congressman cravaack spoke at the heritage foundation innings washington and he's followed by a panel that also opposes the cuts. this is about as hour and 25 minutes. >> so let me run over the logistics real quick before we get started so the congressman is going to makera, and graciously agreed to take some q and a. he's going to talk and then he ironically has to run and catch a flight. then we're going to do a very quick chinese fire drill and bring up the following panel to discuss for the remainder of the time. so i am very excited, recent first of all, we're very excited to host this event. it's over a decade now since september 11th and the attacks on new york and washington. and we have learned so much on how to make this nation safe. and preserve our liberties and keep our economy moving. you know, we've thwarted at least by our count 459 terrorist attacks since 9/11. all but three of those where is stopped by people doing the right thing, doing their jobs. we know what works and what doesn't. and when you see your government start to do things that don't make common sense,

the killing and cravaack issues have been primarily -- cueing and traffic issues have been primarily around academy of art. if people are vapor rising, i would hope they are not than driving a car. i would think that would not be wise. i would like to get feedback about vaporization. i do not know how many other medical marijuana dispensaries allow vaporization. maybe you could provide insight on that. commissioner moore: i am not concerned about the mcd being here. the issue of clustering is still out of our hands. we have repeatedly encouraged the board to engage with us in a policy discussion about clustering being somewhat undesirable. at the same time, i am concerned about our consistency in 628 approvals were vaporization was not an issue. -- 6 to 8 approvals where vaporization was not an issue. i will support the mcd, but only without vaporization. i want to be clear about that. vice president wu: i also have questions for staff around the vaporization, and specifically whether or not it requires ventilation. secondly, on the issue of the windows -- if the windows can only be

. >> cravaack afternoon, our big story at noon -- the police stand up with a man believed to be behind a string of deadly shootings in france continues. police tried to address the -- arrest the 24-year-old but the suspect fired on police injuring two. >> it has been a standoff for hours between the gun man who has been holed up inside a small house where he has lived in toulouse and outside with hundreds of police who have been trying to persuade this 24-year- old man to come out without more violence. an order came some time ago to move in to end negotiations or else the police would storm the house. we now believe the order from the highest authorities in paris now has to come down. if it does, there will be imminent and dramatic movement. we have a better idea of the profile of this individual. his 24-years old from toulouse, of algerian extract but french and trained with al-qaeda and he said he returned to france to commit jihad. he has cut admitted to the recent killings in the toulouse area. he killed three french soldiers last week to protest western intervention in afghanista

it is my honor to present chip cravaack.ences as a navy pilot and also in northwest airlines pilot. that gave him the opportunity to see and experience and live in many parts of the united states and traveling around the world. wisely, if any of you have been there he decided to make northeast minnesota his home and represent the eighth district from that state. he was honored with several awards including the joint service commendation medal. he has a bachelor of science degree from the united states naval academy. that is okay, even though i went to west. my wife went to the naval academy. from themaster's a university of west florida. he has attended the naval war college in the national defense university. we could not ask anyone with a better resume to talk about the issue. please welcome the enjoining the congressman. [applause] >> that is okay. not everybody can make it into the naval academy. i would like to tee why for coming here today. i would like would likeed fuller for all the work he does at the heritage found

it has been customary far doctor to take the hit the cravaack oath. -- theocratic of. but the people ought to be very cautious. also, entitlements includes those to illegal aliens and giving automatic citizenship to anybody born here -- we are never going to have the money to insure the general welfare persistence of this country. i think we ought to look at all of those first. host: let's move on to our second big story of the week. that the supreme court. everyone watching this network knows the historic three days of oral arguments over when mark health care legislation -- 5.5 hours of argument before the court monday, today, and wednesday of this week. we are going to listen to a closing market -- closing argument made by the u.s. solicitor general arguing a point for the administration. [video clip] >> congress struggled with this for many years. they made a judgment. it's a judgment is one that is in conformity with what lots of experts fought the best complex of auctions -- options do have this problem. maybe they're right. maybe they were not. but this is somet

we used the term cravaack is when we are talking early medicine. -- we use the term loosely when we are talking about early medicine. they would learn as they went. >> our cities tour continues the weekend of march 31 from little rock, arkansas on c-span 2 and 3. >> the mississippi and alabama primaries are tomorrow. the alabama republican party hosted newt gingrich and rick santorum. ron paul and mitt romney did not participate. 15 delegates are at stake in alabama. this is a little less than an hour and a half. >> we are excited about this opportunity in participating in the nominating process that will produce the next president of the united states. all four candidates were invited to participate tonight. we are honored that newt gingrich and senator santorum have accepted our invitation. as i said before, this is the first time we have ever done anything like this, so we are privileged to be able to host this presidential forum. i want to thank the local media, the national media. i know it has been an inconvenience for some of you to get here, but we really are a staple for you be