charlie bass voted for the war in iraq. he was to build up the war in afghanistan, and dragons in deeper. pedestrians to our national debt. we have lost nearly 10,000 lives between the two wars. it is not making us safer. i have sought counsel from many military leaders and members of congress to have been very helpful in me understanding this. the bottom line is, we need a much more narrowly defined mission of counter-terrorism, not the open-ended counterinsurgency. but we need to do is focus on keeping america's sake. al qaeda has moved from afghanistan to pakistan, to yemen, to somalia. we need to coordinate intelligence of be more focused on attacking the terrorists wherever they may be. getting in front of a threat, not getting drag in deeper to a long war. >> charlie bass, when will we know it is time to leave afghanistan? >> when the mission is defined by our commander in chief, barack obama, or whoever succeeds him, is fulfilled, not at a specific date certain. i would hate to think that somebody like anne kuster wo

>> i cannot disagree more with charlie bass and this is you. he has been in washington for 12 years. part of this is politics as usual. we need to get onto a new approach. i agree with him that 65% of the workers in new hampshire are small businesses. but the truth of the matter is, this needs to be poured back into the company to create jobs. what we're talking about is the creation of jobs. i would not focus on giving tax relief to millionaires who are taking the profits out of the businesses, as he explained in detail. those are profits. they are going into the pockets of the business owner. what i want the tax code to do is to incent small business owners to create jobs, the plow all these profits back into the company. i want to eliminate the capital gains tax for small businesses to create jobs, rather than a tax relief for the wealthiest among us. i want to focus tax relief on middle-class families. all across the state, one person lost his job because his job was outsourced to mexico or china. paper mills have closed, other companies ha

>> i cannot disagree more with charlie bass and this is you. he has been in washington for 12 years. part of this is politics as usual. we need to get onto a new approach. i agree with him that 65% of the workers in new hampshire are small businesses. but the truth of the matter is, this needs to be poured back into the company to create jobs. what we're talking about is the creation of jobs. i would not focus on giving tax relief to millionaires who are taking the profits out of the businesses, as he explained in detail. those are profits. they are going into the pockets of the business owner. what i want the tax code to do is to incent small business owners to create jobs, the plow all these profits back into the company. i want to eliminate the capital gains tax for small businesses to create jobs, rather than a tax relief for the wealthiest among us. i want to focus tax relief on middle-class families. all across the state, one person lost his job because his job was outsourced to mexico or china. paper mills have closed, other companies ha

they are republican charlie bass and democrat annie custer. there are others that are on the ballot but they did not meet the requirements to be part of this debate. we have three panelists. with all that out of the way, let's get to our first round of questions. >> good evening. unemployment has hovered around 10% and the white house is taking credit for the rate not going higher. has anything been done right by the obama administration as far as the economy? >> i would like to thank all of you for being here. i will like to thank my opponent. the record of the obama administration is abysmal. unemployment was 7.7% and now it is 9.7%. unfortunately, the president and nancy pelosi and harry reid embark telecourse of spending to get us out of the recession. spending almost a trillion dollars which has gone basically know where. the average cost to the citizen was $300,000. today save jobs, maybe it did. we need change in washington now, we cannot afford to wait another two years. >> thank you. good evening, great to be here. congressman bass ha

former republican congressman charlie bass and democrat anne mclean custer. later, a debate between the connecticut candidates for governor. a couple of live events to tell you about tomorrow. british prime minister david cameron speaks to the conservative party conference. that's on c-span 2 at 9:30 a.m. eastern. here on c-span, the commissioner of the food and drug administration, margaret hamburg, will be at the national press club for a speech with questions afterwards. that's at 1:00 p.m. eastern. >> most generals, there are -- their greatness is what they do on the battlefield. tried to show in the book that washington's greatness was as much what he did between battles, simply holding the cli together. >> sunday, ron chernow on his biography of washington. >> the cook political report says the race for governor governor -- for governor in illinois is a tossup between incumbent governor the pat quinn and his republican challenger, state senator bill brady. mr. quinn was lieutenant governor and became godfather -- governor when rod blagojevich was remove

today, something for new hampshire candidate ann mcclain cruster, in a tight race with challenger charlie bassg statements expected in the murder trial of washington intern chandra levy, an illegal immigrant is charged with urdering levy in a d.c. park, nine years ago. >>> southeast asia, indonesia, dangerous volcano forcing thousands out of their homes, officials say she could go at -- blow at any moment. here's martha. martha: well, alaska senate candidate bill miller admitting he was once disciplined for violating policy while working as local government attorney, he revealed during a debate yesterday he was suspended once for three days for participating in a private poll during his lunch hour, he says he learned from that mistake, the admission came after a judge ordered miller's personnel filed released, miller faces democrat scott mcadams and current republican senator lisa murkowski, running as a write-in candidate in this tight race. the latest poll average shows this is a nail biter. take a look at these numbers. miller has what was once a decent lead, now just a one point lead over

they are republican charlie bass and democrat annie custer. there are others that are on the ballot but they did not meet the requirements to be part of this debate. we have three panelists. with all that out of the way, let's get to our first round of questions. >> good evening. unemployment has hovered around 10% and the white house is taking credit for the rate not going higher. has anything been done right by the obama administration as far as the economy? >> i would like to thank all of you for being here. i will like to thank my opponent. the record of the obama administration is abysmal. unemployment was 7.7% and now it is 9.7%. unfortunately, the president and nancy pelosi and harry reid embark telecourse of spending to get us out of the recession. spending almost a trillion dollars which has gone basically know where. the average cost to the citizen was $300,000. today save jobs, maybe it did. we need change in washington now, we cannot afford to wait another two years. >> thank you. good evening, great to be here. congressman bass ha