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center doors. he's looking directly. his head is valid. he's simon -- she is signing copies. he approaches. he is totally oblivious to what is happening. he cane over his head. mr. sumner you are liable to my state. brooks strikes sumner on the top of the head. his head explodes in blood. >> the caning of charles sumner.

sunday at 8:00 eastern and pacific. >> now some of the speakers from the friday session of the faith and freedom coalition conference. chris christie, jeb bush, ben carson bobby jindal, and rick santorum. we begin with governor christie. [applause] >> good morning. thank you. good morning, everybody. it's great to be back. i appreciate you all being here and most of all i appreciate this work that you do everyday. in your communities to bring our message out. i'm very distracted by the teleprompter stuff. i am not barack obama. [laughter]

so we will do the best we can to ignore the plain glass plates in front of me as a politician a contingent look at and even though there's nothing there. that might be the way it happens happened with the president, too. i'm not sure. [applause] you know, i saw something on one of the news stations last week or so the president speaking. he said something to this effect. the world respects america more because of my administration. and i came to the conclusion that day that everything that we worried abt is the true. he really is living in his own world. look at what's happening around the world right now. when you think about the world that barack obama inherited when he came to the white house, the world that he will be leaving the next president, it is a startling how much damage can be done to america's reputation in seven short years look at what's

happening around the world. in western europe, they live in active the fear of terrorist attacks from extremist islamists. in eastern europe for the first time in 70 years after the explosion of spending that we did there, and lies that we give up to have a free united europe. we have russian soldiers marching in eastern europe in the first time in 70 years. and across the middle east iraq is on fire, libya is on par, syria is on fire, jordan is being invaded for its third wave refugees. and iran with this president's permission is steaming toward becoming a nuclear power and a dominant, dominant force in that region. and in china we watch the chinese building artificial islands in the south china seas, and we have a president who says

he doesn't want us to send our ships within 12 miles of those islands, northlight american planes overhead because he doesn't want to get into a dispute with the chinese. the dispute is being caused by the chinese, not by those who want to navigate the free waters of the world. and you look at all of these circumstances and you realize what an awful bill of goods this president sold the american people seven years ago. he tried to make us believe that america was the cause of violence in the world, that if we pull back from iraq and afghanistan and gave nice speeches, but somehow somehow the world would be a safer more peaceful place. well, the exact opposite has happened and now we have flyers all over the world. and the reason those fires have occurred, everybody compares the lack of american leadership and the lack of american strength. in this country needs to lead

the world again so that it is safe for liberty and prosperity for all of the people of the world and for the people that live here in the united states. [applause] this president diminish our military, both through actions that hurt their morale by the awful scandals out of that his administration were veterans of come home have been denied the health care they were promised. that is a national disgrace and this president has refused to fix it in a way that honors the service of our veterans. in practical ways we wanted thousand fewer soldiers come active duty sdiers in the army. we are headed towards a 260 ship navy, the smallest it's been in our lifetime and were headed towards 50% reduction in hardware in the air force. listen everybody, if i know these never felt so does vladimir putin, and so do the mullahs in olympic and to conduct around the world being less respectful as i believe a

direct result of this presidential weakness and the weakness yes put on our military. we need to make our military strong because what we've always undersod this strength brings peace. it doesn't cause war. weakness causes war. [applause] and speaking of weakness, let me say this. of all the people who may be comfortable for you, or considering catching the race for president, i'm the only one who's had the responsibility of having to prosecute and investigate terrorist country. i was appointed united states attorney for new jersey by president george w. bush on september 10, 2001. the next day my wife went to work two blocks from the world trade center. and i was on the phone with her when the second plane hit the second building.

she was assuring me that everything was fine, that she was ok. the phone went out. she was evacuated after five hours i did not hear from her. i can tell you those with a longer five and half hours of my life with our three young children wanting to know if mom was ok. well, thank god she was ok, but we lost one of our dear friends in our parish in our town that they in world trade center, and our oldest son, his best friend lost his father. we have watched that young man for the last 13 years, and his siblings, put up with the emptiness that can never be filled in place of a parent that was lost much to younger you see, these things are not hypothetical to me. i live in a state that lost the second most people on the timber 11, all of us in the state of new york.

and i went to the funerals of the people that we knew who were killed that day. and what the united states congress has done in the last few weeks through their change of the patriot act, i want to you today has made america weaker and more vulnerable. there is no excuse for taking legitimate tools away from our intelligence community in what is a dangerous and dirty world. and the fact is that if civil liberties are your concern there are many ways for us to protect the civil liberties. i can tell you i was a u.s. attorney to review patriot act applications, who reviewed applications to the fisa court. and who brought the first terrorism case post-9/11 of an indian born british citizen who is trying to shoulder-fired missiles to what he believed many terrorist group to shoot commercial airliner out of the sky at newark airport.

we prosecuted him with the use of the patriot act. we convicted him and he got sentenced to over 50 years in prison. since he was in his early 60s i don't think we'll have to worry about him again. here's the facts, everybody. those tools allow us to do what president bush instructed us to do after nine 9/11 which is to never let this happen again. if congress is worried about civil liberties as they should be, have aggressive congressional oversight. if they are worried about people going outside the line, and paul to get those people who go outside the line but do not put them in and women in our intelligence community in harm's way and do not make america weaker and more vulnerable with al-qaeda and places are plotting and planning everything to attack and kill us just because we are americans. these type of actions i'm telling you from experience are shortsighted and decent people give his long speeches up on capitol hill, if god forbid there is another attack on this country, will be the first ones to the cia director and fbi director up to capital, both in under oath and excoriated him for not connecting the dots. without understand the hypocrisy that understands the question because they were the ones who

make the jobs harder for these people to do. this is a fight we do have and this is a fight with her open our eyes wide. this is not about politics. this is life-and-death for our country and i stand for keeping america safe and making america strong and not giving political speech on the floor of the senate to raise money for a presidential campaign. that's were i stand. [applause] -- that's where i stand. but to do these things, to project a sort around the world to keep people for and say strengthen our intelligence community, strengthen our military we need to invest in that. a shame of what is going on in this country right now is that in the current federal budget 71% of all the spin is on interest on the debt and entitlement programs. listen everybody. those programs are important but they are heading towards insolvency.

we all know this. you notice in your heart. you know it to be true. yet we don't want to talk about it because we are all dominated by political consultant tell us to talk about entitlements, for goodness sake it is the third rail of american politics. don't touch it. i'm not going to touch it, everybody. i'm going to hunt it because we don't have this conversation we are selling our country -- hug -- worse yet. we are resigning our children to a lesser life. social security is a promise. it is a promise that is rooted in this idea that no one in america who has worked hard should grow old in poverty. that's a good idea and a right idea. but now we're to the point where choices are few because of the lack of action by our leaders. so yes, i said we should raise the retirement age two years over the next 25 years. think about that. it to get increase in 25 years

to i will be 77 when it becomes more effective. will the world really stopped spinning on its axis for that? or to say to someone who makes over $200,000 a year, and retirement income, retirement income, then maybe you don't need to get your social security check. do you do need your solstice party check them? or is it better to leave that money for for the person they would need to do is try to figure out whether to pay the rent or to buy food or pay the heating bill or go to the doctor? you see, these programs if we don't do this, you only have two other choices, everybody.

either insolvency, which is creeping up on us over the next seven or eight years, or a massive tax increase on all the american people, which would be damaging to our economy and hurtful to working families today. our opponent on the democratic side, they don't touch social security because they are for the working person. baloney. they don't think it's popular. is what i think your are lead are not supposed to follow polls. leaders are supposed to change polls and but by telling people what needs to be done. [applause] and i've no idea how a massive payroll tax increase in all be reckoned with good for our middle-class working families. taking more money out of their pocket is not what they need in an economy that barack obama has turned into a part-time employment economy. that's what he's done. since 2074000000 more people in america are working at part-time jobs at 3.2 million fewer people are working full-time jobs. that's the economy this president has bequeathed to this country. and now the idea that others want to roll up a massive tax increase on top of that just makes no sense to me. that's what we need to discuss and todd reform, reform medicare as well.

that's increased eligibility to years that phases in over the next 25. to make over $2000 a year in retirement income, less that subsidize your medicare premium 75% as we do know the that subsidize it 10%. if you have the money to pay it, you are blessed. you worked hard and this country is giving you the opportunity to work hard to have a great idea and how that success. no place in the world does that happen. don't listen to the people who come behind this podium and say one of my fellow former governors sent them you can't touch social security. this is a sacred trust. if the government lies and steals from you, what do we have left? what i say to them is, governor, the wine institute has already occurred. remember al gore in 2006? a linux box for putting this money. let me take what's in a lockbox everybody.

a stack of ious is in the lack under in -- is in the lockbox. so now the question is it's not prevent the line and steely. the already out of the barn. how did he get the horse back into the barn? you'll know it's a lot easier for the horse to run out of the barn and to get it back in. it's hard to do these things. we need to though. that's why the first speech i've given it is national conversation is not anti-reform. not because it was strong politics but because it was strong leadership and that's what we need in this country again is people are willing to tell the truth whether they think we will like it the first time we hear it or not. larry mitchell i get reelected in new jersey with 61%. let me tell you, democrats into trees that i would never get elected the first time when jon corzine outspent me three to

one. in a state that hasn't elected a republican to the tent a cynic and 42 years. the longest streak of any state in the country, this is the blues state as there is in america getting outspent three to one can we beat a democratic incumbent because people since we are strong enough to tell them the truth and then to follow through on a in the years since then we've got business taxes over $2 billion. we balance the budget centuries ago, capped property tax reform the teacher law so teachers who get a failing grade intifada not have a job for life in front of our children's classrooms. [applause] and reform the pension benefit system that still needs more work but it's better than it was when i got there, and has not withstood a fight all the way to new jersey supreme court which has upheld those reforms that says yes, workers need to pay more into the pitch and cannot get cost-of-living adjustment him on the back of hard-working taxpayers on my sticker those

were published with a democratic legislature. not even close, 24-16 innocent 48-32 in the lower house. these guys did not wake ups and how to win at chris christie happy today? [laughter] belief me. but it does not stop me from doing the things that i think are right and does not stop me from compromising to get with to get things done. you need to do both. so when they see me planned parenthood budget, there is no room for compromise there. but we have a pension benefit proposal that the president of the second a democrat is willing to sponsor them if you make a few changes then yes, you need to make those changes.

you need to compromise. compromise is not a dirty word. compromising our principles is wrong but our government is set up to force compromise. the people of new jersey have now twice elected a conservative republican governor and a liberal democratic legislature there like a 13 year old doing a science expanded. put these two things together and see what happens last night but what happened, what happened is in a state where naked before i became governor we had zero net private-sector job growth. eight years zero net private-sector jobs. in a five and and a half years since i've been cover with grated nearly 200,000 new private sector jobs in new jersey to we took an economic basket case of on the road to recovery and those families are now working, who are not working when i became governor know the power of our ideas and how they work for our state and for our country that's what we need to fight for, putting people back to work.

[applause] but when you're pro-life, you need to be pro-life for the life. [applause] the easiest, the easiest time to be pro-life is when a child is in the womb. they haven't anything yet to disappoint us. [laughter] they haven't made any choices yet. it becomes much harder to be pro-life when their drug addicted on the floor of the jail cell. that is a gift from god as well. that life is a gift from god and that's what imagery we safer first time nonviolent drug offenders we are no longer send people to prison we are sending them to mandatory inpatient drug treatment because we need to save lives in this country, not dispose of them because because everyone is a gift from god and deserves a chance at redemption. [applause] life is precious and

we learned that again and south carolina. the idea that anyone can any human being would walk into a church and sit there for an hour and pray with people that he intended to murder is depraved it's unthinkable that we can put our minds about conduct like that, can we? and i want to conclude with this today. all the issues i just talked about a lot of others i didn't mention are important for the future of our country. but there's nothing more important today than taking as many moments as you can to pray for the families of those victims. good, decent people. who care about their church, love god and their families can to work for the communities come to serve in public life, who were cut down by someone who was

depraved and disturbed and seemingly now confessed to the driver in fact even said he spared one of his of it comes and told her i'm going to kill you because i want you to be a lie to tell people what happened here. this type of conduct is something that only our display of our own love and good faith and in our heart can change. laws can't change this. only the goodwill and the love of the american people can let those folks that that act was unacceptable, disgraceful, that we need to do more to show that we love each other. open our check, open our hearts and show love to each other. that's what leadership is about, too, everybody. and so i pray for those families today and i suspect you will too. and if we can have the power of

our prayers and the power of our conduct be an example to those who have hate in their heart then we're doing what we need to do to make our community, our states and our country a better place. i know that this audience believes that come and i know it's the way you live your lives. so let us use the power that you derive from the in a way that will help to heal the wounds of these families. it's moments like this when america comes together and choose the rest of the world what a great country we really are. and i know you'll be part of that. you can count on i will, too. i appreciate the work you do and i appreciate the fact that it's folks like you, your families and friends, but make this the greatest country on the face of the earth. we've just got to fight to keep it that way, everybody.

thanks for coming this morning. i appreciate it. [applause] >> well, good morning. good morning. thank you very much for the opportunity to be here with you today. i'm deeply honored to have an opportunity to speak to all of you. i to want to thank ralph reed, cofounder and chairman. ralph is an extraordinary leader

over the years. he's worked hard in building the faith and freedom coalition. i want to thank all of you for being part of that and being here today. you've got another great conference this year. it seems nearly every republican presidential candidate is here, which is a testament to the importance of your organization. >> they were learning and studying the word of the lord. times like these, and great national morning, all of us must come together to reflect on this and fortify our strength to continue to go forth. i don't know about you that had big impact on me as i am sure it has with you. we need to support with each other. we need to continue to bear the witness got acts through us. even in crisis, even in

desperate times we can always walkup right as brothers and sisters look to the heavens and know we're children of god. that gives us all strength and i know your hearts and prayers are with families and pastor who lost their life and hope it never ever, ever, happens again. [applause] i'm glad, i'm glad and honored to be here as a candidate for president of the united states the greatest country on the face of the earth. today will not be a political speech. i thought i would talk a little bit more about my journey of faith and how faith impacted my life personally and as public servant. my life was transformed when i was 17 years old. i was in mexico. most of the older guys in the room won't understand this, although occasionally a person i can see of a guy will nod their heads when i tell this story but i saw a young woman, and i fell in love at first sight.

totally head over heels in love. and she is my wife now, of had 41 years. now columba bush is my inspiration in many ways. it took a while for us, for me to convince her it was love at first sight. i finally got that done. we got married when we were 21. because of her my life became organized, focused on starting my life journey earlier than most people did and it has been a total blessing. i converted to the catholic church. i converted to being catholic in honor of my wife and because i believed in the blessed sacraments and they give me great comfort. i