can these cops get a fair trial in baltimore? should this prosecutor be removed? let us know your thoughts. facebook.com/thekellyfile. or on twitter @megynkelly. thanks for watching one. i'm megyn kelly and this is the kelly file. good night. welcome to "hannity." he is a conservative who says he will not compromise on traditional american values and wants to restore economic prosperity to the middle class. i'm talking about former pennsylvania senator rick santorum who announced he is in fact running for president. tonight he'll join us for the full hour. first let's take a look at some of the highlights from senator santorum's announcement. >> working families don't need another president tied to big government or big money. today is the day we are going to begin to fight back.

i am proud to stand here among you and for you. the american workers who have sacrificed so much to announce that i am running for president of the united states. i will take money and power out of washington and put it back where our constitution says it belongs. in the people who earned it. in the last race we changed the debate. this race, with your help, and god's grace, we can change this nation. >> usa! usa! >> joining us now for the entire hour, 2016 republican presidential candidate, former senator rick santorum. how are you, senator? good to see you.

>> i'm great. >> it's my ninja working out. >> you're looking strong. >> people forget, what states did you win in 2012? >> iowa, minnesota, missouri, colorado, louisiana, kansas, alabama, mississippi, i'm going to get in trouble now. oklahoma, tennessee, north dakota. there you go. >> that's a significant number of states. >> yeah. >> most people i think, don't know that. am i wrong or right? >> well, i would say that's probably true. but, you know, that's -- we look at that as great experience. we've got great ground games in all of those states. we have good people that have been committed to us over this period of time. we have experience. we've been through the vetting process. i was number one late in the election process in march. i was leading the polls against mitt romney. and had we had a little better luck in michigan and ohio. we lost michigan by a few

thousand votes. lost ohio by 0.08. we turned the tables on those two, and that was of course romney's home state, it could have been a very different picture. >> it's a different year. you have 16 people now that we know that's going to be in the race. >> that's right. >> maybe somebody else will join in tomorrow. does that make it harder for you? >> yeah, yes or no. at this point it does, because a good friend of mine who is a state rep in iowa who is working on our campaign, he talks to a lot of iowans sort of like going to the showroom on the floor. you're a nice good model and you've done well and you've been in the showroom for a few years. the current year model. but still, you're an older model, and people want to drive the new model. i really believe that we have -- we're right on the issues. we've got a track record. we're from the right area of the country that we have to start winning if we're going to win presidential elections we'll have to win, pennsylvania, ohio,

michigan indiana, all through those, those states, virginia. i think if people start to look and i'm not expecting big things this summer or this fall. but once people start to get serious and start to look at the candidates look at the issues that are important to them there is nobody better on immigration than i am. there is no one stronger on national security than i am. there's no one better on the great moral cultural issues of the day. republican primary voters, we'll do very well. >> did it hurt you that you won iowa but the night you won iowa they didn't know you won iowa. >> yeah. we won iowa 18 days later. >> 18 days. that hurt. >> well, we went out and raised over $20 million in the last race. but before the iowa caucus we raised less than $2 million. >> right. >> once we were able to show that we could win and people paid attention to our message, and our message is really very much the same message which is less government lower taxes,

all the messages you expect from a republican, but it's a little different. it's also we need to make sure that the american people has the ability to rise. the republican party has done a lousy job at that. we've been terrible at reaching out to voters that you and i grew up with and know very well. blue cancer workers service workers who want good paying jobs and the ability to rise, provide for their families. we just have not talked about that. we have not delivered a message that talks about prosperity for everybody. >> i agree with you. i'm also angry, if you will, i think that's the right word at the republican party. because when it comes to the fight, they will have symbolic votes to repeal and replace obamacare. but when it comes to using the power of the purse and their constitutional authority, they punt. they don't do it. same thing with executive amnesty. >> absolutely. >> they funded it when they said they would fight against it at all costs leading up into the 2014 election. so i'm disappointed with republicans. are you? >> this leadership in congress has been pathetic.

we have allowed the president to abuse his authority with this executive amnesty. if i was the leader of the united states senate and i was in the leadership for six years i've been in those rooms and fought those battles. i communicated to many members in the leadership what i would have done. i would have shut down the senate, house of representatives and say we're not doing anything. we're going to do hearings on the abuse of the constitution. we're going to focus on this. >> but they're afraid they're going get blamed for a government shutdown. >> our democracy is justice scalia said is so well in the dissent in the gay marriage case. he said when we have nine unelected judges supplanting the will of the american public we're no longer a democracy. >> that it's in jeopardy. >> he said it's very much in jeopardy. when you have a president that does the same thing that says i

don't have to obey the law, that i can rewrite the law. we have another problem of the branch of government exceeding their authority. congress needs to grow up and stand up and they not. >> okay. in spite of all of those states you mentioned, is it fair if i say you're an underdog? >> yeah. >> you think you're an underdog? >> of course. every race i've ever run i've been an underdog. >> here you are coming in, you don't have the money of donald trump. you don't have the money of a jeb bush. >> nope. >> you're getting into the race knowing you're an underdog. >> yeah. >> and why do you feel that you want this job so bad that you're willing to go through this again? this is not an easy process. >> no it's not a matter of wanting this job so bad, it's what you think you can do for this country. while i respect everybody else in this race and you won't see me out there bashing folks on anything personal. i'll disagree with them on issues for sure. but i think there is something we bring to the table. number one, we bring experience to the table of getting things done in washington, d.c.

nobody in this race. nobody has an experience of getting conservative things done in washington and being able to pull together, really, unlikely coalitions to pass welfare reform, for example or tax bills or health savings accounts. all these things i was very involved in. national security things like a sanctions bill on iran and a sanctions bill on syria, all of which i was able to get bipartisan support for. actually even was opposed by president bush initially on both of those measures. i have a long track record of getting things done in washington, number one. number two, doing so in a conservative way. if you look at the things we were able to accomplish, most of them are seen as seminal victories of the conservative congress from 1995 to 2006. and i led the charge on a lot of those things. i think that experience, national security experience nobodiles else in this field, maybe with the exception of

lindsey graham has the kind of experience i've had over the long-term, dealt with the issues of radical islam and understand what is needed to confront them. >> you mentioned the state of pennsylvania where you were a senator. you were a one term senator. you lost -- two term senator you lost a tough reelection in a very bad year. >> it was a horrible year. >> horrible year. >> i remind people when i ran foreign policy reelection i ran in 2000. i was the only conservative senator to win in a state that george bush lost. the idea he ran in a tough year but he lost. well yeah, everybody lost in 2006 who had a tough race. >> all right. but this is the point. that if you're a republican presidential candidate, i want to look at the electoral map. you start with california oregon washington, illinois, new york new jersey. pennsylvania is not exactly purple. it's been a blue state now. >> let me just say this. i won two elections in pennsylvania. >> matt toomey tom corbett just lost reelection.

he had a real rough go of it. we had 13 of 18 congressmen. big majority in the state house. >> you think it's winnable. >> a republican has to run the table, ohio, florida, north carolina, virginia, new mexico, iowa, new hampshire. >> we bring into pennsylvania and michigan, if you look at the issues that i've been talking about. i announces from a factory floor in western pennsylvania. we're going to go right after those workers. if you -- >> you want union workers? >> absolutely. you go after workers where they er party cares about them. immigration is a good example of that. i know donald trump is getting a lot of attention on the immigration issue. but if you look at the organizations that are the pro-work immigration groups like numbers usa and fair you know who has the only fair rating of any of the candidates including donald trump? >> i'm going guess. >> you've got it right. rick santorum there is only one other candidate, scott walker

who has a c minus. nobody has better than a c grade. people may have nice rhetoric we're the ones that have the right policies that's going to connect with voters. >> we'll take a break. things are getting started with 2016 republican presidential candidate rick santorum. he will be here for the full hour. up next we'll ask the senator how he would fix our broken borders and what he plans to do to boost the economy in the country and get people back to work. and later, it's your turn to get in on the action. we'll ask him some of the questions you've been sending via social media, twitter, facebook. we will invoke every executive order and regulation that cost american jobs. from day one, we will work to bring back america and put americans back to work.

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live from america's news headquarters i'm patricia stark. presidential hopeful donald trump addressing illegal immigration from los angeles. the meeting with families who had a relative killed by illegal immigrants comes on the heels of the deadly shooting of 32-year-old kathryn steinle, allegedly killed by a man who was deported five times. donald trump's controversial comments on immigration. >> folks were telling me something that is incredible. whenever somebody hears that it was an illegal that was involved with the death of their children it becomes politically incorrect for a politician to help them. >> the gathering isn't sitting well with protesters who took to the streets, holding up signs criticizing trump's stance on

immigration. i'm patricia stark. now back to "hannity." we've brought into this country legally and illegally 35 million mostly unskilled workers. the result is over that same period of time workers wages and incomes have flat lined. hillary clinton and big business they have called for a massive influx in unskilled labor. their priorities are profits and power. my priority is you, the american worker. >> and back with us for the entire hour 2016 gop presidential candidate former pennsylvania senator rick santorum. i've asked ever candidate that i've interviewed this question. the next president will inherit 93 million americans out of the

workforce. you will inherit $20 million in debt nearly 50 million americans in poverty and 46 million americans on food stamps for 40 months or longer. now that to me is a shocking and daunting challenge for anybody. specifics. how do you fix that? >> well, the two tie together. the fact that you have all these people on social welfare programs who are not working, who are not paying taxes, in many cases receiving benefits has a huge impact on the national debt and our annual deficit. so growth is very, very important. i'm going to cut taxes in half. we're going to have a flat rate across the board. >> cut taxes in half for everybody? >> well i'm still working on the exact number. we're working with the tax federation foundation right now. we'll come out with this in the next few weeks. we'll be cutting taxes dramatically. it will be a flat rate. it will be a flat rate on individuals. a flat rate -- the same rate by

the way, on corporations. on a dynamic scoring, it will be revenue plus. we think it will raise revenue over a dynamic. of course in the flat earth society it will probably -- >> is it because the economy grows or because you're taxing less? >> it will be taxed less. that's only part of the equation. i can talk about as you saw there about suspending every job killing regulation the president has put in place. he's got lots of them we can do. on day one, everything he does with a pen we can get rid of with a pen. and i can guarantee you on day only not hesitate to get rid of those job killing regulations. >> okay. so regulations are important. for example, one of the biggest industries effected and the energy industries. leases on federal lands down 50%. >> we will approve the keystone xl pipeline. there is all sorts of things we can do to get the economy rocking and rolling. from an energy perspective. >> look at pennsylvania and the fracking. it's done very well.

>> obama's epa just came out a few weeks ago and said there is no environmental hazard related to hydraulic fracturing with respect to groundwater. so all of these claims, all of these movies all of these environmental groups that have said obama's epa says that it's safe and clean and environmentally to do. >> we have projected deficits of a trillion dollars starting in the next two years. for as far as the eye can see. how do you get a balanced budget, and is that a goal -- >> absolutely. number one, as i mentioned. our tax plan and our economic plan will result in a net revenue -- increase in revenue to the federal government because of growth because we'll always have more revenues because of growth and also less people. >> less dependency. >> exactly. the other thing is immigration. i talk about immigration as a very important part of our economic plan. you talk about all of these people, 93 million that are not fully employed in america today. we have, actually, many in the

republican party, and all of the ones in the democratic party saying we need more coming into this country. i feel differently. i'm the son of a legal immigrant. >> you do. you feel. i was going to get into this later. you think we should have more immigration? >> i think we should have less immigration. i'm the only one in this field that has called for a reduction, a specific reduction on the number of not just illegals. obviously, i don't think we should have any illegals coming into this country. but we should also have a reduction in legal immigration. i'll share this number with you, sean. since 2000 there have been six 6.5 net million new jobs created in this country. if you look at how many -- what percentage of those net new jobs are held by workers who are not born in america, we're talking about age 18-65, the answer is all of them. so there are 17 million more americans working in the work force who were born here and there are fewer native americans working in this country than there were in 2000.

>> let me see if i'm understanding. you have 93 million americans out of the labor force. now between legal immigration and illegal immigration. >> 35 million over the last 20 years. >> okay so we're talking about -- in a lot of case especially illegal low-skilled labor, those are americans that are competing for fewer jobs they're being displaced and at lower salaries. the competition. >> median income has declined since 2008, 2009. it's declined since then. it's flat lining out. if you look at wages, wages for working men and women, folks in the lower middle income. they've been flat. they've been flat for 20 years. that's because we're bringing in millions every year. we bring in over a million legal and -- >> however many illegally. >> illegalry into this country, almost all of whom are unskilled workers competing for those jobs and driving down the cost of employment. >> you didn't mention, and very few people are talking about all right, you can increase revenues grow the economy. maybe go from 2% growth which is

anemic to 4% or 5%. that would be huge. there's also the spending equation. that's base line budgeting where every government agency increases spending every year. if you reduce the rate of increase somehow you're evil and you're cutting money for seniors. >> yeah. >> when are we ever going to get that part of the budget under control? and what would you do? >> the first thing is, i've always advocated for is a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. we came within one vote in 1995. the house had passed it. the senate was within one vote of passing it and one republican senator switched his vote. >> who? >> it was mark hatfield. >> i remember. >> the day he switched his vote i called for his resignation as the chairman of the committee. i wasn't the most popular 2-month-old senator at the time by calling a 20-year-old veteran to resign his position. but that's how passionately i felt about it. it was a betrayal to the american public. >> i agree. >> we're going push this as president of the united states. i believe we need to do reform.

we got to get rid of obamacare. that's the first big entitlement we get rid of. if people say well, we can't get rid of it -- >> what about across the board spending, what about a penny plan? i like the penny plan. >> i think that's a great target. how you get to that you can't just say we'll cut everything by 1%. some things you want to increase other things you want to get rid of. for example, defense. i believe we need a stronger defense. i think we need to increase the defense budget. there are many departments like agricultural department that have exploded. we can get rid of a lot of programs in those areas. you throw on top of that, the key, the entitlement reform. as you know, sean, when i was in the united states senate i fought for social i was out there. >> do you want to, what means test it? you want to raise the age of retirement? >> when social security was put

in place in 1936 life expectancy was 61. today life expectancy is around 80. and the eligibility age is about 66. it's gone up one year. that's just not sustainable. what i've talked about is indexing the retirement age to how long people live so we keep it generationally neutral. that will help in a big way. means testing is another way we can look at that. >> do you know what bothers me about that? i was made a promise. i paid into this promise that i'd get that money back. wouldn't that be licensed stealing by the government? >> you were promised at a time when life expectancy was a lot short than it is now. >> we didn't have those caveats since i have been paying in since i was 12 years old work dishes. >> i understand that. i'm not talking about -- i hate to say this someone as old as you. >> wow, wow. >> that's it. senator santorum sought of this campaign. >> do you know who did that? the retirement age was raised. do you know who raised it from

65 to 67? >> reagan. >> reagan. he's the smartest politician because he did it after he was dead and gone. it didn't start going up until about 12, 15 years after he -- >> left office. >> he did it. that's pretty much what we're talking about here. people born in 1962 if you were born in 1962 you know you hit 67, and that's -- it stops. i'm saying people who were born after 1962 we're going to vu it continue to go back. >> i was born in '61. all right. coming up, 2016 gop presidential candidate rick santorum will weigh in on foreign policy. his agenda what he'd do if he's elected president. and later, you've been sending us questions on facebook and twitter. senator santorum will answer those questions as we continue throughout the hour. >> the sanctions that you hear about that are crushing iran that brought them to the table, i was the author of a lot of those sanctions. led to a new adventure? then keep the tradition going with great deals at bass pro shops' summer of fun sale. like redhead rock bridge cargo shorts starting under $20.

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i believe we need to do is to confront what i believe we need to do is confront the two great threats in the middle east that confront us today. first, isis. we have to have a plan. and what the president has is a public relations stunt. if these folks want to bring back a 7th century version of islam, then my recommendation is let's load our bombers up and bomb them back to the 7th century. >> back with us for the hour is 2016 gop presidential candidate, former senator from pennsylvania rick santorum. you know the president actually said the jv team. this is a generational battle we have. by the way, guns can't defeat an ideology. better ideas. now, if you become president you've got isis al qaeda, hezbollah, hamas, islamic jihad radical islam in general. you've got putin in crimea. you've got syria, you have got iran you've got iraq. you have china building up their military. >> and building islands in the

south china sea. >> with territorial ambitions like the russians, like putin. this is no small task. this is an overwhelm -- this is a very dangerous moment, i think, for the world. where do you start? >> i couldn't agree more. i always say the commander in chief is not an entry level position. you want someone who has had real experience. i go back and for the last 12 years i've been talking about the gathering storm of the 21st century. when i was in the united states senate i talked about it on your radio program many, many times and talked about all of these different elements. and i had added cuba and venezuela on top of all the ones you just talked about. when we are reticent, when we do not exert our heft in the world, evil will prosper. and will push. that's exactly what's happ the president has withdrawn. he has been uncertain. he has been indecisive. as a result, people are taking advantage of that.

>> isn't it worse than that? isn't he naive to think that this ideology where they're cutting off heads and drowning people and, you know a level of viciousness, an evil in our time and he thinks oh no no we can't defeat them. this is generational. this is going to go on for generations. oh, we can't defeat them with guns. >> he doesn't believe we can defeat them. he chooses not to recognize the nature of the enemy that we're confronting. >> what is it? radical islamists? >> radical islamists. >> he won't even say it. >> he won't say the word islam. that's incorrect. i mean, they are getting their ideology from the holy books of islam. and they are taking, as i said in the cut there, they're taking the 7th century religion and they're moving it forward here into the 21st century. >> it's a modern day caliphate. how do you stop it? >> when it comes to isis, let's deal specifically with that. isis is a caliphate. the only way to defeat a caliphate and to get people not

to be attracted to come to iraq and syria and energize the united states is to take the territory away from them. there's no other way. if you look at the history of islam, islam continued to expand, continued to attract people as and once the west began to push it back and collapse it, it collapsed. it collapsed completely. >> okay. can you do that without sending american troops on the ground? >> no. i've been very, very clear that we need to have more troops on the ground in iraq. >> do they need to be the ones fighting? >> you know, i would leave that. i'm not in a position sitting outside the government to have a really good understanding of that. what i would say is, if that is necessary in order to take back this land and iraq first and then syria, the answer is, that we would put the sufficient troops there to make sure it happens. >> in other words, you're talking about going back into iraq. and you're talking about send -- >> you're talking to someone who when president obama said he wanted to take troops out of

iraq vociferously objected to that. because i knew this would be a boomerang mission, that troops would have to come back because of what would happen in anbar. >> we've got to take back mosul tikrit, fallujah, ramadi. we've got to send americans back in to fight? >> i say those cities have to be taken back. we have the peshmerga. the kurds are perfectly willing to fight that battle if we would give them the weapons and the platform to be able to do it. >> maybe in a training and intelligence capacity, but maybe not in a armed capacity? >> right now we're doing training and intelligence. >> not really. not to the extent we need to. >> we need to do a more robust job of doing that. our air force and navy has to do a much bigger footprint when it comes to air missions being flown there and missiles that are being deployed. all of those things need to be bigger and more robust. the point is, will we at some point need combat troops. i don't know the answer to that. but what i'm saying is, if that's necessary, then i think

we have to do it. >> isn't it time for the saudis, the egyptians, the jordanians, isn't it time that -- they similarly are being threatened by that group and others. >> as you know, the egyptians have arms that are due to them that we are not providing them. general el sisi, we have a beef with the current government of egypt. because egypt threw out the muslim brotherhood who the obama administration supported. so we are not providing the military -- >> obama did give the head of the muslim brotherhood he gave them tanks and f-16's and billions of dollars. this is a guy that referred to the israelis as the descendants of apes and pigs. you think it might take american ground troops? >> i think we first have to arm the egyptians, arm the kurds.

we provide jordan with aid. but jordan has hundreds of thousands of refugees from syria right now. >> they should be willing to fight for their own. >> they are willing to fight. as a result of what happened to the jordanian pilot. they're willing to engage. we're not providing the kind of support. my feeling is if we provide that support to the indigenous forces there, i think it reduces the likelihood of americans on the front line. >> what do you do with vladmir putin? >> i think it's an issue just like the iranians, which is you have to show that you're serious about keeping your commitments. we have shown anything but seriousness about keeping our commitments to our allies in the region whether it's in eastern europe or the middle east. people are going to take advantage of that. >> you have the chinese with their territorial ambitions and hacking into our government computers. >> maybe as recently as this week. we don't know. >> we don't know. listen. i'd love to know if they would be willing to sell a copy of hillary clinton's server. >> i'm sure they have it. >> i'm sure they have it. >> i'm sure they have it. >> they have it, i'm willing to buy it. what do you do about their

territorial ambitions? look at the shambles of their economy right now and the instability. >> they're building islands in key areas that are shipping lanes for all of the asia pacific rim. and we have done nothing. this is -- isn't even an issue that people are talking about. the chinese are in a position now to make our navy -- >> obsolete? >> obsolete is probably a better word. you can't fight in an area where the navy is going to be accessed from weapons platforms that are ground-based. so we're putting the navy in an untenable position to protect those sea-lanes. and we are doing nothing. we're not raising an objection. we're not drawing a red line. >> our 600 ship navy is now 280. >> well and it's -- that 280 is becoming less and less important because of what's going on in the south pacific. >> all right. when we come back we'll ask senator santorum his thoughts about the rest of the 2016

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at what their record has been not just the last year but the last 10, 15, 20 years. >> we continue with 2016 republican presidential candidate rick santorum is with us. what about immigration? would you build a fence? >> we build a fence where it needs to be built. it's about 2/3 of the area. >> what do we do with the 11 million after the fence is built? >> secure the border first. in addition to that we have to track -- as you know the majority of the people who are coming into this country illegally now are not coming across the border. they're visa overstays. because we have a policy in this country of not tracking people once they come into this country. you're having people stay who come here on student visas, come here on a visitor visa, come here on whatever. >> i agree. >> it's a bigger problem now, at least according to the numbers that are bandied about. number one, we have to start tracking exit. not just entrance but exits. again, a lot of unskilled workers coming in, and dealing with that.

the third thing is e-verify. require e-verify for all employees. if you have a policy at the border which is not catch and release, which is otms, if you change that policy so you send back everybody at the border then -- >> that's a big first. >> you will solve the biggest part of this problem. >> what did you think of donald trump's comments that have made so much news? >> what i've said is it's an important issue. i'm not as flamboyant as donald trump. and, you know, he's going to say things surprise surprise they're going to be controversial and they will offend people. i will say we are a little bit too politically correct in this country when it comes to the language we use. >> you weren't offended? >> i don't think people should be offended. he was obviously not calling everybody who came across the border a rapist. i think we tend to overexaggerate our indignity here.

so i don't agree, you know, with the verbiage he said. but what i will say is he highlights a very important issue. and here's the point. we've got the best plan out there. i actually wrote a plan up on how we're going to reduce the number of illegal immigrants in this country and reduce the number of legal immigrants by about 25%. which would still put us at an historic high in immigration. >> i know you're against gay marriage, right? >> i'm for -- >> this is the lightning round. you're pro-life. do you make exceptions for the life of the mother? >> i've always made pepgsexception for the life of the mother. it's a choice between two lives. i don't think the government should get involved in that. >> do you think colorado pot, bad idea? >> bad idea. >> should american citizens that are law abiding have the right

to carry a weapon? >> absolutely. i have my conceal carry in my wallet. >> do you think climate change is manning made? >> i think the climate is changing. i think the climate is always changing. i think the climate always will change. i think man has some minor part to play. here's what i know, if we did everything the president wanted and 80% reduction in emissions it would result in a .1 reduction. >> that's it? >> that's a natural variant, and it makes no difference. >> all right. one-word answer. rand paul. >> libertarian. >> marco. >> bright and young. >> ted. okay. ted cruz. >> i'd going to same thing. young, bright guy. >> jeb bush. >> i think he's a good man. i mean, i like jeb bush. >> scott walker? >> another i think a good accomplished governor. >> carly fiorina? >> i've known her for a while. i supported her when she ran for senate. a good, solid person. >> rick perry. >> i like rick perry as a friend. >> okay. who am i forgetting? john kasich.

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welcome bac welcome back to "hannity." time to ask senator santorum a few of the questions you've been sending on facebook and twitter. all right. we start with pamela from facebook. who will you answer to, the american people or the leader of the republican party, special interest groups lobbyists if you get to washington? >> i think my track record is pretty clear on that. a 92% conservative voting record. what i say in the campaign on is what i do. and if you vote for me you know what you're going get. >> sandra bullock whitty writes

on facebook do you believe you can turn this obama disaster around? what will you do as president to stop isis which you answered earlier? i wondered sometimes, vacillate back and forth between being optimistic and pessimistic about how bad things can be. >> you know i look at it as a tremendous opportunity for leadership. we've had such poor leadership in this country, such divisive leadership. this president is such a dividing figure. i look back at again, a record of success in bringing people together on moral issues on economic issues on international issues. i know we can do that. and by the way, get conservative results. i represented the state of pennsylvania. a million and a half more democrats than republicans. 92% conservative voting record. if you look at all the things i talk about in this campaign and i've talked about in my primary campaign they're conservative results for the american people. >> kathy mendenhall writes on facebook what do you bring to the gop that nobody else does? >> i'll say first off i won 11 states and was able to stand up to the national media and

getting outspent 4 and 5 to 1 and being able to win. and the other thing i bring, i beat the clinton machine. i beat the clinton machine in 1994. i beat the senator who carried hillary hillarycare in the united states senate. james carville and paula begala managed to campaign against me in 1994 in a state with a million more democrats than republicans and i beat them. >> question. russell pittman. how can you begin to ease racial tensions that have gotten so much worse over the past seven years? >> if you look at what happened in charleston, i was down there. i was in mother emanuel church in the sunday after the shooting. and you saw racial reconciliation like you've never seen. and it was driven -- >> i remember i saw you there. >> it was driven by faith. it was driven by people who stood out and used the power of forgiveness. it sort of frustrates me that everybody wants to talk about the flag and doesn't want to talk about how much healing went on in that community and still is going on that community. >> i'm not that good a

christian. i'm not forgiving. i don't know about you. >> it was powerful. sitting in that church sean, i mean i'm getting chills right now thinking about how powerful it is how powerful that reconciliation and forgiveness was. and that's the answer. >> all right. we have shirley on twitter. ask senator santorum how he would win over younger voters especially those who attend liberal universities. there is probably no hope. indoctrinated. >> i'd say the answer is tell them the truth. i spoke at yale back in 2012 right before the election. i had 2,000 kids come out. and i talked about the american family. and afterwards i had about an hour over an hour of people coming up to me afterwards saying the same thing to me. i've never heard any of that before. you made me think. i think a lot of folks have not heard the truth. and let me tell you, i'm not going to be ashamed about going out there and telling the truth. >> i had a really smart nephew graduated from yale. i went up there for his graduation. people kept saying what are you doing here? i'm here to save your university. they didn't like that. >> exactly.

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welcome back to welcome back to "hannity." time now for senator rick santorum. we give him 60 seconds uninterrupted to lay out his case for our viewers as to why he should be our next president. senator? >> thank you, sean. i appreciate it. we need a president who is going to unite this country, who is going to take care of the people who have been left behind by both political party others the last several decades. i announced from a factory floor in pennsylvania because we're going to good out and work for men and women and give them the ability to rise and provide for themselves and their family. we're also going to have a president who has the experience to be a commander in chief on day one. i was told by senior israeli official that next president is probably going to be a president who is going to be serving during wartime. we want someone with experience who can handle these problems from day one and keep america safe. and i will be that president. >> all right.

senator rick santorum. i'm sure they can find you online. >> ricksantorum.com. >> good to see you. thank you for joining us. thank you for being with us. as always, we hope you have a great night. we'll see you back here soon. tonight the san francisco sheriff, we are finally hearing from the sheriff under fire for the release of an illegal immigrant who allegedly went on to fatally shoot a california woman in broad daylight right in front of her horrified father. and for days local law enforcement and the feds are blaming each other for the accused kill canner being on the streets. now, san francisco's defiant sheriff making his case to the nation. so, here we go. first, i don't think any of us can really ignore, dismiss the fact of how we may feel about the tragic act itself. as a father, memo, long time member over 32