[applause] >> thank you. after the introduction some of you are probably wondering why i am here. let me just begin by thanking all of you for coming out today, folks listening and from online and other places. i was telling rob that i didn't get the memo that you guys prefer the commons to be on the short side. the only problem is somebody who used to be an elected official, short and not mean to me but it does to you. perhaps to do it means i have talked to long already. for me it means i have about six minutes to go. let me start off by saying one thing about where we are at heritage. i turn 45 years old this year. by the way, i am thankful to the

gray hairs in the room for making me not the only old person here today. i know people looking at this cannot help but there are a lot of incredibly young people sitting in here. i am thankful to the gray hairs. i turn 45 years old and october. when i get interested in politics, president reagan had just turned it to power. heritage was kind of the only game in town when it came too smart, creative policy ideas. a lot of the things president reagan did in the 1980's, a lot of the template for change, a lot of it came at the a imagination of ronald reagan. a lot of the rest of it came in these hallways and from people that have been associated with this foundation for a long time. so as somebody who is a new

convert to the republican party but not such a new convert to conservatism, this is like being in the cathedral. i am honored in that sense. rob alluded to the fact that i switched parties a few weeks ago. i did a listing on my blog about it. i have gotten some attention for it. most of it is not deserve. yes it is unusual for somebody who used to be a democratic elected official to switch parties. yes it is unusual for an african american democrats to switch camps. i get all of that. i want to put this to some perspective. 2008 president obama got 53% of the vote, which by the way is the biggest margin anybody running for president has gotten since 1988 when george h.

w. bush got 54%. relative landslide in our closely polarized country. president obama's approval rating today depending on the poll you look at, 46% or 47%, depending on the poll you look at he and gov. romney have been tied with each other at 45% or 46% for the last several weeks. artur davis is not the only person in the obama camp in 2008 that has been in political migration. by harvard math that is probably flawed, 10 million americans or so have shifted camps. i brought these notes with me because i want to share with you a few moments some things that people have written me in the past several months. all of these quotes are from

people who either identify themselves as democrats or people who said they voted for barack obama and do not identify with their party. this provides some clarity for why i am literally a pebble in an ocean of change. one lady wrote me "i figured out in the middle of the worst economy of my life how to start a business and make money. i just paid one-third of what i earned not to my kid goes to college savings are to my retirement but to the federal government. i and tired of being told i did not pay my fair share. another guy wrote me again -- this is a person who identified himself as an obama supporter four years ago. "his employer sent out a notice that it is shifting to a higher

deductible health care plan that provides into your benefits than the ones that exist today. they told me their reforms would not change my float -- insurance. why did they lie to me?" and other guy said that he volunteered in the obama campaign. "i am tired of being told if i want the worst teachers out of my kid's schools and want state employees to pay for their retirement the same way i do that it means i hate teachers and despise public service." finally another gentleman said "i voted for it, because he said business as usual was over in washington. a promise broken."

now, a lot of our friends on the left would not find any of that terribly poetic. there is nothing about this being the moment when the rise of the oceans will begin to cease. it is no poetic declaration that we are the ones we have been waiting for. the comments i have just read to you, there is a powerful development to them. they are the way people talk around the dinner table. there are the way ordinary people talk to themselves about politics. there are making a case and the people like them who do not have a forum for people who may not even have access to a computer to read a guy like me, people around this country regardless of the level of their voice, a lot are saying, we have changed our political spade's because the people we used to listen to either did not tell us the

truth of the got a flat wrong. so i wanted to start by saying to my friends on the right to, it is a lot of you here, we do not really have to tackle the other side. we do not have to shout down the other side. we do now have to cut the president off of his press conferences because the more the other side keeps talking, the more the other side keeps making its arguments, the more people are moving our way. i firmly believe that. they may be moving our way not on the wings of remarkable poetry but on the wings of their common sense. that is point number one. . number two i want to confess a deep and the i have always had for conservatives for many simple reasons. you guys one of the elections

and alabama and my side did not. it is one of the things i envied about people on the political right. this is a center right country. 40% of americans call themselves conservatives, 20% of liberals. at any given time those of you on the center-right, you get to spend a lot of your time arguing to people why their instincts and inclinations are right and why they ought to a vote based on their beliefs. my old side -- is used to always tell me. we have to spend a lot of our time telling people the things you think are not right. he did not really think them. they may be important to you, but they are not important in the scheme of things. it was amazing how that worked out for mild side. if you look back at the history of elections again, there are all these young people again in

your 20s. i know anshan politics to you is bush versus gore. -- ancient politics to you is bush versus gore. republicans, conservatives more or less won by telling people that the status quo was working and they ought to give the status quo a chance to continue by saying the other side was too extreme. one time conservatives won in 2000 when the other side was empowered by setting the status quo is working, we will give you a more ethical version of it. you guys have won a lot of elections talking about the status quo. what always fascinated me as a sympathetic observer, for all the elections to one talking about the status quo, i always had a sense the election you care the most about could not have been more different from that kind of appeal. i am talking about 1980.

in 1980 ronald reagan came to the country, and he did not have the luxury of saying what we are doing is working. let's continue it. what we were doing had wrecked the economy. what we were doing had caused the united states to lose its first war. it had caused the united states to fall second to the soviet union. for the only time since world war ii, the early '80s were the only time since world war ii where our side of the values scale in terms of global politics, our side was on the wane and the other side was on the ascension. ronald reagan could not come to the country and said, we are doing is working. he also could not speak to a republican country because 52% of americans call themselves democrats as late as the 1970's and republicans were in the upper 30's.

instead of making an appeal to keep things the way they are and not take a chance on risk, the election as so many conservatives care the most about, the one i think you would trade all the others for in some ways is 1980 when ronald reagan had to come to this country and say, we appear to be in the doldrums. we appear to be losing our way. we can do better if we recover what is always been best in our tradition. for those of you who did not remember that time, it was a very powerful clarion call. it was to touch people working on shipyards, people living under the shadow of political tyranny from cuba to china, it touched blacks in south africa,

it touched people all over the world who loved hearing the clarion call of freedom. for all the people in your 20's who are here, people in your 20's in the 1980's were almost genetically predisposed to be democrats. all their teachers tell them that was the way to go. on their college professors told them that. all of a sudden they fell and political love with a guy who was 70 years of age who was not a part of their culture but spoke powerful to their sense of imagination. blue-collar americans. people who work with their hands who had been taught understandably in some cases that the republican party of their day was the party of economic realism. all of a sudden they discovered there was a party that connected with their faith and their goals for their lives economically. it was the republican party.

all of a sudden blue-collar people who worked with their hands found a home in the conservative party. i mention all that before i take your questions for a very simple reason. i have a hunch this may be 1980 all over again. the challenges we are facing, all of a sudden our leaders act as if we are awake. what do our leaders tell us over and over? we were elected to govern. we burry elected to lead. but we have to check in to make sure athens and madrid are sitting properly. you have never heard that before. we have never heard leadership in this country say that our fortunes depend on athens and madrid. this could very well be a time,

ladies and gentlemen, 20 years from now when some of the young people here are standing up here, hopefully as senators and not former congressman. i think this will be a time we remember. for those of you in the room who are part of the center-right, i am happy to be here with you. the first president to remember was ronald reagan. yes, i do remember the preacher of my church telling everyone to vote for jimmy carter. the first presidency i remember is ronald reagan. i remember how he turned the country around. if he were in the camp of people who think we need turning around renown -- that does not mean that mitt romney has to be ronald reagan. there has been one. there will not be another one. it means one simple thing. boldness matters in politics. boldness is rewarded and

politics. clarity is rewarded and politics. governor walker can tell you that in wisconsin. gov. christie can tell you that in new jersey. the last thing gov. romney needs is advice from a new guy. the last thing the before to questions is this. i think the american people are ready to hear a clarion call. i think they are ready to hear the man who would lead us tell us we can control our own destiny, not madrid, not absence. we can control our own destiny. i think people are ready to have sense again. with that said i am going to take some questions and be mindful of time. we will start with this gentleman. introduce yourself so i know who you are. >> there is a lot of criticism

over attorney general holder. a lot of people are calling for him to resign. i know you were one of the ones, a democrat who was one of the ones leading the charge against attorney general gonzales. >> let me say two things about the attorney general. i will try to not personalize the comments about the attorney general. i will tell you a mistake mild side made five years ago. you alluded to the controversy over the u.s. attorney five years ago when we raise questions about the firing of those folks. my old side made a mistake. we kind of personalized did a little bit. we made a lot of it about

attorney general gonzales. frankly, sometimes we seem so mad at attorney general gonzales' people stopped hearing where we were saying about how u.s. attorneys were selected. i think we made a mistake in that. i will not bend over backwards to the other side and make a same mistake. of what to tell you two think about the department of justice. fast and furious system and have a hard time understanding because i was a junior federal prosecutor. i was 28-years of age and i try cases with a lot of drug cases. i never got to work in the high con fines of the department of justice. that was above my level. we always had a basic principle. do not like guns and drugs walk. for those of you who do not watch cop shows, when you do an undercover operation, do your deal but did not let the bad guys leave the guns or leave the

drugs. i had to understand that when i was 29 years old trying cases in alabama. i probably would have gotten fired if i had done the wrong because people might have gotten killed. i have a hard time understanding how if i had to get all that right as a 29-year-old white people who are much more experienced in the department of justice -- i do not understand how deceiving came to be. i think the republicans on the hill are right to try to get to the bottom of it. the second thing that bothers me -- i have no idea how you will relate to this. you may agree or disagree. i have no idea why we just spent billions of dollars trying to figure out of roger clemens got to be in the hall of fame. i happen to be a convicted of led to blame brigid atlanta braves baseball fan.

i love as a fan of baseball. i do not understand why when 10 baseball players went before congress and claimed they did not do steroids why one of them was prosecuted for false statements when it looks like all of them did not tell the truth. the john edwards case, i know opinions were mixed. i saw that as a dispute over campaign finance law. i do not get some of the priority. people may be wondering, do i think attorney general holder ought to stay. these guys serve at the pleasure of the president. the president gets to speak them -- keeps them. if he decides he wants to keep this person around, voters can make a judgment based on that. >> i want to thank you for coming today and for your remarks. have been a lot of courageous

remarks involving the accusation a lot of states are trying to franchise -- disfranchise voters by putting in voter i.d.. can you talk a little bit about that in detail? >> short. let me put this into perspective. this is the only building i have been in in washington that did not ask me for an id id out in the heritage foundation -- this is the only building i have been in. i guess i feel safe standing here. most of the notice from your own experiences. if you go to virtually any building in washington, d.c., you get asked for your id. the department of justice that is right now telling three states they cannot pass a voter i.d. laws, that same department of justice, you cannot get past

the guard gate by showing somebody -- you cannot get past that without showing an id. is required. i did an interview with tv or radio station a few months ago. different sides of the political persuasion from a lot of people in this room. the reporter was pressing me about voter i.d.. he was saying, is this a trojan horse to discriminate. i had to remind the reporter to get in her building, there was a big giant sign saying, photo i.d. required, no exceptions. i had to tell her i left my driver's license home and had to go get it first. if i had not turned around i would not be able to get into the interview. i am for it photo id for a simple reason. i think it is good common sense. our financial life, our lives as people who work for go into

buildings, people who get on planes. we are accustomed to presenting id. i do not think it bothers anybody. i do not think it disfranchises anybody. i think it is common sense. >> great to see you, congressman. a question for you is this. is there anything the democratic party can do in alabama and other southern states to remain viable and statewide elections? >> i know they cannot keep doing what they are doing right now. those of you in the room who are from the south, your parents or grandparents, i bet you there were democrats. that is kind of a cheap gas because everybody was prior to 1970. things change. the south became two party and now it has arguably become one party.

one. democrats had enormous strength in the south. there was irrespective of the way presidential elections were going. richard nixon was winning alabama with 80% of the vote, george wallace got reelected with 70% two years later. democrats have all but one seat in the legislature. voters in the south had no problems putting their brain when it came to politics. i will be republican when it comes to presidents, and that will be republican at the senate. but they voted for democrats for all manner of other offices. all of a sudden and started to change. today, you look at the party id numbers and alabama, arkansas, louisiana, mississippi, i do not want to drag race into this but this makes it. , 18% of white males identified themselves as democrats and the states just mentioned. you cannot win an election when

less than one out of five of one of the biggest culprits identifies with your party. that will not happen. why hasn't happened? without getting into areas of any one state's politics, democratic of may two mistakes. it lot of southern democrats have a tendency to -- remember how i said democrats spend time telling voters what you think is wrong or important is not so important? politics is a consumer oriented business. the customer is always right. if you're campaigning for office, the issue you really care about, is a dumb issue. the thing you think is important, you need to realize that is not nearly as an important as this thing we're trying to do in the capital. voters did not respond well to that kind of thing. the second and last. i want to make is, who are the

kinds of democrats that used to win in the south? there were conservative democrats. there are virtually none left in the democratic party. i will make one point about a because it is a big point of debate in washington, d.c., how many of you have heard somebody say in the last few weeks, oh, those republicans, they have gone off the far end. they're so extreme. i have no tolerance for opposing viewpoints? show of hands if you heard somebody say that. that is what people say in washington. here is what you should know. if you are in the democratic party, if you do not think the same on about five or six or seven issues as the mainstream of your party, your are as much out to lunch as any moderate republican would be.

many report -- many people can testify to that. people say, is it not true, davis, 35% of democrats call themselves moderates and 25% or conservatives? that may be true, but let's assume it is the case. there is a difference between people and the elected officials who are the voice for the party. there are plenty of moderate democrats and a few conservative democrats left in the party in terms of people who identify with the party, but when it comes to people who are elected officials that number is low. i think that is the challenge democrats have in the south of being an inclusive party. >> thank you all. [applause]

>> jim jordan is somebody we work very closely at the heritage foundation. he leads a group of house conservatives who are working on a number of issues to cut spending, to lower taxes, prevent tax increases, and solve the fiscal challenges our country faces. you have probably heard about his background as a wrestling champion and high school. he went on to wrestle in the ncaa is. he came to congress as a fiscal warrior and somebody who led the budget and spending task force for assuming this new role. he comes directly from the oversight committee. we appreciate you making the time to be with us. [applause] >> i tell every group, did not

talk. have not heard me talk yet. it is a great day. the sun is shining. davis has found jesus and come to the republican party. it is great to have you -- not that we are read all the time. >> more than the other side. >> much more. the american people will said, i am confident. i did come from the oversight committee. i will be briefing you can ask questions of here. you talk about what is wrong with government right now, it is stuff like this. 26 companies in the department -- 26 departments cut your tax dollars. 22 of those 26 -- they had a credit rating of double the-, which is a fancy way of saying

junk. it is important to put your tax dollars behind in these companies. it is amazing. we had another hearing today where -- we have e-mails -- think about this. the american people are figuring this out. we have a e-mails from bright sources, the best example rigid and e-mail was sent to jonathan silver asking the department of energy -- enclosed was a draft letter from the chairman of the board, it was a draft letter from john bryson asking the department of energy to edit this letter we're thinking about sending to the white house chief of staff and talking about the

loan guarantee they were seeking to get. we have this kind of stuff. i think it underscores how critical the election is. i had a chance last november -- that will give a little context. i had a chance to travel to israel. we were there in the week that they announced iran was getting very close. it is a great time to be in israel. this was a fantastic week to be there. it did not matter who we were talking to, folks in the government, private sector, the all said one thing. the absolute best way for the united states of america to help our country is for america to stay strong. when you are strong, we are better. when you are strong we are safer. this is sometimes with the left missus. in the united states of america leads the world is a better place.

it is a scary world out there. it is less scary, a better place when we lead the world. the simple fact is this. this is what is at stake in this election. you cannot lead militarily, diplomatically if you do not lead economically. this administration is doing everything wrong. they're making it difficult for us to be the economic leader of the world and making it difficult for us to lead in other ways. tax policy, regulatory policy monetary policy, fiscal policy, every policy area. how many think we need a new tax code? again the same response. almost everyone raises their hands. those too lazy not their heads. everybody gets it. any tax cut that says we will allow 47% of the population to not participate in the main tax is broken. any tax code this says we will

tax american corporations the highest in the world is stupid. so if it is broken and stupid you may want to throw it out and start over. any business person you tell -- he talked to says regulation is killing us. think about this, you cannot be the leading economy in the world if you do not have readily available energy at affordable cost. it isritical perry have to have it. this administration at the department of energy, the failure to approve keystone underscores how critical and ron they are. at some point we will have to get back to a strong dollar. we all know who the biggest purchaser of treasury bills is now. who do you think it is?

we are buying them ourselves. at some point we are going to have to get back to a strong dollar. and then fiscal policy, we can tackle health care. fiscal policy, a couple of numbers i share. we have a dead bigger than our gdp. it is scary. -- we have a debt bigger than gdp. at some point we are going to have to cut spending. i share this on the floor. any of you seen the movie 1776? i used to watch it. came out in 1976. it is an old show. jefferson has drafted the declaration. they are marking it up. it is a long tedious process driving adams crazy. he is like, we have to start

this experiment. they are going through this line by line. somebody says, if we say it that way, parliament may not like that. could take them off. somebody says, we might want to change this because king george will look at this this way. and somebody said we have to be concerned about deep fishing rights. finally adams says it is a revolution, we will have to offend somebody. the same thing applies. we're going broke. we have to cut somebody. every family understands this. the only entity that is not get the message is the one that has a 16 trillion dollar debt, the federal government. we are putting forth a plan that gets us to balance and a reasonable period of time. it should not take 30 years. it should not be a budget that

never gets to balance like the president proposed. we think it is something you have to do. the quicker you get after fixing it, the easier to get it done. i will finish with this. we spoke at an event in ohio a year ago. it is every third generation that has to do something big in the country. the group of americans said we will start a place that is going to be different than any other place ever, any nation in the world. a place where freedom mean something. nobody thought could win but they did. three generations later american say we can deal with the evils of slavery. we can keep the union together and they were successful. three generations later they said we can deal with the great depression.

here we are three generations later. it is our turn. it will not be easy. i learned a long time ago anything worth doing is never easy. it takes work, effort, sacrifice, just the way god made the planet. americans have always resented the occasion and i am confident we can do it again. with that i will take your questions. >> a couple of e-mails were sent from an energy department adviser that were confidential. did you learn anything interesting from this morning? should we be concerned about the e-mails? >> we should be concerned in a

general sense. i ask their ceo a few minutes ago about that very subject. i said we have a going both ways. we have a private company asking the department of energy to edit this letter we are thinking of sending to the white house chief of staff. we have a department of energy giving the eternal documents to the private sector, people trying to get loans. it is almost like the teachers say into a couple of the students not the whole class, here are the answers for the exam. we are going to give this to you. this is how you should structure application and it things you're saying. it is unbelievable that is going on in the united states. this whole issue coupled with other things i have talked about involved in this campaign will be front and center of the next few months.

>> i am delighted you mentioned reform as part of the five platforms. as a veteran of the reagan revolution, there were two elements that took the stock market up from 1000 back when you were still a kid to 14,000 at its peak. it was cutting marginal tax rates and restoring health to the dollar. i am extremely pleased that kevin brady has proposed the sound dollar act. are you one of the sponsors? >> i cannot say. >> check into it. the republican has a wonderful opportunity to move forward with a healthy dollar. glenn hubbard is on record with calling for a rule based monetary policy. there is a distinction between the republicans and democrats on this. there has been no economic

growth for 10 years because we have had tax cuts, tax increases and this and that. we have had a sick dollar. putting a health the dollar into your agenda is wonderful. i commend you for that. >> it is no secret what has to be done. you have to have a common-sense tax code. have to have reasonable regulation. a common-sense energy policy. strong dollar policy. start scaling back -- you do that have to balance right away. you have to get the ship heading in the right direction. you do those things and just like you referenced we will take off with economic growth. but the in -- on tripura newer do what he has been doing for 200 years. our job is to create a structure that is conducive to job growth. i would argue that this administration is doing the opposite.

>> everybody in the room understands this. i was a little bit more about it. one of the big problems with the way the economic team looks flat domestic policy, they think there are two combinations of answers to every problem under the sun. the first is to grow the government footprint and the other one is to raise the marginal tax rates -- depending on the day of the week, over $1 million or $500,000. we have a big problem right now with hunger among children. you have seen a lot of specials on tv. more children are hungry than at any point in this country's history. there are 28 government programs that deal with the problem of children who are facing hunger. how can you have 28 programs and ostensibly tackling a problem

and is worse now than it has ever been carried by the democrats' way of thinking about things, the good guys are running things. you care about the issue of poverty and you are on the left, the good guys are in charge. 20 programs and is worse than it has ever been. i was in congress with the gym for a little bit and he is still there now. the big thing that you wrestle with in congress day in and day out are people on the other side who tell you all you have to do is raise taxes and keep growing programs. it does not work. >> i was a councilman several years ago. we are now about to go into this process of subpoenaing the white house for documents. the house does not have the legal authority to force -- enforce its own subpoenas. we have to rely on the justice

department to go to court and enforce subpoenas against the white house. have we thought about going to the mitt romney administration and to our friends in the senate and say, if we have a majority let's pass a law that gives the house the same power as the senate to enforce its own subpoenas. in the future we do not have to rely on what could be a corrupt justice department. >> i did talk to derail a little bit this morning about this issue. -- darryl on this issue. that may be something we do explore. i commend his courage and leadership and what he is doing. that is right on target. it was a pleasure to serve with

them. we were on the judiciary committee together. >> if i could ask a question about obamacare. three provisions of obamacare -- medicare, pre-existing conditions, and the so-called slacker provision for the 26 year old. some republicans say they might want to be preserving these. regardless of what the supreme court does, what should the house do? >> i hope the supreme court throws out the whole lot. i hope that is what happens. if they do not, they just do the individual mandate and they leave the rest of place, we should work to, if in fact the voters do what i think they will do and keep republicans in charge of the house and give the senate back to republicans, we

should repeal all of obamacare and restart the whole debate. not focus on washington as the so-called answer to health care but focus on market solutions. it is really that they said. would you explain we want to empower families, we want to empower moms and dads. i always tell people the biggest problem with the health care law and americans dislike is so much is the fundamental fact is this administration missed. americans do not like being told what to do. we think freedom is important. they believe is so much they rebelled against the greatest country in the world of the time. they were part of a country that had the most freedom and they wanted more. in europe they said you have to practice your faith a certain way. they said, no we don't. we will go to america. now comes this administration

who says we will tell you how to get your health care. we are going to put somebody between you and your doctor. americans said, now you are not. most americans are travel. you -- most americans had traveled down the highway and they see a sign the says 55 -- that is not the limit. that is the challenge. the key is that individual mandate. we should throw the whole thing out. a market structure, let individuals and the market help us get to the right place. it will always be bigger in -- better than big government. >> two quick points. when i touched on. one of the things american people figured out way before most people in washington d.c. figured out, the american people figured out that if you write a

1000 page bill that you cannot say with certainty how it will play out in the lives of ordinary people, that is why according to the wall street journal, according to the washington post and new york times of all places, a significant number of private employers are going to drop their plans altogether or going to go to a plan that has higher premiums for people. remember four years ago when democrats said this is going to help the 15% who do not have health insurance and the 85% who have a -- remember when they said nothing will change for you? somebody told obama that is not really right. the reality is that because of this plan, because of the exchanges it sets up, because of the way the exchanges are

administered, it will be easier for the average company trying to get by in a dire economy to get rid of health insurance for people. how do you pass a plan that we are told is the most revolutionary thing for poor and sick people since 1965 and one of the big incentives is for companies to walk away from providing health insurance? on the mandate, this is a bipartisan statement because .oth sides missed this issue neither democrats or republicans spent enough time thinking of the constitutionality of what was going on. we are arguing about money. weaver arguing about structure and size. very few people in our ranks, very few were saying we need to step back and ask first principles, do we have the authority to do it?

there is a wonderful lady running for congress and utah, when people ask her what is your philosophy of government she says three things -- is it sustainable? can we afford it? is it in my jurisdiction to do it? we need her in congress because not enough congressmen think about that. even if you can afford it, you cannot with obamacare, you still have to ask the basic question, do we have the authority to do it? if government can say to you you have to buy health insurance, regardless of your family's situation or what you choose, there is still nothing in the consumer market the government can make you buy. >> do you have a question? >> let's take one more. >> to talk a lot about the d o e programs.

you have republican supporting these programs because, they benefit by having a company build a plant in their district, they will pretend this money fell from the sky and say it created jobs in their district. how do we get to both democrats and republicans that this policy is misguided? whether or not it is successful that is a waste of money. >> that is the point. unfortunately it is not just the energy program, it is part, on a bailout, -- never start down this road here the simple point is, what you just said. we do not have the money. it is not sustainable. it is not productive. it actually hurts other green energy companies because they cannot get private capital because it is like, you have to

have the stamp of approval from the government. that is why you have to stop it. ofre trying to highlight all that. >> thank you so much for joining us. [applause] >> i wanted to make sure we play for you a new video on the energy front. they recently traveled to north dakota to interview some people to see the economic and they are experiencing. if we can cue that up. do you want to say anything? >> i think this video speaks for itself. it really talks to the hope that exists when the government is not standing in the way of private markets and hard work and individuals. without further ado, we will let

you watch this. please share it with your networks. >> what else in the country has 1% unemployment? what else has great paying jobs? if your wanting to pay off debts and starting over in life. " this is the american way. you go to work can you do it. there are a lot of people doing just that. >> i came up here with my daughter. we saw an opportunity to come

here and make something of ourselves. back in the california the opportunity would not have been such. >> the graduate high school and you just want to get out of here as fast as a camp. there is more opportunity, so many locals invest in the area. because the opportunities are here. >> when you build a home for four people, six people come. the secondng into inning as far as this growth but here goes. because of this technology, they have always known this for mission was here. the have not been able to capture the oil from the formation. >> i actually live on a farm

northeast of town. some people refer to this as an oreo cookie. the have these layers of black shale, that is the oil. when you look at that rock, it is hard, dense, tides. by drilling two miles sideways and fracking this rock, you draw the oil out of the entire system. >> what you worry the most about is federal government and regulations. not giving you the environmental protection that you need. >> you know, we are really not sure. [unintelligible] >> from a science standpoint i know we are very safe. i feel like i am an environmentalist.

i am a farmer. i think the country can learn by what north dakota has done. >> you guys need to come and see this. and talk to the people. see what kind of people are here. see what made the country as great as it is. it is hard work, blue collar people. not to say we do not need politicians. this is what made this country great. north dakota is full of them. >> we hope that communicates in the process thatfracking and the great things happening out there. we have been tweeting about it today. concluding things today is our good friend, the co founder of tea party patriots. she has been active in the tea party movement right from the start.

she organized a rally in georgia in which she brought together people and has been a champion for the values we care about at heritage. i will let jenny offer her remarks. please welcome her. [applause] >> thank you. while many in congress were not asking about the constitutionality of obamacare, people run the country were. we have maintained it is unconstitutional. we see from polling this year 80% of americans think the individual mandate is unconstitutional. clearly the people in the tea party movement and this room are making a difference. we are bringing our attention as a nation back to our founding document to the constitution. that is what we are doing at tea party patriots. our coal or bellies have remained the same.

-- our core believes have remained the same. we are working to make sure we create a mandate for these core values. it is what congressman george been alluded to happens in november and the voters vote for republicans to maintain control of the house and republicans to control the senate and white house, we do not go back to what happened in the early 2000's. what happened then was spending went out of control and we strayed from our constitution. we want to make sure we create a mandate to balance the budget in five years or less without raising taxes. a mandate for full repeal of obamacare regardless of what the supreme court does and rolling back regulations so free markets can work. our country has created tremendous things against

tremendous odds from the birth of our country to defeating nazism, putting a man on the moon, defeating communism in the cold war. our free markets have created light bulbs, televisions, the personal computer, the iphone, the ipad, and to go. we can balance our budget. we can restore our economy. we can make sure the government gets out of the way so that free markets work again. thank you. [applause] >> if anybody has announcements feel free to make them now. >> i want to yield to ashley. i wanted to invite you all to

a happy hour tomorrow. it is that capital metro stop, the campaign for limited government will be inviting young people. we are working on three projects --[unintelligible] going to the gop convention. see you tomorrow at 6:00 p.m.. >> anybody else? ok. we will see you next week. thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] [captioning performed by national captioning institute]

>> how do you approach but interviews different than news interviews? >> i think of book interviews as gathering history. i think of when i am working for the news side as gathering contemporary information. >> how difficult is it to remain impartial in reporting and not get caught up in the high of one campaign or in other? >> i will try to give people as full of an understanding of what is happening in this campaign. it is not that difficult to put your biases to the side. >> how has a social media changed your line of work and reporting and getting information. >> twitter is now a primary news source for anybody who covers politics. twr