the heritage foundation earlier this year the heritage foundation a think tank that will likely file a friend of a corporate if calling for obamacare to be repealed gave us a glimpse of their position in a scathing write up on their website saying the laws individual mandate was intended to compel all americans to enroll in a health plan to lower the nation's uninsured rate but the war not only fails to accomplish its main goal it infringes upon americans basic constitutional rights its mandate is unprecedented it is considered to be the laws most controversial provisions. strong words what's curious is that the heritage foundation says that the individual mandate is unprecedented and what's curious about that is that mitt romney the republican who put in place its own individual mandate as governor of massachusetts said it was originally heritage foundation idea the idea for a health care plan was applied alone to here it is friday should a great conservative think tank helped out that i've told the truth but one of the very first people who came up with the idea to mandate it that

program and in fact the heritage foundation's been in favor of a mandate in fact when when the clinton administration came out with their program heritage supported newt gingrich's plan which was an individual mandate all the along the heritage foundation and all the conservatives have been going home for an individual mandate until we get a democrat the white house i don't get it well one of the constitution i mean it's not as if the constitution suddenly changed you know if you go look at the heritage foundation website right now you'll find a paper that discusses why it's on condit was an internet name. you'll find it there no we didn't write anything about the legal aspects of forcing mel americans to buy a product in private commerce i mean if you if you allow the federal government to force people to buy health care if there's no got morse yes there is mandate has no penalties associate if you don't do anything if you are forced to buy health care you know you will if you ignore about anything that you don't want you don't get hurt but once you change your system you can voluntar

that was the heritage foundation. >> have you supported an individual mandate? >> i absolutely did, with the heritage foundation, against hillary care. >> you did? >> yes, sir. >> that's what i'm saying. we got the idea from you and the heritage foundation. >> reporter: one candidate who didn't pick a fight with romney is herman cain who leads in the national poll and new surveys in south carolina and florida. cain's surge of support in both important primary states is thanks to two groups yet to warm up to romney -- tea party conservatives and evangelical christians, brian. >> all of it still on the move. chuck todd in our d.c. newsroom. chuck, thanks. >>> we learned today that senior citizens in this country after two years with no cost of living adjustment will see a 3.6% increase in social security payments next year. average increase of $39 a month works out to an extra $467 for the year. unfortunately, some of that increase will end up going toward higher premiums for medicare that will be announced next week. >>> overseas now, we turn to greece where this

heritage foundation and from you. >> that is just not true. you did not get that from me, you got it from the heritage foundation. >> and you've never supported. >> i agree with them. he said to this audience plain wasn't true. that's not where you got it from. >> have you supported in the past an individual mandate? >> i absolutely did, with the heritage foundation against hillary care. >> you did support. we got the idea from you and the heritage foundation. >> a little broader. >> the demonic aspect of the person of newt gingrich, and i do mean that. he speaks with a forked tongue where you see both forks at the same time. he said two opposite things. i agree with heritage, i did not agree with heritage. that was the wrong order. first he said he was not part of it and agreed with heritage and then denied it. how can you do both in one exchange, josh? >> not very well. in that case. i think this is another thing that comes out to me about that little clip is even though he had some problems with rick perry this time, i mean, mitt romney has

i ask because there has been a debate about this heritage foundation report that suggests the issue of poverty may be is not as important as people want to make it. there is debate about the poor in this country. why do it for about it? >> i want to salute you for coming up with the idea of the poverty tour. i go back to the discussion there in the family room of my mom's house. i am so glad i was blessed to be there with you because i think anybody can see who is concerned about the precious humanity of poor brothers and sisters and the rich resiliency. their ability to fight back to circumstances can see this is not just a crisis, it is a catastrophe. when i hear the heritage foundation trying to trivialize the suffering, i say they are part of a bygone era. this movement, we are moving into a new era. we're tired of the indifference to poor people. the legacy of martin luther king jr., miles, cesar chavis, it is now coming back. it is about what connecting catastrophe with courage and compassion, standing up and having the courage to tell the truth. as you said, let us be attuned to

get out of here and shame on you, heritage foundation! [applause] >> the speaker just speaking does not represent the heritage foundation. >> i would like to thank ed who is a graduate of berkeley law school for making me feel at home. bring back some of his son memories of his time at berkeley as well. i would like to thank ed meese for inviting me to speak and arranging this panel. i would like to thank nadine strossen who is a contributor to the book and having this debate and we had one last week in new york at new york law school. i couldn't think of a better way to think back on the last ten years and commemorate what we have been through and look towards the future, national security policy. i want to be very brief. i look forward to hearing what nadine strossen will say and turning over questions and answers but back to the last ten years and draw three lessons. the most important lesson is the most important thing to happen in the last ten years was nothing. the last ten years never saw another successful terrorist attack in the

thank you for joining us here at the heritage foundation. as director of lecture and seminars, it's a pleasure to welcome you and those who join us on the heritage.org website on all occasions. we ask everyone in-house to make the last check cell phones are turned off. it's appreciateed as we record the event. we welcome questions from the internet viewers at speaker@heritage.org, and we'll post the program within 24 hours for your reference. introducing the special guest this morning is jennifer marshall. she's director of policy studies and our richard and hellen devos center for civil society. she expwroafer sees the education, welfare, marriage, the family, and religion in civil society. she also manages familyfacts.org, online catalog of social science research related to family and religious practice. prior to joining us here, she worked on cultural industry issues and was director of family studies. please join me in welcoming jennifer marshall. jennifer? [applause] >> thank you, john, and thanks to all of you for being here for our b

thank you for joining us at the heritage foundation. as director of lectures and seminars it's my privilege to welcome everyone to the lahood northpark comco clich lois linen auditorium and those on the web site as well. we would ask everyone to make that last courtesy check that sells phones have been turned off especially for those recording today. we will of course post program within 24 hours on the homepage and our international viewers are welcome to send questions or comments simply e-mail bling at speaker@heritage.org. hosting the discussion is mr. meese who served in public policy and chairman of the center for legal and judicial studies and of course he served ronald reagan as the 75th attorney general of the united states. please join me in welcoming of to attend a -- ted meese petraeus the mccuish of the celebrating were commemorating is a better term the defense of september 11th, 2001. it was the first attack on cities in the mainland of the united states since the war of 1812. was perhaps one of the most traumatic events

heritage foundation. you don't deserve to be here. you are wrong. ten years later america is undermining civil liberties. how dare you even be here in public. get out of here and shame on you. heritage foundation. [applause] >> i was just going to say the speaker just speaking does not represent the heritage foundation. >> i'd like to thank ed, who is a graduate of berkeley law school, for making me feel at home. [laughter] >> brings back some of his own memorieses of his time at berkeley as well. i want to thank you for inviting me to speak and for arranging this panel, and i'd really like to think thank nadine -- strossen. i couldn't think of a better way to think back on the last ten years, and as general meese said, commemorate what we have been through and look towards the future of national security policy. i want to be very previous, and i look forward to hearing what nadine has to say. looking back at the last ten years and draw three lessons. the most important lesson is that the most important t

you did not get that from me, but from the heritage foundation. >> and you never supported this em?>> i agree with them, but what you said to the audience is not true. that is not where you got it from? >> did you support the individual mandate with the heritage center? >> yes, we did. >> so that is what i am saying, you did. we got the idea from you and the heritage foundation. >> i think that rick perry had the best debate so far and he nailed romney for hiring illegalle immigrants. >> those people who hire illegals ought to be penalized and mitt, you lose all of the standing from my perspective because you hired illegals in knew for it, knew about it for a year, and the idea that you stand before us and talk about that you are strong on immigration is on its face the height of hypocrisy. >> i think that comment got romney off of his game for the first time in the debates, i think that romney in a sense lost his composure, and i don't know if i would go so far to call it a jim harbaugh moment, but this is how it happened. romney was so wound up, he grabbed perry and tried to set h

human events red state dot com big government dot com and director of government studies at the heritage foundation but the benjamin coder co-founder of code pink and global exchange and jamie weinstein senior editor at the daily caller let's get started last night the republican proved that they'd rather protect millionaires and billionaires then have four hundred thousand teachers cops and firefighters on the job fifty votes this actually got fifty votes which is a majority in the senate if you if you believe. the vice president former vice president cheney the by. president a member of the senate was actually one hundred one members it could have passed in the fifty votes could have passed but the republicans said no we're going to obstruct this as a consequence the president said the second time in two weeks every single republican in the united states senate as chosen to obstruct a bill that would create jobs and get our economy going every american deserves an explanation as to why republicans refuse to do what's necessary to create jobs i think the explanation is really clear they're trying

you know, this week in "the new york times," the official at the heritage foundation admitted, he saidhere's no massive voter fraud. everybody knows that. nobody says there is, but that's exactly what's justifying these laws. >> but michael, let me -- you know, a lot of times, we will get upset when we find out something, a law gets broken or fraud takes place on any number of things, and we say, boy, why wasn't there a tighter restriction at the time? so, why not try to close the loophole before somebody truly does try to take advantage of it? >> well, there are all kinds of good ways to make our elections get better and they're a mess in a lot of ways. we have to modernize our voter registration system so that more eligible people, but only eligible people, are on the voter rolls. i think that's the kind of thing people of all political views ought to be able to work together on. we ought to be able to do all kinds of things to improve our democracy, but these laws, which are rushed through this year for the first time when the party control of the state legislatures changed in a lot

he did mention the heritage foundation and newt gingrich were singing your praises at the pass says of the massachusetts health care initiative. >> he has a wolf and tries to cover it in sheep's clothing. the president's plan is not about the few people that are not uninsured. the american people know better. our plan in massachusetts was caring for the 8 percent of the population that didn't have insurance. 92 percent of the people in the state nothing changed. the president's plan is taking over health care for 100 percent of the people and changing for everyone. telling you what doctor and treatment you can have and how much to be reimbursed and take over by the federal government. that is number one. and number two, he raises taxes by half a trillion and that helped to slow down the economy . high cut medicare by 500 billion dollars. only president that cut medicare . so there is significant differences and one more, it is a federal take over of what is a state responsibility constitutionally . day one if i am elected president. i will direct a waiver from obama care to every singl

you got it from the heritage foundation. >> you got it from the heritage foundation and you. >> you just get that from me. you got it from the heritage foundation. >> and you never supported that? >> i agree with them. what he says was plain wasn't true. >> and you supported in the past an individual mandate? >> i absolutely did with the heritage foundation against hillary care. >> you did. we got the idea from you and the heritage foundation. >> okay. a little broader. >> anderson, anderson, anderson! anderson? >> let me finish. >> he still has time. let him finish. >> i get a little time here. number two, we don't have a government insurance plan. what we do is rely on private insurers and people -- 93% of our people who were already insured, nothing changed. for the people who didn't have insurance, they get private insurance, not government insurance. and the best way to make markets work is for people to be able to buy their own products from private enterprises. what we did was right for our state according to the people in our state. and the great thing about a state solution to a

we got the idea from you and the heritage foundation. >> okay, a little broader. megyn: how did romney fare, bret? >> reporter: he counter punched well a number of different times, he pushed back. that was really one of the better counter punches. also on the 999 plan with the apples and oranges and the bushel he had some good follow-up lines. where he is most vulnerable, however, is the issue of healthcare, and the massachusetts healthcare. he continued to say last night that he as governor did not push for a national acceptance of something like romney care, but other candidates pointed to the line in his book that was removed, not from the hard cover, to the paperback, the line that said it could work across the nation. there have been a couple of interviews in 2007 in which governor romney it could be a plan for national healthcare. so there is a vulnerability here that other candidates are going to continue to tap into. megyn: thank you so much. see you for special report at 6:00pm. we are following breaking developments in the search for this beautiful baby

heritage foundation and think tank helped and newt gingrich who came up with the idea of a ma date did that years and years ago. it was a conservative idea saying people have a responsibility to care for themselves if they can't. we'll help people who can't care for themselves. if you can care for yourself. that is former governor of massachusetts. and we certainly agree. >> jay carny is out there singing yourr praise and probably not what you want. he did mention the heritage foundation and newt gingrich were singing your praises at the pass says of the massachusetts health care initiative. >> he has a wolf and tries to cover it in sheep's clothing. the president's plan is not about the few people that are not uninsured. the american people know better. our plan in massachusetts was caring for the 8 percent of the population that didn't have insurance. 92 percent of the people in the state nothing changed. the president's plan is taking over health care for 100 percent of the people and changing for everyone. telling you what doctor and treatment you can have and how much to be reimbu

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heritage foundation david estimates that regulations extract over trillion from our economy every year. >> kim, the treasury department said the opposite. that i am quoting from jan here who works for the assistant secretary two commonly repeated misconception. regulations is holding back business investment and hiring. the white house said it is not a problem. >> no, i mean, if you think about it, corporate america raked in more than 900 billion since the recession. larger companies have the money to hire. the problem is, there is too much economic uncertainty and doing more with less. how can convince shareholder to hire more people when they have increased profitability and skilled workers are a problem. here in silicon valley, which president obama visited over the past. >> that doesn't make him an expert. >> it surprises me there is a lack of ambition, but needless to say they need more skilled workerings. >> we need more speakerce in here. victoria after quoting one of the academics, who knows more about small business. academic in the treasury department or small business people

the heritage foundation, of course, a koch brothers funded enterprise. scott walker is trying to burnish his image nationwide and across the state of wisconsin from his koch brother billionaire benefactors. trying to make it look like it's working, which is the name of their campaign, trying to make it look like it's working when you stripped everybody's rights and everybody's mad at you and unemployment in your state is going up, trying to make it look like, that doesn't just mean pr. it means trying to look busy in the state capitol. for the second time since he's been governor though he's not bothering to stay in the state, tonight, for example, scott walker has called the wisconsin legislature back for a special legislative session that is focused on jobs, jobs, jobs. we talked about this last week. they have branded this jobs centric, jobs focused, jobs, jobs, jobs, all about jobs, very special legislative jobs session. they have branded it back to work wisconsin. as we noted last week, one of the things they are doing in their make it look like you

a firefighter grand program that the heritage foundation has done a study on. >> so you just broughtjustment. you guys are against that part. that was part of the trade deal. does that mean that the vote for the trade deal would be considered a negative vote in your scoring system? >> there were four votes that happened that week. there were four free trade agreements and there was trade adjustment assistance. >> as we all know there was a back room deal cut that had free adjustment. let's talk about trade adjustment assistance on its merits and let's talk about south korea and fta on their meritis. >> want to show you the top score in the system here. jeffrey duncan, 97%, jeff blake, 97%, and tom graves, 97%. what does it take to get a 100? the american conservative, they throw out 100s for pretty much anybody who votes fairly, you know, consistently in the middle. what does it take to get 100 from you? >> i don't think we see perfection in this world. >> what was the missing vote? it's clearly one vote they missed. ni i think jeff duncan voted the wrong way on a textile issue, but

you got it from the heritage foundation. >> you just said it's not true. if it's in your book... >> you took it out of your book. let's be honest. [laughter and applause] >> jon: you see that woman's look of shock. do you see the look of shock? do you know how hard it is to get a look of shock from someone in las vegas. [laughter] it's las vegas. you know what they call a show girl [bleeped] a penguin in las vegas? tuesday. but the evening was mostly about candidates answering for their past statements. for herman cain it was his 999 tax reform plan which came under heavy attackment >> reports are out that 84% of americans would pay more taxes under his plan. >> herman, i love you, brother, but let me tell you something: you don't have to have a big analysis to figure this thing out. we'll bump plans and we'll see who has the best idea about how you get this country working again. >> jon: i don't think you should do the "brother" thing. [cheering and applause] [whispering] i don't think you want to be all hey, brother, with herman. i don't know if you reme

. >> jim phillips of the conservative heritage foundation. >> i would go after their nuclear program because i think that's what they value the most at this point. i mean, air strikes on their nuclear weapons program. >> what would be the result of that to us in the united states? >> i think the initial result would be chaos on the world oil markets, much higher oil prices, and unfortunately very adverse economic consequences. >> reporter: not an administration option so far but. >> in this arena we take no options off the table. >> reporter: it is a delicate line encouraging iran to do something like this, blow up a nuclear weapon site risking blowing up a struggling economy as it is. >>> a somber memorial. their names were read, all 17 sailors killed in the terror attack on the u.s.s. cole 11 years ago today. some of the 40 sailors wounded were on hand along with relatives that did not many survive. the man accused for setting that attack is scheduled for trial in guantanamo, cubaa. >>> matt jablow is joining us live from freedom plaza where again dozens of protestors are preparing

and hans von spakovsky, senior legal fellow at the heritage foundation, which opposes new regulations. he's also a former member of the federal election commission. since i almost got your position wrong there, mr. van spakovsky, let me start with you. and ask, is it really going to change the landscape? am i overreaching when i say that? >> i think there will be more money spent on the election but, you know, we get more money spent on every election. that's a long-term trend. i think in the long run it's actually going to be a wash because you have liberal organizations and conservative organizations raising money basically to oppose each other and, look, no matter how much money you have getting your message out, if voters don't like the message you're giving you're sti not gng to win an election. >> ifill: it feels like we have these conversations every couple years. each time it's about more and more money being spent in new ways. is that really so? or are we just funding a new way around new regulations? >> i think that citizens united was certainly a game- changer. it is true w