your voting for ron paul. for obama and now you're voting for ron paul if ron paul wins the general election and with the primary and you're on the phone so maybe maybe those are winning issues they they are not winning issues to the general populace oh so what are you some kind of freak out that you represent of the center right i am of the center right and i represent the populists i'm a social conservative i'm very much do not stand like you have been dragged kicking and screaming into the ron paul crazy camp and i will vote for ron paul and you are a member of veterans only sorry but your points are well taken we look forward to the viewer feedback on takes forever we have a couple other issues you want to cover you were right about about obama's speech yesterday you get to do your little mainstream media tour congratulations. and you could point out that the day before you were right on target you said eight to twelve thousand within the next year and he said five in five thousand so. the indication is th

so as ron paul consistent anti-war message against traction is the changing tide of u.s. foreign policy quickly winning over followers here at home or her friends of the resident took to the streets. and now. u.s. troops are in iraq and afghanistan and libya and syria are not enough and what are they going to be enough united states of america this week let's talk about that we think about. the americans as being. the world police. good or bad. i don't know but troops there if there is something you want to grow your resources. security or resource. for example with mcdonald's we're number one in the world. the world we can still do it even the. best. we can do it why is that so important to be number one. has to be one of the one. yes i don't think there's any altieri motive. no oil interest no economic interest. what do we want to accomplish. just. to waste the money and the lives of young people you know that you think is maybe another reason that we're doing it of course they want reason all you or. i don't think it's logical i. think there's a big disconnect between

a truth ron paul is not a conspiracy theorizing ron paul takes the takes barracks takes data assessment and tries to really get the truth the supporters do the same thing they're called truth there is another series of oil on the earth this there's a choice available to you that you want to bring about a choice of issues is something else go ahead with this well it depends on if you're talking about afghanistan or if you're talking about drug legalization if you want to use to a right well you always. end up in here's the difference between say like rand and ron it's already a lot of it's rhetorical but rand will talk about afghanistan from a fiscal perspective or even talk about military strategy why it's not working there now ron is special you know it you know he had more of a tent in its infancy to say this is empire were doing this nation building for empire the whole is you call that i'm with you they're appealing to your base but you've actually come out and called marijuana legalization a friend friend issue it is for seventy two percent of the senate know it it's slandered that

is responsible for some of what's going on and income from civilian deaths in libya and also why ron paul a man who's been against war all along he's seen as a fringe candidate that's all coming up. it's monday june twentieth i'm christine for sale in washington d.c. you're watching our t.v. our top story today u.s. involvement in foreign wars and the fact that while these decisions continue to be made from the top and overwhelming majority of americans are unhappy about it take a look a poll conducted last week i pulse opinion research found that seventy to two percent of voters believe the united states is involved in too many foreign conflicts and should pull back its troops seventy two percent that's with sixteen percent saying a level of engagement was appropriate and twelve percent saying they're not sure so only frustration now growing as u.s. and nato forces continue involvement in libya but the most recent news that at least nine civilians were killed and among all the airstrike in tripoli our correspondent were in fear notional is in tripoli and she has this report. mohammed tha

that i get many emails every day saying well if it wasn't ron paul i never heard of. thank you thank you challenge and critical thinking is to look at the and see right so yeah ron paul the problem out of people into libertarian is no question has you given other people out here no question he's got some religious fundamentalism that is less appealing to other people and does he get people stuck in that last exit before voluntourism whole political action like this one last exit. it's like. ok i don't know if i was sorry i thought i would go over the bells i think you know i think it was very close that you got there was something about it when it's an item of ways you can only give it up because the farm. with the thank you watching the first ever episode of adam versus the manager of a live studio audience when we come back we'll hear from marketing in a free talk live in a day move freeman and pete air with couple i've got organ liberty on tour and a special appearance from anonymous you're watching adam vs the man stay tuned thank. you. contributors we have a lot

so is ron paul's consistent anti-war message against traction is the changing tide of u.s. foreign policy quickly winning over followers here in the us or harvest on the resident arnett to the streets of the big apple to find out. u.s. troops are in iraq and afghanistan and libya and syria and iran and whether they're going to be enough united states of america this week let's talk about that we think about. americans as being some kind of. world police you know. it better be good or bad. i don't know but troops there if there is something you want to do your resources. secure your resources and that's a little bit different. reason as they are reporting example with mcdonald's we're number one in the world of. the world to do it even the. best. we can do it why is that so important to be number one has to be. the one i want to think about your take yes i don't think there's any algeria motive. none at all no oil interests no economic interests no no what do we want to accomplish that. just the safety of them to waste the money and the lives of young people did you think th

it's a completely separate from the campaign you know the ron paul scene was known to the ron paul campaign was known in two thousand and eight as being grassroots driven and this is no different but instead of doing something say that's fundamentally frivolous you know this is actually a very concrete thing that we can do that the mainstream media cannot take away so it's going to be very difficult thing for the mainstream media to spend its way out of a win in ames because you know it's usually a very high profile event so it's r t twenty twelve or it's the same software that we used during my campaign. people are who worked on our campaign are familiar with it takes about literally about ten seconds to sign in and then all you do is even for those people who are maybe a little called reluctant little afraid to make a phone call well you have to do is just pick up the the phone dial folks just ask if they're wrong paul supporters and that's it no cell mate and they say one of those hey information to be empowered and turn out at the right place the right i'm outstanding john thanks for jo

head about why killing kids is great news ron paul and barney frank seem enough to get the feds out of the weed control hillary clinton taking sides against the american people we bust time magazine a negative neo con man see once again on those ron paul people plus a little gay news from the sergeant major of the marine corps don't ask nancy if he's a neo con and i won't tell anyone that you've been watching out on the versus the man. the f.b.i. is bragging about a recent coup mob boss james whitey bulger he was captured after sixteen years on the run near los angeles this case is interesting because it shows what happens when the full light of the federal government's law enforcement effort is focused on a truly dangerous criminal the rest came after a tip from a t.v.

poll mitt romney is number two trailing another very big government republican rudy giuliani ali ron paul pulls it over for trailing sarah palin he's the only candidate of those who has declared his run for the presidency yet so in other words the c.m. polling has the number one goal and candidate it was declared as ron paul will enjoy the moment while it lasts then get back to kicking these anti-constitutional so-called republicans out of the running but let me ask you american conservative viewers do you really want mitt romney as your president let's take each one of the conservative elements piece by piece. is mitt romney best for social conservatives if abortion is morally wrong and he responsible for discouraging it one of the great things about our nation sally is that region title to have strong personal beliefs and we encourage other people to do the same but as a nation we recognize the right of all people to believe as they want and not to impose our beliefs on other people i believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country ok so in massachusetts but the way we di

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congressman ron paul is next. they're backed by the superguarantee®? only superpages®.rever you are, wherever you're going, you'll find the super business you need. so next time, let the good guys save the day. get the superguarantee®, only at superpages®. in the book ... on your phone or online. >>> joining me now, republican presidential candidate, congressman ron paul. congressman, thank you very much for joining us. let's talk about a couple of things that were out there this week. the debt ceiling. the house rejected raising the debt ceiling in what seemed like a pressure move as opposed to a final move. will there be a deal to raise the debt ceiling this month? >> well, i don't think anybody has an absolute answer to that, but i have my suspicions and i would bet on that there will be. >> and much to your unhappiness. >> sure. i mean, i came in to the is congress a good many years ago and my goal was to shrink the size much government and balance the budget, pay the bills, have sound money and live within our means and mind our own business. i haven't done a very

you so now ron paul is polling very well it's almost like they can't because they're busy attacking johnson and they can't get to ron but you know a lot of the we are things like an electable which i think is now officially a republican establishment code word for our friends you know who get the benefits of the welfare program the military industrial complex or other you know big government welfare programs supported by the neo con establishment element if they get elected we're going to lose all those benefits but you have. a different suggestion for gary johnson i do and i know a lot of people that support ron paul supporter johnson and i think he's great on most of the issues i disagree with him on the abortion issue and there's one reason to mention that to. the debate started in south carolina very very socially conservative state not a good place for kerry to make if they view in the debates and say i'm pro-choice but really what this comes down to is you know as a political pragmatist you have to look at the system as it is not as we want to be and i think it's pretty terribl

you were in support of ron paul in two thousand and eight when he was running for president he's running again this time and a lot of people could say well the only problem governor with your campaign right now is that there's already another ron paul out there do you think that there is room for two libertarians well first of all i'm asked that all the time and ron paul got eight percent of the republican vote last go round so governor johnson what if you split ron paul's vote will if i split ron paul's vote this movement isn't going to go anywhere and this movement i would say is really liberty has its problems. it's about freedom and it needs to expand to about forty percent so if ron paul and i split forty percent of the vote then we probably need to sit down and talk to one another but if we're to split eight percent of the vote hey this is this isn't going anywhere thing and it needs to go somewhere so does that mean you don't think you have any actual chance of winning the presidency no that's i'm saying just the just the opposite that this needs to go places and i'm trying to tak

didn't put him in this time because he did ron paul definitely shake things up dave thanks so much for being here. we have to take a quick break when we come back it's time for shelling to tell and that is everything you see on television all part of a low.

vote will if i split ron paul's vote this movement isn't going to go anywhere in this movement i would say is really liberty his problem. it's about freedom and it needs to expand to about forty percent so if ron paul and i split forty percent of the vote then we probably need to sit down and talk to one another but if we're to split eight percent of the vote hey this is this isn't going anywhere and it needs to go somewhere that is i mean you don't think you have any actual a chance of winning the presidency no that's all i'm saying just the just the opposite this needs to go places and i'm trying to take it places and that's not that's not a criticism of anyone else that's just where it needs to go and so there needs to be a broader base of support and if you want to say that stereo speakers are blaring the issue of the issues and the stereo it sounds a little bit better to people than maybe you can make that argument well what you know at what are those issues that the stereo speakers are blaring because i this is where i wonder how you fit into the republican ticket because social

favor going in and shooting that lot in the face without notifying the pakistanis i think ron paul is out of the mainstream on war and i don't you know well i mean if that was the case then maybe i don't know what he what his position was but i don't think most americans would agree with that but most americans do agree now republicans and democrats it's time to get up. i mean it's not that there's a difference but saying that they want to draw down in there certainly there's a move by some people in that direction in taking ron paul's decision a position which is far more. isolationist than some as i'm sure any of these other candidates in favor of getting. i i don't know they didn't make it exactly clear romney decision that will isn't isn't clear and it wasn't fleshed out it's still early in the campaign huntsman is running to the left of obama on foreign policy i don't think any successful republican candidate is going to run to the left of obama on foreign policy i think republicans are best arguing that obama is what it what's right or left about having or not having a war you c

on the debate stage even as mitt is mitt romney's sort of soft positions have taken a decidedly ron paul ask shape the consensus from the candidates it's time to quit spending money and come home but this doesn't sit well with the hawkish well for wrists and the hundred year war crowd so now senator graham thinks all of the g.o.p. candidates are left here's the quote if you think the pathway to the g.o.p. nomination is to get to barack obama's left you're going to meet a lot of headwinds. newsflash this just been liberal nation building is not conservative spending taxpayer money on other nations when we're all on the verge of the fault is not conservative lindsey why are you actually conserving here clearly not our bill of rights you know that annoying freedom part of the constitution you don't like free speech is a great idea but we're in a war. i am utterly baffled as to how a big government liberty hater with the girl's name became a senator in south carolina of all places and then again mccain here is sitting in barry goldwater seat perhaps the truest illustration of just how far we

character and men who believe in principles and other people may want to emulate us. >> congressman ron paul, thank you for your time. i know you have u had a busy day. >> thank you. >> interesting, congressman paul saying he senses a difference both in where the country is and where some other candidates are. >> and to a degree he's right. if you go back he mentioned george w. bush in 2000. a more humble nation. he also campaigned to be a compassionate conservative. he campaigned to have immigration reform that then gave citizenship and then status to immigrants. who do we want to be? what issues are first and foremost? and definitely on the intervention issues? on the use of foreign policy, whether it's because they just disagree with president obama. whether they think we've been in afghanistan too long or whether they think we just can't afford it because of the budget pressures popular with conservatives right now, the republican party is retreating 123450 and you see, john mccain is not in this race. you think of the impact john mccain has had on republican foreign policy. you talk abo

tied for fourth, ron paul and newt gingrich. representative bachman will make her official campaign announcement tomorrow in waterloo, iowa. live coverage begins at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span and c- span radio. >> c-span has launched a new website for politics in the 2012 presidential race, with the latest events from the campaign trail, biographies of the candidates, twitter feeds, facebook updates, and links to media partners in the early caucus states. visit us at c-span.org/ campaign2012. >> next, a look at the republican candidates and possible candidates from today's "washington journal." this is 40 minutes. we now go it the elephant stampede the lay he is story you have been working on, five reasons the republican race is so unsettled. give us one or two. guest: one reason is that the republican field is very large and the front-runner, who is a very recent front-runner happens to be somebody that is the most energetic part of the party, the conservative tea party wing of the party, isn't happy with so they are struggli

isolationist bringing the troops home and tally not as strong as ron paul granted but i think in their answers you did see some nuance that is new that's a that's a change usually it's you know support the troops whatever the generals while we're going to stay in there we're going to when we go to fight you know we're the united states of america you're not seeing that harsh of a rhetoric as much at least that's what i know that's why i dislike the ron paul at least admits hey guess what we're not going to win this actually endangers us because it makes more people hate america when you start bombing a million countries abroad and it's part of the reason that we're going broke because defense spending is absolutely completely out of whack right now and john king didn't even ask them about defense spending considering that i'm only time that they spent on the economy and give ron paul credit for this right he said the president always say i defer to the generals you know if you don't ask don't tell they said well so would you repeal it would you would you bring it back to previous what

it's an unusual effort by a plit wal odd couple, democrat barney frank and republican ron paul.an todd has been working this story. >> we know it's going to be tough for barney frank and ron paul to push this bill all the way through. he says it's done more harm than good. a bold new plan to end a major battle in the war on drugs. two prominent congressmen say it's time for the feds to stop regulating marijuana. democrat barney frank and republican presidential hopeful ron paul are pushing a bill that would let the states make their own laws on marijuana. the states could legalize, tax and regulate the use of pot, and the federal government would only crack down on smuggling across the national border or into states that don't legalize marijuana. >> we should not have federal laws that make the personal use of marijuana criminal, or even the growing of it. it should be criminal if a state wants to maintain its restrictions and the federal government should honor that state's laws. >> reporter: frank says there are two principal reasons he's behind this, to make sure the governme

i didn't know that, i learned that ron paul favors the blackberry. and i learned that herman cain likes deep dish pizza. and besides being a hard-core johnny cash fan, the world found out that i have christmas with elvis on my ipod. but you have to tell a little secret, you are not going to tell anyone? but i have to tell you, i was a little nervous and i didn't know if they were going to ask boxers or briefs. you know a girl never knows. but the debate i think did bring three things out in new hampshire that were very important. and the first is. this in contrast to the current administration, what we saw on the stage in new hampshire were leaders. people who could lead this country. and our parties showed very well, i think in that debate. and it was a real honor for me to be able to announce that night, that i had filed my paperwork to seek the office of the presidency of the united states of america. the greatest country the world has ever seen. during the brief years i feel that my job is to bring the voice of the people in the halls of congress

think our foreign policy is dangerous anything changes i like ron paul do not think of the world is going to suddenly implode if the united states doesn't wage a never ending war against anyone and everyone and spend more than the rest of the world combined on those military endeavors to answer your question no i'm not comfortable with extremists getting a hold of pakistani nukes i'm also not comfortable the notion the bios is waging a dangerous and illegal drone war on the pakistani border that we're somehow making more friends than we are enemies that's simply not the case and those who choose to ignore the connection of our actions with the creation of extremism in anti-americanism are willfully blind ignorant now to answer the second part of your question no i also do not support dictatorships the north africa killing their citizens i also don't support illegal wars launched without the support of the us congress on the premise of humanitarianism when that clearly is not with the wars about because then we'd be at bahrain we'd be in syria and yemen is well enough just to name a

debate debate earlier this week now i congratulated ron paul on his foreign policy statement that what paul elliott asked alona so you're comfortable with extremists i mean control of pakistani nukes do you support dictatorships in north africa and the killing of citizens in order to suppress democracy. you know what paul please do me a favor and spare me your conservative political talking points i suppose i can tired of hearing that i implicitly support extremist the dictators if i dare to question the actions of the us military abroad i like ron paul think that our foreign policy is dangerous anything changes i like ron paul do not think that the world is going to suddenly implode if the united states doesn't wage a never ending war against anyone and everyone and spend more than the rest of the world combined on those military endeavors and answer a question no i'm not comfortable with extremists getting a hold of pakistani nukes and also not comfortable the notion that by is waging a dangerous and illegal drone war on the pakistani border that we're somehow making more friends tha

if the leadership can just be a little more welcoming of candidates like ron paul and gary johnson you know the the real honest consistent fiscal conservatives who want to end the welfare program known as the military industrial complex and not impose romney care so now that the ball is in the republican court willie dropped it again here's a tip don't alienate your youth base ron paul's a republican and most of his supporters are republicans to. the now from austin texas is no than alex jones host of the alex jones radio show and enforce dot com alex thanks so much for being with us tonight and i'm good to be here are now you've been fighting against the t.s.a. the security police state for a long time especially as well as we cover on the show with a good fight in texas to get the state to stand up to the department of homeland security but we're seeing now this new twist on the technology the easy convenient scanning tunnels that people can just walk through and get maybe a retina scott retina scan through what's your take on this latest twist. well we predicted it well let's gettin

shame on barney frank and ron paul. ointment for american leadership. >> paul, you had a problem with this when you were 12. you went into rehab because of drinking and marijuana use. your own life is proof that laws don't stop the illegal trade in this. what do you make of that? >> i grew up watching cheech and chong smoking out. 90% of those in treatment don't quite make it. they are still addicts. i'm 36 today. 26 years of sobriety, but i'm fighting in the trenches. i'm a dad. i have three young kids at home. it's what kind of country i want my little ones to grow up in. look at california. we defeated marijuana legalization last go around. we have woken up to the medical fraud marijuana problem that's skirted around the nation. times are changing. it will be back to community and family values. >> tommy, what is the thing -- >> first of all, let me ask him a question. do you know who montel williams is? >> i'm very disappointed -- i'm sorry. >> do you know montel williams? he has m.s. it's a debilitating disease he k

>> that was john huntsman, michele bachmann and ron paul. today tim pawlenty said, "parts of the republican party now seem to be trying to outbid the democrats in appealing to isolationist sentiments." do you agree? >> yes, i do. i think there's been a tension with the republican party. one of my responses among many about our involvement in libya is after rwanda we said never again. gadhafi's forces were at the city of 700,000 people and he promised he would go house to house and kill anybody he thought opposed him. that's why, one of the reasons why we intervened. not to mention the blood of 90 some americans as a result of bombing of 103. the fact he has been involved in acts of terror and if he survived, he would again. that and other reasons clearly indicate it is in the united states' national security

and it was such a tragedy -- >> all right, we're listening to congressman ron paul, vying for the gop nomination to become president of the united states. he is one of a number of gop hopefuls who are addressing the republican leadership conference going on right now in new orleans. the three-day event kicked off yesterday. we've seen newt gingrich already speak, herman cain and other candidates. also rick santorum will be there. also michele bachmann. we're expecting her in just about an hour. we're going to dip into that. she's gained a lot of steam since the cnn debate earlier this week. a lot of people gave her high marks for her performance there. when she steps to the podium, we will take her live as well. >>> meanwhile, the violence escalating in syria, more people literally running for their lives. and today, many of them who have run for their lives got a visit from angelina jolie. she is at the border, and cnn's

this week, our series of interviews continues with texas congressman ron paul. he talks about the lessons learned from his two previous bids and his views on monetary policy, the federal reserve, abortion, and the state republican party. he also offers an assessment of the obama administration and his strategy for winning the gop nomination. this is 45 minutes. >> congressman ron paul, this is your third presidential bid. what did you learn from the first two? >> the first one was in 1980 in the libertarian party, and i learned that our system of government is not very conducive for any competition with the two major parties, and if you come to the conclusion that both parties are pretty close in policy, that policies never change regardless of their rhetoric, then we do not have a real good system inviting new competition as demanded by people around the world, so too often, i do not think the democratic process is all that good in our country. last go around, i learned that we were much further along in the freedom movement, defending our constitutional person

joining tim pawlenty, ron paul, and rick santorum.ling through new hampshire, the place of the first presidential primary. then she will move on to south carolina. if you missed any of this event, it will be on tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c- span. >> season and has launched a new web site with the latest cease and events from the campaign trail, biography intermission on the candidates, twitter speeds, and facebook updates. clinks' to seize and media partners in the early primary and caucus states -- links to c- span partners. c-span.org/campaign2012. >> this morning, president and vice president meeting with harry reid. the president and vice-president will double in with image mcconnell. republican lawmakers walked out over differences on tax hikes last week. the president is hoping to salvage those negotiations today with the august decision approaching. we will be watching and bring new updates as they become available. blackberry users can now access the four streams of live programming, non-fiction books, and

herman cane and ron paul among them. ly vote republican if he doesn't win the nomination. >> well, if you ask me to promise that i would vote whoever the candidate is, no, i wouldn't do it. because my supporters wouldn't understand it because they want a change. if they represent the status quo and nothing i believe in, but who knows how things may evolve. >> there are two dynamics that have changed the political landscape. the power of the internet as well as the citizens tea party movement. those dynamics neutralized as having the most amount of money. we'll have enough money to be competitive but we don't have to have the most amount. >> those candidates are about to get more competition. republican rick santorum will announce his candidacy tomorrow. cnn political editor mark preston joins us from washington. what do we know about santorum and really what do we know about his chances of success in this race? >> rick santorum lost re-election back in 2006. but he sees this as an opportunity to perhaps get back in the na

caller: i think that ron paul is the man.t will take us 20 more years to get the public off the breast milk of government handouts. i believe he is the man that can do it. and i will get off the line the listen to you talk. host: among the people that you talk to, how much real support is there for ron paul candidacy? caller: not enough. [laughter] host: we will leave it there. charles hurt. guest: ron paul and his supporters, they are dreamers, and i mean that in a very good sense. they have very high ideals of felt what they would like to see the government returned to. and i personally agree with a whole lot of them. they go in the right direction. but as george was pointing out earlier, unfortunately this town is based on -- you have to cobble together your actions and groups of support. the animal that on paul makes up is not an animal we normally see the successful in this town. host: later on today, newt gingrich will be addressing the republican jewish coalition out in beverly hills. it is a foreign-policy address, hi

i am proud of the fact that john boehner named ron paul as the chairman of the subcommittee. t, i told ron one of the things i would love to do is let's go see the gold. this is done in to me. we were told that we could not do that. what do you mean? the people cannot see the actual gold? it causes a lot of eyebrows to raise it. i would like to go see it. we are going to try to push that issue. i think what ron paul has done is to have an audit of the federal reserve. i co-sponsored the bill in the last congress. it is reasonable for the american people to have some exposure to what is happening there. all of this starts with having an audit of the federal reserve. that seems like a reasonable position to me. host: lancaster, pa., philip is on our republican line. caller: yes, i agree with the previous caller. i think ron pollack is the only candidate that is running on the republican docket that has any common sense. these guys get off on these half-ass schemes. they're only working for themselves. ron paul is a man who if he says he is going to do something, he does it. he f

ron paul, making his third presidentialed by. minnesota congressman michelle bachmann makes her debut tonight. she has yet to formally announce but all signs are pointing to a presidential run. former pennsylvania senator rick santorum among the least known of the seven. he's popular among social conservatives, opposing abortion and same-sex marriage. and herman cain is beginning to gain some traction. guys, thanks very much. i want you to listen to what tim pawlenty, the former minnesota governor said about mitt romney yesterday on tv. listen to this. >> you don't have to take my word for it. president obama said he drafted his obamacare after romney care. so now we have obamneycare. what i don't understand is they both continue to defend it. >> it wasn't exactly a slam, but for tim pawlenty, it was a biting comment. >> yeah. i think it was a slam. 59 mitt romney. it's clear that pawlenty has made a decision he's going to take on romney and try to make this a two-man race. i'm not so sure that's a great idea. i think it's a litt

the communists, slave masters, and masters of the universe will not support ron paul. i support paul ryan's plan. host: you can check out our new page for politics. did you want to respond? guest: what is most interesting about some of the republicans you mentioned is the richness of the republican field and how many ideas are coming out of the republican party. i think it is vibrant. there is an opportunity to bring some real solutions to the table that have not been allowed under the old two-party monopoly. host: which tea party candidate is capable of debating ralph nader for one hour on c-span questio? guest: there are so many. alan west, rand paul, scott paul. any of them would do a great job. marco rubio. i am not even sure that ralph nader would accept the challenge. host: we're taking listener calls. russ joins us from connecticut. caller: a want to talk about one idea. that is deregulation. it gave us aig, bear stearns. do you really love bernie madoff and what he did that much? enron and how it collapsed. derivatives started in the late 1990's. democratic cong

and in new orleans cannot ron paul, michelle bachmann -- in new orleans, ron paul, michelle bachmann and others. live coverage today and throughout the weekend here on c-span. if we want to begin with looking back at the role that defense secretary bob gates has had. our numbers are on the screen. let's look at some of the headlines on this friday morning, beginning with the "* piggee euan." newt gingrich -- with the times picayune. newt gingrich speech fires of car. and another headline that of giving a lot of attention is from los angeles. this is the veto by gov. jerry brown. this is the budget with dinner -- disagreements. the headline from the "l.a. times" brown vetoed dismays. and this one from "time" -- did bob gates service masters to well? and today from the "new york times" this have line stresses the importance of ties with pakistan. our numbers are on the screen. our first call is from detroit. jesse is on the phone. good morning. what impact did bob gates have on his job? good morning, jesse. caller: good morning. thank you for c-span. i am a listener for years and years

we are joined by congressman ron paul from texas, also running for the gop presidential nomination.ning us. first of all, you think the president doesn't have the right to engage the u.s. in the nato effort in libya without congress's approval. today, the president made clear he believes the law does allow him to make this commitment on his own. listen to this a moment if you would. >> i am not a supreme court justice. so i'm not going to put my constitutional law professor hat on here. do i think our actions in any way violate the war powers resolution, the answer is no. so i don't even have to get to the constitutional question. >> simply, sir, what's your reaction? >> that's a horrible statement. no, he should get to the constitution. he doesn't have to be a constitutional lawyer. you take an oath of office to obey the constitution. if we don't know what it says, how can we take the oath. the constitution is very clear, you don't go to war without a declaration. i agree there's confusion with the war powers resolution because technically it legalized war rather than prevented war

ron paul's long call for us to stop bombing muslim countries and bankrupting ourselves and tarnishing america's name and focus on getting our own house in order but last week even mitt romney joined it i want those troops to come home based upon not politics not based upon economics but instead based upon the conditions on the ground the term about the generals but i also think we've learned. that our troops shouldn't go off and try and fight a war of independence for other nation only the afghanis can win afghanistan's independence from the taliban. and that's a state with a staff quickly had to start walking back by the way it's a little too radical for the establishment republicans but at the end of the day opposing war doesn't mean you want to cut off your country from the rest of the world let's face it the u.s. is the world's reserve currency and as globalized world we depend not only on investment in our bonds and lots of it but trade with other countries as well so why has isolationist become the dirty word to throw around and it's true isolationism even exist anymore here dis

and he made ron paul make the points about you know withdrawing all the troops immediately and sort of got to stand back and but these other folks dominate with a more i guess not i don't know if you say fringe you perspectives but the less mainstream perspective did he succeed in making himself look these seem like the front runner well no doubt polls seem to show that he the front runner people think that he is most electable now do most people trust him that's the big question that was broached a little bit last night john king tried to throw a wrench in everything by saying used to be you know pro abortion and now you're pro-life and i was like we don't really want to talk about that right now but the reality is that the american people or at least the republicans are kind of wondering whether mitt romney can be trusted and that's why i think michele bachmann was a star last night because she has a proven track record of being consistently conservative and the other ones aren't as center waiting and twenty is also really conservative but. he is this news so it's hard you know it's

jon huntsman michele bachmann rick santorum ron paul and herman cain but i'll be here in washington d.c. going put it this way they're not here for a presidential debate they're not here to let every american know where they stand on the issues now they're metaphorically here to kiss the hand of the king the king of the religious right ralph reed of the faith and freedom conference. who is this man and why do you need his blessing to get to the white house and discuss this with me is more sense or reporter and blogger for talking points memo i thank so much for being at it and for starters it tell us all about king ralph reed his majesty why he's so important well you've been around for a long time on the religious right he started out with the christian coalition he was there for a long time a big organizer for them sort of fell off the radar screen for a while was involved little bit made rob scandal sort of tapered his is his appeal but since then he has started this new group his faith and freedom coalition which is kind of taking the tea party idea and mixing it with the faith the

ron paul (screaming) >> the road to the white house goes straight through hell. >> yeah, i will fear no evil. >> i'm ron paul and i approve this message. ♪ oh beautiful for spacious skies ♪ for amber waves of grain (screaming) >> i can see my soul chipping away. >> jon: tonight, a producer, director, writer of a film called "super 8." >> oh, my god! >> jon: i'll tell you, amtrak has improved but... (laughter) please welcome j.j. abrams. (cheers and applause) >> thank you. >> jon: congratulations, the number one film not just in this great nation of ours but in the entire of the americas as well as... i'm going too go with indonesia. (laughter) and parts of brazil. >> thank you very much. it's.... >> jon: very exciting. >> thank you, thank you very much. >> jon: is it difficult? we do this show everyday and some days it can suck. (laughter) but when it does, we come back in the next day and we do it again. a film you invested... how much time did you put into making just this film "super 8"? >> the movie took about a year or so from the idea to actually start shooting and then we star

on june fifth i was happy to donate so that yesterday we raised over one million dollars for the ron paul campaign and i'm starting to figure out what electable means because electable or not electable is really a code word for if this person wins i'm not going to be able to get as much money from the government but if you want to let people please support the reelection campaign of president barack obama if you want a president who's going to honor his oath to the constitution and your freedom i urge you to support none other than congressman ron paul and that's our show for i think if you're into adam reverses the man please don't go out on versus.