americans need to understand that there is a long [indiscernible] >> i believe that ultimately it will have to come from their site to figure out the sunni and shiite divide. we need to defend ourselves. we need to make sure we are able [indiscernible]

>> is this lady bothering you? >> now. [indiscernible] >> where do you live? >> conquered. concorde. >> we hope you will consider. a strong education system is important to us. we hope you will have a commitment to that.

[indiscernible] >> one teaches sign language north of houston. i think i am the only sender to give a speech in sign language on the board. is students thing cannot handle the debt they are going to have. takes that the government a lot of money off student loan interest, but there are people educating themselves and that is poor public quality service. -- weuld find money should find ways to raise more money and perhaps make a grant. >> we have to figure out how to lower the cost and we should not just say [indiscernible] figure out have to

how to pay for it. i have a bill that would allow the students to the deck principle and the interest over the entire working career. when happens now is that if your parents made more than $60,000 a year, which is not rich, you can only deduct interest and there is a limited window. if you get out of college and make $40,000 a year, how are you going to deduct those payments? we are working on that. i do disagree with bernie sanders and somebody has to pay for it. [indiscernible] to make it more supportable. the other thing i think we can do is that right now, if you go at the university of manchester, they have online courses and they are exactly the same. there is a real marketplace in online courses and they would be

a discount for not sitting in the classroom. [indiscernible] nice to meet you. to our. -- thank you. >> big fan, number one fan. >> you are in high school? >> yes. where do you want to go? >> south carolina. >> you are smart. going to get more. [laughter] -- going to get warm. [laughter] [indiscernible] >> how about you guys? you in high school? i going to vote? i going to help us? >> good.

[indiscernible] is 16.ave a son who >> my son robert is in high school. [indiscernible] >> we appreciate that. what do you think we ought to do differently in the government? >> run it efficiently and

properly and get rid of all the snakes. that givesg bills the government a lot of money and they don't know what to do with the money. they wasted. that wee been saying could fix a lot of problems if we made them read the bills before they pass the bills. we passed a 2000 pages spending bill that nobody read. we put all of the spending bills together in one bill, nobody reads it, and it never gets fixed. have been saying is we need to have each go individually and try to fix it in every way. >> they are all like democrats in here. [laughter] >> they can cause the party lines to vote for who they want to in new hampshire, right? >> that is all right.

i love getting hit in the head. >> i don't work for him. i am a manchester guy. >> that's not good. he is probably a democrat. [laughter] >> listen, good luck. >> thank you very much for your message. [indiscernible] >> are we going this way? i don't know. back and my way brother was the governor. here, let me screwed over so i can say hi. ot over so i can say hi. >> my brother was governor and the 1960's.

the first them a cut. it is so nice to meet you. >> thank you. this is our son robert, our youngest son, 16. >> are you exhausted? >> some days if yes, some days no. today is a good day. we are starting to search and we're hoping for good results. you did the right thing, you said you would be the comedian for the night. time got a lot more face in the media then he would have on the debate. >> to market your support. -- thank you for your support. we had the chicken fingers are good. robert is going to get some. [indiscernible]

[laughter] [indiscernible] >> nice to meet you in person. >> this is my wife kelly. [indiscernible] nice to meet you. i have a question for you. security, we didn't get the cost of living increase at all. what are your ideas on that? thing to do is stop the government from stealing money from the social security.

in september or october of this year, [indiscernible] they were all unhappy with me, the right and left. the right wanted the money for military spending and the left wanted it for welfare spending. it was not intended for either one. we have to keep their mitts off of it. way, you'll probably have to wait longer because you are living longer, so we have to get [indiscernible] it.le are already on [indiscernible] if we want another one the

middle east, we will have to go about social security. i think we can defend ourselves without having another one toy and dollar war. -- another $1 trillion war. >> exactly. >> what is your idea on [indiscernible] medicaid expansion? all you republicans say you want to double. what do you want? [indiscernible] >> we need to create a marketplace for health insurance. when i was between jobs and i could getining, health insurance for one dollar a day. that is likely hundred dollars

per year. the reason it was an expensive was i had a high deductible and i only had coverage when i got really sick. it did not cover my day-to-day expenses. if a lot of people had that, it would take the prices down. those high deductible plans, i cannot afford to deductible, and that is [indiscernible] people that are having a fit about medicaid expansion, they should be focusing on how to create more full-time jobs and also the people over 50 who get laid off, it is almost impossible to find a full-time job again because they do not want to if you are older. they don't enforce the age discrimination laws. >> i am trying to bring american jobs back here. we have $2 trillion in american

profit overseas. in order for it to come back home, we should lower the taxes. apple, they have itunes oversee and the prophets get taxed over profits and the over there get taxed [indiscernible] >> that is a good idea. nice to meet you. >> you, too. [indiscernible] >> so glad you are here.

[indiscernible] >> i believe in marijuana and it think it is a great thing. >> my political directors [indiscernible] >> that's what i'm saying. then you get hooked on pain pills. they want to punish them for it. >> we had 17 legalized drugs

from the poppy plant. illegal for it marijuana. it is ridiculous. alcohol, it kills the liver. that we areiculous sending people to jail for it. >> what is the difference between marijuana and a clinic with methadone and narcotics? thank you. [indiscernible]

[indiscernible] the last to more register poll had my dad at the same place as me. [indiscernible] >> we are also not getting the student vote. calls ont answer phone their cell phone they don't want to answer. i think we are being underestimated. i think we are searching that just the right time and our campaign is coming into its own, getting a lot of attention. [laughter] [indiscernible]

>> i think one of the big problems for trumpet see is of 'se conservative -- for trump of the conservative. i think he is using us and he has sort of a hodgepodge. and he he wants power just wants to be this powerful president. [indiscernible] a lot of us don't want a lot of power but a small constitutional government. [indiscernible]

>> the people are questioning him. [indiscernible] >> right now, we just want to do the best they can and we are in it to win it in new hampshire and iowa. [indiscernible] fiscalk i'm the only conservative in the race. people like marco rubio and ted cruz are for a limited military spending. what happens is if you want more military spending, more domestic

spending, it raises everything. i think i am the only conservative on the republican side. they want to do indiscriminate bombing the middle east, you create more [indiscernible] offering something we have been doing for decades. thank you, guys. reporter. [indiscernible] >> they were launched last year for the presidential candidates to take a more hawkish view. have they invited do? >> i am not familiar.

>> can we take a picture? >> i will do it for you. [indiscernible] >> pleasure to meet you. what do you do over there? >> i am close to retiring. , 15there for over 25 years plus -- >> everybody complains that there are no jobs. is that unusual? >> i was lucky.

[indiscernible] [indiscernible] my oldest is getting ready to go to college, and i knew i would never get my time back. in kentucky overall? >> now, never kentucky. [indiscernible]

>> it is better in texas. wholeould get rid of the tax code. [indiscernible] i think everyone wins. [indiscernible] >> the regulation that went we want to hear that in the headlines and all that. burden is about to to $3 trillion worth a year. jobse complain about their

going overseas, and they don't understand why the company is locating overseas. it is the tax code that is too high. we need to work on a plan to bring it back. >> $2 trillion in american profits overseas. we need to bring it home. >> and immediate stimulus that costs no money. [indiscernible] thank you so much for your leadership. help us out. [indiscernible] >> nice to meet you. >> you stay in texas? whereabouts? half our lives in houston and

the other in dfw. hour away frome houston, and went to brazos high school. >> i went to north west houston. >> we used to some against them. >> what brought you up here? >> our daughter just graduated from boston college and she is in love with boston, so we retired and moved up to new hampshire. >> that is a big switch. >> for a political junkie like me, this is like the super bowl. >> if you come here often enough, you can meet everyone. >> that is my goal. it is so exciting. >> and our town hall, there are 10,uple of little kids, 8, and a seat every candidate and ask every candidate the question. >> how wonderful. that is great for kids to get involved in the process. >> it is a different world appear.

worldis a different appear. >> i ask all the candidates inside. best of luck to you. nice to meet you. >> undecided but leaving your way. nice to meet you. ning your way. nice to meet you. >> thank you. [indiscernible] >> one of the first things i encountered when i got to washington. i think we could fix a lot of things that we got more rotation

in office. [indiscernible] >> where do you live? >> manchester. on the left side. >> supposedly, it is terrible. [indiscernible] i have said repeatedly that it looks like she did the very least and she actually fired when the parameters for doing the same thing she did, using another server. [indiscernible] >> tens of millions of dollars giving speeches to companies that had business before hillary

clinton. it is outrageous. absolutely outrageous. [indiscernible] >> they call these lobster tail chicken that gets. it is good in the sauce. i wanted to thank you for having a solid plan on social security and the social -- and a solid talent comes to veterans. everybody in washington seems so afraid to do anything about it. will likefraid nobody them, but i think it should be

the opposite. anyou cannot come up with idea for social security, then you should not be up there and able to do it. >> keep fighting the good fight. prove what it is like to care and what it is like to do a good job unlike marco rubio, unlike ted cruz. >> keep spreading the word for us. >> >> i will. thank you so much. [indiscernible] >> you are undecided? this is my wife kelly. excluded fromting a debate with you a lot of good. people don't like unfairness and i think most people think you were treated unfairly. >> the recent poll had this searching -- had us surging.

i think we are coming on strong at the right time and we will help to try to get a boost again. [indiscernible] >> that last cnn poll where they -- soix out of the seven -- >> we will keep fighting. if it makes you mad, keep getting us more votes. thank you. [indiscernible] nice to meet you. to our for coming out. >> how are you all? thank you. nice to meet you. i think the biggest problem we

face as a country is that we are spending $1 million a i want a government that does not get involved in your business, your personal life. the government small enough to balance the budget every year. it sounds like common sense but we have not had it for a long time. washington, really both parties are bankrupting the country. we want unlimited military spending. on the left you have unlimited welfare spending. they raise all spending. theng this administration debt has gone from $10 trillion to $20 trillion. we'll have added more debt and the last eight years and all the previous presidents combined. i think there is a point over break the camel's back. we might not be able to recover

if we keeping current so much debt. -- incurring so much that. i think the first thing we have them.is quit funding in the syrian civil war there are so many arms in there that isis rides around in the u.s. on humvee. hu -- they have u.s. tanks. [indiscernible] they got some of it when they captured in mosul. we also have people like mccain and rubio's that want to find the people opposed to assad in syria. but these are not good people. the arms are being funneled to the wrong people. this is my wife kelly. >> hello. nice to meet you. sen. paul: nice to meet you.

thank you. rand paul, good to see you. how do you guess with all the cameras? >> [indiscernible] sen. paul: very nice to meet you. thank you. [indistinct chatter] sen. paul: hello, how are y'all? what is your name? >> i am kelly. >> robert. sen. paul: how old is she? almost seven. you.ank >> senator.

>> a quick question. i was at your seminar last week. you expressed some doubts about the suppose it economic recovery. since then the stock market dropped 7%. i should happily sqa to invest in next. -- i shouldy probably ask you what to invest in next. do toould you do or not give the economy moving along for a more solid recovery? sen. paul: i think a lot of the boom and bust cycle is handled by the federal reserve. they keep interest rates really low and people cannot put money into the banks so they put it into the stock market. the question is if it's real earnings and real growth or is it an allusion?

some have twice the earnings ratios, some have no profits. stock -- enormous [indiscernible] i don't give specific advice but i am concerned about where we are. the main thing we need to do is reform the federal reserve. it really should be setting -- should not be setting interest rates. >> you already have my vote. i thought i would come back with my wife so you can get her vote too, and i think kelly will do a great job of convincing folks to vote for you. >> thank you. this is my wife kelly. picture?nt to

>> ready? >> there you go. sen. paul: thank you. >> we love you. sen. paul: hello everybody. my wife kelly. i would say the only fiscal conservatives in the race, maybe. republicans want to its military spending. democrats want to much domestic spending. they spend it on everything. i know that would actually balance the budget. >> good luck. sen. paul: nice to meet you. where you from?

>> [indiscernible] because and great friends in your could help us out. today but theyre are good helpers. this is my wife kelly. >> you look so beautiful. >> thank you. >> nice to meet you again. [laughter] >> thank you. sen. paul: we will be in new york for a couple of days and then heading out to iowa. >> working hard for you. sen. paul: thank you. >> joe bock.

-- good luck. sen. paul: thank you. rand paul, very nice to meet you. very nice to meet you. how are you? i. >> how are you? hi, i am lisa. will you do a picture? sen. paul: absolutely. thank you very much. >> [indiscernible] >> there you go. >> thank you. sen. paul: things are coming out. -- thanks for coming out. >> great to see you. i am on the team now officially.

[laughter] >> good to see you again. >> you will be at the summit tomorrow. i am volunteering to help. sen. paul: which one? >> the summit. i do you have a million things to do the david i will be other helping out. -- to do that day but i will be out there helping out. sen. paul: i was in iowa last week. i think we had 100 people. amazing. >> it's got a be almost exactly a year ago, i had about -- an appendectomy about three days before. how would you describe

yourself right now? >> undecided. sen. paul: what is important to you? >> about 95% of the stuff you support. sen. paul: 95% is pretty good. none of us agree one of 2% on 100% on everything. i will stop wasteful spending. i will not keep on borrowing and borrowing. there are parties it up to be corralled. both parties and things they want to spend money on but as a consequence -- >> i am a rare species. i'm a republican afraid of runaway spending. sen. paul: the number one threat to national security is our debt. if he goes so far into debt, you

will be able to defend yourself and you continue to go further and further into debt. sometimes people say spending for something that works. -- ween say conservatives need to have less federal control. they say in the same breath he will so morning -- we will throw more money at the pentagon. spending $15 million year providing scholarships to community college. >> government is one of the few places where we measure success by input rather than output. if you measure it by

output you have to show the whole thing down. i think it's probably why some and republicans are angry. funding see all that going towards those kind of programs, that is what is made so many republicans angry. for somebody like me i look for who was going to actually do something. who is willing to say no to democratic but no to republicans. there are so many angry people. about senator paul is you can look at it voting record, you can look at how he has voted and what he is also been foreign legislation. not only the have somebody willing to speak it, but now you have got a track record. that is what worries me about some of the other candidates. sure, look have any say they are against, core.

governors have done nothing but implement it in their states and to try to say i am against common core. you implemented it. sen. paul: when they discovered it was a populated before common core. >> neglecting their state. kasich -- there was an article out today talking about jeb bush's plan. a continues federal tyranny with education. what i like about you -- sen. paul: i'm for expanded federal education. planat goes through his and it talks about how it continues federal tyranny. 2000paul: from 1980 two part of the republican platform was the elimination of the department of education. and we got george w. bush who

said no, not only do i not want to get rid of it i want to make it bigger. under no child left behind it doubled in size. increase spending, increased employees, increase federal control. that is not conservative. is that when any conservatives ever says they are for. the you want some and to continue like we have? or give the desk give it back to the people? it's being sold is returning power to the states. as i read it the u.s. secretary of education has to approve state plans. that is unprecedented power in the hands of the secretary of education. if he doesn't like our plan, there is terminology where he can pull the funds. another -- that is

just another -- wiped the department out. it has done more damage to students, teachers and this country. spending is out of control. to me they are two sides of the same coin. they go hand in hand. the recent department of education is a chokehold on the purse strings. what if he nice if the u.s. -- whether education it be nice if all that was shut down and all the money was returned to the states and back to the teachers. sen. paul: i think we should be able to get the teachers on our side because they didn't like no child left behind.

curriculum ought to be decided by parents, teachers, school boards, but not by washington. that would give you more power in the classroom. the other revolution is only finally discovered what home schools have discovered. the internet is an amazing tool for connecting smart people. it is still not penetrated in the public schools at all. think about how many amazing teachers are homegrown. when homeschooling started there was vhs and dvd -- >> somebody needs to tell bernie their army is such a a is free education without taxpayer burden. [indiscernible]

[indistinct chatter] >> we have a birthday girl. you? old are >> nice to meet you. sen. paul: thank you. we have a secret plan to win maine, too. >> you want one? ok. >> thank you.

[indistinct chatter] >> i had a question. found?mind if i -- film? absolutely. paul, you have been vocal on the issue of foreign policy and the entanglements in the middle east. saudi arabia has gone a hiring spree in the last few years, almost doubling the number of lobbyists. they hired a former minnesota senator on the republican side, of the democratic side they hired a major clinton fundraiser , brother of the quinn campaign

chairman. -- clinton campaign chairman. what unite to do in this explosion of foreign lobbying, particularly from countries with our human rights abuses? sen. paul: the first thing i'm concerned with is i think we should reveal the 28 pages from the 9/11 report to talk about saudi arabia's possible involvement in the attack. i think this should be revealed to the american people. i also think that saudi arabia's treatment of women is abysmal. a humans rights record is abysmal. i think hillary clinton opting get back the money he took from saudi arabia. i think it's time to be very difficult for hillary clinton is a she defends women's rights once he takes money from countries that publicly whip women for adultery and stone them to death for adultery. i think they are corrupt in many ways. i think it is a problem. i also think saudi arabia is to get away from financing religious radicalism that calls for violence against the west. is been going on decade after

decade. they need to quit financing and arnding arms as well as qut sending arms to the middle east people that have hatred for america and reading a radical theology -- spreading a radical theology. i got a run. >> there was a large stable of nurses that wanted to ask you some things. [indistinct chatter] >> we are impressed already. leadershipin nursing . what i wanted to ask is what your thoughts are on health care

today and where you see it going. sen. paul: there was one overriding problem. i tell doctors, nurses, hospitals the same thing. theaverage taxpayer over working career pays about $75,000 in medicare taxes. the average recipient takes out about 350,000. you don't have to be a math genius to realize there is a big problem. you have 60 million baby boomers retiring. they have families that are smaller than theirs and their kids at smaller families. you add in longevity, we are all living longer. there is a shortage of money. you can fix it in a couple of ways. dramatically increase the medicare taxes, but that might be a punishment to workers. think of your own check. sayother way to do it is to wet of you, myself, my wife,

have to acknowledge we have to wait longer to get medicare. by the time you retire will be 70. i don't want that. the other way you can do it is try to not have the poor suffer. take the people that have more success -- our premium, are deductible. if we do nothing the whole system is going to break. their individual things we can do. i am supportive of that. [indiscernible] >> thank you.

sen. paul: anybody else? i think most politicians will not be honest with you. build to say here's more money. there is no more money to give. the volume -- we borrow $1 million a day. there is a shortage of money to pay for everything. we talk to people doing dialysis. tubing, packaging, skilled care to hook the lines in. >> this will also a lot of costs to doctors and health care professionals with all the regulations. [indiscernible]

sen. paul: i don't know of another exact answer. i voted to allow to be drug city -- bring prices down. i've been trying to push the fda when they approved drugs reprove them quicker at lesser cost. is of the things we don't do we make everybody start from scratch on clinical trials. europe, asia, they do the trials too. my political directors sister has a terminal illness. takings a drug she is experimentally in new york city. it's been legal in japan for 10 years. there are not that many people that have this. 10,000 people. we can't get illegal because we don't have a market.

why wouldn't we use the information available -- people are not dying immediately from it. the question is can you make it cheaper and bring it to the marketplace. that you have to ask what should the window be? somebody making $50 a shot at something, we are all outraged by that. maybe the window should be lowered from 15 years to two years. there is an economist and he says american capitalism [indiscernible] that's a really outdated theyote but the point is were sold for $300/ now you can get to the real estate -- prices to come down.

sometimes their awful in the beginning. is like lasik surgery. when it first came out it was $3000 an eye and now it's like $400 an eye. sen. paul: when you have bypass surgery, is $300,000 in insurance pays $100,000 of mouthwashes like $20. now paying $42. the deductible is $10. things like that get thrown in when we are not conscious of the price. the doctor has to care about the price in the patient. ironically the people that came end of my practice, those that did not have insurance, the mennonites, the amish, they had the high deductible, or

uninsured like lasix surgery. plastic surgeries, contact lenses. the price falls like anything else. we have to understand that capitalism works in certain places. why should we try were capitalism and health care? we went in the opposite direction. it hasn't made things less expensive. it's made people buy insurance in our costs more. you're paying for a bigger load of people. none of it is simple and easy. i am a profound believer in economic -- and the economic system we have. we are also the most humanitarian country. we give away almost $400 billion to churches, salvation army. it happens because we have an amazing economy because of the economic system which is based on -- you probably got more than you

wanted. >> no, thank you so much. robert, this is father harry. [indiscernible] >> how are you doing, i'm tim. nice to meet you. sen. paul: a lot of people are still undecided. >> if you don't mind, can we get a picture? >> thank you. >> we are a huge supporter, my

boyfriend and i. thank you so much for all you are doing. spreading the word. i never know what i'm doing and how long i'm doing it. >> i said i have a picture of kelly and me. >> i will see you later. thank you so much. [indiscernible] >> see you later.

those chicken fingers look good. [indiscernible] >> i will see you soon, don't worry. >> here on c-span, washington journal is next. at around 10:00 a.m. we will take you live to nashua, new hampshire were several gop presidential candidates are gathering for a town hall event hosted by the state republican party. on today's washington journal, bradley olson of the wall street journal discusses the u.s. stock market and its impact on oil prices and the energy sector.

and later university of chicago professor harold pollack looked at how a single-payer health care system would work and whether it can be applied with the current health care law. ♪ good morning everyone on this saturday, january 23. we are in the midst of winter storm jonas up and down the east coast. 85 million people in the pathway of the storm and hundreds losing power. -- justmany places in as many flights have been canceled. we will begin here this morning with disaster preparedness in this country and your experience with state and federal emergency management. before the blizzard of the east coast there have been 60 cleared emergencies across the country and 79 in 2015. fires, it is wild