life wonderful, ok? we've got to be tough. we've got to be smart. we've got to have heart too, we've got to take care of people. we've got to fix our health care program. this obamacare is a disaster. you people know. [cheers and applause] mr. trump: obamacare is a total catastrophe. it's going to be repealed and replaced. it will die in 2017 anyway. i don't know if you have heard what is happening, but it's so bad. all the people that they didn't think were signing up are signing up. the other people that are really paying for it are not signing up. your rates are going up 25%, 35%, 45%. your deductibles are so high, you are never going to be able to use it. so obamacare is a disaster. we are going to repeal it, we are going to replace it. there are so many great things we can do on health care. [cheering and applause] mr. trump: and it will cost you much less money, and it will be great. you are using programs you will

never use. you know that. you are paying for it. you will never ever use them. we will get that straightened out. we are going to straighten out a lot of things. we are going to straighten out common core. it's going to be dead. [cheering and applause] mr. trump: when i look at parents, i see local parents in iowa and new hampshire and south carolina. i went to a school and i saw the parents. they love their children. they want educated children. they don't care about money, they love their children. it is local. they get together and they do wonderful programs. they are smart people. as opposed to getting it done by bureaucrats who are getting big, fat checks in washington. we have such talent in this country, and we do not use it. so, obamacare, dead. common core, gone. we are going to get rid of it. department of education, we are going to get rid of it. we are bringing education to a local level. one thing on education.

so, in the world, we are ranked number 28. there are third world countries that are ranked better than us in education and many other things. and yet, per pupil, we are number one, by far. there is nobody close. number two is not even close. we spend more money per pupil than any country in the world and we are ranked number 28. , which is way down at the bottom, essentially. can you imagine we are ranked number 28 and we are number one? that's what i do like saying about my campaign, i've spent less money than anybody else and i have the best result. i'm number one by a lot and i spent no money. planean cost me money -- cost me money. spent, essentially, no money. took a little radio ad in iowa. but i did not do that, i think the station is so lovely, if you want to know the truth. but i spent a essentially no money, and then you have all

these other guys spending vast -- why will he put a guy like jeb and some of the others? it is not only jeb bush, i see rubio on the ads all day long. you know, the black background. he should have put something like that behind him. the flag, right? [cheering and applause] i like him, i think he is a nice guy. i see these ads with the backdrop -- it is just somber. it is not good. think of it. i spent no money and i'm number one. others spent -- they will have spent hundreds of millions of dollars and they are not even in the race. that's what we need for our country. what? "i've got 15,000," i don't know what he means by that. i think he is a fan. are you a protester? no. ok, he likes trump. he's not a protester. i love you. [laughter]

don't worry about it. the only time the camera's focus on the crowd is when we have a protester. look at this ballroom, packed. i always have the biggest crowds. i go home and my wife said, were there many people? i watched you on television tonight. i said, i had 20,000 people. she said, they didn't show it. they have it right on your face. so i have 20,000 people. i had 20,000 in oklahoma, 35,000 in mobile, alabama. nobody knows. because those cameras, i think they can't move. i think it might be fixed. except every time there is a guy that stands up protesting, they are on drugs or something, they don't even know what the hell they are doing there, all the sudden, the cameras swerve from their perfect shot. and i like it, because it shows how big the crowd far -- crowds are. sometime, i think i will put in

some friendly protesters. [cheering and applause] mr. trump: it's the only way i'm going to be able to get the crowd in. so when we started, i talked about trade. i talked about the border. i talked about a lot of things. i started on june 16 in trump tower the famous escalator. , it takes guts to run for president. it's like, i've never done this before. they say you are on a debate. we had the largest debate. we have a largest audience in the history of cable television. then cnn, a couple weeks later, had 23 million. fox had 24 million. cnn had 23 million. the largest audience in the history of cnn. there are cameras on live right now. the largest audience in the history of cnn. the debates used to be -- if you go back four or eight years, nobody even wanted the debates. i think they were forced to take them for licensing. nobody wanted the debates. major nothing.

-- major nothing. they drew nothing. but now they are drawing 24 million. now they want to have more. can they go three hours? remember when they had the one go three hours and i said, no, i'm not doing three hours? i could stand up here for 50 hours, but who the hell wants to sit home watching three hours of this stuff? mr. trump, you have 30 seconds, what would you do about isis? oh, great. [laughter] mr. trump: by the way, i hate those questions. you know why? because i want to be unpredictable. i don't want to tell isis what i'm going to do. i hate it. [cheering and applause] mr. trump: remember, i said very strongly -- you have been watching. four years, get the oil, get the oil, get the oil. who is going to get the oil? iran is taking over iraq. we made a deal for iran. done by some of the dumbest people on earth on our side. we gave them everything. we won't even get our prisoners

back. and now iran wants to start negotiating. can you believe it? we would have gotten them back, all we had to do was say we want our prisoners back. they would've said no. i would have said i want them back, you don't understand me, i want them back. they would have said, no, we won't do that. i would've said bye-bye and left. then i would have doubled up the sanctions. i guarantee you -- [applause] i guarantee you that within 24 hours they would've called back and said, you have got your prisoners, can we talk? i would have never given them $150 billion. they don't have to make nuclear, they can buy it. why do they have to make it? then they have the self inspections. they don't want us there. i wonder why? so they self inspect. and then they have a 24 day inspection, but the self inspection is the beauty. we think you are making nuclear

weapons here. let us go and check, mr. president. no, sir, we are not making nuclear weapons. we would never do a thing like that. these are people that have deceived us, lied to us, they are terrorists. i used to say it is the worst deal that i have ever seen negotiated. by the way, just to finish, prisoners -- they come back, we get our prisoners. then when i hear the other day that, now this deal is done, now i hear they want to negotiate. they said very strongly, we are going to want a lot for the prisoners. starting off -- we are going to want a lot. we have already taken off the sanctions. they are already rich as hell. what is going on there? that's why i say, i mean -- some people say it is worse than stupidity, there is something going on that we don't know about, honestly. you almost think -- i'm not saying that.

i'm not a conspiracy person. she said, "we are." we are saying it. half the people in this room are saying it. i am trying to be -- i'm just hoping they are stupid people, which they are, or there is something going on. because it is inconceivable. did you ever see where some things are so bad that it cannot be -- that nobody can do what they did? right, nobody. so, iran now wants to negotiate separately. that deal is done. now we want to start a new deal. and they want a lot. we want a lot. i want to just shoot the television. you know? because they would have had it. and you know when a ask -- when asked kerry and obama, the deal was made, everybody knows it is a horrible deal,

they are so rich now. and many of the other things that you don't even know about. most people don't even know what the agreement says. but i will tell you what, when you look at what we are doing, if we keep going like this, folks, we are not going to have a country left. we are not going to have a country. we are like a dumping ground for the world. we are a dumping ground. they want to take these migrants -- and i feel terrible about the migration, caused by hillary clinton and barack obama. they are the ones that caused it. they go into libya, they knocked the hell out of gaddafi. they backed rebels who end up killing the ambassador and the other young people. the ambassador was riding in a jeep, one of our jeeps, of course, a military jeep, holding the libyan flag, "freedom, freedom, freedom," and he gets killed by the same people. so, we backed people that turned out to be far worse than gaddafi. look what we did in iraq. look what we did in iraq. what the hell do we get? we spent $2 trillion, we have

-- that lives as of 1.5 years -- years ago. we have thousands of deaths, and i'm not even talking other side. you are talking about hundreds of thousands, maybe millions. you have thousands of deaths, we have wounded warriors, who i love. these guys are the toughest -- these are the greatest people. [applause] mr. trump: these are the greatest people. and then what happens? we leave, and we have a president that announces the date of when we are leaving. so, i said, man, if i'm the enemy, i'm just going to go wait for 18 months. he gave a date. we are leaving iraq. we will be gone by such and such a time. i'm just sitting there watching and i'm saying, man, that's really stupid. [laughter]

because, believe me, the enemy doesn't want to be killed. you hear so much they want to go with the virgins up wherever they go. they want to live. and they want to take care of their families. their families know what's going on. you think their wives don't know what they are planning? you think their kids don't know what's that he is doing when he is flying into the world trade center? they know exactly what's going on. remember that. frankly, i think they have more love for their family's lives than they do for their own lives. but they still want to live. here is obama. he gives an exact date, so they pull back. everyone says, oh, we are doing so well. why should they fight when they know, in 18 months, they can go in and take the place? so what happens? we have isis taking a lot of oil. i said take the oil. remember when we left, i was opposed because i said we would destabilize. because you had iraq and iran. i said they will fight. they are always fighting, for decades, generations.

they fight, that's what they do. how we ever got involved in this mess is hard to believe. they fight, and they were equal militarily. , they go this way, 10 feet. they go this way, 10 feet. then they rest. a couple years. then they start fighting again. then saddam hussein throws a , little gas. everyone goes crazy. back and forth. it's the same. and they were stabilized. and i said, if you go after one or the other, in this case iraq, you're going to destabilize the middle east. that is what is going to happen. and that's exactly what happened. we totally destabilized the middle east. we have now, migrations, largely because of what happened afterwards. iraq was horrible. it was stupid to go in and we should have never gone in. but we shouldn't have gotten out the way we went out. and we shouldn't have given dates. i would have probably said we would stay forever. and they would have said, oh, man.

keep going, keep going eventually they would get tired. , they would say, this guy is crazy. he's never going to lose. and you make a deal. when you announce you are leaving in 18 months or whatever the hell he said, they just pull back. as soon as we left, they come in. they have the oil. beneficiarybiggest of the oil is -- china. always china. i love china. i love mexico. their leaders are too smart for us. we have no border. we will build a wall. mexico will pay for the wall, by the way. [cheering and applause] mr. trump: we are going to have a border. and people are going to come into our country, but they are going to come in through a legal process. they are not coming in the way they are now, walking in like nothing. they are going to come in, but they are going to come through a legal process. so, with iraq, so we give them the date and they take over. we didn't take the oil. for four years, i have been talking about it. then because of paris, they stop bombing the oil. -- start bombing the oil. i didn't just want to bomb the

oil, i wanted to take the oil. so, we are bombing. and we are not really bombing it, because they are still selling it. how could they keep selling -- obama does not want to hit them too hard because he is afraid he is going to pollute the atmosphere. no, this is serious. think of it. he talks about the carbon footprint, and yet he will fly a very old air force one, an old boeing 747, with the old engines, spewing stuff. he's got a problem with the carbon footprint. you can't use hairspray, because hairspray is going to affect the ozone. i'm trying to figure it out. i'm in my room in new york city, and i want to put a little spray -- [laughter] [applause] mr. trump: right? but i hear where they don't want me to use hairspray. they want me to use the pump, because the other one, which i really liked better than going bing, bing, bing, and it comes

out in globs. it's stuck in your hair and you say, oh my god, i've got to take a shower again, my hair is screwed up. i want to use hairspray. they say don't use hairspray, it is bad for the ozone. i am sitting in this concealed apartment. i really do live in a nice apartment. but it is sealed. it is beautiful. i don't think anything gets out. and i'm not supposed to be using hairspray. but think of it, obama is always talking about the global warming -- that global warming is our biggest and most dangerous threat. -- problem. even if you are a believer in global warming, isis is a big problem. russia is a problem. china is a problem. we've got a lot of problems. by the way, the maniac in north korea is a problem. he actually has nuclear weapons. that's a problem. we got a lot of problems. that's right. we don't win anymore. he said, we want to win grand -- when. win.

if i get elected, we are going to win a lot. we are going to win so much, he will all get sick and tired of winning red -- winning. you say, oh, no, not again. i'm only kidding. you never get tired of winning, never. but think of it. so, obama is talking about all of this with the global warming. a lot of it is a hoax. it's a moneymaking industry, ok? it's a hoax. a lot of it. look, i want clean air, and i want clean water. i want clean, crystal water. and i want clean air. and we can do that. but we don't have to destroy our businesses. and by the way, china isn't abiding by anything. they are buying all of our call. -- coal. we cannot use coal anymore, essentially. they are buying our coal and using it. when you talk about the planet, it is so big out there, we are here, they are there. it's like they're our next-door neighbor. in terms of the universe. miss universe, by the way, made a great deal when i sold it. oh, did i get rich. [laughter]

it was a great deal. they broke my choppers on that. they said, he talks about illegal immigration. we are not going to put him on television. first of all, univision is being sued like crazy. you wouldn't believe it. nbc, i made a great deal with them. far more than i would have ever gotten if i said i think i'm going to sell it. isn't it amazing this can work out? but i love miss universe. and i love the universe. think of it, china is spewing up all of this stuff. and we are holding back. with china, we signed these agreements where we have to do it now. they have to do it within 30 or 35 years. i don't think they are going to be doing it. it's like japan. if somebody attacks japan, we have to immediately go and start world war iii. if we get attacked, japan doesn't have to help us. somehow, that doesn't sound so fair. does that sound good? south korea -- i ordered

televisions, thousands of televisions per year. i order televisions because i have a lot of stuff. they are all made in south korea, most other than sony. sony, in all fairness, has lost its way. a lot of -- samsung, all of them. they are all pretty much -- all of them, right? i think just about. but, i order thousands of televisions, they are all from south korea. we have 28,000 people on the border separating south korea from this maniac in north korea. what did we get? nothing. they are making a fortune. it's an economic behemoth. a lot of you don't know we protect germany. germany, mercedes-benz. how many people have a mercedes-benz? we protect germany. it's an economic behemoth. we protect saudi arabia. they were, during the good old days, and now it's probably half, but that is fine. they were making $1 billion per day. and we protect them. our military protects them -- they pay us peanuts, like nothing.

and if we want to buy, move to another location -- well, that's very expensive. they want to charge us rent? look, we are run by people that are so bad, so out of their league. and i see it on the stage. a lot of them are nice people. a lot of people think i do not like these guys. i do like them. but they don't have business sense. they don't have common sense. they are politicians. they are all talk. they are no action. [applause] folks, when i say we are going to build a wall, most of them say, you can't build a wall. in china, 2000 years ago -- [laughter] they built the great wall of china, which is bigger than any wall we are thinking about. the great wall of china goes 18,000 miles. we have 2000 miles, of which we really only need 1000 miles, because you have a lot of natural barriers that are extremely tough to get across.

we have 1000 miles. china has 18,000 miles or 13,000 miles, and we have 1000 miles. we have modern cranes, we have caterpillar tractors. i want to use caterpillar. made in america. [cheering and applause] even my hats, they are made in america. it was not easy to find a guy who could do those hats. you know what i am talking about. i have seen so many knockoffs of the hats. i see them made out of plastic, all sorts of crap. mine are made in america. honestly, they do a great job. they don't produce as many as i would like because, frankly -- i mean, it's amazing. those hats are amazing. but i wanted it anyway. but i also knew that as soon as the hats -- we have a website. as soon as the hats came out, i knew the press would be calling. it's true. first hour when the hats were announced, i get a call from "the new york times."

mr. trump, where are those hats made? i said, america! [cheering and applause] i knew it. i knew it. as you know, if i would have said china, i would have been in big, big trouble. but they are being knocked off all over the world. i see hats they are like , helmets. i see them all. but what are you going to do? here's the story. we have to build a wall. when i talk and i'm up on the stage with these guys, these people, wonderful people, and a very nice woman, carly. she's a nice woman. when i'm up on the stage with them, they think i'm crazy. we're going to build a wall, it's going to be a great wall. this ceiling is peanuts compared to the wall i am talking about. i'm talking about, if they ever get up there, they are never come down, because it is too dangerous. [applause] you ever see what they do now with these little walls? they build a ramp. wouldn't it be cheaper to knock the wall down? they drive over it with jeeps loaded up with drugs. do you see this?

they build ramps. there was a picture in "time magazine." it's a little ramp that goes over. they have a jeep. over, down. make money. we get the drugs. think of it. we could build a wall. we get the drugs, they get the cash. not so good, right? we don't like that deal. our politicians don't know. they don't know. so, when i say mexico is going to pay for it. these guys on the stage with me, they are not business people. they don't understand. mexico makes a fortune off the united states. number one, we give them a lot of money. but in addition to that, they are taking our businesses. they are making -- you are talking about a trade deficit. i tell you what, mexico in a certain way, is a mini version the new china. mexico is making an absolute fortune, peanuts compared to the cost of the wall. let's say the cost of the wall is $10 billion. i can do a great job with that. i think we will have a lot of money left over. by the way, 20 years ago, they wanted to build a wall.

people that are opposed to it now, they wanted to stop and build a wall. you know one of the reasons they did not build the wall? because of the environmental protection agency. they could not get an environmental impact study approved. can you believe it? the there was a toad or a snake or something in the way. now think of it, in china, in the south china sea there were these these low-level landmasses that were covered by water, but pretty close to the town. china sends in massive excavators and they are building military fortresses in the south china sea. a friend of mine, who is one of the biggest and richest people in china, he is a great guy. they are great people. they are fun. then leaders are too smart -- their leaders are too smart for our people. they won't be too smart when i put my people there. [applause] mr. trump: when they call up, we

would like to speak to the donor that is negotiating -- no, the donor now is carl icahn. great businessman. you have so many people that call. all these businesspeople call. friend of mine. i call them and i say, you are actually doing it. jokingly, i said, how long did it take to get started? did you have to get an environmental impact study approved in order to excavate? he looked at me and goes, i hope you are kidding when you say that. they conceived of the idea and they started digging four hours later. there is no -- go through 25 years of environmental impact, you are going to hurt the snail. you're going to hurt this. they are doing a big thing. the excavated massive, massive, take a look, they are ripping the hell out of that ocean. they are ripping it and they are taking that dirt and they are building airfields and forth -- and forts.

we couldn't do it just like i , said, they could not an environmental impact statement. that's probably not the only reason it did not happen. i heard the costs were too high. for me, that's easy. i'm doing the old post office, i'm under budget, i'm headed schedule. look at the campaign. a guy has $59 million and he was -- is down at the bottom. i'm nothing and i'm at the top. it's the same thing. [applause] i actually said -- it's funny. the other day, i got this great review. they said, "trump is a great speaker. the crowd is spellbound. but he has one problem." i am reading, the problem is he speaks through the applause." and you know why? because i'm so excited, because we have so much potential. it's true. i don't want to wait for your freaking applause. we have so much potential. there are so many things to do. i don't want to wait. i just noticed, i did it again. you were getting ready to give a big applause, because you like that, and i'm speaking.

i killed the applause. but he is right. except i'm not a speaker. what i am is a doer. i get things done. [applause] so, when the people up on the stage with me -- and hillary, hillary doesn't have a clue. you talk about low energy. she has lower energy than jeb bush, which is hard to believe. she does. maybe it's rude, maybe it is not, but it doesn't matter. we have a much bigger problem. we have to save our country. so, if i'm rude, if people think i'm rude -- i'm actually a nice person. i have a big heart. i want to help people. i want to help the migration. i want to do a safe zone in syria. i don't want them coming here. we don't know who these people are. they are undocumented. [applause] mr. trump: we should do a safe zone over there. we should have the gulf states spending. they have to pay.

we are protecting them. they wouldn't be there for two minutes if we weren't protecting them. they have to start paying. they are not taking anybody. how about germany, taking millions? can you believe what she is doing to that country? and she was the person of the year and i wasn't. everybody said trump was the person of the year. [booing] mr. trump: hey, what are you going to do? i think she has made a terrible mistake. we will find out. time will tell. they have tremendous crime problems. but what i like is that in syria, with other people's money, meaning the gulf states and germany and others -- germany is paying a fortune to accept all these people. we do a massive safe zone. eventually, when this whole catastrophe straightens out, which i will probably be able to get it straightened out. when it is straightened out, they could go home to their country, to their area. it is interesting, i have thousands of people that work for me. thousands. i have people that come from far. and they all here legally, don't worry about it. i use e-verify. but i have people.

they go and check. , they went tock the old post office everybody , walking their dog, are you here illegally? they said they found one person out of hundreds and hundreds. i don't believe it. but it is possible -- , we do have 11 million people in the country. it is probably a much higher number than that. it is probably a higher number. but we have to do something about it, and we are going to. so, i just want to finish by saying this. look, we have a situation that is out of control. our country is a dumping ground for the rest of the world. we are laughed at by the rest of the world. and when i started this journey, and it is a journey, and i do love you people. you are amazing people. and by the way, you are so smart. you know, a lot of times they will say, well, mr. trump's people are blue-collar. i love blue-collar. i'm honored by that. but they are not blue-collar. we have blue-collar, executives, and young people. they say the audience is old. it's not older. the audience is young.

the other night in iowa, i told that, and i said we have so many young people, the place erupted. they were all young people. we have an amazing thing happening. [applause] look, that's their way of marginalizing, not even me, they are marginalizing you. it is disgusting. but, when i started this journey -- and that's what it is, a journey, and it's a movement that is taking place -- the movement that is taking place. remember the old days, the silent majority? it is not right. it's a noisy majority. people are angry. these are not silent people anymore. i go to people, you can even hear -- cannot even hear. i received a call from one of the biggest reporters, who happens to be a liberal, but that's ok. a guy who is really respected, and he said, how does it feel? i said, how does what feel? he said, what you have done it has never been done in the history of politics in the

united states. even cnn said number one story of the year is donald trump. and isis is number two. i want to knock them out and make me number one next year. but this reporter, who is a very smart guy, he said what you have done has never been done in the history of this country. newt gingrich was on a television show the other day, he said this is one of the greatest phenomenons i have ever seen in politics. nobody has ever seen it. crowds like this, forget it. they sent 3000 people home at this venue. can you believe that? more than 3000. it is unbelievable what is happening, beautiful. it is beautiful what is happening, but newt gingrich said he has never said anything -- seen anything like this. but he said to the reporter, it has never been -- the reporter said to me, it has never been done before. and so that's fine, but if i don't win, it is a waste of

time. he said, no, no, what you have done is incredible. even if you don't win, what you have done is incredible. you have totally changed the landscape of politics. [cheering and applause] no, don't applaud. he said, you have totally changed the landscape of politics. it is for ever going to be different. there has never been anything like your campaign. he was very nice. i said, you don't understand. if i don't win, i will consider this, and i mean this, a total and complete waste of time. i really do. because we are not going to do anything. it is wonderful, i had nice crowd. -- nice crowds. they will write about every two years or so. i mean, i will have headlines and stuff, but if we don't win, it is a total waste of time. somebody else will be there, and they will not be able to do what i do.

even if you get one of these republicans. the wall, when i say mexico is going to pay, they all laughed, they think it is funny. honestly they think it is funny, , they are laughing. they are making billions and billions of dollars of our deficit with mexico. the wall is peanuts, they are going to pay for the wall. when i mentioned it, now they don't laugh. they are starting to agree. the other day, ted cruz, a nice guy, said we are going to build a wall at the southern border. my wife is sitting -- where did that come from, right? ted is a good guy, but he said -- i think it was on fox, he was being interviewed, he said we , are going to build a wall at the southern border. he did not say mexico is going to pay, he has not gotten that far yet, but it is going to happen. they are all trying to catch up. when i did this stuff, it was very out there, but now i am the

one that everybody wants to aspire to. ted is talking, my wife is sitting there and she says, darling, did you hear that? he just said they are going to build a wall. that's what you say! she hasn't heard that from any other candidate. so we are going to build a wall, mexico is going to pay. there are so many things we're going to do. when i started the journey, it was amazing. i came down, it took courage. i went into the lobby of trump tower, on the escalator, i have never seen -- it looked like the academy awards, the press. we have a lot of press here today. look at all those live cameras. so when i came down in the escalator, we came down and i said, we are going to do things, and i mentioned illegal immigration. you would not even be talking about illegal immigration. nobody was talking about it, now it is one of the big subjects.

that's why in one of the beautiful polls that came out, i am so proud of it. cnn came out with a pole a week ago, 36 percent for trump. second is 16%, third is 14%. but on the economy, they gave me 55%. that's with 16 people at the time. on the budget -- i understand, the budget and economy i win hands down. but listen to this, on illegal immigration i am almost at 50%. and on isis, likewise almost at 50%. so people want to be protected, they want to feel safe. they need strength, toughness, smarts. i know a lot of tough guys, but they are not smart. they are the easiest. you have to be tough and smart. the world is trying to take

advantage of us. what happens, i came out, started. that first couple of weeks with illegal immigration, mexico, all this stuff, and then kate was killed in san francisco, and jamil was killed in los angeles, jamil shaw, an unbelievable young man, was shot in the head by an illegal immigrant. kate was shot in the back. so many great people. and then you have the economy, the jobs that are being lost, and people aren't paying taxes, and all this stuff. and all of a sudden, people are coming over. i would say the wall, now they are starting to say the wall. we have to be progressive in our thinking. when i say progressive, i mean smart. i'm not talking progressive like a bernie sanders. think of it this guy wants to , raise your taxes to 90%. you will have to move. i love this area, by the way, great golfing area.

we love it. [cheering and applause] mr. trump: no more golf if bernie sanders. you won't have any golf anymore. you will not have any money left. you will be paying in taxes. this guy is a total disaster. i am not saying that -- i will to you what, hillary clinton said, oh, i would like to run against trump, believe me. chuck todd on "meet the press," his show is dying. he keeps saying, do it, but i've never liked him. he never treated me fairly. i do his show, he gets the highest ratings he has had in years. it went from like -- believe me, i won't give you the numbers the , numbers were massive. i saved his life. and then he goes, hillary clinton said that she would most like to run against donald trump. they are looking forward to it. trust me, the last person -- she's already gotten a dose last night, do you agree? she had a tough night looking at the beauty pageant. [laughter]

so hillary clinton said -- and here's chuck todd, and here's a nice guy. please don't be insulted, chuck. she says she doesn't like him. he was in treat me right. but he goes, the clinton campaign says they would most like to run against trump, like i am some kind of asap. -- sap. so i called chuck and explain, it is reverse psychology. they say they want to run against me. first of all, i am winning and ties in the polls now, look at all the guys i hit, they are gone or failing badly. and they will be gone soon. but hillary clinton, think of it. i said, chuck, report it properly. trust me, they don't want to run against trump. the last thing she wants in her whole life. i did this in 15 minutes, what

happened to them, because the husband wants to, and she wants to accuse me of things, and the husband is one of the great abusers of the world, give me a break. [cheering and applause] mr. trump: give me a break. so the last person she wants to run against me -- here's the story. it is simple. i was talking about trade, the wall, the borders, obamacare, the second amendment will be saved, by the way. [cheering and applause] mr. trump: it will be saved. the second amendment is going to be with us if i am president. they are doing everything, they want to get rid of bullets. they are doing everything they can. think of paris, think of los angeles. paris had no guns. they have the toughest gun laws in the world. and france, if you get caught with the gun, the only people

with guns are bad guys. by the way, their police did a good job, and los angeles police did a phenomenal job. but let's say this guy in front of me with a hat, he has a lousy head of hair, but he is a strong looking guy. nice if, wouldn't it be they had a gun on their waist? somebody. him, him, him. you know what they were doing in paris, get over here, boom. these are people that gave a party in honor of their marriage. there is something going on that is wrong. they gave him a party, they worked there. she came on a fiance permit or

some nonsense, and she was radicalized. and he was probably radicalized by her, or was already radicalized. people knew they were already radicalized, and people knew that they had bombs. who the hell does not know that. they didn't want to talk about it. you've got to report these people. we've got a real problem, you've got to report them. no more nonsense. they did not report them, and the only reason they didn't is because they don't disagree with them so much. it is not because they were afraid. you saw the one who was -- you thought it was politically incorrect to report them, give it a break -- give me a break. we have to change. it started off with me, where i was going to talk about trade, and military. but after paris, and california, and there will be others because they have no fear of us, it totally changed. my poll numbers went up 10 points, amazing.

i said, was it because of the debate? people said, no, you are a tough cookie who will not take this crap. [cheering and applause] and now i talk about protection. trust me. i've got the greatest guys in the world who are going to do a great job. i always talk about ford building a plant in mexico. not going to happen with me. that stuff -- those deals are no good. ford is leaving, they are closing plants in michigan to build a plant in mexico. how does that help us? who are the people that think is -- this is a good thing for us? in the meantime, in michigan and other places, there are plants closing all over the place. and then they are going to sell cars, trucks, and parts into the united states, no tax, no nothing. i will say you don't have to pay -- you are going to have to pay a tax.

and to ford, if you don't want to pay a tax, stay in the united states. it's simple. it is simple. and two weeks ago, nabisco announced they are going to leave chicago with a big plant and go to mexico. what's my statement? no more oreos, right? but i don't want this. not going to happen. they are going to make product and sell it into the united states, not going to happen. by the way, i am a free trader, but we've got to be smart. we don't get anything. we lose on everything. that iran deal was a disaster. by the way, think of the iran deal for one second. this came to me two weeks ago, i don't know why it didn't come to me sooner. the iran deal is the worst deal i have seen negotiated. i am wrong. you know what the worst deal is? we gave them iraq. that's even better, think of it.

we gave iran iraq. iran has -- think of it, they are going to have the richest oil. you go to iraq, among the richest oil reserves in the world. we gave them, by decapitating iraq and then leaving. frankly, once we did it, we should've kept troops. so not only did they make a great deal in terms of the iran deal, we also gave them iraq. we gave them iraq. they had been after them for a hundred years. so now they have the largest oil reserves in the world. that's even better than the original. whoever is representing iran is doing a hell of a job. if that was a stock, you've got to buy some. we are not going to have deals like that. it's not going to happen. we are going to become rich again, we are going to become

safe again, and we are going to become strong again. [cheering and applause] >> trump! trump! trump! mr. trump: and you are going to remember this moment, this is going to be an important moment for all of us. the one thing i have to say i , have to ask you to go out and vote. it is going to be your turn. [cheering and applause] remember, it starts on february 1 with iowa, we go to new hampshire, then south carolina. we have four weeks to go, and then we have three weeks after we start. no matter what is going on in your life, you have to vote, because if you don't it's not going to happen. don't sit back and say, trump is going to do well. the more we can win by, the more power we have in a sense. it is like a mandate. you have to go out and vote. i will tell you this, it has been an honor to be here. i love the people here.

it has been an honor, but we will make america great again. i promise. thank you. thank you. [cheering and applause] thank you, everybody. thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] announcer: c-span takes you on the road to the white house. meet and rallies, and greets. we are taken your comments on twitter, facebook, and by phone. and always, every campaign event we cover is on our website c-span.org. as 2015 wraps up, c-span presents, "congress year in ofiew." i look back at all the newsmaking issues, debates, and hearings that took center stage on capitol hill this year. join us thursday at 8:00 p.m. eastern as we revisit mitch mcconnell, taking his position

as senate majority leader. pope francis's historic address to a joint session of congress. the resignation of john boehner, and the election of paul ryan. the debate over the deal with iran. a reaction from congress on mass shootings here and abroad. gun control, terrorism, and the rise of isis. ." onress, year in review c-span thursday, 8:00 p.m. eastern. answer: speaking to campaign supporters in newton, iowa, marco rubio called for a constitutional convention to approve amendments requiring a balanced budget and congressional term limits. he also talked about national security, immigration, and the affordable care act. he is introduced by congressman trey gowdy. i will holds the first in the nation caucuses on federal he first. -- february 1. this is just over one hour. [applause]

trey gowdy: thank you, senator. this is going to be hard, because they tell us in south carolina, not to talk to people behind the back. if you see me turn around, that is why. i want to thank you for your word,if that is the right and hospitality. this is my first time ever to iowa. 50 years, i have been to a lot of states. cannot return to some. until the statute of limitations -- this is my first time to iowa. my wife told me to go buy a coat before i came. last night, you are wearing your coat come argue? aren't you? i do have one, i didn't wear it.

i want to thank you for your courage. i want to encourage you to keep fighting. what i mean by that, in south carolina, every office holder is a republican. there are no democrats i dr. lena -- to fight with in south carolina. iowa is different. it is the quintessential battleground state. they can go either way and 2016. this is not hyperbolic, it may well be that the white house depends upon what you do in iowa. i want to say thank you for the courage of being a republican in a state where it is not always cool. i want to encourage you to keep working heading into 2016. the second thing i want to do is talk to about 2016. you have an obligation to analyze and investigate candidates for yourself. i did not come from south sterling to tell you to vote for.

it is important -- from south carolina to tell you to -- who to vote for. this is an experience we call america. it works with an educated moral, citizenry. you have the responsibility to educate yourself. how in the world can i come here and tell you what you want to do. what i can do is tell you i have done exactly what i am asking you to do. i know what issues are important. i know that i will vote for marco rubio. i want to tell you i. -- why. is one of theity most and port things government does. i am looking for a commander-in-chief, a president that does not view his reign job as filling out march madness basketball brackets or sampling golf courses on the east coast. but really knows his primary

function, his number one job is to be the commander in chief and provide for our national security. when you hear micro -- marco rubio taught, and i have been talking to him for years, he is an expert on national security. there is no one running for president that is more ,nowledgeable, more principled and has taken the time to educate himself on issues of national security. the most and port things in my life are my wife and children, i am looking for a president that will keep them safe. i include in that border security, and interior security. i am the author of the toughest interior security bill that you will ever read. because a sovereign nation has the right to determine who gets to come here, and how long you to a, -- get to stay, and what is the background check. it is a privilege to immigrate. you do not have a right to immigrate. sovereign countries have a right to determine who gets to come,

and how long you can stay. if you don't stay, we have the right, just like the uncle at christmas time, to say, it is time to go home. 100% certain that marco rubio is committed and principled on the issues of national security, including border security, interior security, and employment security, i would be in south carolina, not in iowa. trust me when i tell you, i have done my research. i am at peace he is the best candidate on issues that matter to me. do you carry of -- do you care about fiscal responsibility? do i president who will put us on a path towards fiscal responsibility? he is our guy. i promise you he is a fiscal conservative. i got a copy of his book. paper book -- paperback. the wrapping cost more than a

gift. if you doubt he is a fiscal conservative, swap gifts. you will find out he is. he is better at something then i am or ever will be. speak on a in 2010 message of conservativism in a hopeful, persuasive, aspirational way. i am a former prosecutor. you don't want prosecutors that are aspirational. you would like them to be persuasive, but i cannot do what he does. president reagan can do it, i can't do it. i know that hope is important. i was in it of that when my wife made me go to a wedding with her this past summer. i shouldn't say she made me. my wife and i went to one. i didn't want to go, but she said, you have to go to your sister's wedding. i went, it was the same verse

you here at every wedding, these things remain the greatest, hope and faith and love. it is ok to have faith in this next decade. it could be the greatest american decade. it is ok to have faith that that could be true. it is also ok to be helpful as you are delivering the message of conservativism. you don't have to be angry or upset, you could be helpful. -- hopeful. if you told me five years ago i would be in iowa getting ready to introduce the son of cuban immigrants, the son of a bartender, the son of a lady who did housekeeping. i would first of all tell you, that is only in america. i would say, are you sure? i have done what i am asking you to do. i have analyzed the candidates. i have picked mine. you need to do the same thing. getpe and i think when you

done hearing him, you will reach the same conclusion. he will can fence you as he has me that he is our best hope -- he will convince u.s. he has me, that he is our best hope. help me welcome marco rubio. [applause] rubio: thank you. thank you very much. first of all of me take this opportunity to verify family. they are here -- to embarrass my family. they are here. this is my daughter amanda. this is daniela. she is 13. she is on the news sites. we're so proud to have her with us. this is anthony, who is 10. he is the third oldest. we're so proud. this is dominique. i think one day he might stand on one of the stages. right? >> yes. marco rubio: and of course my

wife, jeanette. we met in 1991. i think the first time i saw her she was playing sand volleyball. there was a cute girl in the bleachers. we met months later. somehow i convinced her to marry me seven years after that. we also have a friend. we have so many good friends that do not get to see snow. we're glad they are here. i want to thank all of you for being here. thank you. [applause] thank jack, the kampeter -- campaign chairman. he has done a phenomenal job for us from the beginning. has helped us get around the entire state. where so honored by his help and confidence. i want to thank tray for being here. he is a phenomenal look servant -- public servant.

trey gowdy is trying to make a difference. a strong and principled believer in the constitution and the deliveries -- liberties. i am grateful for his testimony about the campaign. i am here today because i want you to caucus your -- caucus for me in iowa. it is the most and port in privilege we are given in this republic. it is the most important right to be able to choose our leaders. here in iowa, you place such a next ordinarily -- extraordinary role in choosing a president. when the country decides who will lead the nation in the aftermath of a barack obama, i hope iron that support. -- i earn that support. if you already are on our scene, our hope is to find more people to support us. i cannot emphasize how important

this election is for america. this is by far, they greatest nation in human history. there has never been a country like america and the history of the world. it was founded on a principle that our rights come from god, not the government. on the principles that all human beings are equal in the eyes of our creator. therefore, that is why we believe that all human life is worthy of the protection of our laws. we were made the freest people in the history of the world. from that flows free enterprise, which made us the most prosperous people. the rest, as they say, is the history of this great country. a nation that for over two centuries has served as an inspiration to the world, and a place for millions, including my parents, came here in search of a better life. the history of america has no parallel. we are blessed to be citizens of the single greatest nation in all of human history. yet, despite everything

america is and has done, there have always been these people in american politics have you america as a flawed country, in need of radical reform. people who want government more in charge of our life. they don't trust you to make the right decisions. they don't trust me to make the right decisions for my children. people that want more government involved in our economy. they believe that free enterprise is unfair. but only a handful of people make all of the money. everyone else is left out. they believe the only way businesses can make a profit is by exploiting workers and customers. people that have used those with traditional values with great suspicion. that has president said people with traditional values cling to their guns and traditions. people who think people with traditional values dislike anyone unlike them. we have had this view that america is a arrogant global

power that needs to be humbled. we have had people that believe these radical things. problem is, one of them was elected president in 2008. a government takeover of our economy, our health care system, and now trying to take over our schools. you have an all-out assault on our constitutional rights. and of session with getting rid amendment, and of session with the eroding our religious liberty. aboutign policy that is betraying our allies, cutting deals with our enemies, weakening our military, and apologizing for america. the truth is, barack obama and hillary clinton do not want to fix what is going wrong in america. they want to change america. they want to change america. what you're left with is, instead of a president who has

undertaken the systematic effort to redefine our country in every aspect of it. what you have now is a society where people hold views that they support traditional marriage, they call you a bigot and a hater. if you are pro-life, they say you are waging a war on women. instead of focusing on the people that are struggling and working harder than i have ever we have amaking less, president that is accessed with creating more government programs, oftentimes that benefit people at refused to work. isis is actively recruiting people to infiltrate into our country using the syrian refugee crisis as a cover. you say you want to restrict the refugees, they say that is hateful. terrorists beheading people all over the world. isis is crucifying people, carrying out attacks in paris and then bernadino.

we have the runway risk of radical jihadist and the president thinks the greatest risk we face is climate change. we have the gutting of our military. have the pace to smallest navy we have had in 100 years. we are on pace to have the oldest and smallest air force the -- this country has ever had. instead of worrying about funding the men and women in uniform, we have a president who fords more time fighting funding for planned parenthood, for example. this is why people are so angry. this is why the people with a most money and the most endorsements that have been around longest are not winning. this is why people are so angry politicalated at both parties. this has been building for a while. is this why in 2009 when i just added to run for the u.s. senate, the entire republican establishment in washington was

against me. i ignore them. year, why right now this when i announced i was running for president, any of the same people came to me and said, you cannot run. it's not your turn. you need to wait. wait until bought? i've -- wait until what? this is a time for action in this election. wrong,et this election there may be no turning back for america. that's why this election is so important. that's why i'm here today in hopes of earning your support in the iowa caucus. someone who clearly understands what we are facing and what we are dealing. and i do. no one running understands it better than i do because i have lived many of the same challenges our people are now facing. i want to know how is hillary clinton going to lecture me about living paycheck to paycheck, since i happen to grow

up paycheck to paycheck. jeanette and i have had to live a check to paycheck. how is hillary clinton going to lecture me about student loans? i had over $100,000 of student loans just four years ago. jeanette and i happen to be raising four children in the 20th century, and we have to work harder than ever to ensure that our children grow up with the values they teach in our church, not those being ramped down our throat by hollywood and the media. we need a president who understands what our people are facing, and i do because i have facing themand in now. we need a president who understands the that me what must happen for us to reclaim america, reclaim the american dream, and make this nation greater than it has ever been. i understand this and will put it in place when i am in office. i will place my left hand on the bible and raise my right hand in to protect square

and defend and uphold the constitution of the united states of america. i'm going to appoint judges and an attorney general who will respect and protect the constitutional rights of all americans, especially the second amendment and are religious liberty. immediately begin the work of undoing the damage barack obama has done to america. on my first day in office, i will repeal every single one of his unconstitutional and illegal executive orders. we will get rid of all these crazy overreaches by the employment prevention agency. we will repeal all of the overreaches. any work the federal government is doing on imposing, core, we will stop it. we have republicans out there who have supported common core. i'm going to make sure common core will never be imposed on our local school districts. we don't even need a department of education. we should close it and give it's

important functions over to the treasury. [applause] on my first day in office, we are going to stop any and all taxpayer funding of abortion overseas. this is a bipartisan commitment the nation made that the president has reversed. we will change it on my first day in office and i will now that as president, i will put the full weight of presidency behind it effort to call a constitutional convention of the states. and why? i will tell you why. because that's the only way we will ever get term limits on congress and federal judges. that's the only way we will ever get a balanced budget amendment. that's why our founders created a mechanism in the constitution

for us to take control of our government and our future. i will use the bully pulpit of the white house to push for and hopefully succeed in calling a constitutional convention so we can have term limits on congress and a balanced federal budget. [applause] i will cancel barack obama's deal for the ayatollah of iran. it is a betrayal of israel. when i'm president, we are not going to abandon free enterprise. we are going to embrace it. we will fix the tax code, they met in cap regulation and produce more american energy. that means solar, wind, bio you'll, oil, natural gas. we are bringing jobs back to this country but re-embracing free enterprise and creating the

best paying jobs of the 21st century. every republican running is against obamacare. i'm the only republican running that has ever done anything about it. 2009, the big insurance companies cut a deal with barack obama and hillary clinton -- not hillary clinton, but nancy pelosi and harry reid. created a bailout fund with your money. a fund designed to bailout by the insurance companies who lost money under a obamacare with taxpayer money. they did that back in 2009. in 2014, i wiped out that halo one and we saved the taxpayers to billion dollars. there are experts now saying the loss of that bailout fund may ultimately lead to the collapse of obamacare. so.an only hope one way or the other, when i am

president, we are getting rid of obamacare once and for all. trey touched on immigration. there is no one running for president that understands immigration better than me. my father was an immigrant. my mother was an immigrant. my grandparents were immigrants. jeanette's family are all immigrants. all of my neighbors or immigrants. i grew up in a community of immigrants. i still live in a community of immigrants. no one understands this issue better than i do. here's what i know to be true. enforcing immigration law is not anti-immigrant. countries sovereign do. they have a right to have an immigration law in the have a right to enforce them. when i'm president, we will. first of all, i understand the immigration issue has changed in just the last two years. it's no longer about new people

coming here looking for a better life for a better job. it can no longer be a debate about what to do to get more votes in the next election. this has become a national security issue. terror groups are looking to use our immigration system to get people into this country. the issue has changed and so too must our approach. there was a time not long ago when people do not lock their doors. they lock their doors now. the world has changed. you don't lock your doors because you hate people on the outside, but because you love the people on the inside. , if we don'tident know with 100% certainty who you are aware you're trying to come, you cannot come into america. that will be the principle that guides us. we are not going to have amnesty. if you are a criminal, you are going to be deported. sanctuary cities that flaunt our

federal immigration laws will lose federal winding. we will enforce our borders. border security is not rocket science. we know what it takes to do it and we will. we need 20,000 new order agents. we need at least $4 billion of new technology so we can identify people are trying to cross illegally certain sectors of the border. we need an entry exit tracking system to prevent these the overstays. if we do that, you will see illegal immigration, and control dramatically. don i'm president, we will it for the first time in 30 years, it will happen. on national security, it is the most important issue the federal government faces. are talks of how they will carpet bomb isis. they will make the sands of the middle east glow-in-the-dark. talk is cheap. national security is not.

national security is the most important thing the federal government does, and being commander-in-chief is the most important role of president will play. you cannot kill terrorist or carpet bomb them if you don't have airplanes or if you don't have bonds. we won't be able to do any of that if we keep cutting the military. i don't understand how the commute republicans running for president who support these defense cuts and want them to go even deeper. when i'm president, we are rebuilding our military. we will ensure we remain the most powerful military in the world. and betters a safer place where america is the strongest military in the world. [applause] we will take care of our veterans. if you are a veteran, we thank you for your service and for being here today.

when i am president of the united states, if you're not doing a good job working at the a, you will be fired. the benefits will be like the g.i. bill. the veteran will not have to chase down the benefit. you can take your v.a. benefit to any hospital, any doctor, any clinic, any provider you want to go to instead of the v.a. because these benefits belong to the veteran, not the bureaucracy. we will have a real war on terror, not a rhetorical war on terror. which means we will find terrorists wherever they are. if we happen to capture them alive, they will get a one-way ticket to guantánamo bay, cuba, and there we are going to find abouterything they know threats to the future. there is no middle ground. the sooner we take it seriously, the safer and better all we are going to be. i know that times are difficult

and it is true that after seven years of barack obama, by the time we elect a new president, eight years of barack obama. it is true that america is a great country on the road to decline. but it doesn't have to remain this way. we are not a week nation. we just happen to have a weak president, and we are going to change that. that's why this election is so important. we cannot afford four more years like the last eight. that's why hillary clinton cannot win this election. we cannot afford to elect just any republican. it's not just a choice between two political parties. choice, agenerational referendum on our identity as a nation and as a will. the question before us is, do we want to remain a special country? or do we want to be a nation in decline, the way we are right now. i'm running for president, because while america owes me

absolutely nothing, i have a debt to america i will never repaid. this is not just the nation i grew up been or was raised in or was born in. america is a country that literally change the history of my family. america did not become an exceptional country by accident. it became exceptional because for over 200 years, each generation did their part. they confronted the challenges and embrace the opportunities and let the next generation better off than themselves. for 200 years, each generation left the next better all. now our turn has come. the time has come for us to do our part. that's why i'm here today to ask you for your boat at the caucuses. if i am president, we are going to re-embrace the principles that made america great. run away from,t

we will confront and solve the not leaveour time, them to my children and yours. we will embrace the opportunities of 21st century. if we do this together, we will not just say the american dream. we are going to expanded to reach more people and change more lives than ever before. does not havery to be as good as 20th century. we have a chance to make it better. so i hope that in the time we have today i can earn your support. i know of no greater cost than what we are doing in this generation. that is ensuring that our children inherit from us what we inherited from our parents, the single greatest nation in the history of all mankind. in a moment we will begin to take your questions. we have one microphone. is there a second one? we will be happy to answer any questions you have.

work.get to who is going to go first? ok. yes, sir. nice hat. care, isard to obama on acutting the funding year basis, is that going to eliminate the actual legislation that was passed? is there something that needs to be done besides just cutting the funding? the only way to get rid of obama care is to pass a law that repeals it. when i'm president, i will sign that law. we can get around the filibuster in the senate. we can repeal it the same way they passed it. with a process called

reconciliation, you don't need to know all the legalese a use in washington. we will have a majority in the house and senate that will pass it and i will sign it and obamacare will be gone. then every american will be given the opportunity to buy any insurance they want from across state lines. whether it's a refundable tax credit or money from your employer that you don't pay taxes on, you will be able to use it to pay for health insurance the way you want to pay for it. some people want a health savings account. others want catastrophic coverage. they can buy it from any company in america that will sell it to them. it will be better for you and better or america. >> as president marco rubio, which i would like to see, how are we going to balance approximately soon to be $20

rebuild our military, which we have to do. sen. rubio: national defense is the most important thing america does. we should fully fund our national security before we pay for anything else. it's why we have a federal government. it is not the cause of our national debt. ups president has built faster than any other president in the country. it's being driven by the way social security and medicare are structured for future generations. in florida there are a lot of people on social security and medicare. one of them happens to be my mother. i don't want anything to change for her that is negative.

we don't have to change medicare and social security for her. we can leave them on disrupted for her, current retirees, people about to retire in 10 years or less. but is no way social security and medicare will look the same for me or my children as it did for her. it either goes ankara or we reform it. instead of retiring at 67, i may have to retire at 68. that is not an unreasonable request after what my parents did for me. it's not unreasonable reform. medicare can be the option of using medicare money and using it to buy private plan that you like better. we have versions of that now called medicare advantage. bring our debt under control, save social security and medicare for future generations and we don't have to disrupted for people who rely on it now or people who are about to retire.

if we don't do it, the problem gets harder to resolve. >> when you become president, what are the chances you will name trey gowdy to be your attorney general? [laughter] >> i think if he is willing to no, he isemotion -- phenomenal. he would be great in anyone's cabinet. i'm not sure that's what he wants to do, but i have tremendous respect for him because he is a firm believer in the constitution of the united states. we desperately need an attorney general that believes in the constitution. it is such a unique document. other countries have constitutions. it is largely a document that says here are the powers the

government has. our constitution is a document of limitation. it says here are the powers that belong to the people. the people have allowed you to have a few powers, and that is it. if the document of limitation. we have lost perspective. so we don't have a justice department that enforces the rights of all americans under the constitution. we don't have judges that do that either. we have a growing number of judges that believe the constitution is something to be manipulated, something to be creative with. that's the reason they gave us the constitution, so we would not have that sort of thinking. we need an attorney general that will do that. we also need judges that will do that. that's why we need term limits on the judiciary. there is no reason these people should be on there for the rest of their lives.

we should have term limits for the president, for members of judiciaryand for the and we need to appoint people to the bench that know that their job is to interpret and apply the constitution, not manipulated or create loopholes in it. earlier yourned student loan debt. as president, how would you fight the rising cost of higher education? i feel personally committed to the cause of dealing with student loan debt. we have so many other americans who are inheriting thousands of oftens of student loans for a degree that does not even lead to a job. we will make it easier to pay back the loans people already have. we will have an income-based repayment model. i would rather collect $20 a month and nothing.

you ruin your credit, you cannot buy house, start a business, or go on with your -- the rest of your life. they basically are with you until you die or pay them off. we will make it easier and cheaper to acquire college credit. we should have more competency-based learning. if you've artie learned something because you served in the military, you should give people college credit for what they've already learned. if you served two tours of duty in the middle east, why should you have to pay to sit in class and take a course on middle eastern affairs? we will create an alternative model that allows you to acquire that learning cheaper and faster. the third thing is we will have alternatives to the student loan like the student investment plan . it allows promising students to have their tuition paid for the same way a private group would

invest in employees. it's better than alone because it does not sit on your credit report, and all the risk is on the investment group, not only student. this is particularly useful for graduate students. and we will provide you with more information. we are going to provide you more information. before anyone takes out a student loan, you will be told this is how much people make when they graduate from this school with a degree you are majoring in. so our students can make informed decision on whether the degree they are pursuing is worth their investment. it will provide ways for students to pay back their loans or perhaps even avoid them and not find themselves in the situation millions now find

themselves in, which is unable to pay back the loans that have basically taken over their lives. dowdyould like to ask mr. , do you think there are any indictments coming down the road that might change the whole presidential campaign? mean one ofdo you our people are one of their people? let me say this. that's more my old job than my current job. i used to be a federal prosecutor and i was a state .rosecutor i'm not in a position to know the answer to that. i will tell you this, i have a lot of confidence and i might be biased toward the fbi. i worked with them for 16 years and i never once had a political conversation with a law enforcement officer.

i trust the director and he's going to do his job, and he will do it well. i'm confident it will be an tocome for all americans have confidence in. but it is important -- i get asked this at the grocery store all the time. branch has its .ane the one reason i so desperately want marco rubio to win, but for conservatives to control the executive branch is for all the reasons the senator just mentioned. you pick judicial nominees, the attorney general, the united states attorneys. that's what the executive branch used to do. it's important that we went in 2016 but i trust the folks that are looking into that. they have more information than i do. sen. rubio: i would just say

this. on thember -- i'm intelligence committee. if a member of my staff took classified documents and walked out of the building with them, they would be fired and prosecuted. just because you come from a powerful position or a rich family, it should not hold to above the law. if you do that kind of thing, you are de facto disqualified from being commander-in-chief of the united states because you are reckless and irresponsible with the most important information of the united states. i personally believe what hillary clinton did with her e-mail server is something that disqualifies her from being president of the. there is no way someone that reckless or irresponsible should be the commander-in-chief or president of the united states. [applause]

>> to piggyback on your educational reforms of college. the last time i heard you speak, you had a very good plan or vocational-technical schooling. i'm wondering if you could share that with the people because i thought that was great. not everybody is going to go to college. sen. rubio: about 30 years ago or maybe a little longer, our public schools started lying to our students. they started telling them that vocational schools were not for -- were for kids not smart enough to go to college. these are incredibly good paying jobs that are highly complex and valued jobs. when i'm president, i will be

the vocational and educational president. i will use the white house and the bully pulpit of the presidency to celebrate these jobs. these are the jobs that service the backbone of entire communities in this country. it is the loss of those jobs it has destroyed cities and towns across america. when you one for president, you drive through some of the cities and you see that been hollowed out because the factory closed. we need to bring more of those jobs back and train people to do them. the first thing i will do a celebrate these jobs that are just as good if not better than some of the four-year degree jobs. then we will make it easier for people. when i'm president, if you are a high school student and you are going to a high school or school system that does not offer quality vocational training, we will let you use the pell grant to go to a trade school while you are still in high school. that means the students can go to high school in the morning and in the afternoon, go to

trade school. when they graduate at 18 years of age, they will not just be handed a high school diploma, they will receive an industry certification that says you are ready to work as a welder, pipefitter, electrician, plumber, to work in a factory. imagine a country where thousands are graduating from high school ready to work in these professions, what it would mean. that's what we're going to do. these are good jobs and we need to train more people to do it. that means we will have more people employed. [applause] we did a poll last week. i have completely lost the philosopher vote. .2% of the it's only voting electorate. that is a joke. saying i knowe by you have a lot of choices.

one out of six republicans is running for president, so i know it's a lot of people. we have a very talented field. of our candidates is a socialist. none of them are under fbi investigation. but none of them understand what makes america special more than i do. something i saw on a documentary or even read about in a book. i listened. my parents were not born in this country. mother whenst his he was four days shy of his ninth birthday. at nine years of age, he stopped going to school and started going to work. he would work for the next 70 years of his life. he never made a lot of money. i parents never became rich or famous, and they were incredibly successful people, because they came to the one place on earth where immigrants with a limited

education who were willing to work hard and sacrifice, to find a job that paid them enough to own a home, to retire with didn't he, and should leave all four of their kids better off than themselves. .- to retire with dignity no one running for president understands it better or will fight harder every single day not just to keep you safe but to ensure that the country your children and grandchildren inherit is the country are parents left for us, the greatest nation in all of human history. if you are ready to sign up now, we have forms here. we ask you to fill them out so we can stay in touch with you. so that in less than five weeks here in iowa we will take the first step in replacing barack obama and reclaiming america for our children and grandchildren. thank you all, and god bless you. [applause]

[captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> you can learn stuff on your own. if you can prove you have mastered a topic, why should you sit in a classroom? thank you so much. learning today is faster than ever if you are willing to open it up for innovation.

thanks so much, and has been an honor to be with you. >> the way i proposed it is we will do a regulatory budget that --ld cap how much regulation on out agencies have to reduce regulations. it's a way of crunching down not just on the regulatory state. it's a mandatory budget. the same as the spending budget. it has to go through congress. if i win, we will have a majority in the house and senate and that means we will be up to get some things done. when i'm president they will get

these things done when the power of the president is pushing them to do it. part of it is we are playing defense all the time. we will play offense when i am president. thanks for being here. willing, that's what we are working on. thank you.

>> can you give some power back to the states? >> that's the only way we will be able to do it. money.like spending >> have you ever been broke? >> when we were first married, i was in that situation where you write a check on thursday that you dated for friday because your check doesn't clear until friday. way to get better is to feel that. how am i going to exist tomorrow? >> when we got married my biggest bill was student loan.

there are people that make less than you and you know we are struggling. hade farm and after i children i quit my job to stay home with them. it was hard. the only thing i know today is i never want to go back there. successful in doing very well but we did it all ourselves. no support. >> there is always a bill that you did not expect. there is more to it than politics. >> i appreciate your enthusiasm. it.t is an honor to do >> i'm going to go home and tell my friends to support you.

america to be broke, and i don't like trump. >> if we don't have a balanced budget, we will never bring spending under control. we are working hard and we feel good about it. thank you. thank you so much. thank you for coming. i appreciate you being here. >> what about countries like saudi arabia and pakistan?

sen. rubio: they need to be held accountable. they have accepted no real significant number of refugees. they are not contributing to the issue we are now facing with isis. created some of the vehicles around the world by which people are being radicalized. we have a complicated relationship with pakistan. we need to be honest with the countries we work with. >> pakistani people do some crazy things. orn people get penalized

punished for something they are not even involved with. sen. rubio: our quarrel is not with the iranian people. our quarrel is with the ayatollah. iran is a nation with an incredible potential. one of the most sophisticated people in the world with an ancient culture that is deep and embedded. it just has these radical leaders. >> i'm happy that you understand. we have a lot of information that is going on.

in pakistan, the government may be coordinating with the u.s., but the problem is that people. people.e is the the problem is the government. 70% or 80% of the people, i'm not saying all of them. they don't get involved with all this. that is a good distinction and i'm glad you raise it. our quarrel is not with the people, it is with the ayatollah . thank you.

>> thanks for being here. >> really like your ideas about student loans and making college cheaper. where it really begins to hit you is in graduate school. the other thing is that a lot of the families taking on loans, the parents make more than enough money so they don't get student aid, but they don't make enough to pay for it. >> how do you convince kids to get out there and work those minimum wage jobs to work their way through college? that's where parents

and families and community come in. >> i agree, but hillary is telling a different story. in the end, all we can do is tell people the truth. i need to ensure that you have your constitutional rights to do that be respected. whataw can only tell you is legal. they cannot take you what is right. we have to teach our kids what is right and instill those values on what it takes to succeed. >> you have just totally convinced me you are the guy. sen. rubio: thank you, i appreciate it. thank you for your confidence.

>> that vocational thing is great. i went to community college and became a carpenter and did real well. >> the bible says joseph was a builder. masonry and carpentry work were considered the same. >> thank you so much, god bless you. thank you so much. he knows how to do it.

i worked with the archbishop in orlando. i probably see him a couple of times a year. every now and then he comes to washington. he is a good man. >> i'm going to work for you. >> when are you back in iowa? sen. rubio: monday, tuesday, and wednesday. we will basically be here the whole time for the next few weeks.

>> thanks for coming today. we need more action on climate change. i hope you will start supporting climate change. i support the american innovator finding ways to make us more efficient and cleaner. >> we need action on that. we have a lot of hope for that. thanks for sharing. thanks for having me here.

>> they come back with undiagnosed injuries and other things they face. part of it is the v.a. system is not very efficient with regard to mental health care. there is a stigma associated with it. that is why we need a modernized the a. a lot of times things manifest themselves later. thank you for that.

>> part of it is rallying around the big issues of our time. thing i will do as president is not try to pick people against each other. the key is to have a president who's willing to work on behalf of all americans, including the ones that don't agree with him. i've always done that at every level of public service and i will do that is president. we are a free society and people are going to express themselves but i will make sure as president i am a unifier, not a divider. i will never try to pick americans against each other.

great hat, do you want me to sign it? i appreciate it. one reason why manufacturing struggles in america is workforce issues. if you have a president who starts telling americans there's nothing wrong with being a long-haul trucker, a welder, pipefitter, software designer, these are good jobs. thanks a lot.

thank you so much. thank you for coming. you are fired up about the rose bowl? >> absolutely. is that a night game at 7:00 p.m.? you guys came within seconds of being at the orange bowl. seconds away from playing in miami.

good to see you guys. >> it's an honor to have you here. >> a truly feel you are the right person and i'm glad you are running. sen. rubio: we have another stop, yes. hopefully we will see you again. thank you so much. >> we have a medical transport company as well.

we have a third company we are getting ready to launch in everywhere it. we need to have a government that makes it easier for you to succeed, not harder. >> we are in the process of reorganizing. sen. rubio: everybody will be treated the same. no one will pay more than a flat rate of 25 and every penny you invest in your business you will be able to write off. >> that is wonderful.

sen. rubio: thank you so much.

>> tomorrow we look at the biggest congressional events in 2015, including the debate over the iran nuclear agreement, the pope's address to the congress, and john boehner's resignation as speaker of the house. here is a preview. insinuating anything. i am reading what you said. plain language. in libya hadttack nothing to do with the film. that is as plain as it can get. why didn't you just speak plain

to the american people? >> i did, if you look at my statement as opposed to what i was saying to the egyptian prime minister, ideas. i said it in more detail the next morning, as did the president. fitsorry that it doesn't your narrative, congressman. i can only tell you what the facts were. >> we will look at the top stories of 2015 with clarence page and terry jeffrey. we will take your phone calls and read your tweets and facebook comments. washington journal is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. former new york governor mario cuomo died this year at the age of 82. he is the father of current new york governor andrew cuomo. here's his speech at the 1984 democratic convention in san francisco.

this is 40 minutes. >> thank you very much. on behalf of the great empire state and the whole family of new york, let me thank you for the great privilege of being able to address this convention. please allow me to skip the stories and the poetry and the temptation to deal in nice but vague rhetoric. let me instead use this valuable opportunity to deal immediately with the questions that should determine this election and that we all know are vital to the american people. ten days ago, president reagan admitted that although some people in this country seemed to be doing well nowadays, others were unhappy, even worried, about themselves, their families, and their futures. the president said that he didn't understand that fear.

he said, "why, this country is a shining city on a hill." and the president is right. in many ways we are a shining city on a hill. but the hard truth is that not everyone is sharing in this city's splendor and glory. a shining city is perhaps all the president sees from the portico of the white house and the veranda of his ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well. but there's another city; there's another part to the shining the city; the part where some people can't pay their mortgages, and most young people can't afford one; where students can't afford the education they need, and middle-class parents watch the dreams they hold for their children evaporate. in this part of the city there are more poor than ever, more families in trouble, more and

more people who need help but can't find it. even worse: there are elderly people who tremble in the basements of the houses there. and there are people who sleep in the city streets, in the gutter, where the glitter doesn't show. there are ghettos where thousands of young people, without a job or an education, give their lives away to drug dealers every day. there is despair, mr. president, in the faces that you don't see, in the places that you don't visit in your shining city. in fact, mr. president, this is a nation -- mr. president you ought to know that this nation is more a "tale of two cities" than it is just a "shining city on a hill."

maybe, maybe, mr. president, if you visited some more places; appalachia. went to maybe if you went to lackawanna where steelworkers wonder why we subsidize foreign steel. [applause] maybe, mr. president, if you stopped in at a shelter in chicago and spoke to the homeless there; maybe, mr. president, if you asked a woman who had been denied the help she needed to feed her children because you said you needed the money for a tax break for a millionaire or for a missile we couldn't afford to use.