a problem exist now, but there are incentives for additional opportunities for the unscrupulous, who are fortunately a meyer -- a their clients.ee those are usually the most vulnerable. then, to celebrate, we're glad you came because you have shown once again that oregonians know there's a better way. we don't just sit around and say oh, this is wrong and that is wrong. we roll up our sleeves and come up with solutions. you all have been very helpful to us and i want you to know i'm going to work for closely with senator hatch on conference of tax reform, on appropriate oversight with respect to tax repairs. i want to give my friend and colleague the last word here. >> thank you, mr. chairman. all, i'm grateful to all of you for being here.

all can say is, the more i look into this the more i worry about the problems that are involved. are a other hand, there lot of good people in this industry who are trying to do and who do do what is right. i want to look at this very carefully. i don't want another big bureaucratic institution to make it even more expensive to file tax returns. for tax certain feeling person as well. your helping us to understand this better. hopefully you will continue to weigh in and give us your ideas on how we might do a better job here. thanks so much. >> on the next "washington journal," democratic and republican strategists join us for look ahead to the midterm elections and the 2016 presidential race.

we will also examine the latest developments in ukraine with former u.s. ambassador to nato, kurt volker. our guest is kelly lonnie. >> today on newsmakers, we are latte. by bob good he will talk about changing the nsa surveillance program and oversight of the justice department. newsmakers is at 10:00 a.m. on c-span. there is no question the congress routinely does not speak the truth to the american public. it is not just about inaccuracies.

it is the absence of speaking the truth about where we are. where are we? livingat a standard of the same as what we had in 1988. we need -- now have unfunded obligations of $1.1 million per family. that needs to be spoken. we need to build a context of how things are going to come. seebiggest problem that i with congress is the denial of reality. person still be a good and deny reality. we all have flaws. we all deny reality in some sense in our lives. we don't want to face reality. the fact is we have not had the leadership in this country for a long time, i am talking a presidential and congressional, that would tell the truth about

the situation we find ourselves in. you can debate what caused it. i have my idea what caused it. coburn on his career in politics and the reason for his retirement in the senate. tonight at 8:00 on c-span. >> collecting each year $100 billion in federal taxes, the internal revenue service has contact with more citizens of the united states than any other agency of the federal government. has the revenue call and tobacco division. it regulates the liquor and tobacco industries. that it strives to curtail the development of illicit liquor.

the billions of cigarettes and cigars smoked annually in this country give another base of tax relationship between the citizens and the revenue service. all this friday of effort and activity is what keeps the 60,000 employees busy, not just during the filing. but every day the around. the history and functions of the treasury department from 1969 on american history tv. this is at 4:00 p.m. eastern time on c-span three. president obama addressed civil rights activists and others attending the national action network convention in new york city. he spoke for half an hour. he focused on voting rights. let me say to all of you that have been here for our

convention, this convention has value. we will see it when we leave here and go into the trenches and protect the right to vote and protect the civil rights of the been gained and must be maintained. [applause] called for this is 23 years the national action network. it is about action. this is been framed by a president as the year of action. he has been an action president. [applause] no president in the last 50 years has shown more action around protecting the rights of ordinary citizens and the civil rights of people denied them then our action at president,

barack obama. [applause] rhetoric.ing about i am not talking about who would five -- hi five us. i am talking about action. privateking about sector jobs every month with action. i am talking about equal pay for women. , he man did not talk brought us action. that is why i am proud to bring you at the national action network, the action president, the chief executive, president barack obama. [applause] >> thank you.

thank you. hello, new york. thank you. thank you. thank you so much. it is good to be at the national action network. it is good to be here with good friends. i love you back. [applause] it is wonderful to be with all of you. i want to say first of all, to reverend al sharpton. give him a big round of applause. [applause] i appreciate the idea of being an action president, although i do also have style. [applause]

i just wanted to point that out. i do have it. al is not the only guy with style. thank the organizers today. thank you. congress andrs of the state and local officials from new york. we have all of you. thanks to all of you for such a wonderful welcome. everybody sit down. sit down. [applause] al does not know how to get back to his seat. somebody help of the leader here. [laughter] don't make him jump over. they're going to explain it. there you go.

you're going to be all right. the last time i was here was three years ago. a few things have changed since then. i am here as a second term president. [applause] i have more gray hair. else?see, what i have twice as many dogs. am glad i won't have to serve third term because three dogs is too many. i can't keep up. one thing that has not changed is your commitment to the cause of civil rights for everybody. and opportunity for all people. that is been something has been on my mind this week.

texas at thein, lbj library to speak on the 50th anniversary of the civil rights act and the man who signed it into law. [applause] standing there i thought of all unknownicans known and who made it possible for me to stand in that spot. those who marched an organized and sat in and stood up for jobs and for justice. those who achieve that great victory and others, not just with respect to the civil rights act but the voting rights act and the fair housing act and immigration reform and medicare and medicaid and the in a battles analog -- long war on poverty. in the wake of the worst economic crisis of our lifetime, we want jobs created two.

createdn jobs have been in the last five years. signed upamericans of for health coverage under the affordable care act. [applause] millions more gained coverage through medicaid and young people are staying on their parents'plans. uninsured americans and high school dropout rates are down. graduation rights are the highest on record. more people are gaining college degrees and never before. we have made progress and we have taken action. [applause] we also know that our work is unfinished. too many americans are working harder just to get by. too many americans aren't working at all. we know we have to do more to restore america's promise of opportunity for all people.

or tickled for communities hardest hit by the recession. those who were struggling before the recession. not only african-americans and latinos, but americans across the country in pockets of inner city, suburban, and rural areas. we know what opportunity means. it means more good jobs that pay good wages. opportunity means training people for those jobs. opportunity means changing the odds for all of our children through pre-k that you are fighting for here in new york city. [applause] affordable means higher education for all who are willing to work for it. answering theans call of being of my brothers keeper in helping boys and young men of color stay on track and reach their full potential. [applause] before i came out, i saw my

, a great passer from the state of texas. he said they're going to hire and pay them $10 and $.10 an hour -- $10.10 an hour. that is not just something that he does, that is not something the government does, that is something everybody can participate in. we know the junk man need support. -- we know these young men need support. it means equal pay for equal work area that it means overtime pay for workers who have earned it. to extendontinuing the right for health care to every american in every state. we have some states that aren't doing the right thing. we have states who just out of political spite are leaving

millions of people uninsured that could begin health insurance right now. there is no good reason for it. you asked him with explanation is and they cannot tell you. a reason andem they can't tell you. likeed to deal with things dangerous carbon pollution and that disproportionately affects low income communities. we need to make sure that our young people are eating right so michelle.listen to i am just saying. [applause] we know we have more work to do. we need to bridge the gap between our ideals and the realities of our time. we question becomes how do

actually make these changes? how does happen? had we get a minimum wage bill passed? get those states that aren't ample many the affordable care act actually doing right by their citizens? vigilant.eing we have to be vigilant to secure the gains we have made and make more gains in the future. meaning of these last 50 years since the civil rights act was passed. across the country, right now, there are well organized and well-funded efforts to undo these gains. is under attack and i want to spend the rest of my time here talking about that. just as any quality feeds off injustice, opportunity requires justice and justice requires the

right to vote. [applause] johnson right after he signed the civil rights act into law told his advisers, some of whom were telling him to wait and you have done a big thing and let the dust settle, he said i can't wait. we have got to press forward and passed the voting rights act. said, about this there no other, every american citizen should have an equal right to vote. [applause] voting is a time when we all have an equal say. like or white, rich or poor, man or woman, it doesn't matter. law, in theof the eyes of our democracy, we're all

supposed to have that equal right to cast our ballot and make -- determine the course of our society. person andle of one one vote is the single greatest tool we have to regress the status quo. you would think there would not be in argan about this -- you would think there would not be an argument about this anymore. vote is threatened today in a way that has not been threatened since the voting rights act became law five decades ago. republicansountry, are passing laws making it harder for people to vote. in some places, women could be turned away from the polls because the registered -- they are registered under their maiden name and their drivers license as a married name. senior citizens who of been voting -- have been voted for decades are told they cannot

vote until they come up with the right id. in other places, people may learn that a document like a passport or birth certificate cannot register. about 60% of americans don't have a passport. have notuse you traveled abroad it does not mean you should not be able to vote here in home. [applause] just to be clear, i know what my birth certificate is. [applause] a lot of people don't. [applause] i think it is still up on a website somewhere. [laughter] you remember that? that was crazy. that was some crazy stuff. [applause]

i have not thought about that in a while. [laughter] i want to be clear. i am not against reasonable attempts to secure the ballot. there have to be rules in place. we understand that. i am against requiring an id that millions of americans don't have. that should not prevent you from exercising your right to vote. the first words put to paper in our american story is that we are all created equal. it takes a long time to make sure that those words mean something. ago, we put laws in

place because of enormous struggles. we vindicated the idea. we made our democracy truly mean something. that makes it wrong to pass laws that make it harder for any eligible citizen to vote. citizenly because every have a responsibility to vote, not just a right to vote. [applause] on guardght to be against voter fraud. voter fraud would impinge on our democracy. we don't want people voting that should not be voting. we agree on that. let's stipulate to that as the lawyers say. there is a reason why restrictions on voting are necessary to fight voter fraud. they have a hard time proving

there is any widespread voter fraud a. one recent study found that only in person voter impersonation in 12 years. 10 cases. another found out of 197 million president, only millions out of 197 were indicted for fraud. for those of you who are math majors, that is a percentage that is very small. [laughter] that is not a lot. let's be clear. the real voter fraud is people who try to deny our rights by making bogus accusations about

voter fraud. [applause] there've been some of these officials passing laws have been more blunt. they have said this is going to be good for the republican party. have not been shy about saying that they are doing this for partisan reasons. wrong, president johnson said, to deny any of your fellow americans the right to vote in this country. it is wrong to change our election rules because of politics. it is wrong to make people wait six or seven hours to vote. it is wrong to make a senior citizen who no longer has a drivers license to jump through to vote.be able we did not march and sacrifice to gain the right to vote only

to see a denied to their children and their grandchildren. we have got to pay attention to this. [applause] some people from chicago know registry to vote drive. as an organizer, i got to help other citizens exercise their most cherished and fundamental rights. that' mattered to me. i'm not going to let attacks on these rights going challenge. earlier this week, you heard from the attorney general. there is a reason why the agency he runs is called the department of justice. they have taken on more than 100 voting rights faces since 2009. ofy have defended the rights

everybody from african-americans to soldiers serving overseas. a bipartisan commission chaired by my election lawyer and mitt yer came upection law you with a smart way to curb voter fraud. it ensures nobody has to wait for more than half an hour to cast a ballot. states and local election boards should take up those old -- recommendations. i urge members of congress to honor those who gave their lives so that others could rex -- exercise the right to vote. update the voting rights act. get that done. do it because the right to vote is something cherished by every american. i [applause] be having an argument about this. there are things we can argue about. , what kind ofote

political platform is that? make that a part of your agenda? why would you prevent people from voting? how can you defend that? there are people out there who don't vote for me. they did not vote for me and don't like what i do. the idea that i would prevent them from voting and exercising their franchise, that makes no sense. black or white, man or woman, disabled, gay or straight, republican or democrat, voters should be able to vote. period. [applause]

it makes our democracy strong. fact, this has not been led by both parties. it is been led by the republican party. in fairness, it is not just democrats were concerned. one republican pointed out that --e it more difficult for make it more difficult for people to vote is not a good way to attract more people. that is a good insight. [applause] i want a competitive republican party. democraticmpetitive party. that is how it is supposed to work, the competition of ideas. i do people changing the rules to try and restrict people having access to the ballot. responsible people should agree

with that. if your strategy depends on having fewer people show up to vote, that is not a sign of strength. that is a sign of weakness. [applause] is it ultimately bad politics, i believe ultimately it harms the entire country. many, we is denied to are stuck with special-interest policies that are good for the fortunate few. justice perpetuated justice gives freedom. we have to give hope. the story of america is a story of progress. no matter how often that progress has been challenged, this nation has moved forward.

ark of historyhe moves toward justice. we move forward on civil rights and workers rights and disability rights and gay rights. we show that when ordinary citizens get together, justice will not be denied. [applause] the single most important thing we can do to protect our right to vote is to vote. i'm going to make one last point. we have an attorney general that looks over laws that are passed. we are going to have civic organizations that are making sure that state laws and local laws are doing what they should do. we will fight back whenever we the franchise being

challenged. the truth is that with all these laws put in place, the biggest problem we have is people giving up their own power. voluntarily not participating. [applause] the number of people who voluntarily don't vote dwarfs what these laws might do in terms of diminishing voting rights. we can't treat these barriers as an excuse not to participate. this as an excuse. well, we did not get everything we needed. we still have poverty. we still have problems. of course. these things did not happen overnight. when i was in texas, people were

celebrating the day the civil rights law was finally passed. there were decades in which people sacrificed and worked hard. [applause] change does not happen overnight. it happens as long as we don't purposely give our power way. past --stacle in our we have to harness the power and create a national network committed to taking action. we can call it the national action network. [applause] i want you to go out and redouble your efforts. get those people to the polls. won't let you do it on sunday, do it on tuesday instead. [applause]

i know it's better going to the polls on sunday, because you go o church, get a little meal. got the bus waiting for you. i understand. but you can do it without that if we have to. there's a time when we're marking many anniversaries. it's interesting for mesm i've been on this earth 52 years, we've see the progress made is to see my own life and the progression that's happened. you think about brown vs. board of education and freedom summer, and with those anniversaries, we have new reason to remember those who made it possible for us to be here. like the three civil rights workers in mississippi, two whites, one black, who were murdered 50 years ago as they tried to help their fellow citizens register to vote. james chaney and andrew goodman

and michael believed so strongly that change was possible, they were willing to lay down their lives for it. the least you can do is take them occupant gift they have given you. go out there and vote. you can make a change. you do have the power. i've run my last election, but i need you to make sure that the changes that we've started continue for decades to come. thank you. god bless. god bless america. ♪ >> on the next "washington

journal," democratic and republican political strategist stefan hankin and kellyanne conway join us for a lock ahead to the elections. we'll also examine the latest developments in ukraine with former u.s. ambassador to nato, kurt volker. and a look at congressional salaries and other benefits members receive, our guest is lunney. that's live at 7:00 a.m. eastern. today on "news makers," we're joined by bob goodlatt of virginia. he joined us to talk about the n.s.a. surveillance programs, as well as oversight of the justice department and attorney general eric holder. "news makers," 10:00 at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. here eastern on c-span. >> there's no question that

congress routinely and administrations routinely don't speak the truth to the american public. nd it's not just about inaccuracies on the affordable healthcare act, but it's the absence of speaking the truth about where we are. where are we? we are now at a standard of living the same as what we had in 1988. we now have, per family, unfunded obligations and pure debt of $1.1 million per family. doesn't need to be spoken. we can build a context for the tough things that are going to come. you know, the biggest problem that i see with congress is its denial of reality. and you can still be a good person and deny reality. we all have flaws, and we all deny realities in some sense in our lives every day, because we don't want to face them. but the fact is we haven't had

the leadership in this country in a long time, and i'm talking presidential and congressional, that would stand up and tell the truth to the american public about the situation we find ourselves in, and you can debate what caused it. i pretty well have my idea what caused it. >> senator coburn on his career, politics, and reasons for his retirement from the senate at the end of the session, tonight at 8:00 on -span's "q&a." >> edison really was a plant scientist, as well as interest in the other sciences, and the story is that he knew that it didn't freeze in fort myers, so a lot of the interest that he had here in this area were based on his love of plants. by the 1920's, the united states was relying on foreign rubber, and we were headed into war. at that point they decided the

plant material and the process should be done in this country. edison ford firestone were collecting plants all over the world and had hundreds and thousands of people all over this country collecting plants and sending them back here to fort myers to his laboratory to find a source of plant material that could produce rubber efficiently, effectively, commercially. so the laboratory was put here because of that reason, because they could grow the plants here on site, and then actually do the preliminary research on site. so it's a really exciting project. the laboratory was interesting for many reasons. one of them was that at that point in american history, for was no patent process plant chemical patenting. part of the reason was this lab was so important is it caused the u.s. government to come forward with what was called the u.s. patent law, which then said that if you invented

something with plants and it was a process that was worthy of patenting, it was issued a patent. >> next weekend, book tv and american history tv take a look at the history and literary life of fort myers, florida, including a stop at thomas edison's research laboratory on c-span2 and 3. >> citizens united and americans for prosperity hosted their inaugural freedom summit in manchester, new hampshire, on saturday. coming up, we'll show you the highlights from the event, including remarks by senators ted cruz of texas and kentucky's rand paul, also donald trump and former arkansas governor mike huckabee. but first, the day connected off with a speech by mike lee of utah. >> thank you very much.

i just left washington yesterday, and i have to say it's good to be back in america. >> it's a pleasure to welcome the senator. a few months after we got there, bono, the leader singer for u2, information town. she and i were the only two senators in the room when bono came by, which actually listened to u2 starting when we were in junior high. it was a good moment. when i came to the senator, i was 39 at the time i was elected and took office. although as i like say, i was reading at the level of a 40-year-old, when i was told was very impressive. 42 now but read at the level of a 43-year-old. always trying to stay ahead of the curve. my wife sharon is here somewhere. she's younger than i am, but always reading several levels ahead herself. when i got there, it was interesting.

apparently to some people in washington i did not look like a senator. to some of them i looked like a staff member by comparison. from time to time when i got to the door of the senate in order to vote, there were these very heavily armed gentleman who would stop me. oh just tying to get into vote and do my job. as a nondrinking kid from utah, i was not used to getting carded. they do not want to see my driver's license. i will show you what they wanted to see. each time i got carded i had to roduce this. this is my senate i.d. it says united states senator and it says expiration january 3, 2017. i do not know that is what i personally expire or my term of ffice. that one has sharon worried a little bit. this would happen every single

time. i would have to produce the id. they would check it to make sure the security resistant strip was intact. that i had want bought it at a fake i.d. outlet somewhere in washington. they would look at each other and shrug their shoulders and say "i guess we have to let him in." after a while, i discovered a shortcut to this exercise. there was a lapel pin they gave me when i was inducted. i prompt the put it in my desk drawer and didn't think i would need t. i'm not really into accessories. somebody told me, if you wear that pin, they will recognize you as a senator. that pin is designed to enable the capitol hill police to recognize a senator as such. so i put it on, and it worked like a charm. i came to calling it my "sorry senator" pin. when i got carded i would point to it and they would say "sorry, senator, you can come n in." most of the time it works

without a flaw. every once in a while it does not work. when time after i had been there almost a year i was on the senate floor in between votes. i was standing there in between our two roll call votes. i had one arm gently leaning on the desk. one of the non-uniformed security personnel came up and said that i did not expect would you please not lean on the senator's desk? i respond well to authority, i immediately stood up and said terribly sorry, i dent realize i was putting weight on the desk, it won't happen again. some of them are very old and they're very protective of the desks. some of them are almost as old as my colleagues. then the man said something i didn't entirely understand. he said, are you with the minority? well, what do you mean? i'm a republican senator.

i don't know whether you mean on this vote or the next. i don't always vote with my party, but most of the i am do. he said, no, are you with the minority leader? i said, well, mitch mcconnell is with our leader, i support him. no, are you part of his staff? i pointed to the pin. blank stare. it didn't work. it was not used to using my title so i mumbled the next word "i am senator lee." e said "what?" i said i represent utah, it's a square, beautiful mountains. beautiful skiing. only then did he figure it out. all the color seemed to drain from his face. to this me in one hurried breath, i'm essentially story, my name is steve if you want to report me, and then he ran for the door. i felt bad for steve. i did not want him to think there's any problem.

i chased after him but he was too fast. every time i see steve in the halls of the u.s. capitol i say hi, stove, and i wave and shake hands, and i smile just so he knows he and i are friends. only recently did it occur to me his name is probably not steve. it's probably bob. steve is the guy he works with that he hates. it was difficult to use my title that day. i do not want to have to do it. the story has become something of a walking metaphor to me. sometimes we have to assert that which is rightfully ours even when it is uncomfortable and inconvenient. if we do not, we will lose it. hi not asserted my right to be there, i probably would have gotten hauled off in handcuffs, much to the amusement of some

of my colleagues, probably would have waited a few minutes before telling anyone who i was. i would have lost something that day, the 3 million people i represent in my home state. this story applies not just to u.s. senators but to all of us. there are some things that are rightfully ours by virtue of our u.s. citizenship. we have a right to live in a land with limited government. we have a right to live in a land where laws are made by elected senators and representatives and not by the stroke of the executive pen. [applause] it is one of the things i love about your state. one of the things i love about being here. it is almost tangible. you can feel it. you can see it on your license plate "live free or die." how beautiful is that?

the truth is, you and new hampshire have a long history standing up for what is right even when it is difficult and inconvenient and life threatening, even when it's threatening to your way of life. it is not far from here that the american revolution got nderway. in december 1773 when not too far from here a group of american patriots board a ship in boston harbor. they seized crates of tea, english tea, and in defiant protest against our large, distant national government that taxed us too much, that was far too intrusive, that didn't respect our privacy, that regulated us oppressively and was so far from the people that it was slow to respond to our needs, that national government, based in london, had gone too far. and we had had it. what is significant here is that they do not stop there.

had those patriots stopped simply at that moment, at throwing these crates of tea into the harbor and destroying the tea, what we now call the boston tea party would have been at most a footnote in american history. but they didn't stop there. they moved forward. from there they went on to declare and later fight for and ultimately win our ndependence. 14 years later, they got from boston all the way to philadelphia where in 1787 they went from merely protesting against the kind of government they did not want to embracing the kind of government they did want in this now 227-year-old document. [applause] we have had those moments as a nation will we go from protesting against what we don't want. we have those as a party where we have gone from railing

against the kind of policies that are bad to embracing the olicies that are good. we as a party, a republican party, have always faced the kind of tensions that any political party will face from ime to time. that exists between the party's base and the senior elected leadership on the other hand. sentence normal, natural, almost inevitable. it has existed from time to time in one degree of severity or another. the party found itself in great disarray in 1976 following the 1976 election cycle. it was in that year that conservatives across america discovered a leader for the ages in ronald reagan. [applause] they ran that leader for the ages against a less

conservative incumbent republican president. they ran that leader for the ages and they lost the primary election and republicans lost the general election. conservatives were blamed not just for losing the white house but also losing house and senate elections across the country. there is a lot of discouragement within the party that matched the tension i just described. conservatives did not give up. no. they doubled down and came back. in four years later, they won. they won because they came back with that same conservative leader for the ages. they were armed with one thing they did not have before, an agenda. they embraced the kind of government we did want. they articulated it in concise terms, bold, conservative terms. we learned that as a party we win when we do this. we win when we have an agenda that is at once told and

conservative and focused on upward economic mobility for all americans. [applause] sometimes we lose sight of this. sometimes in our own party we are told to sit back and let things take care of themselves. there are those that are saying all we need to do to win elections is nothing. we know based on our experience that is not true. we know as a nation to many of us have settled for less. we know that as americans and republicans we have to expect more. how is it that we get there? how is it that we do what we need to do? how do we get to this point where congress has an approval ating at 9%?

not 90, not 19, 9%. by the way, that makes us slightly less popular than fidel and raul castro in america. it makes us only slightly more popular than the en influence ens avirus, and the virus is gaining on us. we have to expect more. congress and our party and many of our leaders in washington have told us to expect less. we must expect more, we must demand more. how do we do that? as conservatives we have to stop talking about ronald reagan and we have to start acting like him. we have to come together and ally around an agenda. as we approach this daunting

task, i want to tell i a story that i first first heard told about a man who described a late-night walk he took across a bridge. t was a high bridge. it was a bridge across either a river or harbor where he lived. it was so high if you jumped off of that you would not survive. he was enjoying this late at night when there was no traffic and it was just him, the moon, the stars, and the bridge. he got halfway across and discovered that he was not alone. he saw a man standing on the edge of the bridge outside the guardrail holding on. he could barely detect from the light of the moon. this man was in a bad place. he was contemplating taking his own life by jumping up the bridge. he thought, well, i better stop

and talk, better see if i can help. so i asked the man, couldn't figure out what else to say, do you believe in god? the man said yes. and he said me, too. are you a christian? yes. me, too. what denomination? the man said i'm a baptist. are you a northern baptist or southern baptist? i'm a northern fundamentalist baptist. i'm a northern fundamentalist baptist. conference of 1857 or conference of 1812? the man said, well, a a conference of 1857. and he said die, you her particular, and pushed him off the bridge. [laughter] this reminds us that as

conservatives we have for far more engaged in the act of finding converts than identifying heretics. we need to sharpen more pencils than knives. i get asked every single day what is it that we can do to make a difference? how do we win? in this very critical election year, it really comes down to expectations. for starters, i am here to tell you it is time to expect ore. do not settle for high unemployment. expect opportunity. do not settle for liberal domination of the media. expect an honest debate and a deeper national dialogue. do not settle for trillion dollar deficits. expect balanced budgets. do not settle for washington centered solutions brought to

you on a silver platter by smooth talking washington bureaucrats. expect communities and neighborhoods and families in the institutions that have made our society great come together to solve america's greatest problems. do not settle for a president who relies on a phone and a pen. expect congress to do its job. [applause] do not settle for style. expect substance. do not settle for some day. expect today. do not settle for empty promises. expect excellence. as americans, we never settle for mediocrity. not ever. join me and expect more. join me and expect freedom.

thank you very much. may god bless new hampshire and may god bless the united states of america. [applause] >> thank you very nice. i want to thank david, the whole group. it's a great honor to be here. i love new hampshire. i've been here many times before. it's a special place, special people, people that love to work. they are workers. i love that. countries need that. to be honest, we have something that we have to do and we have to do it fast. we have to make america great again. we have to do it. it's just not going to be able to continue onward, and we're just want going to be able to

do it if we don't take this country and bring it back. it has to be brought back ast. our country is in very serious trouble. jobs, unemployment or the -- unemployment through the roof. you look at indexes. some of them are the worst we have had in 36 years. 36 years. despite that you have a number that is below 7%. we all know it doesn't matter the number because they don't report it the old-fashioned way, the way they used to. when people were unemployed, they were unemployed. now you stop looking for a job because you cannot find one, they consider you to be employed essentially. as a country, we are in such serious trouble we owe $17 trillion, much of it to china, who does numbers on us like nobody has ever really done numbers.

we have deficits that are massive on a yearly basis. we do not have the right people negotiating for us. obamacare is an absolute catastrophe. it is a disaster. it is a disaster. they say they had 7 million startups. does anybody really believe that? ok. just an impossibility. it is impossible. how many people have paid? they do not mention the -10,000,000 people that lost their doctors. obamacare has been the single reatest lie i have witnessed and i have been in politics for a long time. think of this. we all have websites. i have a lot of websites. it coss per d set it up. you get this guy. you get this woman.

you get this young kid and you put them in. i get everybody. it cost me so little. they spent well over $1 billion to do a website. nobody even talks about it. they sort of skipped over it. it is going to be one of the great classical lines in the history of politics and incompetence. that was when secretary sibelius on the podium with the president here, he must have been going wild on my she said "unfortunately, a page is missing." of obamacare.atic

a page is missing. the whole thing is missing. a very conservative person and somebody that is a republican and proud to be, we do not get treated the same way. if that were done by some republican they would make that person into the dumbest, most incompetent human being that anybody has ever seen. with her they said isn't that cute? she lost a page. it wasn't that cute? i watched. i could not believe it. they are trying to make it like it was a wonderful thing. when president obama was interviewed a couple of weeks ago eisenach whatever his name -- to get the youth - interviewed a couple weeks ago by whatever his name was to get the youth, they said some nasty things. he was so furious. you could see he wanted to get

out. he is looking for the aid that set the interview. s people.fire you could see how angry he was pure iwatch the commentary. everybody was saying wasn't that fun? the only one not having fun was in. it was very disrespectful to the president. they made it like wasn't that wonderful? wasn't that great? we have a lot of problems going on in this country. i am a big believer in free trade. with free-trade unique competence people. i do not like free trade with incompetent people. everybody's is kicking our ass. every country. i like to say fair trade as opposed to free trade. trade."o say "smart

i know people on wall street that are so smart, that are so brilliant businesswise that if i put them to negotiate against china and japan, mexico, you it, we would take one person put them in charge of china. i know them all. china does not have a chance. take these people that are diplomats, that our political appointees. you get a nice position and you negotiate with china. as luck. laughing why china is at us. why they are outsmarting us. i do not know if you saw the other day but it was shocking to people. they just devalued their currency again. went to the wharton school of finance. i'm good at this stuff.

it is common sense. it makes it really tough for us to compete for project and jobs and all the things they're taking out of our system. nobody would have thought they would have had encouraged to devalued the currency again. they have no respect for our country. none. i am a big believer in military. i do not want to use it. when you have it, you do not have to use it. when you don't have it, you have to use it. when you have it, you don't have to use it. we are cutting way back. many decades it has not been this weak. many decades we have not spent this little as a percentage. we are cutting way back great putin who is

absolutely having a great time. russia is really hot stuff. now you have people in the ukraine, set up or not but it cannot all be set up, are marching in favor of joining russia. ist he has done for russia really amazing. he has done it by outsmarting our country at every single step. you look at syria. you look at iran. they are taking oil from a rack. we spent $2 trillion on iraq. that worked in not exist two years ago. now you can hear billion. now you hear trillion. we spent $2 trillion fighting in iraq for years and years. we lost great people. i come from new york. i help wounded warriors.

i have met so many of them with arms and thehe ar and the trauma they are going through. for what? iraq.u look at now we have nothing to do. you know who has taken it? iran. for decades they were the same strength. they would go to feed this way, to feed that way and then they would say "let's have a truce." now we have decapitated. i believe strongly in military. i am very strong in doing wars if it is a right war. i was always against this. iran has taken over.

if we're going to be, maybe these people in washington, and i'm not talking about obama purely. he stay there a long time. maybe they know something. maybe they're going to take the oil. i said, they must have that in mind. you know who is taking the oil right now? china and iran. we get nothing. they do not let us in the country. now you look at afghanistan. afghanistan is another catastrophe. we are in there for a trillion. we are fighting on this side of the mountain. money to get satchels of money.gets satchels of who is the person delivering the cash? how does it feel to carry $50

million over your back. this is cash. who is authorized to give this? they are paid millions and millions of dollars in cash. after that, karzai is throwing us out like we are dogs. we are fighting on one side of the mountain. getting tremendous hurt for our great troops. on the other side of the mountain and nobody realize this until two years ago, afghanistan ,as tremendous mineral rights tremendous. unbelievable. side of the mountain, china has these massive machines taking all of these minerals out of the ground. we get nothing. are we stupid. i look at this. i look at what is happening with our country. i look at what is happening with leadership.

we found out that we could and should be the energy capital of the world. i am all for the keystone pipeline. i think it is great. it should've happened a long time ago. we do not even need it. we do not need canada's energy. i love canada. we do not need the energy. going to hurt anybody. we know that. we have it right here. we should be the energy capital of the world. we are not. off $17you going to pay trillion going to 21 trillion dollars in debt? everyone is beating us. everyone is taking our jobs. mexico, you do not hear it too much. mexico is just beating as so badly. they are taking a tremendous number of jobs out of this country. this will be a big problem.

the next four or five years you will see mexico just draining us. a lot of problems with immigration. either you have a country or you don't. it is very simple. either have a country or you don't have a country. you have to come up with a humane solution for people who have been here for many years. we have a lot of unprotecte -- unproductive people only have to get them the hell out. day.rd jeb bush the other he was talking about people that come into this country illegally. they do it for love. say it again. i have heard a lot. rd money and sex.

the one thing i have not heard was love. i understand what he was saying. it is out there. i would say. borders, have to have and i mean strong borders. i am a builder. i build great buildings. border, how can we possibly build a fence known to climb over? i would build a border like you've never seen before. nobody is climbing over. nobody. thank you. the problem that i have with politicians, not just our president. our president is obviously the leading example. politicians, and i know them all .

i've known the liberals, democrats, conservatives. i happen to love the tea party. they kill me for loving the tea party. i take heat because i love them. i went to wharton school of finance. the best school in the country. i have to get my credentials. the tea party does not get fairly treated. you know what it is? a their people that love this entry and love to work and they love to pay taxes and they want to pay more and more and they want to get this country going. these are incredible people. they do not get the right press. get the tea party. we've got to get them a good press agent. we've got to do it. they are great people. they do like me. every time i make a speech i get far more people. they are all the tea party. they love me.

politicians are all talk and no action. it is true. it is all bullshit. it is no action. they talk and talk and you go crazy. in the meantime, everybody else is eating lunch. and you know who's lunch it is? our lunch. it is tough. it is not their thing. i have known so many. i respect them. they are incredible survivors. i call a great politician a survivor. , ande had politicians they're very nice to me, they really are, they treat me very nicely. they want campaign contributions. they also what my endorsement badly. they are trying to survive at

their job. i have gone to politicians over the years. one in particular. a congressman from many years. i've always supported him. i asked for support of something that was really good for the country. a little controversial. not much. tagged me along. you leave the office and you got tapped. and two weeks later you say they are long. they're really good. i have respect for them. then i called him. he said we are really looking at it. we are really looking at it. all right. good. that is great. i'll call you in a few weeks. let me call you in about two months. he calls me in two months. it is a tough situation. two years go by. then he announces retirement. guys are these unbelievable survivors. he did not like it because it

was a little bit tough. he might lose two votes. it might not be perfect for him. it was not his comfort zone. in the meantime you did something very bad for that particular area. i have learned they are incredible survivors and respect them for that. the surviving is for themselves and not the country and the community. it is selfish. [applause] kidding, butort of i go and i will do these on occasion, and david asked me to do this one -- i agreed to do it and i said, it's interesting. things,me i go to these there are always teleprompters. i always say, take down the teleprompters. not beoliticians should

allowed to use teleprompters. [applause] said that to somebody backstage to has been in politics for years and they said, i've never heard of that idea before. write a speech -- usually it is written by someone else, get a great speech writer, then they stand up and start reading the speech. you don't really find the essence of a man or a person. you don't really know that person when they are doing the teleprompters saying. i think it's a cool idea. you could learn a lot about people. our president is the number one example. what we know about him? lines of up and reads a teleprompter most of the time and then everybody says, that was nice. you don't learn about the person. happen, maybedn't he wouldn't have been elected.

election, the republicans should have one. how they blew that one is hard to believe. how they blew that one is so discouraging and so hard to believe. do is we have to straighten out the country. just recently i was thinking a lot, and steve mentioned [indiscernible] it took eight years and the city spent $22 million. i went to ed kotz, the mayor of new york city and said, i would like to build it. if i don't build it quickly and for under $2 million, i will pay for it myself. it's the most successful rink anywhere in the world. run's the way we wanted to -- want it to run. eight years, 22 million dollars. of the $22 million, i had to rip it all down.

the advantage was i had to spend demolition money to rip it down. i built it in three months. i have a daughter. do we all know my daughter? she's great. i wanted her to go ice skating before she got too old. said, i'mt years, i going to build a rink. [laughter] i would walk through central park and look at that rink and i would see -- it's a massive .urface, over an acre i would say 200 or 300 men sitting there all day long. why aren't they working? they didn't do anything. i got it. i did a great job, like the book, you know? "kick ass." the workers loved it. at the same everything.

when the city first started the rink, they went to miami to get an engineer who builds refrigerators, for putting food in. they used freon. that's ok for a refrigerator. if there's a tiny little hole the size of a pin, you will never cool the ice. they put this beautiful copper comebacks next day and it was -- come back the next day and it was robbed. i said, let me see the engineer. this said, he's in miami. i said, who's the head of the montreal canadiens hockey team? a great guy. he sent down his engineer. he said, mr. trump, they will

never be able to make ice. they did finish in a couple of times but they were not able to make ice. they cannot even make ice when it was 20 degrees out. [laughter] i call him up and he comes down. realizes --es, he today we use brian. -- brine. it is water with salt in it, and you put it in rubber tubes under the concrete. the ice never freezes because it has salt in it. it's a rubber tube, salt, and water. they make the water very cold. we had ice so fast, nobody could believe it. they poured the concrete, they ported at an angle. one side of the rink had two and a half feet of water and the other had nothing. this is true. even i could not cool to in a

half feet. -- two and a half feet. we had to rip it all apart. today, in the wharton school of finance, they study that. it's free enterprise versus government. we need more. [applause] i fixed things. that's what i do. i got rich by fixing things. usually i will buy it out of bankruptcy. they say, trump went bankrupt. i never went bankrupt. the story said, trump, 800 acres in the middle of miami, it's going to be the greatest resort in the country. it's already there. they are very dishonest people. they said, trump files for bankruptcy.

i bought a house in palm beach for $40 million out of bankruptcy. i sold it for $100 million. i don't want to brag. this is what we need in the country. we have to make deals like this much bigger. [applause] it -- i amought worth now a lot. because i bought it out of bankruptcy they said, donald trump is bankrupt. when icahn plays a bankruptcy, nobody says that. every time you see that crap, just ram or it is a dishonest remember it is a dishonest reporter, ok? we need somebody who will make the great deals for this country. we need to make our country rich

again. i'm starting construction on the old post office building on pennsylvania avenue, amazingly next to the white house. if i don't make the one thing, i can always have the other as a fallback position. [laughter] [applause] it's much bigger than the white house. i'm going to try and make it just as nice. i'm building a tremendous hotel there. it will be amazing. we start in four weeks. what it means is lots of jobs. you want to put money into this system. but the country has to be doing that to. are very small. if the country is going dead and you are doing well, you will not do well long. you cannot really counteract all that negativity. giving it away to china and other countries -- opec is an example.

why is oil, with all the energy we have, how come oil is always setting all-time highs? .pec has hired every lobbyist you try to get a lobbyist to go against opec. you cannot do it. you say to yourself, where are our competent leaders? we don't need competent leaders. genius,unbelievable smart as hell leaders. we are no longer at the stage where we can have somebody competent. [laughter] we need something far more than that right -- that. i will say something that a lot of republicans disagree with me on. --friends at the tea party they did a poll, and 78% of them

my medicare,ouch medicaid, or social security. am i right? >> you are right. >> this guy is a good american right here. leave my medicare alone! ryan, whou have paul was chosen as the vice -- i think he's a very nice person. stance is to knock the hell out of medicare and medicaid. i feel very differently. i would leave it alone. i don't want to hurt people. you have to get rid of the fraud and abuse. that we agree with. there's tremendous fraud. some of these doctors and people are ripping off this country. they have become rich. to my doctor drives up place and they buy an apartment

in trump tower and they are driving a for ari -- what you do -- ferrari -- what do you do? i'm a doctor. oh, great. you have to run it properly. in all fairness, you have to be able to go through -- you have to make this country strong. you have to make this country wealthy. when this country becomes wealthy, your social security and medicare and medicaid will be taken care of. it will work. it will work well. republicans are out there, always saying cutting back entitlements -- fine. do what you have to do in terms of abuse and theft and crookedness and all the things

that are going on, because it's a mess. but you have to protect the people. a lot of these people work all their lives and then find other social security will be harmed and taken away. it's not fair. how do you solve that? and how do you solve jobs? how do you solve military? we have to build up the military, not take it down. if we build it up, you're going is doing what- he he is doing because he does not respect us. he sees what is happening. china is taking over areas we always had. i don't know if we even want those areas. let's build our schools and bridges. china is building more bridges than we have ever built in this country. you know how many bridges we are building? none. we don't have any money. we are building nothing. i always end by saying we have

to make this country great again. when we make this country great -- when we make this country wealthy, then we can afford all of the things that you are really entitled to. it has been an honor to be here. i love new hampshire. perhaps i will see you again. thank you very much. [applause] ♪ >> thank you. [applause] thank you. in theomes a time history of nations when a country passes the point of no return.

that time approaches. that time is near. the question remains, will you be sunshine patriots? firstou shrink at the sign of probation or will you men and women of courage and fight for your freedom? will you? will you fight for your freedom? [applause] those who would trade your are inside security the gates and breached the walls. they are here. the question is, will you stand? i have had enough. i will not waver in my defense of freedom. i will not wilt in the face of adversity. i will stand and fight them at every point.

[applause] dilutey that we need to our message and be a little bit more like the democrats. it's exactly the wrong thing to do. our problem isn't that we are too bold, the problem is that we are too timid. you go to washington and what that we areold is for revenue neutral tax reform. i frankly don't care. if that's what you're for, i will go back to kentucky and be an eye surgeon but i want nothing to do with the timidity of revenue neutral tax reform. [applause] i want nothing to do with

budgets that never balance. i don't care if it's republican or democrat, i want nothing to do with budgets that never balance. some say we can defend the second amendment but let's ignore the fourth amendment. let's defend the second amendment but that first amendment is not for conservatives. the whole bill of rights is what we are here for. [applause] some will say we don't have enough money for welfare or entitlements but we have plenty of money to bailout and give corporate welfare. hogwash. we shouldn't be sending one penny to rich companies. we send $20 billion a year in direct subsidies to companies.

corporate welfare should once and for all be ended. [applause] the top 100 companies in our country averaged $200 million apiece. and you've got republicans in washington saying that it's in the bag. rich companies don't need your money. it's an insult to those among us that say we don't have enough money for these other programs but we have enough money for rich friends. want -- some will say you can have religious freedom and the obamacare mandates. they are mutually inconsistent.

or give up on your business to stay true to your faith, that should not be a question. it's not something an american business has to answer. shouldn't force people to buy things what they don't want and go against the religious morals. some would say that you can have have definite detention of american citizens an. remember what martin luther king wrote from the jail in birmingham? bindiust law makes