it was nascar back in the fall. a great event. nascar recognized 105,000 military families and spouses and also came together to help work with an organization called the beacon council in south florida to commit to hiring 4,000 veterans just at the local level in the next two years. most recently and just last week we team with the ncaa, great organization, who's committed to doing 600 special things for military fam ilys in 2012 alone. kicked off a nice public service announcement and campaign. and for those of you who own any tweens, the first lady appeared on "i carly" on monday. again, with the important emphasis of raising and elevating the issue of what it means to a child to have a parent who is deployed and while it may sound fundamental and rudimentary to those who have been part of the structure, with more than 190 million saying that ten years of war has no personal impact on them, a lot of the communication needs to be rou rudimentary and fundamental. these are the realis the of mom and dad going off to war. pub blukl

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but i think nascar is on a huge up swing.eatest 500's we've had. they've made some rules changes and we don't know how it's going to turn out. the drivers are a little nervous, i think the fans are anticipating one of the best daytona 500's in history. >> people think about cars and the cars they drive. for you in the auto industry, you've been through hell over the last three or four years being with ford. being that ford did not need a bailout. did you feel the pinch? >> i learned a lot about -- about the economy, i learned a lot about hard work and a free market through the downturn with ford. jim farley brought us in, nascar, the ford racing teams and said hey, guys, this is ugly. this is not going to be good. they said chrysler is in trouble. g.m. is in trouble and ford is in trouble. and if we trim everything down and do our job right and create the best cars on the planet, we'll be ok and that's what they've done. >> and right at the auto show, you were with ford fusion yesterday, domestic automobiles. being that you'v

>> no, if last night was a nascar race, mitt romney had a couple of laps on everybody, he just had to keep from hitting the wall. when his car came off the track last night there was no dents in it. one of those kind of unexpected debates. because i think everybody thought that it was going to be a pile-up and that mitt romney's car would be right in middle of it. it appeared that everybody was a little hesitant of going after him directly. i think everyone who watched the debate was surprised by that. >> how do you explain that? >> you know, i don't explain it. it's inexplicable. the person who's clearly the front-runner who has leads not only in new hampshire but surprisingly in south carolina, who could well be on his way to running the tables in the first several states and if that happens, it will be very difficult to catch up to him because it will create an imbalance. the media has lot of driving the sense of the inevitable. i know what that can mean. as a result, it was almost, just critical that the other candidates did what they could do to dent up his car. they just didn't

he said it was a nascar race. >> it was. gingrich l left iowa incandesce with rage about romney.ut somehow lost his fire by the time he got here. but rick santorum standing next to him, he finally earned his place up here, had to face the fact not that much he differs with romney on, except the values they differ on. he's for no child left behind, he's a protectionist. he's for industrial policy. he wants special tax treatment for the 11% of the economy that's manufacturing. what he doesn't want to talk about is his involvement in the terry schiavo case, the end of life tragedy that the federal government plunged into and the other issues that may have propelled him in iowa but not beyond iowa. >> mary, did rick santorum miss an opportunity last night? >> i don't think so. that's one part of his record. the other part of his record, that you wrote so well about, in the fun candidate, he's got a lot of attributes. he's blue collar, he's ethnic, he's catholic. he is the one candidate in this field that's connecting the cultural and the economic erosion to government expansion. and

>> well the idea of a nascar jacket or uniform is a powerful metaphor.nternet. what we're looking for is real time, online disclosure of where all the money is coming from so we can follow it. the reason we need that information to be completely associated with the politicians is we need to ask ourselves what all this money is buying. it's not just buying ad time in media markets in florida. these candidates and the president are all approaching very wealthy people and spending their time courting them and that is going to change the way they approach public policy and the way they make decisions. >> it reminds me of that quote the other day from chris dodd who is at the mpaa saying if we give you money we expect you to do something for it going back to the debate. that was remarkably tone deaf on his part and insightful for the rest of us. >> an incredible sense of entitlement for chris dodd to leave a democratic senate seat in a high ranking position and act as though he can dictate public policy because he's got -- >> based on money. >> unbelievable.

>> as a nascar fan and a tea party conservative, absolutely not. >> what about the fanny pack? >> no. let me tell you, i've traveled the country, and to a person, the response on why you like newt gingrich is you want to see him debate obama. conservatives are -- this is a bloodlust. this is entertainment value. and it could mark the demise of the conservative movement if that is what they vote on in november. >> let's talk a little bit about how romney -- and we talk about gingrich, and of course we have to talk about romney in the same breath, because they are twin, their fates are twin. romney, it strikes me as odd, that no matter how long this thing goes on, the guy still has not found his comfort zone in terms of talking about his own wealth, his taxes. let's listen to him at a debate yesterday or a forum, sorry. >> how much money do you have? >> well, you tell me and i'll tell you. no, i'm kidding. it's between 150 and 200-some-odd million. that's what the estimates are. and by the way, i didn't inherit that. >> $50 million, you know, sometimes you lose track of it. >> we

ever wondered what a car sounded like without its catalytic converter, it sounds like the pit in a nascar race. south san francisco police are racing against time to solve why 19 catalytic converters have been stolen in 12 days, all of them toyotas. >> that's significantly higher than i have seen before. in the past we have had them taken from time to time but never this number in that short a time. >> reporter: police theorize thieves are selling them in the black market. city toyota in daly city thinks they are scrapping them for the precious metals. >> probably they are taking it for the metal that's inside it, which is platinum. >> reporter: the toyota trucks are the hardest hit because their underside is high enough from the ground. someone can easily crawl under it. this is one of the destroyed trucks being prepared today. >> here's a cut-out one that's missing. over here at the other side they started cutting on the front part and then i don't know they left it. >> reporter: one of the neighborhoods hit, the brentwood area. bernadette owns a toyota tacoma and couldn't believe the n

nascar driver. she will discuss her career in preparations for the indianapolis 500. on march 14th, we have former representatives patrick kennedy and jim ramstead. on april 4th, we have the founder of the chopra foundation for well being. i would likeur guest with the traditional npc mug. >> oh, boy. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> and i have one last question. you talk about all of us should be prepared. i would like to know what you have in your ready bag. >> i have the king of ready bags. i have, you know, my set of clothes. first aid equipment. extra batteries. extra chargers. a couple of good books. the phone number and e-mail address of everybody i'm going to have to be in touch with if i ever have to use that ready bag. all of you should have a ready bag as well. all right. thank you. [ applause ] >> i want to thank all of you for coming out today. i would also like to thank the national press club staff including the library and media center. here is a reminder where you can find out more about the national press club on our web site. if you would like a

mention two thousand fitted like nascar drivers where it shows their sponsors on their suits you know they they should have to wear logos sort of like that exxon mobil and the koch brothers ok. we're going to see eight eight eight billion dollars spent in the two thousand and twelve elections and we're going to see a decrease in voter turnout because most of that money is going to be very negative it's going to. leave most americans feeling disgusted with our campaign finance system and it is not going to help mobilize or increase the confidence or increase the integrity of the democratic system in the u.s. ok we're in a very dangerous period i want to call that ok see them with the last word twenty seconds. well first of all government was strong we wouldn't have to do all those second of all the reason tara is going to be down is because obama's. magical run is over and a lot of the new first time voters who never voted but voted for him will be gone next time ok gentlemen very spirited discussion thank you very much many thanks to my guest today in los angeles and in washington and

it was nascar back in the fall. we're recognizing 5,000 military families to commit to hiring 4,000 swret ranz just at the local level in the next two years. most recently and just last week, we teamed with the ncaa who's committed to doing 600 special things for military families in 2012 alone. and they kicked off a nice public service announcement campaign. and for those of you who have any tweens you saw the first lady in an episode of "i carly" with the message of what it means to a child to have a parent deployed. with more than 60% of americans saying the war has no personal impact on them, it needs to be rudimentary and fundamental. these are the fundamentals of mom and dad going off to war. that's public awareness, i think we'll continue to see more and more of those in the months to come. i'll talk about employment at the end. education, we're working down two lanes. first to work with an organization called the national math science initiative which i will refer to as ap on steroids, it's the most advanced

nascar's partnership with ethanol a sign that the pressure on the corn supply will continue forty percent of last year's corn crop went to ethanol and that leaves the other sixty percent to go toward food for people and animals and with the price per bushel more than doubling in the last five years it's no wonder food prices are going up when demand goes up . and all farmers plant more corn. then they can't buy certain other research scholar tim searching or says that leads to the shortage and increased prices of other crops and it's not just this country in other countries where people rely on corn meal as one of the only meals for their families. the price hike has been devastating. ethanol farmers and plant workers argue that the claims are exaggerated since leftovers are actually used to make high protein animal feed everything else from the fiber from the protein. and the corn oil is left over that is what over and ready to put animal feed and still it doesn't change the fact that one sixth of the world's corn supply is burned in american cars that is enough corn to feed three hundre

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