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quitters, you're all quitters! and get $150 credit when you switch to verizon. tonight on huckabee, we know how they are usually depicted. what issues are important to you? >> probably not the best -- i'm kind of like not so into politics as of now. >> do you normally vote? i don't. >> and they know how the world perceived them. >> people think we are lazy. >> is that an accurate description of millennials. >> tonight we talk to young people of this country to see what really matters to them. >> what issues are important to you when you go to vote. >> issues on economics -- the economy, health care, fiscal
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policies. i am very interested in business. >> what do they think of washington? >> name a politician you trust. >> no. >> probably not. >> not of the top of my head. >> and what they see for the future of this country in a huckabee special, the next generation. >> ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. [ applause ] >> and welcome to huckabee from the fox news studios in new york city. we're talking to the next generation of americans tonight. all during this time i was governor i used to go to high schools and i'd get in front of a high school audience and i would say how many of you are interested in politics and government? not a single hand would go up in the crowd. so then i would say boy that's good to hear. i'm so glad you don't care about government and politics. when i said that they always kind of tuned in just a little bit. so i would say here is the reason i am glad you don't care about it because we've been figuring out that most car accidents happen with male drivers under the age of 25 and we figure we could save a lot of money and heartache if we raise
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the age in which a person can get a drives license to drive. >> now they got their attention. oh, there's more. we've also decided that we're going to raise the age at which a person can date because sexually transmitted diseases are a serious problem among younger people so from this point forward we're going to pass a law that you can't date without a parent on the date until you're 30. now they were really skrooermingcreaming and going nuts and then i'd say we're going to make it so you can't buy alcohol until you're at least 28 years old because afterall underaged drinking is a real problem and this way we could solve all of that. by that time virtually everybody in the high school assembly was yelling and screaming and then i'd say to them wait a minute you guys told me you didn't care about politics and government? the fact is if you don't care, and if you don't vote, we with do anything to you that we want to. i said you're always going to hear this stuff about, well we're working for the people.
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i said politicians don't work for the people. are you kidding yourself? if you think that, you're naïve because the truth is politicians work not for the people, work for the voters. the voters are the ones who hire them and the only ones who can fire them. well according to fox news exit polls, only 13% of americans between the ages of 18 to 29 even voted in the midterm elections elections. that is an alarmingly low number for a generation tasked with taking over the country in the next couple of decades. millennials say they want their voices to be heard but how can they be heard when they don'tn they don't show up for polls what will drive them to vote in the future? we're going to be joined by a panel of millenials.
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first up is tried to be the youngest woman in congress when she was a t candidate in arizona's second congressional district.member she's editor and chief of campus reform.org. since graduating college in 2011us he served on the staffs for two colorado state representatives. an attorney t entrepreneur and motivational speaker. this year she was named a rising star in the republican national committee. johnny jones, a retired marine, also a veteran of the war in afterfwanghanistan that's where he lost both of his legs when he stepped s on an ied in 2010. he graduated from georgetown rgeto university last spring and the cutive executive director of the marketing of the boot campaign. great to have all of you hear.yes. thanks for joining us. >> all right let's talk about why is it that only 13% of the people in the millennial
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generation voted? that's a very embarrassing low o number. chelsea let mea start with you. what's going on with the voters? with >> well, 13%. we saw a 6% decrease from 2012. when i think about millennials, governor i think about what is t is important to us? the people who ran for office, are they sharing a message that resonates with people my age? are they sharing with us how e we're going to be able to pay stud downen our student debt and be e able to start a family, start a business and government not being everything that we do. so we have to get back to the basics and look at what is to important and we have to reach out and be affective with what ctive we say and how we message to millennials. >> what would you suggest politicians ought to be talking about. how should they be framing the message if they are going to going attract the attention and ultimately the vote of people e your age. >> i don't know if it's anything in particular that they should he be talking about or framing the to message. i think it comes down to one
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simple thing, honesty. i think our generation is tired of being lied to. they are tired of being promised hope and change and limited government and seeing when these offed politicians get into office do the exact opposite. i think that they need to -- they are looking for leadership.. somebody that will look them straight in the eye an d say we have tough decisions to make and not everything is going to be rosy and positive unless we make these changes. there's going to be some tough goi calls that need to be made and ihink think our generation is looking for somebody to do that. >> johnny, you have a unique spur perspective because it's not like you graduated high school joined the fraternity -- you went to war and came back without your legs. do you think there's a o perspective that you have that is different than your peers that may be went straight to college, didn't have some of the experiences that you had?kn >> well, you know, i talk to people all the time who say overcoming adversity really builds a lot of character and ter
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success in people's lives. you need a little bit of push and pull to really understand what it means to win. you have to lose to win. i think with our generation there's this really bad term called the establishment when your fiscal policies have to match a certain set of social cies h policies. when how you feel about one social issue has to match how you feel about the economy. i think we have this amazing disease where we think for ourselves. i really do. so annoyingly i'm optimistic buttru it's true. i think that's very dirsscouraging but at the end of the day we're is piped in our phone and we know that this area is red and this e. area is blue and what's our vote going to matter. >> you have a different per perspective. do you think young people just ca don't care or they don't think it makes a difference if we vote or not. ed >> millennials are the most enerat educated population ever.ioio they are the largest generation rse in history and the most diverse
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generation in history. they are starting businesses. giving back to the community p more than any generation in the past. as 50% of millennials find ent themselves as independents. one out of nine trust the government. they want the government to answer to them and fix problems like economic instability, high student loan debt, the fact thatix t there's a housing crisis. basic issues that everyday americans are concerned about but millennials just don't trust the politicians to do so that's why they are answering to things like initiatives like social issues and turning out for gay marriage, mare amarijuana and not turning out for politicians who ns. are supposed to solve those a problems on their behalf. >> i talk ed about how a lot of students said i don't care about government and plikolitics but they care about what politicians can do to them or for them. if you were to give advise, if you had advice for someone had wanting to be a congressman or senator or governor whatever it
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is and you could say look, if you want to communicate to my generation, here is what you need to be talking about. what would you tell them? >> limited government.gov i think right and left, when i'm traveling across the country, the leadership reform, we're ip hearing from students that they want less government intrusion in their lives. the irs targeting the political groups and organizations hits home on both sides of the aisle.aisle. when it comes to student debt, this is an issue that students gov are really concerned about. han the way that the government has 's handled that issue has not been studen adequate. student areet upset with on. government intrusion. >> limited government would mean that there wasn't be intervention to give them loans. >> that's a separate question on that.overnm i thinke the government take over the loans is a big issue when it comes to the increase in the cost of tuition nation wide. i think it once again going back to the government getting out of our lives.
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i think our generation wants limited government. real quickly we're almost out of time. does anybody elseeg want to weigh in on that..>> t millennials care about the same ish use issues. what i'm concerned about is why aren't the parties speaking to millennials? they are investing all of their money into mailers, millennials rs are transient moving every two years.s. they are investing all of their money into canvassing all of the money that they send ads. fund-raising is on tv adds. most don't have tv they are dvring. >> here is why. because the consultants don't make money unless they do mailers and all of these campaigns and doads.aking m it's about making money for the people who work for the candidates. i hate to break the news to you and for the rest of america but
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urn r un unfortunately that's the dirty game of politics. coming up, millennials zbroen uphave grown up during a time where thelle world is under threat by radical islamic terrorism but some americans blame the u.s. for the problems. take a look at this video where kaleb took a camera to harvard university and he asked students a bigger question. >> what is as bigger threat to bigg world peace, america or isis?erica >> to world peace? america. >> american civilization, we're to blame for a lot of the problems that we're facing now. >> in many ways i have to think maki it's america because america is making decisions that are much more likely to affect the world.wor >> they have a skewed view of us just as a lot of americans have a skewed view of them, of isis.e,
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well, i'd like to zoudo join my personal facebook family and twitter. sign up to follow me on twitter or leave a comment. go to mikehuckabee.com for all of the details. so students at harvard said america is a bigger threat to the world than isis. now another video has been released by someone who travelled to the university of california berkeley. i want you to see what happens when he waves an isis flag on campus and then an israeli. >> why does america keep bombing us. america and american imperialism are to blame not isis. america is causing the deaths in iraq and syria. not isis not the islamic state. >> good luck. >> thank you sir. >> excuse me? >> that's the way you respond.
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i can't hear what you're saying. >> what is with you? tyranny is not cute. hamas is not cute. >> that flag you wave is the psychological genocide of this planet. >> it's berkeley. i got to give them that. that was a shocker to me to see students on a taxpayer funded campus that thought that israel was a bad player and isis was okay. i mean i'm just stunned. let me start with you on this one. how shocked are you when you see videos like that? do you think this country has lost its mind? >> no. i think there's two issues there. first i don't think most people know what the isis flag is. do they have a national bird. i don't think people really recognize what that is versus israel. further more, it's not like an anti-american thing. i think that all millennial americans care about issues. everybody says that.
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all millennials that are polled care about the issues that face them everyday. one of the great things about being on a college campus is the right to free speech whether you're on the left or right side of it. if you go across the country and talk to millennials at west point, berkeley at harvard, doesn't matter where you go, you will get a diversity of opinions. if you just go to one campus you know maybe a little bit -- >> you've been all over the country. you've talked to students. is this a trend you see that people are blaming america for the problems of the world? >> well, i do see that students go to extreme lengths to participate in this blame america fad. you hit on a very good point there. i think it's worth noting that a lot of students don't know the isis flag and do know the israel flag. that's the problem. the israel flag is commonly and frequently portrayed on american's campuses as a symbol of evil and eappreciationoppression when it is the exact opposite so when
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students at george mason university are asked do you want to sign a petition to sign isis. they sign it. >> well, it hasn't been around since 1947. it is dominating the news cycle. they are beheading westerners. it is seen that liberal activist students are trying to defund israel. >> there are also proisrael groups on these campuses as well. democrats and republicans. >> the students of those proisrael gr getting beaten up because of their association with it. we report on it all the time on campus reform. >> let me go to johnny because you've fought the people that are the blood brothers of isis out there. they are responsible for you not having legs today. when you see a video like this how do you respond? >> well, first let me tell you that our intent as a country in leading the global economy in going somewhere to be very dangerous to radical tyranny is responsible for me losing my legs and proudly so. the taliban had nothing to do
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with me losing my legs because i chose to be there. our country chose to be there. so that's the first statement. as far as students on campus listen, you know if you can somehow assimilate your frustration with wal mart for not paying you $20 an hour in minimum wage to what's going on in syria and iraq. then you have made a strength that i can't fathom but if you want to see what we do when we go to other countries, suit up and come with me. the imperialist knowledgeable people at harvard, i graduated from georgetown even with this accent. i will load them up and take them there. we're great not because of the wealth we have but not because of our military because we wake up and go what can we do to make this country and the world a better place. >> i want to respond that so many college campuses seem to lean if not a lot to the left. you're a republican and a young
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person. do you feel like when you're on a college campus you're a fish out of water because you're a conservative and not a liberal. >> absolutely. i can tell you when i was in-law school, i was known as the black republican. that is what some people would call me. thankfully, i am a republican because of the values and platform align with my values and platform. so was i a fish -- did i seem out of place? absolutely but it gave me the opportunity to educate people to share with them why i believe what i believe an the fact that i happen to be black does not have anything to do with the fact that i align myself with the republican party. so i was able to go from the fiscal to the social issues but more importantly, governor i was able to take them back through history to allow them to see why it is important for not only african-americans but for all people to have the option to choose when you sign your voter registration form how you're going to aline yourself so with that at law school and even at church i've helped some people change over to the republican party because they now
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understand their values align with the party. >> i don't have any doubt that you've changed some people. you're a very persuasive person. in 1973 the draft ended an the u.s. converted to an all volunteer military but is it time maybe to consider reinstating the draft whether for military or for some type of national service? do you think that would get younger americans motivated to vote? we're going to ask our studio audience and let them weigh on it when we come back so stay with us on this special edition of huckabee, the next generation. [ applause ] suffering from the flu is a really big deal. with aches, fever and chills- there's no such thing as a little flu. so why treat it like it's a little cold? there's something that works differently than over-the-counter remedies. attack the flu virus at its source with prescription tamiflu. and call your doctor right away. tamiflu is fda approved to treat the flu in people 2 weeks and older
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our nation is not had a draft since the vietnam war but most countries around the world require mandatory military service. i think it is a good idea to serve the country in either the military or some other type of
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public service but how do young americans really feel about it? i want to go to our audience and get some views and opinions from them. we will go up here to the top row. how do you feel about the idea that people would be called upon for military service, specifically and then we'll talk other forms? >> well, i think military service is a bit much. it is coercive. it is high impact coercive duty. what we do see in millennials is 56% are going into public service. teacher, americor s, peace corp. we see a high number of americans going into nonprofit jobs and considering jobs provided by the military because they do things like bring personnel into areas to serve food, to give education, et cetera. so i don't think a mandatory draft is necessary because we're already going out in high troves
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because we believe ourselves are personal activists and also we do want to see that in our government where we want to see government sponsoring these sort of services and jobs because we believe again in an activist government. >> well, that's different than what kaleb said that young people want a limited government. anyone else want to weigh in on it. let's go down here. do you want a limited government or much bigger one that's doing a lot of things? >> well, i think the problem that we have today we have in america society is that we have a well fair state that has grown tremendously under barack obama and corporate well fair state. those of us who will be going out into the work force over the next couple of years because of these policies being emphasized elsewhere, we're not going to have job creation because of our tax code because of obamacare because of the regulatory environment. so i think young people are in need of and supportive of free enterprise. i don't agree with the idea that we support an activist
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government. i think we've seen that over the past five years and it hasn't worked out so well. >> molly is down here on the second row here. i want to get your view on, how much are you willing to pay the government to do things for you? that's really the big question because if government does something, it's got to get the money from you. there's no other way. it doesn't do bake sales? >> right. i think it should be personal responsibility. i think we should take the power away from the government and put it into more personal enterprise and small businesses. i think if you limit the government then people will be motivated to step up and make those adjustments themselves and with the draft i think that any time you require someone to do something and the government requires it, then it causes -- it causes people to be concerned so it might have a beneficial response in that regard, i don't think it should necessarily be a requirement but i do think it would help people look at the issues at hand and realize are these issues i'm willing to
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fight for? are these issues i'm willing to put all of my eggs in one basket for and then that would require them to get out and vote and have their voice heard. >> johnny, you were in a military that was all volunteer. good idea, bad idea. would you like to fight alongside people who said you've got to show up because your number came up? >> i think the issue that brought this up the idea of being more invested in what we're risking isn't solved by obligated millary service. there's 101 ways to serve your country. the military is one of them. running a nonprofit, i can tell you that we in the private sector do a lot better job spending a dollar. i know that. it's not political. it's just my experience. i will tell you that when it comes to this issue, in this war, how many of you went out and bought a war bond? how much of it came out of your check book? if it wasn't your best friend or family member how much did you
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feel from it -- the answer was not a whole lot. i think ultimately our military doesn't need a draft to be successful with technology and the type of conditioning we're doing now, we're more primed to successfully win a war today than we've ever been with those enlisted. >> less than 1% of the american public today will serve in the military. so we basically are fighting wars with what my good friend colonel says are other people's kids. do we understand fully what we're asking them to do when we go? i wish we could keep that topic. so you just graduated college and you're ready to move on find a job, get a place to live and go out in the real world but there's something that's dragging you down like semcement shoes. the question will you ever be able to pay off those student loans? we will talk about our student loan problem in america with our panel and audience when we come back.
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because that's life. >> literary whether i get a job or not. i'm kind of looking fwoerdorward to being a waiter most of my life. >> do you feel you'll be able to find a job in this field when you graduate? >> hopefully, yeah. >> you know it's not entirely about just getting a job. it's also about finding yourself as a person and also developing inner moral character, i think. >> well it may be a little more than finding yourself because finding a job after gradation probably is pretty important. it can also be a challenging task for any young person especially given today's economy. there are a lot of factors that are working against young people today and many of the graduates of today's school are starting their young lives and are already in debt up to here from student loans loans they took in order to get a career. as of 2013, almost 42% of households under the age of 35 owed student loans.
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another recent study, 24% of mill ebbennial believe their student debt will be forgiven. wiped off. i wonder if that will happen. >> would it be a good idea to whiep wipe out everyone's student loans and say forget about it. >> terrible idea. but 24% sup orptport the idea of government coming in and paying for all of the student loan debt. you will always have a certain percentage of knuckleheads in society. 24% is a high percent. >> educated knuckleheads:. we bailed out banks. the least we can do is help a generation that has been overcharged for education. when my parents went to college it was $600 a semester. it's a total racket and the
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banks win. >> i agree it's a racket and the colleges are overpriced but community colleges aren't that expensive. wouldn't it be that you make a choice that instead of buying a mercedes that you buy a fiat. the return on investment isn't that high right now. those going to private institutions are the one who are getting the jobs. those who are spending money on community college and online degrees, oh, my goodness you're sending all of this money and people aren't even graduating and they are not getting the job. >> the wall street bail out did not teach the bankers a good lesson. they are not corrected their ways. the same way that student loan bail out will not teach the students fiscal responsibility or to stay in their financial lane. these are adults and they need to realize when they take out debt they are liable to take that debt. they need to choose degrees that are going to make them employable. >> are you looking at the numbers.
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it doesn't matter what your degree is, you're not getting a job. one out of five millennials are getting a job out of college. >> how many millennials are trying to get a skilled blue collar labor job trying to find something that they can provide in their hometown, a service to provide that they can make money at. 50, $60,000 a year. if you want the federal government to do something, have them put the information they already have about the hundreds of thousands of blue collar jobs and skilled labor jobs that are out there waiting for someone to fill them. i've got a skill set in the military and i'm a liberal studies graduate and i work for a military nonprofit. i went and found the job that i could fill and really it's the skilled labor. >> i have to wonder if the student decides to go to the most expensive school in america why is it my responsibility to make that choice to have to pay somebody's decision? >> i think that's really asking a lot of me as a taxpayer. i say go to the one you can
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afford to pay for. j j. >> i agree to 7 in 10 students are graduating with student loan debt. at the end of the day governor i believe what you said. they choose the school that they want to go to. i decided to go to a private law school. therefore i've already invested my first house uphere. i'm not looking for a government hand out to pay off my debt. i am looking at ways i can patent ideas start small businesses invest, so that i take on the responsibility to pay off my loans. there are some programs that i support as we were looking at teach for america in different public service jobs. there are opportunities for lawyers, i know that if you serve ten years, they will pay off your debt. i support those programs because i believe if you are give back to the country and you are not just standing there with your hand stuck out for someone to pay for you, pay all of your debt off then there's the benefit because these young people are going in and they are making very little in terms of
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salary but they are giving back. so i support those programs but i don't think so say that 24% of millennials just want to have their debt paid off. we have some educating to do. >> well let me just say this. i want to a small private/christian college in arkansas called washatah baptist universeity university. most of you have never heard of it. i debated in my political life with people who had harvard law degrees. i never felt inflecttellectually disadvantaged or was sorry that i went to the school i went to. i thought i got a good education. go what you can afford where you're going to be prepared for life not where somebody is going to give you some recognition because there's a reputation there. you build your own representation representation. >> many political candidates targeting young voters will focus on issues like legal idsing mareidszing marijuana but is that the top
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how to you feel about legalizing marijuana? >> i think the decriminalization is definitely a good move. i think so many people do it that at this point it's not really going to make much of a difference. it will just be more open. >> something that could be useful medically but i'm not personally a proponent of
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recreational use. >> i am not for that personally. >> i think that's an issue that's best left up to our individual states. colorado legalized it so i think that's what the people want there. >> i'm from colorado -- >> do you have some on you right now. >> no, i don't ever carry marijuana. >> please! police! >> even though it seems like young people care a lot about the economy, health care and unemployment politicians often will pitch social issues like legalizing mare oneijuanamarijuana the war on women and same sex marriage. some states put this on the ballot that it passed for recreational use, not just medical. who wants to jump in -- should this be the big issue that your generation cares about and should it be? >> i don't think it is. i don't think it should be. at the end of the day we've heard all of these statistics
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about the jobs, economy, we still can talk about health care. we have student loan debt. these are the things that are going to bother us every night when we go home. these are the things that we're thinking about when we go to sleep. these are the issues that we should be focused on on how can we even live to the next day? are we going to have those resources before we can think about recreational use of marijuana. governor, i do think that there are uses for medical reasons. i think there's research out there to support that but making that the big issue takes attention away from what really matters most. >> i am wondering if it's the ageing hippies that are thinking about this. >> i have to go back to -- in my mind, the worst thing about marijuana is the criminal lifestyle it puts you in to acquire it be around it -- if you make it legal then there's probably not going to be rap songs about it because it doesn't add to the street cred. at the end of the day there's the experience of smoking marijuana and there's the lifestyle that can be created around being a drug dealer. those are two different things.
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gay marriage i do not think falls in the same category but i don't want the federal government concerned about these things when there are larger things like 22-year-olds dying in war. you don't even know why you want to iraq to begin with. there are larger issue that's affect our lives daily whether we choose to believe it or not. marijuana may be a big part of some people's lives. why is our government concerned about it if it isn't the leading cause of death on the highway? this gentleman right behind here. yes. i just want to say that for young people marijuana is actually an important issue. when you look at teenagers in new york city, a lot of them are being thrown in jail and harassed by the police. teenagers shouldn't have to go through this. if you decriminalize it it will be a big plus. >> the rules are set. if you don't like the rules, change the rules. >> actually they have now changed in new york. you can now carry a bag.
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that's actually the reason why they changed that law. it is exactly -- i don't know your name but you brought up a really good point. the mayor in new york city has taken the stop and frisk -- it's a huge issue in new york right now that people are being put in jail for less than an ounce of marijuana and put into that criminal infrastructure so when they get out of jail, they can't get jobs can't contribute to the economy. their housing is limited. it's a much bigger issue than legalizing marijuana. it's a criminal issue. it's a tax issue. >> i have so much sympathy for the man who gets caught with a prostitute and all of a sudden you can't get a job and he has to get harassed by police. he shouldn't have been with a prostitute. >> same thing with the weed. i'm sorry. you shouldn't be running around with -- if it's illegal in that sense -- >> they are targeting lower income areas. they are not targeting ceos of company who are not smoking pot. they are not being stopped opt
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welcome back. we have a special today with some wonderful folks from all over america and they're all millennials and we're asking them questions and now we're going to let them ask some questions and see what is on their minds. we're going to go up to our
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audience here on the back row and you guys get to ask me or ask the panel or you can sing the national anthem in 14 different languages, if you think you can do it. >> how do the millennials you meet out there get engaged in politics? do you send them locally or nationally to they actually understand what's going on? >> i know for me, it's easy. the main thing for me is veterans affairs issues. that translates into mental illness and traumatic brain injury and things that affect all types of americans who have nothing to do with the military. it is not hard to point out to someone things that affect their lives. >> yes right there. >> hi, i had a question for the panel.
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particularly as a conservative young woman there's a lack of us in some of these circles that are politically aware. what can we do to fill the pipeline for women taking leadership positions even in congress when we're seeing more elected representatives, but what about leadership positions and the fundraising efforts? >> first of all get in and get involved. make sure you're involved with as much as you can be involved with. bring three or four more women with you. bring it up. start talking about some of the issues and share why you believe what you believe. you'll see a ripple effect. you'll be more confident in and of yourself. as women, we have to stand up and be strong about what we believe in as you talk about leadership we will not second guess our ability to run for
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office, our ability to run from state chair or whatever it may be. start simple and build yourself up and invite other women along with you in your journey. >> yes, sir. >> earlier in this show you mentioned people at berkley have a strong opinion of israel and were completely unaware of isil and what that stood for. do you believe having some sort of mandatory community service or draft will increase a sense of patriotism or increase a sense of commitment to the american community? >> i want to just respond to it because i think there is a sense in which, yes, it is difficult to force people into the service. i don't think we should necessarily force them into military service, but it's almost like we need to do is what john f. kennedy challenged us to do. it doesn't matter if you're democratic or republican. there's some sense of responsibility we ought to feel
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for the country. >> if you could take a day out of high school to go play a football game, you can take a day out of high school to go build a house for habitat for humanity. you can mandate something or incentivize. 24 isn't young. at 24 i had gone to war twice. i'm sorry. with that being said, take these 18 year olds in the high school take them out and make them do things in the community. >> great idea. sorry, we are out of time believe it or not. thanks to our studio audience. great comments, reactions.
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