moderator: chris koster? >> i hope we can set aside political rhetoric today and talk about what we can accomplish if we worked together over the next four years. my hope is we can create a funding plan for the missouri department of transportation so the 34,000 miles of roads stop crumbling, and we put 681 bridges, many of them in the senator's district, back into commission. we want to keep the promise that that we've made for missouri schoolchildren and in this era end this era- and of underfunding public education across missouri. we want to bring economic development incentives back online to recruit light manufacturing companies to urban centers in rural missouri alike. open up international trade offices of farmers have foreign markets to sell their goods into. and give police the tools they need to clean up the streets. i know these two political parties perhaps as well as any person in the state of missouri. i look forward to working cooperatively and respectfully across party lines to bring progress

waited eric koster do?he celebrated the death of michael brown by executing a black man within a month of michael brown's death same missouri should be in the top of killing people if it helps advance a political career. with you politicians who do things like this you cannot have moral trust in them around the of the government. >> chris koster, your next. >> i believe that what we need to do to approve a government that can be improved is to make sure that what is inherently in the dna of the state, which is small conservative government that has low taxation and business friendly regulation and a aaa bond rating remains intact. what is not been done in this state over the last 15 years or so is the other aspects that bring balance to government. we haven't been investing in our workforce in the world of economic development we call it workforce develop met, but in the real world we just call it education. higher education in this state has been cut by 40%. the k-12 budget, foundation formula itself has s

chris koster denies the charge. is a look at that debate from last week which also includes other candidates to talk about focusing on education, infrastructure spending, right to work legislation and religious freedom. >> moderator: thank you. again welcome to the 2016 candidate forums hosted by the missouri press association. earlier today candidates in two numbers to determine the order in which they will be making opening remarks your closing remarks will be made in reverse order. i am going to introduce of the candidates to you in the order of the opening remarks. first, independent candidate lester turilli. green party candidate don fitz. democrat chris koster. republican eric greitens. [applause] and libertarian cisse spragins. [applause] >> after the opening statements i will ask the first question and then we will proceed to questions from our three panelists. our three panels today seat in front our cam newton of the st. joseph news press, carol stark of the joplin globe and bill miller of the washington m

chris koster is our attorney general. when he showed up at ferguson, one of the first things he did fire darren can we wilson? he did this before he knew the facts. he do this because it was politically convenient for him. and law is now i enforcers -- law-enforcement officers and first responders and their families and anybody who cares about the safety of our communities and the integrity of our communities, we are going to see that on november 8, we are going to fire you. the concept of government is broken when it goes beyond its only legitimate functions which is to protect people's rights, property rights, and protect their life and liberty. that is what government is supposed to do. government has expanded to be something unrecognizable. broken.be it does not mean the people in the system are bad. the incentives in the system reward bad behavior. human nature has good things and bad. the political system rewards bad things in human nature, our free market system rewards good things. the nature of government were to

this is a guy, chris koster -- liz: what would your advice be to donald trump, though?> my advice would be to present the people of the country with the clear choice that's before them, and to focus on the policies that divide us. when we let people know in missouri that chris koster, like hillary clinton, his top priority is expanding obamacare, people say, hey, we've had enough of obamacare, we want eric greitens, the navy s.e.a.l., the conservative outsider willing to take the state in a new direction. liz: eric, i'd like your response to the new york post reporting a witness will come forward, a british man countering claims that the gop presidential nominee groped a woman on a cross-country flight saying i have met once this accuser and cannot imagine why she is seeking to make out that donald trump made sexual advances on her. not only did he not do so, and i was present at all times, she was the one being flirtacious. what do you make of that? >> you know what? i haven't seen that story yet, liz. we've been on the campaign trail here in missouri. we're starting o

he's facing chris koster., there's donald trump, a double digit lead over hillary clinton. what is greitens hearing from the voters of missouri and why is this outsider doing well on the big stage. eric, have you figured out where the success has come from? >> brian, what we're seeing is that people are responding to the case that we're making. as you know, i've never been involved in politics before, never run for office before. i'm a navy s.e.a.l. an entrepreneur. a husband and father. i'm running against a career politician, chris koster is a corrupt clinton-style politician. he says repeatedly his top priority as governor would be expanding obamacare. he's the chief law enforcement who failed missouri and the nation in ferguson and as we go out and make the case for people it's clear that they want strong, common sense conservative leadership and that's what we're offering to the people of missouri. >> you had one debate. they want to have a second debate. he does not want to debate you, why? >> look, he d