sometimes that will dovetail with behavior we could theoretically described as patriotic. corporations are not patriots. corporations don't have a conscience. it is not a value judgment. just a statement of fact. they can't. host: joining us for a hunger station about state competition for jobs is rob garver from "the fiscal times." thanks for your time. guest: a great pleasure. thank you. host: that is it for us. another addition comes your way tomorrow at 7:00 in the morning. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014]

>> on thursday morning president obama will be traveling to dcginia to the washington suburbs. he will be sending a plan to address health care delays at the v.a. congress passed the bill before leaving for their summer recess. it is designed to limit wait lists for v.a. patients. live coverage begins at 11:20 eastern time. itator bernie sanders says is time to hire more doctors, nurses, and staff at v.a. health care facilities. tweets that she will watch the president signed legislation to reform the v.a. and help that's into law. looking forward to meeting v.a. secretary macdonald.

the hill newspaper had this story. president obama said yesterday that it was premature to fast-track experimental ebola drug for approval. even though a deadly outbreak of the disease was in africa. i think we have to let the science guide us, the president said at the u.s. africa summit in washington. think allw, i don't of the information is in as to whether this drug is helpful. to american doctors who contracted the virus was treating patients in america received the experimental therapy, which previously has only been tested on monkeys. the ebola virus will be the topic this afternoon of a house subcommittee hearing. en -- dr.mas fried frieden will go before that subcommittee.

he is the cdc director. tonight, we look at the senate races in a why he -- hawaii, virginia, and tennessee. you can see a debate at 8:00 p.m. then the deputy editor of the rothenberg political report will mostus to talk about the competitive races this fall. >> while congress is in recess this month, c-span's prime time programming continues at 8:00 p.m. eastern on friday. saturday, robert gates, madeleinea rice, and albright on the situation in ukraine. sunday, edmund morris. c-span presents debates on what makes america great. geneticallyd

modified foods. issues spotlight with in-depth looks at student loan debt and campus sexual assault to read new perspectives on issues including global warming, voting rights, fighting infectious disease, and food safety. , sights andory tour sounds from america's historic places. fighter tv schedule one week in advance at c-span.org -- find our tv schedule one week in advance at c-span.org. , like usconversation on facebook, follow us on twitter. >> former alaska governor sarah palin recently called on congress to impeach president obama for high crimes and misdemeanors. during remarks at the annual western conservative summit, she also talked about immigration and the israeli-palestinian conflict. by colorados hosted

christian university. it is about 30 minutes. >> thank you so much. is like salt and light in the education arena. keep up the good work. keep up the good work. it is nice to be back in the mile high city. flying in over your snow capped hills, i think you call the mountains. [laughter]

i'm from alaska. it is so gorgeous. step off the plane. you are ins me, colorado. don't inhale. [laughter] so the president was here last week. he was getting his rocky mountain high on. busy week for him. one scandal to another scandal. vertigo. [laughter] the middle east exploding in chaos. the open border crisis. no time to visit the border. but time to shoot some pool, wet and spend real big for the a key photo ops that he just really hates. anti-raked in big box that big parties.

state. a border the president so disparages ,hese in public, but in private there is a whole lot of cuddling and purring. for them, politics is not a passionate cause. it is a moneymaker, it is a business. when the crony capitalists gather, wining and dining with the president, the rest of us are on the menu. we are not invited to the party. we are the forgotten man. during the great depression, president roosevelt spoke about the forgotten man, the man at ,he bottom of the totem pole the man who fdr said he wanted to help with his new deal.

but the policies hurt more than they help. they made the depression lasts longer and unemployment even worse. sound familiar? today.he same old story crony capitalists just eat it up. they are swallowing the largess. those inclined to keep government big and wasteful, there were those who profit from it. the permanent political class. today, we are the forgotten man. the hard-working middle class who cannot seem to get a break.

mortgage and college tuition. some worried about putting food on the table. the forgotten man is the college hope-y, voted for the change-y stuff. losing hope, got no change. soldierotten man is the that we sent off to war. look at him today. they came home forever scarred and now they need the compensation that they were promised by a grateful nation. but they were shuffled around some.a. and denied care died waiting while bureaucrats gave themselves some raises.

the corrupt paper trail they tried to hide. patriototten man is the who just wants to champion the shesings of liberty, but soon finds herself a target of the irs and when she complains untilit no one listens the head of the irs had to admit to the wrongdoing even when crystal clear evidence stares the president in the face, he lies, he says there is no corruption at all. sadly, the forgotten man got used to being lied to. benghazi. into a warnt got us with libya without congressional approval. our ambassador bag for security. he was ignored. he was then murdered.

when the consulate was attacked, as predicted, by savage muslim terrorists. americans were left behind to die. then, obama helped spread the was over youtube and it was one teeny protest. it was a highly organized and premeditated attack. the forgotten man is used to obama's lawlessness. you can use as another example amnesty. congress declined to pass the dream act. they did not want amnesty. no dream act. but the dreamweaver, he waved his magic wand and obama unilaterally enacted his own, which created the current crisis that we are seeing as illegals are pouring in to collect what

he illegally promised them. i don't know if there any democrats in this crowd. but there are democrats who may be will watch later. i want to ask democrats, come on now, your guy, the one who was going to part the waters and calm the seas and sink every shot or whatever that fairytale was back in 2008, do you really still support the obama doctrine ? the locket a reward? -- break the law, get a reward? it is going to get worse. forgotten man is working class from all backgrounds, all races. nativeborn and legal immigrants. they are forced to compete for limited jobs. against the flood of illegal

immigrants. if you think it is only the precious innocent children, you see them on tv and they are being abused by their parents, any parents who would send them on such a journey up to america's redline, disintegrated redline, it is not just the innocent children. open borders? nothing is there to sift out the bad guys. the gang bangers and the terrorists they will be mixed in there. i think it is insane. [applause] charity?the unfunded me, ifif you agree with common sense, common

sense is an endangered species in d.c. america, we are offering to strengthen them and we will be overrun. it is not immigration, it is invasion. [applause] you know that we are trillions in debt. cities are solvent. the overrun health care systems and schools and welfare state stretched to the max. ordinary americans know this. politicians are in silicon valley or they are on wall street, they can afford the best security borders that money can buy in their own tidy, exclusive, gated communities. they are not too worried.

notice, they are not hauling illegals to dcr manhattan or san francisco. they are housed in vacant schools in working-class neighborhoods. why not? why not call them to columbia university? school is out for summer. are out of americans work. but wealthy amnesty supporters do not want to hire and pay american workers a decent wage. they would rather replace them with foreign labor. it is cheaper. the forgotten man. play byves that if you the rules and you do right, you can still earn a decent living and the dignity that comes with that. you can get ahead.

you can lay a foundation of success for your children. they can finish what you had started. when some people do not have to play by the rules and those of the top collude to drive down wages of american workers by replacing them. do you know what the forgotten man has? his belief in this exceptional nation. we say, no one is going to fundamentally transform our nation. undermining its rule of law. making a just another chunk of land on a map that is no different from the countries that our ancestors left in order to stake claim here legally. ask, who isve to looking out for the american worker.

who fights for the forgotten man? who will stand up for him? one man did. he was an fdr democrat and he left his party. he said his party left him. that man was ronald reagan. [laughter] our hero reagan. before they taxes and's or the little guy. he believed firmly in immigration just as i do. i bet you he would never make the same mistake twice and let us learn from history. he stood for the working man,

for opportunity. that is why the reagan democrats -- i think it was summed up well on my facebook page. by a post. i grew up poor, my mother was a diehard fdr democrat, when i turned 18, i voted for ronald reagan. .y mother was beside herself she asked me why would i vote for him? i told her, i didn't plan on staying poor. [laughter] [applause] this is our message. this is what he stands for. big in thesein midterms? you want to win big in 2016? look to sam. sam wants to believe in the american dream. the little guy. a/c -- anot afford

seat at the table of the foo-foo shi-shi fancy fundraisers. by doing it do it right. not by cutting deals and greasing the palms of power. wright is making government live within its means, keeping a limited, to protect liberties, to allow prosperity. it is understanding that the constitution is not a tool for government to restrain the people. but as patrick henry said, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government. [applause] what is right is standing for freedom. and respecting our united states military and letting free markets create jobs and securing

the borders to protect those jobs. [applause] it means, mr. president, defending our borders. defending our constitution. defending a rule of law. of law.ule that is the job, mr. president. these days, you hear the politicians denounce barack obama. but the question is, ok politicians, what are you going to do about it? [applause] let's call their bluff. i'm calling their bluff. we need a little less talk and a lot more action.

one remedy for a president who crimes andits high misdemeanors. there is one word for it. impeachment. word. "i" [applause] you don't need some fancy law toree hanging on your wall know that laws are not being enforced. illegal immigrants all over the world also know that. lectures from eric , a guy so incompetent that he denied voter fraud existed even after someone claimed that they were eric holder and they got his ballot and they voted in d.c. [laughter] not even a smidgen. dear, eric. not many cabinet members in u.s.

history have been held in contempt of congress. in, maybes to weigh he can get out of the bubble, go to a border town, working-class community, see consequences of deliberately not enforcing the law. see what happens. see the people you affect. shamelesslyd of playing that race card again, try to get it. hurts allmigration americans, all races and backgrounds. itn cesar chavez opposed because he knew that it hurts legal immigrants and are working-class fighting for decent wages. it is a nonpartisan issue. that racism charge. it is a disgusting charge. opposes ane someone

unjust agenda, that makes me a racist? he needs to use his noggin and answer what accounts for the anti-obama policy protests going on today in black communities and in hispanic circles and on reservations and in my own home. that racism card. you know why they do that. it is to stop debate. they can't get us on the issues. we are right on this issue of what illegal immigration is going to do to this country. but throw out that word racist and the reporters let him off. critics, friends, they let him off because that is their deadly charge, the only way they can win on these issues.

who would go right to the color of a man's skin to judge, marginalize, and lay blame? who? impeachment. let's talk more about impeachment. it has got him nervous. let's be clear. it does not mean today's ordinary criminal charges, high crimes and misdemeanors. it means a dereliction of duty. it is explained by many of our founders is knowing that the first duty of the president is to enforce our laws, to serve, protect, and defend our constitution. it is alexander hamilton described impeachable offenses ofthe abuse or violation some public trust.

he called them political offenses. because they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself. deny that person can obama has abused and violated the public trust and the constitution. rocking us to our core. from benghazi. scandals. an essay spies. -- nsa spies. obamacare lies. the irs aims to repress conservative voice. reporters.etaps violation of our religious rights. there is ignoring illegal in-house fundraising that we had recently has been going on.

.he list goes on and on alone not defending borders is dereliction of duty. if that is not impeachable, then nothing is. if he is not impeachable, no one is. [applause] upon the world stage, i wish we had time to talk about some of these national security issues. so much is going on. too much to cover. one of the problems is that we cannot even id the enemy in these overseas contingency operations. that would be war. that's what we would call it. intervention strategies that are so unreliable. even in consequential, as applied to fighting to win.

now, juxtapose that, are murkiness, with benjamin netanyahu's clarity. he says, we develop missile defense systems to protect their citizens, while they use their citizens to protect their missiles. so whose side are you on? [applause] clarity. the list does go on. not all offenses, some just offensive. blame bush. blame boehner. blame bummer of a ballgame he had that day on the length. who knows why team obama does what they do? it makes no sense.

the constitution holds the president responsible for the executive branch. he can't just feign ignorance of all of this. anymore than a mob boss can claim innocence because he did not personally do the hit. the buck stops with the guy at at the top.id [applause] making a case for impeachment is not difficult. it takes guts to hold him accountable. it takes political will. i'm hearing some for cautious and action. their same obamas policies are failures anyway, why rock the boat?

that argument misses the point. he is radically changing the balance of power. setting a wicked dangerous with his pen in his aggregating congressional authority. making himself a ruler, not president. a revolution back in 1776 because we don't do kings. [applause] some say just wait for the next election. the big gop victory reins in the radicals. been there, done that in 2010. let congress refused to

use the power that the -- givesion does it it, barack obama will continue to rule however he wants. and the fabric of america will .nravel there is no other recourse. the country is rudderless, the captain is saying i am going it alone. responsibility to hold him accountable, to send him that message, we will not put up with lawlessness. that is why we have to influence congress. the only thing necessary for them to transform america is for good men to do nothing. we must hold him accountable. , then these violations

what? president will continue to go it alone. how bad does it have to get question mark theive in an america where government spies on us and targets is because of political beliefs. terrorist leaders are set free battlefields to keep doing what they want to do, that is kill americans. we let them go free. we live in an america where our health care is taken from us and we are forced by government to buy something we do not want, we .annot afford

an. america where government takes a matter catholic nuns because they adhere to their faith. the border, no nation. an america where the president keeps a kill list of people he says he is authorized to execute on-sight. if you are fine with that, sit back, hope for the best. your apathy is their power. the rest of us need change. in ordere need change to save this republic. that comes with healing the injuries done to a society by an unchecked president. that starts with having the guts to talk about impeachment. lame-duck administration, i guarantee, they will engage in all sorts of mischief and these next few years. think judicial branch. thereanger can be had

with appointments. please look ahead and consider that judicial damage. understanding that it will be unrecoverable. we must send a message now. we cannot wait. we need to have our voice heard on this. mightyd to use your weapons of a pen in a phone and influence congress. [applause] it has got to be with courage. sunny optimism -- at least think about reagan. rooted in time-tested truths on our side. stand for liberty, stand for prosperity. know that the key to lasting prosperity is not a handout, is the calloused hand of those who built this country.

lasting prosperity does not come from top-down government or .ommunity organizing this exceptional country was built by the little guy. work the factories and built a railroads and the skyscrapers in the pipelines and the power plants. they planted and sowed and harvested and carved a nation the wilderness. the most brave fought and won our country's wars. they made america the greatest nation in the history of mankind. yes, they build it. they deserve our work now. it is our turn. [applause] president's forgotten man

is we the people. we the people know that our best days are still ahead. we know that god shed his grace on thee, america. he has given us the freedom to do what is right. god does not drive parked cars, he expects us to take action in order to defend these freedoms that our god-given. it is an affront to god to let because he gave us these freedoms. we are not going to let a person, a party taken from us. we are not going to dethrone god and substitute him with someone who wants to play god. friends -- [applause] as we enjoy beautiful colorado,

consider the state motto, "nothing without providence." i love finding out that that is the state's model. we can appeal to heaven for wisdom, courage, america will be saved. everything with confidence. -- with providence. be ever thankful. do not let anyone tell you to sit down and shut up. go broke. fight for what is right. road.own the be ever thankful. i thank you so much for being here and wanting to be a part of a summit that can energize you. you energize me, you motivate me and todd. you keep us going. i got your back, i know you have got my back. i appreciate it. i thank you so much for being a freedom.his cause for

so, god bless you and god bless the united states of america. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> sarah palin, the amazing sarah palin! [applause] governor palin, that was wonderful. what an honor that we have you on the campus three years ago and we have been looking forward to having you back. this was terrific. we want to send you back to alaska with a reminder of what real mountain peaks look like. and how it might be if you, the mama grizzly, posed in front of them with one of your bear cubs. >> i love it. thank you. [applause] ifcome back to colorado soon

you ever get tired of those little hills in alaska. [laughter] >> thank you so much. >> sarah palin! [cheers and applause] coverage of the annual western conservative summit will continue tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. eastern with remarks by south carolina senator tim scott and faith and freedom coalition founder ralph reed. we preview the event with some of his comments. the middle east, the bloodiest and most dangerous and most unstable region and the world is in flames. across the heart of africa all the way to the mediterranean. bloodthirsty despot

and dictator. this president drew a redline and said if he crossed it, he would pay. and then retreated at the behest of vladimir putin. that dictator has slaughtered 160,000 of his own innocent civilians. whileer to keep power this administration sat in the cheap seats and watched it happen. catholic priests and evangelical ministers have been beheaded by al qaeda, terrorists seeking to overthrow that administration. in egypt, the muslim brotherhood again tor, immediately destabilize the sinai pen insula, turning into the wild wild west. it has been replaced with a military regime. qaedaq, isis, and al affiliate provides over a radical muslim caliphate from the syrian border to the outskirts of baghdad.

by the way, over 60,000 christians in iraq. the last remaining christians left in that country have literally had to flee for their lives. and these terrorists are mocking the entire free world. and essentially spitting on the grave of americans who gave that lives to liberate country. and this administration could not do anything other than send 300 military advisers. s, along reed's comment with those of senator scott and for the first time on c-span, rush limbaugh's radio producer. that will be tomorrow night at 8:00 eastern. more now from the meeting as conservative media figures discuss race in america 50 years after the civil rights act. radio talkshow host tammy bruce along with authors take

part. [applause] >> thank you so much. very soon, we are coming up on a historic milestone. half a century since the signing of the long-overdue, bitterly struggled for, bipartisan leanne inaction,bipartisan- with republicans in the lead, civil rights act of 1964. 99 years after appomattox, the long-delayed steps towards realizing our nation's stated , cited the declaration often at this conference, "all created equal."

explore for half an hour and we could do it for half a day and not fully do justice to the subject. the question, cap america be post-racial? since it is a yes or no question, i will be pushing our why theys to tell us take the position that we do and what should we do about it. yes, name names of who can help lead us in that direction. i want to start with pastor .uster story from new jersey how are we doing in realizing "all created equal" 50 years after the civil rights act? much.nk you so thank you for colorado christian for hosting this event and for froms smoggy new jersey to clean colorado.

not know confess i did i was conservative until i met bob woodson. guy who waswas a simply helping people get out of poverty, decreasing dependency, increasing self-sufficiency. i thought i was someone simply promoting programs that would and revitalize neighborhoods, adopting children, recruiting foster parents. what i was doing was pursuant to principles that the culture deems conservative. i have really come to say that i think we are doing well 50 years later. if people like those who are gathered here can find god like me. without the labels and without the right route -- without the ra ra, many of us are just doing the work in our own neighborhoods. [applause]

onl i think we should focus is what the potential is. i am a preacher. i would be remiss if i did not remind you that david did kill goliath. for some of these challenges that i have been hearing about all day, they seem insurmountable. the fact is that the bible says great is he that is in us is he that is in the world. [applause] i'm here to say that we can do three things. one, we need to build relationships to ensure that the right people know the right people and we are not just waiting for election cycles to elect the right candidates. we need to bring resources to see each other as aliens but see each other as partners in rebuilding america. we need to make sure our principles of righteousness are the guiding principles. i'm an old civil rights activist, i was raised to teach

people they should fight to demand their rights. it wasn't long before i had to begin reminding people that to deserve your rights, you have got to live right. if we would include expanding our relationships, remember jesus said we will be judged by how we treat the last of god's -- the least of god's children. racism, race hustling can be defeated with a small stone. [applause] great beginning from somebody who has walked in those shoes. thank you very much, buster soaries. , liveshavez attended cu in boulder now, you are a brave woman.

when i heard of your family's to they going back 1500s, would it be? in the new world -- mexico, there was no difference between old mexico and new mexico in those days. the border that vexes us so much fullrawn a different place stop a lot of it was wild land. we cannot be too quick to assume that those of us with english surnames have the longest pedigree. werenk your ancestors yawning because it had been generations in the new world with the mayflower landed with much fanfare in the eastern seaboard. all that is to say, as the latino population in america becomes more and more significant demographically, culturally, politically, how are we doing 50 years after the civil rights act. it was not specifically written with hispanic americans in mind. it was really written without

any racial group in mind at all. it was to try to get us to be post-racial. how are we doing? >> i think we are doing pretty well. as i listen to, sarah palin and other speakers today and we talk about winning back the white house. as conservatives, if we want ever to be in the white house again, we had better learn how newcomers who are here, those hispanics. without it, we will not win the white house. istening to pastor soaries, became a conservative because of affirmative action. i was actually a little bit too old to be one of the "beneficiaries" as an undergraduate. they have not decided that people like me needed special help. went to apply to graduate school, i have finished as a top student in my class at the university of colorado in the english department. i was going to go get a phd. i saw an advertisement on it was

-- i saw that the fort an advertisement on the bulletin board that the ford foundation was giving away money for graduate school. that looked good to me, i had done all sorts of menial jobs and not so menial jobs, putting my way through college. i was married and had a child by the time i graduated. for one of those fellowships for mexican-american students. the ford foundation flew me in e all the way to new york city. i got dressed up in my best outfit, went in to the interview . i was asked to describe myself and describe my background, i did, talked about my dad, who was a house painter. i grew up a few blocks from here what is now called capitol hill. at the time it was boarding houses where we lived in basements and attics. one of the interviewers looked

at me and he said oh my, you speak in bush so well. [laughter] a phdi was about to get in english literature so i hope i spoke and was well -- i hope i spoke and goes well. it was downhill from there. they started talking to me about my record scores. colic andson had he was up all night, i was giving apologies because i had only scored in the 93rd percentile. he said no, the problem is your scores are too high. you are clearly not disadvantaged. father,ell that to my who had a knife grade education. tell that to me, who had to pay for my tuition and borrow money and work even though i was a mom and a wife at the time. sudden, i started thinking this idea of affirmative action did not -- is

not quite what i thought it was all about. the rest is history. i went into the reagan part ofration, i was the movement to get rid of racial quotas. to get rid of programs that treated people by the color of their skin. [applause] frankly, it does no one a favor when you look at them and because you know their name ends darkeror their skin is than yours you think you know whether they can succeed. maybe we are to lower the standards for juan or jose. i actually think we are doing great. is a country where if you come here, you work hard, you live by the rules, you can still make it. outnone of us need out and

-- and none of us need a handout based on the color of our skin. [cheers and applause] bruce, great to have you here. i have admired you as a radio host and fun to have you as part of the summit. we're grateful that "the washington times" has taken a significant sponsorship position with the summit. to have you as one of the stalwarts on their editorial page. challengedpigment members of the panel. that is the subject of the panel. don't we want an america where, as martin luther king said, "we are judged by the content of our character, not the color of our skin." what we hope that the living experience of some of the younger went in the room, it is an america that has realize onre the color of our skin account like this matters no

more than a fact that bob and john have a different header in -- pattern in our tie. how do you think we are doing? i have great admiration for linda, great being on this panel . we cannot really see you up here because of the lights. i am scots irish, i am actually pink. [laughter] watching on the color. there is no it transcends gender, complexion, race, i'm not even a republican, i am a "decline to state," as we put it in california. it is the common thread that we

have, the love for this nation. i identify as an independent conservative. i know who else would've married you, andrew breitbart. -- i know who else would admire you, andrew breitbart. we had some terrific success, when eric cantor lost his job, he was grinning a little bit. when it comes to the issue of being a colorblind society or at least post-racial, the fact of the matter is, this unity as americans first is key. we also have, as i think about being scottish and irish. i have done some ancestry work, a lot of french. i'm slightly embarrassed but a little interested. [laughter] experiencesue life and life stories. in america, lives are different for young black men.

lives are different for hispanic women. the issue is, for us, this is also for the founders and for the future as well. the issue is bringing together the power of being united as americans first. the remarkable difference in each of us as minorities. for those, the power of christianity, the christian judaic work ethic, you know how this feels to be a minority. under attack, what is happening to churches as isis moves through iraq. another catholic church was burned down today. you know what is like, your experience matters. for me as a conservative and also as a minority, a gay woman and a conservative, those are slivers of our identities. they come together because we .nderstand each other

and this nation allows all of us, especially minorities, to live the life that this suits us. christian ethic that allows us to be free. that allows us to compete. that is the opportunity that is afforded us. would it also requires is a level of tolerance. evennderstanding that though we may be different and live different lives, that the goal that we have for all of our families, for our friends in the future, is the same. the only nations that give us that, at least at this point, is the jewish nation in the middle east and the christian nation, certainly as represented best by the united states of america. whether you identify through your faith or also, of course, through issues of race or other issues of identity, being american first is how we started. it really is what the milieuative kno

represents. as a former leftist, andrew and i were community organizers. not something you want to mention. we organize. what we have noticed and what we saw then and what we have rejected, the racial divisions now on politics is false. it is a false divide. conservatives all the time , how do we speak to them, how do we act? it is a false framework. what i recommend to people, my first book was called "the new police." but i tell people is -- let me ask, how many have been called a racist in the midst of your work in politics? it transcends, i suggest you

behave as though you are just called a cocker spaniel. it is as relevant. these are words that are meant to stop the conversation. they are words meant to have you retreat. they appeal to the best of you, which is the compassionate who really cares about relationships in this country. , thatcusations of racism this is a racial society, or the aresions we experience somehow real, those are false. what israel is human relationships, what you spoke about. your human relationships, discussing things with a panel that may or may not give you money. these are the relationships regarding individualism that makes this country great. what the left and for those watching worldwide, as they

watch this, what i beg you to do is not allow them to control the narrative. do not allow them to define you as something that you are not. right? [applause] that is the key. here andy, moving knowing you. there are going to be differences, tensions between men and women. between the races, between gay and straight. these are things, when it comes to the economy and our place in the world, who we are, as we are struggling to get onto that road of financial success for our families. looking first at the fact that you have an american that once the same things for their families as you want for yours. the left knows that the moment you recognize that connection. for the liberals and libertarians and everyone else watching, you say this is a christian group or there are a lot of people of faith standing around. what's that about? this is about looking past

ourselves to something larger than ourselves. it is about nation, it is about family and it is about god. it is about what is we're we are going to leave behind. beingn point about post-racial, we already are. this nation exists because we are. this nation exists because of immigration. this nation exists because of people of all faiths. and no faith, where they can live wonderfully and peacefully. this nation lives because i can be invited here by this gentleman. and be embraced by this crowd as well. and it is because we get it as conservatives. the difference is, do not let yourself -- do not question yourself about who you are, what your goals are, and what it means because the left point a finger at you. it is meant to make you doubt. and you know about that. a lot of people who want you to doubt. of things we kinds

can do, but i can only really be undertaken if you reject the label that the left puts on to you. rejects the notion there is something for you to prove. there is nothing for you to prove, especially for christians. i will hand us back to you. to colleges, young christians come up and say how can we tell two -- talk to my answer is always be your selves. be yourselves and be present and what it is that drives you. it's like walking into a room where the light is off. your presence is what matters. it's the light as it comes into the room. don't question what the rules would be. i was changed and became a conservative because i got to know conservatives through talk radio and realized i had been lied to about what you were all up to. [applause]

me -- tried to convert there was none of that -- it was simply the conversations. you were present, you were not what people said you were and it moved me. the other thing it was was that you were confident, happy, sure, you did have a mission. you love the country, and yet a focus on what needed to happen here. trust yourselves, don't let someone else define you, when you hear the racist word, think cocker spaniel, laugh, and go on about your work changing the size because this is the of the room, even smaller, that traditionally changes the world and has. [applause]

>> doesn't she have a way with the microphone? you should get into radio. cocker spaniel caucus. anybody want to join? there's a treat. there was a moment when bill whittle said people would call him a racist and they would cower with their tail between their legs. he did it with sarcasm and she just did it with boy and good humor. those are strategies we could be using. bob woodson, you get to be the cleanup hitter. amend the introduction to make you aware that the great paul ryan, chairman of the house budget committee, the man with the courage to take on health

care issues and who debated him into a jelly on more than one occasion, paul ryan has gone to school to understand the inner city and people's efforts in neighborhoods regardless of other advantages. bob has been his tutor and you are helping him develop a wonderful conservative leader. how do you see this question -- can we be post-racial? >> yes. i think dr. king said the highest form of maturity is to be self-critical. said conservatives will never be a popular movement as long as they are perceived to be against the interests of minorities. perceived to be. in many ways, we have earned that perception. , when liberalsid see blacks, they see a sea of

the atoms and conservatives cac of aliens. so it's important to acknowledge 60's, when conservatives talk about limited government and small government and hostility to central government, to people like esther and me, if it was not for central government intervention in the states, we would not be sitting here. but acknowledging that past does not mean we are stuck there and our strategic interests change as our strategic circumstances change. in the 60's, it was important for central government to intervene. but today, central government interferes with ability. you cannot generalize about a black community anymore than any other. there's a poster in my office 1965, written by bill raspberry. gainid poor negroes do not

from the civil rights movement. that when doors of opportunities open up, muddled last blacks walk through but they did not. that divide still exists today. 80% of my closest friends are x something. about five years ago, 40 members of the clan came in a remedial andol bus down washington 3000 black folks trying to get at them to tear them apart. the reporter went into the high crime black area and as the 80-year-old man what he thought about the clan and he said bring them down here so they can get rid of these drug dealers. low income blacks have a different agenda on the issue of race that anyone else. if we want to get race off the table, we must join in, and community with the least of god's children who are struggling with -- in the black

community, we have a 9/11 every six months. 3000 blacks are killed by other blacks. when you ask those people if race is the most important thing on their mind, they will tell you know. -- they will tell you know. they must join in a common community to address those problems, go into those communities and households where , andren are being raised the 30% of the households where they are not dropping out or in jail and on drugs, find out why those children are able to achieve in the face of those barriers when others cannot. conservatives should join in common cause with those remedies to address the needs of god's children and they should be the ones -- the 20 homeless young black women or men this year who graduated and went into college from homeless shelters studying

by their mothers cell phone light and yet they graduated valedictorian. they should be the face of the republican conservative movement. [applause] motivated when you constantly remind them of failures to be avoided. people are motivated to follow you when you demonstrate victories that are possible. part of our mission has to be to demonstrate to people, as i'm trying to do with paul ryan by taking him into these communities and he's seeing people achieving against the odds -- but it's not enough to come and acknowledge it. you have to do what did riordan did in california and that is to build institutions in those low income neighborhoods so people can get rewards for what they do. conservatives want to know what

an advanced agenda, address the atds of the least to be and conferences like this, have a panel of low income people and have achieved against the odds, homeless kids and people who are working. we need to promote the remedies among the least of god's children. that is how you become post-racial. >> thank you, bob. [applause] eloquent. member of the board of trustees of colorado christian university. go back almost 30 years to the beginning of the independence institute here in colorado. do something for equal opportunity because colorado's u.s. senator in those days, will armstrong, challenged his friends and supporters across colorado to think about equal opportunity. bob, it has been great irking with you over the years and i'm glad we have another go round at

ccu. i love the idea of the panel of people who have succeeded against the odds. let's audition that at the centennial institute conference and have it on the 2015 western conservative summit agenda for sure. [applause] many hoped, and indeed it had to do with a lot of votes he garnered, whether the voters at edited or not, many hoped the election of the son of an african father and caucasian mother to the highest office in the land and the most powerful office on earth, the presidency of barack obama that began january 20, 2009, that somehow you could just mark a date and that would be the usher in of a post-racial america. trendssee stories and and angry, poisonous rhetoric

which seems to suggest race has become more rather than less americaand inflamed in under the presidency of mr. obama. what are we to make of this, buster? ofin one sense, the election barack obama does reflect a major shift in racial america. the fact is it could not have happened in 1950. it would not have happened in 1970. for that, we say thank god. on the other hand, the philosophy that is the underpinning of the obama administration is not a post-racial philosophy. it is a philosophy that exacerbates all the ugly history of the country. that manyn to grudges of the young people don't even know about. and it is limiting the very people racial policies are supposed to help by making them

more dependent and not less dependent on stop the democrats have mastered the art of making racial arguments to solve economic realms. people are not poor because they're black. they're poor because they don't have money. [applause] economic problem, you need an economic solution. a rasul -- a racial solution to an economic problem will always be a bait and switch game where you use the plight of one group of people to create benefits for a different group of people and that is what is happening in america. [applause] >> tammy, when you are talking about the goal and skill of the left to divide us, label us, ultimately silence and neutralize us so they can have their way with their agenda, i have to think of the atmosphere

emanating from barack obama, michelle obama, eric holder, members black, latino of the obama administration seem to illustrate your very point. but it also illustrates that it's not about race. it is a political agenda. it will be and has been and will be articulated by all of the left, regardless of race. that's kind of the point will stop that is the proof in the pudding. that has worked because the left cannot withstand a debate on the details. they cannot sit here on the panel and have a debate on the nature of the issues themselves. they must make you afraid to engage in the first place. might have an african-american president, but the arguments are leftist arguments.

are not raise arguments. these are targets for you. -- i would say to feminists it's coming in 2016 and it's happening already with hillary clinton. you are hearing about how you are all sexist if you ask the wrong question or if you don't like her. do, america and the conservative movement will be the faces like me and allen west. it is about true conservatives who regardless of their complexion -- i want the first woman president also. chavez,not mind linda but when you think about hillary clinton, the fact of the matter is yes, we want a woman in the white house, but not just any woman. we want the right woman. [applause] this is the argument. you will see the same strategy implemented in that regard coming up as we have been hearing for the last six years. >> just two quick comments on

the point. 60's wrotein in the an essay in the 60's and said we would have been post-racial when a black man can propose marriage to a white woman and she can say no. [applause] i think we have reached that point when a country can elect a black president and he can be incompetent and we can say he's incompetent. reachedme says we have a level, but the last point i would like to make is that i must say to republican candidates and republican party and conservative movement, when it comes to race, you get all squishy. the first thing you want to do is validate some of these race hustlers in the name of reaching out to the black community. i said to paul ryan a year and half ago when he asked me to take him around, i said let me just give you one piece of a device.

the moment you accept the rise of john lewis to reenact the selma to ago murray march, my relationship with you dance. -- stopto celebrate celebrating crucifixion and celebrate the resurrection. that's the story of christ's. that's the story we need to be celebrating. [applause] >> a panel lightning round. i said we would look at examples you could suggest of leaders out there, names we would recognize or unknown names we need to learn to recognize. who is doing this right? americaus exemplify an that's not labeled, silence, paralyzed and neutralized. have you got a name of -- a name or two of people who are doing it right? >> thelacks the whole -- whole latino thing is

interesting. if you want to know who really believes in america, few want to know who thinks america is the greatest country in the world, it's some of those people who are traveling across central america and sneaking through our border at night. they are the ones who believe in that statue of liberty. if youre to tell you want to end illegal immigration tomorrow, it is not rocket science. it is not hard to do. we have done it in the past and it's not about building fences, it is about enacting legal immigration reform that is market taste, skills-based, and says if you want to come here and make a life and bring your family and work hard, we want you here. [applause] future,hink about the and what i say we conservatives had better learn to start talking about this issue a little better, you know that

hispanic immigrants are more likely to live in a home with two parents and children and a father that works dan are non-hispanic whites? do you know the five safest cities, big cities in america, all five have populations of large hispanics. and the safest exit he in america is el paso, texas. it has been that three years running and it includes a population that is 82% hispanic and 25% immigrant. about astart talking post-racial america, we've got to look back to our immigrant past. it is bad people coming here illegally, but if you are a mexican man with a high school education and you don't have a father, mother, son or daughter living here and you go down and wait for a visa, you will 125 years before your name comes

up. if you are indian or chinese, you will wait anywhere from 20 to 40 years before your name comes up. we can solve our border problem. what people like to call the invasion stop we just have to go back to a market based immigration system that says come here if you want to work. come here, we need your skills, and we do. on this panel, my dance card is filling up for ccu this fall. i guess you are going to have to catch tammy, buster, bob and linda during the break and ask them for the names of those leaders that i wanted to put a nomination. we are up against our time. this has been a pleasant -- this has been a terrific talent i ask you to thank them all will stop

-- thank them all. [applause] >> we will have more from the western conservative conference shortly. coming up, president obama at fort belvoir in washington -- he's due to sign a bill shortly and we'll have coverage of that when it starts in a moment. senatorw, the louisiana explained to switch to the republican party seen by more than a million views on youtube. he gave his 10 point plan. [applause]

>> i am so glad to be with you today. because we are in the fight of our lifetime. our access to our doctors and hospitals, our religious freedoms, our second amendment rights, and the rule of law, the very basis of our society, are all under attack. you will play a key role in allowing us to take back the united states senate this fall for the freedom of this country. and you will be decisive in selecting the next president of the united states. there are republicans in washington who say we ought to settle for fixing ms. health law within the framework of the health law. they are saying that because they have not read this health law.

if they had, they would know that it is rotten to the core. [applause] and i urge you to choose the president of the united states who will fully repeal this law. [applause] a president who will reign in the government spending. and a president who will take seriously his or her duty. sworn duty to uphold and defend the constitution of the united states. because this law shreds your constitutional rights. it lowers your standard of care. it puts government in charge of your care. and it takes away something as precious as life itself. your liberty.

this law requires almost everyone to enroll in a one-size-fits-all government design health plan. when you go to file your taxes, you have to attach proof for the irs that you are enrolled in such a plan. attaching the proof will shield you from an iris penalty. but it will subject you to a degree of government control and intrusion unprecedented in american history. for the first time in american history, this law empowers the secretary of health and human services to dictate how doctors treat privately insured patients, so even if you have at night or cigna, and you paid for it out of your own pocket, the government can still call the shots.

yes, section 1311 h1-b of this law -- that is right. read it and you will see. says that insurers can pay only those dr.'s and hospitals that obey whatever regulations the secretary imposes in the name of quality. that blanket authority can cover everything in medicine. when a cardiologist decides to use a stent. when an ob/gyn orders a sonogram or does a cesarean. your doctor will be legally required to enter your medical information into a nationwide intraoperative electronic database seen by thousands of eyes. your doctor's decisions will be monitored for compliance with these government guidelines which are being written right now.

and ultimately, your doctor may have to choose between doing what is right for you and avoiding a government penalty. the president said that he was going to solve the problem of the uninsured by making health plans more affordable, but that's not what happened. you have gotten your premium hikes in the mail, right? instead, what this law does is it vastly expands medicaid and pays for it by eviscerating medicare. it takes $716 billion out of medicare over this decade, and moves it over to fund the expansion of medicaid and the subsidies on the exchanges. it is robbing grandma to spread the wealth. that's right. even richard foster, the president's chief actuary, warned that the cuts to medicare

are so severe that some hospitals may stop taking medicare. where will seniors go when their local hospital stops taking medicare? other hospitals are already responding to the severity of these cuts by laying off nurses everywhere. i advise people -- if you know you are going into the hospital for surgery, for example, try to cobble together enough money for a private duty nurse, at least for the first night. because when you push that button for pain control or help in the middle of the night, you are going to wait too long. and if you are a baby boomer, 60 or 61, line up your doctors now. line-up a cardiologist. line-up an internist, even if you are healthy. because if you wait until you turn 65 and go on medicare, you will not be able to find a doctor willing to take you on as a new patient.

doctors are paid less to care for seniors than any other kind of patient. and in addition to these across-the-board cuts to medicare, section 3001 awards bonus points to the hospital that spends the least for seniors. think about that. not per se -- not per patient. per senior. we know hospitals in the bottom quintile for spending for seniors have higher death rates for congestive heart your, pneumonia, other common maladies of the elderly. older patients in those hospitals have a poorer chance of surviving their illness and making it home again. and this law is pressuring the other hospitals to imitate the hospitals that have a high death rates. this provision, section 3001, will also mean that you were seniors get hip replacements, knee replacements, angioplasty,

bypass surgery, cataract operations. those are the five procedures that have virtually transformed the experience of aging in our country. when i was a kid, i remember that older people were trapped in wheelchairs with crippling arthritis, were stuck in nursing homes because they were so out of breath from congestive heart failure. now, older people enjoy their later years. they continue to work. they travel. they play with their grandchildren. they even come to meetings like this one. that's right. obamacare will undo that progress. the stakes are very high here, because if you are seriously ill, the best place to be is in the united states. oh yes. don't let anybody tell you differently.

a woman in the united states diagnosed with breast cancer has nearly a 90% chance of surviving it. in europe, her chances are less than 80%. you do the arithmetic. it means she is twice as likely to die there. a man diagnosed with prostate cancer in the united states -- it is not a death sentence here. nearly one out of every four men diagnosed with prostate cancer in europe dies from it. if someone in your family has what we currently call an incurable illness, this is the nation of hope. this is where the chairs are developed. since 1950, the united states has one more nobel prizes in medicine and physiology than the entire rest of the world combined. and that is why defeating this law is the fight of our lifetime. that is right. we are not going to give up on this.

[applause] congress should have taken this 2500 -- 2572 page bill and put it in the paper shredder, and given us a 20 page bill, in plain, honest english that members of congress would actually read before voting on it. 20 pages ought to be enough. the framers of our constitution established the entire federal government in just 18 pages. that's right. i've written the 20 page bill that will replace this. it is the very size of this that makes it so dangerous. the chief architect of our constitution james madison wrote against congress passing a law.

no one could read it. or so frequently changed that a reasonable person would not know what the law is. that is obamacare to achieve. yes. and our lawless president has repeatedly rewritten, revised, deleted and delayed and distorted this law. so that the health clan he is rolling out now there's little resemblance to what it looks like in 2010. that is the most important reason we must win a sizable majority in the united states senate this fall.

we must elect a new senate majority leader. a new senate majority leader that will have a chat with the president and remind the president that in these united states -- [indiscernible] we must be able to dangle the sort of impeachment over this lawless president's had. not that we would actually want to put our nation through such an ordeal. but we must have a sufficient majority in the united states and it to make the threat credible because that threat is the tool that the framers gave us in our constitution to defend our freedom.

that's right. [applause] we must also vote out of office this fall -- who has gained control and taken the government into their grips. under this obama administration, they have pushed federal spending up as high as 25 cents of gdp. then you add state and local government spending and up to 42% of gdp. 42% of everything all of us produce going to work every day. 42% of the fruits of our labor are being sucked up by government programs. do you get 42% of your happiness from government? no. no. only once before in the entire

history of this nation did government spending reach 42% of gdp. that was in the midst of world war ii when we were fighting for our survival as a nation. nothing today justifies the government appropriating 42% of the fruits of our labor. it's wrong. our government has been hijacked by people who don't share our values or value our freedom. the spendaholics are pushing government spending to commonly found in european countries. we don't want to be europeanized. no.

in europe, the people toil to support the state. in america, we work to support ourselves. that's right. but now, the federal iraq receipt is run by the bureaucrats for the bureaucrats. they have taken the service out of civil service. it's gone. most of them are paid more than they would get in the private hector. more than we get in the private sector. it is virtually impossible to fire them. no accountability. irs employees taking home big bonuses at the end of the year even when they have been found guilty of not filing their own. -- their own taxes. imagine. a services administration

employee on the front page of papers all across the united states sitting shirtless with a glass of wine at a las vegas boondoggle on the taxpayers money. he retired with full benefits. and how about this terrible story. ava surgeon suspended for 14 days for abandoning his patient unconscious before the surgery was completed. he left the medical center. he still gets an $11,000 bonus at the end of the year. these bureaucrats are living on easy street. they are putting us on the road to surf them -- serfdom. think about what has happened as a result. our government has truly been hijacked by people that don't share our values, don't value

our freedom. they put the state ahead of the individual. our president is presiding over the downgrading of our economy and the degrading of our constitutional rights. but you and i have a rendezvous with destiny. because we are going to elect the president of the united states that will fully repeal the obama health law. a president who will reign in the power and cost and size of this behemoth federal government. we should eliminate the department of energy, environmental protection, education, and most importantly, let's get rid of the department of the interior. the land belongs to us not the federal government.

that's right. and we will elect a president that takes seriously his or her aoth to defend the constitution of the united states, the greatest document created by mankind. the fight of our lifetimes. this is a fight we must win because you and i know one thing for sure. freedom isn't free. it's up to you and me. thank you. thank you. we can do this. thank you. thank you. thank you very much.

>> president obama is in onginia today to sign a bill veterans affairs. it would allow veterans living 40 miles from a facility or having to wait 30 days for medical assistance to seek outside medical care. we will have live coverage of the president here in a few moments. in the meantime, more from the western conservative summit. jenny beth martin talks about the undocumented immigration system and talks about the deferred action for child arrival program which permits to delay the deportation of immigrant children. >> how is everyone doing? isn't this amazing event?

yesterday after all the events, i was reflecting on the tea party. when i think of the original tea --ty, i'm reminded of them they painted their faces and dumped tea in the boston harbor. when they initiated their principled protest, they could not have known their demonstration would become the inspiration for a similar movement hundreds of years later. i also imagined they would never guess a savvy businesswoman and mother of two would be leading the charge. jenny beth martin is a politically -- as a clinical strategist who responded to the call for a new kind of party. unprecedentedthe expansion of government, she committed to the grassroots movement and is hailed as the tea party cofounder. she's now the national coordinator for the crusade and is working for a return to constitutional principles and fiscal conservatism. she oversees nearly 2000

affiliates and 15 million members. she is also a frequent guest on every major television, radio, print and online news outlet in the country. when she is not busy shaping a national movement, she locks everything from household plans to targeting irs to scrimmage and. i don't know how she does it. we are truly blessed to have this person with us today. please help me welcome any beth martin. -- jenny beth martin. [applause] >> thank you. i bring news from the rio grande valley, the breach point for the largest invasion of american

territory since the british occupied and burned our capital city in the war of 1812. morning, i awoke in mcallen, texas, having spent the better part of the last week seeing for myself and for you exactly what is happening on our southern border. i spent the time talking with local sheriffs and residents hearing from the front lines and learning firsthand about the problems from the border. we hear calls from people on the left and even some in the republican party saying we must launch with a call a humanitarian effort. care for us we must the unaccompanied minors coming into the country. they tell us we must not, we cannot send these young people home. they tell us we must borrow even more money from china to house,

clothes, feed, inoculate entry these strangers who broke into our home. mother. i am a woman. i am a christian, and i'm proud to say i am an american. i have listened to these arguments and i have checked them against my heart and my head. my experience and my values. to these, i need but one word to respond -- no. [applause] disagree? go to the borders and speak to this citizens with whom i have spoken. learn about the crime. local residents will tell you they've seen a flood of illegal immigrants pouring into their cities in the last two years.

they will tell you how crime against persons and property has increased. sheriff joe frank martinez told us a resident along oh river who had their homes robbed. everything from televisions to wash machines to copper wiring stolen, put on rafts and floated across the river into mexico. i saw photos of a home where a mother and her children had to hide under their bed for safety while a gang of illegal immigrants started shooting outside their home. these are american citizens who call this part of our country home for the last decade. many for generations. to see theirant land at give up their property and they should not be forced to do so. [applause]

we saw a 2.8 mile stretch in dell rio texas. 2.8 miles of fence. to keep that in perspective, the border -- along the border of -- between texas and mexico is 1200 miles. unless you are a member of the new york times editorial board, you have no problem saying -- no trouble seeing the problem here. local residents mocked the fence because they realize how easy it is to go around and still get into the country. we saw footpaths worn in the soil where people had literally walked around the fence about 20 feet to the east of where it began. if it were not so serious, this would be fodder for john stewart. then there are the coyotes. evil people who smuggle human

beings across the border for profit. the coyotes get their money up front. consequently, in the words of bureaucrats everywhere, they are dis-incentivize to care whether the people they are struggling into america may get alive. retired sheriff ziggy gonzales, who started the border sheriff coalition, told us there are times when coyotes, cornered by authorities when approaching their border, will abandon their car, with people in the trunk. which might not be so bad, except sometimes they do it while driving across the rio grande. and then they just watch as their car sinks in the river, and they escape the border patrol. and the evil does not stop there. sheriffs confirm that the drug cartels are running the show on the southern side of the border. all too often, on the u.s. side

as well. the drug cartels are sophisticated and cunning. yet it is not rocket science for them to climb up on top of the link in mexico, use binoculars, and see when and where the border patrol are, and send their network through an area that is not being covered. sheriffs confirm that as soon as one area beefs up security and patrols, the illegal immigration catch rate in that area increases, while, not surprisingly, it decreases in other areas on the border. people do not realize how this administration has tempted people to enter the united states illegally, subjecting them to this evil in the process. president obama's deferred action for childhood arrivals program, another one of his executive dictates that allows the written laws of this nation, is sending the signal to people in central and south america that if they just get into our

country, they are going to be able to stay. images of fine rides, flat screen tv's, soccer balls, and teddy bears send messages that children will be cared for and showered with material gifts. but the media are blocked from the detention centers, where many of the children's are sick. where the young children cry themselves to sleep, wanting their parents. where courts ignore how dangerous a trip to central america to the united states can be. the articles, for some reason, do not mention that the overwhelming majority of these so-called children are made teen boys -- 16, 17, 18 years old. it is the perfect age for gangs. the young people are at the mercy of the drug cartels and the brutal desert heat. they risk injury and death, if

they are not old into the drug cartels and used for other purposes. friends, what we are seeing is neither moral nor compassionate. it is neither moral nor compassionate to encourage parents to send their children off to embark on a life or death track with an uncertain future -- uncertain outcome. it is neither moral nor compassionate to put children at risk of bodily injury, disease, and death, or possibly even worse, life as a gang slave. it is neither moral nor compassionate to put our hard-working american families who live on the border at such great risk. it is neither moral nor compassionate to force the american public to borrow another $3.7 billion from china to pay for a border bailout.

[applause] unfortunately, those in washington are responding to the border crisis in the way they always do. grow the bureaucracy. concentrate more power in washington, d.c. commission studies rather than taking action. and so more of our hard-earned tax dollars at the problem. just like the bake sales used by politicians to pay out special interests, the border bailout rewards the president's allies, builds a centralized bureaucracy, and concentrates more power in the hands of the government. this border bailout is so bad, we would be opposed to it even if it were free. we don't need it. we don't want it. and we oppose it. no border bailout.

let me have a show of hands. how many of you have flown anywhere in this country or around the world in the last year? at the beginning of every airline flight, we are reminded that, should the cabin was pressure and oxygen masks deploy, we need to put them on ourselves first before we reach over and help others. why? because if we don't take care of ourselves first, we are no dam good to anybody. -- are no damn good to anybody. let's call it the delta rule. headquartered in atlanta, i fly delta airlines a lot. i suggest that to be truly compassionate, to be truly moral, we apply the delta rule to the border. first, take care of our own.

then, take care of others. instead of a border bailout, simply respect the rule of law and secure the border. [applause] millions of immigrants come to america legally to pursue the american dream. we admire them for playing by the rules, respecting american law, and contributing to our country and our community. we are for illegal immigration. and we are against illegal immigration. [applause] there already is a path to citizenship for those wishing to come to america. a legal path to citizenship. our government should not reward those who choose to get off that have, cut in line, and break the law. to do so would be in moral.

in fact, it would unfairly punish those who obey the law and follow the rules. by simply respecting the rule of law and securing the border, we will send a message to the rest of the world that we welcome immigrants who come here legally, and reject those who do not. [applause] one of the things that makes america exceptional is the notion that we are a nation of laws, not a nation of men. we will only be a nation of laws as long as we abide by the law. [applause] so today i am on a mission to recruit you for a mission, to rally in opposition to this proposed border bailout. it is immoral for the president

to decide on his own, in clear violation of the u.s. law, that he will not send back illegal immigrants, no matter what their age. [applause] the deferred action for childhood arrivals program must end immediately. it is immoral for the president to seek to borrow billions more to pay for his border bailout. it is immoral for the congress to consider giving him what he seeks. call your congressman. write your senators. give them one simple message. tell them to vote no on the border bailout. if you feel so inclined, you can add a little more personal note, to give them a little more personal incentive. tell them vote no on the border bailout, or i will be voting no

one you in november. thank you. god bless you. and god bless the united states of america. [applause] >> we will continue from the western conservative summit in a minute. president obama will be signing -- fortt four of our belvoir. the president is on route and we will have live coverage when it begins in just a few minutes. elleryow, senator albert explains his switch to the republican party in a video seen by more than a million viewers on youtube. he talks about his party change and gives his 10 point plan for renewing america.

this is the annual conservative summit in denver. [applause] >> frederick douglass once famously stated i am a republican, a black am a dyed in the wool republican, and i intend to belong to no other party than the party of freedom and progress. those words describe the mindset of a true public servant dedicated to the service of society be on the party title and be on the name. senatorsiana state delbert guillory is a man of these very words. he recently received national recognition for changing to the republic in party from the democratic side. one asked why he made such a decision, he said it was the right decision. because the individual must be free to pursue his own dreams. free from governmental control.

senator guillory has been an example of leadership and is still an example of leadership for all public servants across america. he dedicated his life through the vietnam war, serving in the united states av, after which he obtained his law degree from rutgers university and has been practicing law for over 30 years. he uses these experiences and the committee meeting and in his decision-making. invested in his community and the community of louisiana through nonprofit organizations and one witness constituent, serving the judiciary committee and other educational committees. all an example for what leadership is supposed to be across america. it was said by martin luther king jr. that human process is neither automatic nor inevitable. every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, struggling and suffer. the tireless exertion and

passionate concern of dedicated individuals. ladies and gentlemen, i'm privileged to present to you a man dedicated to his cause for justice, opportunity and freedom. a man in a fight for what is right and a man who will die with his boots on, senator albert guillory. [applause] >> good afternoon. you very much. that was extremely well done. -- g man like that [applause] and i see some other young people in this room and i'm very heartened to see them. i'm equally heartened to see so

many types of americans here under one banner. speaking one language, the language of freedom and liberty. but many, many colors of americans. i'm happy to see you here. democrat.ago, i was a lost and now i am found. [applause] years, it was a difficult fit. i was having difficulty in the meetings that we held. i was having difficulty in the votes we were taking as the louisiana democrat party moved farther and farther to the left and can see me standing there. then, one day, the head of the louisiana democratic artie was also a senator said anyone who

does not like obamacare would only not like this idea because father,resident african therefore anyone who doesn't like obamacare is a racist. senate, thein the telephone rings and it's my hundred and four-year-old mother. hear what that woman said. >> it was all over the newspapers and television. yes, ma'am, i heard. next did you say anything like that? no, mother, i didn't. are you associated with that? >> i'm not. but you better be careful because i do want you to bring dishonor upon our family. [applause] i hung up that telephone and call the registrar of voters in

my county and within a couple of [applause] now, i am here. what are we going to do? there werego, meetings like this held in america. that time was in difficult straits, as we are today. so, people met and talked with each other and tried to decide what would we do? how would we create? what are we going to create for the future? what kind of nation would there be? what we do today. those minutemen and founding fathers and founding mothers created a vision of a nation where people could live in governmentve without breathing dowth