ms. fiorina: ladies and gentlemen, questions. yes? then i will come to you, ma'am. veteran.n iraq war ms. fiorina: thank you for your service. [applause] >> i spent 10 years as an army combat i spent a year in baghdad, policing iraqis with sometimes little tactics. now i see police here at home using those same tactics with the same weapons and the same equipment i use on black communities here at home. what we are due to end the militarization of police and stop cops from killing everyday americans? [applause]

>> first of all, thank you for your service. what a tragedy, as well, that ,fter this brave that served that hillary clinton and barack obama declared victory in iraq, with true every troop against all the advice of the military generals. they did so for political .xpediency to gobble up territory and weaponry. with all due respect, mrs. clinton and barack obama and michael bloomberg, for that matter, climate change is not our most pressing national security threat. isis is. [applause] where we have examples of real wrongdoing in the police force such as we had in chicago, amazing how the democrats have been absolutely silent about what happened in ship -- in chicago, silent because it was a ,over-up by their good friend when we have cops who have done

the wrong thing, they must be held accountable. i have advocated for a long time that every single cop on the street needs to be equipped with a body camera so we can be seeing what is going on. it is an investment that needs to be made here it i must tell you, sir, i think we have to start by lifting up and honoring and respecting and valuing and listening to everyone who serves, from the cop on the beat all the way to the soldier and afghanistan. i do not think we are doing a good job of that now. while i cry, for the parents of slain in chicago, and the year-long cover-up went on, i do not hear a lot of tears for the cops assassinated in their cars on the corner. [applause]

i will promise you, as commander in chief will value, support, invest in, listen, lift up, and honor everyone who serves and has served. we will finally reform the v.a. so those who have served us can be cared for. we will lift up and honor everyone who serves, from the cop on the beat to the soldier in afghanistan. if someone has done something wrong, they must be held to account. let us start with some of our politicians. [applause] >> thank you and thank you for running. i am pro-life. it is not ok that we put a price tag on babies and body parts.

what will you do to planned parenthood? -- fiorina: there has not been a more outspoken andcate for pro-life against planned parenthood been carly fiorina. i spoke at the march for life yesterday in washington, d.c., before they shut that down. i know i have been the most effective advocate because, frequently at my events, planned parenthood protesters show up and throw condoms that me, they shout and scream. i will not sit down and be quiet about the issue either. let me tell you exactly what i will do. [applause] the american people have found common ground on this, although, the left does not want you to know this. the majority of young people, women, men, americans, the majority of americans now

anyrstand that abortion for reason at all after five months is wrong. the childwill get protection act finally passed and put into law. [applause] second, everyone would like you to believe that planned parenthood is about women's health. it is not. the democrats will not fund community health centers. there are many more of those. they do not agree to fund taxpayer money pregnancy centers. planned parenthood is a political opposition contributing to millions of dollars on pro-abortion candidates. there will not be a dime of funding for planned parenthood. there will be plenty for women's health. [applause] yes, sir. and then i will come to you.

>> ok. so the best way to stop abortion would be to educate young women with competence of sex education programs and republicans very abstinenceto have programs which have been proven not to work there what would your policy be for educating people to engage in responsible sexual behavior so they do not have an unwanted pregnancy that might lead to an abortion? one of the things i think is interesting, i do not know how many of you have ever visited a pregnant the center -- pregnancy center, but they are funded by private donations. they exist all over the country. they are providing education, all kinds of education, by the way. they will help new fathers or fathers to be with hills and education, as it will help new mothers to be and also provide education.

this is an issue, perhaps i should explain. most people, when i first started running for office, they did not believe i was pro-life. they said she is a silicon valley's eeo. she must be pro-choice. i think science is proving us every right every day. the dna in a zygote is exactly the same as the dna when you die. i do not know how to draw the line. my husband, who i have been together with 434 years, the is eye candy. , yes, he isars eye candy. [applause] i learned that his mother had been told to abort him. she raised her son into the world. he was the joy of her life and he has been the rock of mine. i was not able to have children of my own. we buried a child. and gentlemen, that is

why i am pro-life. let me say something to you. politics uses these issues to divide us. we do not all have to agree on everything but know this. the real extremes in this debate are not republican. they are democrat. democrats who believe -- [applause] is it is whose policy not a life until it is born. is thats, whose policy a 13-year-old girl must have her mother's permission to go to a tanning salon but not to get an abortion. democrats whose policy is that it is ok for a planned parenthood clinic to be less let -- less regulated than a tattoo parlor. democrats who consistently resist having birth control be over-the-counter so that it is cheap and widely available to anyone. i am not the extreme on this issue. hillary clinton is p or found common ground.

let's take the common ground on the child protection act, on fund -- defunding planned parenthood, and let it go from there, not to finish there, but to start there. [applause] >> i had a chance to speak earlier. i'm a combat wounded vet. in a coma for two weeks. i got shot and was hit by a suicide bomber in afghanistan. we need more vets in politics. the second thing is, because everybody has got a bunch of questions, i would like to know if i could get to manage with -- two minutes with you. when will the republican party stop attacking each other and when will they are going off to -- going after hillary clinton? if you need a combat wounded vet to stand with you and go after that girl, i will stand there

with you. [applause] ms. fiorina: thank you for your service and sacrifice and heroism. who hast in this race consistently gone after hillary clinton from day one? carly fiorina. and i will keep doing that. i cannot speak for the rest of the republican party. all i can do is control my own behavior but you have watched debate after debate after debate, take our fight to where the fight has to go. let me say one other thing to you. i have a bunch of interviews right after this. i want to use the v.a. as an example of how much power you have, but also as an example of why we cannot settle for what we are settling for any more.

you remember the scandal in v.a. in arizona, where we learned veterans had died waiting for an appointment and ?ureaucrats cooked the books we were so outraged as citizens of this great nation that we flooded congress with tweets and posts and e-mails and phone calls. because of the enormous pressure from the citizens of the great nation, this do-nothing congress acted in three weeks record time. a bill throughout of the house and passed the senate 99-0. precedent shattering. we do not ever hold anybody accountable in government that this bill says we can fire 400 senior executives in the v.a. because of the power, the protest that you registered. sadly, we all moved on. so did the politicians.

despite all the pretty speeches they made during that three weeks, we have now learned this. died000 veterans who waiting for health care and the v.a. handed out $142 million in bonuses for superb performance. settle for this. it is a stain on our nation's's honor. we have been talking about reforming the v.a. for 20 years. also an example of your power. when i say i will lift up and value and support those who serve and those who have served, what i mean is we're actually going to get the v.a. reformed. i spent a lot of time with veterans and every time i do, i take note. i will put 15 veterans in a room and asked you, how do you want to be served? you will come up with a better blueprint than all of the bureaucrats in washington, d d, combined. then we will move forward. [applause]

in the meantime, i will take the lesson from your power. the items on the blueprint, radically simple find the tax code finally, it is 73 thousand today, how will i get that done? i think we ought to have a three page tax code. pumped -- the pundits say it is impossible. there has been a plan lying around for 20 years. we could get it done. just like we could get the next item on this list done. needs -- it that means the government needs to budget the way you do, examine every dollar, cut any dollar, move any dollar. it is the only way we'll ever get control of the money. you see the way the government budgets now. how is it possible they spend more money each and every year, as they have for 50 years under republicans and democrats alike, we have spent more money. and yet, they never have enough

money. they never have enough money to serve veterans or secure the border. because the money is spoken for. because once you get a budget, you never have to give it back to it all you have got to do is ask for more. we have got to cut the government down to size, hold it accountable and get control of your money. they are spending your money. [applause] now how are we going to get that done? and what does that have to do with the power of citizenry and the v.a.? i will tell you. you have enormous power. but we do not use it. i will. every week, i will go into the oval office on a radio address and i will ask you to take out your smartphones or your ipads or your pcs. a foot loan -- a flip phone, you might want to upgrade. [laughter] take out your smart devices of choice and i will say to you, my fellow cities and's, do you

agree with me it is finally time to pass that 20-year-old, three page tax code? do you agree it is time to finally pass that bill, and there is a bill, that has been languishing on the u.s. house floor for zero-based watching? press one for yes and two for no. seriously. there is an app for citizen government. technology is an incredibly powerful tool. i will use it or you have enormous power and when you do not use it, you lose it. i will channel your anger and frustration but most importantly, your comment is an good judgment. we can fix every problem we have that we have got to start by restoring citizen government in this great nation. [applause] sorry, we're out of time. i did not see the red light. can i do one more with that young lady? ok. really quick.

>> where do you stand on lowering the maximum sentence for nonviolent crime? to fiorina: i will try answer quickly but it is an important question. myhusband and i buried younger daughter to the demons of addiction. i know it is a grave problem here. i can remember standing in front of a judge and pleading with him not to send our daughter back to jail. he was sympathetic, i am sure, but his hands were tied. we have to treatment of illness and especially addiction. we cannot criminalize them. criminal justice reform, a federal government responsibility. we have the highest incarceration rate in the world. peopletwo thirds of the sitting in jails are there for nonviolent, drug-related and

addiction related illnesses. when we criminalize this, we are not treating people. we have to invest in mental illness and drug addiction prevention and treatment. i have seen so many great programs starving for money while the federal government is awash in it. yes, we have to finally undertake criminal justice reform. thank you for having me. -- vote for me. it is time to take the country back. god lets you all. -- bless you all. [applause]

>> good afternoon. my name is jane lane. it is my pleasure this afternoon -- ntroduce senator senator brown has got many years of public service. in massachusetts, beginning at the local level, the town level, and devil terms as a state representative and a state senator and a massachusetts legislator. when senator ted kennedy died in 2009, senator brown ran what he calls the people's seat. do you remember him saying that? and he won his seat in the u.s. senate where he served until

2013. i bet there are several of you, along with the in this room, who went to massachusetts and worked on that race and celebrated his degree that day. -- his victory that day. senator brown is a longtime member of the national guard and we thank him for his service to our country. wife decided to move to new hampshire and make their longtime second residence their primary residence, and their permanent home on our coast, senator brown was our republican nominee in the u.s. senate seat in 2014. he has jumped in the first in the nation's process, hosting most if not all of our candidates at his backyard argues. lee's welcome senator scott brown. -- pleasee welcome welcome senator scott brown. [applause]

you.rown: thank i want to wish you a happy new year. excitement without -- throughout the country with everything going on. athletic teams, the patriots playing tomorrow. let's hear a yeah for the patients. -- the patriots. up.mportant birthday coming actually two important birthdays. one of which on february 9 is my wife's birthday, 39th again. [laughter] [applause] primary, 100n's's years old, a little older than my wife obviously. [laughter] her -- i ran this i her and she did not have that reaction. she thought it was cute. i guess not.

in 1916, new hampshire was picked as the first and what a first it has been. responsibility. i see it now more than i ever did growing up. what is clear is picking a president in the first in the nation primary state is the people's business. it is the people's job and not the special interests and the party bosses and the tv networks or the folks who have never run a political race in their life won 13 races not including primaries. i'm 11-2. to have someone who has never run ever and telling us who to vote for and why this person or that person will win or lose, i find it fascinating in a weird way. they have no idea what they're talking about. [applause] 100 years later, it is even more true today, we are facing threats unlike any other time in

our country passes history. terrorist groups like isis to boko haram makes isis and al qaeda look like first-graders. they are the folks killing the most in the world. we have not only terrorist threats abroad what we have them here at home as well. the stock market is like a merry-go-round up-and-down. all over the place. the fed has run out of tools in their toolbox to help the economy pure the world is more dangerous than it has ever been. you have the threats of this horrendous deal with iran, where they will ultimately and have already continued to violate it, and now $150 billion to give the -- to give to their friends. then you have russia and crimea and ukraine, china poking and prodding its neighbors, changing the law of the land and the law

of the sea and testing each and every day. trust us, do not folks. they do not respect us. our foes do not fear us. you have heard me say this before and it is more relevant today. education standards are under attack with common core undercutting our local teachers and school boards and limiting parental input. i could go on and on. you know what i'm talking about. what is this president doing? exactly what our founding fathers warned. against. he is not only using the phone, which he obviously could not use in the old days, but he is making unconstitutional executive orders. he is rewriting the war -- the rules to suit himself in his -- and his personal partisan allies, changing the nature and fabric of this great country are decidingrks who can and cannot participate in debates.

once again, people who have never run for political office or have never supported anyone running for political office, political pundits, telling us who will win and why. and that is not all. the washington insiders and special interest think they have all the answers. you have heard it be or by many of the candidates. today we have a message for andy reid and chuck schumer our party boxes and anyone else theis we need to re-us less nominating process and also make election byr this taking away new hampshire's first in the nation primary status. you, them, dot it. because this state and the people who live here take great honor and pride in the job that has been bestowed upon it, upon

you, to assess each and every candidate running for political office. as we have done for the last 100 years. let me just say something. state fore perfect vetting the political candidates. we take time and effort and energy to get to know each and every candidate and we take the job very seriously. i know that more now than i ever have in my life. moving here full-time, i remember growing up and listening to my grandfather. who will you vote for? do youlike so and so? like that person? them three or four more times. we are honored to be here. we are honored to represent you in the senate battle and also honored and fascinated. it was gail's idea to come up

with a no bs attitude. we have an opportunity to invite each and every political candidate to make sure everybody got an invite. you would grab a beer and a hot dog and basically have the candidate right here. they would literally grow the candidates. we have an activity to ask them about opiate prices, for example. it is out of control. people are dying daily. we wanted to see where they stood on that. we wanted to see about housing and the fact that 50% of income goes to pay for housing in this state. not only your mortgage and your insurance and obamacare cost, how do you make it all work? we wanted to see if there are solutions, the men and women who are so proudly served, they cannot get good health care. apparently, everyone is ok because they did a commercial and changed a bill.

everything is all set now. you know that is not true. our veterans are dying still. whether they are killing themselves through suicide, ptsd problems, whether not getting the care they deserve because of their service, we do not pull any punches when it came to national security either. we talked about isis, boko haram, our borders, and how illegals and criminals can come up through our borders, as general kelly has told us. i am not making this up. you know it is true. the other side is ignoring it. you ask hillary clinton about the first nine things she would do, national security and dealing with terrorism was not even the top 10. there is a stark difference between what we are trying took obligee in the gop. the amazing candidates we have

from one to the finally -- final person, it is unbelievable. incredibly to have qualified candidates out there. each and every one of you plays a role in the process. i saw carly and it was funny. , people say, scott, who are you voting for? i say, who are you voting or? i saw you with the first 400ecue at governor kasich, people there. imagine cooking 400 hot dogs? i never met him before he is great. we had about 300 for governor governor christie and i asked what did you think about him? i love him, he is amazing. governor kasich? no, i'm with chris christie now. week, 453 for carly p or what do you think about carly?

>> oh my goodness, i love carly, she is amazing. i'm with carly now. ben lindsey graham came and huckabee came in trump came and crews and rubio and every single person said the same thing. i'm sure people in here right now are still undecided. thate it on good authority there are still 40% of citizens undecided. you know better than anyone else it takes the last three or four or five days for people to ultimately say i am with so as oh. we are no different. we have some incredible candidates out there. being able to go face to face these people and talk about this important issues, as you have been doing with the candidates, it is truly once in a lifetime, historic opportunity. the fact that we had 10 to ourntial candidates home, it is a stork. the only people in the country to do it.

it has been an honor to try to help upwards of 12,000 people for trump, over 454 crews, -- are trulypeople undecided, independent voters in our state. here is my concern. it is that because we don't have , or we don't take advantage of that opportunity, that once we have gone through the vetting process and once we have gone through the blood sport politics, that we don't come together behind a candidate because what is being looked at outside is they want to change the process here you have heard harry reid and chuck schumer and the political gop bosses. they want to take this away from us. if we do not take advantage of the opportunity by uniting , we will miss an opportunity to do things. increase our numbers in the house and senate, keep the aecutive council, send back

great senator, send back two congressmen or women, and also take the white house. because if we lose the senate, and we have the wet -- the house in the white house, then chuck schumer is the majority leader and he will make harry reid like a pussycat. that way, we will have total gridlock in any of the candidates you want to support, it will not get done. it is a poor reflection because they look at us and say, we love that, but they cannot get through the infighting. the personal attacks and the party, the putting down of each other. done with the lessons? i see you, do not worry area are you all done with the lessons? lesson,not show me a you do not show mitt romney a lesson, you're not showing anybody a lesson here the lesson is that we are losers area i am tired of being a loser in that, i want to send good people who will represent washington in our country. if we do not unite, i do not

care if it is behind chris christie, donald trump, ted cruz, if we do not unite, we miss an opportunity. tell you where to vote, how to vote, how many times to vote, and bring in all sorts of people to help you vote. ok? [applause] you, asing you, begging a citizen of new hampshire, to make sure we do not lose the senate, to make sure we send somebody to the white house we can all get behind. we have to do it because the democrats will. if we do not do -- do not unite, it is a simple solution. hillary clinton will be the next president or president socialist sanders. take your pick. that is the choice. or how about senator -- are you kidding me? are you kidding me? chuck schumer will lead her here, saying, you vote you vote here, no. put on some committee.

we have an opportunity right now in this moment in time to send a to the to washington, rest of the country, that we deserve to have the primary state, the first in the nation right here, that we deserve the respect the country has given us the last 100 years, that we deserve to be in the white house and in troll of the house and this in it to get things done. it is the only way we will get ship, done and right the to push back against all of the things this administration has done. the only way. do not wake-up and have regrets the day after the election. do not wake up and have regrets after this election. in your heart, in your prayers, and support the person who is our ultimate nominee, in senate, in congress, in governor, in resident, all the senators who will need your four to we will have eight more years of barack

obama, hillary clinton, bernie sanders. i want to close with this. go patriots! [applause] >> i just photobomb somebody's selfie. much, senator brown. we appreciate you being here today. isn't he fantastic? that man knows what he is talking about. a great afternoon ready for you, a special guest will be coming up. some fun for you at the end i think you will enjoy. it is my pleasure to introduce our next presidential candidate to you today. he has been a great friend to the state of new hampshire, he has taken the process, what we do here, very seriously. we appreciate he respects you and the role you play. he was a strong republican governor for the great state of

virginia. .e's third in an age of 9/11 he is a governor who served and had to bring his state. those folks at the pentagon and virginia, those folks are from his state. we appreciate the leadership he has shown. he cut taxes and helped to make education more affordable in his state and was a strong, republican, conservative governor. a warm welcome to governor jim will -- jim gilmore. [applause] mr. gilmore: thank you very much. this is very impressive. i think i should be doing a fashion show out there. it is every interesting. i am so glad to be here, back

once again here in new hampshire. i am from virginia so i had to come north to new hampshire to avoid all the ice and cold and snow. [laughter] [applause] all right. we are on a timer so i will get started. a lot of things i want to say to you. and maybe i can save a few minutes for questions and answers, which i look forward to. i am pleased to be back here. trip to new9th hampshire. a lot of candidates have chosen their own strategies and some are starting in other. and chosen tod start here at the first of the nation in new hampshire in this primary. this is what i have chosen to do. i am proud of it. multiple days each time. just the day before yesterday, i was up at north conway and then

yesterday i was down at portsmouth where it has been wonderful. people in new hampshire take this seriously, i have noticed. they do. when you go and shake canceled people, you are interrupting their lunch, nobody is disturbed about it. they are happy to see you because they expect to see candidates do that. but i am pleased to be here. of the state senate in new hampshire, the chairman of my committee. back roomng in the but will be out later, i assure you. many of you know me. i have met most of you at one time or another and many times over the past year and a half. let me just run through this quickly. i'm a regular guy. a normal person. other -- aas a meek meat cutter for 45 years.

to the public schools, knows silver spoon. after i finished, i was admitted to the university of virginia. and that is where i got my life long love for foreign policy and national security. it started that then studying those issues. it took a degree in russian area studies. then i joined the united states army. trained as a soldier, trained as an intelligent -- intelligence agent. trained at the defense institute, and an intelligence unit in west germany. i'm proud to be a united states army veteran. i am proud of that. [applause] i am the only veteran in the race. the time comes to talk to veterans in new hampshire and across the united's of america, they will want to know whether somebody on the republican ticket has actually had the

experience of serving in uniform. technically overseas, i was not in unit armed but leaving up to it i was -- leading up to it, i was. . went back to uva law school eventually elected to be chief prosecutor, i prosecuted cases. then i was elected to be the governor of virginia. congress came to me and asked me to chair several major commissions. was most proud of was when i chaired the national commission on terrorism and weapons of mass destruction on behalf of the united states. in 1999, we issued our first report. told the congress and the administration that a chance of the attack was quite certain. and that we had to do something to prepare to get a strategy. in 2000, we issued a second report and said an attack on this country is inevitable.

and we have to be prepared. at the end of the third year, what happened? the 9/11 attack. i will tell you a quick story. i do not want to burn up all my time but i will tell you a quick story. i was the governor of virginia during that attack. mansion.the governor's we saw the first world trade center on fire. we watched as the second tower was on the airplane. i knew i was a war governor at that point and i had to do something right then. i picked up a phone and activated the emergence operations center. i notified the state police across virginia that simple headquarters had to be notified immediately so we could take action. i activated the national guard and got across capitol square to find out virginia. the pentagon is in virginia, not

washington, d.c. i did what was necessary. i spoke to the people of virginia and visited the wounded and a half to appear i went to the pentagon and saw it on fire. supported as they did what was necessary. this is a real lasix areas i have had in national security and foreign policy that i believe sets me apart from the other potential candidates you will choose to offer to run for president of the united states for the american people. we are now in a dreadful situation in this country. we have seen the failed obama policies over the last eight years. have seen the continuation of the added taxation and the slow economy dropping our young evil and their opportunities for the future and endangering our workers across the country. we have seen the advent of a democratic party which seems determined to offer a socialist candidate for president of the united ways.

there was a time when he would not say something like that, but it is ok, you will ask bernie's anderson he will tell you. that it is a socialist party right now that they are offering. hillary clinton is cut from the same cloth. exactly from the same cloth. just a little more deceptive i what herterms of presentation is then bernie sanders, who gives it to use great -- gives it to you straight whiskey. international dangers to this country are more significant than we have in and my lifetime area when i was a soldier stationed on behalf of nato to mother was a russian-american balance we were trying to maintain to prevent war. today, the united states's challenge from russia to china to north korea, from iran, and then something else again as well, that is the international row a war we are all facing here today. serious challenges we have the iranian deal is supposed to keep us at peace for a time.

and yet our sailors are assaulted, taken prisoner, put on their knees, held as hostage videos, don'tnto you think that image is meant to be real across the arabian world, the islamic world, as they humble the great united states of america? i say to you it is time for a change, time for the republicans to offer someone who will actually stand up and provide real presidential experience and leadership on behalf of the united states of america. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, what kind of country have we become? in 1776, we set down the proposition that citizens were actually individuals rights. the declaration of independence set this down to we hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain on a daily will rights -- with certain

rights. sixrnments are constituted -- to secure those rights and not to grant them. as we saw world war i and the great depression, we have seen a country ofecome regulations. can we deny our rights will be in. on right now by the supreme court? by the congress? our gun rights? our individual rights to speech. the world has changed. i say to you it is time we republicans lead this country into a real society of liberty the united states. we have seen the country become a society of people who need to be managed. we have seen regulations bind us up into an iron cage. we have seen people become recipients of information, not really participant so much in the political process like we are in this room.

mass media gives and controls information on behalf of the people of the united states. by their broadcast, they are andg financial donations contributions to their selected candidates without any type of restriction on them whatsoever. this will change in a gilmore presidency, i can promise you this year it i'm running to build a country that once again is aced upon our individual liberties and rights aired we have got to have a entry that is tested. the thing is first. we have to protect this country and recognize the dangers we are from russia, china, north korea, iran. we have to recognize the dangers of international guerrilla war. i have a background to a dress these issues and i will tell you what i will do. resident of the united ways, this is esther will mock the defense budget. we will rebuild the army and build two surface ships for the united states navy.

country,e around this they will know the united states is serious about protecting our people and national interests in the world today. [applause] in terrorism, we will support our special operations people. we will rebuild the military and recognize the exceptionalism of america. we will do what is necessary to fight the international grill a war. i will tell you something a little different. the wars in the minds of people and it is important for an american president to stand up for the values of western's the peoplend to say, who would put someone in a cage and burn them, the head people, enslave women, that these are crimes against humanity and we have to say so forthrightly as strongly area [applause] -- strongly. [applause] if we expect military people to protect us in this time of

crisis, we have to remember our veterans, veterans of the united states of america. did i mention i was the only veteran in this race? did i mention that esther mark -- that? veterans, a gilmore presidency is committed to their having the same standard of medical care all of us have in this immunity. we will recognize posttraumatic stress disorder as a real ring and the danger of suicide that it creates your it we will firenize things like oil bernie's that they have seen on the battlefield here and we will have a reasonable reform of the repeals processed so the veterans turned down can have a chance to have their say in this system and not be taken advantage of their we will give general -- genuine respect to veterans and they will know when they come off of active duty they will be treated with respect inside the united states of america. [applause]

i say to you ladies and gentlemen, this is a time of great danger and it is no time to put an amateur in the white house in this time of danger. second of all, we have to again to develop the financial freedom of the people here at home. we have to have a country. home worth protecting in the first race. we have to rebuild our economy are to we cannot have a lost generation of young people. we do not have a chance to get careers started. we have to rid ourselves of all of these teller -- terrible regulations. i will tell you what we will do it we will repeal the bad laws causing such slow growth. increasing taxes we have seen on jobs and veterans. we will reduce terrible regulations we see from the environmental protection agency. no one in this room wants dirty air and dirty water, but the epa has taken the upon themselves to control the lives of the american evil.

this has to stop. it has to change and it will stop. an education. a way of either controlling people were enabling people. i tell you now, and i disagree with some of the other republican candidates. i tell you now there is no place for federal common core education in the united states of america. [applause] and we will implement the growth code, where we reform the tax on personalve 10% tax exemptions. we will do what is necessary at this point take commercial activities in charge to 15% and eliminate once and -- once and death tax in america. if we do these things, the deliberatelyave hobbled the american economy. so, i am that candidate.

to remember the empowerment of the individual. of theoard member national rifle association. i promise you this. for the individual rights of americans to keep and bear arms under the second amendment here it if a gun control legislation comes to my desk, i will veto it faster than it takes hillary clinton to eliminate her e-mails. [laughter] [applause] let me say as i disclose these final things to you. we're living in a society today where the media are controlling our political situation. they are chilling this and the republican national many, in one time, great crimes of the the nomination to the media people, fox and cnn and the and the networks here it is really

what they did. they gave those people be ability to say who will be in the debates. you have not seen me in these debates up to this point, have you? freezing out a candidate means he does not get exposure and he does not get the poll numbers and that he does not get exposure and he does not get donations, and they know this. this is a distortion of the political system. one of our candidate the other day actually talk to -- taunted people, said he doesn't have to spend any money because he's getting all the free broadcast time. that is right. it is the reality of what we are seeing in america today. i'm telling you now it is wrong for the mass media to be able to donate to any candidate and give them free money when we americans are limited in what we can do. [applause]

so here is the story. the two ballots that excluded said, whatthem and gives, i am all over the country campaigning. what are you doing? they said, our standard is who the national media generally recognize as a candidate. that is what they said. you can see what i have described to you is a distortion . it is becoming official in many of the states. this is wrong and it will change when i'm president of the united states. , still a way, way that we can restore democracy in this country in the new hampshire primary. still a part of things can you still have the power to change. people who are respected in your

followty and people will the leadership, you do not have to have your choices limited by the national media. you can choose. [applause] you still have the right to pick your candidate. i'm asking you to support me. friends.u to tell your i want you to vote for me. .t makes a difference it can make a big difference. a large number of votes can send a message. that is what i intend to do. i'm in it to win. always have been and always will be. ladies and gentlemen, i am asking you now, support me, join my committee, speak to your friends, and i tell you now i'm a on the basis of what -- now, rebuildasis, we will

the country. it will be a freer and safer country. [applause] thank you. got a littlell time. a green light over here. matt and maybury figure this. yes. runninge only candidate who has served in the military, i want to thank you for your service. where do you believe the military needs to be to defeat isis, but tobut -- reestablish itself in the world? mr. gilmore: thank you. he is becoming a professional aviator.

that is what you told me last night when i saw you. congratulations. a country called me when i finished uva and i went there to economic that anybody to pat me on the back and i do not think the veterans of the country expect that either. i spoke with one yesterday. he had his arm missing. rolled were he did not need any thanks. isis is one particular thing, but it has to be understood as something larger. this is global. radical islamists. we have to join a lot of people together with us, not just the military. i told you what i'm specifically going to do, rebuild the a nice states military so we are able to defend ourselves and people around the world know we will defend ourselves. at the end of the day, radical islamism has to be defeated by

its ideology. we have to recognize we defeated not see as him, socialism, and it's more extreme version in russia. and we will defeat this and we will win. whatt means we have to say is right and what is wrong and we have got to say that people who do bombs in boston are wrong and evil. people who shoot people in san bernardino are wrong and evil. people who misuse their uniform in fort hood are wrong and evil. it is global and worldwide. we will squeeze these people back militarily and eliminate their sources of strength. we will deal with the russian situation although it is much more complicated and i assure you this is no place to play games. i can tell you we will squeeze then the bigger issue is we have to defeat radical islamism worldwide. i have spoken to some of the muslims in the united's of

america and they have told me they're very afraid of the republican party right now, which i think is a damn shame, frankly. in radicalbelieve islamism and they are prepared to join forces with fellow americans to fight and stand up what i willhat is lead us president of the united states. is it already over? ok, go ahead. i will be quick. >> my name is wendy and i'm a nurse in new hampshire. can you talk a little bit about how you will support nurses within the medical system? i work at a community health system and i'm really's earned that nationally, they are not able to work to the full score -- full scope of our licenses. mr. gilmore: it is part of parcel of the health care system we are in. good are a couple of

things like pre-existing conditions with obamacare that are appropriate, but it will be more and more that the nurses and the doctors are going to be clamped down on by more and more regulations. i think we need to reduce some of these regulations and give nurses and physicians the ability within a free market care. to provide real i will and veterans services. i believe we need to enable nurses to be able to do their jobs and that means a general reduction of regulation, is that owes talking about you minutes ago. yet. not even over we have got time. >> i want the people of new hampshire to know our prayers are with you, that you be given wisdom to make the decisions. we need it. i hope the good lord has not turned its back -- turned his back on us with 15 million abortions. governor, what you

think is the most dangerous and destructive force challenge in the country right now? that i have a quick follow up. mr. gilmore: i have waited out in my talk. the most instructive course right now is the dual military force in this country. nationstates beginning to in page on the national interest. north koreans captured a young student today. off aanians will set middle east nuclear arms race. into'sing themselves our allies in the pacific, danger is rising. we are going to offer a candidate that does not know anything about or and policy after mark -- policy?

it is no time to put an amateur in the white house to the second problem is we do not understand what we are in here in terms of this society. rights have become subordinated to regulation. >> i would like to just indicate that i believe that the most destructive force in the country today is the mainstream media and press. a obama and obama created isis and people are dying because of that decision and their judgments. iti believe they have made almost impossible for the government in this country because they put all of the blame on republicans. beenilmore: i think i have as eloquent as i can be in that talk. the redline is on so i have time for one more question. they does and gentlemen, thank you for welcoming me. thank you. [applause]

[indiscernible] mr. gilmore: thank you. chris christie: i say what is on my mind just a little too loudly. i had an irish father and i had a sicilian mother. ,ow for those of you hooting

you know what that means, right? my mom was the one who set the rules and set the tone. problem, tell me. she would tell me every time that she had a problem. i would always say, mom, do we have to hear this? i have tod say, yes, get this off my chest now. they're going to been a secret in this family. you are going to hear about this now. in 2000 four, my mother was diagnosed to cancer. or all of you who have lost a family member with cancer, you know what this means. she grabbed my hand and she said, christopher, there is nothing unsaid between us. it was an incredibly powerful moment in my life, and that moment was created by her, her whole life. i knew that she loved me, and she knew that i loved her. when people wondered why i do the things that i do, that ffirms for me forever

that i am going to be that way. i know that if my mom was still alive, she would say, i taught you that in a trusting relationship, you don't hold anything back, and if you are going to run for president of the united states and you are going to ask these people for their vote, that is the single most trusting thing that they can do was a citizen, is to give you their support, so you better tell them exactly what you are thinking and exactly what you are feeling, and when you ask about my moral compass, that is it. that is it. ♪ [applause] >> friends, as you know, governor christie is in new jersey doing his job and facing a critical moment right now. we are so pleased to have a special guest here to speak on his behalf. she is inarticulate -- she is an

articulate spokesperson and she is incredibly warm and friendly and so pleased to be here. how about a warm welcome for mary pat christie. [applause] mrs. christie: well, thank you everyone, for that warm a, and thank you for letting us call upon you. chris is home, as you know, taking care of two feet of snow in new jersey, which i know for you in new hampshire is not a big deal. we do have ocean winds and flooding going on, so i am sure he is doing a good job. but anyway, i am very happy to be back in nashua.

this is my 46th day in new hampshire. [applause] startedistie: as we this journey, i have actually done 130 events here and chris has spent 64 days here in new , showing of the new hampshire way more than any other candidate. the reason i'm here today, and it is not just because i want you to support my husband for president, chris for president, so i assume that you should, it is not just about winning the election or the future of our party. this is about the future of our country and taking care of our families. , and wee serious times need an experienced leader to navigate the top issues, and that is not easy to do these days. very, we are faced with big challenges. we've got to get our economy growing again, keep our country safe, improve education, and take care of our veterans. [applause]

mrs. christie: but because -- because i am a candidate's wife, before that, i am a mom. chris and i have four children, two sons and two daughters. as many of you know, teenagers aren't the easiest, but they are my new full-time job. i left my other full-time job in april to spend more time with their children as chris traveled and did work on the campaign asil -- with our children chris traveled and did work on the campaign trail. this is what drives me and writes chris to get up every day and to do this. i know all of you who have been blessed with family that you do the same. we want you to enjoy the same opportunities that our generation has. for chris and me, we both grew up in middle-class families.

i started work scooping ice cream at baskin-robbins, and i worked hard and i went to college and i put myself through graduate school to give myself and my family a better life. and that's what i want for my children, that they have the same values and live the american dream like we did. but over the last year as chris and i have been traveling and meeting people all across new hampshire, we heard the same things over and over again. you are frustrated. all of you play by the rules. you pay your taxes. you do the hard things to raise your family. and right now, politics in this country isn't working. ands totally dysfunctional instead of passing legislation, there is no movement, and the president is using executive orders to make anything happen. that is not we want to hear from our leaders. so for the selection, we need to demand a leader that is going to get things done. election, we need to

demand a leader that is going to get things done and who will work night and day to do the right thing. that man isi think chris, and i want to share a few things about him that i think will help you to get to know him a little better. when i met chris, he was a in studenthe was government because he cared about making a difference, and ever so gently, he he convinced me to try my hand at it -- gently, he ended up convincing me to try my hand at it. he so convinced me that he wanted to make things better, day in and day out, that i chose to be his running mate for the rest of our lives. [applause] chris takes the lead and takes time for our children. one of my conditions when he became governor is that he would

have dinner with us at least once a week during the five-day week, the five-day workweek no matter how crazy it got. even when it seemed like there was a never-ending list of tasks to fight, he made a home and he did that regardless of how hard the work was. we were married in march of 1986, the year that the mets won the world series. it was an interesting indoctrination for me, almost 30 years ago now. lived in a that, we one room apartment over a liquor store in new jersey. the apartment was $600 a month and i commuted into the city. chris was going to law school during the day and as you know, i was putting myself through school at night. so i would go to work and he would do the laundry and attempt to cook dinner, which i appreciated, regardless of how it turned out. that's how we started off in life. it was a grind at first.

it allis stuck through and we stuck together and we had four children. we knew we were on the right track because we saw it through and he believed in me. there were times that i didn't know that i could achieve things in my own career, whether i was trying to vote a tough deal or negotiate a management contract. and although chris wasn't an expert on any of these situations early on, he would listen to me and talk me through my options, and he would offer advice if i wanted it. and he just supported me every day, and that how it -- that's how he is with our children, too. that is the man that i felt a love with. that is the man that i saw change the world. the reason chris christie, the reason chris chose to get into politics as an adult is because he really cares about people. it sounds a little cheesy, but

there is obviously no other explanation. i know and you know that he has had much of a personal impact on our lives as what our entire nation experienced almost 15 years ago. chris was named u.s. attorney for new jersey on september 10, 2001. as we all know, this job description changed drastically the next day. he often tells the story of how 9/11 impacted him, but let me tell you a little bit about why this is such a defining moment in both of our lives. aptember 11 was just beautiful, beautiful day in our state, and in fact, all across the northeast. i remember on my way to work, just a few blocks from the world trade center, thinking what a perfect day it was. nothing could have prepared us for that day, the horrific events that morning certainly affected our family and quite prickly, and our entire community, especially the state frankly,rsey -- quite

our entire community, especially the state of new jersey. on one of my son's baseball teams, one of the players never met his father. now his grandparents are there and his mom is there, but his father never had a chance to throw him a baseball. and iare things chris experienced certainly then, but we continue to experience a this through our children and the children who have become orphans through 9/11. we see the personal side of it. i know his experience as u.s. attorney and actually using the critical intelligence tools to go after terrorists have only better prepared him to become commander in chief. he knows how it all works. he is a leader that will support our law enforcement officers across the board. [applause]

mrs. christie: whether it is giving intelligence officers the tools that they need to succeed to make sure our men and women in uniform on the front lines have the best tools available, to also ensuring that we deliver on the promise of taking care of our country's veterans who have given so much to us. [applause] chris and i have seen firsthand the travesty that many of our veterans confront, homelessness. just a few days before christmas, chris and i visited the liberty house right in manchester, where we met local veterans who were transitioning out of homelessness. their stories became powerful examples of our nation, and it shows our nation must do more to help those who have put their lives on the line. their cause will become my cause if i have the honor of serving

as first lady one day. [applause] never have i seen chris's compassionate more then when he works in a national thester in america, hitting shores of new jersey. in these will the darkest days in our state and it would have been easy to become overwhelmed. during sandy, chris was working 20 hours days at the command center and reassuring new jerseyans that we were doing everything that we could. be that is what it means to a real leader, to show up, roll up your sleeves, and get things done, not just talk about get things done. remindark moments helped you of what people are going through and who you are working for. these are just a few moments where i have seen his true courage as a leader. if you get to know chris, too, i

think you will agree that he has got the policies but also the character to get things done. chris and i have enjoyed meeting the people of new hampshire throughout this process and we have made a lot of lifelong friends along the way. i hope you know how much we appreciate the opportunity. one last thing. sois isn't here to ask, i will. during one of the town hall meetings in august, a man came up to him and said, "great job. i really enjoy all of your policies and i really like you, but i am not voting for you." chris asked, "why?" do man said, "you forgot to one thing, the most important thing." chris said, "what did i forget to do?" the man said, "you forgot to ask for my vote." [applause] mrs. christie: so i am not going

to make the same mistake. i am going to ask you for my husband's vote. thank you for standing up on february 9 that we hope to be counted and we hope that you show up to the polls to vote for him. thank you. [applause] mrs. christie: thanks a lot. [applause] >> and before we get to our next speaker, you can find a card izen, itur seat for icit is an amazing app and they are a wonderful sponsor of our event. so take that card, check it out, and check out that app. please do so.

have an amazing, dynamic, former lieutenant governor of new york. you are going to be thrilled. she is great and without any further ado, dr. mccoy, come on up. [applause] dr. mccoy: thank you, thank you. i have warned people 13 times about the dangers of this law, time, ie, but at this and here for a different reason. i'm here to announce that obamacare is collapsing. [applause] dr. mccoy: that's right.

it is nearing its end. hoopla, onlyf the about 10 million people out of a nationwide population of 318 million have signed up for these obamacare plans. fewer than half of the uninsured who apply for government subsidies have signed up for obamacare. that's right. the majority are saying, "no thank you to this!" is in a death spiral. losing billions of dollars a year trying to sell these obamacare plans.

in fact, three of the largest commercial insurers have already signaled that they are headed or the exit at the end of 2016. insurers drop out, obamacare is dead. that's right. [applause] hillaryy: of course, isn't acknowledging that. she is crisscrossing the nation lying to voters, claiming that voting for her will ensure the survival of obamacare. , she is offering minor adjustments to obamacare, like more research for alzheimer's, or more autism programs. that is like buying wiper blades when your transmission is shot.

so this is good news for all of us who want liberty. so let me offer some guidance. this is what we should do after we win the white house in november. [applause] dr. mccoy: and i hope the candidates on the congress are listening, because those washington politicians tend to ignore what we the people have to tell them. but we have learned some powerful lessons from six years of obamacare. , next time,r one keep it short. [laughter] dr. mccaughey: don't give us

pages of a2 comprehensive health reform bill. comprehensive is washington's synonym for unread. that's right. it is the very size of this law that makes it a danger. in federalist 62 against ever allowing congress to pass a law, and these are madison's own words, so voluminous that no one can read it, or so frequently changed that a reasonable man does not know what the law is. that is what obamacare is. [applause] dr. mccaughey: congress has 2572 page bill and

can put it in the shredder. members of congress will actually not read it before voting on it. that's right. 20 pages ought to be enough. the founders of this nation created an entire federal government in 18 pages. have a 20 page bill to reform health care and i can guarantee you we can be done in 20 pages. whatever ber two, whatever congress and ask, congress must live by. oh, yeah. oh, yeah. congress calls it the affordable care act. even the republican members of congress are taking subsidies that no one else in america

earning $175,000 a year would be eligible for. shame on them. ,esson number three, next time washington will understand the best mentality. that is why obamacare fits into the one size, fits all philosophy, right? forced toke a couple pay for pediatric insurance, it makes no sense. it is like passing a law for a car that is a four-door sedan. the concept is that we are too stupid to know when to put the top up. memo to washington, d.c., we the people are not stupid. [applause] now on a very serious note, lesson number four, do not empower the federal

government to dictate how doctors treat their patients. [applause] 1311 ofughey: section the law empowers for the first time in history the secretary of health and human services to evente how doctors treat privately insured patients, and you can see it right now, because the federal government is telling doctors to stop ordering annual prostate exams for their male patients. even though we have seen the results in europe where many countries of already done this, we have seen an alarming rise in men's diagnosis with advanced prostate cancer, two advanced to

--successfully treated advanced, too advanced to be successfully treated. never allow your doctor to choose what is doing what is right for you and following a government mandate on health. [applause] dr. mccaughey: lesson number do not break the bank over health reform. this country is $18 trillion in debt. $18 trillion in debt. andeed entitlement reforms the best way to reform entitlements is to stop creating new ones. [applause] spendaholics: the in washington and around the overallhave pushed

government spending up to 40% of gdp. think about it. 40% of all of those people going to work every day, 40% of the fruits of our labor is being sucked up by government programs. do you get 40% of your happiness from the government? do you? [applause] dr. mccaughey: i don't think so. [laughter] lesson number six, and most important, this last lesson. reform on for health the backs of seniors. not next time. no. [applause] dr. mccaughey: over half of this law was paid for by cuts to medicare. it took $716 billion out of it over tod moved

create a new entitlement for other folks. it is robbing grandma to spread the wealth. the result? you have all seen them. roomrs go to the emergency , when they get home, they get socked with an enormous bill for observation care, right? to find a doctor willing to take on a new medicare patient. impossible because doctors are being paid less and less. section 3001 of this law makes hospitals only care for seniors, section 3001 of this law awards bonus points to the hospital that will spend the least for seniors, not for patients, but for seniors. mother, i take my mean, my dog to the vet, so why would i take my mother to a

hospital that spends the least for seniors? anhave been -- have enormous amount of data that shows that seniors have a higher death rate. they could survive their illness and go home again but this law requires all hospitals to indicate that they would follow the higher death rate. the provisions in this law make it harder and harder to get a hip replacement or a knee replacement. you know, there are five procedures that have virtually transformed the experience of aging in this country. hip replacement, knee replacement, angioplasty, ipass surgery, cataract surgery -- bypass surgery, cataracts surgeries. when i was younger, seniors were

homes, in senior crippled by these. now older people enjoy their older years, they travel, they play golf, they enjoy their grandchildren, they even come to meetings like this one. obamacare is not doing them progress. so the stakes are very high here. illuse if you are seriously , the best place to be is in the united states. breast diagnosed with cancer here has over on 90% chance of surviving it. are less, her chances than 80%, that means she is twice as likely to die. a man diagnosed with prostate cancer, it's not a death sentence here, not yet, but in europe, really, one out of every four men diagnosed with prostate cancer dies from it. familysomeone in your

has what is currently considered an incurable illness, this is a nation of hope, this is where the cures are developed. 1950, the united states has one more nobel prizes in medicine and physiology than the entire rest of the world combined. and that's why after we win the november, in getting health reform right is one of the biggest challenges we face. getting it right to protect the finest health care system in the world and getting it right to protect our liberties because freedom isn't free. it's up to you and me. thank you. [applause] dr. mccaughey: thank you. [applause] dr. mccaughey: thank you.

[applause] dr. mccaughey: thank you. question, yes ma'am? if private insurers start to drop out, won't that affect the single-payer system? dr. mccaughey: no, it will not affect the single-payer system, that would require legislation that will not get through the united states congress as long as republican members are against it. [applause] dr. mccaughey: but it will cause the demise of obamacare. yes, sir? ideas --re two of your forgetting about ideology, what are two of your ideas of the

cost of health care system, which everybody, democrat or republican, will have to confront? themccaughey: right, well, first is to eliminate all of these additional layers of regulation that the federal government has imposed. if you go into your doctor's office today, you will see that the physician has to higher 3, 4, five, or six out of office ofsonnel just to handle all the paperwork imposed by the federal government. and if you get in to talk to your doctor, it used to be eye but now itunication, is the doctor filling out all of these boxes and blank spaces in the computer because the doctor is really working for the government now. of doctor has to fill in all these questions that have nothing to do with what is bringing you to the office to begin with. but if she doesn't fill them out, she can't get paid, right?

so we've got to eliminate this enormous,s -- this suffocating amount of regulation. is regulation imposed so far by this law on all of us. we are not getting paid to fill out all of these forms, but it is sucking up the time we can have with our doctors and it is making health care increasingly expensive. >> [indiscernible] medical costs are going up, up, up, forget about anything we have heard recently, so how of the risingany expansions that rose from 10 years from 1998 until right now? dr. mccaughey: you will find, you will find if you look at the annual increase in health care spending, it started to come down dramatically before obamacare.

why did it come down to 3%, 1%, when it had been as high as 10%, 12%? one of the major reasons is that there was no major innovation. i will give you just one example. [indiscernible] reversing drugs it mean that people had to stay in the hospital overnight for a knee repair, now they can go home just a couple of hours after their surgery, so one of the most powerful things that we can to reduce our cost in health care is technological innovation. yes, sir? >> thank you for taking my question. as someone who left the practice of medicine personally as an effect of obamacare, can you tell me about what medicaid expansion is going to do to the health care system? dr. mccaughey: well, i know that this is a very big question in new hampshire this week. so here is the story.

the federal government has promised to pay 100% and then after a few years, 90%, of the incremental costs of expanding medicaid. don't believe it. are already talking about and thinking about how quickly they can break that promise. i can guarantee you they are not going to continue to pay that money, right? and what will that mean? bankrupt your state because that will mean money that you have to spend on medicaid instead of roads, schools, and other under terry pressures you have. -- other budgetary pressures you have. what does the government do? they break promises, and this was a promise that they were going to break before they ever made it. question? yes? and let me add one more thing that is a little less obvious. before you expand medicaid in

your state, the higher your insurance premiums are going to because taxpayers and for the medicaid expansion in two ways, one is through the taxes, but the less obvious way is through their own premiums. when you expand medicaid, medicaid only pays about $.86 for every dollar of care that a hospital delivers, and hospital makes up for it by raising the cost of the care it offers to the privately insured patient, so they have to pay more for your hospital room, their surgery, their nursing care, and in turn, their insurance company backs up their premium, so the more you expand medicaid, the higher the taxes are going to go, but also the higher your own insurance premiums are going to go. question? >> [indiscernible] dr. mccaughey: sorry, anyone who want to ask questions i will be

outside. and thank you for your attention, i appreciate it. thank you. [applause] announcer: live coverage from the new hampshire republican party. we are going to take a break now and get to your phone calls. onwill get your thoughts what you have seen so far in nashua, new hampshire today. a number of presidential candidates spoke, jeb bush, marco rubio, and others, and we would like to get your thoughts on what the candidates have had to say and your thoughts on the race in general as our coverage of the campaign continues here on c-span. the numbers are on your screen and we welcome our c-span radio listeners, the number for you is -8920 if you are

if youts, 202-748-8921 are republicans, and a special number for new hampshire voters, two 02-748-8922. now we have anthony on the line. go ahead, anthony. about: i wanted to talk donald trump, what i think he should add to his campaign is building the wall, because i think we can get mexico to do that. the national guard will be deployed to the border in a trump organization and number two, what are we going to do to address of the drug and criminal cartel in the government and the ties to the government that keeps sending people over here and they keep giving us our refugees, we are getting one step further to the wall and we

should go to mexico and tell them that we are going to round up these cartels and that we don't want those refugees coming here. i don't think any of the candidates have talked about this and i want them to expand more about this. i am tired of this, i don't want drugs coming in, and i don't want refugees, who are fleeing their own country. why don't they stay in their own state? why should we have them flooding in here. for your call, anthony. we did not see donald trump in new hampshire today or ted cruz, for that matter. donald trump will be in muscatine, iowa tomorrow covering a campaign rally there and another one -- rally there and that will be covered live here on c-span tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. eastern. let's talk to george in san antonio. hello, george. theer: i really enjoyed

conference overall, but i just have a few words here. what is house rule 2977 and medical insurance have in common? what does house rule 2977 and medical insurance have in common? you recall that they created a bandwidth the space preservation act and had a lot to do with medicare and the control of medicine itself, but if we can illuminate that, we could prevent costs, because i think that is what the problem is here. rule,e a parliament house 2977, and it should be debated in our presidential election. >> anthony is on the line for democrats. doing? how are you

answered tos have issue ande medical [indiscernible] aboutother thing, we talk donald trump knowing how to lead , but [indiscernible] but his company's failed, they went bankrupt -- companies bankrupt, andent the other thing is chris christie. [indiscernible] that is just my question. [indiscernible] >> thanks for calling. albert in nevada, a republican caller. go ahead, albert, your thoughts. sayer: i'd is wanted to

what happened to me with the obamacare thing, -- i just want to say what happened to me with the obamacare thing. i paid over 75% of my gross income to payments and i had to switch just because they could not give me 40 hours so i switched to a graveyard shift so i could get 40 hours to make my paychecks go longer. i couldn't live on that. old, it is really rough. i don't know what the new president is going to do, but they have to change the system, i can't live like this. so i'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. >> thanks for calling in commenting today. the news out of new york city, in addition to the blizzard going up the east coast today,

from the new york -- from the "new york times," michael bloomberg, the former mayor of new york, might jump into the presidential race. he islores a plan and troubled by hillary clinton pontus stumbles and the rise of senator bernie sanders on the democratic side. he has his advisers draw up a plan for an independent campaign in this year's presidential race. he had thought about it before but they had always concluded that he could not win. again, that story from today's "new york times," breaking information that michael bloomberg is considering running for the presidential race as an independent. let's go back to the phone mines now and speak with janet.

hello, janet. i think a true conservative is ted cruz, mr. trump, all he does is [indiscernible] people on the campaign trails and he just has no knowledge of anything as far as just raising money and i think he has a take mouth -- a big mouth. i think the new hampshire voters should come to their senses and vote for a true conservative. thank you very much. >> and we will be covering ted will beight at 8:00, he in waterloo, iowa for a campaign rally, and we will have that for you live as c-span's road to the white house coverage continues. our guest on "newsmakers" therrow here on c-span is new hampshire democratic senator who joins us to talk about the

he-nationfirst-in-t democratic primary. here is a look at that. anne: the voters are really involved. i was home, i talked to a woman and her daughter and they had gotten selfies, they were getting selfies with every single candidate. i think there have been stories about them. so people really go and they listen to everybody, and of course, people who are independents can vote either in the democratic or the republican primary. and i think we should still have int opportunity for people the country, for candidates, to be able to get to a place where voters can actually ss -- ac -- assess what

they have to say. social media has been a huge change, even as recently in my work on we did a lot of social media that we did not do when i first ran in 2008, so that has been a very dramatic thing. then again, what hasn't changed is the age of voters, and that is what selecting a president is all about, it is a job interview. new hampshire voters take that very seriously. senatoris new hampshire on "newsmakers" tomorrow on sunday at 10:00 a.m. and again at 6:00 p.m. here on c-span. campaign trail discussions coming up on their worry nine

and david joins us in new hampshire on the republican line from portsmouth. i just wanted to add that ever since donald trump launched his campaign, i have thought he was a great guy for the job, but obviously, he moves his mouth too much, he has zero diplomacy, i just can't wait to see if mitt romney finally decides to go ahead and run for president one more time because he really has a good chance to win this time. the other candidates, they don't have enough to offer, but donald trump offers really good points, he is a very successful guy on the business end, but, again, he has zero diplomacy.

i really hope that mitt romney runs again. thank you. >> dave, are you still there? caller: yes, i am still here. >> if mitt romney doesn't decide to run in the next week or so, who would you vote for? caller: i was thinking about donald trump, but now that bloomberg is thinking about announcing to run, i will see what he brings to the table. it is very little options we have there right now and we need a change. >> all right, thank you very much. margaret joins us now from pennsylvania on the line for democrats. hi.aret, caller: hi, i just wanted to comment on something i think that it was rick santorum said, he was talking about gay marriage, and mentioned very little on that and then went on how gay marriage

isn't good because of single tax families, but as far as i know, a marriage takes two people, so they wouldn't be in a single-parent family. you know? it's -- it's just -- you know -- that's wrong. >> all right, thanks for calling, margaret. jerry in maryland, another democratic call. yes, my name is jerry, and i just wanted to say that i could -- iepublicans think it was senator brown, former senator brown from to uniteetts, we need behind a republican candidate, because i think donald trump, who has declared himself the , he likes to attack

people who attack people who attacked him, but i think if he was ganged up on, he couldn't and he is the, least qualified candidate. thank you. >> republican caller from westlake, ohio, charlie joins us. caller: thank you for c-span, i am an addict. >> you're welcome. the biggest issue for me is the national debt, $20 trillion. i remember when we were $4 trillion in debt, and this is an impossible debt that we will never get out of, and now it is one, and in, and no have spoken personally to several candidates, they look like a deer in the headlights, they don't how we are going to get out of this trouble. and eventually it is going to catch up.

we keep saying, kick the can, but they don't understand that $20 trillion doesn't help society and in the history of the world, we have never been this in debt. no one seems to have an answer. they talk about an amendment to the constitution to balance the debt, but that is not even going to get us out of the debt just to balance it and nobody is even talking about balancing the debt. arere on the world, people are going to say that american money is worthless, and then we will see a true, true depression. thank you. >> thank you, charlie. take a look at a couple of tweets that we got in from new hampshire regarding the republican town hall in nashua. teri is saying that carly fiorina was on fire taking it to hillary, and this one is from

l.e., saying that rick santorum spoke cogently about isis and 101, but failed to consider semantics that are rooted in a sound policy. e commented that john kasich is always a refreshing, calm, and rational governor. of course, our road to the white house coverage continues at 8:00 eastern with ted cruz in iowa and tomorrow at 1:00 eastern with donald trump. we have an independent caller. your thoughts. caller: i have been an independent for the last three years because of the republican and democratic parties, i feel like they are crooks just like everybody else out there, and i do think trump is pretty smart. what he said today were he would go out and shoot a voter and his

-- shoot someone at his voters would stand behind him i think will get him on tv more and we need a change because it is sickening, the drug problem we've got, pharmaceutical companies are getting their kids on dope, and they are doing that , and no one is a standing up against them, so i want to hear donald trump go against these pharmaceutical companies so they are going to get these kids off like that, andap everybody has got guts to stand up against him. thank you and have a blessed day. >> herald in gretna, louisiana, a republican call. harold, are you there? caller: i am a registered democrat but i will vote for or ted cruz, trump whoever gets the nomination. fort trump, hopefully he will

get that wall built and banned muslims and then we will keep out terrorists and have peace against the terrorists and it will keep us safe and then we will take it to isis over there and thank you very much, ok? >> thank you very much, harold. show you are going to some republican presidential campaign ads that have been running recently. we showed you this a while back, if you recall. donald trump: i am donald trump and i approve of this message. ted cruz: of course i want to build a path, my amendment has passed, it takes immigration off of the table, but what it doesn't mean is that i supported other aspects of the bill. i want immigration reform to pass and for those who are oh here in illegally -- who are here illegally to remain.

>> how do you square that circle? ted cruz: actually, brett, it wouldn't happen. people want to take back their country. people want to do it in a humane way, but we can't do it right now. we are doing tremendous damage, it is a crime. to have a country, you have to have borders. we don't have borders right now. becan american sailors captured by iran and humiliated, but when they were released, the white house said thank you. president obama, how about our troops? i am elected president, no man in service or no woman in service will be on their knees and they will fee -- and any enemy will feel the full force of the united states of america. i will get our country back.

i am ted cruz, and i approve of this message. >> i want some of you like marco rubio. >> go, marco! >> he will get government off of my farm. >> out of my school. >> and he will protect our rights. >> and help create jobs right here in iowa. >> des moines. >> go, marco! >> he's got our values. >> and. a plan for a new american century. and a plan for a new american century. marco rubio: i am marco rubio and i approve of this message. look towardsis a the capital. it really can't see the capital in almost white out conditions. another look towards union station here in washington, d.c. as the blizzard here continues. is expected to continue for

the next few hours and moving up the coast towards philadelphia and new york. a lot of coastal flooding, we understand, in new jersey. in fact, chris christie did not attend the event in new inpshire today, he was back new jersey monitoring the flood situation and his wife spoke for him instead. that to the phones for a few minutes. we are joined from hollywood california. republican caller. caller: i don't know if you can hear me or not. >> we can. aller: i have been a republican all of my life and i have been a republican up until this year, but the one thing that every single republican is calling in for the most part that they do not understand is that anybody on that stage, whether it is donald trump, who lie in said one line -- anything he has said, they have

not said that they would not be better than a another four years of barack obama or that they would be better than hillary clinton. someone said in a testimony in a congressional hearing, what does it matter? we alln lives matter, matter, and i am a proud american. i grew up in this country. ofm hispanic and i am proud being hispanic and i do not find anything that donald trump said offensive. the problem with the republican party and especially with the conservative movement is that they are identical to the democrats. still better they and live better than the democrats in office now. we need people who are more interested in our well-being instead of theirs, because the presidency at best is a temporary job. that is all it is. it's a temp job. it is not a job for you to

become rich or for you to enrich your friends. it is a job to keep us safe and to protect our way of life and not to protect everyone else's way of life. it is very simple. itdoes not sound racist and does not sound prejudiced. if you don't like it, it leave. if you come to this country, you must assimilate to our ways, not the other way around. for those people who say that donald trump is a a kamal, at the end of the day, that is just another vote for hillary clinton mouth,ld trump is a big at the end of the day, that is just another vote for hillary clinton. a republicanct president and this republican president and a republican-controlled congress and senate decides to do the exact same thing that barack obama did for the first two years of his presidency with a democratic-controlled congress, he will fire them all.

then we will finally understand that this country is run by the people, not the political elite. >> thanks for the call, alex. we will >> i've been a democrat all my life. the republicans have cheated the country, the democrats it to did this country. democrats have cheated the country. i am voting for donald trump. this country is collapsing. everywhere, democrats and republicans are ripping this country up, big-time. i hope donald trump fires them all. god bless you, goodbye. host: i want