it is a problem that faces all candidates. the campaign finance system is so open, so open to those kinds of charges. >> a question for you with regards to what is next. super tuesday, so many states in play, you talked about the romney campaign have been a lot of resources, how about the santorum campaign, gingrich? can the only focus on a few campaigns? >> they are going to continue to raise money. santorum has benefited from a

handful of wealthy backers. he is collecting small the nations as well. -- small donations as well. ohio, oklahoma, tennessee, those estates he is up. gingrich, up in georgia. -- those are states he is up. gingrich, up in georgia. it is not an area mitt romney can expect to do well. he has massachusetts next tuesday. he will do well there. in a state like virginia, could meet with a lot of upscale republican voters. he could expect to do well. gingrich and santorum could prove to have a field of there as well. i did not think you are going to see gingrich and santorum spent a lot of time in massachusetts. i think gingrich will spend a lot of time in ohio. >> it timing is perfect.

as he talked about rick santorum, he has to step up -- as you talk about rick santorum, he has just stepped up to the microphone. ♪ >> wow. [applause] >> a month ago they did not know who we are. they do now. [applause] what an absolutely great night. i am so thankful, so thankful to so many people here tonight. first and foremost i have to say, to the people of michigan, we came into the back yard of one of my opponents, in a race that everyone said, just ignore. the people of michigan looked into the hearts of the candidates and all i have to say

is, i love you back. [applause] i also, thank you. [laughter] you are getting to know me. >> we love you. >> not exactly fit the medium's i would like you to get to know me. we have an opportunity to tell you more about who rick santorum is. i want to thank the folks on the stage behind me. my wife and my family who is represented by elizabeth and john. at home, the best of the family, daniel, said, peter, patrick, and bella. i want to thank them for standing behind me every day of this campaign. [applause]

i want to tell you about three people. first, someone who is not here who i have not publicly thank yet. -- thanked yet. that is my 93-year-old mom. [applause] i am sure she is feeling very pet. one of her first jobs was in michigan. she was very excited i was coming back here. my mom is an unusual person for her time. she did get a college advocation in the 1930's. she was a nurse and got -- a college education in the 1930's. she was a nurse. she worked full time. when she met my dad, they worked at the veterans administration. later on, they had me and the

rest of the family. my mom continued to work. she worked all of my childhood. she balanced time, working different schedules. she was a very unusual person. she was a professional who made more money than her husband. i grew up with a very strong mom, someone who was a professional person who taught me a lot of things about how to balance work and family in doing it well and with a big heart and commitment. that is one of the reasons i ended up wearing beepers and i married. -- ended up marrying the person i married. [applause] who is as strong as they get. i met when we would just about to study the practice of law. i recruited her in more ways than one to my law firm. she was a professional.

she worked as a nurse. after that, we got married. she walked away. she decided to stay home and raise her children. she did not quit working. raising seven children is a lot of work. she found time to be an author of two books. she too has been that rock that has been beside me and is a great example of how it is important to balance work and family and do so committed to making sure you are the best you can be. i am proud i have a daughter, elisabeth. she is a great part of our campaign. she campaigned on her own. the feedback i get is, you stay home, just send elizabeth out. we have been very blessed. very blessed with great role models for me, someone who tries

to do the job i am doing, to maintain a good and strong family. we all have to be americans. we all have to have responsibility, to make both work and work as well as we can. it is getting harder in america. it is getting harder for people to make ends meet. we have a government that is crushing us every single day with more taxes, more regulation, and the idea that they know better than you how to run your life. that is about what this race is about. it goes down to the very nature of who we are as americans. are we a country that believes in big government? do we believe in the smart and the elite to manage us? or do you believe in the free economy? what do you say? [applause]

we put together a plan. we announced it in michigan. our first hundred days, what we are going to do. the first thing we talked about is what is on the minds of a lot of people, the rise in energy. we can put millions of americans back to work if we unleash the spirit of our energy sector of the economy. we can drive down prices, degrees of a dependency on foreign oil. we can do it all. we have a president who says no. we have a president who with the opportunity to open up federal lands for mining and oil and gas, says no. we have an opportunity to open up of short, he says no. the latta, he says no. alaska, -- off shore, he says

no. deepwater, he says no. alaska, he says no. we need a president who says yes. [applause] it is not just the consumer who is affected, it is many communities across this country, communities who have been struggling. you look at where the population loss is, where the unemployment rate is highest, it is with the government is shut down and made it impossible for us to use our natural resources to be able to get to that oil, coal, timber. bureaucrats in washington do not care about those sparsely populated areas that provide us the resources upon which we live. i was in one of those areas in north dakota.

i went to a little town. i'll tell you how small it is, it is the fifth time to mention the speech, and i have yet to get a shot up. it is a small town. -- a shout out. it is a small town. they are nervous because th epa is hovering. they are developing oil on private land. oil out of rock, shale. it reaches the highest quality oil. it can produce thousands and thousands of jobs in northwest north dakota. they have trouble of getting investors to come here, why? they believed the government is going to shut them down or pull the plug on them. they have a pipeline that they

would love to be able to build instead of running truck after truck after truck through the roads and on the rail. this crude that comes out of this rock is a premium product. not in north dakota. they get a $30 discount when they sell their oil. they have a president who will not let them get their oil to market. [applause] we need a president who is on the side of rural america, small-town america, and opens of those energy resources for america. -- opens up those energy resources for america. [applause] it is not just the energy industry, of course, as you know, it is manufacturing. one of the things i felt good about it in as well as we did here tonight is the message of

greeting jobs for small-town america. it resonated with the people of michigan. they saw a vision for how their lives could be better. how their ladder to success could be built down to people with limited skills but the desire to work hard. we have lost, from 21% of the economy to 9% of the economy. workers in manufacturing is down to 9%. that is inexcusable. all because of government regulation and taxation. we put forth a plan that "the wall street journal" calls, " supply side economics for the working man." to be able to provide for their family. the average job pays $20,000 more a year.

we can get those jobs back. we need to slash the corporate rate to zero. we need to let the regulatory environment -- we will appeal to every one of barack obama -- one ofepeal, every barack obama's regulations. [applause] one of the things we are going to repeal it is obamacare. [applause] that is the biggest issue in this race. it is an issue about fundamental freedom. it is an issue about what they want government to take your money in exchange for a ride. -- about whether you want the government to take your money in

exchange for a right. when the government gives you a right, they can take that right away. they can tell you have to exercise that right. they do. not just what doctor you are going to see, what insurance policy, goes so far as to tell you how to exercise your face as part of a health-care bill. the government can go that far with obamacare. ladies and gentlemen, we need a candidate to take on barack obama who is an author of free- market health care economics, been a fighter for placing all of these programs across this country -- for replacing all of these programs across this country. for a program that is based upon you called you-care. that is what we believe in america. [applause]

we have a great conservative track record on not just health care, but i have taken on the big problems that confront this country, the deficit. huge expanding debt in this country. someone has been an advocate ever since i was in politics for a balanced budget amendment, fought, a tooth and nail to get it passed. given up trying to fight. in the meantime, we will do something that no one else has ever successfully done. we will end entitlement programs on the federal level, give them back to this day, and cut them to save money -- to the state, and cut them to save money.

[applause] people said we could not do it, we did it. i was the author of welfare reform. welfare reform which cut the program and give it back to the states, like we need to do with medicare and food stamps and a whole host of other programs run by the state. remember that document, what is it called? oh yes, it is the u.s. constitution. we need to get those programs back to the state. we need to save the federal government money. welfare did not just save money, -- it saved lives. it put people back to work. it gave them something that dependency does not give, hope. that is what america is all about, giving opportunity and hope. [applause]

although economic plan is based on a simple concept, based on what has worked for america from its founding. i wave is constitution at every speech. it is how america works. there is another document equally important, which is the why of america. that is the declaration of independence. in that declaration are these words, we hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain in a legal rights. it is the most transformational able rights.nallie it is the most transformational phrase. people are going to form families and churches and

education. they are going to build a great injustice side, a free society from the bottom up. that is how america works best, from the bottom up. that is the solution we are going to propose for america, the bottom up. [applause] the men and women who signed the declaration of independence wrote this final phase, we pledge to each other our lives, our fortune, and our sacred honor. they signed that document, they had little hope of actually succeeding in a revolution against the british. the british are the most powerful army in the world. they were ruled by highly educated, noble people.

their uniforms were crisp and stiff. they looked good. >> like obama. >> their rulers ruled them from on high. they did not listen to them. our leaders are different. george washington, the signature leader of america, was different. he understood that the greatness of this new country was to have leaders who understood that in spite of their breeding and education, they did not have all the answers. they could trust the people, the group of people who stepped forward to volunteer to create freedom in this land. they believed, he believed in that. some of his boldest moves came

not from him or his generals, but from the ranks. that is how america's freedom was one. leaders believing in the people they lead against those who thought all the answers resided in those in charge. ladies and gentlemen, that is what made america free. that is what will make america free. [applause] thank you. [applause] [applause] [crowd chanting]

[crowd chanting "we pick rick"] >> hello biggest fan. how are you? you sure can. let me get something better than that. >> they said, they were light, your daughter likes rick santorum. >> that is rick santorum with his supporters in michigan. polls earlier showing him within striking distance in the state of michigan. in fact, the state has gone to mitt romney with his childhood

rickets in that state. you are watching live coverage tonight on c-span to meet next, we will take you to mitt romney's headquarters. >> i just got back from there and it is a mess. and we are showing them how to do it here in michigan. how to balance the budget, pay down the deficit, create jobs. [applause] but the other good part is, the only thing holding us back is washington. we are on a path to get the leadership we need there to make us even go faster here in michigan. [cheers and applause] i am proud to be here with a suit and kelsey tonight. it is my honor and privilege to introduce ann romney and the next president of the united states, mitt romney. [applause]

♪ born free"] ♪ [cheers] >> as usual, have a long list of thank yous and i will see if you are all going to behave and listen to this list without cheering in between. thank you to our honoring michigan chairman, gov. rick snyder, who you just saw. [cheers] lieutenant governor, brian kelly. and to our campaign cochairs, attorney general bill should

be, senate majority leader roy randy richard vella, speaker james bolger. i also want to thank our finance shares. david fisher and john ricolta. and we have a big family here in michigan and we would like to thank them. and by the way, my family across this state. i also must recognize our national committee members. >> yeah, great job. >> and our congressman. this is a list. dave camp, fred upton, like rogers, that the potters, bill ixonia, bill belichick. and thank you to our wonderful

surrogates. donald trump. it governor tim pawlenty. gov. bob macdonald. the governor chris christie. and you're famous oakland county chair that you love -- let's see, brooks patterson. how could i forget brooks? rep eric nesbit. former state presented a of rocky rakowski. and attorney general, mike cox. i'm sorry to keep going to our state team, lowry and bob. and finally, thank you, kid rock. [applause] the last week, have been going along with mitt, and my son, tagg, too.

we have been going all over this state. from the tip of the mid -- [laughter] >> be careful. >> i know, i'd better be careful. but what we have seen out there has broken my heart. i love michigan. i love mckeown. >> -- i love of michigan. >> we love you. [applause] >> i grew up drinking burners end tiger baseball. -- and tiger baseball. and what we saw were people hurting, people out of jobs. and then there was something else, they are so concerned about their children and why it is because of the debt we're going to give to our children. and we have had it. washington, here we come. we are going to take back america, and we are going to let this guy do it.

[cheers and applause] [cheers] >> thank you. >> [crowd chanting "mitt!"] >> ok, first thank you, arizona. a great victory in arizona tonight. and thank you, michigan. this is a big win. thank you, guys. [cheers] it was just a week ago that the pundits and pollsters were ready to count us out, but across michigan and arizona, i kept meeting moms and dads and students and grandparents and they were concerned about what is happening in our great country.

i was confident that we could come together today and take a giant step toward a great future. we celebrate tonight with people across these states. thank you. [applause] tonight is also particularly special for me because this is the place i was born. this the place i was raised. my mom and dad lived many years here and i love this great state. i know the michiganders in this room, we consider you all family. thanks for your help. [cheers] and in this room are the people that knocked down the doors and made the calls and went to the polls. the we did not been -- but we did not win by a lot, but we won by enough that counts -- by enough and that is all that is counts. [applause] and by the way, a special thank you to denver and senator

mccain. especially senator mccain, he has been all over the state there. [applause] we have two sons out there that are celebrating with them. a great thing about having so many in our family. we can cover almost every race. on super tuesday, we will be stretched. [laughter] anyway, as you know, our campaign is about the promise of america. last week, i unveiled a bold plan that will get michiganders back to work, get americans back to work. i will deliver on more jobs, less debt, and smaller government. we have got to hear that day in and day out. [cheers] there are a lot of people who are saying that if you are running for office, you cannot speak honestly to the american people. well, we did, and i will. and because this is a decisive

moment, i believe this is a time the requires real leadership in our country. times are tough. we need people -- leaders who will live with integrity, have the courage to tell the truth, and have the experience to get the economy back on track. that is the kind of leader i aspire to be and that is the kind of leader i will be if i am president of the united states. [cheers] our campaign is about more than just replacing a president. it is about restoring america's promise from generation to generation. americans have always known that the future would be brighter and better. americans have always believed in tomorrow, full of prosperity and promise. that is what it means to be the land of opportunity. in america, you know if you work hard you can build a better life. if you teach your kids the right kind of values to make the right choices in life, you know their future will be prosperous and secure. that deep confidence in a better

tomorrow is the basic promise of a better america. today, that promise is being threatened by a faltering economy and a failed presidency. four years ago, we warned that there -- that the presidency was no place for on-the-job training. today, we have the economy to prove it. we have a president that likes to remind us that he inherited an economy in crisis. but it does not like to remind us that he also inherited a democrat congress. he had majorities in both the house and senate. he was free to pursue any policy he pleased. did he fix the economy? no. did he tackled the economy -- the housing crisis? did he get america back to work? >> tobben record crowd yells "no!"] -- [crowd yells "note!"]

>> it is time to get us back on the right path. these days, when he is not spending our money or infringing on our rights, he is busy running for reelection. he believes he ranks among the top four presidents in american history. can you believe that? [boos] i would find a different spot for him. he thinks he deserves a second term he says, we cannot wait. to which i say, oh yes, we can. [applause] today, we are $15 trillion in debt and real unemployment stands at 15%. but you have heard the saying about "i need a vacation from my vacation." we need a recovery from this so- called recovery. [applause] as a nation, we have survived the great depression, whether to two world wars, made it through

tough times. -- we have weathered two world wars, made it through tough times, and we have come too far to give up now. we still believe in the hope and dream and promise of america. we know our future is brighter than the stubble -- troubled times. that unwavering conviction has rallied millions of people to our cause and is the message we will take to every corner of the country, from ohio and idaho, to georgia and tennessee. it we have seen enough of this president of the last three years to know that we do not need another five years of president obama. [applause] he thinks he is unchecked by the constitution. he is unresponsive to the will of our people, and in his second term he would be unrestrained by the demands of reelection. if there is one thing we cannot afford is four years of barack obama with nothing to answer to. we are going to get him out of that office and back home where he belongs. [applause]

you saw his budget. >> [xcrowd chanting "mitt!"] >> you saw his budget. it foreshadows exactly what we are going to see runaway spending, record debt, they were just a warm-up act. we are not going to let him do it. in this campaign, i am offering a real choice and a very different direction. i have a plan that will restore america's promise through more jobs, less debt, and smaller government. president obama is making the government bigger, more burdensome, and loaded. i will make it simpler, smaller, and smarter, and it is about time for that to happen. [cheers]

he raised the national debt. i will cut, kowt, and alice the budget. he passed obamacare. i will repeal obamacare. he lost our aaa credit rating. i will restore it. he rejected the keystone pipeline. [boos] i will get us that oil from canada that we deserve. [applause] and i will open up our land for development so that we can finally get energy for this country at a price that we can afford. [applause] when it comes to the economy, my highest priority will be worrying about your job, not worrying about how to save my own. this president wants to raise your taxes. i am going to cut them.

that will start with an across- the-board 20% rate cut for every american. i will also repeal the alternative minimum tax, and we will finally abolished the death tax. [cheers and applause) he has now proposed raising taxes on small businesses and job creators. i will lower those taxes. i will also lower the corporate rate on larger businesses to 25%. i will make the r&d tax credit permanent to foster innovation, and i will bring investment back to our shores. let's finally have a tax plan that puts americans back to work. i have it, and we will get it in place. [applause] you know he also proposes to raise taxes on savings and investment. if i am the president and i will help middle-class families save

and invest tax-free. [cheers] i agree. it is about time. [applause] he also had an extraordinary gap in his policy proposals. even after saying that medicare and social security were in trouble, he has yet to offer a serious proposal for saving them. i have a plan to save them both. and unlike him, i have the courage to put my plan on the table for people to see. [applause] what this campaign is about, what my plans are about are creating jobs and raising wages for the american people. they will strengthen our entitlement programs for the next generation, and they will not add to our deficit. we will finally balance america's budget. [cheers] beyond having a plan to get our citizens back to work, have the

experience to get our economy back on track. i spent 25 years in business. i was also the story of the olympics and a leader of the state. i cut taxes 19 times. i turned a budget shortfall in trade surplus. i know how government can kill jobs and i know how it can create jobs. i stand ready to lead our party to victory and our nation back to prosperity. [cheers] [applause] this is a critical time in america. it is our time for choosing. and this time, we have got to get the choice right. i have said it before and i firmly believe it, that this campaign is about saving the soul of america. this election comes down to two very different visions of america. it is a choice between becoming a nation of and by washington, or remaining a nation of and by

a free people, a choice between an entitlement society and the land of opportunity. it's a choice between squandering america's promise, and restoring the promise for future generations. if you want to make this election about restoring american greatness, and i hope you will join us. if you believe the disappointments of the past few years are a detour and not the destiny of america, then i need your support. i'm asking for you to get out and vote. and i'm asking you to go to running.com and pledge york -- to go to mittromney.com and pledge your support. let's restore america's promise. let's fight for this country we love. we have work ahead. we are going to take back america. america is the greatest nation in the history of the area and we are going to keep it that way. [cheers] thank you, guys.

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[rodney atkins "it's america" playing] >> mitt romney rep in up his ninth in michigan. results and arizona, strung from mitt romney, 48%. rick santorum at 26%. in michigan, the result a little bit closer. that stake, it was 41% to 38%. a win and nonetheless.

29 delegates in michigan, it is apportioned. some reaction from the political world to the romney wednesday. the democrats have tweeted this, "he won by nearly 10 points in 2008 -- also, this from mitt romney himself. let's take a look at super tuesday. 437 delegates at stake in those markets 6 elections. the states in yellow will be having contests that day. we will be here that night to bring you results. we continue the conversation tonight. you can follow politics on our

facebook page or at twitter. tomorrow morning, we will continue the conversation live on washington journal. two political guests, jason chaffetz of utah, supporting romney. that all begins at 7:00 a.m. tonight, we are going to bring you all the candidates' speeches. we are going to begin with rick santorum in michigan.

♪ >> wow. [applause] >> a month ago they did not know who we are. they do now. [applause] what an absolutely great night. i am so thankful, so thankful to so many people here tonight. first and foremost i have to say, to the people of michigan, we came into the back yard of one of my opponents, in a race that everyone said, just ignore. the people of michigan looked into the hearts of the

candidates and all i have to say is, i love you back. [applause] i also, thank you. [laughter] you are getting to know me. >> we love you. >> not exactly fit the medium's i would like you to get to know me. we have an opportunity to tell you more about who rick santorum is. i want to thank the folks on the stage behind me. my wife and my family who is represented by elizabeth and john. at home, the best of the family, daniel, said, peter, patrick, and bella. i want to thank them for standing behind me every day of this campaign. [applause] i want to tell you about three

people. first, someone who is not here who i have not publicly thank yet. -- thanked yet. that is my 93-year-old mom. [applause] i am sure she is feeling very pet. -- proud. one of her first jobs was in michigan. she was very excited i was coming back here. my mom is an unusual person for her time. she did get a college advocation in the 1930's. she was a nurse and got -- a college education in the 1930's. she was a nurse. she worked full time. when she met my dad, they worked at the veterans administration. later on, they had me and the rest of the family. my mom continued to work.

she worked all of my childhood. she balanced time, working different schedules. she was a very unusual person. she was a professional who made more money than her husband. i grew up with a very strong mom, someone who was a professional person who taught me a lot of things about how to balance work and family in doing it well and with a big heart and commitment. that is one of the reasons i ended up wearing beepers and i married. -- ended up marrying the person i married. [applause] someone who is as strong as they get. i met when we would just about to study the practice of law. i recruited her in more ways than one to my law firm. she was a professional. she worked as a nurse. after that, we got married. she walked away. she decided to stay home and raise her children.

she did not quit working. raising seven children is a lot of work. she found time to be an author of two books. she too has been that rock that has been beside me and is a great example of how it is important to balance work and family and do so committed to making sure you are the best you can be. i am proud i have a daughter, elisabeth. she is a great part of our campaign. she campaigned on her own. the feedback i get is, you stay home, just send elizabeth out. we have been very blessed. very blessed with great role models for me, someone who tries to do the job i am doing,

to maintain a good and strong family. we all have to be americans. we all have to have responsibility, to make both work and work as well as we can. it is getting harder in america. it is getting harder for people to make ends meet. we have a government that is crushing us every single day with more taxes, more regulation, and the idea that they know better than you how to run your life. that is about what this race is about. it goes down to the very nature of who we are as americans. are we a country that believes in big government? do we believe in the smart and the elite to manage us? or do you believe in the free economy? what do you say? [applause] we put together a plan.

we announced it in michigan. our first hundred days, what we are going to do. the first thing we talked about is what is on the minds of a lot of people, the rise in energy. we can put millions of americans back to work if we unleash the spirit of our energy sector of the economy. we can drive down prices, degrees of a dependency on foreign oil. we can do it all. we have a president who says no. we have a president who with the opportunity to open up federal lands for mining and oil and gas, says no. we have an opportunity to open up of short, he says no. the latta, he says no. alaska, -- off shore, he says no. deepwater, he says no. alaska, he says no. we need a president who says yes. [applause]

it is not just the consumer who is affected, it is many communities across this country, communities who have been struggling. you look at where the population loss is, where the unemployment rate is highest, it is with the government is shut down and made it impossible for us to use our natural resources to be able to get to that oil, coal, timber. bureaucrats in washington do not care about those sparsely populated areas that provide us the resources upon which we live. i was in one of those areas in north dakota. i went to a little town. i'll tell you how small it is, it is the fifth time to mention the speech, and i have yet to get a shot up. it is a small town.

-- a shout out. it is a small town. they are nervous because th epa is hovering. they are developing oil on private land. oil out of rock, shale. it reaches the highest quality oil. it can produce thousands and thousands of jobs in northwest north dakota. they have trouble of getting investors to come here, why? they believed the government is going to shut them down or pull the plug on them. they have a pipeline that they would love to be able to build instead of running truck after truck after truck through the roads and on the rail. this crude that comes out of this rock is a premium product.

not in north dakota. they get a $30 discount when they sell their oil. they have a president who will not let them get their oil to market. [applause] we need a president who is on the side of rural america, small-town america, and opens of those energy resources for america. -- opens up those energy resources for america. [applause] it is not just the energy industry, of course, as you know, it is manufacturing. one of the things i felt good about it in as well as we did here tonight is the message of greeting jobs for small-town america. it resonated with the people of michigan. they saw a vision for how their lives could be better.

how their ladder to success could be built down to people with limited skills but the desire to work hard. we have lost, from 21% of the economy to 9% of the economy. workers in manufacturing is down to 9%. that is inexcusable. all because of government regulation and taxation. we put forth a plan that "the wall street journal" calls, "supply side economics for the working man." to be able to provide for their family. the average job pays $20,000 more a year. we can get those jobs back. we need to slash the corporate rate to zero. we need to let the regulatory environment -- we will appeal to

every one of barack obama -- will repeal, every one of barack obama's regulations. [applause] one of the things we are going to repeal it is obamacare. [applause] that is the biggest issue in this race. it is an issue about fundamental freedom. it is an issue about what they want government to take your money in exchange for a ride. -- about whether you want the government to take your money in exchange for a right. when the government gives you a right, they can take that right away. they can tell you have to exercise that right. they do. not just what doctor you are

going to see, what insurance policy, goes so far as to tell you how to exercise your face as part of a health-care bill. the government can go that far with obamacare. ladies and gentlemen, we need a candidate to take on barack obama who is an author of free- market health care economics, been a fighter for placing all of these programs across this country -- for replacing all of these programs across this country. for a program that is based upon you called you-care. that is what we believe in america. [applause]

we have a great conservative track record on not just health care, but i have taken on the big problems that confront this country, the deficit. huge expanding debt in this country. someone has been an advocate ever since i was in politics for a balanced budget amendment, fought, a tooth and nail to get it passed. i have never given up trying to fight. in the meantime, we will do something that no one else has ever successfully done. we will end entitlement programs on the federal level, give them back to this day, and cut them to save money -- to the state, and cut them to save money. [applause] people said we could not do it, we did it. i was the author of welfare

reform. welfare reform which cut the program and give it back to the states, like we need to do with medicare and food stamps and a whole host of other programs run by the state. remember that document, what is it called? oh yes, it is the u.s. constitution. we need to get those programs back to the state. we need to save the federal government money. welfare did not just save money, -- it saved lives. it put people back to work. it gave them something that dependency does not give, hope. that is what america is all about, giving opportunity and hope. [applause] although economic plan is based on a simple concept, based on

what has worked for america from its founding. i wave is constitution at every speech. it is how america works. there is another document equally important, which is the why of america. that is the declaration of independence. in that declaration are these words, we hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain in a legal rights. it is the most transformational -- certain inallieable rights. it is the most transformational phrase. people are going to form families and churches and education. they are going to build a great injustice side, a free society from the bottom up. that is how america works best, from the bottom up.

that is the solution we are going to propose for america, the bottom up. [applause] the men and women who signed the declaration of independence wrote this final phase, we pledge to each other our lives, our fortune, and our sacred honor. they signed that document, they had little hope of actually succeeding in a revolution against the british. the british are the most powerful army in the world. they were ruled by highly educated, noble people. their uniforms were crisp and stiff. they looked good. >> like obama.

>> their rulers ruled them from on high. they did not listen to them. our leaders are different. george washington, the signature leader of america, was different. he understood that the greatness of this new country was to have leaders who understood that in spite of their breeding and education, they did not have all the answers. they could trust the people, the group of people who stepped forward to volunteer to create freedom in this land. they believed, he believed in that. some of his boldest moves came not from him or his generals, but from the ranks. that is how america's freedom was one. leaders believing in the people

they lead against those who thought all the answers resided in those in charge. ladies and gentlemen, that is what made america free. that is what will make america free. [applause] thank you. [applause] [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] [crowd chanting] [crowd chanting "we pick rick"] ♪

>> hello biggest fan. how are you? you sure can. let me get something better than that. >> they said, they were light, your daughter likes rick santorum. >> thank you. thank you. >> good luck, sir.

>> how are you? thank you. >> thank you so much. thank you so much. >> thank you. thank you so much for coming out. >> thank you. ♪ who? h-i-s-k-e-s. thank you. thank you very much. i congratulated him. he had a good night. >> good luck.

>> thank you. all right. thank you. thank you so much. thank you. thank you so much for coming up. -- out. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you, rick. congratulations. >> thank you so much. >> that works, thank you so much. >> i like a sweater vest. good to see you. thank you very much. i appreciate it.

>> this is my family. >> a very good. you are both doctors. >> yeah. >> go ahead. i will tell you what, it on the other side. >> this is my family. >> got it? good deal. >> god bless you, sir. >> you can be, you know? >> what happened?

what happened? i am so sorry. >> senator? [indistinct chatter] [indistinct chatter] >> are you disappointed about

the results? >> i feel great. i came into governor romney's backyard. >> you made it a competition, is that what you a singer? >> do you think you will recount? -- a competition? >> do you think you will recount? >> can i get a picture with you? >> you are awesome. >> where do you go from here? >> we go to tennessee and ohio. >> how are you? is, how big?estion it was not very big. it is pretty clear. >> hi, how are you?

>> how are you? good to see you. >> i am praying for you guys. >> there you go. thank you. thank you. >> you have done a great thing. >> thank you. thank you. good to see you. you all look so pretty. how are you doing? thank you. >> how are you? >> you want to do a picture? go ahead. there we go. thank you. >> how are you?

>> turnaround. -- turn around. thank you very much. thank you for being here. i appreciated. thank you very much. they you go. -- there you go. good job. i am glad i came to michigan. i just did that one. thank you. >> are you going to tennessee tomorrow? >> now, remarks from mitt romney who scored victories in arizona and michigan.

♪ ["born free"] [cheers] >> as usual, have a long list of thank yous and i will see if you are all going to behave and listen to this list without cheering in between. thank you to our honoring michigan chairman, gov. rick snyder, who you just saw. [cheers] lieutenant governor, brian kelly. and to our campaign cochairs, attorney general bill should be, senate majority leader roy randy richard vella, speaker james bolger. i also want to thank our finance shares. david fisher and john ricolta.

and we have a big family here in michigan and we would like to thank them. and by the way, my family across this state. i also must recognize our national committee members. >> yeah, great job. >> and our congressman. this is a list. dave camp, fred upton, like rogers, that the potters, bill ixonia, bill belichick. and thank you to our wonderful surrogates. donald trump. it governor tim pawlenty. gov. bob macdonald. the governor chris christie. and you're famous oakland county chair that you love -- let's see, brooks patterson.

how could i forget brooks? rep eric nesbit. former state presented a of rocky rakowski. and attorney general, mike cox. i'm sorry to keep going to our state team, lowry and bob. and finally, thank you, kid rock. [applause] the last week, have been going along with mitt, and my son, tagg, too. we have been going all over this state. from the tip of the mid -- [laughter] >> be careful. >> i know, i'd better be careful.

but what we have seen out there has broken my heart. i love michigan. i love mckeown. >> -- i love of michigan. >> we love you. [applause] >> i grew up drinking burners end tiger baseball. -- and tiger baseball. and what we saw were people hurting, people out of jobs. and then there was something else, they are so concerned about their children and why it is because of the debt we're going to give to our children. and we have had it. washington, here we come. we are going to take back america, and we are going to let this guy do it. [cheers and applause] [cheers]

>> thank you. >> [crowd chanting "mitt!"] >> ok, first thank you, arizona. a great victory in arizona tonight. and thank you, michigan. this is a big win. thank you, guys. [cheers] it was just a week ago that the pundits and pollsters were ready to count us out, but across michigan and arizona, i kept meeting moms and dads and students and grandparents and they were concerned about what is happening in our great country. i was confident that we could come together today and take a giant step toward a great future. we celebrate tonight with people across these states. thank you. [applause]

tonight is also particularly special for me because this is the place i was born. this the place i was raised. my mom and dad lived many years here and i love this great state. i know the michiganders in this room, we consider you all family. thanks for your help. [cheers] and in this room are the people that knocked down the doors and made the calls and went to the polls. the we did not been -- but we did not win by a lot, but we won by enough that counts -- by enough and that is all that counts. [applause] and by the way, a special thank you to denver and senator mccain. especially senator mccain, he has been all over the state there. [applause] we have two sons out there that are celebrating with them. a great thing about having so many in our family. we can cover almost every race. on super tuesday, we will be

stretched. [laughter] anyway, as you know, our campaign is about the promise of america. last week, i unveiled a bold plan that will get michiganders back to work, get americans back to work. i will deliver on more jobs, less debt, and smaller government. we have got to hear that day in and day out. [cheers] there are a lot of people who are saying that if you are running for office, you cannot speak honestly to the american people. well, we did, and i will. and because this is a decisive moment, i believe this is a time the requires real leadership in our country. times are tough. we need people -- leaders who will live with integrity, have the courage to tell the truth, and have the experience to get the economy back on track. that is the kind of leader i

aspire to be and that is the kind of leader i will be if i am president of the united states. [cheers] our campaign is about more than just replacing a president. it is about restoring america's promise from generation to generation. americans have always known that the future would be brighter and better. americans have always believed in tomorrow, full of prosperity and promise. that is what it means to be the land of opportunity. in america, you know if you work hard you can build a better life. if you teach your kids the right kind of values to make the right choices in life, you know their future will be prosperous and secure. that deep confidence in a better tomorrow is the basic promise of a better america. today, that promise is being threatened by a faltering economy and a failed presidency. four years ago, we warned that there -- that the presidency was no place for on-the-job training. today, we have the economy to

prove it. we have a president that likes to remind us that he inherited an economy in crisis. but it does not like to remind us that he also inherited a democrat congress. he had majorities in both the house and senate. he was free to pursue any policy he pleased. did he fix the economy? no. did he tackled the economy -- the housing crisis? did he get america back to work? >> tobben record crowd yells "no!"] -- [crowd yells "note!"] >> it is time to get us back on the right path. [applause] these days, when he is not spending our money or infringing on our rights, he is busy running for reelection.

he believes he ranks among the top four presidents in american history. can you believe that? [boos] i would find a different spot for him. he thinks he deserves a second term he says, we cannot wait. to which i say, oh yes, we can. [applause] today, we are $15 trillion in debt and real unemployment stands at 15%. but you have heard the saying about "i need a vacation from my vacation." we need a recovery from this so-called recovery. [applause] as a nation, we have survived the great depression, whether to two world wars, made it through tough times. -- we have weathered two world wars, made it through tough times, and we have come too far to give up now. we still believe in the hope and dream and promise of america. we know our future is brighter than the stubble -- troubled times.

that unwavering conviction has rallied millions of people to our cause and is the message we will take to every corner of the country, from ohio and idaho, to georgia and tennessee. it we have seen enough of this president of the last three years to know that we do not need another five years of president obama. [applause] he thinks he is unchecked by the constitution. he is unresponsive to the will of our people, and in his second term he would be unrestrained by the demands of reelection. if there is one thing we cannot afford is four years of barack obama with nothing to answer to. we are going to get him out of that office and back home where he belongs. [applause] you saw his budget. >> [xcrowd chanting "mitt!"]

>> you saw his budget. it foreshadows exactly what we are going to see runaway spending, record debt, they were just a warm-up act. we are not going to let him do it. in this campaign, i am offering a real choice and a very different direction. i have a plan that will restore america's promise through more jobs, less debt, and smaller government. president obama is making the government bigger, more burdensome, and loaded. i will make it simpler, smaller, and smarter, and it is about time for that to happen. [cheers] he raised the national debt. i will cut, kowt, and alice the budget. he passed obamacare. i will repeal obamacare. [applause] he lost our aaa credit rating.

i will restore it. he rejected the keystone pipeline. [boos] i will get us that oil from canada that we deserve. [applause] and i will open up our land for development so that we can finally get energy for this country at a price that we can afford. [applause] when it comes to the economy, my highest priority will be worrying about your job, not worrying about how to save my own. this president wants to raise your taxes. i am going to cut them. that will start with an across- the-board 20% rate cut for every american. i will also repeal the alternative minimum tax, and we will finally abolished the death tax. [cheers and applause)

he has now proposed raising taxes on small businesses and job creators. i will lower those taxes. i will also lower the corporate rate on larger businesses to 25%. i will make the r&d tax credit permanent to foster innovation, and i will bring investment back to our shores. let's finally have a tax plan that puts americans back to work. i have it, and we will get it in place. [applause] you know he also proposes to raise taxes on savings and investment. if i am the president and i will help middle-class families save and invest tax-free. [cheers] i agree. it is about time. [applause] he also had an extraordinary gap in his policy proposals. even after saying that medicare

and social security were in trouble, he has yet to offer a serious proposal for saving them. i have a plan to save them both. and unlike him, i have the courage to put my plan on the table for people to see. [applause] what this campaign is about, what my plans are about are creating jobs and raising wages for the american people. they will strengthen our entitlement programs for the next generation, and they will not add to our deficit. we will finally balance america's budget. [cheers] beyond having a plan to get our citizens back to work, have the experience to get our economy back on track. i spent 25 years in business. i was also the story of the olympics and a leader of the state. i cut taxes 19 times. i turned a budget shortfall in

trade surplus. i know how government can kill jobs and i know how it can create jobs. i stand ready to lead our party to victory and our nation back to prosperity. [cheers] [applause] this is a critical time in america. it is our time for choosing. and this time, we have got to get the choice right. i have said it before and i firmly believe it, that this campaign is about saving the soul of america. this election comes down to two very different visions of america. it is a choice between becoming a nation of and by washington, or remaining a nation of and by a free people, a choice between an entitlement society and the land of opportunity. it's a choice between squandering america's promise, and restoring the promise for future generations. if you want to make this

election about restoring american greatness, and i hope you will join us. if you believe the disappointments of the past few years are a detour and not the destiny of america, then i need your support. i'm asking for you to get out and vote. and i'm asking you to go torunning.com and pledge york -- to go to mittromney.com and pledge your support. let's restore america's promise. let's fight for this country we love. we have work ahead. we are going to take back america. america is the greatest nation in the history of the area and we are going to keep it that way. [cheers] thank you, guys. god bless the united states of america. thank you. ♪ ["born free" by kidd rock] ♪ [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012]

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>> now, a nude gingrich campaign rally in his home state. -- a newt gingrich campaign rally in his home state. newt gingrich has been campaigning in georgia.

>> we are so proud of our many volunteers to have been working here. thank you so much for your support. we believe america is at a crossroads and care deeply about the future of our country. there are all only a few months left before the most important election in our lifetime. our only opponent is barack obama. we are committed to removing him from the white house. newt gingrich is the only candidates with the experience and knowledge necessary to reveal the america we love. he had a successful national record of creating jobs, balancing the budget and

reforming government. today we need a leader who can clearly articulate why president obama and his policies are wrong for america. we need a leader who understands that we must contain and a defeat our enemies. we need a letter with bold solutions to create a better future for all americans. i believed that is my husband's. please welcome my husband and future leader of the united states. [applause] [applause]

>> i apologize. i'm not exactly apologizing. that is one of the longest lines i've ever been through. i hope you can hear us. first of all, governor, thank you for your generous time. he has been an enormous help. he is a great governor, and we are pleased that he is here. he has done a great job. thank you, sir. [cheers and applause] i also want to thank the president of west georgia college. i like coming back. [applause] there are a number of colleagues from my college career and congressional career. i do want to take one second to

mention the very first person i meant -- met when i came on campus in 1970. dr. [cheers and applause] 42 years. one of the things that happened, i am reminded of my age. this is my daughter, my younger daughter, and her husband. is somebody came and said they were students. my dad was your student. me and my son. so i know it is a fair length of time. from a governing side, the congressmen are both here.

[applause] and number of representatives, the state representative is here. dusty hightower is here. i think them for their support. i am also grateful that the county commission chair is here. q. have the state senator -- to have the state senator, it is great to be back with you. i also want to say that without borbon and meredith, you can imagine going to the sides -- without gordon. thank you.

[applause] now, i do apologize because it has been a long evening just to get to this point. it is a great honor to be here. i will take a couple of minutes and tell a couple of stories. it triggers memories as people come through over the years. and the many things that i learned here at college, a couple of them will tell you something about professors. one of my favorite stories, which i have spent a fair amount

of time telling when i was on the speech circuit, this is a true story. a friend of mine lived at the bottom of the street, and there was a tree that was dying, and it was angled towards his house. and his wife wanted him to hire a tree surgeon, because she said, "if that tree falls during a storm, it will hit the house." he was like some college professors, and i include myself in that. our next-door neighbor was about 5 feet, 5 inches tall, and there was a pretty big guy, and being professors, they decided how hard can it be to cut down a

tree, so we went down. one said what we are going to do is tie a rope about 15 feet up, and then we are going to cut the tree, and then we are going to poultry in the direction we want it to fall. now, this is an example about why it is good to have some people may not have an advanced degree but may have some common sense. one kept saying that this was a very bad idea. so we went over to cut the tree, and we had the rope in place. we get to the point where we think the tree is about ready, and it was leaning towards the house. we cut it so the angle was away from the house.

by the way, none of us were mathematics majors, and none of us had studied physics. one sociologists and two history professors, so we got the tree, and we got the rope, and this is something that people in physics would have figured out. it was a really big tree that weighed something like 15,000 pounds, and as big as we work, and our collective weight was about 500 pounds. 500 pounds going in one direction, and 1,500 pounds going in the other. [laughter] at least one person here has already figured that out.

you can imagine, working out the mathematics, 500 pounds going one way and 15,000 pounds going the other way, and when the tree breaks, it does not matter that you are pulling it. it is going to go into the direction it is leaning. we suddenly realized we are being polled, and very slowly but with gathering speed. now, the tree was dead enough that when the top of it came through the roof of the house, it broke, leaving the rest of the tree falling in the yard in a very orderly way. it accelerated coming across. those physics majors probably can figure out the exact speed,

and maybe it was double every second. so it punched holes in the ceiling, because you have betrayed hitting the house, so the roof had holes in it, but it dropped the plaster in the master bedroom on the bed, and the last we saw one of our friends was of him running down the street with his wife chasing him. the next day, we had a tree surgeon come by, and he told us what it would cost to have had the tree surgeon come by. it was a very expensive education. i personally have never tried cutting a tree down since. there are a thousand things like that that you can do and you can learn from, and you make friends and you make permanent friends. when i make some speeches, i

usually start with that story, and there are people like me because i am willing to admit that i was not really smart, and they can identify. everybody at some point in their life has done something that they look back on, and that was one. one of the guys we talked about came from a very poor family in alabama, and he got a master's degree, and at the time -- he bought an old car. but he was very confused after he had had it for a couple of months because a red light was coming on, and he could not figure out why the red light was on. nothing had changed. he never got around to figuring out why the red light was on, and one day he went out to start

his car. in the red light was a sign that he was running out of oil, but if you wait long enough, you have to buy a new engine. now, he did that, but after that, he became the most avid student of changing oil i have ever seen. you can think that there is a guy who is really book smart. as recently as yesterday in nashville, we were talking about preventive care, and people learn that changing the oil is prevention that saves you a lot of money, and one of our greatest challenges with health care is how do we get the same kind of prevention applied it to themselves. it saves a lot in hospitals and saves a lot of money.

i treasured the years i was allowed to teach here. the fact that it was just a great place to raise the kids. she is thrilled to be here tonight because she has seen several people she has gone to school with. as you all know, we are running for president. i think this is the most important election in our lifetime. i think reelecting barack obama will be a disaster for the country. [cheers and applause] and the challenge for us was to present a clear and compelling alternative so that the country has a clear sense of what the difference is, and the reason after talking about it, of

course, i made the decision to run, knowing that it would be hard, knowing there would be a lot of work and a lot of negative attacks. i think we really need somebody who understands the scale of change we need, who has really large ideas for a really large country, and you can explain them in a way that enables us to be able to rally the american people. now, i will give you just a couple of quick examples. and the easiest one is the difference between president obama and myself on energy. president obama is essentially represents a very anti-american energy group. the secretary of anti-energy in dr. chu who fought back american

gas prices need to hit european levels. yesterday, somebody in nashville, he said i want you to tell herman cain that i know what the president's nine-nine- nine plan is, and i said, ok, 9-9-9is president obama's plan approved in he said it was $9.99 per gallon. you cannot run for reelection telling people you do not think they are paying enough for gas, so i began about two weeks ago that you do not have to have expensive gasoline. we do not have to be dependent on saudi arabia and iraq.

there is an enormous amount of energy in the united states, and the result was the president probably had to respond, so he gave a response on energy. he is clearly conflicted. if you have a chance to read his speech on energy, he cannot be for less expensive gasoline. what he is or is algae, and he said that will someday be a solution, and he says there are no silver bullets. he is right, there are no silver bullets, but there are three things to do that would begin to change a whole energy and barnett. first, he could sign the pipeline. [cheers and applause]

that would bring 700,000 barrels of canadian oil per day, it would open up for oklahoma, kansas, arkansas, and texas, shipping it by as opposed to truck, which would take money off of the cost per barrel. second, he would reopen the gulf of mexico to development, and that is about 400,000 barrels per day. fourth, we can open up the areas in alaska. that is about 1,000,002 wandered thousand barrels per day, so -- [applause] if we are talking about how we expand the american supply, that is 2,300,000 per day, just there. now, we have learned a lot in

the last couple of years. changing the entire debate on energy, but there is no lag, because it takes awhile for the politicians and the media to catch up. the fact is, in north dakota, we have had an extraordinary increase in oil production because it is on private land. since it was on private land, obama could not stop it. and now, we probably have in north dakota at least 25 times, not 25 times, 2500% more oil. now, as they are developing it, for example, they have created a huge number of jobs, and the unemployment rate there is 3.5%. that is actually -- [applause]

that actually overstates how much unemployment there is, because there are 16,000 jobs in the oil industry that they cannot felt because they do not have the right training. if these folks were trained, there would probably be about 0% unemployment. second, when you develop energy, you create revenue for the government. they have had seven consecutive tax cuts, and they have a multi- billion dollar rainy day fund. now, these are real changes. it turns out parallel to this, we have developed new technology, and we can now get gas out of shale. what difference does that make? in the year 2000, we expected to

have a supply of natural gas, and the assumption was we would have to bring in liquefied natural gas. they were talking about connections, a huge ship coming in with a liquefied natural gas. we are now talking about a 125- year supply, and there are ports to ship the guest to china, so instead of importing gas and paying for it, we are now going to be exporting gas and getting paid for it. now, these two developments -- [applause] north dakota and shale gas -- by the way, shale gas is from here to buffalo, new york, it is a huge series, and some of them are associated with oil. eastern ohio producing both

natural gas and oil. of this, and in western pennsylvania, i think they have created 62,000 new jobs. this is an exciting. now, it is enormous. the new technology and new market conditions. we have a virtually limitless supply of energy, and we can be independent producing our own energy on a way that people on the left do not even want to think about. first of all, if we could be independent in producing energy, no american president would ever again bowed to a saudi king. [cheers and applause]

it is very important to hear what the iranians have been doing. they have been looking to close the strait of hormuz, which would be a bottleneck for everyone out of 5 barrels of oil. the long-term answer to that is to produce so much oil in the united states that we do not care. [cheers and applause] i think it party clearly matters -- particularly matters with the middle east, and i will give you two examples. when we discovered that bin laden had been hiding for seven years in a large compound in the

middle of the city, less than 1 mile from the university in pakistan, any reasonable person knows elements of the pakistan government have to have known that he was there. it is inconceivable that he could have been in that city for seven years and not anybody in the intelligence operation ask, agee, who lives in the big building down the street [laughter] but this was not to track down the people who were hiding. the pakistan reaction was to track down people who had helped the united states. the folks who were arrested were the folks who helped us. now, that is not the behavior of an ally, and we need to understand that. in egypt, with the muslim brotherhood, the largest faction, with a more radical

group as the second-largest faction, they are currently holding 19 americans hostage. this is not something we need to tolerate. and we have steps we can take immediately. we could, for example, cut off all of their foreign aid. [applause] we could cut off the supply of the military equipment, because it is american. there are a lot of things that we can do, but that is not what this administration does. i think the most disturbing thing we have encountered has been the recent incidents in which while the afghans were killing americans, the president apologized, and i will be very clear. i think the commander in chief

owes a great deal of loyalty to people who serve the united states of america. [cheers and applause] i think the secretary of defense or the president could have said the following. we discovered that radical islamic prisoners were defacing the koran in order to send messages to their allies outside of the prison. and we stopped them and confiscated the karan's that they had defaced. now, notice to is guilty at this point. not the americans. we did not defaced the koran. the so-called muslims, people who are supposed to be really passionate about the koran,

which cannot be defaced, unless they do it, in which case it is ok, because they are not us. i just want to pose to you how bad this has gotten. in 2009, the u.s. army burned bibles in afghanistan. the confiscated bibles that had been sent to afghanistan, and they burned them. this is our army. did kristin's right? we go find somebody to kill? no. we passively accepted a really bad decision. in nigeria, churches are burned. does anybody apologize? in egypt, churches are burned. does anybody apologize? in malaysia, churches are burned. does anybody apologize? in saudi arabia, it is illegal

to practice the christian or jewish religion. does anybody complain? in iran last week, just last week, they found a christian minister guilty of hypocrisy and sentenced him to death. has anyone apologized? no one in this administration is prepared to stand up for any of our values. they are very prepared to apologize to people who want to kill us. [cheers and applause] it is worse. one week ago, they arrested a moroccan man who was trying to figure out how to bomb the u.s. capitol. now, i bet you, if we had a test, this being a campus, and i

said to you, what do you think might have motivated a moroccan to try to bomb the u.s. capitol, that's a very substantial number of you would have picked that he probably believed in a radical islam. do you realize that under the obama administration, an fbi administrator could not write that down because it is not politically correct? an army major jumps up at fort hood and yells allahu akbar, kills 13 americans and wounds 33 others, has in his wallet "soldier of allah," was engaged with dealing with an american in yemen food they communicated with using the internet, who

later killed with a guided missile, and which i think is more scandalous, they are not connected to islam, because it would be politically incorrect. now, a president to cannot tell you the truth about the people who are trying to kill you is a president to cannot develop a strategy to protect you from the people who are trying to kill you. [cheers and applause] i believe we need a fundamental rethinking of our entire strategy towards islam, the middle east, and these problems. we are not going to militarily change afghanistan. we are not militarily going to change pakistan, and we are, i think, going to have serious

problems with how we are approaching this. and imagine it was 1946, and we are trying to describe the cold war, and the trip ministrations said," you cannot use the word communist." , you describe communism? it was a bad week, and stalin did not feel good? it is an intellectual approach which makes the obama administration so dangerous. now, a good thing is, because almost every american believes we have to have energy independence, we can build a political majority to drill in the united states, to develop our resources, and to create enormous energy. when we do that, we will create enough royalties, literally the estimate of people in north dakota is if we were to open up the federal land and open up offshore, we would generate $16 trillion to $18 trillion in revenue.

[applause] that is enough that if we set it to one side and balance the budget, which i did for four consecutive years and the only speaker of the house in your lifetime to have done that -- [applause] so if we went back to a balanced budget and applied the royalties to paying off the debt, we would literally in our lifetime pay off of the national debt, which would mean that we are free of the saudis and the chinese bondholder's simultaneously with the same strategy. [applause] now, in doing that, keeping $500 billion per year and at home that we are sending overseas, we would also create several million new jobs and would be moving towards 4% unemployment, which should be our goal where

we can be a healthy country where americans work. [applause] and in that process, i believe we can get gasoline to somewhere between $2 per gallon to $2.60 per gallon, and that would be enormous. [cheers and applause] . now, the elites have been saying that this is impossible. how can newt gingrich say this? cutting taxes, reducing regulations, encouraging american energy, encouraging entrepreneurs. it only happened to create a 16 million new jobs while he was president. [applause]

i believe we have the capacity. i think north dakota is proof. i think the shale gas is proved. we talk about opening up the land. i want to say this to the media. we are not talking about the yellowstone. we are not talking about in yosemite. we, the american people, own 69% of alaska. alaska is twice the size of texas. that means we could literally give the unborn mentalists half of texas, they could pick the glaciers they like, the polar bear area's, whatever they like it, and they would that have, over 125,000 square miles. that would lead you an area the size of texas to develop. that is how big the potential is. now, i try to remind people, the talking heads on television, who seem to have amnesia, and they

do not learn the lessons of history. when i was speaker of the house, gasoline was $1.13. when obama was sworn in, gasoline was $1.89. i am not offering a radical solution. i am not even trying to get back to a pre-obama number. i have taken a number that experts in the industry believe would generate more than enough capital to have more than enough exploration to create the scale of energy that we need, and summer between $2 per gallon and $2.50 per gallon creates that level of entrepreneurship, but the president is moving in the opposite direction, so here is my request to all of you. the primary is next tuesday in many states. it is clear that governor romney can raise more money because he did go to wall street and get money from all of the people who got bailouts from taxpayers, said in a sense, your money is

coming back to you in the form of negative advertisements. i cannot match that, but what i can do is match it with people. we have over 170,000 people who have now donated to the campaign, and over 90% of them have donated less than 250 dollars, so we have a huge grass-roots movement. and i want to ask you a couple of very simple, very practical things. how many of you are on facebook? just raise your hand. tonight, on your facebook page, i want you to put newt equals $2.50 per gallon. that is it. i bet in this room, we can get half a million to 1 million people to see it. second, when people ask you how to do it, tell them to go to

newt.org, where i have a speech, and then there is the obama answer. this is what the debates would be like this all if i debate obama. [cheers and applause] how many of you are on twitter? ok. i would like all of you, we have hash mark 250 gas. we have had a huge number of people to sign up. it is getting ready to go viral. and then the website, we have people here who would be glad to get support from you. every penny that we raise is going into this project.

and all of you who have email accounts, email all of your friends. do not worry if they are in georgia or tennessee. sooner or later, we will be there. send out a blast email to your fund -- friends. we have something that is fun. we have a place where you can give 1 gallon of newt gas, which is $2.50, and we have actually have a lot of people do that, or you can give 10 gallons, $25, or 100 gallons. when your friends ask what they can do, they can give 1 gallon. $2.50. it starts the process. it gets people engaged. our goal is to get back to high numbers of donors very quickly. everyone becomes part of the team, and they get emails from

us about how we are doing, and it enables us to organize. if we did not get internet, this campaign could not survive, but the internet reduce costs, so i do think this is the most important election of your lifetime. i hope each and every one of you will make sure you vote. i hope you remind your friends and neighbors that they need to vote, and i hope you'll do all you can deny to electronically to reach out and help us and be part of our campaign, and i look very forward to meeting you, and i appreciate it. thank you. [cheers and applause] ♪

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[no audio] >> now, we will hear from the gop presidential candidate ron paul. he spoke to supporters in springfield, va., with a story from his son, senator rand paul. [cheers and applause] >> thank you! whoa, thank you, thank you! [cheers and applause] thank you. anybody, anybody year for the cause of liberty? [crowd yells, "yes!"] anybody here for ron paul?

i am only here for this crowd is amazing. 2000 people packed in here. [cheers and applause] 500 people outside that the fire marshal would not let in. he does that some presidential candidates have to pay people to come here their speeches. some presidential candidates have to pay their campaigns to make homemade signs. but not the ron paul people. i come from the great state of kentucky. home of henry clay, the great compromiser.

my question to you is, do you need another great compromiser or an abolitionist? we have people on the national stage running for president who like to preen and pretend they are for limited government. there is only one champion on the stage of limited government. who is that?

>> ron paul. >> when ron paul came back to congress, the wall street journal said this. his refusal to compromise was legendary. [cheers and applause] there is only one man on the stage who would truly preserve your freedom, balance the budget, restore value to our currency, and save us from this debt bomb that is engulfing our country. there is only one man on the stage where the troops trust. only one man who has received more contributions from active duty military than any other candidate. that man is my hero and a candidate for the presidency of the united states, ron paul. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. >> thank you.