. >> reporter: chris raymond of boeing says almost a quarter of the company's defense sales went to other countries last year. that's up from 7% about a decade ago, and this year, he expects it to rise. they deliver equipment like apache helicopters, c-17 fighters, and p-81 aircraft to about 30 countries in the middle east, europe, and asia. india is one of its newest customers. both the navy and the air force just bought boeing planes. >> asia pacific and the middle east i think right now is where you see sort of the biggest growth. i think it's growth in defense budgets, it's growth in their industrial expectations, and also i think maybe regional threats that people see aging equipment and i think they all contribute to that. >> reporter: the uptick in international business is a bright spot for u.s. defense companies. after all, their biggest customer, the u.s. government, is scheduled to slash defense spending on january 1. >> industry and others in the department of defense and congress are actually looking abroad to other countries, allies and partners who may be able to buy more o

chris christie? caller: thank you. host: all right, thank you for calling in. our next call comes from auburn, indiana. raymondu are on c-span. we are live from tampa. what would you like to say? caller: i would like to say i hope he is our next president. we need to get the bad guy out of the white house, which is obama. i back him 100%. host: why is it in your view that president obama is a bad apple? caller: everything he has done has gone the other way. he went back on his word. he is a big spender. everything he does goes bad. host: that was raiment in auburn, indiana, just north of fort wayne. eric is in the d.c. suburbs, a democrat. as a democrat, have you been watching the republican convention? caller: yes, i have. and what i have is an objective mind. i sit back and i watch it and they want to put everything on this president. they want to take the country back. you want to take the country back from what? i was listening to chris christie from new jersey. he was talking about how well he has done in new jersey. if the republican house would come across to the president like the democrat house in new

see what a raymond james advisor can do for you. [ applause ] >> thank you. >>> and now the keynote address by the new jersey governor chrisable for me. a new jersey republican delivering the keynote address to our national convention. from a state, that i must say with 7,000 more democrats than republicans. a new jersey republican stands before you tonight, proud of my party, proud of my state and proud of my country. now, now i am the son of an irish father and a sicilian mother. and a mom and dad i'm blessed to have with me today. my mom who i lost eight years ago was the enforcer. now she made sure that we all knew who set the rules. tell it to you this way in the automobile of life, dad was jaus passenger, and mom was the driver. they both lived hard lives. dad grew up in poverty, and after returning from army service, he worked at the braeuer's ice cream plant in the 1950s and with that job and the g.i. bill, he put himself through rutger's university at night to become the first of his family to earn a college degree. and our first family picture, our first family picture was on his graduation day with my mom beamin