virginia, that is why i need your help. you know, this election will be even closer than the last. too many of our friends and neighbors are hurting because of this crisis. i have heard from many people wondering why thing they have not been able to get the jobs that have been created. why their home is still under water. why their families have not been touched by the recovery. the other side will not be any answers to those questions. they will not be offering any new ideas. what they will do is spend more money than we have ever seen before.

all of those negative ads on tv and radio and in the mail and on the internet, probably even on twitter, adds that exploit people's frustration. over and over again, they will tell you that america is down and out. they will tell you who to blame. they will ask if you are better off than you were before. we have seen that play before. we know what to expect. but you know what? that will makeion i a difference in your life and your children's, it is not just how we are doing today, but how

we will be doing tomorrow. will we be better off if more americans get a better education? will we be better off if we depend less on foreign oil and more on our own ingenuity? it will be better off if we start doing some nation-building at home? will we be better off if we bring our deficit down in a balanced way without getting rid of the things that we need to grow? will we look back four years now or 10 years and now for 20 years from now, will we be better off if we have the surge to keep moving forward? [cheers and applause] that is the question in this election. that outcome is entirely up to you.

we will have to contend with even more negative ads and nastiness and sometimes just plain foolishness. it will be worse than what we saw in the last campaign. we know because we have seen some of this foolishness over the last three years. but it was one thing we learned in 2008, nothing is more powerful than millions of voices calling for change. [cheers and applause] when enough of you knock on doors and pick up the phone and talk to your friends and co- workers, when you decide that it is time for change to happen, guess what? change happens. change comes to america.

[cheers and applause] virginia, that is the spirit we need again. if people ask what this can is about, you tell them it is still about hope and change. you tell them it is still about people who believe that we can make a difference in the life of this country. you tell them. [cheers and applause] >> four more years! >> i still believe that we are not as divided as our politics suggest. i believe we still have more in common than what they tell us.

we're not democrats are republicans first. we are americans first and foremost. [cheers and applause] i still believe in you. i am asking you to keep believing in me. i told you in 2008 that i was not a perfect man and will never be a perfect president, but i promised you i will always tell you what i thought and where i stood. i would wake up every single day fighting for u.s. hard as i know how. i have kept that promise. i have kept that promise. i will keep it as long as i am honored to be your president. [cheers and applause]

if you are willing to stick with me and fight with me and press on with me, if you are willing to work even harder in this election than in the last election, i guarantee you that we will move this country. people finish what we started. we are fired up. we are ready to go. we will remind the world why the united states of america is the greatest nation on earth. thank you. god bless you. god bless the united states of america. [cheers and applause]

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you to voters. washington journal every morning at 7:00 eastern on c-span. the case of chinese activist chen who spoke by phone during the hearing. >> i am in fear of my other family member's lives. we have installed seven video cameras. even an electric fence. he said those security officers -- they basically said, we want to see what else the can do. >> watch the entire hearing online at the c-span video

library. >> the libertarian party earlier today elected gary johnson as their nominee an las vegas. he said his goal was to reach 15% in the polls to qualify for the debate and at least 5% in november to secure public funding for the party in 2016. jim gray was chosen as the vice president. we will show you highlights of the convention beginning with the nominating process and speeches from the candidates. >> i sat down with them afterwards for an hour and a half. i decided i had to vote for a libertarian party candidate.

one of the first things i loved about him when he came to san jose and we all went down to the airport and in those days you could go out to the tarmac, believe it or not. roger macbride came in on a rented played named the know force one. has this guy not aged in 32 years? he is as good looking as ever and has set up here where it counts. he has been a delight to work

with. he is supportive of the libertarian party. we have some procedures that i would like to read to you to indicate how we will select our presidential nominees. before you do that, please turn turn your cell phones off. jake over here will turn on your microphone so you can speak. of course, we are being covered by c-span. we thank them for covering our convention. rule no. 7, nomination of candidates, no person shall be nominated for president or vice president unless at least 30 registered delegates join in the nomination in writing submitted by the chair. it no delegate may be joining in nominating more than one candidate for each office. fixing signatures is affected by the transfer of a signature

tokens issued by the credentials committee. the party oppose the nominee for president will be chosen by a majority vote. if no candidate has obtained a majority, the candidate with the fewest votes:less than 5% will be struck from subsequent balance -- ballots. until one candidate obtains a majority. each will calculate their total votes and the delegation chair -- the secretary shall declare the voting closed. at this point, the totals will be made by the delegation chairs in alphabetical order beginning with a randomly selected designation. the party nominee's for vice president shall be chosen in the

same procedure. after nominations have been made but before voting has begun for the purpose of endorsing or rejecting too many vice- presidential nominees. nominees for vice president shall close after the selection of the nominee. >> are we supposed to get a credentials committee report? >> is, we will. thank you very much. >> for president, a total of 16 minutes and four vice president a total of 11 minutes.

at this point, if he would come to the podium and give us the updated credentials report for today. >> thank you. good morning. before i give my report i would like to thank the credentials committee who are up here with me. thank you. thank you. working hard on your behalf. mr. chairman, as of 8:55 this morning there were 611 delegates and four alternates.

there were registered and credential to cast 614 votes. majority 3 and 06, 2/3 to 08 and seven thirds 505. i move to amend these roles of delegates to include these numbers. >> is there a second? are there any objections to accepting this report? hearing none, so move. >> thank you. in addition, we have that five people who have been added to the role of voters. they are dave walter from pennsylvania, a delegate for pennsylvania. nicholas miller from ohio, a delegate for michigan. cheryl smith from california, a delegate for ohio. jason thompson, a delegate for misery.

on behalf of the committee i moved to add those people to the role of voters. it collects any objections to accepting these submissions. hearing none. all right. the nominees. is there somebody to nominate a presidential candidates out there?

>> they are eligible -- eligible to be nominated, but somebody has to stand up there and nominate them. >> if votes are written in for candidates who did not receive 30 tokens, will there votes be counted with the names written in? >> could you repeat the question, please. >> if the votes are cast for names written and that did not receive the necessary

nominating tokens, will they be recorded for the name written in or for nota. >> you have to specifically vote for -- >> can i thought nominate gary johnson. >> i would like to nominate gary johnson from new mexico. [applause] >> gov. gary johnson's name is placed in nomination. microphone 5. >> i would like to place a nomination for president of the united states mr. lee wright. for the nominations? >> i would like to place a

nomination for carl pearsons. >> for the nominations microphone for. >> i move to suspend the rules to allow the nomination of dr. ron paul. >> it has been moved to suspend the rules that allow -- that requires a two-thirds vote. is there a second. all those in favor of the suspension of the rules, please signify by setting aye. fails. four other nominations from the floor. microphone 8. >> i nominate jim byrnes. >> jim burns has been placed into nomination. further nominations.

seeing no for the nominations, nominations are closed. -- further nominations, nominations are closed. so the process that we are going to follow for presentations and nominating speeches is we will randomly select putting on a piece of paper the numbers one through four. they can edits are their representatives. the was elected member from -- it looks like nobody has -- does will be the number they are nominated. it will give their nominating speeches. >> will one person from each of

the campaigns come forward to select a slip of piece of paper. that will determine the order in which they are allowed to give their speeches. lee wrights will be presented first. [applause] jim burns 3rd.

i wonder who goes last. mr. nealson. drumroll. big surprise. governor johnson will go fourth. all right. will the nominators, up to the podium.

>> he will flash a five minute warning to the candidates when they are running low on time. direct them to stop at the appropriate time. >> my dear friends, five years ago almost to the day, the libertarian movement exploded into the public consciousness. as somebody who joined the libertarian party more than 32 years ago when our party and platform was already committed to marriage equality while others were still debating day imprisonment, i can tell you the first 27 years were the hardest. we had an appealing message of liberty that for some reason did not catch fire with the public until may 15, 2007. there is one man we have to thank. rudolph guiliani.

on that day, the onetime 1988 libertarian party nominee for president, who i believe is still an official member of our party, was attacked by rudy guiliani by suggesting the murders were motivated to kill americans because of u.s. military intervention on top of cruel trade sanctions and muslim countries. rudy guiliani as you know is a foreign-policy expert because he lives close to the world trade center and were a hard hat on 9/11. oddly enough, not only the cia but the 9/11 commission agreed with the man and giuliani attacked. as for the man he attacked, anybody who is an advocate of peace, whatever disagreements

that have on other issues, should join me in saying, god bless you ron paul. [applause] we have all heard "war is the health of the state's." it lets government officials who are mere mortals almost as human as you and i place themselves above the rule of law, above due process and habeus corpus because, of course, all is fair in love and war. or is a useful concept to politicians that they declare war on everything. the war on terror, the war on drugs, they were on poverty, the war on trans fats. we cannot afford to respect life, liberty, and property. we are at war.

drowning people in fear is the key to power. we also learned anti-war is the health of the interstate movement. even if we do nothing other than and all the wars real as well as metaphorical, we will be well on our way to a free society. millions are ready to rally around that banner. only one party can be the party of peace, and it is not the republican party, which will only nominate a candidate that passes two tests. they must be pro-life and they must want to kill lots of foreigners. it is not the democratic party which has rallied around a man who holds the record for most children killed by a nobel peace prize winner.

[applause] it is not even our good friends in the green and constitution parties to understand the importance of military nonintervention but not the equal importance of the free trade, which joan kennedy taylor called the necessary foundation for world peace. the libertarian party is the only party of peace. [applause] libertarians love strategic alliances between people. trade, travel, migration, cultural exchange, bill both prosperity and friendship throughout the world. we oppose strategic alliances between governments. they lead to war, terrorism, and a blind lie toward life liberty

and property by the allied governments. when it comes to politicians, friends do not tell friends to respect human rights. with friends like that, we create enemies. libertarians believe in humanitarian intervention. by volunteers who are supported by others to volunteer their money. the most positive image of americans is our personal generosity after natural disasters in other parts of the world. we oppose humanitarian intervention by governments whose decisions are influenced by what president eisenhower called a military industrial complex that profits from finding crises and whose arrogance causes them to fancy themselves experts about another country and culture because they

viewed a youtube a video. of all humanitarian, the u.s. government is the one whose past record of horrible unintended consequences and distorted intelligence has most earned it a time out in its own corner of the world. it is time percent humanitarian non intervention. bring all of our troops home from around the world to their families, a treat their wounds and stop creating new ones. [applause] this is the unique libertarian message. there is only one candidate in our party who has made peace the focus of his campaign. he is a retired air force sergeant that looks a bit like a colonel who made it fried chicken.

so before i turn over the microphone to the woman who should have been our 2008 nominate, i am proud to give my support to lee wrights of texas. >> i love you, too. i am honored to second the nomination of lee wrights for our presidential candidates. first, i have to give you the bad news. in 2008, our presidential candidates was ridiculed by the national media for not being a true libertarian because he would not endorse an end to drug prohibition. if we do not have -- if we have another candid it that is not a

real libertarian we will confuse the public about what it means to be a libertarian. now, the good news, with lee wrights at the top of the ticket we need not worry. he does not know how to be anything else. a vote for lee wrights is a vote for a candidate with a consistent libertarian message. it is a vote against the national sales tax. a vote to end the income tax and replace it with nothing. [applause] lee wrights understands our candidate should be helping our affiliates because he believes the performance, not just promises, his campaign has already made tv and radio spots that are free of charge to any lp candidate that wants to use

them. they are put together so each can customize the last 10 seconds. here is an example. [unintelligible] [applause] all right. some more bad news. in 2008 our presidential candid it was polling at 6% of the national vote when he gained our nomination. he only received 0.4% of the

actual vote. the wasted vote syndrome takes over in the ballot box regardless of what people say before the election. now, the good news. he is attempting to change that by activating the entire peace movement, which right now has no electorial outlet. [applause] it gets better. he is encouraging peace lovers to vote libertarian with his million vote march to the polls as seen in the following add it. >> if your focus stop one war, which one would it be? >> stop the war on drugs. >> stop the war on third parties. >> stop the war on the american tax payer. >> stop all wars. >> 1 million voters much to the

polls and vote libertarian. war breeds war, peace burry its prosperity. -- breeds prosperity. >> vote libertarian. [applause] >> as you can see, you get more bang that for your donated buck. he does not have highly paid staff for a six figured debt from a gop run. if you make him their presidential nominee, he will make you proud to be a libertarian. the lp has always been his first choice, i hope lee will be yours. and now, here is lee wrights.

[applause] >> did you miss me? it is wonderful to be here today. i cannot tell you what a honor it is to be considered to represent my family to the american public. we can make a difference in 2012 and beyond that we have to do that by being different. that should be easy enough because most of us are different already. different enough to know the on the way the federal government can create jobs is by firing bureaucrats. different enough to know the devastating war on drugs has to be stopped so we can save precious lives in this country. different enough to know that taxes, regulation, government

agencies, exacerbates our problems rather than solving them for us. individuals are good enough to make their own decisions that give bureaucrats involved. we can take care of ourselves without any help at all. different enough to know we can make a difference by being different. [applause] what ever happens here today, we are going to go forward. we will show america what libertarians are all about. we did that last night. last night was not so much about running for president as showing americans libertarians are not the bogeyman everybody thinks we are. like other americans we have many things in common. sometimes the only thing that makes us different is knowing

rely on government is not the answer to the problems we face in america. i will ask you once again the same i have asked every where i have been, join me and my family. i am not at war. if we say that enough -- if enough of us say that, they cannot have it anymore. [cheers and applause] >> speeches for pearson come up to the stage plese. again i will remind our timer will flash five minutes and stop time for you.

>> it looks a lot more crowded from up here. carl pearson is an attorney who has that spent a career fighting for civil liberties, ballot access, the end of corporate subsidies. all of us are here today because we share a similar ideology. after today the real challenge begins. we take our message to voters outside of our party. then an ideology will not be enough. to appeal to voters outside of the party, we must show them that our principles offer solutions to the very serious problems facing our country today. also show them our principles also show them our principles offer them the chance to help