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1	RADDATZ	Good evening to you all.	0
2	RADDATZ	The rules for tonight are very basic and have been agreed to by all three campaigns in advance.	0
3	RADDATZ	Candidates can take up to a minute-and-a-half to respond directly to a question.	0
4	RADDATZ	For a rebuttal, for a follow-up, 45 seconds will be allowed.	0
5	RADDATZ	There are green, yellow, and red lights that each candidate will see to signal when time is running out and when they're supposed to be finished with their answers.	0
6	MUIR	We will be tackling many critical issues right here tonight, and we begin with opening statements, in alphabetical order, and Secretary Clinton.	0
7	CLINTON	Well, thank you.	0
8	CLINTON	And I'm delighted to be here in New Hampshire for this debate.	0
9	CLINTON	You know, the American president has to both keep our families safe and make the economy grow in a way that helps everyone, not just those at the top.	0
10	CLINTON	That's the job.	0
11	CLINTON	I have a strategy to combat and defeat ISIS without getting us involved in another ground war, and I have plans to raise incomes and deal with a lot of the problems that keep families up at night.	0
12	CLINTON	I'm very clear that we have a distinct difference between those of us on this stage tonight and all of our Republican counterparts.	0
13	CLINTON	From my perspective, we have to prevent the Republicans from rolling back the progress that we've made.	0
14	CLINTON	They would repeal the Affordable Care Act, not improve it.	0
15	CLINTON	They would give more tax breaks to the super-wealthy and corporations, not to the middle class.	0
16	CLINTON	And they would, despite all their tough talk about terrorism, continue to let people who are on the no-fly list buy guns.	0
17	CLINTON	So we have a lot of work to do in this campaign to make it clear where we stand in the Democratic Party, what we will do for our country, and I look forward to this evening's discussion of real issues that face the American people.	0
18	CLINTON	Thank you.	0
19	RADDATZ	Thank you, Secretary Clinton.	0
20	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
21	RADDATZ	Governor O'Malley?	0
22	O'MALLEY	Martha, thank you.	0
23	O'MALLEY	Tonight we have a different debate than the debates that we have been allowed to have so far, because tonight is different because of this reason, that in the course of this presidential campaign America has again been attacked by jihadi terrorists, American lives taken from us.	0
24	O'MALLEY	So, yes, we must talk about our ideas to move our economy forward, but the first job of the president of the United States is to protect the people of the United States.	0
25	O'MALLEY	I visited with a number of our neighbors in Northern Virginia at a mosque last Friday.	0
26	O'MALLEY	And as I looked out there at the eyes of our neighbors, I also looked in the eyes of veterans.	0
27	O'MALLEY	I looked into the eyes of Boy Scouts.	0
28	O'MALLEY	I looked into the eyes of moms and dads who would do anything in their power to protect our country's values and our freedoms.	0
29	O'MALLEY	What our nation needs right now is to realize that, while we face a terrible danger, we also face a different sort of political danger.	0
30	O'MALLEY	And that is the danger that democracies find themselves susceptible to when unscrupulous leaders try to turn us upon each other.	0
31	O'MALLEY	What our country needs right now is new leadership that will bring us together around the values that unite us and the freedoms that we share as Americans.	0
32	O'MALLEY	We will rise to challenge of ISIL and we will rise together to the challenges that we face in our economy.	0
33	O'MALLEY	But we will only do so if we hold true to the values and the freedoms that unite us, which means we must never surrender them to terrorists, must never surrender our Americans values to racist, must never surrender to the fascist pleas of billionaires with big mouths.	0
34	O'MALLEY	We are a better country than this.	0
35	O'MALLEY	Our enduring symbol is not the barbed wire fence, it is the Statue of Liberty.	0
36	O'MALLEY	And America's best days are in front of us if we move forward together.	0
37	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
38	MUIR	Senator Sanders.	0
39	SANDERS	Good evening.	0
40	SANDERS	I am running for president of the United States because it is too late for establishment politics and establishment economics.	0
41	SANDERS	I'm running for president because our economy is rigged because working people are working longer hours for lower wages and almost all of new wealth and income being created is going to the top one percent.	0
42	SANDERS	I'm running for president because I'm going to create an economy that works for working families not just billionaires.	0
43	SANDERS	I'm running for president because we have a campaign finance system which is corrupt, where billionaires are spending hundreds of millionaires of dollars to buy candidates who will represent their interests rather than the middle class and working families.	0
44	SANDERS	I'm running because we need to address the planetary crisis of climate change and take on the fossil fuel industry and transform our energy system away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency and sustainable energy.	0
45	SANDERS	I'm running for president because I want a new foreign policy; one that takes on Isis, one that destroys ISIS, but one that does not get us involved in perpetual warfare in the quagmire of the Middle East but rather works around a major coalition of wealthy and powerful nations supporting Muslim troops on the ground.	0
46	SANDERS	That's the kind of coalition we need and that's the kind of coalition I will put together.	0
47	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
48	MUIR	Senator Sanders thank you and thank you all.	0
49	MUIR	We do have a lot of important issues to get here tonight and we want to address the controversy of the last 24 hours right off the top because we heard some of the most heated rhetoric of the campaign so far between two of the campaigns on this stage tonight.	0
50	MUIR	"Senator Sanders, you fired a campaign staffer you have sued the Democratic National Committee; all of this after your campaign acknowledge that some of your staffers quote, ""irresponsibly accessed data from another campaign."""	0
51	MUIR	"The Clinton campaign called this a very egregious breech of data of ethics and said, quote, ""our data was stolen."""	0
52	MUIR	Did they overstate this or were your staffers essentially stealing part of the Clinton playbook?	0
53	SANDERS	David, let me give you a little bit of background here.	0
54	SANDERS	The DNC has hired vendors.	0
55	SANDERS	On two occasions, there were breeches in information two months ago.	0
56	SANDERS	Our staff found information on our computers from the Clinton campaign.	0
57	SANDERS	"And when our staffers said, ""whoa, what's going here?"""	0
58	SANDERS	They went to the DNC quietly.	0
59	SANDERS	"They went to the vendor and said, ""hey, something is wrong,"" and that was quietly dealt with."	0
60	SANDERS	None of that information was looked at.	0
61	SANDERS	Our staffer at that point did exactly the right thing.	0
62	SANDERS	A few days ago a similar incident happened.	0
63	SANDERS	There was a breach because the DNC vendor screwed up, information came to our campaign.	0
64	SANDERS	In this case, our staff did the wrong thing -- they looked a that information.	0
65	SANDERS	As soon as we learned that they looked at that information - we fired that person.	0
66	SANDERS	We are now doing an independent internal investigation to see who else was involved.	0
67	SANDERS	Thirdly, what I have a really problem, and as you mentioned - this is a problem, I recognize it as a problem.	0
68	SANDERS	But what the DNC did arbitrarily without discussing it with us is shut off our access to our information crippling our campaign.	0
69	SANDERS	That is an egregious act.	0
70	SANDERS	I'm glad that late last night, that was resolved.	0
71	SANDERS	Fourthly, I work -- look forward to working with Secretary Clinton for an investigation, an independent investigation, about all of the breaches that have occurred from day one in this campaign, because I am not convinced that information from our campaign may not have ended up in her campaign.	0
72	SANDERS	Don't know that.	0
73	SANDERS	But we need an independent investigation, and I hope Secretary Clinton will agree with me for the need of that.	0
74	SANDERS	Last point.	0
75	SANDERS	When we saw the breach two months, we didn't go running to the media and make a big deal about it.	0
76	SANDERS	And it bothers me very much that, rather than working on this issue to resolve it, it has become many press releases from the Clinton campaign later.	0
77	MUIR	But Senator, you do mention the DNC -- the vender.	0
78	MUIR	But you said of your staff that they did the wrong thing.	0
79	SANDERS	Absolutely.	0
80	SANDERS	Bernie Sanders apologizes to Hillary Clinton	0
81	SANDERS	At ABC's Democratic presidential debate, candidate Bernie Sanders apologizes to rival Hillary Clinton for a scandal involving key voter data.	0
82	MUIR	So, does Secretary Clinton deserve an apology tonight?	0
83	SANDERS	Yes, I apologize.	0
84	MUIR	Secretary Clinton...	0
85	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
86	SANDERS	Not only -- not only do I apologize to Secretary Clinton -- and I hope we can work together on an independent investigation from day one -- I want to apologize to my supporters.	0
87	SANDERS	This is not the type of campaign that we run.	0
88	SANDERS	And if I find anybody else involved in this, they will also be fired.	0
89	MUIR	Secretary Clinton, he has apologized.	0
90	MUIR	How do your react?	0
91	CLINTON	I very much appreciate that comment, Bernie.	0
92	CLINTON	It really is important that we go forward on this.	0
93	CLINTON	I know that you now have your data back, and that there has been an agreement for an independent inquiry into what did happen.	0
94	CLINTON	Obviously, we were distressed when we learned of it, because we have worked very hard -- I said in the beginning of this campaign, we want to reach as many voters as possible, and we have tens of thousands of volunteers doing that, and entering data all the time to keep up with what people are telling us.	0
95	CLINTON	And so, now that, I think, you know, we have resolved your data, we have agreed on an independent inquiry, we should move on.	0
96	CLINTON	Because I don't think the American people are all that interested in this.	0
97	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
98	CLINTON	I think they're more interested in what we have to say about all the big issues facing us.	0
99	O'MALLEY	Yeah, David, look, for crying out loud, our country has been attacked, we have pressing issues involving how we're going to adapt to this changing era of warfare.	0
100	O'MALLEY	Our economy -- people are working harder and being left behind.	0
101	O'MALLEY	You want to know why things don't get done in Washington?	0
102	O'MALLEY	Because for the last 24 hours, with those issues being so urgent to people as they tune in tonight, wondering how they're even be able to buy presents for their kids.	0
103	O'MALLEY	Instead, we're listening to the bickering back and forth.	0
104	O'MALLEY	Maybe that is normal politics in Washington, but that is not the politics of higher purpose that people expect from our party.	0
105	O'MALLEY	We need to address our security issues, we need to address the economic issues around the kitchen table.	0
106	O'MALLEY	And if people want a more high-minded politics and want to move our country forward, go on to martinomalley.com and help my campaign move our country forward.	0
107	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
108	MUIR	All three candidates are weighing in.	0
109	SANDERS	Let me agree with Governor O'Malley and let me agree with Secretary Clinton.	0
110	SANDERS	You know, we had this incident before, Secretary, with your famous e-mails.	0
111	SANDERS	Right?	0
112	SANDERS	And what I said and I think what Governor O'Malley is saying, and I hope you say, is when the middle class of this country is disappearing, when we have massive income and wealth inequality, when we're the only major country on earth not guaranteeing health care to all people, all the issues that the governor talked about, the secretary talked about, those are the issues.	0
113	SANDERS	Media notwithstanding.	0
114	SANDERS	Those are the issues that the American people want discussed.	0
115	SANDERS	I hope those are the issues we'll discuss.	0
116	MUIR	Good let's move on -- Senator Sanders, let's move on right to some of those issues.	0
117	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
118	MUIR	It is just six days before Christmas, as we all know in this country.	0
119	MUIR	It's typically a joyful time, as it is this year, as well.	0
120	MUIR	But it's also an anxious time.	0
121	MUIR	President Obama has acknowledged that what we saw in San Bernardino was an act of terrorism.	0
122	MUIR	But we remember the president said, right before Thanksgiving, there is no known specific and credible intelligence indicating a plot on the homeland.	0
123	MUIR	We now know that this couple had assembled an arsenal.	0
124	MUIR	They were not on law enforcement's radar.	0
125	MUIR	They were completely undetected.	0
126	MUIR	So as we approach another holiday, with the president again saying, late this week, no credible threat, Secretary Clinton, how confident should the American people be, that there aren't others like that couple right now in the U.S. going undetected?	0
127	MUIR	And what would you do as president to find them?	0
128	CLINTON	Well, first, the most important job of being president is obviously to keep our country safe and to keep the families of America safe.	0
129	CLINTON	I have a plan that I've put forward to go after ISIS.	0
130	CLINTON	Not to contain them, but to defeat them.	0
131	CLINTON	And it has three parts.	0
132	CLINTON	First, to go after them and deprive them of the territory they occupy now in both Syria and Iraq.	0
133	CLINTON	Secondly, to go after and dismantle their global network of terrorism.	0
134	CLINTON	And thirdly, to do more to keep us safe.	0
135	CLINTON	Under each of those three parts of my plan, I have very specific recommendations about what to do.	0
136	CLINTON	Obviously, in the first, we do have to have a -- an American-led air campaign, we have to have Arab and Kurdish troops on the ground.	0
137	CLINTON	Secondly, we've got to go after everything from North Africa to South Asia and beyond.	0
138	CLINTON	And then, most importantly, here at home, I think there are three things that we have to get right.	0
139	CLINTON	We have to do the best possible job of sharing intelligence and information.	0
140	CLINTON	That now includes the internet, because we have seen that ISIS is a very effective recruiter, propagandist and inciter and celebrator of violence.	0
141	CLINTON	That means we have to work more closely with our great tech companies.	0
142	CLINTON	They can't see the government as an adversary, we can't see them as obstructionists.	0
143	CLINTON	We've got to figure out how we can do more to understand who is saying what and what they're planning.	0
144	CLINTON	And we must work more closely with Muslim-American communities.	0
145	CLINTON	Just like Martin, I met with a group of Muslim-Americans this past week to hear from them about what they're doing to try to stop radicalization.	0
146	CLINTON	They will be our early warning signal.	0
147	CLINTON	That's why we need to work with them, not demonize them, as the Republicans have been doing.	0
148	O'MALLEY	David, I am the very first...	0
149	MUIR	(inaudible) thank you.	0
150	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
151	MUIR	I am the very first post-9/11 mayor and the very first post-9/11 governor.	0
152	MUIR	I understand, from the ground up, that when attacks like San Bernardino happen, when attacks like the attacks of 9/11 happen, that when people call 911, the first people to show up are the local first responders.	0
153	MUIR	Many of the things Secretary Clinton said are absolutely true, but they underscore a lack of investment that we have, as a nation, failed to make over these last 15 years in intelligence gathering, intelligence analysis, intelligence sharing.	0
154	MUIR	Not only in theater, in Syria and Iraq and other places where we embalk (ph) ourselves in toppling dictators without having any idea what comes next, but here in the homeland, as we protect people from this threat of the lone wolves and these changing tactics and strategies.	0
155	MUIR	I believe that what's happened here is that the president had us on the right course, but it's a lack of battle tempo.	0
156	MUIR	We have to increase the battle tempo, we have to bring a modern way of getting things done and forcing the sharing of information and do a much better job of acting on it in order to prevent these sorts of attacks in the future.	0
157	MUIR	And we're going to break down these issues tonight, but I do want to go to Senator Sanders because the concern going into Christmas is significant, as you know.	0
158	MUIR	A new ABC News poll shows 77 percent of Americans have little or no confidence in the government's ability to prevent a lone wolf attack.	0
159	MUIR	How would you specifically find would-be terrorist who are going undetected?	0
160	SANDERS	I'm one of the 77 percent.	0
161	SANDERS	I think this is a very difficult issue.	0
162	SANDERS	Let me agree with much of what the secretary and the governor have said.	0
163	SANDERS	Let me tell you what I think we have got to do.	0
164	SANDERS	I think it's a two-pronged issue.	0
165	SANDERS	Number one, our goal is to crush and destroy ISIS.	0
166	SANDERS	What is the best way to do it?	0
167	SANDERS	Well, I think there are some differences of opinion here, perhaps between the secretary and myself.	0
168	SANDERS	I voted against the war in Iraq because I thought unilateral military action would not produce the results that were necessary and would lead to the kind of unraveling and instability that we saw in the Middle East.	0
169	SANDERS	I do not believe in unilateral American action.	0
170	SANDERS	I believe in action in which we put together a strong coalition of forces, major powers and the Muslim nations.	0
171	SANDERS	I think one of the heroes in a real quagmire out there, in a dangerous and difficult world, one of the heroes who we should recognize in the Middle East is King Abdullah II of Jordan.	0
172	SANDERS	This small country has welcomed in many refugees.	0
173	SANDERS	And Abdullah said something recently, very important.	0
174	SANDERS	"He said, ""Yes, international terrorism is by definition an international issue, but it is primarily an issue of the Muslim nations who are fighting for the soul of Islam. We the Muslims should lead the effort on the ground."""	0
175	SANDERS	And I believe he is absolutely right.	0
176	MUIR	Senator, thank you.	0
177	RADDATZ	Secretary Clinton, in the wake of the San Bernardino attack, you all emphasized gun control.	0
178	RADDATZ	But our latest poll shows that more Americans believe arming people, not stricter gun laws, is the best defense against terrorism.	0
179	RADDATZ	Are they wrong?	0
180	CLINTON	Well, I think you have to look at both the terrorism challenge that we face abroad and certainly at home and the role that guns play in delivering the violence that stalks us.	0
181	CLINTON	Clearly, we have to have a very specific set of actions to take.	0
182	CLINTON	You know, when Senator Sanders talks about a coalition, I agree with him about that.	0
183	CLINTON	We've got to build a coalition abroad.	0
184	CLINTON	We also have to build a coalition at home.	0
185	CLINTON	Abroad, we need a coalition that is going to take on ISIS.	0
186	CLINTON	I know how hard that is.	0
187	CLINTON	I know it isn't something you just hope people will do and I've worked on that...	0
188	RADDATZ	Secretary Clinton, can we stick to gun control?	0
189	CLINTON	Yes, I'm getting...	0
190	RADDATZ	Are they wrong?	0
191	CLINTON	I'm getting to that.	0
192	CLINTON	Because I think if you only think about the coalition abroad you're missing the main point, which is we need a coalition here at home.	0
193	CLINTON	Guns, in and of themselves, in my opinion, will not make Americans safer.	0
194	CLINTON	We lose 33,000 people a year already to gun violence, arming more people to do what I think is not the appropriate response to terrorism.	1
195	CLINTON	I think what is...	0
196	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
197	CLINTON	Is creating much deeper, closer relations and, yes, coalitions within our own country.	0
198	CLINTON	The first line of defense against radicalization is in Muslim-American community.	0
199	CLINTON	People who we should be welcoming and working with.	0
200	CLINTON	"I worry greatly that the rhetoric coming from the Republicans, particularly Donald Trump, is sending a message to Muslims here in the United States and literally around the world that there is a ""clash of civilizations,"" that there is some kind of Western plot or even ""war against Islam,"" which then I believe fans the flames of radicalization."	0
201	CLINTON	So guns have to be looked at as its own problem, but we also have to figure out how we're going to deal with the radicalization here in the United States.	0
202	SYSTEM	(CROSSTALK)	0
203	RADDATZ	Senator Sanders -- wait just a moment, please, Governor O'Malley.	0
204	RADDATZ	Senator Sanders, we've seen those long lines of people buying guns in record numbers after the Paris attacks.	0
205	RADDATZ	Would you discourage people from buying a gun?	0
206	SANDERS	It's a country in which people choose to buy guns.	0
207	SANDERS	I think half of the -- more than half of the people in my own state of Vermont, my guess here in New Hampshire, are gun owners.	0
208	SANDERS	That's the right of people.	0
209	SANDERS	But this is what I do believe.	0
210	SANDERS	I believe that when we have some 300 million guns in this country, I believe that when we have seen these horrific mass killings, not only in San Bernardino, but in Colorado and movie theaters in Colorado, I think we have got to bring together the vast majority of the people who do in fact believe in sensible gun safety regulations.	0
211	SANDERS	For example, talking about polls, a poll recently came out, overwhelming majority of the American people say we should strengthen the instant background check.	0
212	SANDERS	Who denies that it is crazy...	0
213	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
214	SANDERS	Who denies that it is crazy to allow people to own guns who are criminals or are mentally unstable?	0
215	SANDERS	We've got to eliminate the gun show loophole.	0
216	SANDERS	In my view, we have got to see that weapons designed by the military to kill people are not in the hands of civilians.	0
217	SANDERS	I think there is a consensus.	0
218	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
219	SANDERS	I think -- I'm not going to say that everybody is in agreement.	0
220	SANDERS	It's a divided country on guns.	0
221	SANDERS	But there is a broad consensus on sensible gun safety regulations that I, coming from a state that has virtually no gun control, will do my best to bring together.	0
222	O'MALLEY	Martha, if I may...	0
223	RADDATZ	Thank you, Senator Sanders.	0
224	SYSTEM	(CROSSTALK)	0
225	RADDATZ	I think we're going to go on...	0
226	O'MALLEY	Excuse me, no.	0
227	MUIR	Governor, we have to abide the rules here, we'll call on you here shortly, but...	0
228	O'MALLEY	I am the only person on this stage who has actually...	0
229	MUIR	But I do want pick up on something...	0
230	O'MALLEY	... passed comprehensive gun safety legislation with a ban on combat assault weapons, David.	0
231	O'MALLEY	And, look, there are profound differences...	0
232	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
233	O'MALLEY	Senator Sanders voted against the Brady Bill.	1
234	O'MALLEY	Senator Sanders voted to give immunity to gun dealers.	1
235	O'MALLEY	And Senator Sanders voted against even research dollars to look into this public health issue.	1
236	O'MALLEY	Secretary Clinton changes her position on this every election year, it seems, having one position in 2000 and then campaigning against President Obama and saying we don't need federal standards.	1
237	O'MALLEY	Look, what we need on this issue is not more polls.	0
238	O'MALLEY	We need more principle.	0
239	O'MALLEY	When ISIL does training videos that say the easiest way to get a combat assault weapon in the United States of America is at a gun show, then we should all be waking up.	0
240	O'MALLEY	We need comprehensive gun safety legislation and a ban on assault weapons.	0
241	RADDATZ	Governor, now -- and let me stay with gun control for a minute, then.	0
242	RADDATZ	You talk about assault weapons.	0
243	RADDATZ	Even if you were able to ban the purchase of assault weapons tomorrow, Americans already own an estimated 7 to 10 million semi-automatic rifles.	0
244	RADDATZ	Would you make it illegal to own those weapons, force people to turn them in?	0
245	RADDATZ	And if not, how would banning the sales really make a difference?	0
246	O'MALLEY	Because, Martha, it would prevent people like the guy that just got charged yesterday perhaps from being able to buy combat assault weapons.	0
247	O'MALLEY	You know, we are the only nation, only developed nation on the planet...	0
248	RADDATZ	But, again, I'm not talking about buying.	0
249	RADDATZ	Would you have them confiscated?	0
250	RADDATZ	The ones that are already here?	0
251	O'MALLEY	No, Martha, I would not.	0
252	O'MALLEY	And that's not what we did in Maryland.	0
253	O'MALLEY	But you know what we did in Maryland?	0
254	O'MALLEY	We overcame the NRA's objections.	0
255	O'MALLEY	We overcame all of the crowds that were coming down there.	0
256	O'MALLEY	We did our own rallies.	0
257	O'MALLEY	And at least if we enact these laws in a prospective way, we can address a major vulnerability in our country.	0
258	O'MALLEY	ISIL videos, ISIL training videos are telling lone wolves the easiest way to buy a combat assault weapon in America is at a gun show.	0
259	O'MALLEY	And it's because of the flip-flopping, political approach of Washington that both of my two colleagues on this stage have represented there for the last forty years.	0
260	SANDERS	Whoa, whoa, whoa.	0
261	SANDERS	Let's calm down a little bit, Martin.	0
262	CLINTON	Yes, let's tell the truth, Martin.	0
263	O'MALLEY	I am telling the truth.	0
264	SANDERS	First of all, let's have some rules here, commentators.	0
265	MUIR	We will.	0
266	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
267	SANDERS	All right.	0
268	MUIR	But let me just establish that for you, senator.	0
269	MUIR	Really quickly governor, we are going to call on you tonight and it's very clear you have a lot to say but please wait until you're called upon.	0
270	MUIR	And senator, he invoked your record and I'll let you respond.	0
271	SANDERS	He sure did.	0
272	MUIR	I'll let you respond.	0
273	CLINTON	He invoked mine as well.	0
274	MUIR	And you will get some to as well.	0
275	SANDERS	Sure did.	0
276	SANDERS	All right.	0
277	SANDERS	First off, we can do all the great speeches we want but you're not going to succeed unless there is a consensus.	0
278	SANDERS	In 1988, just to set the record straight governor, I ran for the U.S. House.	0
279	SANDERS	We have one House member from Vermont, three candidates in the race.	0
280	SANDERS	One candidate said, you know what, I don't think it's a great idea that we sell automatic weapons in this country that are used by the military to kill people very rapidly.	0
281	SANDERS	Gun people said, there were three candidates in the race, you vote for one of the others, but not Bernie Sanders.	0
282	SANDERS	I lost that election by three percentage points.	0
283	SANDERS	Quite likely, for that reason.	0
284	SANDERS	So please, do not explain to me, coming from a state where democratic governors and republican governors have supported virtually no gun control.	0
285	SYSTEM	(CROSSTALK)	0
286	SANDERS	Excuse me.	0
287	SANDERS	Do not tell me that I have not shown courage in standing up to the gun people, in voting to ban assault weapons, voting for instant background checks, voting to end the gun show loop hole and now we're in a position to create a consensus in America on gun safety.	0
288	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
289	MUIR	Senator, thank you.	0
290	MUIR	I want to move on here.	0
291	MUIR	Secretary Clinton, you brought up Donald Trump a short time ago.	0
292	CLINTON	I do and this is an important issue and I know we'll get to a lot of other critical ones as well.	0
293	CLINTON	I actually agree with Governor O'Malley about the need for common sense gun safety measures.	0
294	CLINTON	And I applaud his record in Maryland.	0
295	CLINTON	I just wish he wouldn't misrepresent mine.	0
296	CLINTON	I have been for the Brady bill, I have been against assault weapons.	0
297	CLINTON	I have voted not to give gun makers and sellers immunity.	0
298	CLINTON	And I also know that -- and I'm glad to see this -- Senator Sanders has really moved in face of the facts about what we're confronting in our country.	0
299	CLINTON	I know that he has said in the two previous that he wants to take on this immunity issue because we need to send a strong message to the gun manufacturers, to the sellers, to the gun lobby.	0
300	CLINTON	And I would hope, Senator Sanders, that you would join the Democrats who are trying to close the Charleston loophole, that you would sponsor or co-sponsor legislation to remove the absolute immunity.	0
301	CLINTON	We need to move on this consensus that exists in the country.	0
302	CLINTON	It's no longer enough just to say the vast majority of Americans want common sense gun safety measures including gun owners.	0
303	CLINTON	We need, and only the three of us will do this, nobody on the Republican side will even admit there's a problem.	0
304	CLINTON	And in whatever way the three of us can we need to move this agenda forward and begin to deal with the gun lobby and the intimidation that they present.	0
305	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
306	MUIR	Secretary Clinton, thank you.	0
307	MUIR	We're going to move on from guns here and go back to something you mentioned a short time ago.	0
308	MUIR	You brought up Donald Trump first here this evening.	0
309	MUIR	We've now seen the polling done well after his proposed ban on Muslims coming to America.	0
310	MUIR	Thirty-six percent of Americans, more than a third, agree with him.	0
311	MUIR	You have weighed in already on Donald Trump.	0
312	MUIR	You've weighed in on the proposed ban.	0
313	MUIR	But what would you say to the millions of Americans watching tonight who agree with him?	0
314	MUIR	Are they wrong?	0
315	CLINTON	Well I think a lot of people are understandably reacting out of fear and anxiety about what they're seeing.	0
316	CLINTON	First what they saw in Paris, now what they have seen in San Bernardino.	0
317	CLINTON	And Mr. Trump has a great capacity to use bluster and bigotry to inflame people and to make think there are easy answers to very complex questions.	0
318	CLINTON	So what I would say is, number one, we need to be united against the threats that we face.	0
319	CLINTON	We need to have everybody in our country focused on watching what happens and reporting it if it's suspicious, reporting what you hear.	0
320	CLINTON	Making sure that Muslim Americans don't feel left out or marginalized at the very moment when we need their help.	0
321	CLINTON	You know, I was a senator from New York after 9/11, and we spent countless hours trying to figure out how to protect the city and the state from perhaps additional attacks.	0
322	CLINTON	One of the best things that was done, and George W. Bush did this and I give him credit, was to reach out to Muslim Americans and say, we're in this together.	0
323	CLINTON	You are not our adversary, you are our partner.	0
324	CLINTON	And we also need to make sure that the really discriminatory messages that Trump is sending around the world don't fall on receptive ears.	0
325	CLINTON	He is becoming ISIS's best recruiter.	0
326	CLINTON	They are going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists.	1
327	CLINTON	So I want to explain why this is not in America's interest to react with this kind of fear and respond to this sort of bigotry.	0
328	MUIR	Secretary, thank you.	0
329	MUIR	Senator Sanders, I did want to ask you about a neighbor in San Bernardino who reportedly witnessed packages being delivered to that couple's home, that it set off red flags, but they didn't report it because they were afraid to profile.	0
330	MUIR	What would you say to Americans afraid to profile?	0
331	MUIR	Is it ever acceptable?	0
332	SANDERS	Well, the answer is, obviously, if you see suspicious activity, you report it.	0
333	SANDERS	That's kind of a no-brainer.	0
334	SANDERS	You know, somebody is loading guns and ammunition into a house, I think it's a good idea to call 911.	0
335	SANDERS	Do it.	0
336	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
337	MUIR	But I'm asking about -- I'm asking about profiling.	0
338	MUIR	Because a lot of people are afraid of that.	0
339	SANDERS	But I want to talk -- I want to talk about something else, because Secretary Clinton I think made some interesting and good points.	0
340	SANDERS	What you have now is a very dangerous moment in American history.	0
341	SANDERS	The secretary is right: Our people are fearful.	0
342	SANDERS	They are anxious on a number of levels.	0
343	SANDERS	They are anxious about international terrorism and the possibility of another attack on America.	0
344	SANDERS	We all understand that.	0
345	SANDERS	But you know what else they're anxious about?	0
346	SANDERS	They're anxious about the fact that they are working incredibly long hours, they're worried about their kids, and they're seeing all the new income and wealth -- virtually all of it -- going to the top 1 percent.	0
347	SANDERS	And they're looking around them, and they're looking at Washington, and they're saying the rich are getting much richer, I'm getting poorer, what are you going to do about it?	0
348	SANDERS	What are you going to do for my kids?	0
349	SANDERS	"And somebody like a Trump comes along and says, ""I know the answers. The answer is that all of the Mexicans, they're criminals and rapists, we've got to hate the Mexicans. Those are your enemies. We hate all the Muslims, because all of the Muslims are terrorists. We've got to hate the Muslims."""	0
350	SANDERS	Meanwhile, the rich get richer.	0
351	SANDERS	So what I say to those people who go to Donald Trump's rallies, understand: He thinks a low minimum wage in America is a good idea.	0
352	SANDERS	He thinks low wages are a good idea.	0
353	SANDERS	I believe we stand together to address the real issues facing this country, not allow them to divide us by race or where we come from.	0
354	SANDERS	Let's create an America that works for all of us, not the handful on top.	0
355	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
356	MUIR	Senator, thank you.	0
357	RADDATZ	I want to move to another...	0
358	O'MALLEY	Martha, may I -- Martha, may I...	0
359	SYSTEM	(CROSSTALK)	0
360	RADDATZ	No, no, not yet, Governor O'Malley.	0
361	O'MALLEY	Can I share this quick story?	0
362	RADDATZ	No, not yet, Governor O'Malley.	0
363	O'MALLEY	Oh.	0
364	O'MALLEY	All right.	0
365	RADDATZ	I'll come to you when we call on you.	0
366	RADDATZ	Thank you very much.	0
367	O'MALLEY	When you come back to me, I'll share that story.	0
368	RADDATZ	You'll be happy.	0
369	RADDATZ	I'll let -- I'll let you talk then.	0
370	RADDATZ	Secretary Clinton, I want to talk about a new terrorist tool used in the Paris attacks, encryption.	0
371	RADDATZ	FBI Director James Comey says terrorists can hold secret communications which law enforcement cannot get to, even with a court order.	0
372	RADDATZ	You've talked a lot about bringing tech leaders and government officials together, but Apple CEO Tim Cook said removing encryption tools from our products altogether would only hurt law-abiding citizens who rely on us to protect their data.	0
373	RADDATZ	So would you force him to give law enforcement a key to encrypted technology by making it law?	0
374	CLINTON	I would not want to go to that point.	0
375	CLINTON	I would hope that, given the extraordinary capacities that the tech community has and the legitimate needs and questions from law enforcement, that there could be a Manhattan-like project, something that would bring the government and the tech communities together to see they're not adversaries, they've got to be partners.	0
376	CLINTON	It doesn't do anybody any good if terrorists can move toward encrypted communication that no law enforcement agency can break into before or after.	0
377	CLINTON	There must be some way.	0
378	CLINTON	I don't know enough about the technology, Martha, to be able to say what it is, but I have a lot of confidence in our tech experts.	0
379	CLINTON	And maybe the back door is the wrong door, and I understand what Apple and others are saying about that.	0
380	CLINTON	But I also understand, when a law enforcement official charged with the responsibility of preventing attacks -- to go back to our early questions, how do we prevent attacks -- well, if we can't know what someone is planning, we are going to have to rely on the neighbor or, you know, the member of the mosque or the teacher, somebody to see something.	0
381	CLINTON	I just think there's got to be a way, and I would hope that our tech companies would work with government to figure that out.	0
382	CLINTON	Otherwise, law enforcement is blind -- blind before, blind during, and, unfortunately, in many instances, blind after.	0
383	CLINTON	So we always have to balance liberty and security, privacy and safety, but I know that law enforcement needs the tools to keep us safe.	0
384	CLINTON	And that's what i hope, there can be some understanding and cooperation to achieve.	0
385	RADDATZ	And Governor O'Malley, where do you draw the line between national security and personal security?	0
386	O'MALLEY	I believe that we should never give up our privacy; never should give up our freedoms in exchange for a promise of security.	0
387	O'MALLEY	We need to figure this out together.	0
388	O'MALLEY	We need a collaborative approach.	0
389	O'MALLEY	We need new leadership.	0
390	O'MALLEY	The way that things work in the modern era is actually to gather people around the table and figure these things out.	0
391	O'MALLEY	The federal government should have to get warrants.	0
392	O'MALLEY	That's not some sort of passe you know, antique sort of principle that safeguards our freedoms.	0
393	O'MALLEY	But at the same time with new technologies I believe that the people creating these projects -- I mean these products also have an obligation to come together with law enforcement to figure these things out; true to our American principles and values.	0
394	O'MALLEY	My friend Kashif, who is a doctor in Maryland; back to this issue of our danger as a democracy of turning against ourselves.	0
395	O'MALLEY	He was putting his 10 and 12-year-old boys to bed the other night.	0
396	O'MALLEY	And he is a proud American Muslim.	0
397	O'MALLEY	"And one of his little boys said to him, ""Dad, what happens if Donald Trump wins and we have to move out of our homes?"""	0
398	O'MALLEY	These are very, very real issues.	0
399	O'MALLEY	Тhis is a clear and present danger in our politics within.	0
400	O'MALLEY	We need to speak to what unites us as a people; freedom of worship, freedom of religion, freedom of expression.	0
401	O'MALLEY	And we should never be convinced to give up those freedoms in exchange for a promise of greater security; especially from someone as untried and as incompetent as Donald Trump.	0
402	RADDATZ	Thank you, Governor O'Malley.	0
403	MUIR	Martha, we're going to turn now to refugees coming to America.	0
404	MUIR	And on the subject of refugees, more than half of all Americans now say they oppose taking in refugees from Syria and across the Middle East.	0
405	MUIR	Secretary Clinton, you have said that it would undermine who we are as Americans, shutting our doors.	0
406	MUIR	But New Hampshire's governor, where we are right here tonight, a democrat and a supporter of yours, is among more than 30 governors who are now concerned.	0
407	MUIR	"Governor Maggie Hassan says, ""we should halt acceptance of Syrian refugees until U.S. authorities can assure the vetting process, halt Syrian refugees."""	0
408	MUIR	Is she wrong?	0
409	CLINTON	Well, I agree that we have to have the toughest screening and vetting...	0
410	MUIR	But a halt?	0
411	CLINTON	I don't think a halt is necessary.	0
412	CLINTON	What we have to do is put all of our resources through the Department of Homeland Security, through the State Department, through our intelligence agencies, and we have to have an increased vetting and screening.	0
413	CLINTON	Now, this takes, David, 18 months to 24 months, two years.	0
414	CLINTON	So I know it's not going to happen overnight and everything that can be done should be done.	0
415	CLINTON	But the process should move forward while we are also taking on ISIS, putting together the kind of strategy that I've advocated for, and making sure that the vetting and the screening is as tough as possible.	0
416	CLINTON	Because I do believe that we have a history and a tradition, that is part of our values system and we don't want to sacrifice our values.	0
417	CLINTON	We don't want to make it seem as though we are turning into a nation of fear instead of a nation of resolve.	0
418	CLINTON	So I want us to have a very tough screening process but I want that process to go forward.	0
419	CLINTON	And if at the end of 18 months, 24 months there are people who have been cleared, and I would prioritize widows, and orphans, and the elderly, people who may have relatives, families, or have nowhere else to go.	0
420	CLINTON	I would prioritize them.	0
421	CLINTON	And that would I think give the American public a bit more of a sense of security about who is being processed and who might end up coming as refugees.	0
422	MUIR	Governor O'Malley, obviously you were governor yourself at one time.	0
423	MUIR	What would you say to New Hampshire's governor tonight?	0
424	MUIR	Is she wrong on this?	0
425	O'MALLEY	No, what I would say is this is look, I was the first of the three of us to call for America to accept the 65,000 refugees we were asked to accept.	0
426	O'MALLEY	And if this humanitarian crisis increases, we should accept more.	0
427	MUIR	So the idea of a halt or a pause?	0
428	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
429	O'MALLEY	David, there are wider vulnerabilities than when it comes to refugees.	0
430	O'MALLEY	I met recently with some members of the Chaldean Christian communities and the wait times are a year, 18 months, 24 months.	0
431	O'MALLEY	There is a pretty excruciating process that refugees go through.	0
432	O'MALLEY	We need to invest more in terms of the other sort of visas and the other sort of waivers.	0
433	O'MALLEY	What these Chaldean families told me was that their families in Syria, when ISIS moves into their town, they actually paint a red cross across the door and mark their homes for demolition, and that tells the family you'd better get out now.	0
434	O'MALLEY	The sort of genocide and brutality that the victims are suffering, these are not the perpetrators.	0
435	O'MALLEY	We need to be the nation whose enduring symbol is the Statue of Liberty, and we need to act like the great country we are, according to our values.	0
436	MUIR	Governor, thank you.	0
437	RADDATZ	Senator Sanders -- Senator Sanders, we're going to move on.	0
438	RADDATZ	We're going to move on.	0
439	SANDERS	Excuse me.	0
440	SANDERS	May I have a chance to respond to this issue?	0
441	RADDATZ	We're going to move on to the fight against ISIS.	0
442	RADDATZ	You're the one who told us we have to follow the rules and break it off.	0
443	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
444	SANDERS	Yeah, but the rule includes equal -- got it.	0
445	SANDERS	All right.	0
446	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
447	RADDATZ	OK. Let's keep going.	0
448	RADDATZ	Thank you.	0
449	SANDERS	All right.	0
450	SANDERS	Let's keep going.	0
451	SANDERS	OK.	0
452	RADDATZ	Thank you.	0
453	RADDATZ	I do want to move to the fight against ISIS.	0
454	SANDERS	Yeah.	0
455	RADDATZ	For the people of New Hampshire, the brutality of ISIS is personal.	0
456	RADDATZ	James Foley grew up here.	0
457	RADDATZ	The first hostage, a journalist, brutally executed last year.	0
458	RADDATZ	You've all said ISIS is a ruthless enemy and must be stopped.	0
459	RADDATZ	Al Qaida as well.	0
460	RADDATZ	Senator Sanders, you voted to send U.S. ground forces to fight in the coalition to help destroy Al Qaida in Afghanistan.	0
461	RADDATZ	Can you then explain you why don't support sending U.S. combat troops to join a coalition to fight ISIS?	0
462	SANDERS	And I also voted and helped lead the effort against the war in Iraq, which will go down in history as one of the worst foreign blunders -- foreign policy blunders in the history of our country.	0
463	SANDERS	I voted against the first Gulf War, which set the stage, I believe, for the second Iraq war.	0
464	SANDERS	And what I believe right now, and I believe this is terribly important, is the United States of America cannot succeed, or be thought of as the policeman of the world, that when there's an international crisis all over the world, in France and in the U.K. Or -- hey, just call up the American military and the American taxpayers, they're going to send the troops.	0
465	SANDERS	And if they have to be in the Middle East for 20 or 30 years no problem.	0
466	RADDATZ	But why Al Qaida, why not ISIS?	0
467	SANDERS	I have a problem with that, Martha.	0
468	SANDERS	What I believe has got to happen is there must be an international coalition, including Russia, a well-coordinated effort.	0
469	SANDERS	But I agree, as I mentioned a moment ago, with King Abdullah.	0
470	SANDERS	This is a war for the soul of Islam.	0
471	SANDERS	The troops on the ground should not be American troops.	0
472	SANDERS	They should be Muslim troops.	0
473	SANDERS	I believe that countries like Saudi Arabia and Qatar have got to step up to the plate, have got to contribute the money that we need, and the troops that we need, to destroy ISIS with American support.	0
474	RADDATZ	The administration has tried that over and over again.	0
475	RADDATZ	If it doesn't work and this threat is so great, what's your plan B?	0
476	SANDERS	My plan is to make it work, to tell Saudi Arabia that instead of going to war in Yemen, they, one of the wealthiest countries on Earth, are going to have to go to war against ISIS.	0
477	SANDERS	To tell Qatar, that instead of spending $200 billion on the World Cup, maybe they should pay attention to ISIS, which is at their doorstep.	0
478	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
479	RADDATZ	Secretary Clinton, you too have ruled out a large U.S. combat force, yet you support sending in special operations forces to Syria, and sending those 100 to 200 troops to Iraq to do exploitation kill raids.	0
480	RADDATZ	We've already lost one Delta Force member in a raid.	0
481	RADDATZ	It has looked very much to me like we're already in ground combat on frequent trips I've made there.	0
482	RADDATZ	So, are you fooling Americans when you say, we're not putting American combat troops back into Syria or Iraq?	0
483	CLINTON	No.	0
484	CLINTON	Not at all.	0
485	CLINTON	I think that what we're facing with ISIS is especially complicated.	0
486	CLINTON	It was a different situation in Afghanistan.	0
487	CLINTON	We were attacked from Afghanistan.	0
488	CLINTON	Al Qaida was based in Afghanistan.	0
489	CLINTON	We went after those who had attacked us.	0
490	CLINTON	What's happening in Syria and Iraq is that, because of the failures in the region, including the failure of the prior government in Baghdad, led by Maliki, there has been a resurgence of Sunni activities, as exemplified by ISIS.	0
491	CLINTON	And we have to support Sunni-Arab and Kurdish forces against ISIS, because I believe it would be not only a strategic mistake for the United States to put ground combat troops in, as opposed to special operators, as opposed to trainers, because that is exactly what ISIS wants.	0
492	CLINTON	They've advertised that.	0
493	CLINTON	They want American troops back in the Middle East.	0
494	CLINTON	They want American soldiers on the ground fighting them, giving them many more targets, and giving them a great recruiting opportunity.	0
495	CLINTON	So, I think it's absolutely wrong policy for us to be even imagining we're going end up putting tens of thousands of American troops into Syria and Iraq to fight ISIS.	0
496	CLINTON	And we do have to form a coalition.	0
497	CLINTON	I know how hard that is.	0
498	CLINTON	I have formed them.	0
499	CLINTON	I put together a coalition, including Arabs, with respect to Libya and a coalition to put sanctions onto Iran.	0
500	CLINTON	And you have to really work hard at it.	0
501	CLINTON	And the final thing I would say, bringing Donald Trump back into it, if you're going to put together a coalition in the region to take on the threat of ISIS you don't want to alienate the very countries and people you need to be part of the coalition.	0
502	CLINTON	And so that is part of the reason why this is so difficult.	0
503	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
504	RADDATZ	Secretary Clinton, I want -- I want to follow up on that.	0
505	RADDATZ	You do support sending special operations forces there.	0
506	RADDATZ	You support what the president has done already.	0
507	RADDATZ	One of the lessons people draw from Vietnam and war since is that a little force can turn into a little more and a little more.	0
508	RADDATZ	President Obama certainly didn't expect to be sending 30,000 additional troops into Afghanistan the first year of his presidency.	0
509	RADDATZ	Are you prepared to run the risk of a bigger war to achieve your goals to destroy ISIS, or are you prepared to give up on those goals if it requires a larger force?	0
510	CLINTON	Well, I just think you're asking a question with a false choice.	0
511	CLINTON	I believe if we lead an air coalition, which we are now in the position of doing and intensify it, if we continue to build back up the Iraqi army, which has had some recent success in Ramadi, as you know, if we get back talking to the tribal sheiks in Anbar to try to rebuild those relationships, which were very successful, in going after Al Qaida in Iraq, if we get the Turks to pay more attention to ISIS than they're paying to the Kurds, if we do put together the kind of coalition with the specific tasks that I am outlining, I think we can be successful in destroying ISIS.	0
512	CLINTON	So that's what I'm focused on, that's what I've outlined and that's what I would do as president.	0
513	RADDATZ	Governor O'Malley.	0
514	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
515	RADDATZ	You've emphasized the need for more human intelligence on the ground.	0
516	RADDATZ	What is it our intelligence community is not doing now that needs to be done?	0
517	O'MALLEY	Well, we have invested nowhere near what we should be investing in human intelligence on the ground.	0
518	O'MALLEY	And what I'm talking about is not only the covert CIA intelligence, I'm also talking about diplomatic intelligence.	0
519	O'MALLEY	I mean, we've seen time and time again, especially in this very troubled region of nation-state failures, and then we have no idea who the next generation of leaders are that are coming forward.	0
520	O'MALLEY	So what I would say is not only do we need to be thinking in military terms, but we do our military a disservice when we don't greatly dial up the investment that we are making in diplomacy and human intelligence and when we fail to dial up properly, the role of sustainable development in all of this.	0
521	O'MALLEY	As president, I would make the administrator of USAID an actual cabinet member.	0
522	O'MALLEY	We have to act in a much more whole of government approach, as General Dempsey said.	0
523	O'MALLEY	And I do believe, and I would disagree somewhat with one of my colleagues, this is a genocidal threat.	0
524	O'MALLEY	They have now created a safe haven in the vacuum that we allowed to be partly and because of our blunders, to be created to be created in the areas of Syria and Iraq.	0
525	O'MALLEY	We cannot allow safe havens, and as a leader of moral nations around this Earth, we need to come up with new alliances and new ways to prepare for these new sorts of threats, because Martha, this will not be the last region where nation-states fail.	0
526	O'MALLEY	And you've seen a little bit of this emerging in the -- in the African Union and the things that they have done to better stabilize Somalia.	0
527	O'MALLEY	We need to pay attention here in Central America as well.	0
528	O'MALLEY	So this is the new type of threats that we're facing and we need to lead as a nation in confronting it and putting together new alliances and new coalitions.	0
529	CLINTON	Well, I just want to quickly add...	0
530	RADDATZ	Thank you.	0
531	CLINTON	Martha, that -- you know, one of the reasons why I have advocated for a no-fly zone is in order to create those safe refuges within Syria, to try to protect people on the ground both from Assad's forces, who are continuing to drop barrel bombs, and from ISIS.	0
532	CLINTON	And of course, it has to be de-conflicted with the Russians, who are also flying in that space.	0
533	CLINTON	I'm hoping that because of the very recent announcement of the agreement at the Security Council, which embodies actually an agreement that I negotiated back in Geneva in June of 2012, we're going to get a diplomatic effort in Syria to begin to try to make a transition.	0
534	CLINTON	A no-fly zone would prevent the outflow of refugees and give us a chance to have some safe spaces.	0
535	RADDATZ	Secretary Clinton, I'd like to go back to that if I could.	0
536	RADDATZ	ISIS doesn't have aircraft, Al Qaida doesn't have aircraft.	0
537	RADDATZ	So would you shoot down a Syrian military aircraft or a Russian airplane?	0
538	CLINTON	I do not think it would come to that.	0
539	CLINTON	We are already de-conflicting air space.	0
540	CLINTON	We know...	0
541	RADDATZ	But isn't that a decision you should make now, whether...	0
542	CLINTON	No, I don't think so.	0
543	CLINTON	I am advocating...	0
544	RADDATZ	... if you're advocating this?	0
545	CLINTON	I am advocating the no-fly zone both because I think it would help us on the ground to protect Syrians; I'm also advocating it because I think it gives us some leverage in our conversations with Russia.	0
546	CLINTON	Now that Russia has joined us in the Security Council, has adopted an agreement that we hashed out a long day in Geneva three years ago, now I think we can have those conversations.	0
547	CLINTON	The no-fly zone, I would hope, would be also shared by Russia.	0
548	CLINTON	If they will begin to turn their military attention away from going after the adversaries of Assad toward ISIS and put the Assad future on the political and diplomatic track, where it belongs.	0
549	SYSTEM	(CROSSTALK)	0
550	MUIR	I want to take this to Senator -- I'm going to take this to Senator Sanders next, because I think there...	0
551	SYSTEM	(CROSSTALK)	0
552	SANDERS	I have a difference of opinion with Secretary Clinton on this.	0
553	SANDERS	Our differences are fairly deep on this issue.	0
554	SANDERS	We disagreed on the war in Iraq.	0
555	SANDERS	We both listened to the information from Bush and Cheney.	0
556	SANDERS	I voted against the war.	0
557	SANDERS	But I think -- and I say this with due respect -- that I worry too much that Secretary Clinton is too much into regime change and a little bit too aggressive without knowing what the unintended consequences might be.	0
558	SANDERS	Yes, we could get rid of Saddam Hussein, but that destabilized the entire region.	0
559	SANDERS	Yes, we could get rid of Gadhafi, a terrible dictator, but that created a vacuum for ISIS.	0
560	SANDERS	Yes, we could get rid of Assad tomorrow, but that would create another political vacuum that would benefit ISIS.	0
561	SANDERS	So I think, yeah, regime change is easy, getting rid of dictators is easy.	0
562	SANDERS	But before you do that, you've got to think about what happens the day after.	0
563	SANDERS	And in my view, what we need to do is put together broad coalitions to understand that we're not going to have a political vacuum filled by terrorists, that, in fact, we are going to move steadily -- and maybe slowly -- toward democratic societies, in terms of Assad, a terrible dictator.	0
564	SANDERS	But I think in Syria the primary focus now must be on destroying ISIS and working over the years to get rid of Assad.	0
565	SANDERS	That's the secondary issue.	0
566	CLINTON	That is exactly...	0
567	MUIR	Senator, thank you.	0
568	CLINTON	That is exactly what I just said and what I just described.	0
569	MUIR	Yeah, but, Secretary Clinton -- Secretary Clinton...	0
570	CLINTON	And that is important, because now we have a U.N. Security Council that will enable us to do that.	0
571	CLINTON	And, you know, with all due respect, Senator, you voted for regime change with respect to Libya.	0
572	CLINTON	You joined the Senate in voting to get rid of Gadhafi, and you asked that there be a Security Council validation of that with a resolution.	0
573	CLINTON	All of these are very difficult issues.	0
574	CLINTON	I know that; I've been dealing with them for a long time.	0
575	CLINTON	And, of course, we have to continue to do what is necessary when someone like Gadhafi, a despot with American blood on his hands, is overturned.	0
576	CLINTON	But I'll tell you what would have happened, if we had not joined with our European partners and our Arab partners to assist the people in Libya, you would be looking at Syria.	0
577	CLINTON	Now the Libyans are turning their attention to try to dislodge ISIS from its foothold and begin to try to move together to have a unified nation.	0
578	SANDERS	I was not the secretary of state...	0
579	MUIR	Senator Sanders, Senator Sanders, hold on.	0
580	MUIR	One moment, please.	0
581	MUIR	I'm going to ask the secretary here, because there does appear to be some daylight here between the policies, at least in respect to when you take out Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.	0
582	MUIR	Right now or do you wait?	0
583	MUIR	Do you tackle ISIS first?	0
584	MUIR	You have said, Secretary Clinton, that you come to the conclusion that we have to proceed on both fronts at once.	0
585	MUIR	We heard from the senator just this week that we must put aside the issue of how quickly we get rid of Assad and come together with countries, including Russia and Iran, to destroy ISIS first.	0
586	MUIR	Is he wrong?	0
587	CLINTON	I think we're missing the point here.	0
588	CLINTON	We are doing both at the same time.	0
589	MUIR	But that's what he's saying, we should put that aside for now and go after ISIS.	0
590	CLINTON	Well, I don't agree with that, because we will not get the support on the ground in Syria to dislodge ISIS if the fighters there who are not associated with ISIS, but whose principal goal is getting rid of Assad, don't believe there is a political, diplomatic channel that is ongoing.	0
591	CLINTON	We now have that.	0
592	CLINTON	We have the U.N. Security Council adopting a resolution that lays out a transition path.	0
593	CLINTON	It's very important we operate on both at the same time.	0
594	CLINTON	And let me just say a word about coalition-building, because I've heard Senator Sanders say this.	0
595	CLINTON	I know how hard it is to build coalitions.	0
596	CLINTON	I think it would be a grave mistake to ask for any more Iranian troops inside Syria.	0
597	CLINTON	That is like asking the arsonist to come and pour more gas on the fire.	0
598	CLINTON	The Iranians getting more of a presence in Syria, linking with Hezbollah, their proxy in Lebanon, would threaten Israel and would make it more difficult for us to move on a path to have a transition that at some point would deal with Assad's future.	0
599	SYSTEM	(CROSSTALK)	0
600	SANDERS	I happen to think...	0
601	O'MALLEY	I'd like to offer a...	0
602	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
603	MUIR	She says we have to proceed on both fronts at once.	0
604	SANDERS	Secretary Clinton is right.	0
605	SANDERS	This is a complicated issue.	0
606	SANDERS	I don't think anyone has a magical solution.	0
607	SANDERS	But this is what I do believe.	0
608	SANDERS	Yes, of course Assad is a terrible dictator.	0
609	SANDERS	But I think we have got to get our foreign policies and priorities right.	0
610	SANDERS	The immediate -- it is not Assad who is attacking the United States.	0
611	SANDERS	It is ISIS.	0
612	SANDERS	And ISIS is attacking France and attacking Russian airliners.	0
613	SANDERS	The major priority, right now, in terms of our foreign and military policy should be the destruction of ISIS.	0
614	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
615	SANDERS	And I think -- and I think we bring together that broad coalition, including Russia, to help us destroy ISIS.	0
616	SANDERS	And work on a timetable to get rid of Assad, hopefully through Democratic elections.	0
617	SANDERS	First priority, destroy ISIS.	0
618	MUIR	Senator sanders, thank you.	0
619	O'MALLEY	May I offer a different generation's perspective on this?	0
620	MUIR	Governor O'Malley?	0
621	O'MALLEY	During the Cold War -- during the Cold War, we got into a bad habit of always looking to see who was wearing the jersey of the communists, and who was wearing the U.S. jersey.	0
622	O'MALLEY	We got into a bad habit of creating big bureaucracies, old methodologies, to undermine regimes that were not friendly to the United States.	0
623	O'MALLEY	Look what we did in Iran with Mosaddegh.	0
624	O'MALLEY	And look at the results that we're still dealing with because of that.	0
625	O'MALLEY	I would suggest to you that we need to leave the Cold War behind us, and we need to put together new alliances and new approaches to dealing with this, and we need to restrain ourselves.	0
626	O'MALLEY	I mean, I know Secretary Clinton was gleeful when Gadhafi was torn apart.	0
627	O'MALLEY	And the world, no doubt is a better place without him.	0
628	O'MALLEY	But look, we didn't know what was happening next.	0
629	O'MALLEY	And we fell into the same trap with Assad, saying -- as if it's our job to say, Assad must go.	0
630	O'MALLEY	We have a role to play in this world.	0
631	O'MALLEY	But we need to leave the Cold War and that sort of antiquated thinking behind.	0
632	MUIR	But -- you criticized -- you criticized Secretary Clinton for what came next.	0
633	MUIR	What's your proposal for what comes after Assad?	0
634	O'MALLEY	I believe that we need to focus on destroying ISIL.	0
635	O'MALLEY	That is the clear and present danger.	0
636	O'MALLEY	And I believe that we can springboard off of this new U.N. resolution, and we should create, as Secretary Clinton indicated, and I agree with that, that there should be a political process.	0
637	O'MALLEY	But we shouldn't be the ones declaring that Assad must go.	0
638	O'MALLEY	Where did it ever say in the Constitution, where is it written that it's the job of the United States of America or its secretary of State to determine when dictators have to go?	0
639	O'MALLEY	We have a role to play in this world.	0
640	O'MALLEY	But it is not the world -- the role of traveling the world looking for new monsters to destroy.	0
641	SYSTEM	(CROSSTALK)	0
642	SANDERS	David...	0
643	CLINTON	Since he has been making all kinds of comments.	0
644	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
645	CLINTON	I think it's fair to say, Assad has killed, by last count, about 250,000 Syrians.	0
646	CLINTON	The reason we are in the mess we're in, that ISIS has the territory it has, is because of Assad.	0
647	CLINTON	I advocated arming the moderate opposition back in the day when I was still secretary of State, because I worried we would end up exactly where we are now.	0
648	CLINTON	And so, when we look at these complex problems, I wish it could be either/or.	0
649	CLINTON	I wish we could say yes, let's go destroy ISIS and let's let Assad continue to destroy Syria, which creates more terrorists, more extremists by the minute.	0
650	CLINTON	No.	0
651	CLINTON	We now finally are where we need to be.	0
652	CLINTON	We have a strategy and a commitment to go after ISIS, which is a danger to us as well as the region...	0
653	SANDERS	Secretary...	0
654	CLINTON	And we finally have a U.N. Security Council Resolution bringing the world together to go after a political transition in Syria.	0
655	SANDERS	Could I just say -- just say this...	0
656	CLINTON	If the United States does not lead, there is not another leader.	0
657	CLINTON	There is a vacuum.	0
658	SANDERS	Can I just say this...	0
659	CLINTON	And we have to lead, if we're going to be successful.	0
660	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
661	MUIR	Senator Sanders, please.	0
662	MUIR	Go ahead.	0
663	MUIR	Senator Sanders, a last word on this.	0
664	SANDERS	Of course the United States must lead.	0
665	SANDERS	But the United States is not the policeman of the world.	0
666	SANDERS	The United States must not be involved in perpetual warfare in the Middle East.	0
667	SANDERS	The United States, at the same time, cannot successfully fight Assad and ISIS.	0
668	SANDERS	ISIS, now, is the major priority.	0
669	SANDERS	Let's get rid of Assad later.	0
670	SANDERS	Let's have a Democratic Syria.	0
671	SANDERS	But the first task is to bring countries together to destroy ISIS.	0
672	MUIR	Senator Sanders, thank you.	0
673	SANDERS	When we come back here tonight, the other major issues of this election: jobs, the economy, health care.	0
674	SANDERS	Which candidates will make the best case for the middle class, as our coverage of the Democratic debate, here in New Hampshire, continues right after this on ABC.	0
675	SYSTEM	ABC News coverage of the New Hampshire Democratic debate will continue in a moment.	0
676	SYSTEM	(COMMERCIAL BREAK)	0
677	MUIR	Welcome back tonight.	0
678	MUIR	As you can see, we have a packed audience here in New Hampshire and we're going to continue.	0
679	MUIR	We've already had a spirited conversation here at the top of the broadcast about ISIS, about the concerns of terror here on the homefront and as we await Secretary Clinton backstage, we're going to begin on the economy.	0
680	MUIR	We want to turn to the American jobs, wages and raises in this country.	0
681	MUIR	And we believe Secretary Clinton will be coming around the corner any minute.	0
682	MUIR	But in the mean time we want to start with this eye-opening number.	0
683	MUIR	And Senator Sanders, this question goes to you first, anyway.	0
684	MUIR	In 1995, the median American household income was $52,600 in today's money.	0
685	MUIR	This year, it's $53,600.	0
686	MUIR	That's 20 more years on the job with just a 2 percent raise.	0
687	MUIR	In a similar time-frame, raises for CEOs went up more than 200 percent.	0
688	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
689	CLINTON	Sorry.	0
690	MUIR	We're going to continue here, and Secretary, you'll get a chance on this too.	0
691	MUIR	But as I pointed out the CEO pay, 200 percent of their time -- for that family of just 2 percent.	0
692	MUIR	"You've all said, ""you would raise the minimum wage."""	0
693	MUIR	But Senator Sanders what else - speak to that household tonight.	0
694	MUIR	20 years, just a 2 percent raise, how as president would you get them a raise right away?	0
695	SANDERS	First of all, we recognize that we have a rigged economy, as you've indicated.	0
696	SANDERS	Middle class in this country for the last 40 years has been disappearing; are we better of today then we were when Bush left office?	0
697	SANDERS	Absolutely.	0
698	SANDERS	But as you've indicated for millions of American workers, people in New Hampshire -- all over America, they're working longer hours for lower wages deeply worried about their kids.	0
699	SANDERS	So what do we do?	0
700	SANDERS	"First statement is, we tell the billionaire class, ""they cannot have it all."""	0
701	SANDERS	For a start, they're going to start to pay their fair share of taxes.	0
702	SANDERS	Second of all what we do, is you raise the minimum wage to living wage, 15 bucks an hour over the next several years.	0
703	SANDERS	Next thing we do, pay equity for women workers.	0
704	SANDERS	Women should not be making 79 cents on the dollar compared to that.	0
705	SANDERS	Next thing that we do, real unemployment -- official unemployment, 5 percent, real employment 10 percent, youth unemployment, off the charts.	0
706	SANDERS	We rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, our roads our bridges, our rail systems, we create 13 million jobs with a trillion-dollar investment.	0
707	SANDERS	Furthermore, in a competitive global economy, it is imperative that we have the best educated workforce in the world.	0
708	SANDERS	That is why I'm going to have a tax on Wall Street speculation to make certain that public colleges and universities in America are tuition free.	0
709	MUIR	Senator Sanders, thank you.	0
710	MUIR	Governor O'Malley, what would propose that would be different, how would you get the middle class a raise and without waiting another 20 years for another 2 percent.	0
711	O'MALLEY	Look these are the things that we did in own state through the recession.	0
712	O'MALLEY	We actually passed a living wage.	0
713	O'MALLEY	We raised the minimum wage.	0
714	O'MALLEY	We actually raised it to the highest goals of any state in the nation also in minority and women participant goals because we understood that the way you reinvigorate and make fair market American capitalism work, is to make the choices and the investments that include more people more full in the economic success of your state.	0
715	O'MALLEY	All through the recession, we defended the highest median income in America and the second highest median income for African American families.	0
716	O'MALLEY	How?	0
717	O'MALLEY	By actually doing more for education.	0
718	O'MALLEY	We increased education funding by 37 percent.	0
719	O'MALLEY	We were the only state in American that went four years in a row without a penny increase in college tuition.	0
720	O'MALLEY	We invested more in our infrastructure and we squared our shoulders to the great business opportunity of this era and that is moving our economy to a 100 percent clean electric energy future.	0
721	O'MALLEY	We created 2,000 new jobs in the solar industry and we fought every single day to adopt more inclusive economic practices.	0
722	O'MALLEY	So David, the conclusion of all of those things is this; they weren't hopes, they weren't dreams, they weren't amorphous goals out there.	0
723	O'MALLEY	We actually took action to do these things and as president, I have put forward 15 strategic goals that will make wages go up again for all American families.	0
724	O'MALLEY	Universal national service is an option for every kid in America to cut youth employment.	0
725	O'MALLEY	And I'm the only candidate on this stage to put forward a new agenda for America's cities so we can employ more people in the heart of great American cities and get them back to work.	0
726	MUIR	Governor, thank you.	0
727	MUIR	Secretary Clinton...	0
728	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
729	MUIR	As you were walking in, I was talking about the median American household getting a two percent raise over the last 20 years, that CEO pay in that same time frame has gone up 200 percent.	0
730	MUIR	So for those families watching tonight, how do you get them a raise if you're president?	0
731	CLINTON	Well, I've been talking to a lot of these families, and this is such an outrage, both because it's bad for our economy, we're a 70 percent consumption economy, people need to feel optimistic and confident, they need to believe their hard work is going to be rewarded, and it's bad for our democracy.	0
732	CLINTON	It's absolutely the case that if people feel that the game is rigged, that has consequences.	0
733	CLINTON	I think it's great standing up here with the senator and the governor talking about these issues, because you're not going to hear anything like this from any of the Republicans who are running for president.	0
734	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
735	CLINTON	They don't want to raise the minimum wage, they don't want to do anything to increase incomes.	1
736	CLINTON	At the center of my economic policy is raising incomes, because people haven't been able to get ahead, and the cost of everything, from college tuition to prescription drugs, has gone up.	0
737	CLINTON	Of course we have to raise the minimum wage.	0
738	CLINTON	Of course we have to do more to incentivize profit sharing, like we see with Market Basket right here in New Hampshire and New England, where all of the employees get a chance to share in the profits.	0
739	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
740	CLINTON	And we've got to do more on equal pay for equal work.	0
741	CLINTON	That means pass the Paycheck Fairness Act so we have transparency about how much people are making.	0
742	CLINTON	That's the way to get women's wages up, and that's good for them and good for their families and good for our communities.	0
743	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
744	CLINTON	And there is a lot we can do in college affordability.	0
745	CLINTON	I have debt-free tuition plans, free community college plans, getting student debt down.	0
746	CLINTON	I also am very committed to getting the price of drugs down.	0
747	CLINTON	And there's a lot.	0
748	CLINTON	You can go to my website...	0
749	MUIR	Secretary...	0
750	CLINTON	... hillaryclinton.com, and read about it.	0
751	CLINTON	But I guess the final thing that -- that I would say is this is the kind of debate we need to take to the Republicans in the fall.	0
752	MUIR	Secretary, thank you.	0
753	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
754	CLINTON	This is the election...	0
755	MUIR	We're going to -- we're going to...	0
756	CLINTON	... issues they have to respond to.	0
757	MUIR	And we're going to talk about college education in a moment.	0
758	MUIR	But Secretary Clinton, I did want to ask you, the last time you ran for president, Fortune Magazine put you on its cover with the headline Business Loves Hillary, pointing out your support for many CEOs in corporate America.	0
759	MUIR	I'm curious, eight years later, should corporate America love Hillary Clinton?	0
760	CLINTON	Everybody should.	0
761	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
762	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
763	CLINTON	Look, I have said I want to be the president for the struggling, the striving and the successful.	0
764	CLINTON	I want to make sure the wealthy pay their fair share, which they have not been doing.	0
765	CLINTON	I want the Buffett Rule to be in effect, where millionaires have to pay 30 percent tax rates instead of 10 percent to nothing in some cases.	0
766	CLINTON	I want to make sure we rein in the excessive use of political power to feather the nest and support the super wealthy.	0
767	CLINTON	But I also want to create jobs and I want to be a partner with the private sector.	0
768	CLINTON	I'm particularly keen on creating jobs in small business.	0
769	CLINTON	My dad was a small businessman, a really small business.	0
770	CLINTON	I want to do more to help incentivize and create more small businesses.	0
771	CLINTON	So if -- if people who are in the private sector know what I stand for, it's what I fought for as a senator, it's what I will do as president, and they want to be part of once again building our economy so it works for everybody, more power to them, because they are the kind of business leaders who understand that if we don't get the American economy moving and growing, we're not going to recognize our country and we're not going to give our kids the same opportunities that we had.	0
772	MUIR	Secretary, thank you.	0
773	MUIR	Senator Sanders...	0
774	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
775	MUIR	I want to stay on this and ask you how big a role does corporate America play in a healthy economy and will corporate America love a President Sanders?	0
776	SANDERS	No, I think they won't.	0
777	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
778	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
779	SANDERS	So Hillary and I have a difference.	0
780	SANDERS	The CEOs of large multinationals may like Hillary.	0
781	SANDERS	They ain't going to like me and Wall Street is going to like me even less.	0
782	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
783	SANDERS	And the reason for that is we've got to deal with the elephant in the room, which is the greed, recklessness and illegal behavior on Wall Street.	0
784	SANDERS	When you have six financial institutions in this country that issue two-thirds of the credit cards and one-third of the mortgages, when three out of four of them are larger today than when we bailed them out because they are too big to fail, we've got to re- establish Glass-Steagall, we have got to break the large financial institutions up.	0
785	SANDERS	So I don't think...	0
786	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
787	SANDERS	... having said that, I don't think I'm going to get a whole lot of campaign contributions from Wall Street.	0
788	SANDERS	I don't have a super PAC.	0
789	SANDERS	I don't want campaign contributions from corporate America.	0
790	SANDERS	And let me be clear: While there are some great corporations creating jobs and trying to do the right thing, in my view -- and I say this very seriously -- the greed of the billionaire class, the greed of Wall Street is destroying this economy and is destroying the lives of millions of Americans.	0
791	SANDERS	We need an economy that works for the middle class, not just a handful of billionaires, and I will fight and lead to make that happen.	0
792	MUIR	Senator, thank you.	0
793	MUIR	I want to...	0
794	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
795	SYSTEM	(CROSSTALK)	0
796	MUIR	Governor, let me just ask you, though, because it is an important question, how important a role do you think corporate America plays in a healthy economy here in the U.S.?	0
797	O'MALLEY	Look, I look at our economy as an ecosystem.	0
798	O'MALLEY	And the fact of the matter is that the more fully people participate, the more our workers earn, the more they will spend, the more our economy will grow.	0
799	O'MALLEY	And most heads of businesses -- large, medium and small -- understand that.	0
800	O'MALLEY	But there is a better way forward than either of those offered by my two opponents here on this stage.	0
801	O'MALLEY	We're not going to fix what ails our economy, we're not going to make wages go up for everyone by either trying to replace American capitalism with socialism -- which, by the way, the rest of the world is moving away from -- nor will we fix it by submitting to sort of Wall Street-directed crony capitalism.	0
802	O'MALLEY	And for my part, I have demonstrated the ability to have the backbone to take on Wall Street in ways that Secretary Clinton never, ever has.	0
803	O'MALLEY	In fact, in the last debate, very shamefully, she tried to hide her cozy relationship with Wall Street big banks by invoking the attacks of 9/11.	0
804	O'MALLEY	I believe that the way forward for our country is to actually reinvigorate our antitrust department with the directive to promote fair competition.	0
805	O'MALLEY	There's mergers that are happening in every aspect of our country that is bad for competition and it's bad for -- for upward mobility of wages.	0
806	O'MALLEY	And the worst type of concentration, Secretary Clinton, is the concentration of the big banks, the big six banks that you went to and spoke to and told them, oh, you weren't responsible for the crash, not by a long shot.	1
807	O'MALLEY	And that's why today you still cannot support, as I do, breaking up the big banks and making sure that we pass a modern-day Glass- Steagall, like we had in late 1999, before it was repealed and led to the crash, where so many millions of families lost their jobs and their homes.	0
808	O'MALLEY	And I was on the front lines of that, looking into the eyes of my neighbors...	0
809	CLINTON	OK...	0
810	MUIR	Governor O'Malley, thank you.	0
811	SYSTEM	(CROSSTALK)	0
812	MUIR	I do want to ask you, Secretary Clinton.	0
813	MUIR	Let me just ask you...	0
814	CLINTON	Let me respond...	0
815	MUIR	We did -- we did -- Secretary Clinton, let me just ask you...	0
816	SYSTEM	(CROSSTALK)	0
817	CLINTON	Under the rules, I have been -- I have been invoked, David, so let me respond very quickly.	0
818	CLINTON	Number one...	0
819	MUIR	And in particular...	0
820	SYSTEM	(CROSSTALK)	0
821	CLINTON	Number one, there are currently two hedge fund billionaires running ads against me here in New Hampshire.	0
822	CLINTON	They started in Iowa.	0
823	CLINTON	Now, you'd have to ask yourself, why are they running ads against me?	0
824	CLINTON	And the answer is: Because they know I will go right after them, that I will not let their agenda be America's agenda.	0
825	CLINTON	Secondly, I think it's important to point out that about 3 percent of my donations come from people in the finance and investment world.	1
826	CLINTON	You can go to opensecrets.org and check that.	0
827	CLINTON	I have more donations from students and teachers than I do from people associated with Wall Street.	1
828	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
829	CLINTON	Now, number three -- and let me say this -- when Governor O'Malley was heading the Democratic Governors Association, he had no trouble at all going to Wall Street to raise money to run campaigns for Democratic governors.	0
830	CLINTON	And he also had no trouble appointing an investment banker to be in charge of his consumer protection bureau when he was governor.	0
831	CLINTON	So, you know, again, the difference between us and the Republicans is night and day.	0
832	CLINTON	And there is only one person on this stage who voted to take away authority from the SEC and the Commodities Future Trading Commission that they could no longer regulate what are called swaps and derivatives, which actually contributed to the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and that was Senator Sanders.	0
833	CLINTON	So if we're going to be talking like this, we can -- and maybe we can score some political points -- but the fact is: Every one of us stands for the kind of economy that will work better for every American.	0
834	CLINTON	And if that means taking on Wall Street, I have a plan that is tough and comprehensive and praised by a lot of folks who say it goes further than what both Senator Sanders and Governor O'Malley are proposing.	0
835	SANDERS	Let me just -- let me just...	0
836	MUIR	Secretary Clinton, thank you.	0
837	SANDERS	Let me just jump in.	0
838	SANDERS	My name was invoked.	0
839	MUIR	Senator?	0
840	SANDERS	So with that invocation, let me say a few words.	0
841	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
842	SANDERS	Secretary Clinton, I don't have a super PAC.	0
843	SANDERS	I don't get any money from Wall Street.	0
844	SANDERS	You have gotten a whole lot of money over the years from Wall Street.	0
845	SANDERS	But most importantly, when you look at what happened in the 1990s, go to berniesanders.com.	0
846	SANDERS	I'll advertise my Web site as well.	0
847	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
848	SANDERS	And what you'll find is that I led -- helped lead the effort as a member of the House financial committee against Alan Greenspan, against a guy named Bill Clinton, maybe you know him, maybe you don't.	0
849	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
850	SANDERS	Against the Republican leadership, who all thought it would be a great idea to merge investor banks and commercial banks and large insurance companies.	0
851	SANDERS	What a brilliant idea that would be.	0
852	SANDERS	Go to YouTube.	0
853	SANDERS	Find out what I said to Greenspan.	0
854	SANDERS	At the end of the day, if Teddy Roosevelt were alive today, and the governor makes a good point about trade, anti-trade, anti-monopoly activities.	0
855	SANDERS	Wall Street today has too much political power.	0
856	SANDERS	It has too much economic power.	0
857	SANDERS	To get deregulated -- listen to this, they spent $5 billion in lobbying and campaign contributions over a 10-year period.	0
858	MUIR	Senator Sanders...	0
859	SANDERS	Wall Street is a threat to the economy.	0
860	SANDERS	They've got to be broken up.	0
861	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
862	MUIR	Thank you, Senator.	0
863	RADDATZ	And we're going to move on to health care.	0
864	SANDERS	Secretary Clinton, the Department of Health and Human Services says more than 17 million Americans who are not insured now have health coverage because of Obamacare.	0
865	SANDERS	But for Americans who already had health insurance the cost has gone up 27 percent in the last five years while deductibles are up 67 percent, health care costs are rising faster than many Americans can manage.	0
866	SANDERS	What's broken in Obamacare that needs to be fixed right now?	0
867	SANDERS	And what would you do to fix it?	0
868	CLINTON	Well, I would certainly build on the successes of the Affordable Care Act and work to fix some of the glitches that you just referenced.	0
869	CLINTON	Number one, we do have more people who have access to health care.	0
870	CLINTON	We have ended the terrible situation that people with pre- existing conditions were faced with where they couldn't find at any affordable price health care.	0
871	CLINTON	Women are not charged more than men any longer for our health insurance.	0
872	CLINTON	And we keep young people on our policies until they turn 26.	0
873	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
874	CLINTON	Those are all really positive developments.	0
875	CLINTON	But out-of-pocket costs have gone up too much and prescription drug costs have gone through the roof.	0
876	CLINTON	And so what I have proposed, number one, is a $5,000 tax credit to help people who have very large out-of-pocket costs be able to afford those.	0
877	CLINTON	Number two, I want Medicare to be able to negotiate for lower drug prices just like they negotiate with other countries' health systems.	0
878	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
879	CLINTON	We end up paying the highest prices in the world.	0
880	CLINTON	And I want us to be absolutely clear about making sure the insurance companies in the private employer policy arena as well as in the Affordable Care exchanges are properly regulated so that we are not being gamed.	0
881	CLINTON	And I think that's an important point to make because I'm going through and analyzing the points you were making, Martha.	0
882	CLINTON	We don't have enough competition and we don't have enough oversight of what the insurance companies are charging everybody right now.	0
883	SYSTEM	(CROSSTALK)	0
884	RADDATZ	But you did say those were glitches.	0
885	CLINTON	Yes.	0
886	RADDATZ	Just glitches?	0
887	CLINTON	Well, they're glitches because...	0
888	RADDATZ	Twenty-seven percent in the last five years, deductibles up 67 percent?	0
889	CLINTON	It is.	0
890	CLINTON	Because part of this is the startup challenges that this system is facing.	0
891	CLINTON	We have fought, as Democrats, for decades to get a health care plan.	0
892	CLINTON	I know.	0
893	CLINTON	I've got the scars to show from the effort back in the early '90s.	0
894	CLINTON	We want to build on it and fix it.	0
895	CLINTON	And I'm confident we can do that.	0
896	CLINTON	And it will have effects in the private market.	0
897	CLINTON	And one of the reasons in some states why the percentage cost has gone up so much is because governors there would not extend Medicaid.	0
898	CLINTON	And so people are still going to get health care, thankfully, in emergency rooms, in hospitals.	0
899	CLINTON	Those costs are then added to the overall cost, which does increase the insurance premiums for people in the private system.	0
900	SYSTEM	(CROSSTALK)	0
901	RADDATZ	Senator Sanders, I want you to respond to what she was saying, but you're instead calling for single-payer health care.	0
902	SANDERS	Yes, exactly, exactly.	0
903	RADDATZ	You note people won't have to pay deductibles or premiums but they will have to pay new taxes.	0
904	RADDATZ	Can you tell us specifically how much people will be expected to pay?	0
905	SANDERS	Yes, well, roughly.	0
906	SANDERS	Let me say this.	0
907	SANDERS	As a member of the Health Education Committee that helped write the Affordable Care Act, much of what Secretary Clinton said about what we have done, among other things, ending the obscenity of this pre-existing situation is a step forward.	0
908	SANDERS	Seventeen more million more people have health care.	0
909	SANDERS	It is a step forward.	0
910	SANDERS	A step forward.	0
911	SANDERS	But this is what we also have to say.	0
912	SANDERS	Not only are deductibles rising, 29 million Americans still have no health insurance and millions of people can't afford to go to the doctor.	0
913	SANDERS	Major crisis and primary health care.	0
914	SANDERS	Here is the bottom line.	0
915	SANDERS	Why is it that the United States of America today is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care to all people as a right?	0
916	SANDERS	Why is it...	0
917	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
918	SANDERS	Why is it that we are -- why is it that we spend almost three times per capita as to what they spend in the U.K., 50 percent more than what they pay in France, countries that guarantee health care to all of their people and in many cases, have better health care outcomes.	0
919	SANDERS	Bottom line.	0
920	SANDERS	This ties into campaign finance reform.	0
921	SANDERS	The insurance companies, the drug companies are bribing the United States Congress.	0
922	SANDERS	We need to pass a Medicare for all single payer system.	0
923	SANDERS	It will lower the cost of health care for a middle-class family by thousands of dollars a year.	0
924	RADDATZ	Senator Sanders, you didn't really tell us specifically how much people will be expected to pay...	0
925	SANDERS	But they will not be paying, Martha, any private insurance.	0
926	SANDERS	So it's unfair to say in total...	0
927	RADDATZ	But you can't tell us this specifically, even if you were...	0
928	SANDERS	I can tell you that adding up the fact you're not paying any private insurance, businesses are not paying any private insurance.	0
929	SANDERS	The average middle-class family will be saving thousands of dollars a year.	0
930	RADDATZ	OK.	0
931	RADDATZ	Let's go to talk about the high cost of college education and for that we turn to the executive director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, right here at Saint Anselm college, Neil Levesque.	0
932	RADDATZ	Neil?	0
933	LEVESQUE	Here to New Hampshire again.	0
934	LEVESQUE	As you know, this auditorium is filled with many Saint Anselm college students.	0
935	LEVESQUE	They know the outstanding student debt right now in America is $1.3 trillion.	0
936	LEVESQUE	That private education costs have gone up in the last decade 26 percent, and 40 percent for public education.	0
937	LEVESQUE	So knowing that, we know you want to make public education more affordable but how do you really lower the cost?	0
938	LEVESQUE	Senator Sanders, you mentioned a few minutes ago that you want free tuition for public colleges.	0
939	SANDERS	And universities.	0
940	LEVESQUE	How does that really lower the cost other than just shifting the cost to taxpayers?	0
941	SANDERS	Well, Neil, I think we've got to work on a two-pronged approach.	0
942	SANDERS	And your point is absolutely well taken.	0
943	SANDERS	The cost of college education is escalating a lot faster than the cost of inflation.	0
944	SANDERS	There are a lot of factors involved in that.	0
945	SANDERS	And that is that we have some colleges and universities that are spending a huge amount of money on fancy dormitories and on giant football stadiums.	0
946	SANDERS	Maybe we should focus on quality education with well-paid faculty members.	0
947	SANDERS	But...	0
948	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
949	SANDERS	And I understand in many universities a heck of a lot of vice presidents who earn a big salary.	0
950	SANDERS	But, bottom line is this is the year 2015.	0
951	SANDERS	If we are going to be competitive in the global economy we need the best educated workforce.	0
952	SANDERS	It is insane to my mind, hundreds of thousands of young people today, bright qualified people, cannot go to college because they cannot afford -- their families cannot afford to send them.	0
953	SANDERS	Millions coming out of school as you indicated, deeply in debt.	0
954	SANDERS	What do we do?	0
955	SANDERS	My proposal is to put a speculation tax on wall street, raise very substantial sums of money, not only make public colleges and universities tuition-free, but also substantially lower interest rates on student debt.	0
956	SANDERS	You have families out there paying 6 percent, 8 percent, 10 percent on student debt, refinance their homes at 3 percent.	0
957	SANDERS	What sense is that?	0
958	SANDERS	So I think we need radical changes in the funding of higher education.	0
959	SANDERS	We should look at college today the way high school was looked at 60 years ago.	0
960	SANDERS	All young people who have the ability should be able to get a college education.	0
961	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
962	LEVESQUE	Governor O'Malley, how do you propose -- Governor O'Malley, how do you propose lowering some of these costs associated with higher education?	0
963	O'MALLEY	Yes, this one falls under the category of, I have actually done this.	0
964	O'MALLEY	As a governor we actually made the greater investments so that we could go four years in a row without a penny's increase to college tuition.	0
965	O'MALLEY	My plan actually goes further than Senator Sanders because a big chunk of the cost is actually room and board and books and fees.	0
966	O'MALLEY	So as a nation we need to increase what we invest in Pell grants.	0
967	O'MALLEY	Yes, we need to make it easier for parents to refinance.	0
968	O'MALLEY	But states need to do more as well.	0
969	O'MALLEY	And I propose a block grant program that will keep the states in the game as well.	0
970	O'MALLEY	I believe that all of our kids should go into an income-based repayment plan.	0
971	O'MALLEY	I'm joined tonight by two daughters, Tara and Grace.	0
972	O'MALLEY	My oldest daughter's a teacher.	0
973	O'MALLEY	Man (ph), their mother's here as well.	0
974	O'MALLEY	We were proud of them on graduation day, weren't we, Katie?	0
975	O'MALLEY	And we're going to be proud every month for the rest of our lives.	0
976	O'MALLEY	I mean, we had to borrow so much money to send them to college and were not the only ones.	0
977	O'MALLEY	There're families all across America who aren't able to contribute to our economy because of this crushing student loan.	0
978	O'MALLEY	I also propose that we can pay for this with a tax on high volume trades and we need to because my dad came to college after World War II on a G.I.	0
979	O'MALLEY	Bill.	0
980	O'MALLEY	But today, we're the only nation on the planet that's saddling our kids with a lifetime of bills.	0
981	O'MALLEY	That's a drag on the economy.	0
982	O'MALLEY	It's one of the key investments we need to make.	0
983	O'MALLEY	I was flattered that Secretary Clinton two months later borrowed so many of my proposals to incorporate into hers.	0
984	O'MALLEY	And in our party, unlike the Republican party, we actually believe that the more our people learn, the more they will earn and higher education should be a right for every kid.	0
985	MUIR	Secretary Clinton.	0
986	CLINTON	Right.	0
987	MCELVEEN	Secretary Clinton, how does your plan differentiate from your opponents?	0
988	CLINTON	Well, I have what I call the new college compact.	0
989	CLINTON	Because I think everybody has to have some skin in this game, you know.	0
990	CLINTON	Number one, States have been dis-investing in higher education.	0
991	CLINTON	In fact, I think New Hampshire, in state tuition for public colleges and universities, is among the highest if not the highest in the country.	0
992	CLINTON	So states over a period of decades have put their money elsewhere; into prisons, into highways, into things other than higher education.	0
993	CLINTON	So under my compact, the federal government will match money that the states begin to put back in to the higher education system.	0
994	CLINTON	Secondly, I don't believe in free tuition for everybody.	0
995	CLINTON	I believe we should focus on middle-class families, working families, and poor kids who have the ambition and the talent to go to college and get ahead.	0
996	CLINTON	So I have proposed debt free tuition, which I think is affordable and I would move a lot of the Pell Grant and other aid into the arena where it could be used for living expense.	0
997	CLINTON	So I put all of this together, again, on my website and I've gotten such a good response.	0
998	CLINTON	But I want to quickly say, one of the areas that Senator Sanders touched on in talking about education and certainly talking about health care is his commitment to really changing the systems.	0
999	CLINTON	Free college, a single payer system for health, and it's been estimated were looking at 18 to $20 trillion, about a 40 percent in the federal budget.	0
1000	CLINTON	And I have looked at his proposed plans for health care for example, and it really does transfer every bit of our health care system including private health care, to the states to have the states run.	0
1001	CLINTON	And I think we've got to be really thoughtful about how we're going to afford what we proposed, which is why everything that I have proposed I will tell you exactly how I'm going to pay for it; including college.	0
1002	MCELVEEN	Thank you Secretary Clinton, thank you.	0
1003	SANDERS	May I respond to the critique on the ...	0
1004	MCELVEEN	Back to you David.	0
1005	MUIR	We're going to get right into this Senator but I want to ask about taxes next.	0
1006	MUIR	This is included.	0
1007	SANDERS	I would just...	0
1008	MUIR	She was asking about that...	0
1009	SANDERS	But Secretary Clinton is wrong.	0
1010	SANDERS	As you know, because I know you know a lot about health care.	0
1011	SANDERS	You know that the United States per capita pays far and away more than other country.	0
1012	SANDERS	And it is unfair simply to say how much more the program will cost without making sure that people know that, we are doing away with cost of private insurance and that the middle class will be paying substantially less for health care on the single payer than on the Secretary's Clinton proposal.	0
1013	CLINTON	Well, the only thing - the only thing I can go on Senator Sanders...	0
1014	MUIR	Are we back on health care - Secretary Clinton hold one moment.	0
1015	MUIR	Senator Sanders...	0
1016	SYSTEM	(CROSSTALK)	0
1017	CLINTON	Your proposal is to go and send the health care system to the state.	0
1018	MUIR	Secretary Clinton, please.	0
1019	CLINTON	And my analysis is, that you are going to get more taxes out of middle class families.	0
1020	CLINTON	I'm the only person...	0
1021	MUIR	So let's ask about it.	0
1022	MUIR	Secretary Clinton, let's turn to the taxes.	0
1023	CLINTON	... saying, no middle class tax raises.	0
1024	CLINTON	That's off the table...	0
1025	MUIR	This is where we are going next, we are going next to taxes here...	0
1026	SANDERS	Now, this is getting to be fun.	0
1027	MUIR	This is fun.	0
1028	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1029	MUIR	This is democracy at work.	0
1030	MUIR	Secretary Clinton, let me ask you about your tax plan because from the crushing cost of college education, the next question most families have; is will my taxes go up under the next president?	0
1031	MUIR	You have said it's your goal not to raise taxes on families making under $200,000 a year a goal.	0
1032	MUIR	But can you say that's a promise as you stand here tonight?	0
1033	CLINTON	That is a pledge that I'm making.	0
1034	CLINTON	I made it when I ran in 2008.	0
1035	MUIR	A promise?	0
1036	CLINTON	Yes, and it was the same one that President Obama made.	0
1037	CLINTON	Because I don't think we should be imposing new big programs that are going to raise middle class families' taxes.	0
1038	CLINTON	We just heard that most families haven't had a wage increase since 2001.	0
1039	CLINTON	Since, you know, the end of the last Clinton administration when incomes did go up for everybody.	0
1040	CLINTON	And we've got to get back to where people can save money again, where they can invest in their families, and I don't think a middle-class tax should be part of anybody's plan right now.	0
1041	SANDERS	Let me respond to...	0
1042	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1043	MUIR	Secretary Clinton...	0
1044	SANDERS	Let me respond to...	0
1045	MUIR	Please.	0
1046	SANDERS	Number one, most important economic reality of today is that over the last 30 years, there has been a transfer of trillions of dollars from the middle class to the top one-tenth of one percent who are seeing a doubling of the percentage of wealth that they own.	0
1047	SANDERS	"Now, when Secretary Clinton says, ""I'm not going raise taxes on the middle class,"" let me tell you what she is saying."	0
1048	SANDERS	She is disagreeing with FDR on Social Security, LBJ on Medicare and with the vast majority of progressive Democrats in the House and the Senate, who today are fighting to end the disgrace of the United States being the only major country on Earth that doesn't provide paid family and medical leave.	0
1049	SANDERS	What the legislation is is $1.61 a week.	0
1050	SANDERS	Now, you can say that's a tax on the middle class.	0
1051	SANDERS	It will provide three months paid family and medical leave for the working families of this country.	0
1052	SANDERS	I think, Secretary Clinton, $1.61 a week is a pretty good invest.	0
1053	MUIR	Senator, thank you.	0
1054	MUIR	Let me bring in Governor O'Malley...	0
1055	CLINTON	Senator, I have been -- I have been fighting for paid...	0
1056	MUIR	You've heard...	0
1057	CLINTON	... family leave for a very long time...	0
1058	MUIR	Secretary Clinton.	0
1059	SANDERS	David, thank you.	0
1060	CLINTON	I have a way to pay for it that actually makes the wealthiest pay for it...	0
1061	SANDERS	Then (inaudible)...	0
1062	CLINTON	... not everybody else.	0
1063	SANDERS	Every (inaudible) Democrat and senator in support of this proposal introduced by your good friend and my good friend, Kirsten Gillibrand, Rosa DeLauro, got ears (ph) to legislation out there that will finally provide family and medical leave.	0
1064	MUIR	Thank you.	0
1065	MUIR	I want to bring in Governor O'Malley on this.	0
1066	MUIR	We heard the promise from Secretary Clinton because people want to know about their taxes, will they go up.	0
1067	MUIR	She has now promised here tonight not to raise them on families making $250,000 or less.	0
1068	MUIR	Can you make that same promise if you're elected?	0
1069	O'MALLEY	No, I've never made a promise like that.	0
1070	O'MALLEY	But unlike either of these two fine people, I've actually balanced a budget every single year.	0
1071	O'MALLEY	I was one -- I was the only -- one of only seven states that had a AAA bond rating.	0
1072	O'MALLEY	By the time I left, the average tax burden on Maryland families was the same as when I started.	0
1073	O'MALLEY	But I did pass a more progressive income tax and asked the highest-earning people to pay another 14 percent.	0
1074	O'MALLEY	David, look, this is the big -- I agree, by the way, that we should have paid family leave.	0
1075	O'MALLEY	And I agree with Senator Sanders on that.	0
1076	O'MALLEY	And just like Social Security and unlike the Republicans, I think we should actually expand Social Security and increase average monthly benefits.	0
1077	O'MALLEY	But look, there's one big entitlement we can no longer afford as a country, and that is the entitlement that the super wealthy among us, those earning more than a million dollars, feel that they're entitled to pay lower income tax rates and a far lower preferred income tax rate when it comes to capital gains.	0
1078	O'MALLEY	If we were to raise the marginal rate to 45 percent for people earning more than a million dollars and if we tax capital gains essentially the same we do earnings from hard work and sweat and toil, you could generate $800 billion over the next ten years and that would do so much good for affordable college, debt-free college, cutting youth unemployment in half, investing in our cities again.	0
1079	O'MALLEY	So the things I have done in office are the things that actually invest in growing our economy and making wages go up.	0
1080	O'MALLEY	That's the issue that we need to tackle as Americans, and we can do it and we know how.	0
1081	MUIR	Governor O'Malley, thank you.	0
1082	MUIR	A spirited debate on taxes.	0
1083	MUIR	And there will be more with the Democratic debate in New Hampshire, when we come back right here on ABC.	0
1084	MUIR	More in a moment.	0
1085	SYSTEM	(COMMERCIAL BREAK)	0
1086	MUIR	Welcome back tonight to New Hampshire.	0
1087	MUIR	The Democratic debate continues here on ABC.	0
1088	MUIR	And Secretary Clinton, we want to turn to race, now, in America.	0
1089	MUIR	There is a real concern in this country from Black Lives Matter and from other community groups that we're just now seeing, with smartphones and cell phones, what many have been dealing with for years when they come in contact with police.	0
1090	MUIR	But you also have many in law enforcement who now say there has been a so-called Ferguson effect, police holding back because they're afraid of backlash.	0
1091	MUIR	In fact, the FBI director is calling it a chill wind blowing through American law enforcement.	0
1092	MUIR	So, if elected president, how would you bridge the divide between the two?	0
1093	CLINTON	Well, David, I think this is one of the most important challenges facing not just our next president but our country.	0
1094	CLINTON	We have systemic racism and injustice and inequities in our country and in particular, in our justice system that must be addressed and must be ended.	0
1095	CLINTON	I feel very strongly that we have to reform our criminal justice system and we have to find ways to try to bring law enforcement together again with the communities that they are sworn to protect.	0
1096	CLINTON	Trust has been totally lost in a lot of places.	0
1097	CLINTON	At the same time, we know that in many parts of our country police officers are bridging those divides and they're acting heroically.	0
1098	CLINTON	The young officer who was killed responding to the Planned Parenthood murders.	0
1099	CLINTON	The officer who told the victims of the San Bernardino killings that he would take a bullet before them.	0
1100	CLINTON	So I think that we need to build on the work of the policing commissioner that President Obama impaneled.	0
1101	CLINTON	We need to get a bipartisan commitment to work together on this.	0
1102	CLINTON	And we need to hear the voices of those men and women and boys and girls who feel like strangers in their own country and do whatever is necessary to not only deal with the immediate problems within the criminal justice system, but more opportunities, more jobs, better education so that we can begin to rebuild that very valuable asset known as trust.	0
1103	MUIR	Secretary, thank you.	0
1104	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1105	MUIR	Governor O'Malley, how would you bridge the divide?	0
1106	O'MALLEY	There is no issue in American public policy that I have worked on more day in and day out than this painful issue of policing, of law enforcement, criminal justice and race in America.	0
1107	O'MALLEY	When I ran in 1999, David, for mayor of Baltimore, our city by that year had become the most addicted, violent, and abandoned in America.	0
1108	O'MALLEY	But we came together.	0
1109	O'MALLEY	I brought people together over some very deep racial divides.	0
1110	O'MALLEY	And we were able to put our city on the path for the biggest reduction in crime of any major city in America over the next ten years.	0
1111	O'MALLEY	As governor, we continued to work together.	0
1112	O'MALLEY	We reduced violent crime to 30-year lows.	0
1113	O'MALLEY	But get this.	0
1114	O'MALLEY	We also reduced incarceration rates to 20-year lows.	0
1115	O'MALLEY	So it is possible actually, to find the things that actually work, that we did, increasing drug treatment, using big data to better protect the lives of young people, cut juvenile crime in half, and it's also possible to improve how we police our police.	0
1116	O'MALLEY	But there wasn't a single day as mayor of Baltimore that I wasn't asked whether I was delivering on the promise I made to police the police.	0
1117	O'MALLEY	We reported excessive force, discourtesy, use of lethal force.	0
1118	O'MALLEY	In fact, drove down to three of the four lowest years on record police use of lethal force.	0
1119	O'MALLEY	As a nation, we have to embrace this moment and make our departments more open, more transparent, and more accountable.	0
1120	O'MALLEY	Just as we require every major department, every county to report its major crimes, we should require police departments to report their discourtesy, brutality, excessive force.	0
1121	O'MALLEY	There's so much work that can be done, so much we've learned to do better.	0
1122	O'MALLEY	We need to do it now as a nation.	0
1123	O'MALLEY	This is our time and our opportunity to do that.	0
1124	MUIR	Governor, thank you.	0
1125	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1126	MUIR	And Senator Sanders, when you hear the FBI director calling it a chill wind blowing through American law enforcement, does that concern you as well when you --	0
1127	SANDERS	Well, this whole issue concerns me.	0
1128	SANDERS	And I agree with much of what the secretary and the governor have said.	0
1129	SANDERS	But let's be clear.	0
1130	SANDERS	Today in America we have more people in jail than any other country on earth, 2.2 million people.	0
1131	SANDERS	Predominantly African-American and Hispanic.	0
1132	SANDERS	We are spending $80 billion a year locking up our fellow Americans.	0
1133	SANDERS	I think, and this is not easy, but I think we need to make wage a major effort, to come together as a country and end institutional racism.	0
1134	SANDERS	We need major, major reforms of a very broken criminal justice system.	0
1135	SANDERS	Now, what does that mean?	0
1136	SANDERS	Well, for a start it means that police officers should not be shooting unarmed people, predominantly African-Americans.	0
1137	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1138	SANDERS	It means that we have to rethink the so-called war on drugs which has destroyed the lives of millions of people, which is why I have taken marijuana out of the Controlled Substance Act.	0
1139	SANDERS	So that it will not be a federal crime.	0
1140	SANDERS	That is why we need to make...	0
1141	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1142	SANDERS	That is why we need to make police -- and I speak as a former mayor.	0
1143	SANDERS	I was a mayor for eight years, worked very closely with a great police department.	0
1144	SANDERS	And what we did is try to move that department toward community policing, so that the police officers become part of the community and not, as we see, in some cities an oppressive force.	0
1145	SANDERS	We need to make police departments look like the communities they serve in terms of diversity.	0
1146	SANDERS	We need to end minimal sentencing.	0
1147	SANDERS	We need, basically, to pledge that we're going to invest in this country, in jobs and education, not more jails and incarceration.	0
1148	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1149	MUIR	Senator, thank you.	0
1150	MUIR	We want to turn now to an issue.	0
1151	MUIR	This next issue has destroyed so many families across the country, and in particular right here in New Hampshire, heroin.	0
1152	MUIR	And there's a stunning new figure out.	0
1153	MUIR	A recent poll -- 48 percent here, in this state alone, say they know someone who has abused heroin.	0
1154	MUIR	We're going to turn tonight to Dan Tuohy of the New Hampshire Union Leader who has this question.	0
1155	QUESTION	New Hampshire has been hard hit by the heroin epidemic, and we're on track to have twice as many overdose deaths this year as in 2013.	0
1156	QUESTION	What specifically would you do to address this crisis?	0
1157	MUIR	Senator Sanders, I'm going to take this to you first because you've seen what's happened with heroin right on the border in your own state.	0
1158	SANDERS	Yes.	0
1159	SANDERS	Look, this is a tragedy for New Hampshire.	0
1160	SANDERS	It is a tragedy for my state of Vermont.	0
1161	SANDERS	It is a tragedy all over this country.	0
1162	SANDERS	The number of heroin deaths are growing very, very significantly.	0
1163	SANDERS	What do we do?	0
1164	SANDERS	Well, for a start, this may seem like a radical idea, but I think we have got to tell the medical profession and doctors who are prescribing opiates and the pharmaceutical industry that they have got to start getting their act together, we cannot have this huge number of opiates out there throughout this country, where young people are taking them, getting hooked, and then going to heroin.	0
1165	SANDERS	Second of all, and the reason I believe in a health care for all program, we need to understand that addiction is a disease, not a criminal activity.	0
1166	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1167	SANDERS	And that means -- and that means radically changing the way we deal with mental health and addiction issues.	0
1168	SANDERS	When somebody is addicted and seeking help, they should not have to wait three, four months in order to get that help.	0
1169	SANDERS	They should be able to walk in the door tomorrow and get a variety of treatments that work for them.	0
1170	SANDERS	So those are some of the areas that I think we've got to move on.	0
1171	MUIR	Senator, thank you.	0
1172	MUIR	Secretary Clinton?	0
1173	CLINTON	You know, on my very first visit to New Hampshire in this campaign, I was in Keene, and I was asked what are you going to do about the heroin epidemic?	0
1174	CLINTON	And all over New Hampshire, I met grandmothers who are raising children because they lost the father or the mother to an overdose.	0
1175	CLINTON	I met young people who are desperately trying to get clean and have nowhere to go, because there are not enough facilities.	0
1176	CLINTON	So this is a major epidemic, and it has hit New Hampshire and Vermont particularly hard.	0
1177	CLINTON	I've had had two town halls, one in Keene, one in Laconia, dedicated exclusively to talking about what we can do.	0
1178	CLINTON	And I've heard some great ideas about how law enforcement is changing its behavior, how the recovery community is reaching out.	0
1179	CLINTON	And I was proud to get the endorsement of Mayor Walsh of Boston, who has made his struggle with alcoholism a real clarion call for action in this arena.	0
1180	CLINTON	So, I've laid out a five-point plan about what we can do together.	0
1181	CLINTON	I would like the federal government to offer $10 billion over ten years to work with states, and I really applaud Governor Hassan for taking up this challenge and working with the legislature here to come up with a plan.	0
1182	CLINTON	We need to do more on the prescribing end of it.	0
1183	CLINTON	There are too many opioids being prescribed, and that leads directly now to heroin addiction.	0
1184	CLINTON	And we need to change the way we do law enforcement, and of course, we need more programs and facilities, so when somebody is ready to get help, there's a place for them to go.	0
1185	CLINTON	And every law enforcement should carry the antidote to overdose, Naloxone, so that they can save lives that are on the brink of expiring.	0
1186	MUIR	Secretary, thank you.	0
1187	O'MALLEY	And you know, I actually know a great deal about this issue.	0
1188	O'MALLEY	And I have a dear friend, played music with him for years, remember when his -- when he came home with his baby girl, and now she's no longer with us, because of addiction and overdose.	0
1189	O'MALLEY	The last time in New Hampshire, I had to take a break shortly after landing and call home and comfort a friend whose mother had died of an overdose.	0
1190	O'MALLEY	Drugs have taken far too many of our citizens.	0
1191	O'MALLEY	It's a huge public health challenge.	0
1192	O'MALLEY	In our own city, I mentioned before, we had become the most addicted city in America.	0
1193	O'MALLEY	But together, every single year, I expanded drug treatment funding within our city and then I expanded it in our state, and we were saving lives every single year doing the things that work, intervening earlier, understanding the continuum of care that's required until we got hit like every other state in the state -- in the United States, especially in New Hampshire and in the northeast with this opioid addiction, the over-prescribing.	0
1194	O'MALLEY	I agree, we need better -- we need to rein in the over- prescribing, but I have put forward on my -- in my plan a $12 billion federal investment.	0
1195	O'MALLEY	We have to invest in the local partnerships, and the best place to intervene, the best indicator of when a person is actually on the verge of killing themselves because of an addiction, is at the hospital.	0
1196	O'MALLEY	That very first time they show up with a near miss, we should be intervening there.	0
1197	O'MALLEY	That's what I said to my own public health people.	0
1198	O'MALLEY	What would we do if this were ebola?	0
1199	O'MALLEY	How would we act?	0
1200	O'MALLEY	So many more Americans have been killed by the combination of heroin and these highly addictive pain pills, and yet, we refuse to act.	0
1201	O'MALLEY	There are thing that can be done.	0
1202	O'MALLEY	Go on to my website.	0
1203	O'MALLEY	My plan is there.	0
1204	O'MALLEY	It's one of 15 strategic goals I've set out to make our country a better place by cutting these sort of deaths in half in the next five years.	0
1205	MUIR	Governor O'Malley, thank you.	0
1206	MUIR	Martha?	0
1207	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1208	RADDATZ	Secretary Clinton, I want to circle back to something that your opponents here have brought up.	0
1209	RADDATZ	Libya is falling apart.	0
1210	RADDATZ	The country is a haven for ISIS and jihadists with an estimated 2,000 ISIS fighters there today.	0
1211	RADDATZ	You advocated for that 2011 intervention and called it smart power at its best.	0
1212	RADDATZ	And yet, even President Obama said the U.S. should have done more to fill the leadership vacuum left behind.	0
1213	RADDATZ	How much responsibility do you bear for the chaos that followed elections?	0
1214	CLINTON	Well, first, let's remember why we became part of a coalition to stop Gadhafi from committing massacres against his people.	0
1215	CLINTON	The United States was asked to support the Europeans and the Arab partners that we had and we did a lot of due diligence about whether we should or not, and eventually, yes, I recommended and the president decided that we would support the action to protect civilians on the ground and that led to the overthrow of Gadhafi.	0
1216	CLINTON	I think that what Libya then did by having a full free election, which elected moderates, was an indication of their crying need and desire to get on the right path.	0
1217	CLINTON	Now, the whole region has been rendered unstable, in part because of the aftermath of the Arab Spring, in part because of the very effective outreach and propagandizing that ISIS and other terrorist groups do.	0
1218	CLINTON	But what we're seeing happening in Libya right now is that there has been a fragile agreement to put aside the differences that exist among Libyans themselves to try to dislodge ISIS from Sirte, the home town of Gadhafi, and to begin to try to create a national government.	0
1219	CLINTON	You know, this is not easy work.	0
1220	CLINTON	We did a lot to help.	0
1221	CLINTON	We did as much as we could because the Libyans themselves had very strong feelings about what they wished to accept.	0
1222	CLINTON	But we're always looking for ways about what more we can do to try to give people a chance to be successful.	0
1223	RADDATZ	Secretary Clinton, I want to go back.	0
1224	RADDATZ	That -- government lacked institutions and experience.	0
1225	RADDATZ	It had been a family business for 40 years.	0
1226	RADDATZ	On the security side, we offered only a modest training effort and a very limited arms buy-back program.	0
1227	RADDATZ	Let me ask you the question again.	0
1228	RADDATZ	How much responsibility do you bear for the chaos that followed those elections?	0
1229	CLINTON	Martha, we offered a lot more than they were willing to take.	0
1230	CLINTON	We offered a lot more.	0
1231	CLINTON	We also got rid of their chemical weapons, which was a big help, and we also went after a lot of the shoulder-fired missiles to round them up.	0
1232	CLINTON	You know, we can't -- if we're not going to send American troops, which there was never any idea of doing that, then to try to send trainers, to try to send experts, is something we offered, Europeans offered, the U.N. offered, and there wasn't a lot of responsiveness at first.	0
1233	CLINTON	I think a lot of the Libyans who had been forced out of their country by Gadhafi who came back to try to be part of a new government, believed they knew what to do and it turned out that they were no match for some of the militaristic forces inside that country.	0
1234	CLINTON	But I'm not giving up on Libya and I don't think anybody should.	0
1235	CLINTON	We've been at this a couple of years.	0
1236	RADDATZ	But were mistakes made?	0
1237	CLINTON	Well, there's always a retrospective to say what mistakes were made.	0
1238	CLINTON	But I know that we offered a lot of help and I know it was difficult for the Libyans to accept help.	0
1239	CLINTON	What we could have done if they had said yes would have been a lot more than what we were able to have done.	0
1240	SANDERS	But what...	0
1241	RADDATZ	Senator Sanders.	0
1242	SANDERS	Look, the secretary is right.	0
1243	SANDERS	This is a terribly complicated issue.	0
1244	SANDERS	There are no simple solutions.	0
1245	SANDERS	But where we have a disagreement is that I think if you look at the history of regime changes, you go back to Mossaddegh (ph) in Iran, you go back to Salvador Allende who we overthrew in Chile, you go back to overthrowing Saddam Hussein in Iraq, you go back to where we are today in Syria with a dictator named Assad.	0
1246	SANDERS	The truth is it is relatively easy for a powerful nation like America to overthrow a dictator but it is very hard to predict the unintended consequences and the turmoil and the instability that follows after you overthrow that dictator.	0
1247	SANDERS	So I think secretary Clinton and I have a fundamental disagreement.	0
1248	SANDERS	I'm not quite the fan of regime change that I believe she is.	0
1249	O'MALLEY	Martha -- I would just repeat that --	0
1250	CLINTON	Well, I would just repeat that.	0
1251	RADDATZ	Secretary Clinton.	0
1252	CLINTON	Wait a minute.	0
1253	CLINTON	I think it's only fair to put on the record, Senator Sanders voted in the Senate for a resolution calling for ending the Gadhafi regime and asking that the U.N. be brought in, either a congressional vote or a U.N. Security Council vote.	0
1254	CLINTON	We got a U.N. Security council vote.	0
1255	CLINTON	Now, I understand that this is very difficult.	0
1256	CLINTON	And I'm not standing here today and saying that Libya is as far along as Tunisia.	0
1257	CLINTON	We saw what happened in Egypt.	0
1258	CLINTON	I cautioned about a quick overthrow of Mubarak, and we now are back with basically an army dictatorship.	0
1259	CLINTON	This is a part of the world where the United States has tried to play two different approaches.	0
1260	CLINTON	One, work with the tough men, the dictators, for our own benefit and promote democracy.	0
1261	CLINTON	That's a hard road to walk.	0
1262	CLINTON	But I think it's the right road for us to try to travel.	0
1263	O'MALLEY	And Martha...	0
1264	RADDATZ	Quick Governor O'Malley.	0
1265	O'MALLEY	... and in this case, we probably let our lust for regime toppling get ahead of the practical considerations for stability in that region.	0
1266	O'MALLEY	And I believe that one of the big failings in that region is a lack of human intelligence.	0
1267	O'MALLEY	We have not made the investments that we need to make to understand and to have relationships with future leaders that are coming up.	0
1268	O'MALLEY	That's what Chris Stevens was trying to do.	0
1269	O'MALLEY	But without the tools, without the support that was needed to that.	0
1270	O'MALLEY	And now what we have is a whole stretch now, of the coast of Libya, 100 miles, 150 miles, that has now become potentially the next safe haven for ISIL.	0
1271	O'MALLEY	They go back and forth between Syria and this region.	0
1272	O'MALLEY	We have to stop contributing to the creation of vacuums that allow safe havens to develop.	0
1273	RADDATZ	Thank you very much.	0
1274	RADDATZ	Thank you.	0
1275	RADDATZ	We're going to move on here.	0
1276	RADDATZ	Governor O'Malley, thank you very much for that.	0
1277	RADDATZ	And we're going to make a very sharp turn as we wrap things up here.	0
1278	RADDATZ	Secretary Clinton, first ladies, as you well know, have used their position to work on important causes like literacy and drug abuse.	0
1279	RADDATZ	But they also supervise the menus, the flowers, the holiday ornaments and White House decor.	0
1280	RADDATZ	I know you think you know where I'm going here.	0
1281	RADDATZ	You have said that Bill Clinton is a great host and loves giving tours but may opt out of picking flower arrangements if you're elected.	0
1282	RADDATZ	Bill Clinton aside, is it time to change the role of a president's spouse?	0
1283	CLINTON	Well, the role has been defined by each person who's held it.	0
1284	CLINTON	And I am very grateful for all my predecessors and my successors because each of them not only did what she could to support her husband and our country but often chose to work on important issues that were of particular concern.	0
1285	CLINTON	Obviously, Mrs. Obama has been a terrific leader when it comes to young people's health, particularly nutrition and exercise.	0
1286	CLINTON	And I think has had a big impact.	0
1287	CLINTON	So whoever is part of the family of a president has an extraordinary privilege of not only having a front row seat on history but making her or maybe his contribution.	0
1288	CLINTON	And with respect to my own husband, I am probably still going to pick the flowers and the china for state dinners and stuff like that.	0
1289	CLINTON	But I will certainly turn to him as prior presidents have for special missions, for advice, and in particular, how we're going to get the economy working again for everybody, which he knows a little bit about.	0
1290	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1291	CLINTON	Democrats discuss presidential spouses.	0
1292	CLINTON	Candidates Hillary Clinton, Martin O'Malley and Bernie Sanders talk about the roles their spouses would play in helping run the Oval Office (ABC News).	0
1293	MUIR	I do want to follow up here for each of you.	0
1294	MUIR	And a similar line of questioning.	0
1295	MUIR	Senator Sanders, your wife Jane shares an office at your campaign headquarters in Burlington.	0
1296	MUIR	We've seen the pictures, the desks right next to each other.	0
1297	MUIR	Would she have a desk close by in the west wing?	0
1298	SANDERS	Given the fact that she's a lot smarter than me, yes, she would.	0
1299	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
1300	SANDERS	And let me, by the way, take this moment to congratulate Hillary Clinton, who I thought not only did an outstanding job as our first lady, but redefined what that role could be.	0
1301	SANDERS	So, I thank you very much for that.	0
1302	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
1303	SANDERS	My wife, Jane, has been -- way back when before I knew her, a foster parent.	0
1304	SANDERS	Many, many kids came into her home and received the kind of love that they desperately needed.	0
1305	SANDERS	And she turned around many lives.	0
1306	SANDERS	She is the best parent and grandmother that I know.	0
1307	SANDERS	She has devoted her life, when I was mayor of the city of Burlington, actually when I first met her, we started a youth office, which started a after-school programs for kids, started a child care center, started a youth newspaper.	0
1308	SANDERS	We got the kids involved in a whole lot of issues.	0
1309	SANDERS	She led that effort.	0
1310	SANDERS	So I think, at a time when so many of our kids are desperately looking for constructive activity, where too many of our kids are hanging around on street corners, potentially getting into trouble, I think we need a forceful advocate for the children, for teenagers, for the little children, to deal with the dysfunctional child care system, and I think my wife would do a great job in helping me accomplish those goals.	0
1311	MUIR	Senator, thank you.	0
1312	O'MALLEY	Well, that would be totally up to her.	0
1313	O'MALLEY	I mean, Katie has never been a person who let her husband's professional choices get in the way of following her dreams.	0
1314	O'MALLEY	And I think she got that from her mother, actually.	0
1315	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1316	O'MALLEY	The -- and I readily admit that she is a far more accomplished lawyer than I was ever able to become, before I took my detour.	0
1317	O'MALLEY	She is a district court judge in Maryland.	0
1318	O'MALLEY	She puts in a full day there.	0
1319	O'MALLEY	We've raised four terrific kids.	0
1320	O'MALLEY	And yet, when she was first lady of the state, not only would she go to work every day and sit there through a lot of sad and gut-wrenching cases, but then she'd put in additional time being an advocate against domestic violence.	0
1321	O'MALLEY	Maryland made great strides on that because of her advocacy, and her understanding of how the court process works.	0
1322	O'MALLEY	She was an advocate against bullying and implementing anti-bullying things.	0
1323	O'MALLEY	So Katie O'Malley will do whatever Katie O'Malley wants to do, regardless of her husband's success in getting elected president.	0
1324	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1325	MUIR	Governor O'Malley, thank you, (inaudible).	0
1326	O'MALLEY	Thank you.	0
1327	MUIR	Governor, thank you.	0
1328	MUIR	We'll be back with much more from New Hampshire.	0
1329	MUIR	The Democratic debate continues right after this.	0
1330	SYSTEM	(COMMERCIAL BREAK)	0
1331	MUIR	Welcome back tonight.	0
1332	MUIR	It's been an evening of lively discussion among the candidates and it's time for closing statements.	0
1333	MUIR	We began in alphabetical order, so we'll reverse the order at the end and begin with you, Senator Sanders.	0
1334	SANDERS	Well, thank you very much for hosting this debate, and let me applaud my colleagues up here.	0
1335	SANDERS	Because I think frankly, maybe I'm wrong, but on our worst day, I think we have a lot more to offer the American people than the right wing's extremists.	0
1336	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1337	SANDERS	My father came to this country from Poland at the age of 17 without a nickel in his pocket, which sparked my interest in the need for immigration reform because I know what it's like to be the son of an immigrant.	0
1338	SANDERS	We grew up in a three-and-a-half-room, rent controlled apartment in Brooklyn, New York.	0
1339	SANDERS	My mother's dream -- and she died very young, but my mother's dream for her whole life was to be able to get out of that rent-controlled apartment and own a home of her own.	0
1340	SANDERS	She never lived to see that.	0
1341	SANDERS	But what my parents did accomplish is they were able to send both of their sons to college.	0
1342	SANDERS	We were the first in the family.	0
1343	SANDERS	So I know something about economic anxiety and living in a family does not have sufficient income.	0
1344	SANDERS	And that is why I am pledged, if elected president of the United States, to bring about a political revolution where millions of people begin to stand up and finally say enough is enough, this great country and our government belong to all of us, not just a handful of billionaires.	0
1345	SANDERS	Thank you very much.	0
1346	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1347	RADDATZ	Governor O'Malley?	0
1348	RADDATZ	Martha, thank you.	0
1349	RADDATZ	I want to thank all of the people who have tuned in tonight.	0
1350	RADDATZ	I want to thank the great people of New Hampshire, where despite all of the cynicism about big money and big banks taking over our politics, here in New Hampshire, the individual matters.	0
1351	RADDATZ	You know, my wife Katie and I have four terrific kids, and like you, there's probably nothing we wouldn't do to give them a future that's safer, that's healthier, where they have more opportunity than our parents and grandparents gave to us.	0
1352	RADDATZ	Tonight, what you listened to was a healthy exchange of ideas about how we'd do that, that which we have always proven, the capacity to do better than any nation in the world, to take actions that include more of our people more fully in the economic, social and political life of our country.	0
1353	RADDATZ	When you listened to the Republican debate the other night, you heard a lot of anger and you had a lot of fear.	0
1354	RADDATZ	Well, they can have their anger and they can have their fear, but anger and fear never built America.	0
1355	RADDATZ	We build our country by adopting wage and labor policies, including comprehensive immigration reform with a pathway of citizenship for all.	0
1356	RADDATZ	We do it by investing in our country, by investing in infrastructure, by investing in the skills and the talents of our people with debt-free college, and we can do it again.	0
1357	RADDATZ	And we also create a better future for our kids when we square our shoulders to the great challenges of our times, whether it's terror trying to undermine our values or Republican presidential candidates trying to get us to surrender our freedoms and our values in the face of this threat.	0
1358	RADDATZ	The other big challenge we have is climate change.	0
1359	RADDATZ	The greatest business opportunity to come to the United States of America in 100 years.	0
1360	RADDATZ	We need to embrace this.	0
1361	RADDATZ	I have put forward a plan that does this, that moves us to 100 percent clean electric grid by 2050.	0
1362	RADDATZ	Join this campaign for the future.	0
1363	RADDATZ	New leadership is what our country needs to move us out of these divided and polarized times.	0
1364	RADDATZ	Thank you.	0
1365	MUIR	Governor, thank you.	0
1366	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1367	MUIR	Secretary Clinton?	0
1368	CLINTON	On January 20th, 2017, the next president of the United States will walk into the White House.	0
1369	CLINTON	If, heaven forbid, that next president is a Republican, I think it's pretty clear we know what will happen.	0
1370	CLINTON	A lot of the rights that have been won over years, from women's rights to voter rights to gay rights to worker rights, will be at risk.	0
1371	CLINTON	Social Security, which Republicans call a Ponzi scheme, may face privatization.	0
1372	CLINTON	Our vets may see the V.A.	0
1373	CLINTON	hospital that needs to be improved and made better for them turned over to privatization.	0
1374	CLINTON	Planned Parenthood will be defunded.	0
1375	CLINTON	The list goes on because the differences are so stark.	0
1376	CLINTON	You know, everybody says every election's important, and there's truth to that.	0
1377	CLINTON	This is a watershed election.	0
1378	CLINTON	I know how important it is that we have a Democrat succeed President Obama in the White House.	0
1379	CLINTON	And I will do all that I can in this campaign to reach out and explain what I stand for and what I will do as president.	0
1380	CLINTON	You know, I became a grandmother 15 months ago, and so I spent a lot of time thinking about my granddaughter's future.	0
1381	CLINTON	But as president, I will spend even more time thinking about the futures of all the kids and the grandchildren in this country because I want to make sure every single child has a chance to live up to his or her God-given potential.	0
1382	CLINTON	If you will join me in this campaign, we will make that a mission.	0
1383	CLINTON	Thank you, good night and may the force be with you.	0
1384	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1385	MUIR	Thank you to the candidates tonight.	0
1386	MUIR	Thank you to the audience here in New Hampshire here at St. Anselm.	0
1387	MUIR	And thank you to the audience at home.	0
1388	MUIR	We wish all of you at home a happy and safe holiday week ahead and we wish all the candidates a happy and safe holiday with your families.	0
1	KELLY	So let's get started.	0
2	KELLY	Senator Cruz, before we get to the issues, let's address the elephant not in the room tonight.	0
3	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
4	KELLY	Donald Trump has chosen not to attend this evening's presidential debate.	0
5	KELLY	What message do you think that sends to the voters of Iowa?	0
6	CRUZ	Well, Megyn, let me say at the outset to the men and women of Iowa, thank you for the incredible hospitality over this past year.	0
7	CRUZ	By Monday, you will have welcomed me into all 99 counties in Iowa.	0
8	CRUZ	You will have welcomed my dad to preach at your churches.	0
9	CRUZ	You will have welcomed Heidi and our girls, Caroline and Catherine, into your homes.	0
10	CRUZ	And I'm so grateful for the diligence, for the seriousness with which the men and women of Iowa approach this process.	0
11	CRUZ	If I am elected president, keep an eye on the tarmac, because I'll be back, because Iowa in 2017 will not be fly-over country.	0
12	CRUZ	It will be fly-to country.	0
13	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
14	CRUZ	Now, secondly, let me say I'm a maniac and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat, and ugly.	0
15	CRUZ	And Ben, you're a terrible surgeon.	0
16	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
17	CRUZ	Now that we've gotten the Donald Trump portion out of the way...	0
18	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
19	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
20	CRUZ	I want to thank everyone here for showing the men and women of Iowa the respect to show up and make the case to the people of this state and the people of the country why each of us believe we would make the best commander in chief.	0
21	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
22	KELLY	The divide between you and Mr. Trump has turned into one of the biggest stories in the country.	0
23	KELLY	And for six months that -- your campaign, during this campaign, you praised Mr. Trump as somebody who you thought was an effective voice against the Washington cartel.	0
24	KELLY	You said you were glad that he was running as a Republican.	0
25	KELLY	But when he started to criticize you, your message changed, and you suddenly started to portray him as the voice of the Washington cartel, and suggested he would do the Democrats' bidding.	0
26	KELLY	Which is it?	0
27	CRUZ	Well, let me be clear, if Donald engages in insults or anybody else, I don't intend to reciprocate.	0
28	CRUZ	I have not insulted Donald personally and I don't intend to.	0
29	CRUZ	I am glad Donald is running.	0
30	CRUZ	I'm glad he has produced enormous enthusiasm, and, every Donald Trump voter or potential voter, I hope to earn your support.	0
31	CRUZ	I know everyone else on this stage hopes to earn your support.	0
32	CRUZ	Now, there is a difference between personal insults and attacks -- between going into the mud with ad hominems and focusing on issues and substance.	0
33	CRUZ	I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.	0
34	CRUZ	That's fair game but that's where I'm going to focus.	0
35	CRUZ	That's how I focused from the beginning of the campaign and it is how I intend to continue going forward.	0
36	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
37	WALLACE	Senator Rubio, I want to explore this sort of larger issue.	0
38	WALLACE	The campaign has in a sense turned into a battle for the soul of the Republican party establishment versus grassroots, pragmatic versus principle.	0
39	WALLACE	You say that you can unite all of the factions inside the GOP.	0
40	WALLACE	How?	0
41	RUBIO	Chris, let's begin by being clear what this campaign is about.	0
42	RUBIO	It's not about Donald Trump.	0
43	RUBIO	He's an entertaining guy.	0
44	RUBIO	He's the greatest show on earth.	0
45	RUBIO	This campaign is about the greatest country in the world and a president who has systematically destroyed many of the things that made America special.	0
46	RUBIO	You see, we usually elect presidents in America that want to change the things that are wrong in America.	0
47	RUBIO	Barack Obama wants to change America.	0
48	RUBIO	Barack Obama wants America to be more like the rest of the world.	0
49	RUBIO	We don't want to be like the rest of the world.	0
50	RUBIO	We want to be the United States of America.	0
51	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
52	RUBIO	That is why Hillary Clinton cannot win this election.	0
53	RUBIO	Hillary Clinton this week said Barack Obama would make a great Supreme Court justice.	0
54	RUBIO	The guy who systematically and habitually violates the constitution on the Supreme Court?	0
55	RUBIO	I don't think so.	0
56	RUBIO	If I'm our nominee, I will unite this party and we'll defeat Hillary Clinton and we will turn this country around once and for all, after seven years of the disaster that is Barack Obama.	0
57	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
58	BAIER	Governor Bush, it's hard for anyone of your pedigree to avoid being called establishment.	0
59	BAIER	But isn't that part of the problem in this race, that three others on this stage are splitting the main stream Republican vote and there by possibly handing this nomination over to an anti-establishment candidate?	0
60	BUSH	Bret, we're just starting.	0
61	BUSH	The first vote hasn't been counted.	0
62	BUSH	Why don't we let the process work.	0
63	BUSH	I trust Iowans, Granite staters (ph), people in South Carolina, people in Nevada, to start this process out.	0
64	BUSH	I kind of miss Donald Trump.	0
65	BUSH	He was a little teddy bear to me.	0
66	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
67	BUSH	We always had such a loving relationship in these debates and in between and the tweets.	0
68	BUSH	I kind of miss him.	0
69	BUSH	I wish he was here.	0
70	BUSH	Everybody else was in the witness protection program when I went after him on behalf of what the Republican cause should be conservative principles, believing in limited government, believing in accountability.	0
71	BUSH	Leading by fixing the things that are broken.	0
72	BUSH	Look, I am in the establishment because my dad, the greatest man alive was president of the United States and my brother, who I adore as well as fantastic brother was president.	0
73	BUSH	Fine, I'll take it.	0
74	BUSH	I guess I'm part of the establishment Barbara Bush is my mom.	0
75	BUSH	I'll take that, too.	0
76	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
77	BUSH	But this election is not about our pedigree, this is an election about people that are really hurting.	0
78	BUSH	We need a leader that will fix things and have a proven record to do it.	0
79	BUSH	And we need someone who will take on Hillary Clinton in November.	0
80	BUSH	Someone who has a proven record, who has been tested, who is totally transparent.	0
81	BUSH	I released 34 years of tax returns...	0
82	SYSTEM	(BELL RINGS)	0
83	BUSH	... and 300,000 e-mails in my government record.	0
84	BUSH	To get the information from Hillary Clinton, you need to get a subpoena from the FBI.	0
85	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
86	BAIER	Thank you governor.	0
87	KELLY	Senator Christie, you began this campaign touting your record as a Republican from a blue state who knows how to get things done and reach across the aisle.	0
88	KELLY	However, many Republicans feel that reaching across the aisle and getting things done isn't great if you get the wrong things done.	0
89	KELLY	And they prefer to stand on principle rather than compromise.	0
90	KELLY	Why are they wrong and you're right?	0
91	CHRISTIE	They're not wrong.	0
92	CHRISTIE	But what's wrong is your premise in the question.	0
93	CHRISTIE	You can do both.	0
94	CHRISTIE	There is no reason why you can't stand for principles, go and fight for them and be able also, to have to get things done in government.	0
95	CHRISTIE	You know, what people are frustrated about in Washington, D.C.., and I know the folks out there tonight are incredibly frustrated because what they see is a government that doesn't work for them.	0
96	CHRISTIE	You know, for the 45-year-old construction worker out there, who is having a hard time making things meet.	0
97	CHRISTIE	He's lost $4,000 in the last seven years in his income because of this administration.	0
98	CHRISTIE	He doesn't want to hear the talk about politics Megyn and who is establishment and who is grassroots.	0
99	CHRISTIE	And who's compromised and who is principled.	0
100	CHRISTIE	What he wants is something to get done.	0
101	CHRISTIE	And that's the difference between being a governor and having done that for the last six years in New Jersey and being someone who has never had to be responsible for any of those decisions.	0
102	CHRISTIE	Barack Obama was never responsible for those decisions.	0
103	CHRISTIE	Hillary Clinton has never been responsible for those kind of decisions where they were held accountable.	0
104	CHRISTIE	I've been held accountable for six years as the governor of New Jersey and with a Democratic legislature, I've gotten conservative things done.	0
105	CHRISTIE	That's exactly what I'll do as president of the United States.	0
106	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
107	BAIER	Senator Paul, you are definitely not in the establishment category.	0
108	BAIER	But at the beginning of this campaign, you said you were your own man when asked about your father, former Texas Congressman and three-time presidential candidate Ron Paul.	0
109	BAIER	Senator Cruz's campaign is out with a video saying that Cruz is the intellectual and political heir to your father's 2012 campaign and the liberty movement.	0
110	BAIER	And your father now says it's realistic that Donald Trump will be your party's nominee.	0
111	BAIER	So did you make a mistake by not fully -- more fully embracing your father politically at the beginning of this campaign?	0
112	PAUL	You know, I've always had a great deal of respect.	0
113	PAUL	There's probably no person I respect more in the country or in recent history than my father.	0
114	PAUL	I think he was probably the most honest man in politics that we've ever seen in a generation.	0
115	PAUL	And so in no way have I ever said that I don't embrace my father or love my father or appreciate everything that he has done for the country.	0
116	PAUL	I think what's interesting about where that liberty vote goes that my father brought to the Republican Party is, I don't think they're necessarily going to go for Ted.	0
117	PAUL	You know, Ted didn't show up.	0
118	PAUL	We had an audit-the-Fed vote, which was the biggest thing my dad had been advocating for, for 30 years, Ted didn't have time to show up.	0
119	PAUL	He was the only Republican that didn't show up for it.	0
120	PAUL	And so I think really that vote is going to stay in the Paul household.	0
121	PAUL	I think more of it is coming and it's going to grow.	0
122	PAUL	The NSA is another big issue.	0
123	PAUL	Ted said he was for NSA reform, but then he told Marco Rubio, no, no, no, I voted for the bill because I'm for the government collecting 100 percent of your cell phone records.	0
124	PAUL	I don't think Ted can have it both ways.	0
125	PAUL	They want to say they're getting some of the liberty vote.	0
126	PAUL	But we don't see it happening at all.	0
127	PAUL	We think we're going to do very well in Iowa with the liberty vote.	0
128	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
129	BAIER	Senator Cruz, your response to that?	0
130	CRUZ	Well, I agree with Rand that I very much respect Ron Paul and that I think anyone who is able to win in the Republican Party has to be able to bring together the disparate elements of the Reagan coalition.	0
131	CRUZ	You've got to be able to bring together conservatives and evangelicals and libertarians, and stitch together a winning majority.	0
132	CRUZ	When it comes to the audit the Fed bill, as Rand knows well, I was an original sponsor of the bill, I'm strongly supportive of it.	0
133	CRUZ	It didn't have the votes to pass.	0
134	CRUZ	And I had commitments to be at a town hall in New Hampshire.	0
135	CRUZ	But I look forward to signing that bill into law as president and auditing the Fed and providing needed accountability at the Federal Reserve.	0
136	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
137	BAIER	Senator Rubio?	0
138	RUBIO	I think, you know, Rand and I have some significant issues on policy, but I respect Rand.	0
139	RUBIO	He believes everything he stands for.	0
140	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
141	RUBIO	I do respect Rand.	0
142	RUBIO	But I want to be frank about what I stand for.	0
143	RUBIO	I believe the world is a safer and a better place when America is the strongest power in the world.	0
144	RUBIO	And I believe only with a strong America will we defeat this radical group, this apocalyptic group called ISIS.	0
145	RUBIO	That's why when I'm president we are going to rebuild our intelligence capabilities.	0
146	RUBIO	And they're going to tell us where the terrorists are.	0
147	RUBIO	And a rebuilt U.S. military is going to destroy these terrorists.	0
148	RUBIO	And if we capture any of these ISIS killers alive, they are going to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and we're going to find out everything they know, because when I'm president, unlike Barack Obama, we will keep this country safe.	0
149	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
150	BAIER	Thank you, Senator.	0
151	PAUL	May I respond?	0
152	SYSTEM	(CROSSTALK)	0
153	BAIER	We'll come back to...	0
154	PAUL	Well, I mean, I was talked about in the question.	0
155	BAIER	OK. Go ahead, go ahead.	0
156	PAUL	Just very quickly, I would like to respond.	0
157	PAUL	The bulk collection of your phone data, the invasion of your privacy did not stop one terrorist attack.	0
158	PAUL	I don't think you have to give up your liberty for a false sense of security.	0
159	PAUL	When we look at this bulk collection, the court has looked at this.	0
160	PAUL	Even the court declared it to be illegal.	0
161	PAUL	If we want to collect the records of terrorists, let's do it the old fashioned way.	0
162	PAUL	Let's use the Fourth Amendment.	0
163	PAUL	Let's put a name on a warrant, let's ask a judge for it.	0
164	PAUL	Let's respect the history of our country.	0
165	PAUL	John Adams said that we fought a War for Independence because we wanted to fight against generalized warrants.	0
166	PAUL	Let's don't forget that.	0
167	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
168	WALLACE	Governor Kasich, I want to get back to this question of where conservatives are this year.	0
169	WALLACE	"You call yourself a, quote, ""inside-outside guy, a reformer who knows how to get things done,"" but you reject the establishment label."	0
170	WALLACE	First question is why do you reject it?	0
171	WALLACE	And secondly, what do you say to Republican voters this year who view practical government experience as a liability and not an asset?	0
172	KASICH	Well, first of all, I had a national reporter say, you know, there's three lanes.	0
173	KASICH	There's the establishment lane, the anti- establishment lane, and then there's the Kasich lane.	0
174	KASICH	And the reason is, is that I've been a reformer all of my career, fighting to reform welfare, fighting to reform the Pentagon, also being in a position to balance the budget, because that is very, very hard to do.	0
175	KASICH	And then in Ohio, of course, I had to bring about big reform, again, because we were so far in the hole and now we just found out we are up over 400,000 jobs since I took over as governor.	1
176	KASICH	You know, the situation is this.	0
177	KASICH	We cannot fix things in this country -- the Social Security, the border, balancing the budget, getting wages to grow faster -- unless we lead as conservatives, but we also invite people in from the other party.	0
178	KASICH	We have to come together as a country.	0
179	KASICH	And we have to stop all the divisions.	0
180	KASICH	And, you know, that's been my message in New Hampshire.	0
181	KASICH	And having been in New Hampshire and here in Iowa, but in New Hampshire, I just received the support of seven out of eight of the newspapers in that state because they see positive, they see unity, they see coming together, and they see a record of change and a record of accomplishment.	0
182	KASICH	And it isn't because I'm all that great.	0
183	KASICH	It's because I've been assembling a team of people who want to be involved in something that's a little bigger than themselves.	0
184	KASICH	I'll keep -- I'll keep heading in that direction, believe me.	0
185	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
186	WALLACE	Dr. Carson, I want to pick up on that with you.	0
187	WALLACE	Governor Kasich likes to say he knows how to land the plane.	0
188	WALLACE	You've landed a lot of planes in the O.R.	0
189	WALLACE	But what about the idea of running for president with no experience in government at all?	0
190	CARSON	Well, I will gladly confess that I'm the only one on this stage with no political title.	0
191	CARSON	You're not going to hear a lot of polished political speech from me, but you will hear the truth.	0
192	CARSON	And I don't think you have to be a politician to tell the truth.	0
193	CARSON	In fact, sometimes it's not that way...	0
194	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
195	CARSON	... and I've had more two a.m. phone calls than everybody here put together, making life and death decisions, put together very complex teams to accomplish things that have never been done before.	0
196	CARSON	And we are in a situation right now in our country that we have never been in before.	0
197	CARSON	We need people who think out of the box and can solve problems; can utilize the resources around them; very smart people, to focus on the problem and solve the problem.	0
198	CARSON	The American people are terrified.	0
199	CARSON	That's why we have this abnormal situation going on right now.	0
200	CARSON	We don't need more of the same solutions.	0
201	CARSON	We need different solutions to solve the problems and to save our nation.	0
202	CARSON	(APPLAUSE)	0
203	WALLACE	Gentlemen, we're now going to start to drill down into specific issues that are on voters' minds.	0
204	WALLACE	I'm going to start with one of the biggest ones, which is foreign terror.	0
205	WALLACE	According to Google, ISIS was by far the most searched foreign policy topic over the last year.	0
206	WALLACE	Senator Cruz, you talk tough about fighting terrorism.	0
207	WALLACE	You talk about carpet bombing into oblivion.	0
208	WALLACE	You talk about seeing if the sand will glow at night.	0
209	WALLACE	But critics say that your record does not match up to that.	0
210	WALLACE	You opposed giving President Obama authority to enforce his red line in Syria.	0
211	WALLACE	Three years in a row now, you have voted against the Defense Authorization Act.	0
212	WALLACE	How do you square your rhetoric with your record, sir?	0
213	CRUZ	Well, Chris, I will apologize to nobody for the vigorousness with which I will fight terrorism, go after ISIS, hunt them down wherever they are, and utterly and completely destroy ISIS.	0
214	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
215	CRUZ	You know, you claim it is tough talk to discuss carpet bombing.	0
216	CRUZ	It is not tough talk.	0
217	CRUZ	It is a different, fundamental military strategy than what we've seen from Barack Obama.	0
218	CRUZ	Barack Obama right now, number one, over seven years, has dramatically degraded our military.	0
219	CRUZ	You know, just two weeks ago was the 25th anniversary of the first Persian Gulf war.	0
220	CRUZ	When that war began, we had 8,000 planes.	0
221	CRUZ	Today, we have about 4,000.	0
222	CRUZ	When that war began, we had 529 ships.	0
223	CRUZ	Today, we have 272.	0
224	CRUZ	You want to know what carpet bombing is?	0
225	CRUZ	It's what we did in the first Persian Gulf war; 1,100 air attacks a day, saturation bombing that utterly destroyed the enemy.	0
226	CRUZ	Right now, Barack Obama is launching between 15 and 30 air attacks a day.	0
227	CRUZ	He's not arming the Kurds.	0
228	CRUZ	We need to define the enemy.	0
229	CRUZ	We need to rebuild the military to defeat the enemy.	0
230	CRUZ	And we need to be focused and lift the rules of engagement so we're not sending our fighting men and women into combat with their arms tied behind their backs.	0
231	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
232	WALLACE	Senator Rubio, does Senator Cruz's record match his rhetoric?	0
233	RUBIO	Well, again, I mean, obviously, as already has been pointed out, the only budget that Ted has ever voted for is a budget that Rand Paul sponsored that brags about cutting defense spending.	0
234	RUBIO	And I think that's a bad idea for the following reason.	0
235	RUBIO	ISIS is the most dangerous jihadist group in the history of mankind.	0
236	RUBIO	ISIS is now found in affiliates in over a dozen countries.	0
237	RUBIO	ISIS is a group that burns people alive in cages; that sells off little girls as brides.	0
238	RUBIO	ISIS is a group that wants to trigger an apocalyptic showdown in the city of Dabiq -- not the city of Dubuque; I mis-said -- mis-said that wrong once (inaudible) time -- the city of Dabiq in Syria.	0
239	RUBIO	They want to trigger an apocalyptic Armageddon showdown.	0
240	RUBIO	This group needs to be confronted and defeated.	0
241	RUBIO	They are not going to go away on their own.	0
242	RUBIO	They're not going to turn into stockbrokers overnight or open up a chain of car washes.	0
243	RUBIO	They need to be defeated militarily, and that will take overwhelming U.S. force.	0
244	RUBIO	Today, we are on pace to have the smallest Army since the end of World War II, the smallest Navy in 100 years, the smallest Air Force in our history.	0
245	RUBIO	You cannot destroy ISIS with a military that's being diminished.	0
246	RUBIO	When I'm president, we are rebuilding the U.S. military because the world is a safer and a better place when America is the strongest military in the world.	0
247	SYSTEM	(CROSSTALK)	0
248	WALLACE	Senator Cruz, you've got 30 seconds.	0
249	WALLACE	You were mentioned.	0
250	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
251	CRUZ	Chris, in 1981, when Ronald Reagan came to the Oval Office, he encountered a military that had been debilitated just as the current military has, just like Jimmy Carter weakened our readiness, undermined our ability to defend this country, so too has Barack Obama.	0
252	CRUZ	Just as morale in the military has plummeted in the last seven, so it had then.	0
253	CRUZ	What Reagan did is he began with tax reform and regulatory reform, unleashing the engine of the American free enterprise system.	0
254	CRUZ	It brought booming economic growth and that growth fueled rebuilding the military.	0
255	CRUZ	I intend to do the exact same thing to defeat radical Islamic terrorism --	0
256	WALLACE	Gentlemen.	0
257	CRUZ	... and to devote the resources from the booming economy to rebuilding our Navy, rebuilding our Air Force, rebuilding our Army and ensuring we have the capacity to keep this country safe.	0
258	PAUL	My budget was mentioned.	0
259	PAUL	My budget was mentioned.	0
260	WALLACE	May I -- may I just say, we are going to continue the questions about foreign terror, gentlemen, right after this break.	0
261	KELLY	But first, you can join tonight's conversation right from home.	0
262	KELLY	Go to google.com or open your Google search app and search Fox News debate to vote on which candidate you think has the best plan to defeat ISIS.	0
263	KELLY	We'll be right back.	0
264	SYSTEM	(COMMERCIAL BREAK)	0
265	BAIER	Welcome back.	0
266	BAIER	Let's get right back to the questions.	0
267	BAIER	Chris.	0
268	WALLACE	Thank you.	0
269	WALLACE	Governor Christie, you have compared both Senators Cruz and Rubio to Barack Obama, saying that we cannot afford another inexperienced President.	0
270	WALLACE	You've also said that Senator Cruz's vote to curtail the NSA surveillance program made America less safe.	0
271	WALLACE	Is either of them ready to be Commander in Chief?	0
272	CHRISTIE	Well, let me say that I do believe that the vote on NSA made the country less safe.	0
273	CHRISTIE	Well, let me tell you what the country should really be worried about.	0
274	CHRISTIE	I watched that town hall meeting with the Democrats the other night, and I heard Hillary Clinton asked a direct question by an Iowan, and that's what Iowans like to do.	0
275	CHRISTIE	They like to ask direct questions.	0
276	CHRISTIE	And, they asked about her email situation.	0
277	CHRISTIE	And, here's what she said to the American people.	0
278	CHRISTIE	She did it for convenience.	0
279	CHRISTIE	For her convenience.	0
280	CHRISTIE	She put America's secrets at risk for her convenience.	0
281	CHRISTIE	She put American intelligence officers at risk for her convenience.	0
282	CHRISTIE	She put American strategy at risk for her convenience.	0
283	CHRISTIE	Let me tell you who's not qualified to be President of the United States, Chris.	0
284	CHRISTIE	Hillary Rodham Clinton did that to our country.	0
285	CHRISTIE	She is not qualified to be President of the United States.	0
286	SYSTEM	(CHEERING)	0
287	CHRISTIE	The fact is what we need is someone on that stage who has been tested, who has been through it, who has made decisions, who has sit (ph) in the chair of consequence and can prosecute the case against Hillary Clinton on...	0
288	SYSTEM	(BELL RINGING)	0
289	CHRISTIE	... that stage, and that is exactly what I am ready to do.	0
290	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
291	WALLACE	Governor Bush...	0
292	CRUZ	Chris?	0
293	CRUZ	Chris I was mentioned in that question.	0
294	BUSH	No, you weren't.	0
295	BUSH	Your name wasn't mentioned, Ted.	0
296	CRUZ	... Actually, I was...	0
297	BUSH	... Chris, keep it coming...	0
298	WALLACE	I don't think that your name was mentioned...	0
299	CRUZ	... Chris, your questions that you...	0
300	WALLACE	... Sir, I think -- I think the question was...	0
301	CRUZ	... What was your question...	0
302	WALLACE	It's not my question that you get a chance to respond to, it's his answer.	0
303	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
304	WALLACE	You don't get 30 seconds to respond to me...	0
305	CRUZ	Your question was you have disagreed...	0
306	SYSTEM	(AUDIENCE REACTION)	0
307	WALLACE	... You don't get 30 seconds to respond to me...	0
308	CRUZ	... (inaudible) opening statement.	0
309	WALLACE	If I could go on.	0
310	WALLACE	Sir, I know you like to argue about the rules, but we're going to conduct a debate...	0
311	BUSH	Thank you Chris...	0
312	WALLACE	Governor Bush...	0
313	CRUZ	This entire question was an attack, but that's (inaudible)	0
314	WALLACE	Governor Bush, here's the question -- I'm going to ask Governor Bush the question.	0
315	WALLACE	You criticized several candidates in this field on this stage for what you call unrealistic ideas about how to fight terrorists, including Rubio, and Cruz on the issue of their refusing to give the President authority to enforce the redline in Syria.	0
316	WALLACE	But, given the fact that your brother got us into two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that have still not ended.	0
317	WALLACE	That have still not ended, what lessons have you learned from his mistakes, sir?	0
318	BUSH	Well, first, I was critical of the Senators not giving the authorization for the use of military force.	0
319	BUSH	They should have made it more open ended for the next president.	0
320	BUSH	We shouldn't have the war fighters have their arms tied behind their back as President Obama wanted to do, but they had a chance to show support and it wasn't popular at the time.	0
321	BUSH	It became popular after the attack in Paris, and San Bernardino.	0
322	BUSH	Now we hear the tough talk.	0
323	BUSH	Prior to that, in the Reagan Library, I gave a detailed plan.	0
324	BUSH	Exactly what to do as it relates to ISIS.	0
325	BUSH	And it is from the lessons from history that we do this because if we allow this to fester, we're going to have Islamic terrorism, multi-generations of it all across this country.	0
326	BUSH	The caliphate of ISIS has to be destroyed, which means we need to arm directly to Kurds, imbed our troops with the Iraqi military, re engage with the Sunni tribal leaders.	0
327	BUSH	Get the lawyers off the damn backs of the military once and for all.	0
328	SYSTEM	(CHEERING)	0
329	BUSH	Have a no fly zone in Syria and create safe zones to deal with the refugees.	0
330	BUSH	But, more importantly, to train a Sunni-led force in Syria to take out ISIS with our support...	0
331	SYSTEM	(BELL RINGING)	0
332	BUSH	... ground and air.	0
333	BUSH	That's what we need to to, and I laid that out prior to the crisis with the advice of a lot of people, including 12 Medal of Honor recipients that I'm proud that they're supporting my campaign.	0
334	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
335	WALLACE	Senator Cruz, now you get a chance to respond.	0
336	CRUZ	"Chris, I would note that that the last four questions have been, ""Rand, please attack Ted. Marco, please attack Ted. Chris, please attack Ted. Jeb, please attack Ted..."""	0
337	SYSTEM	(AUDIENCE)	0
338	CRUZ	Let me just say this...	0
339	WALLACE	It is a debate, sir.	0
340	CRUZ	... Well, no, no.	0
341	CRUZ	A debate actually is a policy issue, but I will say this.	0
342	CRUZ	Gosh, if you guys ask one more mean question I may have to leave the stage.	0
343	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
344	CRUZ	Chris, the most important determination any voter is going to make in this election is who's best prepared to be Commander in Chief.	0
345	CRUZ	Who has the experience, who has the knowledge, who has the judgement, who has the clarity, and vision and strength of resolve to keep this country safe.	0
346	CRUZ	That is what this debate is all about, and I would suggest let's stay focused on those issues -- rather than just attacks directed at each other.	0
347	WALLACE	I think the questions were about issues.	0
348	WALLACE	Senator Rubio, what would you like to respond sir...	0
349	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
350	SYSTEM	(CROSSTALK)	0
351	PAUL	Senator Cruz, I'd like to respond...	0
352	RUBIO	... First of all -- Let me go first, and then you can please recognize Rand after.	0
353	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
354	RUBIO	First of all...	0
355	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
356	RUBIO	First of all...	0
357	PAUL	... and I'd like to respond.	0
358	RUBIO	... do I go -- let me go first, and then you can please recognize Rand after.	0
359	RUBIO	But...	0
360	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
361	RUBIO	... first of all...	0
362	WALLACE	Thank you.	0
363	PAUL	Thank you, Marco.	0
364	RUBIO	... first of all, I'm -- don't worry, I'm not leaving the stage no matter what you ask me.	0
365	WALLACE	Good.	0
366	RUBIO	And second of all...	0
367	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
368	RUBIO	... and I think -- you know, Governor -- Jeb, you -- the attack that -- the authorization that Barack Obama asked for was not against ISIS.	0
369	RUBIO	It was against Assad.	0
370	RUBIO	And John Kerry described it as attacks that would be unbelievably small.	0
371	RUBIO	I don't think the United States should be engaged in symbolic military activity.	0
372	RUBIO	So it was not against ISIS, it was against -- it was against Assad.	0
373	RUBIO	I think the United States military is operating under rules of engagement that are too strict...	0
374	SYSTEM	(BELL RINGS)	0
375	RUBIO	...and that do not allow us to pursue victory.	0
376	RUBIO	When I'm president, that will change.	0
377	SYSTEM	(CROSSTALK)	0
378	WALLACE	Senator Paul, go ahead.	0
379	PAUL	Thank you.	0
380	PAUL	The issue in Syria's a very important one, and it's one we need to get right.	0
381	PAUL	The question is, should we be bombing both sides of the war?	0
382	PAUL	Some want (ph) to topple Assad.	0
383	PAUL	In fact, they want to bomb ISIS and Assad simultaneously.	0
384	PAUL	I think that's a really, really bad idea.	0
385	PAUL	In fact, I've said for several years that arming the allies of ISIS will make the situation worse, That what we really need to do is defeat ISIS.	0
386	PAUL	But if you defeat Assad, what you will wind up with is a larger and more powerful ISIS that occupies that space.	0
387	PAUL	You might -- you may well see an ISIS that takes over all of Syria.	0
388	SYSTEM	(BELL RINGS)	0
389	KASICH	Chris...	0
390	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
391	KASICH	... there was a question about foreign policy, by the way, and experience.	0
392	KASICH	And I -- I thought, if I didn't jump in, I might not be able to tell everybody this.	0
393	KASICH	I think they'd want to hear it.	0
394	KASICH	Look, I served on...	0
395	WALLACE	Well...	0
396	SYSTEM	(CROSSTALK)	0
397	WALLACE	... we'll be talking about foreign policy a little bit later.	0
398	WALLACE	We're going to talk...	0
399	KELLY	We have a lot -- we have a lot to cover.	0
400	KELLY	But we want to -- we want to turn the page to domestic...	0
401	SYSTEM	(CROSSTALK)	0
402	KASICH	... but wait a minute...	0
403	KELLY	No, no.	0
404	KELLY	No.	0
405	KASICH	...the only reason is -- look...	0
406	KELLY	No no no, because we want to turn the page to domestic terror, and let me tell you why we're partnering with Google on this debate, and they're telling us...	0
407	KASICH	OK.	0
408	KELLY	... that their search results have gone through the roof on -- on people...	0
409	KASICH	I've always listened to you, Megyn.	0
410	KASICH	Go ahead.	0
411	KELLY	... you're a good man, Governor Kasich.	0
412	KASICH	Yes -- thank you.	0
413	KELLY	People -- the search results -- the searches for terror issues, for safety issues in America have gone through the roof, increased over 400 percent since 2008.	0
414	KELLY	People are worried.	0
415	KELLY	They're worried about what's happening in the country and about a domestic terror attack, as all of you know.	0
416	KELLY	Now, when combating this threat, Senator Rubio, you've advocated closing down mosques -- we'll get back to you.	0
417	KELLY	Well, you have advocated closing down -- closing down mosques, diners, any place where radicalization is occurring.	0
418	KELLY	You told me that.	0
419	KELLY	But the Supreme Court has made clear that hateful speech is generally protected by the First Amendment.	0
420	KELLY	In other words, radical Muslims have the right to be radical Muslims, unless they turn to terror.	0
421	KELLY	Doesn't your position run afoul of the First Amendment?	0
422	RUBIO	Megyn, that's the problem.	0
423	RUBIO	Radical Muslims and radical Islam is not just hate talk.	0
424	RUBIO	It's hate action.	0
425	RUBIO	They blow people up.	0
426	RUBIO	Look what they did in San Bernardino.	0
427	RUBIO	Look at the attack they inspired in Philadelphia, that the White House still refuses to link to terror, where a guy basically shot a police officer three times.	1
428	RUBIO	"He told the police, ""I did it because I was inspired by ISIS,"" and to this day, the White House still refuses to acknowledge it had anything to do with terror."	1
429	RUBIO	Look, the threat we face from ISIS is unprecedented.	0
430	RUBIO	There has never been a jihadist group like this.	0
431	RUBIO	They have affiliates in over a dozen countries now.	0
432	RUBIO	They are the best funded radical jihadist group in the history of the world, and they have shown a sophisticated understanding of the laws of other countries on how to insert fighters into places, and they are actively plotting to attack us here at home and around the world.	0
433	RUBIO	We must keep America safe from this threat.	0
434	RUBIO	And yes, when I am president of the United States, if there is some place in this country where radical jihadists are planning to attack the United States, we will go after them wherever they are, and if we capture them alive, they are going to Guantanamo.	0
435	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
436	PAUL	(inaudible).	0
437	KELLY	Senator Paul, do you agree with that?	0
438	KELLY	We're gonna close down mosques, we're gonna close down diners where we think radical thinking's (ph) occurring?	0
439	KELLY	(CROSSTALK)	0
440	PAUL	Yeah (ph), no, I think that's a -- that's a huge mistake, to be closing down mosques.	0
441	PAUL	But I would say that if you want to defend the country, it begins with border security.	0
442	PAUL	And this is where I've had my disagreement with Senator Rubio.	0
443	PAUL	"When he brought forward the ""Gang of Eight"" bill to give citizenship to those who came here illegally, I put forward an amendment that says we should have more scrutiny on those who are coming as students, those who are coming as immigrants, those who are coming as refugees, because we had two refugees come to my town in Bowling Green and try to attack us."	0
444	PAUL	Marco opposed this because they made a deal.	0
445	PAUL	He made a deal with Chuck Schumer that he would oppose any conservative amendments.	0
446	PAUL	And I think that's a mistake, and I just don't think Marco can have it both ways.	0
447	PAUL	You can't be in favor of defend us...	0
448	SYSTEM	(BELL RINGS)	0
449	PAUL	... against Islam -- radical Islam -- if you're not for border security.	0
450	RUBIO	Might I respond?	0
451	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
452	RUBIO	The first thing -- I don't know of anyone who's not in favor of fully vetting people that are trying to come into this country, other than perhaps Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.	0
453	RUBIO	I think we all support that.	0
454	RUBIO	Rand's amendment was not the right way to do it.	0
455	RUBIO	I do believe that people who are trying to come to the United States -- this country has a right to know who they are and why they are coming.	0
456	RUBIO	And that's why I've been clear, when I am the president of the United States of America, we don't know who you are, and we don't know why you're trying to come to the United States, you are not going to get in, because the radical threat that we now face from ISIS is extraordinary and unprecedented...	0
457	SYSTEM	(BELL RINGS)	0
458	RUBIO	... and when I'm president, we are keeping ISIS out of America.	0
459	KELLY	Governor Christie, let's talk about profiling.	0
460	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
461	KELLY	In December...	0
462	CHRISTIE	Talk about what?	0
463	CHRISTIE	I...	0
464	KELLY	... profiling.	0
465	KELLY	Profiling.	0
466	KELLY	In December, two radical Muslims killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California.	0
467	KELLY	Neighbors of the terrorists said that they did not report the couple to law enforcement prior to the crime, because they were afraid that they would be accused of profiling.	0
468	KELLY	Now, you have said that we should not profile.	0
469	KELLY	How do you square that with the San Bernardino case?	0
470	CHRISTIE	Well, because you can do it without profiling, Megyn, when you do it on the facts.	0
471	CHRISTIE	What those facts knew was that these folks had weapons.	0
472	CHRISTIE	They knew that they were talking about trying to take our country and attack it.	0
473	CHRISTIE	That's not profiling, that's law enforcement.	0
474	CHRISTIE	And that's the difference between somebody who knows how to do this and somebody who's never done it before.	0
475	KELLY	They didn't know they were going to attack the country.	0
476	CHRISTIE	They knew they were talking about the issues of attacking people, Megyn.	0
477	CHRISTIE	They knew that.	0
478	SYSTEM	(CROSSTALK)	0
479	KELLY	That's not true.	0
480	KELLY	The neighbors said they saw men going in and out of the garage.	0
481	KELLY	They saw packages being delivered.	0
482	KELLY	They saw Muslims, and they did not think that was enough to call the cops.	0
483	KELLY	Do you?	0
484	CHRISTIE	Listen, I think that what people should do is use their common sense.	0
485	CHRISTIE	And the fact is, let law enforcement make those decisions.	0
486	CHRISTIE	I've told people that from the time I was U.S. attorney 13 years ago.	0
487	CHRISTIE	It's not for them to make those decisions about whether or not something is legal or illegal, or profiling or not.	0
488	CHRISTIE	You see something that's suspicious, you call law enforcement and let law enforcement make those decisions.	0
489	CHRISTIE	That's what should be done.	0
490	CHRISTIE	That can be done.	0
491	CHRISTIE	That can be done without profiling people.	0
492	CHRISTIE	What that is, is just common sense.	0
493	CHRISTIE	They thought something was wrong.	0
494	CHRISTIE	And here's the problem in this country right now.	0
495	CHRISTIE	The problem is that Barack Obama has made law enforcement the enemy, Hillary Clinton has made law enforcement the enemy.	0
496	CHRISTIE	They're not supporting our law enforcement officers, it's making everybody nervous to get out of their cars, if you're a law enforcement officer.	0
497	CHRISTIE	It's making...	0
498	SYSTEM	(BELL RINGS)	0
499	CHRISTIE	... everybody nervous to get out of their cars if you're a law enforcement officer.	0
500	SYSTEM	(BELL RINGS)	0
501	CHRISTIE	It's making people in neighborhoods nervous to go to law enforcement.	0
502	CHRISTIE	As president, I will support law enforcement and we'll stop radical terrorist attacks in this country by supporting our intelligence community and law enforcement community.	0
503	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
504	KELLY	Dr. Carson, this week a female Muslim who served in the U.S. Air Force asked Hillary Clinton the question, she asked whether the United States is still the best place in which to raise her three Muslim children.	0
505	KELLY	Given what she perceives as a rise in Islamaphobia in this country.	0
506	KELLY	Do you think the GOP messaging on Muslims has stoked the flames of bias on this as the Democrats suggest, and how would you answer this veteran?	0
507	CARSON	Well, I don't know about the GOP messaging, but I can tell you about my messaging.	0
508	CARSON	You know, need to stop allowing political correctness to dictate our policies, because it's going to kill us if we don't.	0
509	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
510	CARSON	And in the Holy Land Foundation trial in 2006 in Texas, they had a memorandum, an explanatory memorandum that talked about the fact that Americans would be easy to overcome and to commit civilization jihad because they were going to be trying to protect the rights of the very people who were trying to subvert them.	0
511	CARSON	But I believe in the Teddy Roosevelt philosophy.	0
512	CARSON	Teddy Roosevelt said, we are a nation of immigrants.	0
513	CARSON	As such, everybody is welcome from any race, any country, any religion, if they want to be Americans.	0
514	CARSON	If they want to accept our values and our laws.	0
515	CARSON	If not, they can stay where they are.	0
516	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
517	KELLY	Governor Kasich, stand back.	0
518	KELLY	You appear to back in another debate, a so-called back door to encrypted cell phone technology, which protects most smartphones that we all have from hacking.	0
519	KELLY	And it includes our phones and it also protects the cell phones of the terrorist.	0
520	KELLY	Now the tech companies and a group of MIT scientists, smart guys, right, warn that if they create a way for the FBI to have a back door into our encrypted communications, then the bad guys will exploit it too.	0
521	KELLY	And they say that this is going to cause more security problems than it would solve for everyday Americans.	0
522	KELLY	Are they wrong?	0
523	KASICH	Well, look the Joint Terrorism Task Force needs resources and tools.	0
524	KASICH	And those are made up of the FBI, state and local law enforcement.	0
525	KASICH	And Megyn, it's best not to talk anymore about back doors and encryption, it will get solved, but it needs to be solved in the situation of the White House with the technology folks.	0
526	MEGYN	But this is public testimony.	0
527	KASICH	But I just have to tell you that it's best with some of these things not be said.	0
528	KASICH	Now I want to go back something.	0
529	KASICH	See, I was there when Reagan rebuilt the military.	0
530	KASICH	I was there in '89 when the wall came tumbling down because we were strong.	0
531	KASICH	And I was there when we went into the Gulf War.	0
532	KASICH	We didn't win that war just from the air, we won that war by assembling a group of Arab leaders who stood in the Rose Garden and stood with America.	0
533	KASICH	We want to destroy ISIS, it has to be in the air and on the ground.	0
534	KASICH	It has to be with our friends in the Arab world and our friends in Europe, the coalition that we had when we went to the first Gulf War.	0
535	KASICH	And then when we win that, and we will win that against ISIS as it settles down, and we should leave.	0
536	KASICH	Because we shouldn't be policemen of the world.	0
537	KASICH	But what we need to do is turn it over to the regional powers to be able to handle that.	0
538	KASICH	But we have a unique time in America to connect with people all around the world that understand that there's an existential threat against all of them, the Arabs, the Jordanians, the Saudis, the Egyptians, our friends in Europe, including the Turks.	0
539	KASICH	So we have a unique opportunity to bring everybody together.	0
540	KASICH	I saw Reagan do it, I've seen other presidents do it.	0
541	KASICH	And frankly, if you want to be commander in chief, you have to have the experience.	0
542	KASICH	At the same time we're doing all that, the Pentagon must be reformed so we get what we need for our men and women in uniform.	0
543	KASICH	All of that together, we're going to be just fine and America is going to continue to lead the world.	0
544	KELLY	Governor, thank you.	0
545	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
546	BAIER	Governor Bush, just today, a wounded warrior organization designed to help wounded veterans and their families is coming under fire for raising tens of millions of dollars, but spending almost half of that on travel and hotels and dinners and luxury, lavish conferences.	0
547	BAIER	So taking care of veterans is obviously a huge issue in the country that has asked so many to serve and sacrifice so much.	0
548	BAIER	If you were president.	0
549	BAIER	would you police these charity organizations that say they're helping vets?	0
550	BUSH	Of course.	0
551	BUSH	And there's all sorts of ways that can be done at the state, local and federal level to do that.	0
552	BUSH	But the first duty of the next president of the United States is to fix the mess at the Department of Veterans Affairs.	0
553	BUSH	That's his first responsibility.	0
554	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
555	BUSH	Look, we have waiting lists for veterans that are -- that are leaving because of the sequester where we're gutting the military.	0
556	BUSH	More and more military personnel are leaving becoming veterans, and the waiting list grows.	0
557	BUSH	They've given out $140 million of bonuses to Veterans Department employees, including reducing the waiting lists, without giving veterans care.	0
558	BUSH	People died, and only three people have been fired.	0
559	BUSH	I will make sure that we fire the sheer incompetence inside the Department of Veterans Affairs and then we'll give veterans a choice card so that they don't have to travel hours and hours to get care if they want to go to their private provider.	0
560	BUSH	You want to make the Veterans Administration do a better job, give them -- give veterans choices and you'll get a much better result.	0
561	BUSH	And as it relates to all the other organizations, let me give you a good example.	0
562	BUSH	In Houston, Texas, there's an organization in place because someone acted on their heart, wanted to make sure that there's no homeless veterans in Houston.	0
563	BUSH	And they've come pretty close to that without federal government assistance.	0
564	BUSH	We need to mobilize the entire country to treat our veterans and treat them with much more respect than they get today.	0
565	BAIER	Governor Bush, thank you.	0
566	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
567	BAIER	Speaking of veterans, we have a question from a veteran who is one of the top Youtube creators.	0
568	BAIER	Over the course of the evening, gentlemen, we will hear from some of Youtube's most followed stars.	0
569	BAIER	And here's one of them.	0
570	QUESTION	I'm Mark Watson.	0
571	QUESTION	I'm known for my (inaudible) views on Youtube, but I'm also a veteran who served in the Army for eight years.	0
572	QUESTION	As an African-American living near Ferguson, I've seen the strain between police officers and the communities they serve firsthand.	0
573	QUESTION	Now, there are great tools like body cameras that -- to protect both officers and citizens, but we all currently have better cameras in our pockets than in our precincts.	0
574	QUESTION	Why aren't we using the technology available to better protect our communities?	0
575	BAIER	Senator Paul, that question to you.	0
576	PAUL	You know, I've supported legislation to allow body cameras.	0
577	PAUL	I've been to Ferguson, I've been trying to look for solutions to our criminal justice problem.	0
578	PAUL	One thing I discovered in Ferguson was that a third of the budget for the city of Ferguson was being reaped by civil fines.	0
579	PAUL	People were just being fined to death.	0
580	PAUL	Now you and I and many of the people in this audience, if we get a $100 fine, we can survive it.	0
581	PAUL	If you're living on the edge of poverty and you get a $100 fine or your car towed, a lot of times you lose your job.	0
582	PAUL	I also think the war on drugs has disproportionately affected our African-American community, and what we need to do is make sure that the war on drugs is equal protection under the law and that we don't unfairly incarcerate another generation of young African-American males.	0
583	PAUL	In Ferguson, for every 100 African-American women, there are only 60 African-American men.	0
584	PAUL	Drug use is about equal between white and black, but our prisons -- three out of four people in prison are black or brown.	0
585	PAUL	I think something has to change.	0
586	PAUL	I think it's a big thing that our party needs to be part of, and I've been a leader in Congress on trying to bring about criminal justice reform.	0
587	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
588	BAIER	Senator Paul, thank you.	0
589	WALLACE	This debate is just getting started.	0
590	WALLACE	Coming up, the role of the federal government.	0
591	WALLACE	But first, join tonight's conversation right from your home.	0
592	WALLACE	Go to google.com or open your Google search app and search Fox News Debate to vote on which issue is most important to you in this election.	0
593	WALLACE	More from the Iowa Events Center and the Republican presidential debate in a moment.	0
594	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
595	SYSTEM	(COMMERCIAL BREAK)	0
596	KELLY	Welcome back, everybody.	0
597	KELLY	We are live in Des Moines, Iowa.	0
598	KELLY	And let's get right back to the questions -- Bret.	0
599	BAIER	Thank you, Megyn.	0
600	BAIER	Gentlemen, I'll ask you some questions about federal spending and the role of the federal government.	0
601	BAIER	Everybody always said they want to cut federal spending and usually they start by saying they'll cut waste, fraud, and abuse, but that really doesn't ever materialize.	0
602	BAIER	We all know that.	0
603	BAIER	Governor Christie, you talk a lot about entitlement reform and you say that that's where the federal government can get savings needed to balance the budget.	0
604	BAIER	But can you name even one thing that the federal government does now that it should not do at all?	0
605	CHRISTIE	Yes.	0
606	CHRISTIE	You want one?	0
607	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
608	BAIER	I want one.	0
609	BAIER	Yes.	0
610	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
611	CHRISTIE	How about one that I've done in New Jersey for the last six years.	0
612	CHRISTIE	That's get rid of Planned Parenthood funding from the United States of America.	0
613	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
614	BAIER	Anything bigger than that?	0
615	CHRISTIE	Bigger than that?	0
616	CHRISTIE	Let me tell you something, when you see thousands upon thousands upon thousands of children being murdered in the womb, I can't think of anything better than that.	0
617	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
618	BAIER	And, Governor, I realize everyone on this stage opposes Obamacare and you're not alone.	0
619	BAIER	"Google Data shows that in the last month when people searched ""policy repeals,"" that there were a lot of them."	0
620	BAIER	Obamacare took the top two spots.	0
621	BAIER	But today there are millions of people who gained health insurance from Obamacare and they now rely on it.	0
622	BAIER	So the question, Senator Cruz, if you repeal Obamacare, as you say you will, will you be fine if millions of those people don't have health insurance?	0
623	BAIER	And what is your specific plan for covering the uninsured?	0
624	CRUZ	Sure.	0
625	CRUZ	Well, let's take it one at a time.	0
626	CRUZ	First of all, we have seen now in six years of Obamacare that it has been a disaster.	1
627	CRUZ	It is the biggest job-killer in this country.	1
628	CRUZ	Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, have been forced into part-time work, have lost their health insurance, have lost their doctors, have seen their premiums skyrocket.	1
629	CRUZ	If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.	0
630	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
631	CRUZ	Now, once that is done, everyone agrees we need healthcare reform.	0
632	CRUZ	It should follow the principles of expanding competition, empowering patients, and keeping government from getting in between us and our doctors.	0
633	CRUZ	Three specific reforms that reflect those principles.	0
634	CRUZ	Number one, we should allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines.	0
635	CRUZ	That will create a true 50-state national marketplace which will drive down the cost of low-cost, catastrophic health insurance.	0
636	CRUZ	Number two, we should expand health savings accounts so people can save in a tax-advantaged way for more routine healthcare needs.	0
637	CRUZ	And number three, we should work to de-link health insurance from employment so if you lose your job, your health insurance goes with you and it is personal, portable and affordable.	0
638	CRUZ	And I'll tell you, Bret, I think that's a much more attractive vision for healthcare than the Washington-drive, top-down Obamacare that is causing so many millions of people to hurt.	1
639	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
640	BAIER	Senator Cruz, thank you.	0
641	BAIER	Governor Bush, you've advocated for statehood for Puerto Rico.	0
642	BAIER	The Puerto Rican economy is collapsing under unsustainable debt burden.	0
643	BAIER	Only about 1 million of its 4 million residents are currently employed.	0
644	BAIER	So should American citizens who you say are already overtaxed, bail out Puerto Rico as well?	0
645	BUSH	No, they shouldn't.	0
646	BUSH	And I believe that Puerto Rico ought to have the right of self-determination.	0
647	BUSH	If I was a Puerto Rican, I'd vote for statehood so that they have full citizenship.	0
648	BUSH	They serve in the military.	0
649	BUSH	They would have to pay federal taxes.	0
650	BUSH	They would -- they would accept the responsibilities of full U.S. citizenship.	0
651	BUSH	But they should have the right of determine -- self-determination.	0
652	BUSH	Before you get to that, though, Puerto Rico is going to have to deal with the structural problems they face.	0
653	BUSH	You know, it's -- it's a fact that if you can pay for a $79 one-way ticket to Orlando, and you can escape the challenges of a declining economy and high crime rates, you move to Orlando.	0
654	BUSH	And a lot of people are doing that.	0
655	BUSH	And the spiraling out-of- control requires Puerto Rico to make structural reforms.	0
656	BUSH	The federal government can play a role in allowing them to do that, but they should not -- the process of statehood or the status of Puerto Rico won't be solved until we get to the bigger issue of how you deal with the structural economic problems they're facing right now.	0
657	BAIER	Governor Kasich, you're one of two remaining sitting governors still in the race.	0
658	BAIER	Your colleague, Governor Rick Snyder of Michigan is under fire -- he and his administration -- for the Flint, Michigan water crisis and the botched response to it.	0
659	BAIER	How would you have handled that?	0
660	KASICH	Well, you've got to be on top of it right away.	0
661	KASICH	And, you know, I don't know all the details of what Rick Snyder has done.	0
662	KASICH	I know there have been people who have been fired; people who are being held accountable.	0
663	KASICH	But the fact is, every single engine of government has to move when you see a crisis like that.	0
664	KASICH	And I've had many situations in the state of Ohio where we've had to move, whether it's storms, whether it was a horrible school shooting.	0
665	KASICH	There are many crises that come -- a water crisis in Toledo.	0
666	KASICH	You've got to be on top of it.	0
667	KASICH	You've got to go the extra mile.	0
668	KASICH	You've got to work with local communities and you've got to work with the federal government.	0
669	KASICH	Because you realize that people depending on you.	0
670	KASICH	And so, you go the extra mile.	0
671	KASICH	But people have to be alert.	0
672	KASICH	They have to be alert to problems.	0
673	KASICH	And when you see a problem, you must act quickly to get on top of it.	0
674	KASICH	And people at home are saying they've got a problem, listen to them.	0
675	KASICH	Because most of the time, they're absolutely correct.	0
676	KASICH	So the fact is that we work for the people.	0
677	KASICH	The people don't work for us.	0
678	KASICH	And we have to have an attitude when we're in government of serving-hood.	0
679	KASICH	That's what really matters.	0
680	KASICH	We serve you.	0
681	KASICH	You don't serve us.	0
682	KASICH	We listen to you and -- and then we act.	0
683	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
684	BAIER	Senator Rubio, on the issue of climate change, in 2008, you wanted Florida to get ahead of other states and establish a cap- and-trade system, a program for carbon emissions, which many Republicans thought at the time would hurt the Florida economy.	0
685	BAIER	Now, you're a skeptic of climate change science.	0
686	BAIER	And in fact, you warn that federal efforts to fight climate change will cost U.S. jobs and hurt the U.S. economy.	0
687	BAIER	So why the change?	0
688	RUBIO	Well, Bret, first that's not entirely the story.	0
689	RUBIO	At the time, the liberal governor of Florida, who claimed he was a Republican -- his name was Charlie Crist -- he wanted to impose cap-and-trade on Florida.	0
690	RUBIO	And I opposed it.	0
691	RUBIO	I was the first person out of the box that opposed him on it.	0
692	RUBIO	And then we saw that the leading candidates for president at the time, both the Republican and the Democrats, all supported it.	0
693	RUBIO	And what we said is, if they're going to impose this on us, we better prepare to protect the state from it.	0
694	RUBIO	But I have never supported cap- and-trade and I never thought it was a good idea.	0
695	RUBIO	And I was clear about that at the time.	0
696	RUBIO	And I do not believe it's a good idea now.	0
697	RUBIO	I do not believe that we have to destroy our economy in order to protect our environment.	0
698	RUBIO	And especially what these programs are asking us to pass that will do nothing to help the environment, but will be devastating for our economy.	0
699	RUBIO	When I am president of the United States of America, there will never be any cap-and-trade in the United States.	0
700	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
701	BAIER	Thanks, Senator.	0
702	KELLY	All right.	0
703	KELLY	We're going to move on.	0
704	KELLY	Because coming up, immigration, and something you've never seen before.	0
705	KELLY	Stay tuned, right after this break.	0
706	SYSTEM	(COMMERCIAL BREAK)	0
707	KELLY	Welcome back everyone.	0
708	KELLY	Live, in Des Moines, Iowa.	0
709	KELLY	Now, we move onto the topic of immigration.	0
710	KELLY	Senator Rubio, we'll start with you.	0
711	KELLY	When you ran for Senate in 2010, you made clear that you opposed legalization and citizenship for illegal immigrants.	0
712	KELLY	You promised repeatedly that you would oppose it as a U.S.	0
713	KELLY	Senator as well.	0
714	KELLY	Here are just a few examples.	0
715	KELLY	Watch.	0
716	SYSTEM	(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)	0
717	RUBIO	Never support.	0
718	RUBIO	Never have and never will support any effort to grant blanket legalization amnesty to folks who have entered, or stayed in this country illegally.	0
719	SYSTEM	(END VIDEO CLIP)	0
720	SYSTEM	(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)	0
721	RUBIO	First of all, earned path to citizenship is basically code for amnesty.	0
722	RUBIO	It's what they call it.	0
723	RUBIO	And, the reality of it is this, it is unfair to the people that have legally entered this country to create an alternative for individuals who entered illegally, and knowingly did so.	0
724	SYSTEM	(END VIDEO CLIP)	0
725	SYSTEM	(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)	0
726	RUBIO	You cannot grant amnesty.	0
727	RUBIO	If the American people see us granting amnesty they will never again believe in legal immigration.	0
728	RUBIO	They will never again support it, and that's wrong for our country, bad for our future.	0
729	SYSTEM	(END VIDEO CLIP)	0
730	KELLY	Within two years of getting elected you were co-sponsoring legislation to create a path to citizenship, in your words, amnesty.	1
731	KELLY	Haven't you already proven that you cannot be trusted on this issue?	0
732	RUBIO	No, because if you look at the quote, and it's very specific.	0
733	RUBIO	And, it says blanket amnesty, I do not support blanket amnesty...	1
734	KELLY	But, you went on from there...	0
735	RUBIO	I do not support amnesty...	1
736	KELLY	... You said more than that, Senator...	0
737	RUBIO	... No, I said I do not support blanket amnesty...	1
738	KELLY	... You said earned path to citizenship is basically code for amnesty.	1
739	KELLY	You...	0
740	RUBIO	It was...	0
741	KELLY	... supported earned path to citizenship...	0
742	RUBIO	It absolutely has been, and at the time in the context of that was in 2009, and 2010, where the last effort for legalization was an effort done in the Senate.	1
743	RUBIO	It was an effort led by several people that provided almost an instant path with very little obstacles moving forward.	0
744	RUBIO	What I've always said is that this issue does need to be solved.	0
745	RUBIO	They've been talking about this issue for 30 years, and nothing ever happens.	0
746	RUBIO	And, I'm going to tell you exactly how we're going to deal with it when I am president.	0
747	RUBIO	Number one, we're going to keep ISIS out of America.	0
748	RUBIO	If we don't know who you are, or why you're coming, you will not get into the United States.	0
749	RUBIO	Number two, we're going to enforce our immigration laws.	0
750	RUBIO	I am the son and grandson of immigrants.	0
751	RUBIO	And I know that securing our borders is not anti-immigrant and we will do it.	0
752	RUBIO	We'll hire 20,000 new border agents instead of 20,000 new IRS agents.	0
753	RUBIO	We will finish the 700 miles of fencing and walls our nation needs.	0
754	RUBIO	We'll have mandatory E-verify, a mandatory entry/exit tracking system and until all of that is in place and all of that is working and we can prove to the people of this country that illegal immigration is under control, nothing else is going to happen.	0
755	RUBIO	We are not going to round up and deport 12 million people, but we're not going to hand out citizenship cards, either.	0
756	RUBIO	There will be a process.	0
757	RUBIO	We will see what the American people are willing to support.	0
758	RUBIO	But it will not be unconstitutional executive orders like the ones Barack Obama has forced on us.	0
759	KELLY	Governor Bush, do you agree Senator Rubio has not reversed himself on his immigration promise?	0
760	BUSH	Well, I'm kind of confused because he was the sponsor of the Gang of Eight bill that did require a bunch of thresholds but ultimately allowed for citizenship over an extended period of time.	0
761	BUSH	I mean, that's a fact.	0
762	BUSH	And he asked me to support that.	0
763	BUSH	And I -- I supported him because I think people, when you're elected, you need to do things.	0
764	BUSH	And he led the charge to finally fix this immigration problem that has existed now for, as Marco says, for 30 years.	0
765	BUSH	And then he cut and run because it wasn't popular amongst conservatives, I guess.	0
766	BUSH	Here's what I believe.	0
767	BUSH	And I wrote a book about this called Immigration Wars.	0
768	BUSH	You can get it at $2.99 on Amazon.	0
769	BUSH	It's not a bestseller.	0
770	BUSH	I can promise you.	0
771	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
772	BUSH	There won't be any -- you can get it.	0
773	BUSH	It's affordable for everybody.	0
774	BUSH	We should have a path to legal status for the 12 million people that are here illegally.	0
775	BUSH	It means, come out from the shadows, pay a fine, earn legal status by working, by paying taxes, learning English.	0
776	BUSH	Not committing crimes and earn legal status where you're not cutting in front of the line for people that are patiently waiting outside.	0
777	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
778	BUSH	I think that is the -- I think that's the conservative consensus pragmatic approach to how to solve this problem.	0
779	RUBIO	May I respond?	0
780	KELLY	Go ahead, senator.	0
781	RUBIO	It's interesting that Jeb mentions the book.	0
782	RUBIO	That's the book where you changed your position on immigration because you used to support a path to citizenship.	0
783	BUSH	So did you.	0
784	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
785	RUBIO	Well, but you changed the -- in the book...	0
786	BUSH	Yeah.	0
787	BUSH	So did you, Marco.	0
788	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
789	RUBIO	You wrote a book where you changed your position from a path of citizenship to a path of legalization.	0
790	RUBIO	And the bottom line is this, we are not going to be able to do anything on this issue until we first bring illegal immigration under control.	0
791	RUBIO	The American people have been told for 30 years they're going to enforce the border, they're going to build a wall and it never gets built and it never happens.	0
792	RUBIO	It is very clear there will be no progress on this issue in any way, shape or form, until you prove to the people of this country that illegal immigration is under control.	0
793	RUBIO	And when I'm president, we are going to bring it under control once and for all after 30 years of talking about it.	0
794	BUSH	Marco, Marco -- he brought up my name.	0
795	BUSH	I have supported a consensus approach to solving this problem wherever it came up.	0
796	BUSH	and in 2007 it almost passed when my brother was president of the United States.	0
797	BUSH	A bipartisan approach got close.	0
798	BUSH	Barack Obama actually had the poison pill to stop it then.	0
799	BUSH	And when you led the charge with the Gang of Eight, I supported it because you asked me to.	0
800	BUSH	I think it's important for people in elected office to try to forge consensus to solve problems.	0
801	BUSH	There's never going do be perfect bill.	0
802	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
803	KELLY	All right.	0
804	BUSH	But when you didn't do that and you ask people to support, you shouldn't cut and run.	0
805	RUBIO	But Megyn...	0
806	BUSH	You should stick with it and that's exactly what happened.	0
807	BUSH	He cut and run.	0
808	BUSH	And that's a tragedy because now...	0
809	SYSTEM	(BELL RINGS)	0
810	BUSH	... it's harder and harder to actually solve this problem.	0
811	KELLY	All right.	0
812	KELLY	This will be the last one.	0
813	RUBIO	There's not going to be consensus on this issue until we enforce our immigration laws.	0
814	RUBIO	That is abundantly clear.	0
815	RUBIO	You're not going to be able to ram down the throat of the American people your approach.	0
816	RUBIO	The only way we're are going to be able to move forward after two migratory crises with minor, after two unconstitutional executive orders, the only way forward on this issue is to first bring illegal immigration under control.	0
817	RUBIO	And until that happens there's not going to be consensus on this issue.	0
818	KELLY	OK. Let's move on.	0
819	KELLY	Senator Cruz, when Senator Rubio proposed that bill creating a path to citizenship, you proposed an amendment.	0
820	KELLY	It would have allowed for legalization but not citizenship.	0
821	KELLY	Yes, it would.	0
822	KELLY	Pressed last month on why you supported legalization, you claimed that you didn't.	0
823	KELLY	Right?	0
824	KELLY	Like you just did.	0
825	KELLY	Saw that.	0
826	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
827	KELLY	You argued that this was just a poison pill amendment, basically it's something designed to kill the bill and not actually get it through.	0
828	KELLY	But that is not, however, how it sounded at the time.	0
829	KELLY	Watch.	0
830	SYSTEM	(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)	0
831	CRUZ	I want this bill to be voted down.	0
832	CRUZ	I don't want immigration reform to fail.	0
833	CRUZ	I want immigration reform to pass.	0
834	CRUZ	I believe if this amendment were to pass, the chances of this bill passing into law would increase dramatically.	0
835	CRUZ	I believe if the amendments I introduced were adopted, that the bill would pass.	0
836	CRUZ	And my effort in introducing them was to find a solution that reflected common ground and that fixed the problem.	0
837	CRUZ	If the proponents of this bill actually demonstrate a commitment not to politics, not to campaigning all the time, but to actually fixing this problem, to finding a middle ground.	0
838	CRUZ	That would fix the problem, and also allow, for those 11 million people who are here illegally, a legal status, with citizenship off the table.	0
839	KELLY	Was that all an act?	0
840	KELLY	It was pretty convincing.	0
841	CRUZ	You know, the amendment you're talking about is one sentence -- it's 38 words.	0
842	CRUZ	Anyone can go online at tedcruz.org and read exactly what it said.	0
843	CRUZ	In those 38 words, it said anyone here illegally is permanently ineligible for citizenship.	1
844	CRUZ	It didn't say a word about legalization.	1
845	CRUZ	I introduced...	0
846	KELLY	But the bill allowed both.	1
847	KELLY	The bill you were amending allowed citizenship and legalization.	1
848	CRUZ	But -- but Megyn, the bill was 1,000 pages.	0
849	CRUZ	I introduced a series of amendments, each designed to fix problems in the bill.	0
850	CRUZ	The fact that each amendment didn't fix every problem didn't mean that I supported the rest of the bill.	0
851	CRUZ	And I'll tell you who supported my amendment -- Jeff Sessions, the strongest opponent of amnesty in the United States Congress.	0
852	CRUZ	And he did so because taking citizenship off the table was important, and it revealed the hypocrisy of the proponents of this bill, who were looking for votes.	0
853	CRUZ	Listen, we can solve immigration.	0
854	CRUZ	We just heard an argument back and forth that we can't solve immigration.	0
855	CRUZ	I have a detailed immigration plan that is on my website, tedcruz.org.	0
856	CRUZ	It was designed with Iowa's own Congressman Steve King and Jeff Sessions, and...	0
857	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
858	CRUZ	... we have the tools in federal law to do this now.	0
859	CRUZ	We can build the fence.	0
860	CRUZ	We can triple the border patrol.	0
861	CRUZ	We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off...	0
862	SYSTEM	(BELL RINGS)	0
863	CRUZ	... funding to them.	0
864	CRUZ	We can end welfare for those here illegally.	0
865	CRUZ	And what is missing is the political will, because too many Democrats and, sadly, too many Republicans don't want to solve this problem.	0
866	CRUZ	If I am elected president...	0
867	SYSTEM	(BELL RINGS)	0
868	CRUZ	... we will secure the border...	0
869	KELLY	OK, sir.	0
870	CRUZ	... and we will end the illegal immigration.	0
871	KELLY	Senator Paul.	0
872	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
873	KELLY	You know how Washington works.	0
874	KELLY	Do you buy that?	0
875	PAUL	I was there and I saw the debate.	0
876	PAUL	"I saw Ted Cruz say, ""we'll take citizenship off the table, and then the bill will pass, and I'm for the bill."""	0
877	PAUL	The bill would involve legalization.	0
878	PAUL	He can't have it both ways.	0
879	PAUL	"But what is particularly insulting, though, is that he is the king of saying, ""you're for amnesty."""	0
880	PAUL	Everybody's for amnesty except for Ted Cruz.	0
881	PAUL	But it's a falseness, and that's an authenticity problem -- that everybody he knows is not as perfect as him because we're all for amnesty.	0
882	PAUL	I was for legalization.	0
883	PAUL	I think, frankly, if you have border security, you can have legalization.	0
884	PAUL	So was Ted, but now he says it wasn't so.	0
885	PAUL	That's not true.	0
886	KELLY	Go ahead, sir.	0
887	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
888	CRUZ	"You know, John Adams famously said, ""facts are are stubborn things."""	0
889	CRUZ	The facts are are very, very simple.	0
890	CRUZ	When that battle was waged, my friend Senator Rubio chose to stand with Barack Obama and Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer and support amnesty.	0
891	CRUZ	And I stood alongside Jeff Sessions and Steve King, and we led the fight against amnesty.	0
892	CRUZ	"And if you want to know who's telling the truth, you should look and ask people like Jeff Sessions and Steve King and Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin, all of whom say, as Jeff Sessions said, responding to these false attacks just recently in Alabama -- he said, ""if it wasn't for Ted Cruz, the Gang of Eight Rubio/Schumer bill would have passed""."	0
893	CRUZ	But because Ted stood up and helped lead the effort, millions rose up to kill it.	0
894	SYSTEM	(BELL RINGS)	0
895	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
896	KELLY	Senator Rubio, even Chuck Schumer, your co-sponsor of that bill...	0
897	RUBIO	Yeah, but let me respond...	0
898	KELLY	... agrees with Ted Cruz on this.	0
899	RUBIO	... no, I understand, but let me respond.	0
900	RUBIO	I (ph) was mentioned on this -- in this answer, and so I'm going to respond this way.	0
901	RUBIO	This is the lie that Ted's campaign is built on, and Rand touched upon it -- that he's the most conservative guy, and everyone else is a -- you know, everyone else is a rhino.	0
902	RUBIO	The truth is, Ted, throughout this campaign, you've been willing to say or do anything in order to get votes.	0
903	RUBIO	Ted, you worked for George W. Bush's campaign...	0
904	SYSTEM	(BOOING)	0
905	RUBIO	You -- you -- you helped design George W. Bush's -- you helped design George W. Bush's immigration policy.	0
906	RUBIO	"And then, when you got to the Senate, you did an interview with CBS News -- I (ph) wasn't even part of the video -- where you said, on the issue of people that are here illegally, ""we can reach a compromise."""	0
907	RUBIO	"And then in the committee, you said, ""I want to bring people out of the shadows."""	0
908	SYSTEM	(BELL RINGS)	0
909	RUBIO	Now you want to trump Trump on immigration.	0
910	RUBIO	But you can't -- we're not gonna beat Hillary Clinton with someone who's willing to say or do anything to win an election.	0
911	RUBIO	Go ahead, Senator Cruz.	0
912	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
913	CRUZ	You know, I like Marco.	0
914	CRUZ	He's very charming.	0
915	CRUZ	He's very smooth.	0
916	CRUZ	But the facts are simple.	0
917	CRUZ	"When he ran for election in the state of Florida, he told the people of Florida, ""if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty."""	0
918	CRUZ	"When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, ""if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty."""	0
919	CRUZ	We both made the identical promises.	0
920	CRUZ	But when we came to Washington, we made a different choice.	0
921	CRUZ	Marco made the choice to go the direction of the major donors -- to support amnesty because he thought it was politically advantageous.	0
922	SYSTEM	(BELL RINGS)	0
923	CRUZ	I honored my commitments, and as president, I will honor every commitment that I make to the men and women of this country.	0
924	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
925	KELLY	All right.	0
926	CHRISTIE	Megyn?	0
927	KELLY	Go ahead, Governor Christie.	0
928	CHRISTIE	I want to ask the people of the audience.	0
929	CHRISTIE	Like, I'm standing here, I -- I watched the video of Senator Cruz.	0
930	CHRISTIE	I watched the video of Senator Rubio.	0
931	CHRISTIE	I heard what they said.	0
932	CHRISTIE	And this is why you need to send someone from outside of Washington to Washington.	0
933	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
934	CHRISTIE	I feel like...	0
935	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
936	CHRISTIE	I feel like I need -- I feel like I need a Washington to English dictionary converter, right?	0
937	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
938	CHRISTIE	I mean, I heard what they both said, I saw it on the video.	0
939	CHRISTIE	And the fact is this is what makes a difference when you're a governor.	0
940	CHRISTIE	You can change your mind.	0
941	CHRISTIE	Ted can change his mind.	0
942	CHRISTIE	Marco can change his mind.	0
943	CHRISTIE	It's perfectly legal in this country to change your mind.	0
944	CHRISTIE	But when you're a governor, you have to admit it.	0
945	CHRISTIE	You can't hide behind parliamentary tricks.	0
946	CHRISTIE	That's the difference, and that's the kind of leader we need in the White House.	0
947	CHRISTIE	Stop the Washington bull and let's get things done.	0
948	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
949	KELLY	Let's go to a Youtube question.	0
950	KELLY	Let's get to a Youtube question.	0
951	KELLY	This is a question from a Youtube creator with over 2 million subscribers.	0
952	KELLY	Watch.	0
953	QUESTION	I'm Dulce Candy, a Youtube creator who immigrated to the United States from Mexico when I was a little girl.	0
954	QUESTION	Since then, I am proud to say I served in the armed forces in Iraq, became a citizen and I am now an entrepreneur.	0
955	QUESTION	There are many immigrants who contribute positively to the American economy, but some of the comments in the campaign make us question our place in this country.	0
956	QUESTION	If America does not seem like a welcoming place for immigrant entrepreneurs, will the American economy suffer?	0
957	KELLY	Dr. Carson, that's one -- that one's for you.	0
958	CARSON	Oh, great.	0
959	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
960	CARSON	As I said before, we are a land of immigrants, but we have to be intelligent about the way that we form our immigration policies, and that's one of the reasons that I have called on us to declare war on the Islamic State because we need to reorient our immigration policies and our visa policies for people who are coming into this country because there are many people out there who want to destroy us.	0
961	CARSON	Now, I recognize that the vast majority of people coming in here probably are not those kinds of people, but that's not good enough.	0
962	CARSON	If you've got 10 people coming to your house and you know one of them is a terrorist, you're probably going to keep them all out.	0
963	CARSON	You know, we probably have to figure out a way to make sure that we keep America safe.	0
964	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
965	BUSH	Can I -- can I -- I just...	0
966	KELLY	Go ahead.	0
967	BUSH	That beautiful young woman who's an entrepreneur who served in the military, first of all, is deserving of our respect for service in the military and the fact that she's an entrepreneur.	0
968	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
969	BUSH	And we should be a welcoming nation.	0
970	BUSH	Our identity is not based on race or ethnicity, it's based on a set of shared values.	0
971	BUSH	That's American citizenship.	0
972	BUSH	And Dulce Candy -- a pretty cool name, actually -- that is now an entrepreneur over Youtube is part of that American spirit, and we should celebrate it as conservatives.	0
973	BUSH	That's what we believe in.	0
974	BUSH	You can -- you can deal with the threat of terror and also recognize that this country should be aspirational across the board.	0
975	RUBIO	And I think that's the false choice...	0
976	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
977	RUBIO	... that's the -- that's the false choice in this whole debate about immigration.	0
978	RUBIO	Of course, we're going to be a nation of immigrants.	0
979	RUBIO	By the way, no nation on earth is more generous than America is.	0
980	RUBIO	Every single year close to a million people emigrate to the United States legally.	0
981	RUBIO	There's no nation on earth that comes close to that number.	0
982	RUBIO	I think the only argument is are we a sovereign country, are we not allowed to choose who comes in, when they come in and how they come in?	0
983	RUBIO	And that's not what's happening now.	0
984	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
985	KELLY	All right.	0
986	RUBIO	I think the other problem is we have a legal immigration system that's outdated, it's primarily based on whether you have family members living here.	0
987	RUBIO	In the 21st century, it has to be more of a merit-based system, and that is why our legal immigration system is in need of modernization.	0
988	RUBIO	And we will always celebrate legal immigration like Dulce's great story.	0
989	KELLY	All right.	0
990	KELLY	We're moving on.	0
991	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
992	WALLACE	Gentlemen, we're going to turn now to what we call electability, issues that you're either facing in the primaries or issues that you're certainly going to face in a general election.	0
993	WALLACE	So you may not be altogether unhappy if you're not included in this round.	0
994	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
995	WALLACE	Senator Cruz, you pride yourself on standing up to the D.C. cartel, but as we've seen to a certain degree tonight, there's a price for standing up to the D.C. cartel.	0
996	WALLACE	Thirteen Republican senators have endorsed other candidates, none have endorsed you.	0
997	WALLACE	You -- twice last year, you asked for a colleague to second a motion, a routine courtesy on the Senate floor, and no senator would do it.	0
998	WALLACE	Top GOP officials worry that if you're at the top of the ticket -- some officials -- that not only will you lose the White House, but it will tank the ticket all the way down the line.	0
999	WALLACE	The question is does your style sometimes get in the way of your ability to get things done, sir?	0
1000	CURZ	Well, Chris, you are exactly right that I am not the candidate of career politicians in Washington.	0
1001	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1002	CRUZ	And I'll tell you the endorsements that I am proud of are the over 200,000 volunteers across this country who have signed up to volunteer for our campaign.	0
1003	CRUZ	The endorsements that I am proud of are leading conservatives like Iowa's own Congressman Steve King, who is a national co-chairman of my campaign.	0
1004	CRUZ	The endorsements that I'm proud of are conservative leaders like Dr. James Dobson, and over 700,000 contributions nationwide, people going to our Web site, tedcruz.org.	0
1005	CRUZ	This is a grassroots campaign and, you know, when I ran for senate in Texas, I told the people of Texas that I'm not going there to go along to get along.	0
1006	CRUZ	Washington is broken.	0
1007	And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things	tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.	0
1008	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1009	BAIER	Thank you.	0
1010	KELLY	Governor bush, poll after poll shows you running among the worst in your party against Hillary Clinton.	0
1011	KELLY	Even Mitt Romney said that a Bush v. Clinton head-to-head would be too easy for the Democrats.	0
1012	KELLY	Yet still you and the super PACs supporting you continue to blanket the airwaves with cutting ads, not against Mrs. Clinton, but against your fellow Republicans, especially Senator Rubio.	0
1013	KELLY	Do these attacks do more harm than good by targeting those candidates who appear to have the best chance of defeating Mrs. Clinton?	0
1014	BUSH	Well, first of all, I've seen polls where I'm beating Hillary Clinton pretty regularly.	0
1015	BUSH	And I believe I can, because I have a proven record, a record of accomplishment, a record of cutting taxes, of shrinking the government, of reforming education, of challenging the status quo, eliminating career civil service protections, shrinking the government workforce by 11 percent, but leading the nation in job growth.	0
1016	BUSH	That's the record of accomplishment that should be taken to Hillary Clinton, who has no record of accomplishment.	0
1017	BUSH	So I'm confident if I win this nomination, I will aggressively go against her and beat her.	0
1018	BUSH	As it relates to the super PACs, I have no control over that.	0
1019	BUSH	And this is beanbag compared to what the Clinton hit machine is going to do to the Republican nominee.	0
1020	BUSH	The simple fact is, we all have a record.	0
1021	BUSH	It all will be scrutinized.	0
1022	BUSH	There's give and take.	0
1023	BUSH	It's called the politics.	0
1024	BUSH	And that's the way it is.	0
1025	BUSH	I'm running hard and I believe I'll be the Republican nominee and I'll be the one best suited to beat Hillary Clinton, who should not be president of the United States.	0
1026	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1027	BAIER	Senator Rubio, first before I ask you a question, any response to Governor Bush?	0
1028	RUBIO	Well, I believe, and I know that if Iowa helps make me the Republican nominee, I will defeat Hillary Clinton.	0
1029	RUBIO	Hillary doesn't want to run against me, but I cannot wait to run against her.	0
1030	RUBIO	And I cannot wait to earn the opportunity to do it because she cannot be the president of the United States.	0
1031	RUBIO	She wants to put Barack Obama on the Supreme Court of the United States of America.	1
1032	RUBIO	She said that here in Iowa just two days ago.	0
1033	RUBIO	That would be a disaster for this country.	0
1034	RUBIO	So I hope and pray and cannot wait until this state and others give me an opportunity to serve this party as its nominee because I will defeat Hillary Clinton.	0
1035	SYSTEM	(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)	0
1036	BAIER	Now let's talk about electability, Senator.	0
1037	BAIER	"TIME magazine once called you ""the Republican savior."""	0
1038	BAIER	Rush Limbaugh and others said you likely will be president some day.	0
1039	BAIER	But if you look at the recent average of polls in your home state of Florida, you're in third trailing Donald trump by 24 points.	0
1040	BAIER	If the people who know you best have you there, why should the rest of the country elect you?	0
1041	RUBIO	Well, let me be clear about one thing, there's only one savior and it's not me.	0
1042	RUBIO	It's Jesus Christ who came down to earth and died for our sins.	0
1043	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1044	RUBIO	And so -- and I've always made that clear about that cover story.	0
1045	RUBIO	As far as the polls are concerned, Iowa, on Monday night you're going to go to a caucus site and you'll be the first Americans that vote in this election.	0
1046	RUBIO	You will be the first Americans that get to answer the fundamental question, what comes next for this country after seven disastrous years of Barack Obama?	0
1047	RUBIO	And let me tell you what the answer better not be.	0
1048	RUBIO	It better not be Bernie Sanders.	0
1049	RUBIO	Bernie Sanders is a socialist.	0
1050	RUBIO	I think Bernie Sanders is good candidate for president of Sweden.	0
1051	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
1052	RUBIO	We don't want to be Sweden.	0
1053	RUBIO	We want to be the United States of America.	0
1054	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1055	RUBIO	And Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton is disqualified from being the commander-in-chief of the United States.	0
1056	RUBIO	In fact, one of her first acts as president may very well be to pardon herself because Hillary Clinton...	0
1057	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
1058	RUBIO	Hillary Clinton stored classified information on her private server.	0
1059	RUBIO	And Hillary Clinton lied to the families of those four brave Americans who lost their life in Benghazi.	0
1060	RUBIO	And anyone who lies to the families of Americans who have died in the service of this country can never be commander-in-chief of the United States.	0
1061	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1062	BAIER	Thank you, Senator.	0
1063	WALLACE	"Governor Christie, two of your former top aides go on trial in May for fraud and conspiracy in the ""Bridge-gate"" case, the politically motivated closure of lanes to the George Washington Bridge."	0
1064	WALLACE	Another former aide who has already pleaded guilty and will likely testify for the government, as you know, says that you knew about this whole deal.	0
1065	WALLACE	Can the GOP take the chance of nominating you with this scandal still out there, sir?	0
1066	CHRISTIE	Sure, because there has been three different investigations and proven that I knew nothing.	0
1067	CHRISTIE	And the fact is that what I did do, what I did do from the beginning, Chris, as soon as I found out about it, I fired the people who were responsible.	0
1068	CHRISTIE	And that's what you expect from a leader.	0
1069	CHRISTIE	And, I'll tell you something else.	0
1070	CHRISTIE	I inherited a state in New Jersey that was downtrodden, and beaten by liberal democratic policies, high taxation, high regulation.	0
1071	CHRISTIE	And, this year, in 2015, New Jersey's had the best year of job growth that our state has ever had in the last 15 years.	0
1072	CHRISTIE	That's because we've put conservative policies in place.	0
1073	CHRISTIE	And, I'll tell you one other thing, you know why the Republican party will want to take a chance on me?	0
1074	CHRISTIE	Because they know that Hillary Clinton will never be prosecuted by this justice department, and they're going to want to put a former federal prosecutor on the stage to prosecute her next September.	0
1075	CHRISTIE	And, there is no one on this stage better prepared to prosecute the case against Hillary Clinton than I am.	0
1076	CHRISTIE	I will be ready.	0
1077	CHRISTIE	I will take her on, and when I take her on I guarantee you one thing, she will never get within 10 miles of the White House.	0
1078	CHRISTIE	The days for the Clintons in public housing are over.	0
1079	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1080	BAIER	Much more to come, including where the candidates stand on foreign policy.	0
1081	BAIER	"And, once again, you can go to Google.com, or open your Google search app and search, ""Fox News Debate"" to vote on which candidate you think is winning the debate tonight."	0
1082	BAIER	We'll be right back.	0
1083	SYSTEM	(COMMERCIAL BREAK)	0
1084	KELLY	Welcome back, everybody.	0
1085	KELLY	Let's get back to the questions.	0
1086	KELLY	Chris?	0
1087	WALLACE	Gentlemen, almost 60% of Republican caucus-goers identify themselves as Evangelicals, so I'd like to spend a few minutes exploring social issues.	0
1088	WALLACE	Governor Kasich, you talk a good deal about your faith.	0
1089	WALLACE	In fact, you say it played a role in your decision to expand Medicaid, and you say that when you meet Saint Peter at the Pearly Gates, he's going to ask what you did for the poor, not what you did to keep government small.	0
1090	WALLACE	Senator Cruz is on the opposite side of this issue from you, so does that mean that you're getting in and he isn't?	0
1091	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
1092	KASICH	No.	0
1093	KASICH	You know, Chris, here's what happened with Medicaid in my state.	0
1094	KASICH	We took the growth of Medicaid from over 10 percent in my second budget to 2.5 percent, without cutting off one person or cutting one benefit, because we -- we innovated the government.	0
1095	KASICH	And now mom and dad can stay in their own home, rather than being forced into a nursing home.	0
1096	KASICH	And then we decided we could bring $14 billion of our money -- I mean, Washington doesn't have any money.	0
1097	KASICH	It was our money, and we brought them back to tend to the mentally ill.	0
1098	KASICH	Because I don't think they ought to live in prison or live under a bridge; to treat the drug-addicted so they're not in an in-and-out-of- the-door policy out of the prisons; and to help the working poor so they don't live in emergency rooms.	0
1099	KASICH	How has it worked?	0
1100	KASICH	Well, we have treated the drug-addicted in our prisons and we released them in to the community, and our recidivism rate is less than 20 percent.	1
1101	KASICH	That's basically bordering on a miracle because of our great prison director.	0
1102	KASICH	The mentally ill?	0
1103	KASICH	They've been stepped on for too long in this society, and we are beginning to treat them.	0
1104	KASICH	In terms of my faith, look, all I say is that when I study scripture, I know that people who live in the shadows need to have a chance.	0
1105	KASICH	But I'm not deciding that anybody's got to make these decisions the way that I do, on the basis of what I do.	0
1106	KASICH	But what -- I will tell you this.	0
1107	KASICH	The time has come to stop ignoring the mentally ill in this country and begin to treat them and get them on their feet, along with, of course, with treating the drug-addicted.	0
1108	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1109	KASICH	Because we don't want them in and out -- we don't want them in and out of the prisons.	0
1110	KASICH	Give people a chance.	0
1111	KASICH	We talked about criminal justice reform.	0
1112	KASICH	We've enacted it in our state.	0
1113	KASICH	Look, the conservative message is economic growth and along with economic growth goes opportunity for everybody in America.	0
1114	KASICH	Everybody ought to have a chance to be able to rise to their God-given purpose.	0
1115	KASICH	And that is what we have done in Ohio.	0
1116	KASICH	We're running surpluses.	0
1117	KASICH	We're up 400,000 jobs.	0
1118	KASICH	And guess what?	0
1119	KASICH	The formula is working.	0
1120	KASICH	I'd suggest people take a look at it.	0
1121	KASICH	Thank you.	0
1122	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1123	WALLACE	Gentlemen, we had a case study on religious liberty just this last summer.	0
1124	WALLACE	A county clerk in Kentucky named Kim Davis refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the Supreme Court ruling, saying that it violated her religious beliefs.	0
1125	WALLACE	Governor Christie, you said that she must follow the law or be moved to another job that would be in keeping with her conscience.	0
1126	WALLACE	But some conservatives say that that violates her religious liberty.	0
1127	CHRISTIE	No, what I said, Chris, was that the law needs to be followed.	0
1128	CHRISTIE	And that someone in that office has to do their job.	0
1129	CHRISTIE	So if Ms. Davis wanted to step aside and get rid of her ability to be able to do that, there should be someone else in that office who it didn't violate their conscience so they could follow the law of the state of Kentucky.	0
1130	CHRISTIE	I never said that Ms. Davis should either lose her job or that she had to do it.	0
1131	CHRISTIE	But what I did say was that the person who came in for the license needed to get it.	0
1132	CHRISTIE	And so if there's someone in that organization, and it turns out there was, who was willing to be able to do that, that's what we should do.	0
1133	CHRISTIE	But just as importantly, and I agree with what John said.	0
1134	CHRISTIE	You know, we all have our own individual interpretations of our faith.	0
1135	CHRISTIE	And here's the problem with what's going on around the world.	0
1136	CHRISTIE	The radical Islamic jihadists, what they want to do is impose their faith upon each and every one of us -- every one of us.	0
1137	CHRISTIE	And the reason why this war against them is so important is that very basis of religious liberty.	0
1138	CHRISTIE	They want everyone in this country to follow their religious beliefs the way they do.	0
1139	CHRISTIE	They do not want us to exercise religious liberty.	0
1140	CHRISTIE	That's why as commander in chief, I will take on ISIS, not only because it keeps us safe, but because it allows us to absolutely conduct our religious affairs the way we find in our heart and in our souls.	0
1141	CHRISTIE	As a Catholic, that's what I want to do.	0
1142	CHRISTIE	And no matter what your faith is, that's what I want you to be able to do.	0
1143	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1144	WALLACE	Thank you, sir.	0
1145	WALLACE	Senator Rubio, during the last debate, you said Governor Christie had changed his position and his mind on gun control, on common core, and backing President Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.	0
1146	WALLACE	"He said you're wrong on the facts and you can't, quote, ""slime your way to the White House."""	0
1147	WALLACE	I assume in the last two weeks, you've done some fact-checking.	0
1148	WALLACE	Do you want to take anything back?	0
1149	RUBIO	Yeah, I would encourage people to go on my website, marcorubio.com, and we'll put all the facts up there so people can see it for themselves.	0
1150	RUBIO	But you've just asked a very fundamental question about the role of faith in our country.	0
1151	RUBIO	And I think this is an important question.	0
1152	RUBIO	I think if you do not understand that our Judeo-Christian values are one of the reasons why America is such a special country, you don't understand our history.	0
1153	RUBIO	You see, why are we one of the most generous people in the world -- no, the most generous people in the world?	0
1154	RUBIO	Why do Americans contribute millions of dollars to charity?	0
1155	RUBIO	It is not because of the tax writeoff.	0
1156	RUBIO	It is because in this nation, we are influenced by Judeo-Christian values that teach us to care for the less fortunate, to reach out to the needy, to love our neighbor.	0
1157	RUBIO	This is what's made our nation so special.	0
1158	RUBIO	And you should hope that our next president is someone that is influence by their faith.	0
1159	RUBIO	Because if your faith causes you to care for the less fortunate, it is something you want to see in your public figures.	0
1160	RUBIO	And when I'm president, I can tell you this, my faith will not just influence the way I'll govern as president, it will influence the way I live my life.	0
1161	RUBIO	Because in the end, my goal is not simply to live on this earth for 80 years, but to live an eternity with my creator.	0
1162	RUBIO	And I will always allow my faith to influence everything I do.	0
1163	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1164	WALLACE	Thank you, senator.	0
1165	WALLACE	Senator Paul, in May on the campaign trail you, said you didn't get into politics to fight about abortion.	0
1166	WALLACE	You said you were more concerned about the national debt.	0
1167	WALLACE	Your answer is to turn abortion back to the states the way it was before Roe v. Wade.	0
1168	WALLACE	Does that mean that if a liberal state, let's say, wants to make abortion legal, that you're okay with that and what do you say to conservative voters who believe deeply that abortion is murder?	0
1169	PAUL	You know, I think abortion is always wrong.	0
1170	PAUL	I've supported a variety of solutions, both state as well as federal.	0
1171	PAUL	In fact, just last week, I introduced the Life at Conception act, which would say that the 14th amendment would defend an individual even in the womb.	0
1172	PAUL	But I think on the broader question of religion and politics, you know, I think liberty, itself requires a virtue -- requires a virtuous people.	0
1173	PAUL	In fact, Washington said that democracy requires a virtuous people.	0
1174	PAUL	Oz Guinness, the theologian, said that liberty requires restraint but the only restraint consistent with liberty is self-restraint.	0
1175	PAUL	There's a lot packed into that statement.	0
1176	PAUL	But the bottom line is we must have virtue, we must have a religious bearing as a nation.	0
1177	PAUL	The government is not always going to save us and it's not always going to come from government.	0
1178	PAUL	But if we don't know right and wrong, I think we have lost our way.	0
1179	PAUL	I think we become unmoored and I think without the religious foundation that guides us all, I think we have a great risk of going horribly in the wrong direction.	0
1180	WALLLACE	Sir, just 30 seconds to answer my specific...	0
1181	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1182	WALLACE	Just 30 seconds to answer my specific question.	0
1183	WALLACE	Do you favor the idea that abortion should be a states' rights issue and if a liberal state wants to make it legal, that that's their choice?	0
1184	WALLACE	Yes or no?	0
1185	PAUL	Both.	0
1186	PAUL	No, both the federal and a state approach.	0
1187	PAUL	I have said that we could leave it to the states but I've also introduced a federal solution as well.	0
1188	PAUL	So the federal solution would be the Life at Conception act which is an act that would federalize the issue.	0
1189	PAUL	But I've also said for the most part, these issues would be left back to the states.	0
1190	PAUL	So there might be an occasion if we did overturn Roe v. Wade -- Roe v. Wade nationalized the issue.	0
1191	PAUL	If you had the court reverse Roe v. Wade, it would become a state issue once again.	0
1192	PAUL	I think it would be better the more -- the less abortions we have, so the more states that we have that made abortion illegal, the better, as far as trying to save and preserve lives.	0
1193	WALLACE	Thank you, sir.	0
1194	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1195	BAIER	Gentlemen.	0
1196	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1197	BAIER	I'd like to ask you a few questions about foreign policy broadly.	0
1198	BAIER	Dr. Carson, many experts believe Russian leader Vladimir Putin has greater ideas, bigger designs for the region beyond Russia's actions inside Ukraine.	0
1199	BAIER	Fast forward to February 2017 and it is President Carson, and Russian uniformed commandos cross the Estonian border and they occupy a city in Estonia.	0
1200	BAIER	Estonia, a member of NATO, essentially invokes Article V, an attack on one is an attack on all.	0
1201	BAIER	What do you do?	0
1202	CARSON	Look, first of all, I recognize that Vladimir Putin is an opportunist and he's a bully, and we have to face him down.	0
1203	CARSON	And I would -- first of all, face him down in that whole region, the whole Baltic region.	0
1204	CARSON	I think we need to put in some armored brigades there.	0
1205	CARSON	We only have one or two.	0
1206	CARSON	We need much more than that.	0
1207	CARSON	We need to be doing military exercises if not only Estonia but Latvia and Lithuania.	0
1208	CARSON	They're terrified by the saber rattling.	0
1209	CARSON	I think we ought to put in our missile defense system.	0
1210	CARSON	I think we ought to give Ukraine offensive weapons and I think we ought to fight them on the economic basis because Putin is a one- horse country oil and energy.	0
1211	CARSON	And we ought to fight them on that level.	0
1212	CARSON	We ought to be helping in terms of the technology for fracking, keeping the price low, quite frankly, because that's what's keeping him contained.	0
1213	CARSON	So, yes, I'd absolutely would go in if he attacked.	0
1214	CARSON	I think on Article V of NATO, we would definitely protect all of our allies.	0
1215	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1216	BAIER	Gentlemen, you've all said that the Iran nuclear deal is a bad one.	0
1217	BAIER	Senator Rubio, you were among the candidates who've said you would tear it up on day one.	0
1218	BAIER	But as you know, Iran has already received tens of millions of dollars -- tens of billions of dollars in this deal and has quickly reestablished ties economically with Europe.	0
1219	BAIER	The major concessions, in other words, are up front in this deal.	0
1220	BAIER	So should you win by the time you take office, the remaining parts of the deal would be the constraints on Iran.	0
1221	BAIER	So why blow up those constraints on day one, letting Iran off the hook?	0
1222	RUBIO	Well, let me first describe Iran because they're not just a normal nation state.	0
1223	RUBIO	And we have no quarrel with the Iranian people.	0
1224	RUBIO	But the Iranian leader, their supreme leader is a radical Shia cleric who has an apocalyptic vision of the future.	0
1225	RUBIO	He views himself not simply as the leader of Iran, but as the leader of all Muslims -- all Shia Muslims on the planet.	0
1226	RUBIO	And they have a desire not simply to conquer the Middle East and to become the dominant power in that region, but ultimately to be able to hold America hostage.	0
1227	RUBIO	That is why they're building an -- right now, developing long- range missiles capable of reaching the United States, and that is why there's going -- they're going to use those $100 billion to expand their conventional capabilities and to one day buy or build a nuclear weapon.	0
1228	RUBIO	We will -- when I am president of the United States, on my first day in office, we are canceling the deal with Iran, and nations will have to make a choice.	0
1229	RUBIO	They can do business with Iran, or they can do business with America, and I am very confident they're going to choose America before they choose the Iranian economy.	0
1230	BAIER	Governor Kasich, you've said that Marco Rubio is wrong...	0
1231	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1232	BAIER	... that Senator Rubio is wrong with tearing it up on day one.	0
1233	KASICH	Look, we don't know what's going to happen in ten months.	0
1234	KASICH	And if I were president of the United States right now, I'd be lining up our allies to say that, if one crossed T or one dotted I does not occur, they are -- violate the agreement, we slap back on sanctions.	0
1235	KASICH	We can slap on sanctions alone, on day one, but it's not gonna be anywhere near as effective.	0
1236	KASICH	But the president needs to be laying the groundwork right now for the ability to slap those sanctions back on worldwide.	0
1237	KASICH	And I'll tell you what I'm worried about -- I'm worried about money.	0
1238	KASICH	You read about all the companies now that are doing business -- about to do business in Iran, and if we don't get this settled now, with other countries in the world, about sanctions, then Iran could violate that agreement, and we're the only ones putting the sanctions on.	0
1239	KASICH	We need to move aggressively now.	0
1240	KASICH	But I would say this to you, Bret.	0
1241	KASICH	Number one, if they violate it, we need to move against them.	0
1242	KASICH	And number two, if we find out they're developing a nuclear weapon and we know how to get to it, we're gonna go take it out.	0
1243	KASICH	That is what we have to do.	0
1244	KASICH	We cannot let things get farther down the road, like we did with North Korea.	0
1245	BAIER	But Governor Kasich, you know that the most powerful sanctions are the multilateral ones.	0
1246	KASICH	That's right.	0
1247	KASICH	Yes.	0
1248	BAIER	And these European countries are already reestablishing these ties.	0
1249	KASICH	I know, Bret.	0
1250	BAIER	They don't want...	0
1251	KASICH	But Bret, here's the problem.	0
1252	KASICH	You take a look at the -- at Belgium.	0
1253	KASICH	I talked to a diplomat from Belgium.	0
1254	KASICH	"I said, ""how's it going?"""	0
1255	KASICH	"He said, ""we have the military in the streets right now. We never dreamt we'd ever see it."""	0
1256	KASICH	See, I think there is an opportunity to bring the world together.	0
1257	KASICH	The Turks are being threatened.	0
1258	KASICH	We know about the French.	0
1259	KASICH	We know about the Belgians.	0
1260	KASICH	We know about the Brits.	0
1261	KASICH	Everybody is under fire and under attack, and we have to stand together as an alliance.	0
1262	KASICH	So actually, the opportunity is there, because of the threat to all of these countries, to bring all of us together...	0
1263	SYSTEM	(BELL RINGS)	0
1264	KASICH	... and say there is something more important than money.	0
1265	KASICH	It is the future of the world and the future of our children and grandchildren.	0
1266	KASICH	That's the kind of leadership this country needs.	0
1267	KASICH	It has not been in effect during the administration of Barack Obama.	0
1268	KASICH	And that's only the beginning of the failures that they have committed, not only in the Middle East, but all over the world, including Russia and China.	0
1269	BAIER	Governor, thank you.	0
1270	BAIER	Governor Christie...	0
1271	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1272	BAIER	... Libya is the newest base for ISIS.	0
1273	BAIER	Just today, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said ISIS is consolidating their footprint there and also setting up training facilities.	0
1274	BAIER	So if you were president, would you deploy U.S. troops to Libya to take out ISIS there?	0
1275	CHRISTIE	Bret, let me tell you, this is another one of those places where Hillary Clinton has so much to answer for, and why she is completely unqualified to be commander in chief.	0
1276	CHRISTIE	"In a previous Democratic debate, Martha Raddatz, three times, asked Hillary Clinton about the failure in Libya, a policy that she took credit for, and said, ""what is your measure of responsibility, Madam Secretary, for the failure in Libya?"""	0
1277	CHRISTIE	Three times, she refused to answer the question, because she refuses to be held accountable for anything that goes wrong.	0
1278	CHRISTIE	If it had gone right, believe me, she would have been running around to be able to take credit for it.	0
1279	CHRISTIE	Here's what I'd do.	0
1280	CHRISTIE	This is about the bigger, broader war against ISIS.	0
1281	CHRISTIE	We need to bring together our European and our Sunni Arab allies, and we need to develop a strategy together to take on ISIS every place that it is around the world, so that together, all of us can take ISIS out, destroy it, and then move on to come back to our country, protect our homeland security and make sure that the American people are safe.	0
1282	CHRISTIE	As president of the United States, that is exactly what I will do.	0
1283	BAIER	Thank you, Governor.	0
1284	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1285	WALLACE	We're not finished yet.	0
1286	WALLACE	More to come from the presidential debate, live from Des Moines, Iowa, next.	0
1287	WALLACE	And remember, to see how the campaigns are responding to the debate in real time, go to google.com or open your Google search app and search Fox News debate, and please stay with us.	0
1288	SYSTEM	(COMMERCIAL BREAK)	0
1289	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1290	BAIER	Welcome back to Des Moines.	0
1291	BAIER	Let's resume the debate.	0
1292	BAIER	Megyn?	0
1293	KELLY	Senator Paul, you have suggested that former President Bill Clinton's history with women is fair game in this campaign.	0
1294	KELLY	How do you answer those who say you don't hold the sins of the husband against the wife?	0
1295	PAUL	You know, I've never really brought this up unless asked the question, but I have responded to the question.	0
1296	PAUL	I don't blame Hillary Clinton at all for this.	0
1297	PAUL	I don't think she's responsible for his behavior.	0
1298	PAUL	But I do think that her position as promoting women's rights and fairness to women in the workplace, that if what Bill Clinton did any CEO in our country did with an intern, with a 22-year- old, 21-year-old intern in their office, they would be fired.	0
1299	PAUL	They would never be hired again.	0
1300	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1301	PAUL	Fired, never hired again and probably shunned in their community.	0
1302	PAUL	And the thing is, she can't be a champion of women's rights at the same time she's got this that is always lurking out there, this type of behavior.	0
1303	PAUL	So it is difficult.	0
1304	KELLY	Of her husband's?	0
1305	PAUL	Yeah.	0
1306	PAUL	But I combine this also with the millions upon millions of dollars they've taken from regimes in the Middle East who treat women like cattle.	0
1307	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1308	WALLACE	We have another question from one of Youtube's top creators.	0
1309	WALLACE	Here it is.	0
1310	QUESTION	I'm Nabela Noor.	0
1311	QUESTION	I'm a Muslim American born and raised in the U.S. who creates beauty and lifestyle videos on Youtube.	0
1312	QUESTION	In 2015, the number of hate crimes against Muslims in the U.S. has tripled, and on social media, where I spend a lot of time, I've seen many attacks directed towards fellow Muslims.	0
1313	QUESTION	This culture of hatred is only driving ISIS to radicalize, recruit and incite violence.	0
1314	QUESTION	As president, what would you do to address this toxic climate and promote increased tolerance in the United States?	0
1315	WALLACE	Governor Bush, how do you answer Nabela?	0
1316	BUSH	Well first of all, I think it's important that when we're running for the highest office in the land that we recognize that we're living in dangerous times and we have to be serious about it, that our words have consequences.	0
1317	BUSH	Donald Trump, for example -- I'm glad -- I mentioned his name again just if anybody was missing him...	0
1318	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
1319	BUSH	... Mr. Trump believed that in reaction to people's fears that we should ban all Muslims.	0
1320	BUSH	Well, that creates an environment that's toxic in our own country.	0
1321	BUSH	Nobela (ph) is a rising entrepreneur.	0
1322	BUSH	She wants to pursue the American dream.	0
1323	BUSH	She's an American citizen.	0
1324	BUSH	She should not feel uncomfortable about her citizenship.	0
1325	BUSH	She's not the threat.	0
1326	BUSH	The threat is Islamic terrorism.	0
1327	BUSH	We need to focus our energies there, not these broad, blanket, kind of statements that will make it harder for us to deal with ISIS.	0
1328	BUSH	We need to deal with ISIS in the caliphate.	0
1329	BUSH	We need a strategy to destroy ISIS there.	0
1330	BUSH	You can't do that without the cooperation of the Muslim world because they're as threatened as we are.	0
1331	BUSH	So, I think it's important for us to be careful about the language we use, which is why I've been critical of Donald Trump.	0
1332	BUSH	Disparaging women, disparaging hispanics, that's not a sign of strength.	0
1333	BUSH	Making fun of disabled people...	0
1334	SYSTEM	(BELL RINGING)	0
1335	BUSH	... We're never going to win elections if we don't have a more broader unifying message.	0
1336	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1337	WALLACE	Governor, thank you.	0
1338	WALLACE	Senator Cruz, change of subject.	0
1339	WALLACE	You called for an end to the renewable fuel standards which mandate that refineries blend biofuels, including ethanol into gasoline.	0
1340	WALLACE	As you well know, ethanol's a big industry in this state, $10 billion dollars a year.	0
1341	WALLACE	Last week, Terry Branstad, the popular Governor of Iowa...	0
1342	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1343	WALLACE	... Who is in the hall tonight, said that you're bankrolled by big oil, and that Iowa voters would be making a mistake supporting you.	0
1344	WALLACE	Why should those voters side with you over the six- term governor of the state, sir?	0
1345	CRUZ	Well, Chris, I'm glad to discuss my views on ethanol and energy.	0
1346	CRUZ	I think God has blessed this country with enormous natural resources, and we should pursue all of the above.	0
1347	CRUZ	We should be developing oil, and gas, and coal, and nuclear, and wind, and solar, and ethanol, and biofuels.	0
1348	CRUZ	But, I don't believe that Washington should be picking winners and losers.	0
1349	CRUZ	And, I think there should be no mandates, and no subsidies whatsoever.	0
1350	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1351	CRUZ	And, indeed, my tax plan that I've introduced, it's available on our website.	0
1352	CRUZ	It's a simple flat tax for everyone.	0
1353	CRUZ	It'll produce enormous economic growth, and it eliminates every mandate, every subsidy, so there's no subsidies for oil and gas, no subsidies for anyone.	0
1354	CRUZ	Now, it is true that there are a bunch of lobbyists, and a bunch of Democrats in this state spending millions of dollars trying to convince the people of Iowa that I somehow oppose ethanol.	0
1355	CRUZ	It's not true.	0
1356	CRUZ	I have introduced legislation that would phase out the ethanol mandate over five years, but that is in the context of having no mandates whatsoever for anyone.	0
1357	CRUZ	And, I would not that there's a much more important government regulation to ethanol, and that's the EPA's blend wall that makes it illegal to sell mid-level blends of ethanol in gasoline.	0
1358	CRUZ	I will...	0
1359	SYSTEM	(BELL RINGING)	0
1360	CRUZ	Tear down the EPA's blend wall which will enable ethanol to expand its market share by up to 60%, all without mandates.	0
1361	CRUZ	All without any government mandates whatsoever through the marketplace.	0
1362	CRUZ	And, I'll note finally, Chris, there is a reason that Iowa's Congressman Steve King, perhaps the fiercest defender of farmers in this state, is sharing my campaign.	0
1363	CRUZ	Because he understands that I'm committed to a fair, and level playing field for every energy source without lobbyists, and without Washington picking winners and losers.	0
1364	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1365	WALLACE	Dr. Carson, I'd like to ask you about exactly that issue.	0
1366	WALLACE	Where are you on the mandatory ethanol standard, and precisely this question.	0
1367	WALLACE	Should government be in the business of picking winners and losers, or should it be left to the market place?	0
1368	CARSON	Well, as anyone knows who's been listening to me, you know?	0
1369	CARSON	I'm very much against the government being involved in every aspect of our lives, you know?	0
1370	CARSON	We last year there was an additional 81,000 pages of government regulations.	0
1371	CARSON	If you stack that up it would be a three-story building.	0
1372	CARSON	This is absolutely absurd.	0
1373	CARSON	And, they've insinuated themselves into everything.	0
1374	CARSON	Now, as far as the renewable fuel standard is concerned, certain promises were made, certain government contracts were issued which extend all the way into the year 2022, and I believe that it's probably unfair to withdraw the rug because people have invested money.	0
1375	CARSON	People have invested a lot of energy into that.	0
1376	CARSON	But, you know, we are blessed with tremendous energy in this nation, and we need to be looking for new sources of energy.	0
1377	CARSON	Seventy percent of our population lives bi-coastally).	0
1378	CARSON	What about hydroelectric power?	0
1379	CARSON	We can develop that, you know?	0
1380	CARSON	We have so much natural gas now, and we can liquify it, and we can transfer it across the sea so we can make Europe dependent on us instead of Putin -- put him back in his little box where he belongs.	0
1381	CARSON	Those are the kinds of things that we ought to be doing.	0
1382	CARSON	And, you know, take advantage of the tremendous opportunities in energy that God has given us, not get involved in these little petty arguments.	0
1383	CARSON	And we can get a lot of them out if we get the government out of our lives.	0
1384	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1385	WALLACE	Doctor, thank you.	0
1386	BAIER	Coming up, closing statements from the candidates as our debate continues, live, from Des Moines, Iowa.	0
1387	SYSTEM	(COMMERCIAL BREAK)	0
1388	KELLY	Welcome back, everybody.	0
1389	KELLY	And now, it is time for closing statements.	0
1390	KELLY	The candidates each get 30 seconds.	0
1391	KELLY	And we begin with Kentucky Senator Rand Paul.	0
1392	PAUL	Well, thanks for having me.	0
1393	PAUL	It's great to be back.	0
1394	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1395	PAUL	I'm an eye surgeon from Bowling Green, Kentucky, I miss doing eye surgery, still get to do a little bit.	0
1396	PAUL	Did a couple of cataract surgeries over Christmas holidays.	0
1397	PAUL	Got to go to Haiti last year.	0
1398	PAUL	I've gotten to do some incredible things.	0
1399	PAUL	Got to be on the floor of the Senate.	0
1400	PAUL	And it has been amazing to me.	0
1401	PAUL	But the thing that is most important to me and caused me to run for office is I'm worried about the country and how much debt we're adding.	0
1402	PAUL	And I am the one true fiscal conservative who will look at all spending.	0
1403	PAUL	And that's the only way we'll ever balance our budget.	0
1404	PAUL	Thank you.	0
1405	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1406	KELLY	Ohio Governor Kasich.	0
1407	KASICH	You know, one of our biggest national security issues is the world looks at us some time, and we look at each other and say, why can't we solve problems?	0
1408	KASICH	Well, I've got news for you, we can.	0
1409	KASICH	We can in fact create jobs and provide job security.	0
1410	KASICH	We can create a situation where wages begin to rise.	0
1411	KASICH	We can create a situation for our children to be able to get a decent job to pay down their college debt.	0
1412	KASICH	We can re-assume our role in the world.	0
1413	KASICH	But all of this has to come together when we have a positive attitude, an optimistic approach, an ability for us to set the tune as conservatives, to invite other people in to be part of that orchestra.	0
1414	KASICH	You see, ladies and gentlemen, at the end of the day, I'm an optimist	0
1415	SYSTEM	(BELL RINGS)	0
1416	KASICH	Because I've seen so many things get accomplished in my lifetime.	0
1417	KASICH	And we can do it again together, all of us, to strengthen this country, work together.	0
1418	KASICH	Thank you.	0
1419	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1420	BAIER	New Jersey governor, Chris Christie.	0
1421	CHRISTIE	On September 11, my wife was two blocks from the World Trade Center.	0
1422	CHRISTIE	When those buildings came down, she was trapped in her building and I didn't hear from her over six hours.	0
1423	CHRISTIE	We have three children, eight, five and one.	0
1424	CHRISTIE	And I had to confront the possibility of being a single parent.	0
1425	CHRISTIE	Terrorism in this country scares everyone.	0
1426	CHRISTIE	And the fact is that we need a commander-in- chief who not only understands how to protect us, but feels in here what it means to face the possibility of loss.	0
1427	CHRISTIE	I've faced it.	0
1428	CHRISTIE	I've prosecuted terrorists.	0
1429	CHRISTIE	I have made the decisions that need to be made as a governor to protect us and as president of the United States, no one will keep this country safer than I will.	0
1430	BAIER	Thank you governor.	0
1431	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1432	KELLY	Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.	0
1433	KELLY	Governor.	0
1434	BUSH	We desperately need a conservative leader as president of the United States.	0
1435	BUSH	I have a proven record as governor of the state of Florida, as a conservative leader.	0
1436	BUSH	And I also have detailed plans to fix the mess in Washington, D.C.	0
1437	BUSH	As president I will restore and rebuild our military, restore the alliances and keep us safe.	0
1438	BUSH	And as our party's nominee, I will defeat Hillary Clinton in November.	0
1439	BUSH	I ask for your support on the caucuses come Monday night and I will make you proud as our party's nominee.	0
1440	BUSH	Thank you very much.	0
1441	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1442	WALLACE	Dr. Ben Carson.	0
1443	CARSON	I want to thank the people of Iowa for being so welcoming to me.	0
1444	CARSON	Please think of our founding fathers as you listen.	0
1445	CARSON	We the people of the United States in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the benefits of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution of the United States of America.	0
1446	CARSON	Folks, it's not too late.	0
1447	CARSON	Enough said.	0
1448	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1449	BAIER	Florida Senator Marco Rubio.	0
1450	RUBIO	The bible commands us to let our light shine on the world.	0
1451	RUBIO	For over 200 years, America's light has been shining on the world and the world has never been the same again.	0
1452	RUBIO	But now, that light is dimming a little, after seven years of Barack Obama.	0
1453	RUBIO	And that's why Monday night, what will happen here in Iowa is so important.	0
1454	RUBIO	I'm asking you for your vote.	0
1455	RUBIO	Caucus for me on Monday night because if I am your nominee, I will unite this party and I will defeat Hillary Clinton and when I'm president, America's light will shine again and the 21 century will be a new American century.	0
1456	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1457	BAIER	Thank you senator.	0
1458	KELLY	Texas Senator, Ted Cruz.	0
1459	KELLY	Senator.	0
1460	CRUZ	Ninety-three hours.	0
1461	CRUZ	The media noise will soon be over and it's now for the men and women of Iowa to decide.	0
1462	CRUZ	Our country is in crisis.	0
1463	CRUZ	We're worried the future of our children and we've have been burned over and over again.	0
1464	CRUZ	The central question in this race is trust.	0
1465	CRUZ	Who do you know will kill the terrorists, defend the constitution and repeal Obamacare?	0
1466	CRUZ	Who do you know will stop amnesty and secure the borders?	0
1467	CRUZ	Who do you know will defend life, marriage and religious liberty?	0
1468	CRUZ	Examine our records, pray on it and I will be honored if you and your family will come caucus for us on Monday night.	0
1469	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1470	KELLY	Gentlemen, thank you all so much for being here tonight.	0
1471	KELLY	We appreciate it greatly.	0
1472	KELLY	And that does it for the seventh Republican primary debate of the 2016 presidential race.	0
1473	KELLY	But we're not done.	0
1474	KELLY	The Kelly file starts in a moment and guess who is going to be there?	0
1475	KELLY	Senator Ted Cruz.	0
1476	WALLACE	And don't forget, after all the talk, the first voting of the 2016 campaign happens in just four days.	0
1477	WALLACE	The first Americans to vote, the Iowa caucuses are Monday and Fox News will have complete coverage.	0
1478	BAIER	And we have you covered from Iowa, all the way to the conventions and on to the general election.	0
1479	BAIER	Thanks again for joining us.	0
1480	BAIER	For all of us here in Des Moines, have a great evening.	0
1	TAPPER	Live from the Bank United Center on the campus of the University of Miami, this is the CNN Republican Presidential debate.	0
2	TAPPER	For our viewers in the United States and around the world, welcome to Miami Florida, I'm Jake Tapper.	0
3	TAPPER	In just five days voters will go to the polls here in this state as well as in Ohio, Illinois, North Carolina and Missouri.	0
4	TAPPER	The race for the Republican nomination for president could change dramatically.	0
5	TAPPER	Florida and Ohio each have a large number of delegates at stake and they award all of them to the candidate who wins.	0
6	TAPPER	They're a winner-take-all state.	0
7	TAPPER	So that's the first time that will happen in this primary season and this is the last debate before that critical round of voting.	0
8	TAPPER	We hope tonight the candidates will give the voters specifics on their visions for America.	0
9	TAPPER	So now let's welcome the candidates.	0
10	TAPPER	Ohio Governor John Kasich.	0
11	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
12	TAPPER	Senator Ted Cruz of Texas.	0
13	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
14	TAPPER	Real estate developer and businessman Donald Trump.	0
15	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
16	TAPPER	Senator Marco Rubio of Florida.	0
17	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
18	TAPPER	Ladies and gentlemen, the Republican candidates for president of the United States.	0
19	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
20	TAPPER	Before we begin this evening, we want to remember former first lady Nancy Reagan, who passed away this week.	0
21	TAPPER	Her funeral will be held tomorrow and we would like to take a moment of silence to remember Nancy Reagan.	0
22	SYSTEM	(MOMENT OF SILENCE)	0
23	TAPPER	Now, please rise for our national anthem performed by the Frost Singers from the University of Miami.	0
24	TAPPER	(STAR SPANGLED BANNER)	0
25	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
26	TAPPER	Thanks to the Frost Singers from the University of Miami.	0
27	TAPPER	Candidates, you can now take your positions behind the podiums while I briefly explain the rules.	0
28	TAPPER	As moderator, I will attempt to guide the discussion, asking questions and followups.	0
29	TAPPER	Joining me in the questioning this evening will be Washington Times reporter Stephen Dinan, CNN Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash, and Salem Radio's Hugh Hewitt.	0
30	TAPPER	Candidates, you have one minute and 15 seconds to answer each question, and 45 seconds to respond to followups or for rebuttals if your name is invoked.	0
31	TAPPER	That's longer than you've had in previous debates.	0
32	TAPPER	Timing lights will be visible.	0
33	TAPPER	Those lights will warn you when time is up.	0
34	TAPPER	And as you requested, a bell will also sound, like this.	0
35	SYSTEM	(BELL SOUND)	0
36	TAPPER	We know that each of you wants to debate these important issues, but please wait until you are called upon and please do not talk over one another.	0
37	TAPPER	These are the rules to which all of you agreed.	0
38	TAPPER	Our goal this evening is a serious debate on the issues.	0
39	TAPPER	It's time now for opening statements.	0
40	TAPPER	You'll each have 30 seconds.	0
41	TAPPER	Governor Kasich, we will start with you.	0
42	KASICH	Well, thank you.	0
43	KASICH	You know, I look in the faces of people all across this country, and I know they want to be hopeful.	0
44	KASICH	And many are hopeful.	0
45	KASICH	Look, I can take conservative policies to the White House, to Washington, to restore the strength of our economy.	0
46	KASICH	But I also want to transfer power, money and influence to where you live, because I believe the strength in this country rests in the neighborhoods, the families, the communities and our states.	0
47	KASICH	And I believe it's a new partnership - a partnership that can allow us to restore the spirit of America and strengthen America for the best century we've ever had.	0
48	KASICH	Thank you.	0
49	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
50	TAPPER	Senator Rubio?	0
51	RUBIO	Every election is important.	0
52	RUBIO	I believe this is the most important election in a generation.	0
53	RUBIO	Because what's at stake in this election is not simply what party is going to be in charge or which candidate wins.	0
54	RUBIO	What's at stake is our identity as a nation and as a people.	0
55	RUBIO	For over two centuries, America has been an exceptional nation.	0
56	RUBIO	And now the time has come for this generation to do what it must do to keep it that way.	0
57	RUBIO	If we make the right choice in this election, our children are going to be the freest and most prosperous Americans that have ever lived.	0
58	RUBIO	And the 21st century is going to be a new American century.	0
59	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
60	TAPPER	Senator Cruz?	0
61	CRUZ	Fifty-nine years ago, Florida welcomed my father to America as he stepped off the ferry boat from Cuba onto Key West.	0
62	CRUZ	He was 18.	0
63	CRUZ	He was filled with hopes and dreams, and yet he was in the freest land on the face of the earth.	0
64	CRUZ	This election, this debate is not about insults.	0
65	CRUZ	It's not about attacks.	0
66	CRUZ	It's not about any of the individuals on this stage.	0
67	CRUZ	This election is about you and your children.	0
68	CRUZ	It's about the freedom America has always had and making sure that that freedom is there for the next generation, that we stop Washington from standing in the way of the hard-working taxpayers of America.	0
69	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
70	TAPPER	Mr. Trump?	0
71	TRUMP	One of the biggest political events anywhere in the world is happening right now with the Republican Party.	0
72	TRUMP	Millions and millions of people are going out to the polls and they're voting.	0
73	TRUMP	They're voting out of enthusiasm.	0
74	TRUMP	They're voting out of love.	0
75	TRUMP	Some of these people, frankly, have never voted before - 50 years old, 60 years old, 70 years old - never voted before.	0
76	TRUMP	We're taking people from the Democrat Party.	0
77	TRUMP	We're taking people as independents, and they're all coming out and the whole world is talking about it.	0
78	TRUMP	It's very exciting.	0
79	TRUMP	I think, frankly, the Republican establishment, or whatever you want to call it, should embrace what's happening.	0
80	TRUMP	We're having millions of extra people join.	0
81	TRUMP	We are going to beat the Democrats.	0
82	TRUMP	We are going to beat Hillary or whoever it may be.	0
83	TRUMP	And we're going to beat them soundly.	0
84	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
85	TAPPER	Thank you.	0
86	TAPPER	Thank you.	0
87	TAPPER	Let's begin with jobs and the economy, which Republican voters say is the most important issue to them in this election.	0
88	TAPPER	There have been some real differences expressed in - on this stage on whether trade deals have been good for the American workers.	0
89	TAPPER	"One of Mr. Trump's, the front runner's, signature issues is ending what he calls ""disastrous trade deals"" in order to bring jobs back to America."	0
90	TAPPER	Governor Kasich, I'd like to start with you.	0
91	TAPPER	You've been a strong advocate for these trade deals over the years.	0
92	TAPPER	Critics say these deals are great for corporate America's bottom line, but have cost the U.S. at least 1 million jobs.	0
93	TAPPER	How do you respond to the criticism that you've been catering to board rooms at the expense of the American middle class?	0
94	KASICH	Well, Jake, I grew up in a blue collar family.	0
95	KASICH	And the simple fact of the matter is that of course we're sensitive about trade.	0
96	KASICH	One out of five Americans works in a job connected to trade; 38 million Americans are connected to it.	0
97	KASICH	But my position has always been we want to have free trade, but fair trade.	0
98	KASICH	"And I've been arguing all along that it is absolutely critical that when other countries break those agreements, we don't turn the process over to some international bureaucrat who comes back a couple years later and says, ""Oh, America was right,"" and people are out of work."	0
99	KASICH	The fact of the matter is we have to have an expedited process.	0
100	KASICH	When people cheat, when countries cheat and they take advantage of us, we need to blow the whistle.	0
101	KASICH	And as president of the United States, I absolutely will blow the whistle and begin to stand up for the American worker.	0
102	KASICH	But we don't want to lock the doors and pull down the blinds and leave the world.	0
103	KASICH	Because frankly, if we do that, prices will go up.	0
104	KASICH	People will buy less.	0
105	KASICH	Other people will be out of work.	0
106	KASICH	And we don't want to see that happen.	0
107	KASICH	Trade, though, has to be balanced and we have to make sure that when we see a violation, like some country dumping their products into this country, believe me as president, I will stand up and I will shut down those imports because they're a violation of the agreement we have and the American worker expects us to stand up.	0
108	KASICH	And Jake, my family worked in the steel industry, not with a white collar.	0
109	KASICH	I understand their plight.	0
110	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
111	TAPPER	Mr. Trump, your critics say your campaign platform is inconsistent with how you run your businesses, noting that you've brought in foreign workers instead of hiring Americans, and your companies manufacture clothing in China and Mexico.	0
112	TAPPER	Why should voters trust that you will run the country differently from how you run your businesses?	0
113	TRUMP	Because nobody knows the system better than me.	0
114	TRUMP	I know the H1B.	0
115	TRUMP	I know the H2B.	0
116	TRUMP	Nobody knows it better than me.	0
117	TRUMP	I'm a businessman.	0
118	TRUMP	These are laws.	0
119	TRUMP	These are regulations.	0
120	TRUMP	These are rules.	0
121	TRUMP	We're allowed to do it.	0
122	TRUMP	And frankly, because of the devaluations that other countries - the monetary devaluations that other countries are constantly doing and brilliantly doing against us, it's very, very hard for our companies in this country, in our country, to compete.	0
123	TRUMP	So I will take advantage of it; they're the laws.	0
124	TRUMP	But I'm the one that knows how to change it.	0
125	TRUMP	Nobody else on this dais knows how to change it like I do, believe me.	0
126	TAPPER	"Senator Rubio, last October, you said that you're, quote, ""generally very much in favor of free trade."""	0
127	TAPPER	More recently, you backed a away from your support of some trade deals.	0
128	TAPPER	If elected, will you support free trade deals even if it means the inevitable loss of U.S. jobs?	0
129	RUBIO	No, I support free trade deals that are good for America.	0
130	RUBIO	We're 5 percent of the world's population.	0
131	RUBIO	If all we do is sell things to each other, we can only sell to 5 percent of the people on earth.	0
132	RUBIO	We have to have access to the hundreds of millions of people in the world today who can afford to buy things.	0
133	RUBIO	The problem is we're a low-tariff country.	0
134	RUBIO	To import something into the United States is not very expensive, but many of these countries we can't export to because their tariffs are too high.	0
135	RUBIO	And so I am in favor of deals that allow us to bring down those tariffs so that America can sell things to all these people around the world.	0
136	RUBIO	There are good trade deals and there are bad ones.	0
137	RUBIO	So for example, here in Florida, we have benefited from the free trade deal with Colombia.	0
138	RUBIO	It's allowed flower exporters to come into the United States but it's created jobs for hundreds of people who are now delivering those flowers and working in that industry.	0
139	RUBIO	We have a surplus with Colombia.	0
140	RUBIO	On the other hand, you've seen trade deals like in Mexico that have been less than promising in some aspects, better in others.	0
141	RUBIO	Bottom line is I believe that America, if given access to foreign markets, our workers are the most productive in the world, our people are the most innovative on this planet.	0
142	RUBIO	If it is a free and fair trade deal, we can compete against anyone in the world, and we need to in the 21st century.	0
143	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
144	TAPPER	Senator Cruz, you were a supporter of the Pacific trade deal, but after taking some heat from conservatives, you changed your position.	0
145	TAPPER	Why should these voters who don't like these trade deals trust that you will fight for them all the time and not just in election years?	0
146	CRUZ	Actually that's incorrect.	0
147	CRUZ	There are two different agreements.	0
148	CRUZ	There's TPA and TPP.	0
149	CRUZ	I opposed TPP and have always opposed TPP, which is what you asked about.	0
150	CRUZ	And when it comes to trade, look, free trade, when we open up foreign markets, helps Americans.	0
151	CRUZ	But we're getting killed in international trade right now.	0
152	CRUZ	And we're getting killed because we have an administration that's doesn't look out for American workers and jobs are going overseas.	0
153	CRUZ	We're driving jobs overseas.	0
154	CRUZ	And the people who are losing out are in manufacturing jobs, or the steel industry or the auto industry.	0
155	CRUZ	But I'll tell you who else is going to be losing out, which is the service industry.	0
156	CRUZ	This Obama administration is negotiating the Trade in Services Agreement which is another treaty to allow services to come in and take jobs from Americans as well.	0
157	CRUZ	And you've got to understand.	0
158	CRUZ	Trade and immigration are interwoven, and they are hurting the working men and women of this country.	0
159	CRUZ	So the question is, what's the solution?	0
160	CRUZ	It's easy to talk about the problems.	0
161	CRUZ	But do you have a solution to fix it?	0
162	CRUZ	And I think the solution is several things.	0
163	CRUZ	Number one, we need to negotiate trade deals protecting American workers first, not the corporate board room.	0
164	CRUZ	Number two, we need to lift the regulations on American businesses here so we see jobs coming back.	0
165	CRUZ	And number three, we need a tax plan like the tax plan I've introduced that will not tax exports and that will tax imports, and that will bring millions of high-paying jobs back to America.	0
166	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
167	TAPPER	Let's talk more about how American jobs are impacted by foreign workers.	0
168	TAPPER	Let's go to Stephen Dinan of the Washington Times.	0
169	TAPPER	Stephen.	0
170	DINAN	Senator Rubio in late 2014, Disney laid off 250 tech workers in Orlando, replacing many of them with foreign workers.	0
171	DINAN	Some of the Americans even had to train their own replacements.	0
172	DINAN	You support increasing the H-1B visa program that made it possible to bring in these foreign workers.	0
173	DINAN	Doesn't this program take jobs away from Americans?	0
174	RUBIO	If it's being abused the way Disney did.	0
175	RUBIO	Understand that program, it is illegal now under that program to use it to replace American workers.	0
176	RUBIO	Under that program, you have to prove not only that you're not replacing Americans, but that you've tried to hire Americans.	0
177	RUBIO	And if a company is caught abusing that process, they should never be allowed to use it again.	0
178	RUBIO	The second problem with the current structure of the program that people perhaps don't understand is a lot of these companies are not directly hiring employees from abroad.	0
179	RUBIO	They are hiring a consulting company like Tata, for example, out of India.	0
180	RUBIO	That company then hoards up all of these visas.	0
181	RUBIO	They hire workers.	0
182	RUBIO	You hire - Disney or some other company hires this company.	0
183	RUBIO	What they're basically doing is they are insourcing and outsourcing.	0
184	RUBIO	They are bringing in workers from abroad that are not direct employees of a Disney or someone else, they're employees of this consulting business.	0
185	RUBIO	And what I argue is that no consulting business such as that should be allowed to hoard up all of these visas, that the visas should only be available for companies to use to directly hire workers and that we should be stricter in how he enforce it.	0
186	RUBIO	It is illegal now, it is a violation of the law now to use that program to replace Americans.	0
187	RUBIO	And if a company is caught doing that, whether it be Disney or anyone else, they should be barred from using the program in the future.	0
188	DINAN	Senator Rubio, real quick follow-up on this.	0
189	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
190	DINAN	You've - in the - in the context of illegal immigration, you've called for basically putting off any legalization process until we get the border secured.	0
191	RUBIO	Correct.	0
192	DINAN	Why not call for a pause on H1Bs until those abuses you've talked about are solved.	0
193	RUBIO	Well first, I think - well, I'd be open to it if it takes a pause.	0
194	RUBIO	But I don't think it takes a pause to enforce the law.	0
195	RUBIO	What they are doing is they are in fact using that program to replace an American.	0
196	RUBIO	If there's an American working at Disney and they bring someone from another country using H1B to replace their direct job, that's in violation of the law.	0
197	RUBIO	And what I'm explaining to you is, what they are doing now is they are not - what they are doing is they are eliminating the job.	0
198	RUBIO	They are outsourcing the entire tech division to a consulting company.	0
199	RUBIO	They are making the argument that we didn't replace you.	0
200	RUBIO	We just replaced the whole unit by hiring a company to do it instead.	0
201	RUBIO	And that company that they're hiring is bringing their workers from abroad.	0
202	RUBIO	It's a loophole they've figured out that we need to close so they can no longer continue to do it that way.	0
203	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
204	DINAN	Governor Kasich, I want to come to you next.	0
205	DINAN	"Mr. Trump says that legal immigration is producing quote, ""lower wages and higher unemployment for U.S. workers""."	0
206	DINAN	He's calling for a pause on green cards issued to foreign workers.	0
207	DINAN	Wouldn't that help workers in the U.S.?	0
208	KASICH	Well look, I believe in immigration, but it has to be controlled.	0
209	KASICH	The simple fact of the matter is I wouldn't be standing here.	0
210	KASICH	I'd be maybe running for president of Croatia if we didn't have immigration.	0
211	KASICH	Immigration is something that brings youth and vibrance and energy to our country.	0
212	KASICH	But we clearly have to control our borders.	0
213	KASICH	We can't have people just walking in.	0
214	KASICH	Look, we lock our doors at night in our homes.	0
215	KASICH	The country has to be able to lock its doors as well.	0
216	KASICH	So, we - I have a comprehensive plan to deal with this problem of immigration.	0
217	KASICH	I would say we have to absolutely finish the wall and guard the border.	0
218	KASICH	And if anybody were to come in after that, they are going to have to go back.	0
219	KASICH	No excuses because we can't continue this problem.	0
220	KASICH	I think we ought to have a guest worker program, where people come in, work and go home.	0
221	KASICH	And I think at the same time, for the 11 and a half million who are here, then in my view if they have not committed a crime since they've been here, they get a path to legalization.	0
222	KASICH	Not to citizenship.	0
223	KASICH	I believe that program can pass the Congress in the first 100 days.	0
224	KASICH	But let's not lose sight of the fact that the whole key to the future of America is strong economic growth with common sense regulation, lower taxes and a balanced budget.	0
225	KASICH	We can have a rising tide that lifts all the workers in America, all the people who are citizens of America, if we'll just follow the formula that works, that I used in Washington.	0
226	KASICH	And guess what, I've used it in Ohio to grow over 400 private sector jobs since I've been governor	0
227	DINAN	Mr. Trump, I do want to come to you.	0
228	DINAN	Will you also in your answer, address how long you think that pause would be and what that pause would look like.	0
229	TRUMP	I will.	0
230	TRUMP	First of all, I think and I know the H1B very well.	0
231	TRUMP	And it's something that I frankly use and I shouldn't be allowed to use it.	0
232	TRUMP	We shouldn't have it.	0
233	TRUMP	Very, very bad for workers.	0
234	TRUMP	And second of all, I think it's very important to say, well, I'm a businessman and I have to do what I have to do.	0
235	TRUMP	When it's sitting there waiting for you, but it's very bad.	0
236	TRUMP	It's very bad for business in terms of - and it's very bad for our workers and it's unfair for our workers.	0
237	TRUMP	And we should end it.	0
238	TRUMP	Very importantly, the Disney workers endorsed me, as you probably read.	0
239	TRUMP	And I got a full endorsement because they are the ones that said, and they had a news conference, and they said, he's the only one that's going to be able to fix it.	0
240	TRUMP	Because it is a mess.	0
241	TRUMP	I think for a period of a year to two years we have to look back and we have to see, just to answer the second part of your question, where we are, where we stand, what's going on.	0
242	TRUMP	We have to sort of take a strong, good, hard look and come up with plans that work.	0
243	TRUMP	And we're rushing into things, and we're just - we're leading with the chin.	0
244	SYSTEM	(BELL RINGS)	0
245	TRUMP	We're leading with people that don't know what they are doing in terms of our leadership.	0
246	TRUMP	I'd say a minimum of one year, maybe two years.	0
247	DINAN	Senator Cruz, I want to bring you in very quickly on this.	0
248	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
249	DINAN	The United States averages about a million new permanent legal immigrants a year and hundreds of thousands more guest workers.	0
250	DINAN	What should the right level be?	0
251	CRUZ	Well, we need to redefine our legal immigration system so that it meets the needs of the American economy.	0
252	CRUZ	Right now, we're bringing in far too many low skilled workers.	0
253	CRUZ	What that is doing is driving down the wages of hard-working Americans.	0
254	CRUZ	Our system isn't working.	0
255	CRUZ	And then on top of that, we've got a system that's allowing in millions of people to be here illegally.	0
256	CRUZ	And the answer to that, I've laid out a very, very detailed immigration plan on my website.	0
257	CRUZ	We're going to build a wall, triple the border patrol.	0
258	CRUZ	We're going to end sanctuary cities.	0
259	CRUZ	And let me tell you how we're going to do that.	0
260	CRUZ	We're going to cut off federal taxpayer funds to any city that defies federal immigration laws.	0
261	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
262	CRUZ	We're going to end welfare benefits for anyone who is here illegally.	1
263	CRUZ	And the thing to understand, Stephen, we can solve these problems.	0
264	CRUZ	It's not that we don't know how to do it.	0
265	CRUZ	It's that we're lacking the political will.	0
266	CRUZ	Neither of the parties in Washington wants to do this.	0
267	CRUZ	The Democrats support illegal immigration because they view those illegal immigrants as potential voters and far too many of the Republicans are doing the bidding of Wall Street and the special interest and they view it as cheap labor.	0
268	CRUZ	We need instead leadership that works for the working men and women of this country.	0
269	CRUZ	We need an immigration system that takes care of the jobs of the working men and women of this country.	0
270	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
271	TAPPER	Senator Rubio, did you want to weigh in?	0
272	RUBIO	Well, I would add when you talk about the millions of green cards that are coming in, those aren't actually workers at all.	0
273	RUBIO	They are just coming in primarily based on family connection.	0
274	RUBIO	And ;let me tell you, when my parents came in 1956, I acknowledge that my parents came to the U.S. on a family-based system.	0
275	RUBIO	The problem is nothing looks like it did 60 years ago.	0
276	RUBIO	The 21st Century economy simply is not creating enough jobs for people that don't have skills.	0
277	RUBIO	When my parents came, they had a very limited education.	0
278	RUBIO	My father stopped going to school when he was 9 years old because his mother died and he had to work.	0
279	RUBIO	And he would work the next 70 years of his life and never go back to school.	0
280	RUBIO	And I'm grateful every day that America welcomed them.	0
281	RUBIO	But today in the 21st Century, 60 years later, finding jobs when you don't have skills is very difficult.	0
282	RUBIO	We need to move to a merit- based system of immigration, not just on H-1B, particularly on green cards.	0
283	RUBIO	The primary criteria for bringing someone from abroad in the 21st Century should be, what skills do you have?	0
284	RUBIO	What business are you going to open?	0
285	RUBIO	What investment are you going to make?	0
286	RUBIO	What job are you going to be able to do when you arrive in the United States?	0
287	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
288	TAPPER	Education obviously plays a large role when it comes to jobs and the economy.	0
289	TAPPER	The United States has long been falling behind others in the industrialized world.	0
290	TAPPER	American students currently rank 27th out of 34 countries in math and 17th in reading.	0
291	TAPPER	Mr. Trump, you've called the education standards known as Common Core a disaster.	0
292	TAPPER	What are your specific objections to Common Core?	0
293	TRUMP	Education through Washington, D.C.	0
294	TRUMP	I don't want that.	0
295	TRUMP	I want local education.	0
296	TRUMP	I want the parents, and I want all of the teachers, and I want everybody to get together around a school and to make education great.	0
297	TRUMP	And it was very interesting, I was with Dr. Ben Carson today, who is endorsing me, by the way, tomorrow morning, and he is...	0
298	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
299	TRUMP	We were talking.	0
300	TRUMP	We spoke for over an hour on education.	0
301	TRUMP	And he has such a great handle on it.	0
302	TRUMP	He wants competitive schools.	0
303	TRUMP	He wants a lot of different things that are terrific, including charter schools, by the way, that the unions are fighting like crazy.	0
304	TRUMP	But charter schools work and they work very well.	0
305	TRUMP	So there are a lot of things.	0
306	TRUMP	But I'm going to have Ben very involved with education, something that's an expertise of his.	0
307	TAPPER	OK.	0
308	TAPPER	But just to clarify, the Common Core standards were developed by the states, states and localities voluntarily adopt them, and they come up with their own curricula to meet those standards.	0
309	TAPPER	"So when you say ""education by Washington, D.C.,"" what do you mean?"	0
310	TRUMP	You're right, Jake.	0
311	TRUMP	But it has been taken over by the federal government.	1
312	TRUMP	It was originally supposed to be that way.	0
313	TRUMP	And certainly sounds better that way.	0
314	TRUMP	But it has all been taken over now by the bureaucrats in Washington, and they are not interested in what's happening in Miami or in Florida, in many cases.	1
315	TRUMP	Now in some cases they would be.	0
316	TRUMP	But in many cases they are more interested in their paycheck and the big bureaucracy than they are taking care of the children.	0
317	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
318	TAPPER	Governor Kasich, you have called opposition to Common Core hysteria.	0
319	TAPPER	What is your response to grassroots conservatives who do not agree with you?	0
320	KASICH	Well, look, all I'm in favor of in Ohio is high standards.	0
321	KASICH	First of all, let me tell you, I would take 125 federal education programs, put them in four buckets, and send them back to the states.	0
322	KASICH	OK, I've been working on this for many, many years.	0
323	KASICH	Secondly, Jake, in our state, the state school board sets the standards.	0
324	KASICH	And we want high standards because we have not always had high standards, unfortunately.	0
325	KASICH	They set the standards and the local school boards develop the curriculum.	0
326	KASICH	Not only did we have that in the law, we reasserted it in the law.	0
327	KASICH	And we also want parental advisers in the local school district so that, in fact, you know, frankly, education has to be run at the school board level with a little guidance from the state.	0
328	KASICH	Now on top of that, you want to talk about the 21st Century and what we need to do with our kids?	0
329	KASICH	We need to start connecting them to the real world.	0
330	KASICH	We need to be training them for the jobs of the 21st Century, not the jobs of 20 years ago.	0
331	KASICH	We need vocational education starting in the seventh grade where kids can get that kind of education that can take them to college, but all the way through their K through 12 they ought to be connected with real-world jobs.	0
332	KASICH	Frankly, what ought to happen is we ought to get them to pursue their God-given talents and connect them with the things that give them passion.	0
333	KASICH	And that's exactly what we're doing in Ohio, combined with mentoring programs to talk to kids about what their future can be.	0
334	KASICH	So let me be clear, local control, obviously, high state standards.	0
335	KASICH	That's what it is in the state of Ohio.	0
336	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
337	TAPPER	So, Senator Cruz, let me bring you in.	0
338	TAPPER	You object to Common Core.	0
339	TAPPER	Governor Kasich says it's local school boards developing local curriculum to meet higher standards.	0
340	TAPPER	What's wrong with that?	0
341	CRUZ	Common Core is a disaster.	0
342	CRUZ	And if I am elected president, in the first days as president, I will direct the Department of Education that Common Core ends that day.	0
343	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
344	CRUZ	Now, let me tell you why you can do that, because it's easy to talk about the problem, but you have to understand the solutions.	0
345	CRUZ	The Obama administration has abused executive power in forcing common core on the states.	0
346	CRUZ	It has used race-to-the-top funds to effectively blackmail and force the states to adopt common core.	0
347	CRUZ	Now, the one silver lining of Obama abusing executive power is that everything done with executive power can be undone with executive power, and I intend to do that.	0
348	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
349	CRUZ	Beyond that, though, Jake, I intend to work to abolish the federal Department of Education and send education back to the states and back to the local governments.	0
350	CRUZ	And let me say finally, the most important reform we can do in education after getting the federal government out of it, is expand school choice; expand charter schools and home schools and private schools and vouchers, and scholarships.	0
351	CRUZ	And give every child - African American, Hispanic - every child in need an opportunity to access to a quality education.	0
352	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
353	TAPPER	Let's move on to another topic of particular interest here in Florida.	0
354	TAPPER	Florida has the highest percentage of seniors in the country.	0
355	TAPPER	There are 3.1 million senior citizens here who receive Social Security benefits, and they're very interested in hearing what you candidates intend to do to keep Social Security going for future generations.	0
356	TAPPER	Let me turn now to my colleague Dana Bash.	0
357	BASH	Senator Rubio, you argue Americans your age must have an honest conversation about making Social Security sustainable.	0
358	BASH	For people under 55, you want to raise the retirement age and also reduce benefits for wealthier Americans.	0
359	BASH	So, what should the new retirement age be?	0
360	BASH	And how much will those benefits be cut?	0
361	RUBIO	Well, first of all, let me say that you're right, there are about 3 million seniors in Florida with Social Security and Medicare.	0
362	RUBIO	One of them is my mother, who happens to be here today.	0
363	RUBIO	I'm against any changes to Social Security that are bad for my mother.	0
364	RUBIO	And we don't have to make any changes for them.	0
365	RUBIO	But anyone who tells you that Social Security can stay the way it is is lying.	0
366	RUBIO	"Any politician that goes around saying, ""We don't have to anything; all we have to do is raise a few taxes or just leave it the way it is,"" they're not being honest with you."	0
367	RUBIO	Social Security will go bankrupt and it will bankrupt the country with it.	0
368	RUBIO	So what it will require is people younger, like myself, people that are 30 years away from retirement, to accept that our Social Security is going to work differently than it did for my parents.	0
369	RUBIO	For example, instead of retiring at 67 the way I'm supposed to retire, I'd have to retire at 68.	0
370	RUBIO	If I were still in the Senate, I'd be one of the youngest people there.	0
371	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
372	RUBIO	If I've made a lot of money, my Social Security benefit will not grow as fast as someone who made less money.	0
373	RUBIO	And by the way, Medicare could very well become the option of using my Medicare benefit to buy a private plan that I like better.	0
374	RUBIO	Medicare Advantage does that now.	0
375	RUBIO	These are not unreasonable changes to ask of someone like myself who is 25 or 30 years away from retirement, in exchange for leaving the program undisturbed for the people that are on it now or about to retire, and ensuring that we do not bankrupt our country and that this program still exists when my children retire, when my grandchildren retire, when I retire.	0
376	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
377	BASH	Senator, the question was specific though.	0
378	BASH	You made your plan very clear about generally what you want to do, but how high would the retirement age go and how much would you cut those benefits?	0
379	RUBIO	Well, I'm sorry I didn't answer that part.	0
380	RUBIO	So the thing is that my - my generation, someone my age would retire at 68.	0
381	RUBIO	We would continue to allow it to increase the retirement age for future generations until it hit 70.	0
382	RUBIO	And so my children would retire at 70.	0
383	RUBIO	I would retire at 68.	0
384	RUBIO	It would be a graduating scale over a period of time.	0
385	RUBIO	But again I'm talking about people like myself and Ted who are 45 years old.	0
386	RUBIO	We're years away from retirement.	0
387	RUBIO	For people that are on it now, we don't have to change it at all.	0
388	RUBIO	If we don't do anything, we will have a debt crisis.	0
389	RUBIO	It's not a question of if.	0
390	RUBIO	It is a question of when.	0
391	RUBIO	In less than five years, only 17 percent of our budget will remain discretionary; 83 percent of the federal budget in less than five years will all be spent on Medicare, Medicaid, the interest on the debt.	0
392	RUBIO	That's - all of it will be eaten up by that.	0
393	RUBIO	That's a debt crisis.	0
394	RUBIO	And it will be debilitating to our economy and our children deserve better than to inherit a debt crisis.	0
395	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
396	BASH	Mr. Trump, you don't want to raise the retirement age, and you also don't want to cut benefits even for wealthier Americans.	0
397	BASH	But according to the Social Security Administration, unless adjustments are made, Social Security is projected to run out of money within 20 years.	0
398	BASH	So specifically, what would you do to stop that from happening?	0
399	TRUMP	Well, first of all, I want you to understand that the Democrats, and I've watched them very intensely, even though it's a very, very boring thing to watch, that the Democrats are doing nothing with Social Security.	0
400	TRUMP	They're leaving it the way it is.	0
401	TRUMP	In fact, they want to increase it.	0
402	TRUMP	They want to actually give more.	0
403	TRUMP	And that's what we're up against.	0
404	TRUMP	And whether we like it or not, that is what we're up against.	0
405	TRUMP	I will do everything within my power not to touch Social Security, to leave it the way it is; to make this country rich again; to bring back our jobs; to get rid of deficits; to get rid of waste, fraud and abuse, which is rampant in this country, rampant, totally rampant.	0
406	TRUMP	And it's my absolute intention to leave Social Security the way it is.	0
407	TRUMP	Not increase the age and to leave it as is.	0
408	TRUMP	You have 22 years, you have a long time to go.	0
409	TRUMP	It's not long in terms of what we're talking about, but it's still a long time to go, and I want to leave Social Security as is, I want to make our country rich again so we can afford it.	0
410	TRUMP	I want to bring back our jobs, I want to do things that will make us, that will bring back GDP...	0
411	TRUMP	I mean, as an example, GDP was zero essentially for the last two quarters.	1
412	TRUMP	If that ever happened in China.	0
413	TRUMP	you would have had a depression like nobody's ever seen before.	0
414	TRUMP	They go down to 7 percent, 8 percent, and it's a - it's a national tragedy.	0
415	TRUMP	We're at zero, we're not doing anything.	1
416	TRUMP	We've lost our jobs.	0
417	TRUMP	We've lost everything.	0
418	TRUMP	We're losing everything.	0
419	TRUMP	Our jobs are gone, our businesses are being taken out of the country.	0
420	TRUMP	I want to make America great again and I want to leave Social Security as is.	0
421	TRUMP	We're going to get rid of waste, fraud, abuse and bring back business.	0
422	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
423	BASH	Senator Rubio, I know you want to get in.	0
424	BASH	Hang on one second, I just want to follow up with Mr. Trump.	0
425	BASH	You're talking about waste, fraud and abuse, but an independent bipartisan organization, the Committee For a Responsible Federal Budget, says improper payments like you're talking about, that would only save about $3 billion, but it would take $150 billion to make Social Security solvent.	0
426	BASH	So how would you find that other $147 million?	0
427	TRUMP	Because they don't cover most of the subjects.	0
428	TRUMP	We're the policemen of the world.	0
429	TRUMP	We take care of the entire world.	0
430	TRUMP	We're going to have a stronger military, much stronger.	0
431	TRUMP	Our military is depleted.	0
432	TRUMP	But we take care of Germany, we take care of Saudi Arabia, we take care of Japan, we take care of South Korea.	0
433	TRUMP	We take - every time this maniac from North Korea does anything, we immediately send our ships.	0
434	TRUMP	We get virtually nothing.	0
435	TRUMP	We have 28,000 soldiers on the line, on the border between North and South Korea.	0
436	TRUMP	We have so many places.	0
437	TRUMP	Saudi Arabia was making a billion dollars a day, and we were getting virtually nothing to protect them.	0
438	TRUMP	We are going to be in a different world.	0
439	TRUMP	We're going to negotiate real deals now, and we're going to bring the wealth back to our country.	0
440	TRUMP	We owe $19 trillion.	0
441	TRUMP	We're going to bring wealth back to our country.	0
442	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
443	BASH	Senator Rubio, will that be enough to save Social Security?	0
444	RUBIO	No.	0
445	RUBIO	And I - and I think you've outlined why.	0
446	RUBIO	The numbers don't add up.	0
447	RUBIO	You know, when I ran for the Senate in 2010, I came out and said we're going to have to make changes to Social Security, and everyone said that's the end of your campaign.	0
448	RUBIO	In Florida, you can't talk about that, but people know that it's the truth here in Florida.	0
449	RUBIO	Fraud is not enough.	0
450	RUBIO	Certainly, let's wipe out the fraud, but as you said, it won't add up.	0
451	RUBIO	You already gave those numbers.	0
452	RUBIO	The second point is on foreign aid.	0
453	RUBIO	I hear that all the time as well.	0
454	RUBIO	I'm against any sort of wasting of money on foreign aid, but it's less than 1 percent of our federal budget.	0
455	RUBIO	The numbers don't add up.	0
456	RUBIO	The bottom line is we can't just continue to tip-toe around this and throw out things like I'm going to get at fraud and abuse.	0
457	RUBIO	Let's get rid of fraud, let's get rid of abuse, let's be more careful about how we spend foreign aid.	0
458	RUBIO	But you still have hundreds of billions of dollars of deficit that you're going to have to make up.	0
459	RUBIO	And here's the thing.	0
460	RUBIO	If we do not do it, we will have a debt crisis.	0
461	RUBIO	Not to mention a crisis in Social Security and Medicare.	0
462	RUBIO	Both parties have taken far too long to deal with it.	0
463	RUBIO	It is one of the major issues confronting America.	0
464	RUBIO	It's barely been asked in any of these debates.	0
465	RUBIO	And we'd better deal with or we're going to have to explain to our children why they inherited this disaster.	0
466	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
467	BASH	Mr. Trump, Senator Rubio says your numbers don't add up.	0
468	BASH	What's your response?	0
469	BASH	Senator Rubio says that your numbers don't add up.	0
470	BASH	What's your response, Mr. Trump?	0
471	TRUMP	Well, I don't know if he's saying that.	0
472	TRUMP	Look, I'm just saying very simply we have a country that I've never seen anything like it.	0
473	TRUMP	I've been going over budgets and looking at budgets.	0
474	TRUMP	We don't bid things out.	0
475	TRUMP	We don't bid out, as an example, the drug industry, pharmaceutical industry.	0
476	TRUMP	They don't go out to bid.	0
477	TRUMP	They just pay almost as if you walk into a drug store.	0
478	TRUMP	That's what they're paying.	0
479	TRUMP	And the reason is they have a fantastic lobby.	0
480	TRUMP	They take care of all of the senators, the Congressmen.	0
481	TRUMP	They have great power and they don't bid out.	0
482	TRUMP	The military is never properly bid.	0
483	TRUMP	When we go out to military bids, it's not properly bid.	0
484	TRUMP	And the people that really sell us the product are oftentimes the product we don't want, only because that particular company has political juice, OK?	0
485	TRUMP	I'm self-funding my campaign.	1
486	TRUMP	Nobody is going to be taking care of me.	0
487	TRUMP	I don't want anybody's money.	0
488	TRUMP	I will tell you something.	0
489	TRUMP	We're going to go out to bid in virtually every different facet of our government.	0
490	TRUMP	We're going to save a fortune.	0
491	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
492	BASH	Thank you, Mr. Trump.	0
493	BASH	Senator Cruz, you advocate allowing younger workers to put some of their Social Security taxes into personal accounts.	0
494	BASH	What do you say to critics who say that market volatility means that this is a disastrous proposal?	0
495	CRUZ	Well, number one, we need to see responsibility.	0
496	CRUZ	Social Security right now is careening towards insolvency, and it's irresponsible.	0
497	CRUZ	And any politician that doesn't step forward and address it is not being a real leader.	0
498	CRUZ	We need to see political courage to take this on and save and strengthen Social Security.	0
499	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
500	CRUZ	And as president, what I will do for seniors, for anyone at or near retirement, there will be no changes whatsoever.	0
501	CRUZ	Every benefit will be protected to the letter.	0
502	CRUZ	But for younger workers, we need to change the rate of growth of benefits so it matches inflation instead of exceeding inflation.	0
503	CRUZ	And as you noted Dinan, we need to have for younger workers, that a portion of your tax payments are in personal accounts, like the 401(k), that you own, that you control, that you can pass on to your kids and grandkids.	0
504	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
505	CRUZ	And one of the things that is critically important.	0
506	CRUZ	Listen, we've got lots of challenges in the world.	0
507	CRUZ	But the answer can't just be wave a magic wand and say problem go away.	0
508	CRUZ	You have to understand the problems.	0
509	CRUZ	You have to have real solutions.	0
510	CRUZ	It's like government spending.	0
511	CRUZ	It is very easy.	0
512	CRUZ	Hillary Clinton says she'll cut waste, fraud and abuse.	0
513	CRUZ	If only we had smarter people in Washington, that would fix the problem.	0
514	CRUZ	You know what?	0
515	CRUZ	That is the statement of a liberal who doesn't understand government is the problem.	0
516	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
517	CRUZ	Here's my philosophy.	0
518	CRUZ	The less government, the more freedom.	0
519	CRUZ	The fewer bureaucrats, the more prosperity.	0
520	CRUZ	And there are bureaucrats in...	0
521	SYSTEM	(BELL RINGS)	0
522	CRUZ	... Washington right now who are killing jobs and I'll tell you, I know who they are.	0
523	CRUZ	I will find them and I will fire them.	0
524	BASH	Did you justice just compare Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton on this issue?	0
525	CRUZ	I will let Donald speak for himself.	0
526	CRUZ	But I will say, there's a reason, in my campaign I've laid out a very, very specific spend and cut plan, $500 billion.	0
527	CRUZ	I've specified five major agencies that I would eliminate, 25 programs.	0
528	CRUZ	And Dana, you know why political candidates don't do that?	0
529	CRUZ	Because when you do that, the lobbyists attack you.	0
530	CRUZ	When you specify the programs you would eliminate, then you get attacked.	0
531	CRUZ	Let's talk for example back in Iowa the first primary.	0
532	CRUZ	When I went to Iowa and campaigned against ethanol mandates, everyone said that was political suicide.	1
533	CRUZ	You can't take on ethanol in Iowa.	0
534	CRUZ	And my opponents on this stage not only didn't do the same.	0
535	CRUZ	They attacked me and even promised to expand corporate welfare.	0
536	SYSTEM	(BELL RINGS)	0
537	CRUZ	If we're going to stop bankrupting our kids and grandkids, you've got to be willing to take on the lobbyists, which means not just some fanciful waste, fraud and abuse, but specifying these are the programs I'll eliminate so that we can take care of the hard working taxpayer.	0
538	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
539	BASH	Thank you Senator Cruz.	0
540	BASH	Mr. Trump, would you like to respond?	0
541	TRUMP	Yes.	0
542	TRUMP	If you look back to Iowa, Ted did change his view and his stance on ethanol quite a bit.	1
543	TRUMP	He did and - at the end.	0
544	TRUMP	Not full on, but he did change his view in the hopes of maybe doing well.	1
545	TRUMP	And you know, I think everybody knows that.	0
546	TRUMP	It was a front page story all over the place, and he did make a change.	1
547	BASH	Senator Cruz?	0
548	CRUZ	Listen, if you are fed up with Washington, the question you ought to be asking is who is willing to take on Washington?	0
549	CRUZ	It's easy to have language, I'm fed up with the corruption in Washington.	0
550	CRUZ	But if you have a candidate who has been funding liberal Democrats and funding the Washington establishment, it's very hard to imagine how suddenly this candidate is going to take on Washington.	0
551	CRUZ	When I stood up and led the fight against Obamacare, Washington was furious and attacked me, but I did it because I was honoring my commitment to the hard-working men and women of this country who are losing their jobs because of Obamacare.	0
552	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
553	CRUZ	When I led the fight against amnesty, it's because I was standing with the people...	0
554	SYSTEM	(BELL RINGS)	0
555	CRUZ	... against Washington.	0
556	CRUZ	And if you want to tell people you're going to stand against Washington, the question we should ask is, when have you ever stood up to the lobbyists in Washington?	0
557	BASH	OK. Mr. Trump, I'll let you respond because he mentioned you but then I'm going to move to Governor Kasich.	0
558	BASH	Go ahead.	0
559	TRUMP	Well, that's fine.	0
560	TRUMP	First of all, Ted was in favor of amnesty.	1
561	TRUMP	So there's no question about that.	0
562	TRUMP	And Sheriff Joe Arpaio recently endorsed me and there's nobody tougher on the borders than Sheriff Joe.	0
563	TRUMP	And Jeff Sessions, one of the most respected Senator in Washington, an incredible man, also endorsed me.	0
564	TRUMP	And there's nobody that knows more about the borders than Senator Jeff Sessions.	0
565	TRUMP	I would say this.	0
566	TRUMP	We're all in this together.	0
567	TRUMP	We're going to come up with solutions.	0
568	TRUMP	We're going to find the answers to things.	0
569	TRUMP	And so far I cannot believe how civil it's been up here.	0
570	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
571	BASH	Governor Kasich, let's get back to Social Security.	0
572	BASH	"You told a voter in New Hampshire to quote, ""Get over cuts to Social Security benefits"" because you have a reform plan and that is just the reality you say that is out there."	0
573	BASH	Why is cutting Social Security payments the solution?	0
574	KASICH	Well, first of all, we hear about taking on Washington.	0
575	KASICH	I took on Washington and I won.	0
576	KASICH	I actually got the budget balanced when I was a member of the Congress, the chairman of the budget committee.	0
577	KASICH	We paid down a half a trillion dollars of the national debt.	0
578	KASICH	We also balanced the budget four years in a row.	0
579	KASICH	And we were just growing jobs like crazy and the wage issue was not even an issue then.	0
580	KASICH	I also had a plan in 1999 to save Social Security and take the $5 trillion projected surplus and not only have Social Security for our young people, but also to give them private accounts.	0
581	KASICH	Now there are more 18-year-olds who believe they have a better chance of seeing a UFO than a Social Security check and we have a lot of seniors who are very nervous.	0
582	KASICH	I have a plan to fix it that doesn't even require raising the retirement age.	0
583	KASICH	If you've had wealth throughout your lifetime, when the time comes to be on Social Security, you'll still get it.	0
584	KASICH	It will just simply be less.	0
585	KASICH	And for those people who depend on that Social Security, they'll get their full benefit.	0
586	KASICH	That's the way it will work.	0
587	KASICH	And we don't have to monkey around with the retirement age.	0
588	KASICH	And how do I know that?	0
589	KASICH	I've done all this before.	0
590	KASICH	This is not a theory.	0
591	KASICH	Do you have to take on entitlement programs to balance a budget?	0
592	KASICH	Yes.	0
593	KASICH	It doesn't mean you have to cut them.	0
594	KASICH	It means you need to innovate them, the way we do things in the 21st Century.	0
595	KASICH	So not only did we have a balanced budget in Washington, but when I went to Ohio, we were $8 billion in the hole and now we're $2 billion in the black.	0
596	KASICH	Our credit is strong.	0
597	KASICH	We're up 400,000 jobs.	1
598	KASICH	And I want to go back with the same formula to beat the Washington insiders again.	0
599	KASICH	And I will get it done, and this country will be much stronger economically as a result.	0
600	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
601	TAPPER	Thank you, Governor.	0
602	TAPPER	Let's take a broader look at the Republican Party now.	0
603	TAPPER	Mr. Trump, one of the concerns your opponents have expressed throughout the course of this campaign is the notion that in their estimation you hold views that are at direct odds with Republican Party tradition.	0
604	TAPPER	How are you looking to fundamentally change the Republican Party as its potential leader?	0
605	TAPPER	What should the Republican Party stand for in 2016?	0
606	TRUMP	Well, first of all, I don't really think that.	0
607	TRUMP	I think that I hold views that are very similar to many of the people.	0
608	TRUMP	We are more inclusive.	0
609	TRUMP	And if you look at the polls and if you look at the millions of people that have been pouring into the polls, it's, again, the biggest story.	0
610	TRUMP	You look at all of these people that are coming in, something is happening.	0
611	TRUMP	I am different in one primary respect, and that's trade.	0
612	TRUMP	I feel that we have had horrible negotiators, horrible trade deals.	0
613	TRUMP	The jobs in this country are disappearing, and especially the good jobs.	0
614	TRUMP	You look at the recent jobs reports, which are really done so that presidents and politicians look good, because all of these people looking for jobs, when they give up, they go home, they give up, and they are considered statistically employed.	0
615	TRUMP	So that's that.	0
616	TRUMP	But I will say, trade deals are absolutely killing our country.	0
617	TRUMP	The devaluations of their currencies by China and Japan and many, many other countries, and we don't do it because we don't play the game.	0
618	TRUMP	and the only way we're going to be able to do it is we're going to have to do taxes unless they behave.	0
619	TRUMP	If you don't tax certain products coming into this country from certain countries that are taking advantage of the United States and laughing at our stupidity, we're going to continue to lose businesses and we're going to continue to lose jobs.	0
620	TRUMP	And if you look at the average worker over the last 12 years, their salary and their pay have gone down, not up.	0
621	TRUMP	It has gone down.	0
622	TRUMP	And I think that's why there has been such an outpouring of love to what I'm saying.	0
623	TAPPER	Thank you, Mr. Trump.	0
624	TAPPER	Senator Cruz...	0
625	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
626	TAPPER	... Donald Trump has so far won 35 percent of the vote.	0
627	TAPPER	Those people are signing up to his vision of the Republican Party.	0
628	TAPPER	What do you think is wrong with that vision?	0
629	CRUZ	Well, Donald is right, for example, he was just talking about international trade.	0
630	CRUZ	He's right about the problems.	0
631	CRUZ	But his solutions don't work.	0
632	CRUZ	So, for example, his solution on international trade, he proposed earlier a 45 percent tariff on foreign goods.	0
633	CRUZ	Now he backed away from that immediately and he may come back with a different number tonight.	0
634	CRUZ	I don't know where he'll be tonight.	0
635	CRUZ	But I'll tell you what happens.	0
636	CRUZ	You know, we've seen prior presidential candidates who proposed massive tariffs, you know, Smoot- Hawley led to the Great Depression.	0
637	CRUZ	And the effect of a 45 percent tariff would be when you go to the store, when you go to Walmart, when you are shopping for your kids, the prices you pay go up 45 percent.	0
638	CRUZ	But not only that, when you put those in place, because a tariff is a tax on you, the American people, but the response of that is that the countries we trade with put in their own tariffs.	0
639	CRUZ	A much better solution that works is the tax plan I've laid out which would enable our exports to be tax-free, would tax our imports, would not raise prices for Americans, and would not result in reciprocal tariffs.	0
640	CRUZ	Fix the problem and that's what's missing from what Donald says.	0
641	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
642	TAPPER	Mr. Trump, we'll give you a chance to respond.	0
643	TRUMP	The 45 percent tax is a threat.	0
644	TRUMP	It was not a tax, it was a threat.	0
645	TRUMP	It will be a tax if they don't behave.	0
646	TRUMP	Take China as an example.	0
647	TRUMP	I have many friends, great manufacturers, they want to go into China.	0
648	TRUMP	They can't.	0
649	TRUMP	China won't let them.	0
650	TRUMP	We talk about free trade.	0
651	TRUMP	It's not tree free trade, it's stupid trade.	0
652	TRUMP	China dumps everything that they have over here.	0
653	TRUMP	No tax, no nothing, no problems, no curfews (ph), no anything.	0
654	TRUMP	We can't get into China.	0
655	TRUMP	I have the best people, manufacturers, they can't get in.	0
656	TRUMP	When they get in, they have to pay a tremendous tax.	0
657	TRUMP	The 45 percent is a threat that if they don't behave, if they don't follow the rules and regulations so that we can have it equal on both sides, we will tax you.	0
658	TRUMP	It doesn't have to be 45, it could be less.	0
659	TRUMP	But it has to be something because our country and our trade and our deals and most importantly our jobs are going to hell.	0
660	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
661	TAPPER	Senator Cruz?	0
662	CRUZ	Jake, let me be clear what Donald just said.	0
663	CRUZ	He said that that 45 percent tax is a threat.	0
664	CRUZ	And mind you, you are paying the tax.	0
665	CRUZ	It's not China that pays the tax.	0
666	CRUZ	It's you, the working men and women.	0
667	CRUZ	So ask yourself at home	0
668	CRUZ	How is this helping you?	0
669	CRUZ	"If your wages have been stagnant for 20 years; if you can't pay the bills, how does it help you to have a president come and say, ""I'm going to jack - I'm going to put a 45 percent tax on diapers when you buy diapers, on automobiles when you buy automobiles, on clothing when you buy clothing."""	0
670	CRUZ	That hurts you.	0
671	CRUZ	It's why we've got to get beyond rhetoric of China bad, and actually get to how do you solve the problem.	0
672	CRUZ	Because this solution would hurt jobs and hurt hard-working taxpayers in America.	0
673	TAPPER	OK.	0
674	TRUMP	Jake, I have to say - honestly, it's just the opposite.	0
675	TRUMP	What will happen if they don't behave, we will put on a tax of some amount, and it could be a large amount, and we will start building those factories and those plants.	0
676	TRUMP	Instead of in China, we'll build them here.	0
677	TRUMP	And people will buy products from here, rather than buying it through China where we're being ripped off.	0
678	TRUMP	And we have a $505 billion trade deficit right now.	1
679	TRUMP	So we'll build our factories here and we'll make our own products.	0
680	TRUMP	And that's the way it should be done.	0
681	TRUMP	And the way we've been doing it for the last long period of time is our country - our country is in serious, serious trouble.	0
682	TRUMP	It's a bubble and it's going to explode, believe me.	0
683	TAPPER	All right.	0
684	TAPPER	We're going to take a very quick break.	0
685	TAPPER	When we come back, we'll have much more of this Republican presidential debate from the University of Miami right after this.	0
686	TAPPER	Stay with us.	0
687	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
688	SYSTEM	(COMMERCIAL BREAK)	0
689	TAPPER	Welcome back to the CNN Republican presidential debate in Miami, Florida.	0
690	TAPPER	Mr. Trump, let me start with you.	0
691	TAPPER	"Last night, you told CNN quote, ""Islam hates us?"""	0
692	TAPPER	Did you mean all 1.6 billion Muslims.	0
693	TRUMP	I mean a lot of them.	0
694	TRUMP	I mean a lot of them.	0
695	DINAN	Do you want to clarify the comment at all?	0
696	TRUMP	Well, you know, I've been watching the debate today.	0
697	TRUMP	And they're talking about radical Islamic terrorism or radical Islam.	0
698	TRUMP	But I will tell you this.	0
699	TRUMP	There's something going on that maybe you don't know about, maybe a lot of other people don't know about, but there's tremendous hatred.	0
700	TRUMP	And I will stick with exactly what I said to Anderson Cooper.	0
701	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
702	DINAN	Senator Rubio, your supporter, Republican Senator Jeff Sessions, said in response to Mr. Trump's comment last night, I'm sorry - Senator Jeff Flake, I apologize.	0
703	DINAN	Your supporter, Republican Senator Jeff Flake said in response to that comment, Republicans are better than this.	0
704	DINAN	Do you agree?	0
705	RUBIO	Well, let me say, I know that a lot of people find appeal in the things Donald says cause he says what people wish they could say.	0
706	RUBIO	The problem is, presidents can't just say anything they want.	0
707	RUBIO	It has consequences, here and around the world.	0
708	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
709	RUBIO	And so let me give you one.	0
710	RUBIO	Two days ago, I met this extraordinary couple who were on furlough because they are missionaries in Bangladesh.	0
711	RUBIO	It's a very tough place to be a missionary.	0
712	RUBIO	It's Muslim.	0
713	RUBIO	And their safety and security very much relies upon friendly Muslims that live along side them, that may not convert, but protect them and certainly look out for them.	0
714	RUBIO	And their mission field really are Muslims that are looking to convert to Christianity as well.	0
715	RUBIO	And they tell me that today they have a very hostile environment in which to operate in because the news is coming out that in America, leading political figures are saying that America doesn't like Muslims.	0
716	RUBIO	So this is a real impact.	0
717	RUBIO	There's no doubt that radical Islam is a danger in the world.	0
718	RUBIO	I can also tell you if you go to any national cemetery, especially Arlington, you're going to see crescent moons there.	0
719	RUBIO	If you go anywhere in the world you're going see American men and women serving us in uniform that are Muslims.	0
720	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
721	RUBIO	And they love America.	0
722	RUBIO	And as far as I know, no one on this stage has served in uniform in the United States military.	0
723	RUBIO	Anyone out there that has the uniform of the United States on and is willing to die for this country is someone that loves America.	0
724	RUBIO	No matter what their religious background may be.	0
725	DINAN	Mr. Trump?	0
726	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
727	TRUMP	Marco talks about consequences.	0
728	TRUMP	Well, we've had a lot of consequences, including airplanes flying into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and could have been the White House.	0
729	TRUMP	There have been a lot of problems.	0
730	TRUMP	Now you can say what you want, and you can be politically correct if you want.	0
731	TRUMP	I don't want to be so politically correct.	0
732	TRUMP	I like to solve problems.	0
733	TRUMP	We have a serious, serious problem of hate.	0
734	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
735	TRUMP	There is tremendous hate.	0
736	TRUMP	There is tremendous hate.	0
737	TRUMP	Where large portions of a group of people, Islam, large portions want to use very, very harsh means.	0
738	TRUMP	Let me go a step further.	0
739	TRUMP	Women are treated horribly.	0
740	TRUMP	You know that.	0
741	TRUMP	You do know that.	0
742	TRUMP	Women are treated horribly, and other things are happening that are very, very bad.	0
743	SYSTEM	(BELL RINGS)	0
744	TRUMP	Now I will say this, there is tremendous hatred.	0
745	TRUMP	The question was asked, what do you think?	0
746	TRUMP	I said, there is hatred.	0
747	TRUMP	Now it would be very easy for me to say something differently.	0
748	TRUMP	And everybody would say, oh, isn't that wonderful.	0
749	DINAN	Mr. Trump, thank you.	0
750	TRUMP	We better solve the problem before it's too late.	0
751	DINAN	Senator Rubio?	0
752	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
753	RUBIO	Well, here we go.	0
754	RUBIO	See, I'm not interested in being politically correct.	0
755	RUBIO	I'm not interested in being politically correct.	0
756	RUBIO	I'm interested in being correct.	0
757	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
758	RUBIO	And in order to be correct on this issue, here's the bottom line.	0
759	RUBIO	We do work.	0
760	RUBIO	There is - Islam has a major problem on its hands.	0
761	RUBIO	It has a significant percentage of its adherents, particular in the Sunni faith but also in the Shia, who have been radicalized.	0
762	RUBIO	And are willing to fly planes into a building and kill innocent people.	0
763	RUBIO	There is no doubt about that.	0
764	RUBIO	It is also true if you look around the world at the challenges we face, we are going to have to work together with other - with Muslims, who do not - who are not radicals.	0
765	RUBIO	We're going to have to work with the Jordanian kingdom.	0
766	RUBIO	We're going to have to work with the Saudis.	0
767	RUBIO	We're going to have to work with the Gulf kingdoms.	0
768	RUBIO	We're going to have to work with the Egyptians to defeat, for example, ISIS.	0
769	SYSTEM	(BELL RING)	0
770	RUBIO	It will take a Sunni Arab movement to defeat them.	0
771	RUBIO	And so I think you can be correct without meaning to be politically correct.	0
772	RUBIO	We are going to have to work with people of the Muslim faith even as Islam itself faces a serious crisis within it of radicalization.	0
773	TAPPER	Thank you, Senator.	0
774	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
775	TAPPER	Governor Kasich, do you think Islam hates us?	0
776	KASICH	No, I don't.	0
777	KASICH	I think there is a sect of, you know, this radical Islam that is really, really serious, and poses the greatest threat to us today.	0
778	KASICH	There isn't any question.	0
779	KASICH	And that's why the whole world has to work together to make sure that we don't have proliferation of these weapons of mass destruction.	0
780	KASICH	But look, I was there when, and saw it, when the Egyptian ambassador to the United States was in the Rose Garden bringing the Arab Muslim world to work with us to repel Saddam Hussein from Kuwait.	0
781	KASICH	The fact is that if we're going to defeat ISIS, we're going to have to have these countries.	0
782	KASICH	And they are Egypt.	0
783	KASICH	And they are Saudi Arabia.	0
784	KASICH	And they are Jordan.	0
785	KASICH	And they are the Gulf states.	0
786	KASICH	And we're going to have in some way or another a rapprochement with Turkey.	0
787	KASICH	And I frankly think the Europeans went in the wrong direction when they rejected Turkey from joining in to the economic sphere of Europe.	0
788	KASICH	The simple fact of the matter is, a lot of these Muslim countries, they are just - they can't believe the stuff they see out of people who have distorted their faith.	0
789	KASICH	Look, the people who represent radical Islam, they want to destroy everything that we're about and other Muslims who don't share their view.	0
790	KASICH	But at the end of the day, we've got to bring the world together, the civilized world.	0
791	KASICH	And we all speak with one voice to make sure that people who sit on the fence understand what civilization is, and we represent it, and equality and hope for everybody.	0
792	TAPPER	Thank you, Governor Kasich.	0
793	TAPPER	Mr. Trump, I want to ask you about something else you've said during the course of this campaign.	0
794	TAPPER	"You said that the U.S. has to, quote, ""take out"" the families of terrorists."	0
795	TAPPER	"When it was pointed out that targeting civilians is against the Geneva Conventions, you said, quote, ""So they can kill us, but we can't kill them?"""	0
796	TAPPER	It is against federal, military and international law to target civilians.	0
797	TAPPER	So how will you order the military to target the families of suspected terrorists, while also abiding by the law?	0
798	TRUMP	Let me go back to the other just for a second.	0
799	TRUMP	"In large mosques, all over the Middle East, you have people chanting ""death to the USA."""	0
800	TRUMP	Now, that does not sound like a friendly act to me.	0
801	TRUMP	As far as the families are concerned, and as far as the law is concerned, we have a law - this all started with your question on water boarding.	0
802	TRUMP	We have a law that doesn't allow right now water boarding.	0
803	TRUMP	They have no laws.	0
804	TRUMP	They have no rules.	0
805	TRUMP	They have no regulations.	0
806	TRUMP	They chop off heads.	0
807	TRUMP	They drown 40, 50, 60 people at a time in big steel cages, pull them up an hour later, everyone dead.	0
808	TRUMP	And we're working on a different set of parameters.	0
809	TRUMP	Now, we have to obey the laws.	0
810	TRUMP	Have to obey the laws.	0
811	TRUMP	But we have to expand those laws, because we have to be able to fight on at least somewhat of an equal footing or we will never ever knock out ISIS and all of the others that are so bad.	0
812	TRUMP	We better expand our laws or we're being a bunch of suckers, and they are laughing at us.	0
813	TRUMP	They are laughing at us, believe me.	0
814	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
815	TAPPER	Senator Rubio, would you as president pursue a policy of targeting the families of suspected terrorists?	0
816	RUBIO	No, of course not.	0
817	RUBIO	And we don't have to in order to defeat terrorists.	0
818	RUBIO	The way you defeat terrorists is pretty straightforward.	0
819	RUBIO	It's difficult to do, but it has to be done.	0
820	RUBIO	When I'm president of the United States, the best intelligence agencies in the world that right now have been hamstrung.	0
821	RUBIO	They're going to be expanded.	0
822	RUBIO	And the best intelligence agencies in the world are going to find terrorists.	0
823	RUBIO	And then the best military in the world, which needs to be rebuilt because - because Barack Obama is gutting our military.	0
824	RUBIO	He's going to leave us with the smallest Army since the end of World War II, and the smallest Navy in a century, and the smallest Air Force we've ever had.	0
825	RUBIO	We are going to rebuild that military and that military is going to find the terrorists and destroy them.	0
826	RUBIO	And if we capture any of these terrorists alive, they're not going to have the right to remain silent.	0
827	RUBIO	And they're not going to go to a courtroom in Manhattan.	0
828	RUBIO	They're going to go to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and we will find out everything they know and we'll do so legally.	0
829	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
830	TAPPER	Senator Cruz, you've talked about changing the rules of engagement in battle against ISIS.	0
831	TAPPER	Would that include targeting the families of suspected terrorists?	0
832	CRUZ	No, of course not.	0
833	CRUZ	We've never targeted innocent civilians and we're not going to start now.	0
834	CRUZ	But listen, Jake, I understand.	0
835	CRUZ	People are scared and for seven years, we've faced terrorist attacks and President Obama lectures Americans on Islamophobia.	0
836	CRUZ	That is maddening.	0
837	CRUZ	"But the answer is not simply to yell, ""China bad, Muslims bad."""	0
838	CRUZ	You've got to understand the nature of the threats we're facing and how you deal with them.	0
839	CRUZ	And yes, it is true there are millions of radical Islamic terrorists who seek to kill us.	0
840	CRUZ	We need a president, commander in chief focused on fighting them.	0
841	CRUZ	And I'll tell you, frankly one concern I have with Donald is that although his language is quite incendiary, when you look at his substantive policies on Iran, he has said he would not rip up this Iranian nuclear deal.	0
842	CRUZ	I think that's a mistake.	0
843	CRUZ	The Ayatollah Khomeini wants nuclear weapons to murder us.	0
844	CRUZ	I'll give you another example, dealing with Islamic radical terrorism.	0
845	CRUZ	On Israel, Donald has said he wants to be neutral between Israel and the Palestinians.	0
846	CRUZ	As president, I will not be neutral.	0
847	CRUZ	And let me say this week, a Texan, Taylor Force.	0
848	CRUZ	He was an Eagle Scout, he was a West Point graduate, he was an Army veteran.	0
849	CRUZ	He was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist this week in Israel, and I don't think we need a commander in chief...	0
850	SYSTEM	(BELL RINGS)	0
851	CRUZ	... who is neutral between the Palestinian terrorists and one of our strongest allies in the world, the nation of Israel.	0
852	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
853	HEWITT	Thank you Senator Cruz.	0
854	HEWITT	Mr. Trump.	0
855	HEWITT	We're going to come to you in a second, but wait.	0
856	HEWITT	I want to go to Hugh Hewitt, who has questions on this exact line of subject.	0
857	HEWITT	Mr. Trump, I want to follow-up on the quote that Senator Cruz used.	0
858	HEWITT	"You said you would want to be, quote, ""sort of a neutral guy""."	0
859	HEWITT	He did mention Taylor Force.	0
860	HEWITT	He was a West Point graduate, he was a war hero.	0
861	HEWITT	He was a Vanderbilt graduate student.	0
862	HEWITT	He was killed in a Palestinian terror attack near Tel Aviv, many others were killed.	0
863	HEWITT	And the Israeli government says the Palestinian authority is inciting this.	0
864	HEWITT	Do you still want to stay neutral when the Palestinian authority is inciting these attacks.	0
865	TRUMP	First of all, there's nobody on this stage that's more pro Israel than I am.	0
866	TRUMP	OK.	0
867	TRUMP	There's nobody.	0
868	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
869	TRUMP	I am pro-Israel.	0
870	SYSTEM	(BOOING)	0
871	TRUMP	I was the grand marshall, not so long ago, of the Israeli Day Parade down 5th avenue.	0
872	TRUMP	I've made massive contributions to Israel.	0
873	TRUMP	I have a lot of - I have tremendous love for Israel.	0
874	TRUMP	I happen to have a son-in-law and a daughter that are Jewish, OK?	0
875	TRUMP	And two grandchildren that are Jewish.	0
876	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
877	TRUMP	But I will tell you, I think if we're going to ever negotiate a peace settlement, which every Israeli wants, and I've spoken to the toughest and the sharpest, they all want peace, I think it would be much more helpful is - I'm a negotiator.	0
878	TRUMP	If I go in, I'll say I'm pro-Israel and I've told that to everybody and anybody that would listen.	0
879	TRUMP	But I would like to at least have the other side think I'm somewhat neutral as to them, so that we can maybe get a deal done.	0
880	TRUMP	Maybe we can get a deal.	0
881	TRUMP	I think it's probably the toughest negotiation of all time.	0
882	TRUMP	But maybe we can get a deal done.	0
883	HEWITT	Senator Trump...	0
884	SYSTEM	(CROSSTALK)	0
885	TRUMP	And, by the way, just so you understand, as far as Iran, I would have never made that deal.	0
886	TRUMP	I think it's maybe the world deal I've ever seen.	0
887	TRUMP	I think it's the worst deal I've ever seen negotiated.	0
888	TRUMP	I will be so tough on them and ultimately that deal will be broken unless they behave better than they've ever behaved in their lives, which is probably unlikely.	0
889	TRUMP	That deal will be broken.	0
890	HEWITT	Thank you Mr. Trump.	0
891	HEWITT	Senator Cruz and Senator Rubio.	0
892	CRUZ	You know, we need a president who understands the national security interests of this country.	0
893	CRUZ	The reason we are friends and allies with Israel is they are a liberal Democratic country that share our values, they're our strongest ally in the region.	0
894	CRUZ	We get billions in intelligence resources, billions in military resources.	0
895	CRUZ	And the Palestinian Authority that Donald, along with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama say they want to treat neutrally, the same as Israel.	0
896	CRUZ	The Palestinian Authority is in a unity government with Hamas, a terrorist organization.	0
897	CRUZ	They pay the families of these terrorists who murder people.	0
898	CRUZ	And this is exactly the moral relativism Barack Obama has.	0
899	CRUZ	And the answer is not scream, all Muslims bad.	0
900	CRUZ	Let me give you an example of a Muslim for example, we ought to be standing with, President el-Sisi of Egypt, a president of a Muslim country who is targeting radical...	0
901	SYSTEM	(BELL RINGS)	0
902	CRUZ	... Islamic terrorist.	0
903	HEWITT	Senator Rubio.	0
904	CRUZ	He's hunting them down and stomping them.	0
905	HEWITT	Thank you.	0
906	CRUZ	Our focus needs to be on keeping this country safe.	0
907	HEWITT	I want to go back to the Israeli government's assertion that the Palestinian Authority is inciting the convulsion of violence.	0
908	HEWITT	Do you agree.	0
909	RUBIO	Well, that's undeniable.	0
910	RUBIO	First of all, they've said, they've encouraged people to do so.	0
911	RUBIO	And you've seen the speeches of the Palestinian Authority president how glorious this is that they're doing these sorts of things.	0
912	RUBIO	But let me go back for a moment.	0
913	RUBIO	The policy Donald has outlined, I don't know if he realizes, is an anti-Israeli policy.	0
914	RUBIO	Maybe that's not your intent but here's why it is an anti-Israeli policy.	0
915	RUBIO	There is no peace deal possible with the Palestinians at this moment.	0
916	RUBIO	There just isn't.	0
917	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
918	RUBIO	Because there's no one to negotiate with.	0
919	RUBIO	The Palestinian Authority is not interested in a serious deal and they are now in union with Hamas, an organization whose specific purpose is the destruction of the Jewish state.	0
920	RUBIO	Every time that Israel has turned over territory of any kind, be is Gaza, or now in Judea and Sumaira, it is used as a launching pad to attack Israel.	0
921	RUBIO	And that's what will happen again.	0
922	RUBIO	These groups are not interested in a deal with Israel.	0
923	RUBIO	What they are interested in is ultimately removing the Jewish state and occupying its entire territory.	0
924	SYSTEM	(BELL RINGS)	0
925	RUBIO	So maybe in 30 years the conditions will exist, but they do not exist now.	0
926	HEWITT	Mr. Trump, and then I'll come to you Senator Kasich.	0
927	RUBIO	And To have a president forcing the Israelis to the table is harmful to the Israeli and emboldens Israel's enemies.	0
928	HEWITT	Thank you senator.	0
929	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
930	HEWITT	Mr. Trump a response and then we'll go to Governor Kasich.	0
931	TRUMP	If I become president of the United States, one of the things that will be an absolute priority is number one, protection of Israel, but also seeing if a deal can be made, the toughest deal, the toughest negotiation there probably is of any kind no matter where you look, no matter how hard you look.	0
932	TRUMP	But I would like to give it a shot.	0
933	TRUMP	Very, very pro-Israel, nobody more pro-Israel.	0
934	TRUMP	But I would love to give it a shot.	0
935	TRUMP	And I have to tell you this, Hugh.	0
936	TRUMP	I have friend, Israelis, non-Israelis, people from New York City that happen to be Jewish and love Israel, and some are very tough people, every single one of them, they know it's tough, but every single one of them wants to see if we could ever have peace in Israel.	0
937	TRUMP	And some believe it's possible.	0
938	TRUMP	It may not be, in which case we'll find out.	0
939	TRUMP	But it would be a priority if I become president to see what I could do.	0
940	HEWITT	Governor Kasich, do you agree the Israeli government that the Palestinian Authority is inciting this violence?	0
941	KASICH	Well, there's no question.	0
942	KASICH	They were saying that the Israelis intended to go to the Dome of the Rock.	0
943	KASICH	And I mean, when you think about this, thank goodness we work with Israelis to give them the Iron Dome where they can protect themselves against all the missiles that were flying in.	0
944	KASICH	Could you imagine living in like Miami here and having people shooting missiles in?	0
945	KASICH	Secondly, there was just an article the other day, Hugh, that I know you're familiar with the Israelis are learning to train underground in combat because the Palestinians now, Hamas in particular, is digging these tunnels trying to get under Israel.	0
946	KASICH	They're coming at them from above, they're trying to come at them under the ground.	0
947	KASICH	And I just have to tell you this, I don't believe there is any long-term permanent peace solution.	0
948	KASICH	And I think pursuing that is the wrong thing to do.	0
949	KASICH	I believe that every day that we can stability in that region by supporting the Israelis and making sure they have the weapons and the security that they need with our 100 percent backing is the way to proceed in the Middle East in regard to Israel.	0
950	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
951	HEWITT	Thank you, Governor.	0
952	HEWITT	Senator Cruz, I want to stay in the region.	0
953	HEWITT	Just this week the head of U.S. Central Command, General General Lloyd Austin, essentially said it's going to take a lot more troops on the ground to fix - to end the ISIS threat in Syria and Iraq.	0
954	HEWITT	From the beginning of this campaign, you have said you will follow the judgment of military commanders in the Pentagon.	0
955	HEWITT	So here's the commander saying we need a lot more troops on the ground.	0
956	HEWITT	Will you follow that advice and inject Americans again into what is in essence is metastasizing Sunni-Shia civil war?	0
957	CRUZ	We need to do whatever is necessary to utterly defeat ISIS.	0
958	CRUZ	And that's needs to be driven not by politicians but by military expertise and judgment.	0
959	CRUZ	Right now we're not using a fraction of the tools that we have.	0
960	CRUZ	We're not using our overwhelming air power.	0
961	CRUZ	We're not arming the Kurds.	0
962	CRUZ	Those need to be the first steps.	0
963	CRUZ	And then we need to put whatever ground power is needed to carry it out.	0
964	CRUZ	But, you know, a question that actually Jake asked, and I'm glad to come back to it now, is rules of engagement.	0
965	CRUZ	We have right now our troops engaged in combat but President Obama has rules of engagement that are so strict that their arms are tied behind their back.	0
966	CRUZ	They're not able to fight.	0
967	CRUZ	They're not able to defend themselves.	0
968	CRUZ	They're not able to kill the enemy.	0
969	CRUZ	And I have got to tell you, Hugh, I think that is wrong.	0
970	CRUZ	It is immoral.	0
971	CRUZ	And I give my word to every soldier, sailor, and airman, and marine, and every wife and husband, every son and daughter, every mother and father, that will end in January 2017.	0
972	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
973	HEWITT	Governor Kasich, if it takes 20,000 or 30,000, if the Pentagon says that's what needs to be done, will you follow their advice?	0
974	KASICH	Hugh, I've said all along and laid out my foreign policy, I'm going to remind everybody that 55 percent of the foreign policy experts in this country said I was the best to be commander-in- chief.	0
975	KASICH	I spent 18 years on the Defense Committee, Armed Services, and then I was in the Pentagon with Donald Rumsfeld after 9/11, in and out for a couple of years.	0
976	KASICH	We absolutely have to win this with a coalition.	0
977	KASICH	Arabs have to be with us.	0
978	KASICH	The Europeans have to understand that this threat is closer to them than even is closer - is as close as it is to us.	0
979	KASICH	And in addition to that, you have to be in the air and you have to be on the ground.	0
980	KASICH	And you bring all the force you need.	0
981	KASICH	"It has got to be ""shock and awe"" in the military-speak."	0
982	KASICH	Then once it gets done, and we will wipe them out, once it gets done, it settles down, we come home and let the regional powers redraw the map if that's what it takes.	0
983	HEWITT	Mr. Trump, more troops?	0
984	TRUMP	We really have no choice.	0
985	TRUMP	We have to knock out ISIS.	0
986	TRUMP	We have to knock the hell out of them.	0
987	TRUMP	We have to get rid of it.	0
988	TRUMP	And then come back and rebuild our country, which is falling apart.	0
989	TRUMP	We have no choice.	0
990	HEWITT	How many...	0
991	SYSTEM	(CROSSTALK)	0
992	TRUMP	I would listen to the generals, but I'm hearing numbers of 20,000 to 30,000.	0
993	TRUMP	We have to knock them out fast.	0
994	TRUMP	Look, we're not allowed to fight.	0
995	TRUMP	We can't fight.	0
996	TRUMP	We're not knocking out the oil because they don't want to create environmental pollution up in the air.	1
997	TRUMP	I mean, these are things that nobody even believes.	0
998	TRUMP	They think we're kidding.	0
999	TRUMP	They didn't want to knock out the oil because of what it's going to do to the carbon footprint.	1
1000	TRUMP	We don't fight like we used to fight.	0
1001	TRUMP	We used to fight to win.	0
1002	TRUMP	Now we fight for no reason whatsoever.	0
1003	TRUMP	We don't even know what we're doing.	0
1004	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1005	TRUMP	So, the answer is we have to knock them out.	0
1006	TRUMP	We have to knock them out fast.	0
1007	TRUMP	And we have to get back home.	0
1008	TRUMP	And we have to rebuild our country which is falling apart.	0
1009	TAPPER	Thank you, Mr. Trump.	0
1010	TAPPER	Let's turn from current conflicts to those who have served in conflicts.	0
1011	TAPPER	Senator Rubio, according to a V.A. study, of the 22 veterans who commit suicide every day, 17 of them have no connection to the V.A.	0
1012	TAPPER	The V.A. believes that this lack of connection is one of the reasons for this tragically high suicide rate.	0
1013	TAPPER	What specifically would you do as president to make sure that veterans in crisis are able to get the help they need?	0
1014	RUBIO	Well, first let me say that one out of four calls to our office is about a veteran here in Florida that's struggling with the V.A.	0
1015	RUBIO	my brother is a veteran.	0
1016	RUBIO	He's struggling with the V.A.	0
1017	RUBIO	The other day, we heard this horrible story.	0
1018	RUBIO	"It was a headline in USA Today, and it said, ""Calls to the V.A. Suicide Hotline Went to Voicemail."""	0
1019	RUBIO	Well, about a few days ago, we now found out that one of the gentlemen - one of the veterans who left a voicemail committed suicide.	0
1020	RUBIO	And they happened to call him back the day after he died.	0
1021	RUBIO	People need to be held accountable for this.	0
1022	RUBIO	One of the things I'm proudest of is that in my time in the U.S. Senate working with Jeff Miller here from Florida in a bipartisan way, and I'll give him credit - Bernie Sanders was a part of this - we passed a V.A. accountability bill.	0
1023	RUBIO	And what it did is it created now a law that gives the V.A. secretary, because of the law I passed, it gives the V.A. secretary the power to fire people that aren't doing a good job.	0
1024	RUBIO	Senior executives should be held accountable if the V.A. outreach isn't working.	0
1025	RUBIO	The problem is no one's being held accountable.	0
1026	RUBIO	Even after we passed that law, no one's been fired for no outreach.	0
1027	RUBIO	No one's been fired for calls going to the voicemail.	0
1028	RUBIO	No one's been disciplined.	0
1029	RUBIO	No one's been demoted.	0
1030	RUBIO	When I'm president of the United States, if you work at the V.A. and you are not doing a good job, you will be fired from your job at the V.A.	0
1031	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1032	TAPPER	Governor Kasich, the Veterans Affairs Department is one of the biggest line items in the domestic budget.	0
1033	TAPPER	As part of its attempt to cut costs, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives just voted to try to reduce spending in the post-9/11 GI Bill.	0
1034	TAPPER	Should veterans' benefits be part of attempts to reduce the deficit?	0
1035	KASICH	I don't - I haven't seen the provisions of that bill, Jake.	0
1036	KASICH	My initial instincts are no.	0
1037	KASICH	And let me just say about the V.A.	0
1038	KASICH	When a veteran comes home, they ought to have access to healthcare wherever they want to go at any time, number one.	0
1039	KASICH	Number two, the Veterans Administration needs to be restructured.	0
1040	KASICH	It needs to be downsized and spread out.	0
1041	KASICH	It needs to be so responsive to the needs of the veterans.	0
1042	KASICH	And secondly, the Pentagon needs to share the information of returning veterans with the veterans' service operations in the states and with the job people in the states so that when a veteran comes home, they can be linked with a job.	0
1043	KASICH	And when that happens, that means that every veteran will get work, because they're our golden employees.	0
1044	KASICH	No veteran ought to be without healthcare; no veteran ought to be homeless; and no veteran ought to be unemployed in the United States of America.	0
1045	TAPPER	Thank you, Governor Kasich.	0
1046	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1047	TAPPER	Let's turn to another issue of real importance here in Florida.	0
1048	TAPPER	Just over a week from now, President Obama will visit Cuba, the first time in 88 years that a sitting U.S. president will set foot in Cuba.	0
1049	TAPPER	Two of you on this stage have parents who were born in Cuba and moved to the United States.	0
1050	TAPPER	Let's go back to my colleague Dana Bash.	0
1051	BASH	Senator Rubio, Donald Trump agrees with President Obama in his decision to reengage diplomatically in Cuba.	0
1052	BASH	The majority of Americans seem to agree with that as well.	0
1053	BASH	So why are President Obama, Donald Trump and the majority of Americans wrong?	0
1054	RUBIO	Well, I would love the relationship between Cuba and the United States to change.	0
1055	RUBIO	But it will require Cuba to change, at least its government.	0
1056	RUBIO	Today, it has not.	0
1057	RUBIO	The fact of the matter is that after these changes were made - after these changes were made, there are now millions and hundreds of millions of dollars that will flow to the Castro regime.	0
1058	RUBIO	It will now allow them to become set permanent and in stone.	0
1059	RUBIO	They will now be able to carry out a transition where the military continues to run the country there.	0
1060	RUBIO	They'll put a puppet figure forward as their new president.	0
1061	RUBIO	And nothing will change for the Cuban people.	0
1062	RUBIO	There has not been a single democratic opening; not a single change on the island in human rights.	0
1063	RUBIO	In fact, things are worse than they were before this opening.	0
1064	RUBIO	The only thing that's changed as a result of this opening is that now the Cuban government has more sources of money from which to build out their repressive apparatus and maintain themselves there permanently.	0
1065	RUBIO	And we asked nothing in return.	0
1066	RUBIO	Compare that to the changes that were required in Burma.	0
1067	RUBIO	And by no means is Burma a perfect country.	0
1068	RUBIO	But at least when there was a democratic opening to Burma, they were required to make some democratic openings.	0
1069	RUBIO	When there was a diplomatic opening, it required democratic opening.	0
1070	RUBIO	And today, the former minority party is now the majority party in their legislative body.	0
1071	RUBIO	He asked nothing in return and we are getting nothing in return.	0
1072	RUBIO	And Cuba and its regime remains an anti-American communist dictatorship, helped North Korea evade U.N. sanctions.	0
1073	RUBIO	It's harboring fugitives of American justice, including people stealing our Medicare money and moving back to Cuba, all in exchange for nothing.	0
1074	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1075	BASH	Mr. Trump, you said the concept of opening Cuba is fine.	0
1076	BASH	You said the concept of opening Cuba is fine.	0
1077	BASH	Why do you agree with President Obama and disagree with what Senator Rubio just said?	0
1078	TRUMP	Well, I don't really agree with President Obama.	0
1079	TRUMP	I think I'm somewhere in the middle.	0
1080	TRUMP	What I want is I want a much better deal to be made because right now, Cuba is making - as usual with our country, we don't make good deal.	0
1081	TRUMP	We don't have our right people negotiating, we have people that don't have a clue.	0
1082	TRUMP	As an example, I heard recently where the threat was made that they want reparations for years of abuse by the United States, and nobody's talking about it and they'll end up signing a deal and then we'll get sued for $400 billion or $1 trillion.	0
1083	TRUMP	All that stuff has to be agreed to now.	0
1084	TRUMP	We don't want to get sued after the deal is made.	0
1085	TRUMP	So I don't agree with President Obama, I do agree something should be - should take place.	0
1086	TRUMP	After 50 years, it's enough time, folks.	0
1087	TRUMP	But we have to make a good deal and we have to get rid of all the litigation that's going to happen.	0
1088	TRUMP	This was just a little story but it was a big story to me because I said oh, here we go, we make a deal, then get sued for a tremendous amount of money for reparations.	0
1089	TRUMP	So I want to do something, but it's got to be done intelligently.	0
1090	TRUMP	We have to make good deal.	0
1091	BASH	Senator Rubio, I know you want to get in.	0
1092	BASH	But just to be clear, Mr. Trump, are you saying that if you were president, you would continue the diplomatic relations or would you reverse them?	0
1093	TRUMP	I would want to make a good deal, I would want to make a strong, solid, good deal because right now, everything is in Cuba's favor.	0
1094	TRUMP	Right now, everything, every single aspect of this deal is in Cuba's favor.	0
1095	TRUMP	It the same way as the Iran deal.	0
1096	TRUMP	We never walked - we never - all we do is keep giving.	0
1097	TRUMP	We give and give and give.	0
1098	BASH	But Mr. Trump, just to be clear, there is an embassy that you would have to decide whether it would be open or whether you would close it.	0
1099	BASH	Which would it be?	0
1100	BASH	In Havana.	0
1101	TRUMP	I would probably have the embassy closed until such time as a really good deal was made and struck by the United States.	0
1102	TRUMP	(APPLAUSE)	0
1103	RUBIO	All right, first of all, the embassy is the former consulate.	0
1104	RUBIO	It's the same building.	0
1105	RUBIO	So it could just go back to being called a consulate.	0
1106	RUBIO	We don't have to close it that way.	0
1107	RUBIO	Second of all, I don't know where Cuba is going to use, but if they sue us in a court in Miami, they're going to lose.	0
1108	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE)	0
1109	RUBIO	Third, on the issue of a good deal, I know what the good deal.	0
1110	RUBIO	I'll tell you what the good deal now, it's already codified.	0
1111	RUBIO	Here's a good deal - Cuba has free elections, Cuba stops putting people in jail for speaking out, Cuba has freedom of the press, Cuba kicks out the Russians from Lourdes (ph) and kicks out the Chinese listening station in Berupal (ph) Cuba stops helping North Korea evade U.N. sanctions, Cuba takes all of those fugitives of America justice, including that cop killer from New Jersey, and send her back to the United States and to jail where she belongs.	0
1112	RUBIO	And you know what?	0
1113	RUBIO	Then we can have a relationship with Cuba.	0
1114	RUBIO	That's a good deal.	0
1115	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1116	BASH	Thank you, Senator Rubio.	0
1117	BASH	Senator Cruz, if you become president, would you reverse course and once again break diplomatic relations with Cuba?	0
1118	CRUZ	Yes, I would.	0
1119	CRUZ	And you know, I think this exchange actually highlights a real choice for Republican primary voters.	0
1120	CRUZ	When it comes to foreign policy, do you want to continue on the same basic trajectory as the last seven years of the Obama foreign policy?	0
1121	CRUZ	When it comes to these deals, Cuba and Iran, they were negotiated by Hillary Clinton and John Kerry.	0
1122	CRUZ	There's a real difference between us.	0
1123	CRUZ	Donald supported Hillary Clinton and John Kerry.	0
1124	CRUZ	And what he said right now is that he agrees in principle with what they're doing.	0
1125	CRUZ	The only thing he thinks is that they should negotiate a little bit better deals, they should be more effective.	0
1126	CRUZ	I have a fundamental disagreement and I think most Republicans and most Americans do, that we shouldn't be allowing billions of dollars to go to nations that hate us to go to Cuba, to go to Iran and to let them use those billions of dollars to try to murder us.	0
1127	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1128	BASH	Thank you Senator Cruz.	0
1129	BASH	Mr. Trump.	0
1130	TRUMP	Well, if Ted was listening, he would have heard me say something very similar.	0
1131	TRUMP	I said we would not do the deal unless it was going to be a very good deal for us.	0
1132	TRUMP	And I think I said it loud and I think I said it very clear.	0
1133	TRUMP	And I think after 50 years, and I have many friends, I own many properties in Miami, many, many, and I have many people that know and they feel exactly the way I do, make a deal, it would be great, but it's got to be a great deal for the United States, not a bad deal for the United States.	0
1134	TRUMP	As far as Iran is concerned, I would have never made that deal.	0
1135	TRUMP	That is one of the worst deals ever, ever made by this country.	0
1136	TRUMP	It is a disaster.	0
1137	TRUMP	So for Ted to say I agree with this deal, I mean, it's a staple in my speeches that that may he worst single deal I've ever seen negotiated.	0
1138	TRUMP	So don't try to put it on me like it's wonderful, like I love it.	0
1139	BASH	Senator Cruz, your response?	0
1140	CRUZ	Well, look.	0
1141	CRUZ	I'll point out first of all it is a matter of public record that Donald supported John Kerry in 2004 over George W. Bush, and he supported Hillary Clinton, gave her two checks in a presidential campaign in 2008.	0
1142	CRUZ	And indeed, once she was secretary of State, he described her as one of the greatest secretaries of State in industry.	0
1143	CRUZ	And, you know, the point on the Iran deal, his answer to everything is if only if someone smarter were in government, things would be better.	0
1144	CRUZ	No.	0
1145	CRUZ	We don't just need smarter people in government.	0
1146	CRUZ	We need leaders that are protecting American interests.	0
1147	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1148	CRUZ	And when it comes to Iran, Donald has said he would leave the agreement in place and try to renegotiate it, giving the Ayatollah Khomeini over $100 billion.	0
1149	CRUZ	That reflects you do not understand the radical Islam terrorist that is the Ayatollah that wants to murder us.	0
1150	CRUZ	We need a commander in chief that understands our enemies...	0
1151	SYSTEM	(BELL RINGS)	0
1152	CRUZ	... understands and doesn't give them billions of dollars to threaten our safety and security.	0
1153	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1154	TRUMP	I was against the giving of the money at all cost.	0
1155	TRUMP	I said don't negotiate at all until you get the prisoners back.	0
1156	TRUMP	If the prisoners don't come back early - three years ago.	0
1157	TRUMP	One of the longest negotiations I've ever seen, by the way.	0
1158	TRUMP	If they don't come back early, I was saying don't negotiate.	0
1159	TRUMP	They come back early.	0
1160	TRUMP	What you do is you take it back and you say, either give us the prisoners or we double up the sanctions.	0
1161	TRUMP	What we should have done is doubled up the sanctions and made a much better deal.	0
1162	TRUMP	Cause that deal is a disaster.	0
1163	TRUMP	Ted, the money is largely gone because of incompetent and very, very poor negotiators.	0
1164	TRUMP	But that money, the $150 billion, is largely gone and already spent everywhere but the United States.	0
1165	BASH	Thank you Mr. Trump.	0
1166	BASH	Let's refocus this back on Cuba.	0
1167	BASH	Governor Kasich, a pair of entrepreneurs from Alabama and North Carolina have just received approval to build the first U.S. factory in Cuba, making tractor for small farms.	0
1168	BASH	This is a direct result of President Obama's policy in Cuba that we've been talking about.	0
1169	BASH	If you were elected would you encourage more U.S. companies to do business like that in Cuba?	0
1170	KASICH	No, I wouldn't.	0
1171	KASICH	Listen, I think the problem with the administration, if you talk to our friends around the world, they say what is America doing?	0
1172	KASICH	You know, you don't support us, we can't figure out where you are.	0
1173	KASICH	You won't arm the freedom fighters in Ukraine, we let the Russians trump up some excuse in the business of Russian-speaking people.	0
1174	KASICH	You had a red line in Syria.	0
1175	KASICH	You walked away from it.	0
1176	KASICH	You refused to fund the Syrian rebels, you undercut Egypt and we ended up with the Muslim brotherhood for awhile.	0
1177	KASICH	And then we turn our back on Netanyahu when he comes to Congress to talk about his concerns of the Iranian deal.	0
1178	KASICH	Look, I know in human nature sometimes there's a sense that you make better with your enemies than you do with your friends.	0
1179	KASICH	And you know what happens when you do that?	0
1180	KASICH	You make a terrible mistake.	0
1181	KASICH	You need to support your friends, you need to hold your enemies out here...	0
1182	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1183	KASICH	... and you need to negotiate tough deals.	0
1184	KASICH	The fact is, they need to understand who we are.	0
1185	KASICH	The Chinese understand.	0
1186	KASICH	They don't own the South China Sea.	0
1187	KASICH	They have to stop hacking everything we have in this country or we'll take out their systems.	0
1188	KASICH	We will arm the Ukrainians so they have lethal defensive aid.	0
1189	KASICH	We will destroy ISIS and Mr. Putin, you better understand, you're either with us or you're against us.	0
1190	KASICH	We're not rattling a sword.	0
1191	KASICH	You're not our enemy but we're not going to put up with this nonsense any longer.	0
1192	KASICH	And a strong America is what the entire world is begging for.	0
1193	KASICH	Where has America gone is what many of our allies say around the world.	0
1194	SYSTEM	(BELL RINGS)	0
1195	KASICH	When I'm president, they're going to know exactly where we are because we're coming back.	0
1196	TAPPER	Thank you governor.	0
1197	TAPPER	Thank you governor.	0
1198	TAPPER	While we're discussing the issues of importance to Floridians, I reached out to the Republican mayor of Miami, Tomas Regalado, to find out what he wanted to hear from you this evening.	0
1199	TAPPER	"Mayor Regalado told me, quote, ""Climate change means rising ocean levels, which in south Florida means flooding downtown and in our neighborhoods. It's an every day reality in our city. Will you, as president acknowledge the reality of the scientific consensus about climate change and as president, will you pledge to do something about it?"""	0
1200	TAPPER	Unquote.	0
1201	TAPPER	Senator Rubio, the Miami mayor has endorsed you.	0
1202	TAPPER	Will you honor his request for a pledge and acknowledge the reality of the scientific consensus of climate change and pledge to do something about it?	0
1203	RUBIO	Well, sure if the climate is changing and one of the reasons is because the climate has always been changing.	1
1204	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1205	RUBIO	There's never been a time when the climate has not changed.	1
1206	RUBIO	I think the fundamental question for a policy maker is, is the climate changing because of something we are doing and if so, is there a law you can pass to fix it?	0
1207	RUBIO	So on the issue of flooding in Miami, it's caused by two things.	0
1208	RUBIO	Number one, south Florida is largely built on land that was once a swamp.	0
1209	RUBIO	And number two, because if there is higher sea levels or whatever it may be happening, we do need to deal with that through mitigation.	0
1210	RUBIO	And I have long supported mitigation efforts.	0
1211	RUBIO	But as far as a law that we can pass in Washington to change the weather, there's no such thing.	0
1212	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1213	RUBIO	On the contrary, there is laws they want us to pass.	0
1214	RUBIO	There are laws they want to us pass that would be devastating for our economy or these programs like what the president has put in with the Clean Power Act or all these sorts of things that he's forcing down our throats on the war on coal.	0
1215	RUBIO	Let me tell you who is going to pay the price of that?	0
1216	RUBIO	Americans are going to pay the price of that.	0
1217	RUBIO	The cost of doing that is going to be rammed down the throats of the American consumer, the single parent, the working families who are going to see increases in the cost of living.	0
1218	RUBIO	The businesses who are going to leave America because it's more expensive to do business here than anywhere else.	0
1219	RUBIO	And you know what passing those laws would have - what impact it would have on the environment?	0
1220	RUBIO	Zero, because China is still going to be polluting and India is still going to be polluting at historic levels.	1
1221	RUBIO	So, I am in favor of a clean environment.	0
1222	RUBIO	My children live in South Florida.	0
1223	RUBIO	My family is being raised here.	0
1224	RUBIO	I want this to be a safe and clean place, but these laws some people are asking us to pass will do nothing for the environment and they will hurt and devastate our economy.	0
1225	TAPPER	So just to clarify, Senator Rubio, Mayor Regalado when he talks about the reality of the scientific consensus about climate change, the Republican mayor of Miami, he's saying the scientific consensus is that man does contribute to climate change.	0
1226	TAPPER	When you talk to him, because he is the mayor of Miami and he has endorsed you, do you tell him that he's wrong?	0
1227	RUBIO	I would say to him that there is no law that they want us to pass that would have any impact on that.	0
1228	RUBIO	If we pass - if you took the gift list of all of these groups that are asking us to pass these laws and did every single one of them, there would be no change in our environment.	1
1229	RUBIO	Sea level would still rise.	1
1230	RUBIO	All these other things that are happening would continue to go on for a lot of different reasons.	0
1231	RUBIO	One, because America is not a planet.	0
1232	RUBIO	It's a country.	0
1233	RUBIO	And number two, because these other countries like India and China are more than making up in carbon emissions for whatever we could possibly cut.	1
1234	RUBIO	Here's what he will immediately - and Mayor Regalado is a great mayor and a good friend - but here's what he's going to immediately going to start hearing from.	0
1235	RUBIO	He will immediately start hearing from families in South Florida who are barely making it by, and now their electric bill went up $20 or $30 a month because we just made it more expensive to generate power.	0
1236	RUBIO	That cost will be passed on to working families.	0
1237	RUBIO	I am not going to destroy the U.S. economy for a law that will do nothing for our environent.	0
1238	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1239	TAPPER	Governor Kasich, what would you say to the mayor of Miami?	0
1240	KASICH	Well, I - I do believe we contribute to climate change, but I don't think it has to be a, you know, either you're for some environmental stringent rules or, you know, you're not going to have any jobs.	0
1241	KASICH	The fact is, you can have both.	0
1242	KASICH	In our state, we've reduced emissions by 30 percent.	0
1243	KASICH	But let me tell you also what we're trying to do.	0
1244	KASICH	We want all the sources of energy.	0
1245	KASICH	We want to dig coal, but we want to clean it when we burn it.	0
1246	KASICH	We believe in natural gas.	0
1247	KASICH	We believe in nuclear power.	0
1248	KASICH	And you know what else I believe in?	0
1249	KASICH	I happen to believe in solar energy, wind energy, efficiency, renewables matter.	0
1250	KASICH	Now, it doesn't mean because you pursue a policy of being sensitive to the environment, because we don't know how much humans actually contribute.	0
1251	KASICH	But it is important we develop renewables.	0
1252	KASICH	Battery technology can unleash an entirely different world.	0
1253	KASICH	So the fact is that you can have a strong environmental policy at the same time that you have strong economic growth and they are not inconsistent with one another.	0
1254	TAPPER	Thank you, Governor.	0
1255	TAPPER	Senator Cruz, I want to talk a little bit right now about how you gentlemen see the world.	0
1256	TAPPER	Senator Cruz, Colin Powell this week said that the nasty tone of this presidential election is hurting the image of the U.S. abroad.	0
1257	TAPPER	"He said, quote, ""foreigners of the world looking at this are distressed."""	0
1258	TAPPER	Does it matter to you what the rest of the world thinks of the United States?	0
1259	CRUZ	Of course it does.	0
1260	CRUZ	And we've seen for seven years a president that has made the presidency and has made, sadly, his administration a laughing stock in the world.	0
1261	CRUZ	This administration started with President Obama sending back the bust of Winston Churchill to the United Kingdom within the opening weeks.	1
1262	CRUZ	Then he proceeded to go on a worldwide apology tour apologizing for the United States of America.	1
1263	CRUZ	Our friends and allies quickly learned America could not be counted on.	0
1264	CRUZ	"I'll tell you, when I travel abroad, when I meet with heads of states and defense ministers and foreign ministers, they say over and over again, ""it is hard to be friends with America; we can't count on America; America doesn't stand with us."""	0
1265	CRUZ	And that is a disgrace.	0
1266	CRUZ	But the good news is, Jake, we've seen this before.	0
1267	CRUZ	We have seen a weak Democratic president undermine the military, weaken our readiness, weaken our respect in the world with Jimmy Carter.	0
1268	CRUZ	And in January 1981, Ronald Reagan came into office and that can change overnight.	0
1269	CRUZ	It's worth remembering Iran released our hostages the day Ronald Reagan was sworn into office.	1
1270	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1271	CRUZ	And America needs a president who stands with our friends and allies, as I will do, and who stands up and demonstrates strengths to our enemies.	0
1272	CRUZ	That's why on day one, I will rip to shreds this catastrophic Iranian nuclear deal because the Ayatollah Khamenei must never be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons.	0
1273	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1274	TAPPER	Thank you, Senator.	0
1275	TAPPER	Mr. Trump, some of your Republican critics have expressed concern about comments you have made praising authoritarian dictators. You have said positive things about Putin as a leader and about China's massacre of pro-democracy protesters at Tiananmen Square, you've said	0
1276	TAPPER	When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it, then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength.	0
1277	TAPPER	Mr. Trump, some of your Republican critics have expressed concern about comments you have made praising authoritarian dictators.	0
1278	TAPPER	"You have said positive things about Putin as a leader and about China's massacre of pro-democracy protesters at Tiananmen Square, you've said ""That shows you the power of strength."""	0
1279	TAPPER	How do you respond...	0
1280	TRUMP	That doesn't mean I was endorsing that.	0
1281	TRUMP	I was not endorsing it.	0
1282	TRUMP	I said that is a strong, powerful government that put it down with strength.	0
1283	TRUMP	And then they kept down the riot.	0
1284	TRUMP	It was a horrible thing.	0
1285	TRUMP	It doesn't mean at all I was endorsing it.	0
1286	TRUMP	As far as Putin is concerned, I think Putin has been a very strong leader for Russia.	0
1287	TRUMP	I think he has been a lot stronger than our leader, that I can tell you.	0
1288	TRUMP	I mean, for Russia, that doesn't mean I'm endorsing Putin.	0
1289	TAPPER	But the word strong obviously is a compliment...	0
1290	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1291	TAPPER	... and many people would look at what the Chinese leaders have done and what Putin is doing as atrocities.	0
1292	TRUMP	I used to think Merkel was a great leader until she did what she did to Germany.	0
1293	TRUMP	Germany is a disaster right now.	0
1294	TRUMP	So I used to think that.	0
1295	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1296	TRUMP	And strong doesn't mean good.	0
1297	TRUMP	Putin is a strong leader, absolutely.	0
1298	TRUMP	I could name many strong leaders.	0
1299	TRUMP	I could name very many very weak leaders.	0
1300	TRUMP	But he is a strong leader.	0
1301	TRUMP	Now I don't say that in a good way or a bad way.	0
1302	TRUMP	I say it as a fact.	0
1303	TAPPER	Governor Kasich, when you were a member of Congress, you were outspoken about the Tiananmen Square massacre.	0
1304	TAPPER	What do you think?	0
1305	KASICH	I think that the Chinese government butchered those kids.	0
1306	KASICH	And when that guy stood in front - that young man stood in front of that tank, we ought to build a statue of him over here when he faced down the Chinese government.	0
1307	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1308	KASICH	Now I will tell you, I don't believe that we need to make China an enemy.	0
1309	KASICH	They are a competitor.	0
1310	KASICH	But I want to go back to three things they should do.	0
1311	KASICH	We should have the heat on them to work in North Korea to get rid of that guy and the things that he's doing, number one.	0
1312	KASICH	Number two, they need to realize they don't own the South China Sea.	0
1313	KASICH	And I will compliment the administration for sending a carrier battle group into the South China Sea.	0
1314	KASICH	And thirdly, when it comes to the issue of cyber attacks, we're going to have to beef up the cyber command.	0
1315	KASICH	And they need to understand that if you attack us we will defend ourselves, everything, including our grid.	0
1316	KASICH	But if you do it, we have the capability to take out your systems.	0
1317	KASICH	The president has not given the cyber command that authority.	0
1318	KASICH	I will.	0
1319	KASICH	And when it comes to trade, I will tell you this, they can't manipulate their currency.	0
1320	KASICH	That will not be anything that I would allow them to get away with.	0
1321	KASICH	And if I saw them doing it, I would take immediate action and make sure that the American worker is protected.	0
1322	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1323	TAPPER	Thank you, Governor Kasich.	0
1324	TAPPER	We're going to take another quick break.	0
1325	TAPPER	When we come back, we'll have more of the Republican presidential debate from Miami, Florida, right after this.	0
1326	TAPPER	Stay with us.	0
1327	SYSTEM	(COMMERCIAL BREAK)	0
1328	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1329	TAPPER	Welcome back to the CNN Republican presidential debate in Miami, Florida.	0
1330	TAPPER	Mr. Trump, I want to start with you in this block.	0
1331	TAPPER	Earlier today, a man was arrested and charged with assault after sucker- punching a protester in the face at your rally in Fayettville, North Carolina.	0
1332	TAPPER	This is hardly the first incident of violence breaking out at one of your rallies.	0
1333	TAPPER	Today, Hillary Clinton, your potential general election opponent, clearly indicated she sees this as an issue for the campaign.	0
1334	TAPPER	"She said, quote, ""this kind of behavior is repugnant. We set the tone for our campaigns, we should encourage respect, not violence."""	0
1335	TAPPER	Do you believe that you've done anything to create a tone where this kind of violence would be encouraged?	0
1336	TRUMP	I hope not.	0
1337	TRUMP	I truly hope not.	0
1338	TRUMP	I will say this.	0
1339	TRUMP	We have 25 (thousand), 30,000 people - you've seen it yourself.	0
1340	TRUMP	People come with tremendous passion and love for the country, and when they see protest - in some cases - you know, you're mentioning one case, which I haven't seen, I heard about it, which I don't like.	0
1341	TRUMP	But when they see what's going on in this country, they have anger that's unbelievable.	0
1342	TRUMP	They have anger.	0
1343	TRUMP	They love this country.	0
1344	TRUMP	They don't like seeing bad trade deals, they don't like seeing higher taxes, they don't like seeing a loss of their jobs where our jobs have just been devastated.	0
1345	TRUMP	And I know - I mean, I see it.	0
1346	TRUMP	There is some anger.	0
1347	TRUMP	There's also great love for the country.	0
1348	TRUMP	It's a beautiful thing in many respects.	0
1349	TRUMP	But I certainly do not condone that at all, Jake.	0
1350	TAPPER	"Some of your critics point to quotes you've made at these debates - at these rallies including February 23rd, ""I'd like to punch him in the face,"" referring to a protesters."	0
1351	TAPPER	"February 27th, ""in the good ol' days, they'd have ripped him out of that seat so fast."""	0
1352	TAPPER	"February 1st, ""knock the crap out of him, would, you? Seriously, OK, just knock the hell. I promise you I will pay for the legal fees, I promise, I promise."""	0
1353	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1354	TRUMP	We have some protesters who are bad dudes, they have done bad things.	0
1355	TRUMP	They are swinging, they are really dangerous and they get in there and they start hitting people.	0
1356	TRUMP	And we had a couple big, strong, powerful guys doing damage to people, not only the loudness, the loudness I don't mind.	0
1357	TRUMP	But doing serious damage.	0
1358	TRUMP	And if they've got to be taken out, to be honest, I mean, we have to run something.	0
1359	TRUMP	And it's not me.	0
1360	TRUMP	It's usually the municipal government, the police because I don't have guards all over these stadiums.	0
1361	TRUMP	I mean, we fill up stadiums.	0
1362	TRUMP	It's usually the police - and, by the way, speaking of the police, we should pay our respects to the police because they are taking tremendous abuse in this country and they do a phenomenal job.	0
1363	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1364	TRUMP	So we should pay - we should truly give our police.	0
1365	TRUMP	They're incredible people, we should give them a great deal more respect than they receive.	0
1366	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1367	TAPPER	Senator Cruz, are you concerned at all that these kind of scenes potentially hurt the Republican party for the general election?	0
1368	CRUZ	Listen, I think for every one of us, we need to show respect to the people.	0
1369	CRUZ	We need to remember who it is we're working for.	0
1370	CRUZ	You know, we've seen for seven years a president who believes he's above the law, who behaves like an emperor, who it is all about him and he forgot that he's working for the American people.	0
1371	CRUZ	And let me - let me ask, turn the camera our here.	0
1372	CRUZ	How many of y'all feel disrespected by Washington?	0
1373	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1374	CRUZ	Washington isn't listening to the people.	0
1375	CRUZ	And that's the frustration that is boiling over.	0
1376	CRUZ	And we need to nominate and elects a president who remembers, he works for the people.	0
1377	CRUZ	You know, at Donald's rallies recently, he's taken to asking people in the crowd to raise their hand and pledge their support to him.	0
1378	CRUZ	Now, I got to say to me, I think that's exactly backwards.	0
1379	CRUZ	This is a job interview.	0
1380	CRUZ	We are here pledging our support to you, not the other way around.	0
1381	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1382	CRUZ	And the only hand raising I'm interested in doing is on January 20, 2017 raising my hand with my left hand on the...	0
1383	SYSTEM	(BELL RINGS)	0
1384	CRUZ	... bible and pledging to the American people to preserve, protect and defend the constitution of United States.	0
1385	TAPPER	Thank you senator.	0
1386	TAPPER	Mr. Trump, if you'd like to respond.	0
1387	TRUMP	It shows the total dishonesty of the press.	0
1388	TRUMP	We were having - on a few occasions, again massive crowds.	0
1389	TRUMP	And we're talking and I'm saying who is going to vote on Tuesday?	0
1390	TRUMP	Who is going to vote?	0
1391	TRUMP	The place goes crazy.	0
1392	TRUMP	Then I say, hey, do me a favor.	0
1393	TRUMP	Raise your right hand.	0
1394	TRUMP	Do you swear you're going to vote for Donald Trump?	0
1395	TRUMP	Everyone's laughing, we're all having a good time.	0
1396	TRUMP	That's why I have much bigger crowds than Ted, because we have a good time at mine.	0
1397	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1398	TRUMP	But we're all having a good time and the next day, on the Today Show and a couple of other place, not too many.	0
1399	TRUMP	Because when you look at it, everyone's smiling, laughing.	0
1400	TRUMP	Their arms are raised like this.	0
1401	TRUMP	They had pictures, still pictures of people and they tried to equate it to Nazi Germany.	0
1402	SYSTEM	(BELL RINGS)	0
1403	TRUMP	It is a disgrace.	0
1404	TRUMP	It was a total disgrace.	0
1405	TRUMP	And I've had reporters, people that you know, come up to me and said that - what they did on the Today Show was a disgrace.	0
1406	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1407	TAPPER	Governor Kasich, do you worry about the scenes of violence at some of these rallies affecting the Republican party's chances in November?	0
1408	KASICH	Well, I worry about the violence at a rally period.	0
1409	KASICH	I mean, it's - you know, elections are important but the unity of this country really matters.	0
1410	KASICH	Jake, here's what I think is happening.	0
1411	KASICH	There are people out there who are worried about their jobs.	0
1412	KASICH	They're worried that somebody is going to come in and tell them they're out of work and they're 54 years old and they don't know where they're going to get another job, a man and a woman.	0
1413	KASICH	Maybe they're worried about a trade deal.	0
1414	KASICH	They're worried about the fact that their wages haven't gone up.	0
1415	KASICH	They're worried that their kids went to college and the promise was, you go to college, you get a job, things are going to be great.	0
1416	KASICH	They went to college, they rang up debt and they're still living in their parents' basement.	0
1417	KASICH	People are uptight.	0
1418	KASICH	Our seniors are worried they're going to lose their Social Security.	0
1419	KASICH	There's two ways to treat it.	0
1420	KASICH	You can either prey on that and be negative about it, or you tell people that these things can be fixed.	0
1421	KASICH	If we're Americans rather than Republicans and Democrats, we get together, we can solve all of these problems.	0
1422	KASICH	We can provide financial security, we can drive the wages up, we can get kids jobs with a more robust economy.	0
1423	SYSTEM	(BELL RINGS)	0
1424	KASICH	And you know what?	0
1425	KASICH	They want to help solve these problems right where they live and I'll give them the power to do it.	0
1426	TAPPER	Thank you governor.	0
1427	TAPPER	Senator Rubio?	0
1428	TAPPER	I know you want to say something.	0
1429	RUBIO	I do.	0
1430	RUBIO	A couple of points.	0
1431	RUBIO	The first is, I'm concerned about violence in general in this society.	0
1432	RUBIO	And by the way, the first people that are facing that violence are our law enforcement officers.	0
1433	RUBIO	And they deserve our respect and they deserve our thanks for everything they do for us.	0
1434	RUBIO	On the issue of anger.	0
1435	RUBIO	Yes, people are angry.	0
1436	RUBIO	Of course they're angry.	0
1437	RUBIO	Every institution in America has been failing us for the better part of 20 years or 30 years.	0
1438	RUBIO	But leadership is not about using the anger, leadership is about using the anger to motivate us, not to define us.	0
1439	RUBIO	But to motivate us to take action.	0
1440	RUBIO	Being here in Miami is special.	0
1441	RUBIO	My grandfather lived with us most of his life while I was growing up.	0
1442	RUBIO	And he would sit on the porch of our home and tell me all kinds of stories and things I learned about history.	0
1443	RUBIO	My grandfather was born in 1899 before there were airplanes in the sky.	0
1444	RUBIO	One night in the summer of 1969, he watched a man set foot on the moon.	0
1445	SYSTEM	(BELL RINGS)	0
1446	RUBIO	You know what he said when he saw that?	0
1447	RUBIO	He said Americans can do anything.	0
1448	RUBIO	Americans can do anything.	0
1449	RUBIO	There is no problem before us we cannot solve and we can solve it if we come together in a serious way, in this generation.	0
1450	TAPPER	Thank you senator.	0
1451	RUBIO	And embrace all of the principles that made us great.	0
1452	TAPPER	Thank you senator.	0
1453	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1454	TAPPER	The math suggests that it possible that not one of you will reach the magic number of 1,237 delegates before the Republican convention, which would mean a contested convention.	0
1455	TAPPER	Let's go back to Salem Radio's Hugh Hewitt.	0
1456	HEWITT	Thank you Jake.	0
1457	HEWITT	Governor Kasich, the math and the maps say that you can only become the nominee if in fact there is a contested convention.	0
1458	HEWITT	If we arrive on the shores of Lake Erie, Donald Trump has the most delegates.	0
1459	HEWITT	Why shouldn't the person with the most delegates, even if it's not a majority of delegates, be the nominee?	0
1460	KASICH	Well, first of all, let's not - you know, math doesn't tell the whole story in politics.	0
1461	KASICH	The great thing about politics, the reason why we watch it is because what's true today is not necessarily true tomorrow.	0
1462	KASICH	So let's not get ahead of ourselves.	0
1463	KASICH	Secondly, look, when you went to school up there in Salem, Ohio, OK.	0
1464	KASICH	If you got an 86, you got a B.	0
1465	KASICH	Because everybody else had an 84 didn't mean you got an A.	0
1466	KASICH	So you just have to win enough delegates to be the nominee.	0
1467	KASICH	And frankly, I don't know if we're going to get a convention like that.	0
1468	KASICH	But if we do, I was at one in 1976 as a wee lad and supported Ronald Reagan and actually worked directly with him.	0
1469	KASICH	He tried valiantly.	0
1470	KASICH	He lost.	0
1471	KASICH	Gerald Ford won.	0
1472	KASICH	The party was united.	0
1473	KASICH	Gerald Ford served the country great by pardoning Richard Nixon.	0
1474	KASICH	He lost the election probably because of that, but he put America first.	0
1475	KASICH	And we were healed as a party.	0
1476	KASICH	So, look, you have to earn the delegates in order to be picked.	0
1477	KASICH	But let's not get ahead of ourselves.	0
1478	KASICH	We don't know what's going to happen because we still have about half the delegates to be selected.	0
1479	KASICH	And that's what's going to be a very interesting thing to see how it all turns out as we move forward over the next couple of weeks.	0
1480	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1481	HEWITT	Thank you, Governor.	0
1482	HEWITT	Mr. Trump, if you arrive in Cleveland with a plurality and the most, but not a majority, is it legitimate for someone else to emerge from that convention the nominee?	0
1483	HEWITT	And if so, would you support that person?	0
1484	TRUMP	I think that what should happen, getting back maybe a little bit to your first question, I think that whoever - first of all, I think I'm going to have the delegates.	0
1485	TRUMP	OK?	0
1486	TRUMP	I think.	0
1487	TRUMP	Let's see what happens.	0
1488	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1489	TRUMP	But if somebody doesn't have the delegates, and I guess there's two of us up here that can and there are two of us that cannot at this moment.	0
1490	TRUMP	But if - no, that's just - by the way, that is not meant to be a criticism.	0
1491	TRUMP	That's just a mathematical fact.	0
1492	TRUMP	OK?	0
1493	TRUMP	If two of us get up there, I would say this, if - if Marco, if the governor, if Ted had more votes than me in the form of delegates, I think whoever gets to the top position as opposed to solving that artificial number that was by somebody, which is a very random number, I think that whoever gets the most delegates should win.	0
1494	TRUMP	hat's what I think.	0
1495	HEWITT	Senator Cruz, if you - if you overtake Donald Trump at the convention, what will you do to take his very passionate supporters and keep them from bolting the convention and sabotaging the fall election?	0
1496	CRUZ	Well, look, there are some folks in Washington...	0
1497	TRUMP	Make me president.	0
1498	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1499	CRUZ	Donald, you are welcome to be president of the Smithsonian.	0
1500	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1501	CRUZ	You know, there are some in Washington who are having fevered dreams of a brokered convention.	0
1502	CRUZ	They are unhappy with how the people are voting and they want to parachute in their favored Washington candidate to be the nominee.	0
1503	CRUZ	I think that would be an absolute disaster and we need to respect the will of the voters.	0
1504	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1505	CRUZ	It's one of the reasons why in the course of this election - listen, everyone up here has worked very hard.	0
1506	CRUZ	But Donald is right, there are only two of us that have a path to winning the nomination, Donald and myself.	0
1507	CRUZ	At this point, I have roughly 360 delegates.	0
1508	CRUZ	He has about 100 more than I have.	0
1509	CRUZ	We have at this point beaten Donald in eight separate states all over the country geographically, from Maine to Alaska, from Kansas to Texas, all over this country we have beaten him.	0
1510	CRUZ	And so for the people at home, if you're one of the 65, 70 percent of Republicans who recognizes that if we nominate Donald Trump, Hillary wins.	0
1511	CRUZ	That's why the media wants him to be the nominee so much.	0
1512	CRUZ	If you recognize that, then I want to invite you if you've supported other candidates, come and join us.	0
1513	CRUZ	We are seeing candidates coming together and uniting.	0
1514	CRUZ	It's why Carly Fiorina endorsed me yesterday.	0
1515	CRUZ	It's why Mike Lee endorsed me today.	0
1516	CRUZ	I ask everyone to come together.	0
1517	CRUZ	Let's stand together and let's beat Hillary Clinton in November.	0
1518	HEWITT	All right.	0
1519	HEWITT	Thank you, Senator.	0
1520	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1521	HEWITT	Mr. Trump, then to Senator Rubio.	0
1522	TRUMP	"You know, I listen and I watch Ted on television and when he speaks, and he's always saying, ""I'm the only one that beat Donald in six contests; and I beat him."""	0
1523	TRUMP	But I beat him in 13 contests.	0
1524	TRUMP	He never mentions that.	0
1525	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1526	TRUMP	And let me just tell you another little fact, little minor fact.	0
1527	TRUMP	I have about a 1.6 million votes during this primary season, more votes than Ted.	0
1528	TRUMP	The other thing is, I beat Hillary, and I will give you the list, I beat Hillary in many of the polls that have been taken.	1
1529	TRUMP	And each week, I get better and better.	0
1530	TRUMP	And believe me, I haven't even started on her yet.	0
1531	HEWITT	Senator Rubio?	0
1532	RUBIO	Let me tell you what this election is about for me.	0
1533	RUBIO	And I get all the delegate math and all that debate.	0
1534	RUBIO	Let me tell you what's about for me.	0
1535	RUBIO	On Tuesday night, I didn't do as well, obviously, as I wanted to.	0
1536	RUBIO	And I was a little bit disappointed when I got home.	0
1537	RUBIO	And my wife told me a story that night, which is the reason why I can get up the next day and keep fighting.	0
1538	RUBIO	There's a gentleman here in South Florida who just got out of surgery.	0
1539	RUBIO	And his doctors told him he needs to be home resting.	0
1540	RUBIO	"But every afternoon, he takes his little aluminum chair and he sits outside of an early polling center and holds a sign that says ""Marco Rubio."""	0
1541	RUBIO	Because for him, I symbolize all the sacrifices that his generation made so their children could have a better life than themselves	0
1542	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1543	RUBIO	That gentleman has not given up on me and I am not going to give up on him.	0
1544	RUBIO	I am going to work tirelessly every single day -	0
1545	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1546	RUBIO	... because this election is too important.	0
1547	RUBIO	What's at stake is the future of this country.	0
1548	RUBIO	And I believe - I believe that at the end of this process this nation will make the right choice because I've always believed that God has blessed America, that God's hand is upon this country and that its greatest days are yet to come.	0
1549	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1550	TAPPER	Thank you, Senator.	0
1551	TAPPER	Let's send it back to Stephen Dinan of the Washington Times.	0
1552	TAPPER	Stephen?	0
1553	DINAN	Mr. Trump, one of your biggest selling points is that you are largely self-funding your campaign, and you argue your opponents are controlled by their special interest donors.	0
1554	DINAN	Will you maintain your pledge not to take outside contributions throughout the general election?	0
1555	TRUMP	I have not made that decision yet.	0
1556	TRUMP	I will make a decision on that, but I have not made that decision.	0
1557	TRUMP	My decision was that I would go through the entire primary season and I have turned down probably $275 million worth.	0
1558	TRUMP	I have many, many friends that come up all day long, $5 million, $10 million, I'm turning down money.	0
1559	TRUMP	I feel sort of foolish to be honest with you.	0
1560	TRUMP	I don't know if I get any credit for it but I'm self-funding my campaign.	0
1561	TRUMP	And other than - and by the way, other than very small donations where people are sending in $200, $15, $20, and we have some of that, but it's not a large amount.	0
1562	TRUMP	No, I'm self-funding my campaign, and the reason is that I've been in this business a long time and I was on the other side - until eight months ago I was on the or side.	0
1563	TRUMP	I made massive contributions, large contributions to politicians, both Democrats and Republicans.	0
1564	TRUMP	I was liked by everybody, which is an important thing.	0
1565	TRUMP	I will say this - people control special interests, lobbyists, donors, they make large contributions to politicians and they have total control over those politicians.	0
1566	TRUMP	I don't want anybody to control me but the people right out there.	0
1567	TRUMP	And I'm going to do the right thing.	0
1568	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1569	DINAN	Senator Cruz, I want to come to you.	0
1570	DINAN	The vast majority of Republicans, and voters overall, agree with Mr. Trump that candidates are beholden to people and groups who donate to their campaigns.	0
1571	DINAN	Do you deny that those big donors do have influence?	0
1572	CRUZ	Well look, absolutely.	0
1573	CRUZ	And one of the things we're so frustrated about is the corruption, what I've called the Washington cartel.	0
1574	CRUZ	It's career politicians in both parties that get in bed with the lobbyists and special interests.	0
1575	CRUZ	And listen, Donald told you for 40 years he's been sitting at that table using his money to buy influence, supporting liberal Democrats like Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, but also supporting the Republican establishment and funding their effort to crush the Tea Party.	0
1576	CRUZ	And now his argument is after four decades of being part of that influence buying, after Hillary Clinton spending decades being part of that influence selling, that suddenly he will change.	0
1577	CRUZ	But the interesting point is tonight he hasn't pointed to a single special interest he's willing to take on.	0
1578	CRUZ	He didn't take on Wall Street when he supported the TARP bailout in Wall Street.	0
1579	CRUZ	He won't take on ethanol.	0
1580	CRUZ	And my campaign, by contrast, was funded by 1.1 million contributions all over this country.	0
1581	DINAN	Thank you, Senator.	0
1582	DINAN	I want to go to Mr. Trump...	0
1583	CRUZ	$62 at tedcruz.org.	0
1584	DINAN	... for a response.	0
1585	DINAN	Thank you, Senator.	0
1586	CRUZ	That's who you've got to be accountable to, the people.	0
1587	TRUMP	Ted was given to PACs.	0
1588	TRUMP	I mean, PACs - you know, these super PACs are a disaster, by the way, folks.	0
1589	TRUMP	Very corrupt.	0
1590	TRUMP	It's going to lead to lots of disasters.	0
1591	TRUMP	But Ted has super PACs and you have to look at the people that are giving to those super PACs, number one.	0
1592	TRUMP	It's very important to do that.	0
1593	TRUMP	There is total control of the candidates, I know it better than anybody that probably ever lived.	0
1594	TRUMP	And I will tell you this, I know the system far better than anybody else and I know the system is broken.	0
1595	TRUMP	And I'm the one, because I know it so well because I was on both sides of it, I was on the other side all my life and I've always made large contributions.	0
1596	TRUMP	And frankly, I know the system better than anybody else and I'm the only one up here that's going to be able to fix that system because that system is wrong.	0
1597	DINAN	Thank you, Mr. Trump.	0
1598	DINAN	Senator Rubio, I want to come to you with a question.	0
1599	DINAN	At the last debate, you mocked Mr. Trump for being flexible.	0
1600	DINAN	With so much gridlock in Washington, how can you expect to lead the country and get things done if you aren't willing to show flexibility?	0
1601	RUBIO	Well, I think you can be flexible about ideas, you shouldn't be flexible about your principles.	0
1602	RUBIO	About when it comes to ideas and working with people, I have a record of having done that.	0
1603	RUBIO	Listen, on the issue of higher education, I'm the only one that continually talks about student loan debt because I owed over $100,000 of student loan debt.	0
1604	RUBIO	So I know this is a major issue.	0
1605	RUBIO	And all my ideas that deal with higher education are bipartisan.	0
1606	RUBIO	The VA Accountability Act that I passed I did it on a - on a bipartisan basis.	0
1607	RUBIO	The sanctions that I helped - that I imposed on Hezbollah I did it on a bipartisan basis.	0
1608	RUBIO	The Girls Count Act that deals with human trafficking, we did that on a bipartisan basis.	0
1609	RUBIO	But I also want to be frank.	0
1610	RUBIO	There are issues we're going to have to have an election over.	0
1611	RUBIO	When it comes to repealing and replaces Obamacare, that's not going to be bipartisan.	0
1612	RUBIO	When it comes to reducing the tax burdens on Americans, that's not going to be bipartisan.	0
1613	RUBIO	When it comes to shrinking the size of the federal bureaucracy,that's probably not going to be bipartisan.	0
1614	RUBIO	There are issues we can work together on and we should, but there are fundamental issues about the proper role of government.	0
1615	RUBIO	And on those issues, I will fight anyone who wants to expand government, raise taxes, or weaken our military.	0
1616	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1617	DINAN	All right.	0
1618	DINAN	Mr. Trump, I want to give you a chance to respond, but specifically you talked about flexibility and one of the examples you gave was the height of the border fence.	0
1619	DINAN	What are some of the other issues on which you're willing to show flexibility?	0
1620	TRUMP	It depends on what comes up.	0
1621	TRUMP	You never know.	0
1622	TRUMP	It depends on what comes up.	0
1623	TRUMP	Look, look, we had a great president, Ronald Reagan.	0
1624	TRUMP	We had Tip O'Neill, speaker.	0
1625	TRUMP	And what do we do, we take these two men that are very, very different men, they got along, they had relationships, and they got things, and very beautifully.	0
1626	TRUMP	Nobody is complaining about the deals that Ronald Reagan made.	0
1627	TRUMP	And he made it with Tip O'Neill.	0
1628	TRUMP	We need to have people get together and work good deals out, good deals out from our standpoint.	0
1629	TRUMP	And I'll tell you this, it can be done.	0
1630	TRUMP	We don't want to continue to watch people signing executive orders because that was not what the Constitution and the brilliant designers of this incredible document had in mind.	0
1631	TRUMP	We need people that can make deals and can work, because right now in Washington there's total, absolute gridlock.	0
1632	DINAN	Thank you.	0
1633	DINAN	I want to go to Governor Kasich on this issue of flexibility, sir.	0
1634	KASICH	Well, look, my record speaks for itself.	0
1635	KASICH	What I talk about tonight is not a theory.	0
1636	KASICH	These are things that I've done.	0
1637	KASICH	I was there when we reformed the Pentagon on a bipartisan basis to give control to the commanders in the field and force the services to work together.	0
1638	KASICH	I was the chief architect, along with Senator Domenici, of the last time we balanced the budget and the first time since we walked on the moon.	0
1639	KASICH	I was there when I worked on the welfare reform in Washington.	0
1640	KASICH	And we got it done and we eliminated the entitlement on welfare,	0
1641	KASICH	I then went to Ohio and took Ohio from a basket case, working in a bipartisan basis to reform many things, including the Cleveland public schools, working with a Democratic mayor.	0
1642	KASICH	My problem isn't that people don't know this.	0
1643	KASICH	They say, well, what does that mean?	0
1644	KASICH	Does that mean you're too easy?	0
1645	KASICH	Well, let me tell you, when we did the balanced budget, we cut the capital gains tax, we provided a family tax credit, we shrunk the government.	0
1646	KASICH	In my state, the state of Ohio, has the smallest government in the state of Ohio in 30 years.	0
1647	KASICH	Conservative principles will work.	0
1648	KASICH	But show respect to the other side.	0
1649	KASICH	One final thing, in regard to Social Security, we will not get that done alone.	0
1650	KASICH	We will have to have some responsible Democrats who will come in to fix the problem of Social Security.	0
1651	KASICH	I know how to do it because I've done it and I'll do it again.	0
1652	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1653	TAPPER	Thank you, Governor.	0
1654	TAPPER	We have time for one last break.	0
1655	TAPPER	We'll be right back after this.	0
1656	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1657	SYSTEM	(COMMERCIAL BREAK)	0
1658	TAPPER	And we're back with the Republican presidential debate, just five days before the next primary elections.	0
1659	TAPPER	It is time now for closing statements.	0
1660	TAPPER	Candidates, you will each have one minute.	0
1661	TAPPER	And we'll start with Governor Kasich.	0
1662	KASICH	Well, I'd like to say to all of you, the American people, I have run an unwavering, positive campaign for president of the United States.	0
1663	KASICH	I have tried to be positive in such a way as to show my record, my accomplishments, my vision.	0
1664	KASICH	And I wanted to raise the bar in presidential politics so our kids can take a look at the way you can run for president and you will someday maybe be president of the United States.	0
1665	KASICH	Sometimes being positive isn't all that interesting, but it's very interesting to my family, my children and so many supporters that I meet all across the country and I will continue to run a positive campaign.	0
1666	KASICH	I can fix the problems in Washington, I've done it before.	0
1667	KASICH	And, in fact, I want to turn power, money and influence back to you, the American people, so that you can be in the schools and on the streets fighting drugs and dealing with the issues of poverty.	0
1668	KASICH	We can do this together.	0
1669	KASICH	Allow me to take care of the federal issues when I send the power back and the money and the influence to you and you can strengthen our nation and our neighborhoods and our families.	0
1670	KASICH	That's where the spirit and strength of America is.	0
1671	KASICH	But ask the people - my friends in Illinois and of course, my beloved Buckeyes to consider me on Tuesday and, please, let me have your vote.	0
1672	KASICH	God bless.	0
1673	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1674	TAPPER	Senator Rubio.	0
1675	RUBIO	It's great to be here, back at home in Miami.	0
1676	RUBIO	It's hard to believe that just two decades ago, my father was just a bartender working in the city.	0
1677	RUBIO	And now his son stands on this stage, here, as a candidate for the highest office in the land.	0
1678	RUBIO	My parents never wanted me to go into politics or in particular or anything else.	0
1679	RUBIO	They just wanted me to have the opportunity to live out all the dreams they once had for themselves.	0
1680	RUBIO	And that was possible because America is a special country.	0
1681	RUBIO	But that was not an accident.	0
1682	RUBIO	America is great because each generation before us did what needed to be done.	0
1683	RUBIO	They solved their problems, they confronted their challenges.	0
1684	RUBIO	They embraced their opportunities.	0
1685	RUBIO	And for over two centuries, each generation has left the next better off.	0
1686	RUBIO	And now the moment has arrived for our generation to do our part.	0
1687	RUBIO	And I'm telling you tonight, if you vote for me, here in Florida and everywhere across this country on Tuesday, when I'm elected president, this generation will do it's part.	0
1688	RUBIO	We will do whatever it takes to ensure that our children inherit from us, what we inherited from our parents, the single greatest nation in the history of all of mankind.	0
1689	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1690	TAPPER	Senator Cruz.	0
1691	CRUZ	What an incredible nation we have, that the son of a bartender and the son of mailman and the son of a dishwasher and a successful businessman, can all stand on this stage, competing and asking for your support.	0
1692	CRUZ	In just a few months, one of us is going to stand on the debate stage with Hillary Clinton.	0
1693	CRUZ	And the choice we are making today is who will best defend our values?	0
1694	CRUZ	Who will best defend your values and fight for you?	0
1695	CRUZ	"I have to tell you, I cannot wait to stand on that stage with Hillary Clinton and say, ""Madam Secretary, you are asking for a third term of a failed administration.  You are asking for millions more to remain in stagnant jobs; for millions more steelworkers to be out of work; for wages to remain low; for young people not to have a future."""	0
1696	CRUZ	We can do better.	0
1697	CRUZ	We can instead repeal Obamacare, abolish the IRS, unleash millions of jobs, defend the Bill of Rights, defend the Second Amendment and religious liberty, stand with our cops and our firefighters and our soldiers, and we can keep America safe.	0
1698	CRUZ	That's the choice I will put to her this fall.	0
1699	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1700	TAPPER	Mr. Trump?	0
1701	TRUMP	Thank you very much.	0
1702	TRUMP	The Republican Party has a great chance to embrace millions of people that it's never known before.	0
1703	TRUMP	They're coming by the millions.	0
1704	TRUMP	We should seize that opportunity.	0
1705	TRUMP	These are great people.	0
1706	TRUMP	These are fantastic people.	0
1707	TRUMP	These are people that love our country.	0
1708	TRUMP	These are people that want to see America be great again.	0
1709	TRUMP	These are people that will win us the election and win it easily.	0
1710	TRUMP	These are people that once the election is won will be able to put Supreme Court justices up that will do a fabulous job.	0
1711	TRUMP	Because let me tell you, if we lose this election, you're going to have three, four or maybe even five justices and this country will never, ever recover.	0
1712	TRUMP	It will take centuries to recover.	0
1713	TRUMP	So I just say embrace these millions of people that now for the first time ever love the Republican Party.	0
1714	TRUMP	And unify.	0
1715	TRUMP	Be smart and unify.	0
1716	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1717	TAPPER	And that concludes this 12th Republican presidential debate.	0
1718	TAPPER	We want to thank the candidates, the Republican National Committee, the University of Miami and, of course, each of you for watching.	0
1	TRUMP	Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, the First Lady of the United States, and my fellow Americans:	0
2	TRUMP	Less than one year has passed since I first stood at this podium, in this majestic chamber, to speak on behalf of the American people and to address their concerns, their hopes, and their dreams.	0
3	TRUMP	That night, our new administration had already taken very swift action.	0
4	TRUMP	A new tide of optimism was already sweeping across our land.	0
5	TRUMP	Each day since, we have gone forward with a clear vision and a righteous mission — to make America great again for all Americans.	0
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7	TRUMP	Over the last year, we have made incredible progress and achieved extraordinary success.	0
8	TRUMP	We have faced challenges we expected, and others we could never have imagined.	0
9	TRUMP	We have shared in the heights of victory and the pains of hardship.	0
10	TRUMP	We have endured floods and fires and storms.	0
11	TRUMP	But through it all, we have seen the beauty of America’s soul, and the steel in America’s spine.	0
12	TRUMP	Each test has forged new American heroes to remind us who we are, and show us what we can be.	0
13	TRUMP	We saw the volunteers of the Cajun Navy, racing to the rescue with their fishing boats to save people in the aftermath of a totally devastating hurricane.	0
14	TRUMP	We saw strangers shielding strangers from a hail of gunfire on the Las Vegas strip.	0
15	TRUMP	We heard tales of Americans like Coast Guard Petty Officer Ashlee Leppert, who is here tonight in the gallery with Melania.	0
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17	TRUMP	Ashlee was aboard one of the first helicopters on the scene in Houston during the Hurricane Harvey.	0
18	TRUMP	Through 18 hours of wind and rain, Ashlee braved live power lines and deep water to help save more than 40 lives.	0
19	TRUMP	Ashlee, we all thank you.	0
20	TRUMP	Thank you very much.	0
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22	TRUMP	We heard about Americans like firefighter David Dahlberg.	0
23	TRUMP	He’s here with us also.	0
24	TRUMP	David faced down walls of flame to rescue almost 60 children trapped at a California summer camp threatened by those devastating wildfires.	0
25	TRUMP	To everyone still recovering in Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands — everywhere — we are with you, we love you, and we always will pull through together, always.	0
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27	TRUMP	Thank you to David and the brave people of California.	0
28	TRUMP	Thank you very much, David.	0
29	TRUMP	Great job.	0
30	TRUMP	Some trials over the past year touched this chamber very personally.	0
31	TRUMP	With us tonight is one of the toughest people ever to serve in this House — a guy who took a bullet, almost died, and was back to work three and a half months later: the legend from Louisiana, Congressman Steve Scalise.	0
32	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
33	TRUMP	I think they like you, Steve.	0
34	TRUMP	(LAUGHTER)	0
35	TRUMP	We are incredibly grateful for the heroic efforts of the Capitol Police officers, the Alexandria Police, and the doctors, nurses, and paramedics who saved his life and the lives of many others; some in this room.	0
36	TRUMP	In the aftermath —	0
37	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
38	TRUMP	— yes.	0
39	TRUMP	Yes.	0
40	TRUMP	In the aftermath of that terrible shooting, we came together, not as Republicans or Democrats, but as representatives of the people.	0
41	TRUMP	But it is not enough to come together only in times of tragedy.	0
42	TRUMP	Tonight, I call upon all of us to set aside our differences, to seek out common ground, and to summon the unity we need to deliver for the people.	0
43	TRUMP	This is really the key.	0
44	TRUMP	These are the people we were elected to serve.	0
45	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
46	TRUMP	Over the last year, the world has seen what we always knew: that no people on Earth are so fearless, or daring, or determined as Americans.	0
47	TRUMP	If there is a mountain, we climb it.	0
48	TRUMP	If there is a frontier, we cross it.	0
49	TRUMP	If there’s a challenge, we tame it.	0
50	TRUMP	If there’s an opportunity, we seize it.	0
51	TRUMP	So let’s begin tonight by recognizing that the state of our Union is strong because our people are strong.	0
52	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
53	TRUMP	And together, we are building a safe, strong, and proud America.	0
54	TRUMP	Since the election, we have created 2.4 million new jobs, including —	1
55	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
56	TRUMP	— including 200,000 new jobs in manufacturing alone.	1
57	TRUMP	Tremendous numbers.	0
58	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
59	TRUMP	After years and years of wage stagnation, we are finally seeing rising wages.	0
60	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
61	TRUMP	Unemployment claims have hit a 45-year low.	0
62	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
63	TRUMP	It’s something I’m very proud of.	0
64	TRUMP	African American unemployment stands at the lowest rate ever recorded.	1
65	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
66	TRUMP	And Hispanic American unemployment has also reached the lowest levels in history.	1
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68	TRUMP	Small-business confidence is at an all-time high.	0
69	TRUMP	The stock market has smashed one record after another, gaining $8 trillion, and more, in value in just this short period of time.	0
70	TRUMP	The great news —	0
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72	TRUMP	— the great news for Americans’ 401(k), retirement, pension, and college savings accounts have gone through the roof.	0
73	TRUMP	And just as I promised the American people from this podium 11 months ago, we enacted the biggest tax cuts and reforms in American history.	1
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75	TRUMP	Our massive tax cuts provide tremendous relief for the middle class and small business.	1
76	TRUMP	To lower tax rates for hardworking Americans, we nearly doubled the standard deduction for everyone.	1
77	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
78	TRUMP	Now, the first $24,000 earned by a married couple is completely tax-free.	1
79	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
80	TRUMP	We also doubled the child tax credit.	1
81	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
82	TRUMP	A typical family of four making $75,000 will see their tax bill reduced by $2,000, slashing their tax bill in half.	1
83	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
84	TRUMP	In April, this will be the last time you will ever file under the old and very broken system, and millions of Americans will have more take-home pay starting next month — a lot more.	0
85	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
86	TRUMP	We eliminated an especially cruel tax that fell mostly on Americans making less than $50,000 a year, forcing them to pay tremendous penalties simply because they couldn’t afford government-ordered health plans.	1
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88	TRUMP	We repealed the core of the disastrous Obamacare.	0
89	TRUMP	The individual mandate is now gone.	0
90	TRUMP	Thank heaven.	0
91	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
92	TRUMP	We slashed the business tax rate from 35 percent all the way down to 21 percent, so American companies can compete and win against anyone else anywhere in the world.	1
93	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
94	TRUMP	These changes alone are estimated to increase average family income by more than $4,000.	1
95	TRUMP	A lot of money.	0
96	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
97	TRUMP	Small businesses have also received a massive tax cut, and can now deduct 20 percent of their business income.	1
98	TRUMP	Here tonight are Steve Staub and Sandy Keplinger of Staub Manufacturing, a small, beautiful business in Ohio.	0
99	TRUMP	They’ve just finished the best year in their 20-year history.	0
100	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
101	TRUMP	Because of tax reform, they are handing out raises, hiring an additional 14 people, and expanding into the building next door.	0
102	TRUMP	Good feeling.	0
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104	TRUMP	One of Staub’s employees, Corey Adams, is also with us tonight.	0
105	TRUMP	Corey is an all-American worker.	0
106	TRUMP	He supported himself through high school, lost his job during the 2008 recession, and was later hired by Staub, where he trained to become a welder.	0
107	TRUMP	Like many hardworking Americans, Corey plans to invest his tax cut raise into his new home and his two daughters’ education.	0
108	TRUMP	Corey, please stand.	0
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110	TRUMP	And he’s a great welder.	0
111	TRUMP	(LAUGHTER)	0
112	TRUMP	I was told that by the man that owns that company that’s doing so well.	0
113	TRUMP	So congratulations, Corey.	0
114	TRUMP	Since we passed tax cuts, roughly 3 million workers have already gotten tax cut bonuses — many of them thousands and thousands of dollars per worker.	1
115	TRUMP	And it’s getting more every month, every week.	0
116	TRUMP	Apple has just announced it plans to invest a total of $350 billion in America, and hire another 20,000 workers.	0
117	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
118	TRUMP	And just a little while ago, ExxonMobil announced a $50 billion investment in the United States, just a little while ago.	0
119	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
120	TRUMP	This, in fact, is our new American moment.	0
121	TRUMP	There has never been a better time to start living the American Dream.	0
122	TRUMP	So to every citizen watching at home tonight, no matter where you’ve been, or where you’ve come from, this is your time.	0
123	TRUMP	If you work hard, if you believe in yourself, if you believe in America, then you can dream anything, you can be anything, and together, we can achieve absolutely anything.	0
124	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
125	TRUMP	Tonight, I want to talk about what kind of future we are going to have, and what kind of a nation we are going to be.	0
126	TRUMP	All of us, together, as one team, one people, and one American family can do anything.	0
127	TRUMP	We all share the same home, the same heart, the same destiny, and the same great American flag.	0
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129	TRUMP	Together, we are rediscovering the American way.	0
130	TRUMP	In America, we know that faith and family, not government and bureaucracy, are the center of American life.	0
131	TRUMP	"The motto is, ""In God We Trust."""	0
132	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
133	TRUMP	And we celebrate our police, our military, and our amazing veterans as heroes who deserve our total and unwavering support.	0
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135	TRUMP	Here tonight is Preston Sharp, a 12-year-old boy from Redding, California, who noticed that veterans’ graves were not marked with flags on Veterans Day.	0
136	TRUMP	He decided all by himself to change that, and started a movement that has now placed 40,000 flags at the graves of our great heroes.	0
137	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
138	TRUMP	Preston, a job well done.	0
139	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
140	TRUMP	Young patriots, like Preston, teach all of us about our civic duty as Americans.	0
141	TRUMP	And I met Preston a little while ago, and he is something very special — that I can tell you.	0
142	TRUMP	Great future.	0
143	TRUMP	Thank you very much for all you’ve done, Preston.	0
144	TRUMP	Thank you very much.	0
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146	TRUMP	Preston’s reverence for those who have served our nation reminds us of why we salute our flag, why we put our hands on our hearts for the Pledge of Allegiance, and why we proudly stand for the National Anthem.	0
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148	TRUMP	Americans love their country, and they deserve a government that shows them the same love and loyalty in return.	0
149	TRUMP	For the last year, we have sought to restore the bonds of trust between our citizens and their government.	0
150	TRUMP	Working with the Senate, we are appointing judges who will interpret the Constitution as written, including a great new Supreme Court justice, and more circuit court judges than any new administration in the history of our country.	1
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152	TRUMP	We are totally defending our Second Amendment, and have taken historic actions to protect religious liberty.	0
153	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
154	TRUMP	And we are serving our brave veterans, including giving our veterans choice in their healthcare decisions.	0
155	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
156	TRUMP	Last year, Congress also passed, and I signed, the landmark VA Accountability Act.	0
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158	TRUMP	Since its passage, my administration has already removed more than 1,500 VA employees who failed to give our veterans the care they deserve.	0
159	TRUMP	And we are hiring talented people who love our vets as much as we do.	0
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161	TRUMP	And I will not stop until our veterans are properly taken care of, which has been my promise to them from the very beginning of this great journey.	0
162	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
163	TRUMP	All Americans deserve accountability and respect, and that’s what we are giving to our wonderful heroes, our veterans.	0
164	TRUMP	Thank you.	0
165	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
166	TRUMP	So, tonight, I call on Congress to empower every Cabinet Secretary with the authority to reward good workers and to remove federal employees who undermine the public trust or fail the American people.	0
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168	TRUMP	In our drive to make Washington accountable, we have eliminated more regulations in our first year than any administration in the history of our country.	0
169	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
170	TRUMP	We have ended the war on American energy, and we have ended the war on beautiful clean coal.	0
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172	TRUMP	We are now very proudly an exporter of energy to the world.	1
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174	TRUMP	In Detroit, I halted government mandates that crippled America’s great, beautiful autoworkers so that we can get Motor City revving its engines again.	0
175	TRUMP	And that’s what’s happening.	0
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177	TRUMP	Many car companies are now building and expanding plants in the United States — something we haven’t seen for decades.	1
178	TRUMP	Chrysler is moving a major plant from Mexico to Michigan.	1
179	TRUMP	Toyota and Mazda are opening up a plant in Alabama — a big one.	1
180	TRUMP	And we haven’t seen this in a long time.	1
181	TRUMP	It’s all coming back.	0
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183	TRUMP	Very soon, auto plants and other plants will be opening up all over our country.	0
184	TRUMP	This is all news Americans are totally unaccustomed to hearing.	0
185	TRUMP	For many years, companies and jobs were only leaving us.	0
186	TRUMP	But now they are roaring back.	0
187	TRUMP	They’re coming back.	0
188	TRUMP	They want to be where the action is.	0
189	TRUMP	They want to be in the United States of America.	0
190	TRUMP	That’s where they want to be.	0
191	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
192	TRUMP	Exciting progress is happening every single day.	0
193	TRUMP	To speed access to breakthrough cures and affordable generic drugs, last year the FDA approved more new and generic drugs and medical devices than ever before in our country’s history.	0
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195	TRUMP	We also believe that patients with terminal conditions, and terminal illness, should have access to experimental treatment immediately that could potentially save their lives.	0
196	TRUMP	People who are terminally ill should not have to go from country to country to seek a cure.	0
197	TRUMP	I want to give them a chance right here at home.	0
198	TRUMP	It’s time for Congress to give these wonderful, incredible Americans the right to try.	0
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200	TRUMP	One of my greatest priorities is to reduce the price of prescription drugs.	0
201	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
202	TRUMP	In many other countries, these drugs cost far less than what we pay in the United States.	0
203	TRUMP	And it’s very, very unfair.	0
204	TRUMP	That is why I have directed my administration to make fixing the injustice of high drug prices one of my top priorities for the year.	0
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206	TRUMP	And prices will come down substantially.	0
207	TRUMP	Watch.	0
208	TRUMP	America has also finally turned the page on decades of unfair trade deals that sacrificed our prosperity and shipped away our companies, our jobs, and our wealth.	1
209	TRUMP	Our nation has lost its wealth, but we’re getting it back so fast.	1
210	TRUMP	The era of economic surrender is totally over.	1
211	TRUMP	From now on, we expect trading relationships to be fair and, very importantly, reciprocal.	0
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213	TRUMP	We will work to fix bad trade deals and negotiate new ones.	0
214	TRUMP	And they’ll be good ones, but they’ll be fair.	0
215	TRUMP	And we will protect American workers and American intellectual property through strong enforcement of our trade rules.	0
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217	TRUMP	As we rebuild our industries, it is also time to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure.	0
218	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
219	TRUMP	America is a nation of builders.	0
220	TRUMP	We built the Empire State Building in just one year.	0
221	TRUMP	Isn’t it a disgrace that it can now take 10 years just to get a minor permit approved for the building of a simple road?	0
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223	TRUMP	I am asking both parties to come together to give us safe, fast, reliable, and modern infrastructure that our economy needs and our people deserve.	0
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225	TRUMP	Tonight, I’m calling on Congress to produce a bill that generates at least $1.5 trillion for the new infrastructure investment that our country so desperately needs.	0
226	TRUMP	Every federal dollar should be leveraged by partnering with state and local governments and, where appropriate, tapping into private sector investment to permanently fix the infrastructure deficit.	0
227	TRUMP	And we can do it.	0
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229	TRUMP	Any bill must also streamline the permitting and approval process, getting it down to no more than two years, and perhaps even one.	0
230	TRUMP	Together, we can reclaim our great building heritage.	0
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232	TRUMP	We will build gleaming new roads, bridges, highways, railways, and waterways all across our land.	0
233	TRUMP	And we will do it with American heart, and American hands, and American grit.	0
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235	TRUMP	We want every American to know the dignity of a hard day’s work.	0
236	TRUMP	We want every child to be safe in their home at night.	0
237	TRUMP	And we want every citizen to be proud of this land that we all love so much.	0
238	TRUMP	We can lift our citizens from welfare to work, from dependence to independence, and from poverty to prosperity.	0
239	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
240	TRUMP	As tax cuts create new jobs, let’s invest in workforce development and let’s invest in job training, which we need so badly.	0
241	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
242	TRUMP	Let’s open great vocational schools so our future workers can learn a craft and realize their full potential.	0
243	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
244	TRUMP	And let’s support working families by supporting paid family leave.	0
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246	TRUMP	As America regains its strength, opportunity must be extended to all citizens.	0
247	TRUMP	That is why this year we will embark on reforming our prisons to help former inmates who have served their time get a second chance at life.	0
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249	TRUMP	Struggling communities, especially immigrant communities, will also be helped by immigration policies that focus on the best interests of American workers and American families.	0
250	TRUMP	For decades, open borders have allowed drugs and gangs to pour into our most vulnerable communities.	0
251	TRUMP	They’ve allowed millions of low-wage workers to compete for jobs and wages against the poorest Americans.	0
252	TRUMP	Most tragically, they have caused the loss of many innocent lives.	0
253	TRUMP	Here tonight are two fathers and two mothers: Evelyn Rodriguez, Freddy Cuevas, Elizabeth Alvarado, and Robert Mickens.	0
254	TRUMP	Their two teenage daughters — Kayla Cuevas and Nisa Mickens — were close friends on Long Island.	0
255	TRUMP	But in September 2016, on the eve of Nisa’s 16th Birthday — such a happy time it should have been — neither of them came home.	0
256	TRUMP	These two precious girls were brutally murdered while walking together in their hometown.	0
257	TRUMP	Six members of the savage MS-13 gang have been charged with Kayla and Nisa’s murders.	0
258	TRUMP	Many of these gang members took advantage of glaring loopholes in our laws to enter the country as illegal, unaccompanied alien minors, and wound up in Kayla and Nisa’s high school.	0
259	TRUMP	Evelyn, Elizabeth, Freddy, and Robert: Tonight, everyone in this chamber is praying for you.	0
260	TRUMP	Everyone in America is grieving for you.	0
261	TRUMP	Please stand.	0
262	TRUMP	Thank you very much.	0
263	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
264	TRUMP	I want you to know that 320 million hearts are right now breaking for you.	0
265	TRUMP	We love you.	0
266	TRUMP	Thank you.	0
267	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
268	TRUMP	While we cannot imagine the depths of that kind of sorrow, we can make sure that other families never have to endure this kind of pain.	0
269	TRUMP	Tonight, I am calling on Congress to finally close the deadly loopholes that have allowed MS-13, and other criminal gangs, to break into our country.	0
270	TRUMP	We have proposed new legislation that will fix our immigration laws and support our ICE and Border Patrol agents — these are great people; these are great, great people — that work so hard in the midst of such danger so that this can never happen again.	0
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272	TRUMP	The United States is a compassionate nation.	0
273	TRUMP	We are proud that we do more than any other country anywhere in the world to help the needy, the struggling, and the underprivileged all over the world.	1
274	TRUMP	But as President of the United States, my highest loyalty, my greatest compassion, my constant concern is for America’s children, America’s struggling workers, and America’s forgotten communities.	0
275	TRUMP	I want our youth to grow up to achieve great things.	0
276	TRUMP	I want our poor to have their chance to rise.	0
277	TRUMP	So, tonight, I am extending an open hand to work with members of both parties, Democrats and Republicans, to protect our citizens of every background, color, religion, and creed.	0
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279	TRUMP	My duty, and the sacred duty of every elected official in this chamber, is to defend Americans, to protect their safety, their families, their communities, and their right to the American Dream.	0
280	TRUMP	Because Americans are dreamers too.	0
281	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
282	TRUMP	Here tonight is one leader in the effort to defend our country, Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Celestino Martinez.	0
283	TRUMP	"He goes by ""DJ"" and ""CJ."""	0
284	TRUMP	"He said, ""Call me either one."""	0
285	TRUMP	"So we’ll call you ""CJ."""	0
286	TRUMP	Served 15 years in the Air Force before becoming an ICE agent and spending the last 15 years fighting gang violence and getting dangerous criminals off of our streets.	0
287	TRUMP	Tough job.	0
288	TRUMP	At one point, MS-13 leaders ordered CJ’s murder.	0
289	TRUMP	And they wanted it to happen quickly.	0
290	TRUMP	But he did not cave to threats or to fear.	0
291	TRUMP	Last May, he commanded an operation to track down gang members on Long Island.	0
292	TRUMP	His team has arrested nearly 400, including more than 220 MS-13 gang members.	0
293	TRUMP	And I have to tell you, what the Border Patrol and ICE have done — we have sent thousands and thousands and thousands of MS-13 horrible people out of this country or into our prisons.	0
294	TRUMP	So I just want to congratulate you, CJ.	0
295	TRUMP	You’re a brave guy.	0
296	TRUMP	Thank you very much.	0
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298	TRUMP	"And I asked CJ, ""What’s the secret?"""	0
299	TRUMP	"He said, ""We’re just tougher than they are."""	0
300	TRUMP	And I like that answer.	0
301	TRUMP	(LAUGHTER)	0
302	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
303	TRUMP	Now let’s get Congress to send you — and all of the people in this great chamber have to do it; we have no choice.	0
304	TRUMP	CJ, we’re going to send you reinforcements, and we’re going to send them to you quickly.	0
305	TRUMP	It’s what you need.	0
306	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
307	TRUMP	Over the next few weeks, the House and Senate will be voting on an immigration reform package.	0
308	TRUMP	In recent months, my administration has met extensively with both Democrats and Republicans to craft a bipartisan approach to immigration reform.	0
309	TRUMP	Based on these discussions, we presented Congress with a detailed proposal that should be supported by both parties as a fair compromise, one where nobody gets everything they want, but where our country gets the critical reforms it needs and must have.	0
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311	TRUMP	Here are the four pillars of our plan: The first pillar of our framework generously offers a path to citizenship for 1.8 million illegal immigrants who were brought here by their parents at a young age.	0
312	TRUMP	That covers almost three times more people than the previous administration covered.	0
313	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
314	TRUMP	Under our plan, those who meet education and work requirements, and show good moral character, will be able to become full citizens of the United States over a 12-year period.	0
315	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
316	TRUMP	The second pillar fully secures the border.	0
317	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
318	TRUMP	That means building a great wall on the southern border, and it means hiring more heroes, like CJ, to keep our communities safe.	0
319	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
320	TRUMP	Crucially, our plan closes the terrible loopholes exploited by criminals and terrorists to enter our country, and it finally ends the horrible and dangerous practice of catch and release.	0
321	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
322	TRUMP	The third pillar ends the visa lottery, a program that randomly hands out green cards without any regard for skill, merit, or the safety of American people.	1
323	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
324	TRUMP	It’s time to begin moving towards a merit-based immigration system, one that admits people who are skilled, who want to work, who will contribute to our society, and who will love and respect our country.	0
325	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
326	TRUMP	The fourth and final pillar protects the nuclear family by ending chain migration.	0
327	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
328	TRUMP	Under the current broken system, a single immigrant can bring in virtually unlimited numbers of distant relatives.	0
329	TRUMP	Under our plan, we focus on the immediate family by limiting sponsorships to spouses and minor children.	0
330	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
331	TRUMP	This vital reform is necessary, not just for our economy, but for our security and for the future of America.	0
332	TRUMP	In recent weeks, two terrorist attacks in New York were made possible by the visa lottery and chain migration.	0
333	TRUMP	In the age of terrorism, these programs present risks we can just no longer afford.	0
334	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
335	TRUMP	It’s time to reform these outdated immigration rules, and finally bring our immigration system into the 21st century.	0
336	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
337	TRUMP	These four pillars represent a down-the-middle compromise, and one that will create a safe, modern, and lawful immigration system.	0
338	TRUMP	For over 30 years, Washington has tried and failed to solve this problem.	0
339	TRUMP	This Congress can be the one that finally makes it happen.	0
340	TRUMP	Most importantly, these four pillars will produce legislation that fulfills my ironclad pledge to sign a bill that puts America first.	0
341	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
342	TRUMP	So let’s come together, set politics aside, and finally get the job done.	0
343	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
344	TRUMP	These reforms will also support our response to the terrible crisis of opioid and drug addiction.	0
345	TRUMP	Never before has it been like it is now.	0
346	TRUMP	It is terrible.	0
347	TRUMP	We have to do something about it.	0
348	TRUMP	In 2016, we lost 64,000 Americans to drug overdoses — 174 deaths per day; 7 per hour.	0
349	TRUMP	We must get much tougher on drug dealers and pushers if we are going to succeed in stopping this scourge.	0
350	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
351	TRUMP	My administration is committed to fighting the drug epidemic and helping get treatment for those in need, for those who have been so terribly hurt.	0
352	TRUMP	The struggle will be long and it will be difficult, but as Americans always do — in the end, we will succeed.	0
353	TRUMP	We will prevail.	0
354	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
355	TRUMP	As we have seen tonight, the most difficult challenges bring out the best in America.	0
356	TRUMP	We see a vivid expression of this truth in the story of the Holets family of New Mexico.	0
357	TRUMP	Ryan Holets is 27 years old, an officer with the Albuquerque Police Department.	0
358	TRUMP	He’s here tonight with his wife Rebecca.	0
359	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
360	TRUMP	Thank you, Ryan.	0
361	TRUMP	Last year, Ryan was on duty when he saw a pregnant, homeless woman preparing to inject heroin.	0
362	TRUMP	When Ryan told her she was going to harm her unborn child, she began to weep.	0
363	TRUMP	She told him she didn’t know where to turn, but badly wanted a safe home for her baby.	0
364	TRUMP	"In that moment, Ryan said he felt God speak to him: ""You will do it, because you can."""	0
365	TRUMP	He heard those words.	0
366	TRUMP	He took out a picture of his wife and their four kids.	0
367	TRUMP	Then, he went home to tell his wife Rebecca.	0
368	TRUMP	In an instant, she agreed to adopt.	0
369	TRUMP	The Holets named their new daughter Hope.	0
370	TRUMP	Ryan and Rebecca, you embody the goodness of our nation.	0
371	TRUMP	Thank you.	0
372	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
373	TRUMP	Thank you, Ryan and Rebecca.	0
374	TRUMP	As we rebuild America’s strength and confidence at home, we are also restoring our strength and standing abroad.	1
375	TRUMP	Around the world, we face rogue regimes, terrorist groups, and rivals like China and Russia that challenge our interests, our economy, and our values.	0
376	TRUMP	In confronting these horrible dangers, we know that weakness is the surest path to conflict, and unmatched power is the surest means to our true and great defense.	0
377	TRUMP	For this reason, I am asking Congress to end the dangerous defense sequester and fully fund our great military.	0
378	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
379	TRUMP	As part of our defense, we must modernize and rebuild our nuclear arsenal, hopefully never having to use it, but making it so strong and so powerful that it will deter any acts of aggression by any other nation or anyone else.	0
380	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
381	TRUMP	Perhaps someday in the future, there will be a magical moment when the countries of the world will get together to eliminate their nuclear weapons.	0
382	TRUMP	Unfortunately, we are not there yet, sadly.	0
383	TRUMP	Last year, I also pledged that we would work with our allies to extinguish ISIS from the face of the Earth.	0
384	TRUMP	One year later, I am proud to report that the coalition to defeat ISIS has liberated very close to 100 percent of the territory just recently held by these killers in Iraq and in Syria and in other locations, as well.	0
385	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
386	TRUMP	But there is much more work to be done.	0
387	TRUMP	We will continue our fight until ISIS is defeated.	0
388	TRUMP	Army Staff Sergeant Justin Peck is here tonight.	0
389	TRUMP	Near Raqqa, last November, Justin and his comrade, Chief Petty Officer Kenton Stacy, were on a mission to clear buildings that ISIS had rigged with explosive so that civilians could return to that city hopefully soon, and hopefully safely.	0
390	TRUMP	Clearing the second floor of a vital hospital, Kenton Stacy was severely wounded by an explosion.	0
391	TRUMP	Immediately, Justin bounded into the booby-trapped and unbelievably dangerous and unsafe building, and found Kenton, but in very, very bad shape.	0
392	TRUMP	He applied pressure to the wound and inserted a tube to reopen an airway.	0
393	TRUMP	He then performed CPR for 20 straight minutes during the ground transport, and maintained artificial respiration through two and a half hours and through emergency surgery.	0
394	TRUMP	Kenton Stacy would have died if it were not for Justin’s selfless love for his fellow warrior.	0
395	TRUMP	Tonight, Kenton is recovering in Texas.	0
396	TRUMP	Raqqa is liberated.	0
397	TRUMP	"And Justin is wearing his new Bronze Star, with a ""V"" for ""valor."""	0
398	TRUMP	Staff Sergeant Peck, all of America salutes you.	0
399	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
400	TRUMP	Terrorists who do things like place bombs in civilian hospitals are evil.	0
401	TRUMP	When possible, we have no choice but to annihilate them.	0
402	TRUMP	When necessary, we must be able to detain and question them.	0
403	TRUMP	But we must be clear: Terrorists are not merely criminals.	0
404	TRUMP	They are unlawful enemy combatants.	0
405	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
406	TRUMP	And when captured overseas, they should be treated like the terrorists they are.	0
407	TRUMP	In the past, we have foolishly released hundreds and hundreds of dangerous terrorists, only to meet them again on the battlefield — including the ISIS leader, al-Baghdadi, who we captured, who we had, who we released.	0
408	TRUMP	So today, I’m keeping another promise.	0
409	TRUMP	I just signed, prior to walking in, an order directing Secretary Mattis, who is doing a great job, thank you —	0
410	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
411	TRUMP	— to reexamine our military detention policy and to keep open the detention facilities in Guantanamo Bay.	0
412	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
413	TRUMP	I am asking Congress to ensure that, in the fight against ISIS and al Qaeda, we continue to have all necessary power to detain terrorists, wherever we chase them down, wherever we find them.	0
414	TRUMP	And in many cases, for them, it will now be Guantanamo Bay.	0
415	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
416	TRUMP	At the same time, as of a few months ago, our warriors in Afghanistan have new rules of engagement.	0
417	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
418	TRUMP	Along with their heroic Afghan partners, our military is no longer undermined by artificial timelines, and we no longer tell our enemies our plans.	0
419	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
420	TRUMP	Last month, I also took an action endorsed unanimously by the U.S.	0
421	TRUMP	Senate just months before.	0
422	TRUMP	I recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.	0
423	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
424	TRUMP	Shortly afterwards, dozens of countries voted in the United Nations General Assembly against America’s sovereign right to make this decision.	0
425	TRUMP	In 2016, American taxpayers generously sent those same countries more than $20 billion in aid.	0
426	TRUMP	That is why, tonight, I am asking Congress to pass legislation to help ensure American foreign-assistance dollars always serve American interests, and only go to friends of America, not enemies of America.	0
427	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
428	TRUMP	As we strengthen friendships all around the world, we are also restoring clarity about our adversaries.	0
429	TRUMP	When the people of Iran rose up against the crimes of their corrupt dictatorship, I did not stay silent.	0
430	TRUMP	America stands with the people of Iran in their courageous struggle for freedom.	0
431	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
432	TRUMP	I am asking Congress to address the fundamental flaws in the terrible Iran nuclear deal.	0
433	TRUMP	My administration has also imposed tough sanctions on the communist and socialist dictatorships in Cuba and Venezuela.	0
434	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
435	TRUMP	But no regime has oppressed its own citizens more totally or brutally than the cruel dictatorship in North Korea.	0
436	TRUMP	North Korea’s reckless pursuit of nuclear missiles could very soon threaten our homeland.	0
437	TRUMP	We are waging a campaign of maximum pressure to prevent that from ever happening.	0
438	TRUMP	Past experience has taught us that complacency and concessions only invite aggression and provocation.	0
439	TRUMP	I will not repeat the mistakes of past administrations that got us into this very dangerous position.	0
440	TRUMP	We need only look at the depraved character of the North Korean regime to understand the nature of the nuclear threat it could pose to America and to our allies.	0
441	TRUMP	Otto Warmbier was a hardworking student at the University of Virginia — and a great student he was.	0
442	TRUMP	On his way to study abroad in Asia, Otto joined a tour to North Korea.	0
443	TRUMP	At its conclusion, this wonderful young man was arrested and charged with crimes against the state.	0
444	TRUMP	After a shameful trial, the dictatorship sentenced Otto to 15 years of hard labor, before returning him to America last June, horribly injured and on the verge of death.	0
445	TRUMP	He passed away just days after his return.	0
446	TRUMP	Otto’s wonderful parents, Fred and Cindy Warmbier, are here with us tonight, along with Otto’s brother and sister, Austin and Greta.	0
447	TRUMP	Please.	0
448	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
449	TRUMP	Incredible people.	0
450	TRUMP	You are powerful witnesses to a menace that threatens our world, and your strength truly inspires us all.	0
451	TRUMP	Thank you very much.	0
452	TRUMP	Thank you.	0
453	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
454	TRUMP	Tonight, we pledge to honor Otto’s memory with total American resolve.	0
455	TRUMP	Thank you.	0
456	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
457	TRUMP	Finally, we are joined by one more witness to the ominous nature of this regime.	0
458	TRUMP	His name is Mr.	0
459	TRUMP	Ji Seong-ho.	0
460	TRUMP	In 1996, Seong-ho was a starving boy in North Korea.	0
461	TRUMP	One day, he tried to steal coal from a railroad car to barter for a few scraps of food, which were very hard to get.	0
462	TRUMP	In the process, he passed out on the train tracks, exhausted from hunger.	0
463	TRUMP	He woke up as a train ran over his limbs.	0
464	TRUMP	He then endured multiple amputations without anything to dull the pain or the hurt.	0
465	TRUMP	His brother and sister gave what little food they had to help him recover and ate dirt themselves, permanently stunting their own growth.	0
466	TRUMP	Later, he was tortured by North Korean authorities after returning from a brief visit to China.	0
467	TRUMP	His tormentors wanted to know if he’d met any Christians.	0
468	TRUMP	He had — and he resolved, after that, to be free.	0
469	TRUMP	Seong-ho traveled thousands of miles on crutches all across China and Southeast Asia to freedom.	0
470	TRUMP	Most of his family followed.	0
471	TRUMP	His father was caught trying to escape and was tortured to death.	0
472	TRUMP	Today he lives in Seoul, where he rescues other defectors, and broadcasts into North Korea what the regime fears most: the truth.	0
473	TRUMP	Today, he has a new leg.	0
474	TRUMP	But, Seong-ho, I understand you still keep those old crutches as a reminder of how far you’ve come.	0
475	TRUMP	Your great sacrifice is an inspiration to us all.	0
476	TRUMP	Please.	0
477	TRUMP	Thank you.	0
478	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
479	TRUMP	Seong-ho’s story is a testament to the yearning of every human soul to live in freedom.	0
480	TRUMP	It was that same yearning for freedom that nearly 250 years ago gave birth to a special place called America.	0
481	TRUMP	It was a small cluster of colonies caught between a great ocean and a vast wilderness.	0
482	TRUMP	It was home to an incredible people with a revolutionary idea: that they could rule themselves; that they could chart their own destiny; and that, together, they could light up the entire world.	0
483	TRUMP	That is what our country has always been about.	0
484	TRUMP	That is what Americans have always stood for, always strived for, and always done.	0
485	TRUMP	Atop the dome of this Capitol stands the Statue of Freedom.	0
486	TRUMP	She stands tall and dignified among the monuments to our ancestors who fought, and lived, and died to protect her.	0
487	TRUMP	Monuments to Washington, and Jefferson, and Lincoln, and King.	0
488	TRUMP	Memorials to the heroes of Yorktown and Saratoga; to young Americans who shed their blood on the shores of Normandy and the fields beyond; and others, who went down in the waters of the Pacific and the skies all over Asia.	0
489	TRUMP	And freedom stands tall over one more monument: this one.	0
490	TRUMP	This Capitol — this living monument — this is the moment to the American people.	0
491	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
492	AUDIENCE	USA!	0
493	AUDIENCE	USA!	0
494	AUDIENCE	USA!	0
495	TRUMP	We’re a people whose heroes live not only in the past, but all around us, defending hope, pride, and defending the American way.	0
496	TRUMP	They work in every trade.	0
497	TRUMP	They sacrifice to raise a family.	0
498	TRUMP	They care for our children at home.	0
499	TRUMP	They defend our flag abroad.	0
500	TRUMP	And they are strong moms and brave kids.	0
501	TRUMP	They are firefighters, and police officers, and border agents, medics, and Marines.	0
502	TRUMP	But above all else, they are Americans.	0
503	TRUMP	And this Capitol, this city, this nation, belongs entirely to them.	0
504	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
505	TRUMP	Our task is to respect them, to listen to them, to serve them, to protect them, and to always be worthy of them.	0
506	TRUMP	Americans fill the world with art and music.	0
507	TRUMP	They push the bounds of science and discovery.	0
508	TRUMP	And they forever remind us of what we should never, ever forget: The people dreamed this country.	0
509	TRUMP	The people built this country.	0
510	TRUMP	And it’s the people who are making America great again.	0
511	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
512	TRUMP	As long as we are proud of who we are and what we are fighting for, there is nothing we cannot achieve.	0
513	TRUMP	As long as we have confidence in our values, faith in our citizens, and trust in our God, we will never fail.	0
514	TRUMP	Our families will thrive.	0
515	TRUMP	Our people will prosper.	0
516	TRUMP	And our nation will forever be safe and strong and proud and mighty and free.	0
517	TRUMP	Thank you.	0
518	TRUMP	And God bless America.	0
519	TRUMP	Good night.	0
520	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
1	LESLEY STAHL	Do you still think that climate change is a hoax?	0
2	TRUMP	I think something's happening.	0
3	TRUMP	Something's changing and it'll change back again.	0
4	TRUMP	I don't think it's a hoax, I think there's probably a difference.	0
5	TRUMP	But I don't know that it's manmade.	0
6	TRUMP	I will say this.	0
7	TRUMP	I don't wanna give trillions and trillions of dollars.	0
8	TRUMP	I don't wanna lose millions and millions of jobs.	0
9	TRUMP	I don't wanna be put at a disadvantage.	0
10	LESLEY STAHL	I wish you could go to Greenland, watch these huge chunks of ice just falling into the ocean, raising the sea levels.	0
11	TRUMP	And you don't know whether or not that would have happened with or without man.	0
12	TRUMP	You don't know.	0
13	LESLEY STAHL	Well, your scientists, your scientists--	0
14	TRUMP	No, we have--	0
15	LESLEY STAHL	At NOAA and NASA--	0
16	TRUMP	We have scientists that disagree with that.	0
17	LESLEY STAHL	"You know, I was thinking what if he said, ""No, I've seen the hurricane situations, I've changed my mind. There really is climate change."""	0
18	LESLEY STAHL	"And I thought, ""Wow, what an impact."""	0
19	TRUMP	Well-- I'm not denying.	0
20	LESLEY STAHL	What an impact that would make.	0
21	TRUMP	I'm not denying climate change.	0
22	TRUMP	But it could very well go back.	0
23	TRUMP	You know, we're talkin' about over a millions--	0
24	LESLEY STAHL	But that's denying it.	0
25	TRUMP	#NAME?	0
26	TRUMP	They say that we had hurricanes that were far worse than what we just had with Michael.	0
27	LESLEY STAHL	Who says that?	0
28	LESLEY STAHL	They say?	0
29	TRUMP	People say.	0
30	TRUMP	People say that in the--	0
31	LESLEY STAHL	Yeah, but what about the scientists who say it's worse than ever?	0
32	TRUMP	You'd have to show me the scientists because they have a very big political agenda, Lesley.	0
33	LESLEY STAHL	I can't bring them in.	0
34	TRUMP	Look, scientists also have a political agenda.	0
35	LESLEY STAHL	Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist--	0
36	TRUMP	Yes.	0
37	TRUMP	Yes.	0
38	LESLEY STAHL	--the Saudi journalist, was he murdered by the Saudis?	0
39	LESLEY STAHL	And did the prince give the order to kill him?	0
40	TRUMP	Nobody knows yet, but we'll probably be able to find out.	0
41	TRUMP	It's being investigated.	0
42	TRUMP	It's being looked at very, very strongly.	0
43	TRUMP	And we would be very upset and angry if that were the case.	0
44	TRUMP	As of this moment, they deny it.	0
45	TRUMP	And den-- deny it vehemently.	0
46	TRUMP	Could it be them?	0
47	TRUMP	Yes.	0
48	LESLEY STAHL	Jared, your son-in-law.	0
49	LESLEY STAHL	Got on the phone and asked the prince.	0
50	LESLEY STAHL	Did he deny it?	0
51	LESLEY STAHL	Did he--	0
52	TRUMP	They deny it.	0
53	TRUMP	They deny it every way you can imagine.	0
54	TRUMP	In the not-too-distant future, I think we'll know an answer.	0
55	LESLEY STAHL	What are you options?	0
56	LESLEY STAHL	Let's say they did.	0
57	LESLEY STAHL	What are your options?	0
58	LESLEY STAHL	Would you consider imposing sanctions, as a bipartisan group of senators have proposed?	0
59	TRUMP	Well, it depends on what the sanction is.	0
60	TRUMP	I'll give ya an example.	0
61	TRUMP	They are ordering military equipment.	0
62	TRUMP	Everybody in the world wanted that order.	0
63	TRUMP	Russia wanted it, China wanted it, we wanted it.	0
64	TRUMP	We got it.	0
65	LESLEY STAHL	So would you cut that off--	0
66	TRUMP	I tell you what I don't wanna do.	0
67	TRUMP	Boeing, Lockheed, Raytheon, all these com-- I don't wanna hurt jobs.	0
68	TRUMP	I don't wanna lose an order like that.	0
69	TRUMP	There are other ways of-- punishing, to use a word that's a pretty harsh word, but it's true.	0
70	LESLEY STAHL	Tell everybody what's at stake here.	0
71	LESLEY STAHL	You know---	0
72	TRUMP	Well, there's a lot at stake.	0
73	TRUMP	There's a lot at stake.	0
74	TRUMP	And maybe especially so because this man was a reporter.	0
75	TRUMP	There's something-- you'll be surprised to hear me say that.	0
76	TRUMP	There's something really terrible and disgusting about that, if that were the case.	0
77	TRUMP	So we're gonna have to see.	0
78	TRUMP	We're going to get to the bottom of it and there will be severe punishment.	0
79	LESLEY STAHL	You've had a string of wins lately.	0
80	LESLEY STAHL	Let's see, the economy, the d-- the trade deal-	0
81	TRUMP	Right.	0
82	LESLEY STAHL	With Canada and Mexico, Kavanaugh--	0
83	TRUMP	And South Korea.	0
84	LESLEY STAHL	And South Korea.	0
85	LESLEY STAHL	And Kavanaugh, the confirmation.	0
86	TRUMP	There has been no administration in the history of our country, and I say this openly and proudly, that in its first two years--	0
87	LESLEY STAHL	Say, this is modesty.	0
88	TRUMP	Well, it's not even that, it's a fact Tax cuts, regulation cuts, the biggest regulations cuts in history.	0
89	LESLEY STAHL	What about North Korea?	0
90	LESLEY STAHL	Talking about accom--	0
91	TRUMP	Well, I consider it a, so far, great achievement.	0
92	TRUMP	Look, we--	0
93	LESLEY STAHL	"You say ""so far""?"	0
94	TRUMP	It's always so far, til everything's done.	0
95	TRUMP	I-- I-- you know, deals are deals, okay?	0
96	TRUMP	Whether it's a real estate deal or a retail deal, it doesn't matter.	0
97	TRUMP	But I will say this.	0
98	TRUMP	The day before I came in, we were goin' to war with North Korea.	0
99	TRUMP	I sat with President Obama--	0
100	LESLEY STAHL	We were goin' to war?	0
101	TRUMP	#NAME?	0
102	TRUMP	And my impression is-- and even in my first few months, I mean, that rhetoric was as tough as it could possibly get.	0
103	TRUMP	Doesn't get any tougher than that.	0
104	TRUMP	Nobody's ever heard rhetoric that tough.	0
105	TRUMP	We were going to war with North Korea.	0
106	TRUMP	Now, you don't hear that.	0
107	TRUMP	You don't hear any talk of it.	0
108	TRUMP	And he doesn't wanna go to war, and we don't wanna go to war, and he understands denuclearization and he's agreed to it.	1
109	TRUMP	And you see that, he's agreed to it.	1
110	TRUMP	No missiles.	0
111	LESLEY STAHL	Do you trust him?	0
112	TRUMP	I do trust him, yeah, I trust him.	0
113	TRUMP	That doesn't mean I can't be proven wrong --	0
114	LESLEY STAHL	Why would--	0
115	TRUMP	about it?	0
116	LESLEY STAHL	you trust him?	0
117	TRUMP	Well, first of all, if I didn't trust him, I wouldn't say that to you.	0
118	TRUMP	Wouldn't I be foolish to tell you right here, on 60 Minutes--	0
119	LESLEY STAHL	Well, remember what Reagan said.	0
120	LESLEY STAHL	Trust, but verify.	0
121	TRUMP	Sure.	0
122	TRUMP	I know.	0
123	TRUMP	It's-- it's very true.	0
124	TRUMP	But the fact is, I do trust him.	0
125	TRUMP	But we'll see what happens.	0
126	LESLEY STAHL	But is it true that they haven't gotten rid of a single weapon, and they may actually be building more missiles-	0
127	TRUMP	They want to--	0
128	LESLEY STAHL	With nuclear--	0
129	TRUMP	And I will tell you that they're closing up sites.	0
130	LESLEY STAHL	But--	0
131	TRUMP	Setting it up.	0
132	LESLEY STAHL	Is what I said true, that they haven't?	0
133	LESLEY STAHL	Gotten--	0
134	TRUMP	Well, nobody really knows.	0
135	TRUMP	I mean, people are saying that.	0
136	TRUMP	I've actually said that.	0
137	LESLEY STAHL	What?	0
138	LESLEY STAHL	That they're still building missiles, more missiles?	0
139	TRUMP	We don't really know, Lesley.	0
140	TRUMP	We really don't know.	0
141	TRUMP	But I assume--	0
142	LESLEY STAHL	Suspect that?	0
143	TRUMP	Let's say the answer is yes, okay?	0
144	TRUMP	In the meantime, they haven't tested a missile.	0
145	TRUMP	They haven't tested a rocket.	0
146	TRUMP	They definitely haven't done a nuclear test because you know about them real fast.	0
147	TRUMP	It sort of moves the earth.	0
148	TRUMP	And we have a relationship now.	0
149	LESLEY STAHL	One of the things that Kim has asked for is for you to ease the sanctions.	0
150	TRUMP	We haven't done that.	0
151	LESLEY STAHL	Are you prepared to do that?	0
152	LESLEY STAHL	What-- what does he have to do--	0
153	TRUMP	No, no.	0
154	TRUMP	I--	0
155	LESLEY STAHL	Before you're--	0
156	TRUMP	No I'm not doing it.	0
157	TRUMP	This isn't the Obama administration.	0
158	TRUMP	I haven't eased the sanctions.	0
159	TRUMP	I haven't done anything.	0
160	TRUMP	I haven't done anything.	0
161	TRUMP	We're meeting.	0
162	TRUMP	I believe he likes me.	0
163	TRUMP	I like him.	0
164	TRUMP	We have a good relationship.	0
165	TRUMP	It's very important.	0
166	LESLEY STAHL	I wanna read you his resume, okay?	0
167	LESLEY STAHL	He presides over a cruel kingdom of repression, gulags, starvation-- reports that he had his half-brother assassinated, slave labor, public executions.	0
168	LESLEY STAHL	This is a guy you love?	0
169	TRUMP	Sure.	0
170	TRUMP	I know all these things.	0
171	TRUMP	I mean-- I'm not a baby.	0
172	TRUMP	I know these things.	0
173	LESLEY STAHL	I know, but why do you love that guy?	0
174	TRUMP	Look, look.	0
175	TRUMP	I-- I-- I like-- I get along with him, okay?	0
176	LESLEY STAHL	But you love him.	0
177	TRUMP	Okay.	0
178	TRUMP	That's just a figure of speech.	0
179	LESLEY STAHL	No, it's like an embrace.	0
180	TRUMP	It well, let it be an embrace.	0
181	TRUMP	Let it be whatever it is to get the job done.	0
182	LESLEY STAHL	He's a bad guy.	0
183	TRUMP	Look.	0
184	TRUMP	Let it be whatever it is.	0
185	TRUMP	I get along with him really well.	0
186	TRUMP	I have a good energy with him.	0
187	TRUMP	I have a good chemistry with him.	0
188	TRUMP	Look at the horrible threats that were made.	0
189	TRUMP	No more threats.	0
190	TRUMP	No more threats.	0
191	LESLEY STAHL	China.	0
192	TRUMP	I get along with him.	0
193	TRUMP	It's very important.	0
194	TRUMP	China, let's go.	0
195	LESLEY STAHL	I'm skipping across the world here.	0
196	LESLEY STAHL	You've slapped a lot of tariffs--	0
197	TRUMP	$250 billion.	0
198	LESLEY STAHL	Gonna do more?	0
199	TRUMP	Might.	0
200	TRUMP	Might.	0
201	LESLEY STAHL	Round three?	0
202	TRUMP	They wanna negotiate, Lesley.	0
203	TRUMP	They wanna negotiate.	0
204	LESLEY STAHL	Are you ready?	0
205	TRUMP	Look.	0
206	LESLEY STAHL	Are you ready to--	0
207	TRUMP	I have a great chemistry also with President Xi of China.	0
208	TRUMP	I don't know that that's necessarily going to continue.	0
209	TRUMP	I told President Xi we cannot continue to have China take $500 billion a year out of the United States in the form of trade and others things.	1
210	LESLEY STAHL	And how-- how--	0
211	TRUMP	And I said we can't do that, and we're not gonna do that anymore.	0
212	LESLEY STAHL	How much squeezing of them are you prepared to do when American products are gonna be more expensive for American consumers in the end of all this?	0
213	TRUMP	Okay.	0
214	TRUMP	Okay.	0
215	TRUMP	So, so far, that hasn't turned out to be the case.	0
216	LESLEY STAHL	Some--	0
217	TRUMP	--if you think about it, so far, I put 25% tariffs on steel dumping, and aluminum dumping 10%.	0
218	LESLEY STAHL	But they've--	0
219	TRUMP	#NAME?	0
220	LESLEY STAHL	#NAME?	0
221	LESLEY STAHL	That's what I'm asking.	0
222	TRUMP	They can retaliate, but they can't-- they don't have enough ammunition to retaliate.	0
223	TRUMP	We do $100 billion with them.	0
224	TRUMP	They do $531 billion with us.	1
225	LESLEY STAHL	Are you trying to sort of push them into a depression?	0
226	TRUMP	No no, although they're down 32 percent in four months, which is 1929.	0
227	LESLEY STAHL	Well that's what I'm asking.	0
228	TRUMP	I don't want that.	0
229	TRUMP	No, I don't want that.	0
230	TRUMP	I want them to negotiate a fair deal with us.	0
231	TRUMP	I want them to open their markets like our-- our markets are open.	0
232	LESLEY STAHL	But you're in a--	0
233	TRUMP	And it will be a fair deal--	0
234	LESLEY STAHL	#NAME?	0
235	LESLEY STAHL	Trade war.	0
236	TRUMP	You call it war, I don't call--	0
237	LESLEY STAHL	You-- you--	0
238	TRUMP	--it--	0
239	LESLEY STAHL	#NAME?	0
240	TRUMP	I called it a skirmish.	0
241	LESLEY STAHL	I heard you, you called it a war.	0
242	TRUMP	I called it, actually I called it a battle.	0
243	TRUMP	But, actually, I'm gonna lower that.	0
244	TRUMP	I consider it a skirmish.	0
245	TRUMP	And we're gonna win.	0
246	LESLEY STAHL	You have also slapped some tariffs on our allies.	0
247	TRUMP	I mean, what's an ally?	0
248	TRUMP	We have wonderful relationships with a lot of people.	0
249	TRUMP	But nobody treats us much worse than the European Union.	0
250	TRUMP	The European Union was formed in order to take advantage of us on trade, and that's what they've done.	0
251	LESLEY STAHL	But this is hostile.	0
252	TRUMP	And yet, they-- it's not hostile.	0
253	LESLEY STAHL	It sounds hostile.	0
254	TRUMP	You know what's hostile?	0
255	TRUMP	The way they treat us.	0
256	TRUMP	We're not hostile.	0
257	LESLEY STAHL	No, but can't you deal with--	0
258	TRUMP	We've been-- we've been--	0
259	LESLEY STAHL	--them without--	0
260	TRUMP	#NAME?	0
261	LESLEY STAHL	Are you willing to get rid of that Western alliance?	0
262	TRUMP	Now, I like NATO, NATO's fine.	0
263	TRUMP	But you know what?	0
264	TRUMP	We shouldn't be paying almost the entire cost of NATO to protect Europe.	1
265	TRUMP	And then on top of that, they take advantage of us on trade.	0
266	TRUMP	They're not going to do it anymore.	0
267	TRUMP	They understand that.	0
268	LESLEY STAHL	Okay, but are, it does seem this, are you willing to disrupt the Western Alliance?	0
269	LESLEY STAHL	It's been going for 70 years.	0
270	LESLEY STAHL	It's kept the peace for 70 years.	0
271	TRUMP	You don't know that.	0
272	TRUMP	You don't know that.	0
273	LESLEY STAHL	I don't know what?	0
274	TRUMP	You don't know that.	0
275	LESLEY STAHL	"Is it true General Mattis said to you, ""The reason for NATO and the reason for all these alliances is to prevent World War III?"""	0
276	TRUMP	No, it's not true.	0
277	LESLEY STAHL	What's not true?	0
278	TRUMP	Frankly, I like General Mattis.	0
279	TRUMP	I think I know more about it than he does.	0
280	TRUMP	And I know more about it from the standpoint of fairness, that I can tell you.	0
281	LESLEY STAHL	I'm gonna try one more time.	0
282	LESLEY STAHL	Okay.	0
283	TRUMP	I know-- and, Lesley, you don't have to try again.	0
284	TRUMP	I know exactly what you're saying--	0
285	LESLEY STAHL	Well, answer my question.	0
286	TRUMP	The answer is this.	0
287	TRUMP	I will always be there with NATO, but they have to pay their way.	0
288	TRUMP	I'm fully in favor of NATO, but I don't wanna be taken advantage of.	0
289	LESLEY STAHL	Putin.	0
290	TRUMP	Yeah.	0
291	LESLEY STAHL	Okay, people don't understand why you never have a harsh word for Vladimir Putin.	0
292	TRUMP	Okay, you ready?	0
293	LESLEY STAHL	I don't understand it.	0
294	TRUMP	I have been-- you don't know what I talked about with Putin in the meeting prior to the press conference--	0
295	LESLEY STAHL	No, I mean publicly.	0
296	LESLEY STAHL	You never say anything harsh about him--	0
297	TRUMP	Excuse me.	0
298	LESLEY STAHL	#NAME?	0
299	TRUMP	I didn't?	0
300	TRUMP	I'm the one that gave Ukraine offensive weapons and tank killers.	0
301	TRUMP	Obama didn't.	0
302	TRUMP	You know what he sent?	0
303	TRUMP	He sent pillows and blankets.	0
304	TRUMP	I'm the one-- and he's the one that gave away a part of Ukraine where Russia now has this--	0
305	LESLEY STAHL	Well, I mean him personally Vladimir Putin--	0
306	TRUMP	I think I'm very tough with him personally.	0
307	TRUMP	I had a meeting with him.	0
308	TRUMP	The two of us.	0
309	TRUMP	It was a very tough meeting and it was a very good meeting.	0
310	LESLEY STAHL	Do you agree that Vladimir Putin is involved in assassinations?	0
311	LESLEY STAHL	In poisonings?	0
312	TRUMP	Probably he is, yeah.	0
313	TRUMP	Probably.	0
314	TRUMP	I mean, I don't--	0
315	LESLEY STAHL	Probably?	0
316	TRUMP	But I rely on them, it's not in our country.	0
317	LESLEY STAHL	Why not-- they shouldn't do it.	0
318	LESLEY STAHL	This is a terrible thing.	0
319	TRUMP	Of course they shouldn't do it-	0
320	LESLEY STAHL	Instead do you believe--	0
321	TRUMP	That's your (Inaudible.)--	0
322	LESLEY STAHL	--do you believe that the Russians interfered in the 2016 campaign election?	0
323	LESLEY STAHL	Our election-	0
324	TRUMP	They-- they meddled.	1
325	TRUMP	But I think China meddled too.	0
326	LESLEY STAHL	But why do you--	0
327	TRUMP	And I think other countries--	0
328	LESLEY STAHL	#NAME?	0
329	TRUMP	And you wanna know something?	0
330	LESLEY STAHL	Why do you say Chi-- why don't you just say--	0
331	TRUMP	Well, let me ask you--	0
332	LESLEY STAHL	#NAME?	0
333	TRUMP	Because I think China meddled also.	0
334	TRUMP	And I think, frankly, China--	0
335	LESLEY STAHL	This is amazing.	0
336	TRUMP	#NAME?	0
337	LESLEY STAHL	You are diverting the whole Russia thing.	0
338	TRUMP	I'm not doing anything.	0
339	LESLEY STAHL	You are, you are	0
340	TRUMP	I'm saying Russia, but I'm also saying China.	1
341	LESLEY STAHL	What about the attorney general, Jeff Sessions?	0
342	TRUMP	Well, we'll see what happens come midterms.	0
343	TRUMP	But--	0
344	LESLEY STAHL	But everybody thinks, given the things you've said--	0
345	TRUMP	I was disappointed that he recused himself and many people think I was right on that.	0
346	TRUMP	I was very disappointed.	0
347	TRUMP	Why should he have recused himself?	0
348	TRUMP	So I was very--	0
349	LESLEY STAHL	So--	0
350	TRUMP	--disappointed but--	0
351	LESLEY STAHL	So can I assume--	0
352	TRUMP	--we'll see what happens.	0
353	LESLEY STAHL	Can I assume he's gone?	0
354	TRUMP	No.	0
355	TRUMP	No.	0
356	TRUMP	You can't assume that.	0
357	LESLEY STAHL	Will you.	0
358	LESLEY STAHL	Will you pledge-- pledge that you will not shut down the Mueller investigation?	0
359	TRUMP	Well, I-- I don't pledge anything.	0
360	TRUMP	But I will tell you, I have no intention of doing that.	0
361	TRUMP	I think it's a very unfair investigation because there was no collusion of any kind.	0
362	LESLEY STAHL	But you won't pledge--	0
363	TRUMP	There is no collusion.	0
364	TRUMP	I don't wanna pledge.	0
365	TRUMP	Why should I pledge to you?	0
366	TRUMP	If I pledge, I'll pledge.	0
367	TRUMP	I don't have to pledge to you.	0
368	TRUMP	But I have-	0
369	LESLEY STAHL	Well--	0
370	TRUMP	I have no intention of doing that.	0
371	TRUMP	Do you really think I'd call Russia to help me with an election?	0
372	TRUMP	Give me a break.	0
373	TRUMP	They wouldn't be able to help me at all.	1
374	TRUMP	Call Russia.	0
375	TRUMP	It's so ridiculous.	0
376	LESLEY STAHL	So you've been president for almost two years.	0
377	LESLEY STAHL	Is there anything that you wish you hadn't said, anything you wish you hadn't done?	0
378	LESLEY STAHL	Do you have any regrets?	0
379	TRUMP	So when I won the presidency, I th-- I-- I-- the press treats me terribly.	0
380	TRUMP	I thought very strongly that, you know, the one great thing will happen is the press will start treating me great.	0
381	TRUMP	Lesley, they treat me worse.	0
382	TRUMP	They got worse instead of better.	0
383	TRUMP	Very dishonest.	0
384	LESLEY STAHL	Okay, this-- you're-- but you regret?	0
385	TRUMP	I regret that the press treats me so badly--	0
386	LESLEY STAHL	I'm-- I'm really asking (Inaudible.)--	0
387	TRUMP	And despite that, my poll numbers are very good, so.	0
388	LESLEY STAHL	Have you made any mistakes?	0
389	LESLEY STAHL	That's my question.	0
390	TRUMP	Everybody makes mistakes.	0
391	LESLEY STAHL	And what have been yours?	0
392	TRUMP	I could have been-- earlier with terminating the NAFTA deal.	0
393	TRUMP	The problem was, I was getting to know the leaders.	0
394	TRUMP	I was getting to know countries.	0
395	TRUMP	I didn't wanna do it right outta the box.	0
396	TRUMP	So I waited a little while, but I could have done trade a little bit earlier.	0
397	LESLEY STAHL	What about the forced separation of children from their-- migrant children--	0
398	TRUMP	Yeah.	0
399	TRUMP	Well, that was--	0
400	LESLEY STAHL	from the--	0
401	TRUMP	the same as the Obama law.	1
402	TRUMP	You know, Obama had the same thing.	1
403	LESLEY STAHL	It was on the books, but he didn't enforce it.	0
404	LESLEY STAHL	You--enforced it.	0
405	LESLEY STAHL	You launched that-- the zero tolerance policy-- to deter families with children coming--	0
406	TRUMP	No, but then everybody decided and the courts don't want separation.	0
407	TRUMP	And frankly, when you don't do separa-- when you allow the parents to stay together, okay, when you allow that, then what happens is people are gonna pour into our country.	0
408	LESLEY STAHL	So are you gonna go back to that?	0
409	TRUMP	Well, we're looking at a lot of things.	0
410	TRUMP	Really what we wanna do is change the immigration laws, 'cause they were-- they were a laughing stock all over the world.	0
411	LESLEY STAHL	Are you willing though-- I think that you're saying you're-- it's under consideration.	0
412	TRUMP	No, I want all the laws changed.	0
413	LESLEY STAHL	But the children specifically--	0
414	TRUMP	there have to be consequences, Lesley, for coming into our country illegally.	0
415	TRUMP	And part of the r-- I mean, part of the reason, I have to blame myself, the economy is so strong that everybody wants to come into the United States.	0
416	LESLEY STAHL	Can I just ask this simple question, yes or no.	0
417	TRUMP	Go ahead.	0
418	LESLEY STAHL	Are you willing to reinstitute that policy?	0
419	LESLEY STAHL	"You said, ""We're looking at everything."""	0
420	TRUMP	I will--	0
421	LESLEY STAHL	Yes or no.	0
422	TRUMP	I will only-- I can't-- you can't say yes or no.	0
423	TRUMP	What I can say is this: There are consequences from coming into a country, namely our country, illegally.	0
424	LESLEY STAHL	I'm not gonna ask it again--	0
425	TRUMP	You don't have to.	0
426	LESLEY STAHL	cause I know you won't-- it--	0
427	TRUMP	But it's the same as Obama.	1
428	LESLEY STAHL	Okay.	0
429	LESLEY STAHL	Changing subjects again-- you are the first president of the United States who never had a political post before, nor never served in the military.	0
430	LESLEY STAHL	You come up here, you've been here for almost two years, what's the biggest surprise and what have you learned since you've been president?	0
431	TRUMP	Okay.	0
432	TRUMP	So I always used to say the toughest people are Manhattan real estate guys and blah, blah.	0
433	TRUMP	Now I say they're babies.	0
434	LESLEY STAHL	Who's the toughest?	0
435	TRUMP	They're babies, the political people.	0
436	TRUMP	This is the most deceptive, vicious world.	0
437	TRUMP	It is vicious, it's full of lies, deceit and deception.	0
438	TRUMP	You make a deal with somebody and it's like making a deal with-- that table.	0
439	LESLEY STAHL	Give me an example.	0
440	TRUMP	Well, I don't wanna give you an example.	0
441	TRUMP	I'm not lookin' to-- in the meantime, nobody's been able to do what I've been able to do.	0
442	TRUMP	Remember that.	0
443	TRUMP	When you look at taxes, you look at regulations, you look at-- making deals with other countries.	0
444	TRUMP	Nobody's been able to do anything like this.	0
445	TRUMP	Actually, most people didn't even try because they knew they didn't have the ability to do it.	0
446	TRUMP	But it's a very deceptive world.	0
447	TRUMP	The other thing I've really learned is I never knew how dishonest the media was.	0
448	TRUMP	I-- I-- and I really mean it.	0
449	TRUMP	I'm not saying that as a sound bite.	0
450	TRUMP	I never--	0
451	LESLEY STAHL	I'd like to--	0
452	TRUMP	Knew how dishonest--	0
453	LESLEY STAHL	I'm-- I'm gonna change the subject again.	0
454	TRUMP	Well, no, even the way you asked me a question, like, about separation.	0
455	TRUMP	When I say Obama did it, you don't wanna talk about it.	0
456	LESLEY STAHL	No, I'm gonna run your--	0
457	TRUMP	When I say I did it, let's make a big deal of it.	0
458	LESLEY STAHL	I'm gonna run your answer, but you did it four times, so.	0
459	TRUMP	I'm just telling you that you treated me much differently on the subject.	0
460	LESLEY STAHL	I disagree, but I don't wanna have that fight with you.	0
461	TRUMP	Hey, it's okay--	0
462	LESLEY STAHL	All right, I'll get in another fight with you--	0
463	TRUMP	Lesley, it's okay.	0
464	TRUMP	In the meantime, I'm president--and you're not.	0
465	LESLEY STAHL	This country is divided, polarized.	0
466	LESLEY STAHL	Within families, there aren't even people who can talk to each other.	0
467	LESLEY STAHL	What does this say about where we are as a country right now, all this division and strife and--	0
468	TRUMP	Yeah-- I think that--	0
469	LESLEY STAHL	#NAME?	0
470	TRUMP	--what's going to happen-- I think the economy's bringing people together.	0
471	TRUMP	It was very polarized under President Obama, unbelievably polarized under President Obama.	0
472	TRUMP	I can see the country uniting.	0
473	TRUMP	I can see it.	0
474	TRUMP	We have people, Democrats, who behaved horribly during the Judge Kavanaugh-- you-- know what I'm saying.	0
475	LESLEY STAHL	But when you won that.	0
476	TRUMP	--during the hearings for the Supreme Court, we had senators that behaved horribly.	0
477	LESLEY STAHL	But when you won, you won.	0
478	LESLEY STAHL	No-- no one is gonna argue with that.	0
479	TRUMP	I won--	0
480	LESLEY STAHL	You won.	0
481	LESLEY STAHL	"And then after you won, instead of saying, ""Oh, let's all come together, this is wonderful."	0
482	LESLEY STAHL	"Let's heal all of this,"" you come out and bash the Democrats."	0
483	TRUMP	Well, I bashed their attitude.	0
484	TRUMP	I bashed their statements--	0
485	LESLEY STAHL	But why not try to--	0
486	TRUMP	Because they were--	0
487	LESLEY STAHL	#NAME?	0
488	TRUMP	#NAME?	0
489	TRUMP	I've never--	0
490	LESLEY STAHL	But why not--	0
491	TRUMP	seen anything like it.	0
492	LESLEY STAHL	#NAME?	0
493	LESLEY STAHL	We need--	0
494	TRUMP	I don't think they want to heal yet, I'll be honest.	0
495	LESLEY STAHL	Well, you don't wanna--	0
496	TRUMP	I think--	0
497	LESLEY STAHL	heal yet.	0
498	TRUMP	I-- I-- I saw Hillary Clinton made a really nasty statement.	0
499	TRUMP	I don't think they wanna be healed.	0
500	TRUMP	I do wanna heal.	0
501	LESLEY STAHL	I'm n-- I'm not talking about Democrat-- I'm talking about the country.	0
502	LESLEY STAHL	You go out and you go to Mississippi.	0
503	TRUMP	The famous Mississippi speech?	0
504	LESLEY STAHL	And you mimicked Professor Blasey Ford.	0
505	LESLEY STAHL	You mimicked her.	0
506	TRUMP	Had I not made that speech, we would not have won.	0
507	TRUMP	I was just saying she didn't seem to know anything.	0
508	LESLEY STAHL	No (Inaudible.)--	0
509	TRUMP	And you're trying to destroy a life of a man who has been extraordinary.	0
510	LESLEY STAHL	Why did you have to make fun of her?	0
511	TRUMP	I didn't really make fun of her.	0
512	LESLEY STAHL	Well, they were laughing.	0
513	TRUMP	What I said the person that we're talking about didn't know the year, the time, the place.	1
514	LESLEY STAHL	Professor Blasey Ford got before the Senate and-- and was asked what's the worst moment.	0
515	LESLEY STAHL	"And she said, ""When the two boys laughed at me, at my expense."""	0
516	TRUMP	Ok, fine.	0
517	LESLEY STAHL	And then I watched you mimic her and thousands of people were laughing at her.	0
518	TRUMP	They can do what they-- I-- I will tell you this.	0
519	TRUMP	The way now Justice Kavanaugh was treated has become a big factor in the midterms.	0
520	TRUMP	Have you seen what's gone on with the polls?	0
521	LESLEY STAHL	But did you have to--	0
522	TRUMP	Well, I think she was treated with great respect, I'll-- I'll--	0
523	LESLEY STAHL	And-- but--	0
524	TRUMP	be honest with you.	0
525	LESLEY STAHL	but do you think—you treated her with--	0
526	TRUMP	There are those that think she shouldn't have--	0
527	LESLEY STAHL	Do you think you treated her with respect?	0
528	TRUMP	I think so, yeah.	0
529	TRUMP	I did.	0
530	LESLEY STAHL	But you seem to be saying that she lied.	0
531	TRUMP	W-- you know what?	0
532	TRUMP	I'm not gonna get into it because we won.	0
533	TRUMP	It doesn't matter.	0
534	TRUMP	We won.	0
535	LESLEY STAHL	"The anonymous column that ran in ""The New York Times."""	0
536	LESLEY STAHL	The author, we don't know who it is.	0
537	LESLEY STAHL	Whoever it is.	0
538	TRUMP	Whoever it is.	0
539	TRUMP	"Maybe it was ""The New York Times"" too."	0
540	LESLEY STAHL	Paints a picture.	0
541	TRUMP	"No, no, it's --By the way, you don't know how dishonest ""The New York Times"" is."	0
542	TRUMP	"It could've been ""The New York Times."""	0
543	TRUMP	I doubt it.	0
544	TRUMP	But it could've been.	0
545	LESLEY STAHL	Okay.	0
546	LESLEY STAHL	I doubt it too.	0
547	TRUMP	It also could've been any-- w-- well, don't count on it.	0
548	TRUMP	It also could've been any one of 3,000 people.	0
549	LESLEY STAHL	You have said that this administration is like a smooth-running machine.	0
550	LESLEY STAHL	And yet, we keep hearing that the White House is in chaos.	0
551	TRUMP	It's-- wrong, it's so false.	0
552	TRUMP	It's fake news.	0
553	TRUMP	I'm changing things around.	0
554	TRUMP	And I'm entitled to.	0
555	TRUMP	I have people now on standby that will be phenomenal.	0
556	TRUMP	They'll come into the administration, they'll be phenomenal.	0
557	LESLEY STAHL	More people gonna go?	0
558	TRUMP	Yeah, other people will go, sure.	0
559	LESLEY STAHL	Cause so many people, you have kind of a record of --on turnover.	0
560	TRUMP	I think I have a great Cabinet.	0
561	TRUMP	There're some people that I'm not happy with.	0
562	LESLEY STAHL	Who are you not happy with?	0
563	TRUMP	No, I don't wanna say that but	0
564	LESLEY STAHL	Come on.	0
565	TRUMP	Not I don't want to say that.	0
566	LESLEY STAHL	What about General Mattis?	0
567	LESLEY STAHL	Is he going to leave?	0
568	TRUMP	Well, I don't know.	0
569	TRUMP	He hasn't told me that.	0
570	TRUMP	I have--	0
571	LESLEY STAHL	Do you want him to--	0
572	TRUMP	#NAME?	0
573	TRUMP	It could be that he is.	0
574	TRUMP	I think he's sort of a Democrat, if you wanna know the truth.	0
575	TRUMP	But General Mattis is a good guy.	0
576	TRUMP	We get along very well.	0
577	TRUMP	He may leave.	0
578	TRUMP	I mean, at some point, everybody leaves.	0
579	TRUMP	Everybody.	0
580	TRUMP	People leave.	0
581	TRUMP	That's Washington.	0
582	LESLEY STAHL	The first lady, Melania.	0
583	LESLEY STAHL	She said that there are still people in the White House that she doesn't trust and that you shouldn't trust.	0
584	TRUMP	I feel the same way.	0
585	TRUMP	I don't trust everybody in the White House, I'll be honest with you.	0
586	LESLEY STAHL	"You go to a meeting, do you have to wonder, ""Is he wearing a wire--"""	0
587	TRUMP	I'm usually --	0
588	LESLEY STAHL	–or whatever?	0
589	TRUMP	Not so much a wire.	0
590	TRUMP	I'm usually guarded.	0
591	TRUMP	And I think I'm guarded anyway.	0
592	TRUMP	But I'm not saying I trust everybody in the White House.	0
593	TRUMP	I'm not a baby.	0
594	TRUMP	It's a tough business.	0
595	TRUMP	This is a r-- this is a vicious place.	0
596	TRUMP	Washington DC is a vicious, vicious place.	0
597	TRUMP	The attacks, the-- the bad mouthing, the speaking behind your back.	0
598	TRUMP	--but-- you know, and in my way, I feel very comfortable here.	0
599	LESLEY STAHL	It takes a president a while to find his sea legs.	0
600	TRUMP	I think so.	0
601	TRUMP	I mean, I felt comfortable at the beginning, other than it was a little surreal to say I'm the president of the United States, but I think that's true with everybody.	0
602	LESLEY STAHL	POTUS.	0
603	TRUMP	Now I very much feel like POTUS.	0
604	TRUMP	I do.	0
605	TRUMP	I feel like the president.	0
606	TRUMP	"You know, for a little while, it's like-- ""Mr. President, sir."""	0
607	TRUMP	It's-- even my friends, they call me, they-- they don't call me Donald-- they call me Mr. President.	0
608	TRUMP	"And I say, ""Will you please loosen up?"""	0
609	TRUMP	I've learned on the job.	0
610	TRUMP	I have.	0
611	LESLEY STAHL	And you feel comfortable?	0
612	TRUMP	I feel very comfortable, yeah.	0
1	TRUMP	Madam Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, the First Lady of the United States —	0
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3	TRUMP	— and my fellow Americans:	0
4	TRUMP	We meet tonight at a moment of unlimited potential.	0
5	TRUMP	As we begin a new Congress, I stand here ready to work with you to achieve historic breakthroughs for all Americans.	0
6	TRUMP	Millions of our fellow citizens are watching us now, gathered in this great chamber, hoping that we will govern not as two parties but as one nation.	0
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8	TRUMP	The agenda I will lay out this evening is not a Republican agenda or a Democrat agenda.	0
9	TRUMP	It’s the agenda of the American people.	0
10	TRUMP	Many of us have campaigned on the same core promises: to defend American jobs and demand fair trade for American workers; to rebuild and revitalize our nation’s infrastructure; to reduce the price of healthcare and prescription drugs; to create an immigration system that is safe, lawful, modern, and secure; and to pursue a foreign policy that puts America’s interests first.	0
11	TRUMP	There is a new opportunity in American politics, if only we have the courage, together, to seize it.	0
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13	TRUMP	Victory is not winning for our party.	0
14	TRUMP	Victory is winning for our country.	0
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16	TRUMP	This year, America will recognize two important anniversaries that show us the majesty of America’s mission and the power of American pride.	0
17	TRUMP	"In June, we mark 75 years since the start of what General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the ""Great Crusade"" — the Allied liberation of Europe in World War II."	0
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19	TRUMP	On D-Day, June 6th, 1944, 15,000 young American men jumped from the sky, and 60,000 more stormed in from the sea, to save our civilization from tyranny.	0
20	TRUMP	Here with us tonight are three of those incredible heroes: Private First Class Joseph Reilly, Staff Sergeant Irving Locker, and Sergeant Herman Zeitchik.	0
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22	TRUMP	Please.	0
23	TRUMP	Gentlemen, we salute you.	0
24	TRUMP	In 2019, we also celebrate 50 years since brave young pilots flew a quarter of a million miles through space to plant the American flag on the face of the moon.	0
25	TRUMP	Half a century later, we are joined by one of the Apollo 11 astronauts who planted that flag: Buzz Aldrin.	0
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27	TRUMP	Thank you, Buzz.	0
28	TRUMP	This year, American astronauts will go back to space on American rockets.	0
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30	TRUMP	In the 20th century, America saved freedom, transformed science, redefined the middle class, and, when you get down to it, there’s nothing anywhere in the world that can compete with America.	0
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32	TRUMP	Now we must step boldly and bravely into the next chapter of this great American adventure, and we must create a new standard of living for the 21st century.	0
33	TRUMP	An amazing quality of life for all of our citizens is within reach.	0
34	TRUMP	We can make our communities safer, our families stronger, our culture richer, our faith deeper, and our middle class bigger and more prosperous than ever before.	0
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36	TRUMP	But we must reject the politics of revenge, resistance, and retribution, and embrace the boundless potential of cooperation, compromise, and the common good.	0
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38	TRUMP	Together, we can break decades of political stalemate.	0
39	TRUMP	We can bridge old divisions, heal old wounds, build new coalitions, forge new solutions, and unlock the extraordinary promise of America’s future.	0
40	TRUMP	The decision is ours to make.	0
41	TRUMP	We must choose between greatness or gridlock, results or resistance, vision or vengeance, incredible progress or pointless destruction.	0
42	TRUMP	Tonight, I ask you to choose greatness.	0
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44	TRUMP	Over the last two years, my administration has moved with urgency and historic speed to confront problems neglected by leaders of both parties over many decades.	0
45	TRUMP	In just over two years since the election, we have launched an unprecedented economic boom — a boom that has rarely been seen before.	0
46	TRUMP	There’s been nothing like it.	0
47	TRUMP	We have created 5.3 million new jobs and, importantly, added 600,000 new manufacturing jobs — something which almost everyone said was impossible to do.	1
48	TRUMP	But the fact is, we are just getting started.	0
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50	TRUMP	Wages are rising at the fastest pace in decades and growing for blue-collar workers, who I promised to fight for.	0
51	TRUMP	They’re growing faster than anyone else thought possible.	0
52	TRUMP	Nearly 5 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps.	1
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54	TRUMP	The U.S. economy is growing almost twice as fast today as when I took office.	0
55	TRUMP	And we are considered, far and away, the hottest economy anywhere in the world.	0
56	TRUMP	Not even close.	0
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58	TRUMP	Unemployment has reached the lowest rate in over half a century.	0
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60	TRUMP	African American, Hispanic American, and Asian American unemployment have all reached their lowest levels ever recorded.	1
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62	TRUMP	Unemployment for Americans with disabilities has also reached an all-time low.	0
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64	TRUMP	More people are working now than at any time in the history of our country — 157 million people at work.	1
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66	TRUMP	We passed a massive tax cut for working families and doubled the child tax credit.	0
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68	TRUMP	We virtually ended the estate tax — or death tax, as it is often called — on small businesses for ranchers and also for family farms.	0
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70	TRUMP	We eliminated the very unpopular Obamacare individual mandate penalty.	0
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72	TRUMP	And to give critically ill patients access to lifesaving cures, we passed, very importantly, Right to Try.	0
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74	TRUMP	My administration has cut more regulations in a short period of time than any other administration during its entire tenure.	0
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76	TRUMP	Companies are coming back to our country in large numbers thanks to our historic reductions in taxes and regulations.	0
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78	TRUMP	And we have unleashed a revolution in American energy.	1
79	TRUMP	The United States is now the number-one producer of oil and natural gas anywhere in the world.	1
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81	TRUMP	And now, for the first time in 65 years, we are a net exporter of energy.	1
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83	TRUMP	After 24 months of rapid progress, our economy is the envy of the world, our military is the most powerful on Earth, by far, and America —	0
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85	TRUMP	— America is again winning each and every day.	0
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87	TRUMP	Members of Congress: The state of our union is strong.	0
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89	AUDIENCE	USA!	0
90	AUDIENCE	USA!	0
91	AUDIENCE	USA!	0
92	TRUMP	That sounds so good.	0
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94	TRUMP	Our country is vibrant and our economy is thriving like never before.	0
95	TRUMP	On Friday, it was announced that we added another 304,000 jobs last month alone — almost double the number expected.	0
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97	TRUMP	An economic miracle is taking place in the United States, and the only thing that can stop it are foolish wars, politics, or ridiculous partisan investigations.	0
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99	TRUMP	If there is going to be peace and legislation, there cannot be war and investigation.	0
100	TRUMP	It just doesn’t work that way.	0
101	TRUMP	We must be united at home to defeat our adversaries abroad.	0
102	TRUMP	This new era of cooperation can start with finally confirming the more than 300 highly qualified nominees who are still stuck in the Senate.	0
103	TRUMP	In some cases, years and years waiting.	0
104	TRUMP	Not right.	0
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106	TRUMP	The Senate has failed to act on these nominations, which is unfair to the nominees and very unfair to our country.	0
107	TRUMP	Now is the time for bipartisan action.	0
108	TRUMP	Believe it or not, we have already proven that that’s possible.	0
109	TRUMP	In the last Congress, both parties came together to pass unprecedented legislation to confront the opioid crisis, a sweeping new farm bill, historic VA reforms.	1
110	TRUMP	And after four decades of rejection, we passed VA Accountability so that we can finally terminate those who mistreat our wonderful veterans.	1
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112	TRUMP	And just weeks ago, both parties united for groundbreaking criminal justice reform.	0
113	TRUMP	They said it couldn’t be done.	0
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115	TRUMP	Last year, I heard, through friends, the story of Alice Johnson.	0
116	TRUMP	I was deeply moved.	0
117	TRUMP	In 1997, Alice was sentenced to life in prison as a first-time non-violent drug offender.	0
118	TRUMP	Over the next 22 years, she became a prison minister, inspiring others to choose a better path.	0
119	TRUMP	She had a big impact on that prison population, and far beyond.	0
120	TRUMP	Alice’s story underscores the disparities and unfairness that can exist in criminal sentencing, and the need to remedy this total injustice.	0
121	TRUMP	She served almost that 22 years and had expected to be in prison for the remainder of her life.	0
122	TRUMP	In June, I commuted Alice’s sentence.	0
123	TRUMP	When I saw Alice’s beautiful family greet her at the prison gates, hugging and kissing and crying and laughing, I knew I did something right.	0
124	TRUMP	Alice is with us tonight, and she is a terrific woman.	0
125	TRUMP	Terrific.	0
126	TRUMP	Alice, please.	0
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128	TRUMP	Alice, thank you for reminding us that we always have the power to shape our own destiny.	0
129	TRUMP	Thank you very much, Alice.	0
130	TRUMP	Thank you very much.	0
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132	TRUMP	Inspired by stories like Alice’s, my administration worked closely with members of both parties to sign the FIRST STEP Act into law.	0
133	TRUMP	Big deal.	0
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135	TRUMP	It’s a big deal.	0
136	TRUMP	This legislation reformed sentencing laws that have wrongly and disproportionately harmed the African American community.	0
137	TRUMP	The FIRST STEP Act gives non-violent offenders the chance to reenter society as productive, law-abiding citizens.	0
138	TRUMP	Now states across the country are following our lead.	0
139	TRUMP	America is a nation that believes in redemption.	0
140	TRUMP	We are also joined tonight by Matthew Charles from Tennessee.	0
141	TRUMP	In 1996, at the age of 30, Matthew was sentenced to 35 years for selling drugs and related offenses.	0
142	TRUMP	Over the next two decades, he completed more than 30 Bible studies, became a law clerk, and mentored many of his fellow inmates.	0
143	TRUMP	Now, Matthew is the very first person to be released from prison under the FIRST STEP Act.	0
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145	TRUMP	Matthew, please.	0
146	TRUMP	Thank you, Matthew.	0
147	TRUMP	Welcome home.	0
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149	TRUMP	Now, Republicans and Democrats must join forces again to confront an urgent national crisis.	0
150	TRUMP	Congress has 10 days left to pass a bill that will fund our government, protect our homeland, and secure our very dangerous southern border.	0
151	TRUMP	Now is the time for Congress to show the world that America is committed to ending illegal immigration and putting the ruthless coyotes, cartels, drug dealers, and human traffickers out of business.	0
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153	TRUMP	As we speak, large, organized caravans are on the march to the United States.	0
154	TRUMP	We have just heard that Mexican cities, in order to remove the illegal immigrants from their communities, are getting trucks and buses to bring them up to our country in areas where there is little border protection.	0
155	TRUMP	I have ordered another 3,750 troops to our southern border to prepare for this tremendous onslaught.	0
156	TRUMP	This is a moral issue.	0
157	TRUMP	The lawless state of our southern border is a threat to the safety, security, and financial wellbeing of all America.	0
158	TRUMP	We have a moral duty to create an immigration system that protects the lives and jobs of our citizens.	0
159	TRUMP	This includes our obligation to the millions of immigrants living here today who followed the rules and respected our laws.	0
160	TRUMP	Legal immigrants enrich our nation and strengthen our society in countless ways.	0
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162	TRUMP	I want people to come into our country in the largest numbers ever, but they have to come in legally.	0
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164	TRUMP	Tonight, I am asking you to defend our very dangerous southern border out of love and devotion to our fellow citizens and to our country.	0
165	TRUMP	No issue better illustrates the divide between America’s working class and America’s political class than illegal immigration.	0
166	TRUMP	Wealthy politicians and donors push for open borders while living their lives behind walls, and gates, and guards.	0
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168	TRUMP	Meanwhile, working-class Americans are left to pay the price for mass illegal migration: reduced jobs, lower wages, overburdened schools, hospitals that are so crowded you can’t get in, increased crime, and a depleted social safety net.	0
169	TRUMP	Tolerance for illegal immigration is not compassionate; it is actually very cruel.	0
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171	TRUMP	One in three women is sexually assaulted on the long journey north.	0
172	TRUMP	Smugglers use migrant children as human pawns to exploit our laws and gain access to our country.	0
173	TRUMP	Human traffickers and sex traffickers take advantage of the wide-open areas between our ports of entry to smuggle thousands of young girls and women into the United States and to sell them into prostitution and modern-day slavery.	1
174	TRUMP	Tens of thousands of innocent Americans are killed by lethal drugs that cross our border and flood into our cities, including meth, heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl.	1
175	TRUMP	The savage gang, MS-13, now operates in at least 20 different American states, and they almost all come through our southern border.	0
176	TRUMP	Just yesterday, an MS-13 gang member was taken into custody for a fatal shooting on a subway platform in New York City.	0
177	TRUMP	We are removing these gang members by the thousands.	0
178	TRUMP	But until we secure our border, they’re going to keep streaming right back in.	0
179	TRUMP	Year after year, countless Americans are murdered by criminal illegal aliens.	1
180	TRUMP	I’ve gotten to know many wonderful Angel moms and dads, and families.	0
181	TRUMP	No one should ever have to suffer the horrible heartache that they have had to endure.	0
182	TRUMP	Here tonight is Debra Bissell.	0
183	TRUMP	Just three weeks ago, Debra’s parents, Gerald and Sharon, were burglarized and shot to death in their Reno, Nevada home by an illegal alien.	0
184	TRUMP	They were in their eighties, and are survived by 4 children, 11 grandchildren, and 20 great-grandchildren.	0
185	TRUMP	Also here tonight are Gerald and Sharon’s granddaughter Heather, and great-granddaughter Madison.	0
186	TRUMP	To Debra, Heather, Madison, please stand.	0
187	TRUMP	Few can understand your pain.	0
188	TRUMP	Thank you.	0
189	TRUMP	And thank you for being here.	0
190	TRUMP	Thank you very much.	0
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192	TRUMP	I will never forget, and I will fight for the memory of Gerald and Sharon that it should never happen again.	0
193	TRUMP	Not one more American life should be lost because our nation failed to control its very dangerous border.	0
194	TRUMP	In the last two years, our brave ICE officers made 266,000 arrests of criminal aliens, including those charged or convicted of nearly 100,000 assaults, 30,000 sex crimes, and 4,000 killings or murders.	0
195	TRUMP	We are joined tonight by one of those law enforcement heroes: ICE Special Agent Elvin Hernandez.	0
196	TRUMP	When Elvin —	0
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198	TRUMP	— thank you.	0
199	TRUMP	When Elvin was a boy, he and his family legally immigrated to the United States from the Dominican Republic.	0
200	TRUMP	At the age of eight, Elvin told his dad he wanted to become a Special Agent.	0
201	TRUMP	Today, he leads investigations into the scourge of international sex trafficking.	0
202	TRUMP	"Elvin says that, ""If I can make sure these young girls get their justice, I’ve [really] done my job."""	0
203	TRUMP	Thanks to his work, and that of his incredible colleagues, more than 300 women and girls have been rescued from the horror of this terrible situation, and more than 1,500 sadistic traffickers have been put behind bars.	0
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205	TRUMP	Thank you, Elvin.	0
206	TRUMP	We will always support the brave men and women of law enforcement, and I pledge to you tonight that I will never abolish our heroes from ICE.	0
207	TRUMP	Thank you.	0
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209	TRUMP	My administration has sent to Congress a commonsense proposal to end the crisis on the southern border.	0
210	TRUMP	It includes humanitarian assistance, more law enforcement, drug detection at our ports, closing loopholes that enable child smuggling, and plans for a new physical barrier, or wall, to secure the vast areas between our ports of entry.	0
211	TRUMP	In the past, most of the people in this room voted for a wall, but the proper wall never got built.	0
212	TRUMP	I will get it built.	0
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214	TRUMP	This is a smart, strategic, see-through steel barrier — not just a simple concrete wall.	0
215	TRUMP	It will be deployed in the areas identified by the border agents as having the greatest need.	0
216	TRUMP	And these agents will tell you: Where walls go up, illegal crossings go way, way down.	1
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218	TRUMP	San Diego used to have the most illegal border crossings in our country.	1
219	TRUMP	In response, a strong security wall was put in place.	0
220	TRUMP	This powerful barrier almost completely ended illegal crossings.	1
221	TRUMP	The border city of El Paso, Texas used to have extremely high rates of violent crime — one of the highest in the entire country, and considered one of our nation’s most dangerous cities.	1
222	TRUMP	Now, immediately upon its building, with a powerful barrier in place, El Paso is one of the safest cities in our country.	1
223	TRUMP	Simply put: Walls work, and walls save lives.	1
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225	TRUMP	So let’s work together, compromise, and reach a deal that will truly make America safe.	0
226	TRUMP	As we work to defend our people’s safety, we must also ensure our economic resurgence continues at a rapid pace.	0
227	TRUMP	No one has benefitted more from our thriving economy than women, who have filled 58 percent of the newly created jobs last year.	0
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229	TRUMP	You weren’t supposed to do that.	0
230	TRUMP	Thank you very much.	0
231	TRUMP	Thank you very much.	0
232	TRUMP	All Americans can be proud that we have more women in the workforce than ever before.	1
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234	TRUMP	Don’t sit yet.	0
235	TRUMP	You’re going to like this.	0
236	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
237	TRUMP	And exactly one century after Congress passed the constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote, we also have more women serving in Congress than at any time before.	0
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239	AUDIENCE	USA!	0
240	AUDIENCE	USA!	0
241	AUDIENCE	USA!	0
242	TRUMP	That’s great.	0
243	TRUMP	Really great.	0
244	TRUMP	And congratulations.	0
245	TRUMP	That’s great.	0
246	TRUMP	As part of our commitment to improving opportunity for women everywhere, this Thursday we are launching the first-ever government-wide initiative focused on economic empowerment for women in developing countries.	0
247	TRUMP	To build on —	0
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249	TRUMP	— thank you.	0
250	TRUMP	To build on our incredible economic success, one priority is paramount: reversing decades of calamitous trade policies.	0
251	TRUMP	So bad.	0
252	TRUMP	We are now making it clear to China that, after years of targeting our industries and stealing our intellectual property, the theft of American jobs and wealth has come to an end.	0
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254	TRUMP	Therefore, we recently imposed tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese goods, and now our Treasury is receiving billions and billions of dollars.	0
255	TRUMP	But I don’t blame China for taking advantage of us; I blame our leaders and representatives for allowing this travesty to happen.	0
256	TRUMP	I have great respect for President Xi, and we are now working on a new trade deal with China.	0
257	TRUMP	But it must include real, structural change to end unfair trade practices, reduce our chronic trade deficit, and protect American jobs.	0
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259	TRUMP	Thank you.	0
260	TRUMP	Another historic trade blunder was the catastrophe known as NAFTA.	0
261	TRUMP	I have met the men and women of Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, New Hampshire, and many other states whose dreams were shattered by the signing of NAFTA.	0
262	TRUMP	For years, politicians promised them they would renegotiate for a better deal, but no one ever tried, until now.	0
263	TRUMP	Our new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the USMCA, will replace NAFTA and deliver for American workers like they haven’t had delivered to for a long time.	0
264	TRUMP	"I hope you can pass the USMCA into law so that we can bring back our manufacturing jobs in even greater numbers, expand American agriculture, protect intellectual property, and ensure that more cars are proudly stamped with our four beautiful words: ""Made in the USA."""	0
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266	TRUMP	Tonight, I am also asking you to pass the United States Reciprocal Trade Act, so that if another country places an unfair tariff on an American product, we can charge them the exact same tariff on the exact same product that they sell to us.	0
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268	TRUMP	Both parties should be able to unite for a great rebuilding of America’s crumbling infrastructure.	0
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270	TRUMP	I know that Congress is eager to pass an infrastructure bill, and I am eager to work with you on legislation to deliver new and important infrastructure investment, including investments in the cutting-edge industries of the future.	0
271	TRUMP	This is not an option.	0
272	TRUMP	This is a necessity.	0
273	TRUMP	The next major priority for me, and for all of us, should be to lower the cost of healthcare and prescription drugs, and to protect patients with preexisting conditions.	0
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275	TRUMP	Already, as a result of my administration’s efforts, in 2018, drug prices experienced their single largest decline in 46 years.	0
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277	TRUMP	But we must do more.	0
278	TRUMP	It’s unacceptable that Americans pay vastly more than people in other countries for the exact same drugs, often made in the exact same place.	0
279	TRUMP	This is wrong, this is unfair, and together we will stop it — and we’ll stop it fast.	0
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281	TRUMP	I am asking Congress to pass legislation that finally takes on the problem of global freeloading and delivers fairness and price transparency for American patients, finally.	0
282	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
283	TRUMP	We should also require drug companies, insurance companies, and hospitals to disclose real prices to foster competition and bring costs way down.	0
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285	TRUMP	No force in history has done more to advance the human condition than American freedom.	0
286	TRUMP	In recent years —	0
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288	TRUMP	— in recent years, we have made remarkable progress in the fight against HIV and AIDS.	0
289	TRUMP	Scientific breakthroughs have brought a once-distant dream within reach.	0
290	TRUMP	My budget will ask Democrats and Republicans to make the needed commitment to eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years.	0
291	TRUMP	We have made incredible strides.	0
292	TRUMP	Incredible.	0
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294	TRUMP	Together, we will defeat AIDS in America and beyond.	0
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296	TRUMP	Tonight, I am also asking you to join me in another fight that all Americans can get behind: the fight against childhood cancer.	0
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298	TRUMP	Joining Melania in the gallery this evening is a very brave 10-year-old girl, Grace Eline.	0
299	TRUMP	Every birthday —	0
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301	TRUMP	— hi, Grace.	0
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303	TRUMP	Every birthday since she was four, Grace asked her friends to donate to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital.	0
304	TRUMP	She did not know that one day she might be a patient herself.	0
305	TRUMP	That’s what happened.	0
306	TRUMP	Last year, Grace was diagnosed with brain cancer.	0
307	TRUMP	Immediately, she began radiation treatment.	0
308	TRUMP	At the same time, she rallied her community and raised more than $40,000 for the fight against cancer.	0
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310	TRUMP	"When Grace completed treatment last fall, her doctors and nurses cheered — they loved her; they still love her — with tears in their eyes as she hung up a poster that read: ""Last day of chemo."""	0
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312	TRUMP	Thank you very much, Grace.	0
313	TRUMP	You are a great inspiration to everyone in this room.	0
314	TRUMP	Thank you very much.	0
315	TRUMP	Many childhood cancers have not seen new therapies in decades.	0
316	TRUMP	My budget will ask Congress for $500 million over the next 10 years to fund this critical lifesaving research.	0
317	TRUMP	To help support working parents, the time has come to pass School Choice for Americans’ children.	0
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319	TRUMP	I am also proud to be the first President to include in my budget a plan for nationwide paid family leave, so that every new parent has the chance to bond with their newborn child.	0
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321	TRUMP	There could be no greater contrast to the beautiful image of a mother holding her infant child than the chilling displays our nation saw in recent days.	0
322	TRUMP	Lawmakers in New York cheered with delight upon the passage of legislation that would allow a baby to be ripped from the mother’s womb moments from birth.	1
323	TRUMP	These are living, feeling, beautiful babies who will never get the chance to share their love and their dreams with the world.	0
324	TRUMP	And then, we had the case of the Governor of Virginia where he stated he would execute a baby after birth.	0
325	TRUMP	To defend the dignity of every person, I am asking Congress to pass legislation to prohibit the late-term abortion of children who can feel pain in the mother’s womb.	0
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327	TRUMP	Let us work together to build a culture that cherishes innocent life.	0
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329	TRUMP	And let us reaffirm a fundamental truth: All children — born and unborn — are made in the holy image of God.	0
330	TRUMP	The final part of my agenda is to protect American security.	0
331	TRUMP	Over the last two years, we have begun to fully rebuild the United States military, with $700 billion last year and $716 billion this year.	0
332	TRUMP	We are also getting other nations to pay their fair share.	0
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334	TRUMP	Finally.	0
335	TRUMP	Finally.	0
336	TRUMP	For years, the United States was being treated very unfairly by friends of ours, members of NATO.	0
337	TRUMP	But now we have secured, over the last couple of years, more than $100 billion of increase in defense spending from our NATO Allies.	0
338	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
339	TRUMP	They said it couldn’t be done.	0
340	TRUMP	As part of our military build-up, the United States is developing a state-of-the-art missile defense system.	0
341	TRUMP	Under my administration, we will never apologize for advancing America’s interests.	0
342	TRUMP	For example, decades ago, the United States entered into a treaty with Russia in which we agreed to limit and reduce our missile capability.	0
343	TRUMP	While we followed the agreement and the rules to the letter, Russia repeatedly violated its terms.	0
344	TRUMP	It’s been going on for many years.	0
345	TRUMP	That is why I announced that the United States is officially withdrawing from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, or INF Treaty.	0
346	TRUMP	Perhaps —	0
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348	TRUMP	— we really have no choice.	0
349	TRUMP	Perhaps we can negotiate a different agreement, adding China and others, or perhaps we can’t — in which case, we will outspend and out-innovate all others by far.	0
350	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
351	TRUMP	As part of a bold new diplomacy, we continue our historic push for peace on the Korean Peninsula.	0
352	TRUMP	Our hostages have come home, nuclear testing has stopped, and there has not been a missile launch in more than 15 months.	0
353	TRUMP	If I had not been elected President of the United States, we would right now, in my opinion, be in a major war with North Korea.	0
354	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
355	TRUMP	Much work remains to be done, but my relationship with Kim Jong Un is a good one.	0
356	TRUMP	Chairman Kim and I will meet again on February 27th and 28th in Vietnam.	0
357	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
358	TRUMP	Two weeks ago, the United States officially recognized the legitimate government of Venezuela —	0
359	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
360	TRUMP	— and its new President, Juan Guaidó.	0
361	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
362	TRUMP	We stand with the Venezuelan people in their noble quest for freedom, and we condemn the brutality of the Maduro regime, whose socialist policies have turned that nation from being the wealthiest in South America into a state of abject poverty and despair.	0
363	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
364	TRUMP	Here in the United States, we are alarmed by the new calls to adopt socialism in our country.	0
365	AUDIENCE	Booo —	0
366	TRUMP	America was founded on liberty and independence, and not government coercion, domination, and control.	0
367	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
368	TRUMP	We are born free and we will stay free.	0
369	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
370	AUDIENCE	USA!	0
371	AUDIENCE	USA!	0
372	AUDIENCE	USA!	0
373	TRUMP	Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.	0
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375	AUDIENCE	USA!	0
376	AUDIENCE	USA!	0
377	AUDIENCE	USA!	0
378	TRUMP	One of the most complex set of challenges we face, and have for many years, is in the Middle East.	0
379	TRUMP	Our approach is based on principled realism, not discredited theories that have failed for decades to yield progress.	0
380	TRUMP	For this reason, my administration recognized the true capital of Israel, and proudly opened the American Embassy in Jerusalem.	0
381	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
382	TRUMP	Our brave troops have now been fighting in the Middle East for almost 19 years.	0
383	TRUMP	In Afghanistan and Iraq, nearly 7,000 American heroes have given their lives.	0
384	TRUMP	More than 52,000 Americans have been badly wounded.	0
385	TRUMP	We have spent more than $7 trillion in fighting wars in the Middle East.	0
386	TRUMP	As a candidate for President, I loudly pledged a new approach.	0
387	TRUMP	Great nations do not fight endless wars.	0
388	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
389	TRUMP	When I took office, ISIS controlled more than 20,000 square miles in Iraq and Syria — just two years ago.	1
390	TRUMP	Today, we have liberated virtually all of the territory from the grip of these bloodthirsty monsters.	1
391	TRUMP	Now, as we work with our allies to destroy the remnants of ISIS, it is time to give our brave warriors in Syria a warm welcome home.	0
392	TRUMP	I have also accelerated our negotiations to reach — if possible — a political settlement in Afghanistan.	0
393	TRUMP	The opposing side is also very happy to be negotiating.	0
394	TRUMP	Our troops have fought with unmatched valor.	0
395	TRUMP	And thanks to their bravery, we are now able to pursue a possible political solution to this long and bloody conflict.	0
396	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
397	TRUMP	In Afghanistan, my administration is holding constructive talks with a number of Afghan groups, including the Taliban.	0
398	TRUMP	As we make progress in these negotiations, we will be able to reduce our troop’s presence and focus on counterterrorism.	0
399	TRUMP	And we will indeed focus on counterterrorism.	0
400	TRUMP	We do not know whether we will achieve an agreement, but we do know that, after two decades of war, the hour has come to at least try for peace.	0
401	TRUMP	And the other side would like to do the same thing.	0
402	TRUMP	It’s time.	0
403	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
404	TRUMP	Above all, friend and foe alike must never doubt this nation’s power and will to defend our people.	0
405	TRUMP	Eighteen years ago, violent terrorists attacked the USS Cole.	0
406	TRUMP	And last month, American forces killed one of the leaders of that attack.	0
407	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
408	TRUMP	We are honored to be joined tonight by Tom Wibberley, whose son, Navy Seaman Craig Wibberley, was one of the 17 sailors we tragically lost.	0
409	TRUMP	Tom, we vow to always remember the heroes of the USS Cole.	0
410	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
411	TRUMP	Thank you, Tom.	0
412	TRUMP	My administration has acted decisively to confront the world’s leading state sponsor of terror: the radical regime in Iran.	0
413	TRUMP	It is a radical regime.	0
414	TRUMP	They do bad, bad things.	0
415	TRUMP	To ensure this corrupt dictatorship never acquires nuclear weapons, I withdrew the United States from the disastrous Iran nuclear deal.	0
416	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
417	TRUMP	And last fall, we put in place the toughest sanctions ever imposed by us on a country.	0
418	TRUMP	"We will not avert our eyes from a regime that chants ""Death to America"" and threatens genocide against the Jewish people."	0
419	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
420	TRUMP	We must never ignore the vile poison of anti-Semitism, or those who spread its venomous creed.	0
421	TRUMP	With one voice, we must confront this hatred anywhere and everywhere it occurs.	0
422	TRUMP	Just months ago, 11 Jewish-Americans were viciously murdered in an anti-Semitic attack on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.	0
423	TRUMP	SWAT Officer Timothy Matson raced into the gunfire and was shot seven times chasing down the killer.	0
424	TRUMP	And he was very successful.	0
425	TRUMP	Timothy has just had his 12th surgery, and he is going in for many more.	0
426	TRUMP	But he made the trip to be here with us tonight.	0
427	TRUMP	Officer Matson, please.	0
428	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
429	TRUMP	Thank you.	0
430	TRUMP	We are forever grateful.	0
431	TRUMP	Thank you very much.	0
432	TRUMP	Tonight, we are also joined by Pittsburgh survivor, Judah Samet.	0
433	TRUMP	He arrived at the synagogue as the massacre began.	0
434	TRUMP	But not only did Judah narrowly escape death last fall, more than seven decades ago, he narrowly survived the Nazi concentration camps.	0
435	TRUMP	Today is Judah’s 81st birthday.	0
436	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
437	AUDIENCE	"(Sings ""Happy Birthday."")"	0
438	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
439	SAMET	Thank you!	0
440	TRUMP	They wouldn’t do that for me, Judah.	0
441	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
442	TRUMP	Judah says he can still remember the exact moment, nearly 75 years ago, after 10 months in a concentration camp, when he and his family were put on a train and told they were going to another camp.	0
443	TRUMP	Suddenly, the train screeched to a very strong halt.	0
444	TRUMP	A soldier appeared.	0
445	TRUMP	Judah’s family braced for the absolute worst.	0
446	TRUMP	"Then, his father cried out with joy, ""It’s the Americans! It’s the Americans!"""	0
447	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
448	TRUMP	Thank you.	0
449	TRUMP	A second Holocaust survivor who is here tonight, Joshua Kaufman, was a prisoner at Dachau.	0
450	TRUMP	He remembers watching through a hole in the wall of a cattle car as American soldiers rolled in with tanks.	0
451	TRUMP	"To me, Joshua recalls, ""the American soldiers were proof that God exists, and they came down from the sky."""	0
452	TRUMP	They came down from Heaven.	0
453	TRUMP	I began this evening by honoring three soldiers who fought on D-Day in the Second World War.	0
454	TRUMP	One of them was Herman Zeitchik.	0
455	TRUMP	But there is more to Herman’s story.	0
456	TRUMP	A year after he stormed the beaches of Normandy, Herman was one of the American soldiers who helped liberate Dachau.	0
457	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
458	TRUMP	He was one of the Americans who helped rescue Joshua from that hell on Earth.	0
459	TRUMP	Almost 75 years later, Herman and Joshua are both together in the gallery tonight, seated side-by-side, here in the home of American freedom.	0
460	TRUMP	Herman and Joshua, your presence this evening is very much appreciated.	0
461	TRUMP	Thank you very much.	0
462	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
463	TRUMP	Thank you.	0
464	TRUMP	When American soldiers set out beneath the dark skies over the English Channel in the early hours of D-Day, 1944, they were just young men of 18 and 19, hurtling on fragile landing craft toward the most momentous battle in the history of war.	0
465	TRUMP	They did not know if they would survive the hour.	0
466	TRUMP	They did not know if they would grow old.	0
467	TRUMP	But they knew that America had to prevail.	0
468	TRUMP	Their cause was this nation and generations yet unborn.	0
469	TRUMP	Why did they do it?	0
470	TRUMP	They did it for America.	0
471	TRUMP	They did it for us.	0
472	TRUMP	Everything that has come since — our triumph over communism, our giant leaps of science and discovery, our unrivaled progress towards equality and justice — all of it is possible thanks to the blood and tears and courage and vision of the Americans who came before.	0
473	TRUMP	Think of this Capitol.	0
474	TRUMP	Think of this very Chamber, where lawmakers before you voted to end slavery, to build the railroads and the highways, and defeat fascism, to secure civil rights, and to face down evil empires.	0
475	TRUMP	Here tonight, we have legislators from across this magnificent republic.	0
476	TRUMP	You have come from the rocky shores of Maine and the volcanic peaks of Hawaii; from the snowy woods of Wisconsin and the red deserts of Arizona; from the green farms of Kentucky and the golden beaches of California.	0
477	TRUMP	Together, we represent the most extraordinary nation in all of history.	0
478	TRUMP	What will we do with this moment?	0
479	TRUMP	How will we be remembered?	0
480	TRUMP	I ask the men and women of this Congress: Look at the opportunities before us.	0
481	TRUMP	Our most thrilling achievements are still ahead.	0
482	TRUMP	Our most exciting journeys still await.	0
483	TRUMP	Our biggest victories are still to come.	0
484	TRUMP	We have not yet begun to dream.	0
485	TRUMP	We must choose whether we are defined by our differences or whether we dare to transcend them.	0
486	TRUMP	We must choose whether we squander our great inheritance or whether we proudly declare that we are Americans.	0
487	TRUMP	We do the incredible.	0
488	TRUMP	We defy the impossible.	0
489	TRUMP	We conquer the unknown.	0
490	TRUMP	This is the time to reignite the American imagination.	0
491	TRUMP	This is the time to search for the tallest summit and set our sights on the brightest star.	0
492	TRUMP	This is the time to rekindle the bonds of love and loyalty and memory that link us together as citizens, as neighbors, as patriots.	0
493	TRUMP	This is our future, our fate, and our choice to make.	0
494	TRUMP	I am asking you to choose greatness.	0
495	TRUMP	No matter the trials we face, no matter the challenges to come, we must go forward together.	0
496	TRUMP	We must keep America first in our hearts.	0
497	TRUMP	We must keep freedom alive in our souls.	0
498	TRUMP	And we must always keep faith in America’s destiny that one nation, under God, must be the hope and the promise, and the light and the glory, among all the nations of the world.	0
499	TRUMP	Thank you.	0
500	TRUMP	God bless you.	0
501	TRUMP	And God bless America.	0
502	TRUMP	Thank you very much.	0
503	TRUMP	Thank you.	0
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1	TRUMP	Thank you very much, everybody.	0
2	TRUMP	Before we begin, I’d like to just say that we have a large team of very talented people in China.	0
3	TRUMP	We’ve had a negotiation going on for about two days.	0
4	TRUMP	It’s going extremely well.	0
5	TRUMP	Who knows what that means, because it only matters if we get it done.	0
6	TRUMP	But we’re very much working very closely with China and President Xi, who I respect a lot.	0
7	TRUMP	Very good relationship that we have.	0
8	TRUMP	And we’re a lot closer than we ever were in this country with having a real trade deal.	0
9	TRUMP	We’re covering everything — all of the points that people have been talking about for years that said couldn’t be done, whether it was theft or anything.	0
10	TRUMP	Anything.	0
11	TRUMP	The unfairness.	0
12	TRUMP	We’ve been losing, on average, $375 billion a year with China.	1
13	TRUMP	A lot of people think it’s $506 billion.	0
14	TRUMP	Some people think it’s much more than that.	0
15	TRUMP	We’re going to be leveling the playing field.	0
16	TRUMP	The tariffs are hurting China very badly.	0
17	TRUMP	They don’t want them.	0
18	TRUMP	And frankly, if we can make the deal, it’d be my honor to remove them.	0
19	TRUMP	But otherwise, we’re having many billions of dollars pouring into our Treasury.	0
20	TRUMP	We’ve never had that before with China.	0
21	TRUMP	It’s been very much of a one-way street.	0
22	TRUMP	So, that’s happening.	0
23	TRUMP	And the relationship with China is very good, but I think they finally respect our country.	0
24	TRUMP	They haven’t respected us for a long time.	0
25	TRUMP	Not for a long time.	0
26	TRUMP	The UK and the U.S., as you probably have been seeing and hearing, we’re agreeing to go forward and preserve our trade agreement.	0
27	TRUMP	You know all of the situation with respect to Brexit, and the complexity and the problems.	0
28	TRUMP	But we have a very good trading relationship with the UK, and that’s just been strengthened further.	0
29	TRUMP	So with the UK, we’re continuing our trade, and we are going to actually be increasing it very substantially as time goes by.	0
30	TRUMP	We expect that the UK will be very, very substantially increased as it relates to trade with the United States.	0
31	TRUMP	The relationship there, also, is very good.	0
32	TRUMP	We have a lot of great announcements having to do with Syria and our success with the eradication of the caliphate.	0
33	TRUMP	And that will be announced over the next 24 hours.	0
34	TRUMP	And many other things.	0
35	TRUMP	A lot of positive things are going on.	0
36	TRUMP	We’re working on a summit.	0
37	TRUMP	And you know all about the summit.	0
38	TRUMP	It will be in Vietnam — Hanoi.	0
39	TRUMP	And we will — we’ll be meeting in Hanoi.	0
40	TRUMP	We’ll be meeting in Hanoi.	0
41	TRUMP	I think a lot of you will be going, I suspect.	0
42	TRUMP	And I hope we have the same good luck as we had in the first summit.	0
43	TRUMP	A lot was done in the first summit.	0
44	TRUMP	No more rockets going up.	0
45	TRUMP	No more missiles going up.	0
46	TRUMP	No more testing of nuclear.	0
47	TRUMP	Get back our remains, the remains of our great heroes from the Korean War.	0
48	TRUMP	And we got back our hostages.	0
49	TRUMP	But we hope we’re going to be very much equally as successful.	0
50	TRUMP	I’m in no rush for speed.	0
51	TRUMP	We just don’t want testing.	0
52	TRUMP	The sanctions, as you know, remain.	0
53	TRUMP	Everything is remaining.	0
54	TRUMP	China has been helping us, and Russia has been helping us.	0
55	TRUMP	And South Korea, I think you can say, has been — we’ve been working very closely with South Korea, with Japan.	0
56	TRUMP	But China, Russia, on the border, have really been at least partially living up to what they’re supposed to be doing.	0
57	TRUMP	And that’s okay — as per the United Nations.	0
58	TRUMP	So we will have a meeting on the 27th and 28th of February, and I think that will be a very successful one.	0
59	TRUMP	I look forward to seeing Chairman Kim.	0
60	TRUMP	We have also established a very good relationship, which has never happened between him or his family and the United States.	0
61	TRUMP	They have really taken advantage of the United States.	0
62	TRUMP	Billions of dollars has been paid to them.	0
63	TRUMP	And we won’t let that happen.	0
64	TRUMP	But we think that North Korea and Chairman Kim have a tremendous potential as an economic force, economic power.	0
65	TRUMP	Their location between South Korea and then Russia and China — right smack in the middle — is phenomenal.	0
66	TRUMP	And we think that they have a great chance for tremendous economic prosperity in the future.	0
67	TRUMP	So I look forward to seeing Chairman Kim in Vietnam.	0
68	TRUMP	Today, I’m announcing several critical actions that my administration has taken to confront a problem that we have right here at home.	0
69	TRUMP	We fight wars that are 6,000 miles away; wars that we should have never been in, in many cases.	0
70	TRUMP	But we don’t control our own border.	0
71	TRUMP	So we’re going to confront the national security crisis on our southern border.	0
72	TRUMP	And we’re going to do it one way or the other — we have to do it — not because it was a campaign promise, which it is.	0
73	TRUMP	It was one of many, by the way; not my only one.	0
74	TRUMP	We’re rebuilding the military, our economy is thriving like never before.	0
75	TRUMP	You look at other economies — they’re doing terribly, and we’re doing phenomenally.	0
76	TRUMP	"The market is up tremendously today, not that that’s anything, but, you know — because I’ll go back in and they’ll say, ""Oh, the market just went down."""	0
77	TRUMP	But the market is getting close to the new highs that we created.	0
78	TRUMP	We have all the records.	0
79	TRUMP	We have every record.	0
80	TRUMP	But we’re getting close to that point again where we’ll create new records.	0
81	TRUMP	So our country is doing very well, economically.	0
82	TRUMP	And we’ve done a lot.	0
83	TRUMP	But one of the things I said I have to do and I want to do is border security, because we have tremendous amounts of drugs flowing into our country, much of it coming from the southern border.	0
84	TRUMP	When you look and when you listen to politicians — in particular, certain Democrats — they say it all comes through the port of entry.	1
85	TRUMP	It’s wrong.	0
86	TRUMP	It’s wrong.	0
87	TRUMP	It’s just a lie.	0
88	TRUMP	It’s all a lie.	0
89	TRUMP	They say walls don’t work.	0
90	TRUMP	Walls work 100 percent.	1
91	TRUMP	Whether it’s El Paso — I really was smiling, because the other night I was in El Paso — we had a tremendous crowd, and — tremendous crowd.	0
92	TRUMP	And I asked the people — many of whom were from El Paso, but they came from all over Texas.	0
93	TRUMP	And I asked them.	0
94	TRUMP	"I said, ""Let me ask you, as a crowd: When the wall went up, was it better?"""	0
95	TRUMP	You were there, some of you.	0
96	TRUMP	It was not only better; it was like 100 percent better.	1
97	TRUMP	You know what they did.	0
98	TRUMP	But that’s only one example.	0
99	TRUMP	There are so many examples.	0
100	TRUMP	In El Paso, they have close to 2,000 murders right on the other side of the wall.	1
101	TRUMP	And they had 23 murders.	0
102	TRUMP	It’s a lot of murders, but it’s not close to 2,000 murders right on the other side of the wall, in Mexico.	1
103	TRUMP	So everyone knows that walls work.	1
104	TRUMP	And there are better examples than El Paso, frankly.	0
105	TRUMP	You just take a look.	0
106	TRUMP	Almost everywhere.	0
107	TRUMP	Take a look at Israel.	0
108	TRUMP	They’re building another wall.	0
109	TRUMP	Their wall is 99.9 percent effective, they told me — 99.9 percent.	0
110	TRUMP	That’s what it would be with us, too.	0
111	TRUMP	The only weakness is they go to a wall and then they go around the wall.	0
112	TRUMP	They go around the wall and in.	0
113	TRUMP	Okay?	0
114	TRUMP	That’s what it is.	0
115	TRUMP	It’s very simple.	0
116	TRUMP	And a big majority of the big drugs — the big drug loads — don’t go through ports of entry.	0
117	TRUMP	They can’t go through ports of entry.	0
118	TRUMP	You can’t take big loads because you have people — we have some very capable people; the Border Patrol, law enforcement — looking.	0
119	TRUMP	You can’t take human traffic — women and girls — you can’t take them through ports of entry.	0
120	TRUMP	You can’t have them tied up in the backseat of a car or a truck or a van.	0
121	TRUMP	They open the door.	0
122	TRUMP	They look.	0
123	TRUMP	They can’t see three women with tape on their mouth or three women whose hands are tied.	0
124	TRUMP	They go through areas where you have no wall.	0
125	TRUMP	Everybody knows that.	0
126	TRUMP	Nancy knows it.	0
127	TRUMP	Chuck knows it.	0
128	TRUMP	They all know it.	0
129	TRUMP	It’s all a big lie.	0
130	TRUMP	It’s a big con game.	0
131	TRUMP	You don’t have to be very smart to know: You put up a barrier, the people come in, and that’s it.	0
132	TRUMP	They can’t do anything unless they walk left or right, and they find an area where there’s no barrier, and they come into the United States.	0
133	TRUMP	Welcome.	0
134	TRUMP	We’ve detained more people.	0
135	TRUMP	Our border agents are doing such incredible work.	0
136	TRUMP	Our military has been incredible.	0
137	TRUMP	We put up barbed wire on top of certain old walls that were there.	0
138	TRUMP	We fixed the wall and we loaded it up with barbed wire.	0
139	TRUMP	It’s very successful.	0
140	TRUMP	But our military has been fantastic, and I want to thank them.	0
141	TRUMP	And it’s very necessary.	0
142	TRUMP	We’ve broken up two caravans that are on their way.	0
143	TRUMP	They just are breaking.	0
144	TRUMP	They’re in the process of breaking up.	0
145	TRUMP	We have another one that we haven’t been able to break up yet.	0
146	TRUMP	We’ve been actually working with Mexico much better than ever before.	0
147	TRUMP	I want to thank the President.	0
148	TRUMP	I want to thank Mexico.	0
149	TRUMP	They have their own problems.	0
150	TRUMP	They have the largest number of murders that they’ve ever had in their history — almost 40,000 murders.	0
151	TRUMP	Forty thousand.	0
152	TRUMP	And they got to straighten that out, and I think they will.	0
153	TRUMP	But I just want to thank the President, because he’s been helping us with these monstrous caravans that have been coming up.	0
154	TRUMP	We had one that it was up to over 15,000 people.	0
155	TRUMP	It’s largely broken up.	0
156	TRUMP	Others have gotten through.	0
157	TRUMP	And, in Tijuana, you have a lot of people staying there.	0
158	TRUMP	If we didn’t have the wall up, and if we didn’t have the wall secured and strengthened, they would have walked right through; they’d be welcomed to the United States.	0
159	TRUMP	One of the things we’d save tremendous — just a tremendous amount on would be sending the military.	0
160	TRUMP	If we had a wall, we don’t need the military because we’d have a wall.	0
161	TRUMP	So I’m going to be signing a national emergency.	0
162	TRUMP	And it’s been signed many times before.	0
163	TRUMP	It’s been signed by other Presidents from 1977 or so.	0
164	TRUMP	It gave the Presidents the power.	0
165	TRUMP	There’s rarely been a problem.	0
166	TRUMP	They sign it; nobody cares.	0
167	TRUMP	I guess they weren’t very exciting.	0
168	TRUMP	But nobody cares.	0
169	TRUMP	They sign it for far less important things, in some cases, in many cases.	0
170	TRUMP	We’re talking about an invasion of our country with drugs, with human traffickers, with all types of criminals and gangs.	1
171	TRUMP	We have some of the greatest people I know.	0
172	TRUMP	They’ve been with me from the beginning of my campaign — almost from the first week.	0
173	TRUMP	The Angel Moms.	0
174	TRUMP	Unfortunately, we have new Angel Moms.	0
175	TRUMP	One incredible woman just showed me her daughter who — we’re talking about killed, in the year of ’18.	0
176	TRUMP	"I said, ""I haven’t seen you before."""	0
177	TRUMP	"She said, ""No, I’m new."""	0
178	TRUMP	"I said, ""That’s too bad."""	0
179	TRUMP	It’s too bad.	0
180	TRUMP	It’s so sad.	0
181	TRUMP	Stand up, just for a second.	0
182	TRUMP	Show how beautiful your girl was.	0
183	TRUMP	Thank you.	0
184	TRUMP	I have such respect for these people.	0
185	TRUMP	Angel Moms, Angel Dads, Angel Families.	0
186	TRUMP	I have great respect for these people.	0
187	TRUMP	These are great people.	0
188	TRUMP	These are great people.	0
189	TRUMP	They’re fighting for their children that have been killed by people that were illegally in this country.	0
190	TRUMP	And the press doesn’t cover them; they don’t want to, incredibly.	0
191	TRUMP	And they’re not treated the way they should be.	0
192	TRUMP	They’re fighting for other people because they don’t want what happened to their children or husband or anybody.	0
193	TRUMP	We have one young lady whose husband — please, stand up.	0
194	TRUMP	Your husband was just killed in Maryland.	0
195	TRUMP	Incredible man.	0
196	TRUMP	Just killed.	0
197	TRUMP	Beautiful children — won’t be seeing their father again.	0
198	TRUMP	These are brave people.	0
199	TRUMP	These are people that — they don’t have to be here.	0
200	TRUMP	They don’t have to be doing this.	0
201	TRUMP	They’re doing it for other people.	0
202	TRUMP	So I just want to thank all of you for being here, okay?	0
203	TRUMP	I really do.	0
204	TRUMP	I want to thank you.	0
205	TRUMP	Incredible people.	0
206	TRUMP	Last year, 70,000 Americans were killed, at least — I think the number is ridiculously low — by drugs, including meth and heroin and cocaine, fentanyl.	0
207	TRUMP	And one of the things that I did with President Xi in China, when I met him in Argentina at a summit — before I even started talking about the trade — it was a trade meeting.	0
208	TRUMP	It went very well, but before I talked about trade, I talked about something more important.	0
209	TRUMP	"I said, ""Listen, we have tremendous amounts of fentanyl coming into our country. It kills tens of thousands of people — I think far more than anybody registers. And I’d love you to declare it a lethal drug and put it on your criminal list."""	0
210	TRUMP	And their criminal list is much tougher than our criminal list.	0
211	TRUMP	Their criminal list — a drug dealer gets a thing called the death penalty.	0
212	TRUMP	"Our criminal list, a drug dealer gets a thing called, ""How about a fine?"""	0
213	TRUMP	"And when I asked President Xi, I said, ""Do you have a drug problem?"""	0
214	TRUMP	"No, no, no. I said, ""You have 1.4 billion people. What do you mean you have no drug problem?"""	0
215	TRUMP	"No, we don’t have a drug problem.  I said, ""Why?"" ""Death penalty. We give death penalty to people that sell drugs."""	0
216	TRUMP	End of problem.	0
217	TRUMP	What do we do?	0
218	TRUMP	We set up blue ribbon committees.	0
219	TRUMP	Lovely men and women — they sit around a table, they have lunch, they eat, they dine, and they waste a lot of time.	0
220	TRUMP	So if we want to get smart, we can get smart.	0
221	TRUMP	You can end the drug problem.	0
222	TRUMP	You can end it a lot faster than you think.	0
223	TRUMP	But President Xi has agreed to put fentanyl on his list of deadly, deadly drugs.	0
224	TRUMP	And it’s a criminal penalty.	0
225	TRUMP	And the penalty is death.	0
226	TRUMP	So that’s, frankly, one of the things I’m most excited about in our trade deal, if you want to know the truth.	0
227	TRUMP	I think maybe there’s no more important point.	0
228	TRUMP	We’re going to make billions of dollars with this trade deal.	0
229	TRUMP	It’s going to be great for our country and great for China, I hope.	0
230	TRUMP	Their market is down close to 40 percent.	0
231	TRUMP	Our market is way up.	0
232	TRUMP	We’ve picked up, since my election, trillions of dollars of worth.	0
233	TRUMP	Trillions.	0
234	TRUMP	Many trillions.	0
235	TRUMP	And China has lost trillions of dollars.	0
236	TRUMP	But I want it to be good for China and I want it to be good for the United States.	0
237	TRUMP	So we’ll see what happens.	0
238	TRUMP	China is coming here next week, by the way.	0
239	TRUMP	They’re coming home, the traders.	0
240	TRUMP	And then China is coming here next week.	0
241	TRUMP	And then I’ll be meeting with President Xi at some point after that to maybe — for some remaining deals.	0
242	TRUMP	We’ll make them directly, one-on-one, ourselves.	0
243	TRUMP	So, we’re going to be signing today, and registering, national emergency.	0
244	TRUMP	And it’s a great thing to do because we have an invasion of drugs, invasion of gangs, invasion of people, and it’s unacceptable.	1
245	TRUMP	And by signing the national emergency — something signed many times by other Presidents — many, many times.	0
246	TRUMP	President Obama — in fact, we may be using one of the national emergencies that he signed, having to do with cartels.	0
247	TRUMP	Criminal cartels.	0
248	TRUMP	It’s a very good emergency that he signed.	0
249	TRUMP	And we’re going to use parts of it in our dealings on cartels.	0
250	TRUMP	So that would be a second national emergency.	0
251	TRUMP	But, in that case, it’s already in place.	0
252	TRUMP	And what we want — really want to do — is simple.	0
253	TRUMP	It’s not like it’s complicated.	0
254	TRUMP	It’s very simple: We want to stop drugs from coming into our country.	0
255	TRUMP	We want to stop criminals and gangs from coming into our country.	0
256	TRUMP	Nobody has done the job that we’ve ever done.	0
257	TRUMP	I mean, nobody has done the job that we’ve done on the border.	0
258	TRUMP	And in a way, what I did by creating such a great economy — and if the opposing party got in, this economy would be down the tubes.	0
259	TRUMP	"You know, I hear a lot of people say, ""Oh, well. But maybe the previous administration…"""	0
260	TRUMP	Let me tell you, the previous administration, it was heading south, and it was going fast.	0
261	TRUMP	We would have been down the tubes.	0
262	TRUMP	The regulations were strangling our country.	0
263	TRUMP	Unnecessary regulations.	0
264	TRUMP	By creating such a strong economy — you just look at your televisions or see what’s going on today; it’s through the roof.	0
265	TRUMP	What happens is more people want to come, so we have far more people trying to get into our country today than probably we’ve ever had before.	1
266	TRUMP	And we’ve done an incredible job in stopping them, but it’s a massive number of people.	0
267	TRUMP	If we had the wall, it would be very easy.	0
268	TRUMP	We would make up for the cost of the wall just in the cost of the fact that I would be able to have fewer people.	0
269	TRUMP	We wouldn’t need all of this incredible talent, some of whom are sitting in the first row.	0
270	TRUMP	You wouldn’t need all of this incredible talent.	0
271	TRUMP	We would get — we would get thousands of law enforcement people, including Border Patrol.	0
272	TRUMP	You put them in different areas, you have them doing different things.	0
273	TRUMP	Law enforcement and Border Patrol.	0
274	TRUMP	And I want to thank law enforcement, and I want to thank Border Patrol, and I want to thank ICE.	0
275	TRUMP	ICE is abused by the press and by the Democrats.	0
276	TRUMP	And, by the way, we’re going to be taking care of ICE.	0
277	TRUMP	You know, we talk about the new bill.	0
278	TRUMP	We’re going to be taking care of ICE.	0
279	TRUMP	They wanted to get rid of ICE.	0
280	TRUMP	And the bill is just the opposite of that.	0
281	TRUMP	A lot of good things happened.	0
282	TRUMP	So, that’s the story.	0
283	TRUMP	We want to have a safe country.	0
284	TRUMP	"I ran on a very simple slogan: ""Make America Great Again."""	0
285	TRUMP	If you’re going to have drugs pouring across the border, if you’re going to have human traffickers pouring across the border in areas where we have no protection, in areas where we don’t have a barrier, then very hard to make America great again.	1
286	TRUMP	But we’ve done a fantastic job, but we haven’t been given the equipment.	0
287	TRUMP	We haven’t been given the walls.	0
288	TRUMP	And in the bill, by the way, they didn’t even fight us on most of the stuff.	0
289	TRUMP	Ports of entry.	0
290	TRUMP	We have so much money, we don’t know what to do with it.	0
291	TRUMP	I don’t know what to do with all the money they’re giving us.	0
292	TRUMP	It’s crazy.	0
293	TRUMP	The only place they don’t want to give as much money — $1,375,000,000.	0
294	TRUMP	Sounds like a lot, but it’s not so much, although we’re putting it to much better use than it used to be.	0
295	TRUMP	A lot of the past administrations, they had — it was easy to get, and they didn’t build or they didn’t do what they could have done.	0
296	TRUMP	It would have been great.	0
297	TRUMP	It would have been great to have done it earlier, but I was a little new to the job, a little new to the profession.	0
298	TRUMP	And we had a little disappointment for the first year and a half.	0
299	TRUMP	People that should have stepped up did not step up.	0
300	TRUMP	They didn’t step up, and they should have.	0
301	TRUMP	Would have been easy.	0
302	TRUMP	Not that easy, but it would have been a lot easier.	0
303	TRUMP	But some people didn’t step up.	0
304	TRUMP	But we’re stepping up now.	0
305	TRUMP	So we have a chance of getting close to $8 billion.	0
306	TRUMP	Whether it’s $8 billion or $2 billion or $1.5 billion, it’s going to build a lot of wall.	0
307	TRUMP	We’re getting it done.	0
308	TRUMP	We’re right now in construction with wall in some of the most important areas.	0
309	TRUMP	And we have renovated a tremendous amount of wall, making it just as good as new.	0
310	TRUMP	That’s where a lot of the money has been spent — on renovation.	0
311	TRUMP	In fact, we were restricted to renovating, which is okay.	0
312	TRUMP	But we’re going to run out of areas that we can renovate pretty soon.	0
313	TRUMP	So — and we need new wall.	0
314	TRUMP	So I want to thank everybody for being here.	0
315	TRUMP	I want to thank, in particular, the Angel Moms and Dads for being here.	0
316	TRUMP	Thank you very much.	0
317	TRUMP	We have great respect for you.	0
318	TRUMP	The real country, our real country — the people that really love our country, they love you.	0
319	TRUMP	So I just want you to know that.	0
320	TRUMP	I know how hard you fight and I know how hard a fight you’re having.	0
321	TRUMP	I also want to thank all of the law enforcement for the job you do.	0
322	TRUMP	Believe me, our country loves you and they respect you greatly.	0
323	TRUMP	And we’re giving you a lot of surplus.	0
324	TRUMP	We’re giving you surplus military equipment, which a lot of people didn’t like giving, previous to this administration.	0
325	TRUMP	But hundreds of millions of dollars of surplus equipment.	0
326	TRUMP	And as we get it, as you know, we send it down.	0
327	TRUMP	And you have much better protection.	0
328	TRUMP	But I really appreciate you being here.	0
329	TRUMP	So the order is signed.	0
330	TRUMP	And I’ll sign the final papers as soon as I get into the Oval Office.	0
331	TRUMP	And we will have a national emergency, and then we will then be sued, and they will sue us in the Ninth Circuit, even though it shouldn’t be there.	0
332	TRUMP	And we will possibly get a bad ruling, and then we’ll get another bad ruling.	0
333	TRUMP	And then we’ll end up in the Supreme Court, and hopefully we’ll get a fair shake.	0
334	TRUMP	And we’ll win in the Supreme Court, just like the ban.	0
335	TRUMP	They sued us in the Ninth Circuit, and we lost, and then we lost in the appellate division, and then we went to the Supreme Court, and we won.	0
336	TRUMP	And it was very interesting, because yesterday they were talking about the ban.	0
337	TRUMP	Because we have a ban.	0
338	TRUMP	It’s very helpful.	0
339	TRUMP	Madam Secretary, is that right?	0
340	TRUMP	Without the ban, we’d have a bigger problem.	0
341	TRUMP	We have a ban on certain areas, certain countries, depending on what’s going on in the world.	0
342	TRUMP	And we won.	0
343	TRUMP	"But somebody said, ""President Trump lost on the ban."""	0
344	TRUMP	Well, he was right; I lost at the lower court.	0
345	TRUMP	He — he didn’t say that we ultimately won at the United States Supreme Court.	0
346	TRUMP	They didn’t want to say that.	0
347	TRUMP	They didn’t want to go that far.	0
348	TRUMP	They were saying how I lost.	0
349	TRUMP	"The person sitting right up here — ""Donald Trump lost on the ban."""	0
350	TRUMP	Yeah, I did.	0
351	TRUMP	And then I lost a second time; you should have said that, too.	0
352	TRUMP	And then it went to the Supreme Court and I won.	0
353	TRUMP	Didn’t want to take it that far.	0
354	TRUMP	But we won on the ban and we won on other things, too.	0
355	TRUMP	The probably easiest one to win is on declaring a national emergency, because we’re declaring it for virtual invasion purposes: drugs, traffickers, and gangs.	0
356	TRUMP	And one of the things, just to finish: We have removed thousands of MS-13 gang monsters.	0
357	TRUMP	Thousands.	0
358	TRUMP	They’re out of this country.	0
359	TRUMP	We take them out by the thousands.	0
360	TRUMP	And they are monsters.	0
361	TRUMP	Okay.	0
362	TRUMP	Do you have any questions?	0
363	TRUMP	Yeah.	0
364	TRUMP	John, go ahead.	0
365	QUESTION	Mr. President — (inaudible).	0
366	QUESTION	AIDE:  Yes, we do.	0
367	QUESTION	There you go.	0
368	QUESTION	You were prepared.	0
369	QUESTION	Mr. President, a lot of the money —	0
370	TRUMP	Were you saying I was prepared?	0
371	QUESTION	With the microphone and prepared for questions.	0
372	TRUMP	Oh, I thought you meant I was prepared.	0
373	TRUMP	I couldn’t believe you said that.	0
374	QUESTION	(LAUGHTER)	0
375	QUESTION	No, no, no.	0
376	QUESTION	(LAUGHTER)	0
377	TRUMP	People don’t like saying that.	0
378	QUESTION	You were prepared for questions.	0
379	TRUMP	I am prepared.	0
380	TRUMP	I’m always prepared.	0
381	QUESTION	A lot of the money that goes to count toward your $8 billion is money that’s being reprogrammed in the DOD budget.	0
382	QUESTION	How can you guarantee to military families and to our men and women of the military that none of the money that would be reprogrammed to a wall will take away from other technology, other renovations, construction that is desperately needed in our military?	0
383	TRUMP	Yeah.	0
384	TRUMP	So, John, we had certain funds that are being used at the discretion of generals, at the discretion of the military.	0
385	TRUMP	Some of them haven’t been allocated yet, and some of the generals think that this is more important.	0
386	TRUMP	I was speaking to a couple of them.	0
387	TRUMP	They think this is far more important than what they were going to use it for.	0
388	TRUMP	"I said, ""What were you going to use it for?"""	0
389	TRUMP	And I won’t go into details, but it didn’t sound too important to me.	0
390	TRUMP	Plus, if you think, I’ve gotten $700 billion for the military in year one, and then last year, $716 billion.	0
391	TRUMP	And we’re rebuilding our military, but we have a lot.	0
392	TRUMP	And under the previous administration, our military was depleted — badly depleted.	0
393	TRUMP	And they weren’t spending — I mean, they had a much less — they had a much smaller amount of money.	0
394	TRUMP	So when I got $700 billion, and then $716 billion — and this year, it’s going to be pretty big too, because there’s few things more important than our military.	0
395	TRUMP	You know, I’m a big deficit believer and all of that, but before we really start focusing on certain things, we have to build up our military.	0
396	TRUMP	It was very badly depleted.	0
397	TRUMP	And we’re buying all new jetfighters, all new missiles, all new defensive equipment.	0
398	TRUMP	We have — we’ll soon have a military like we’ve never had before.	0
399	TRUMP	But when you think about the kind of numbers you’re talking about — so you have $700 billion, $716 billion — when I need $2 billion, $3 billion of out that for a wall — which is a very important instrument, very important for the military because of the drugs that pour in.	0
400	TRUMP	And as you know, we have specific rules and regulations where they have drugs, and what you can do in order to stop drugs.	0
401	TRUMP	And that’s part of it, too.	0
402	TRUMP	We’re taking a lot of money from that realm also.	0
403	TRUMP	But when you have that kind of money going into the military, this is a very, very small amount that we’re asking for.	0
404	TRUMP	Yeah, go ahead.	0
405	TRUMP	Go ahead.	0
406	TRUMP	ABC.	0
407	TRUMP	Not NBC.	0
408	TRUMP	I like ABC a little bit more — not much.	0
409	TRUMP	Come on, ABC.	0
410	TRUMP	Not much.	0
411	TRUMP	Pretty close.	0
412	QUESTION	Mr. President, what do you say to those, including some of your Republican allies, who say that you are violating the Constitution with this move and setting a bad precedent that will be abused by possibly Democratic Presidents in the future?	0
413	QUESTION	Marco Rubio has made this point.	0
414	TRUMP	Well, not too many people.	0
415	TRUMP	Yeah.	0
416	TRUMP	Not too many people have said that.	0
417	TRUMP	But the courts will determine that.	0
418	TRUMP	Look, I expect to be sued.	0
419	TRUMP	I shouldn’t be sued.	0
420	TRUMP	Very rarely do you get sued when you do national emergency.	0
421	TRUMP	"And then other people say, ""Oh, if you use it for this, now what are we using it for?"""	0
422	TRUMP	We got to get rid of drugs and gangs and people.	0
423	TRUMP	It’s an invasion.	1
424	TRUMP	We have an invasion of drugs and criminals coming into our country that we stop, but it’s very hard to stop.	1
425	TRUMP	With a wall, it would be very easy.	0
426	TRUMP	So I think that we will be very successful in court.	0
427	TRUMP	I think it’s clear.	0
428	TRUMP	And the people that say we create precedent — well, what do you have?	0
429	TRUMP	Fifty-six?	0
430	TRUMP	There are a lot of times — well, that’s creating precedent.	0
431	TRUMP	And many of those are far less important than having a border.	0
432	TRUMP	If you don’t have a border, you don’t have a country.	0
433	TRUMP	You know, we fight — before I got here — we fight all over the world to create borders for countries, but we don’t create a border for our own country.	0
434	TRUMP	So I think what will happen is, sadly, we’ll be sued, and sadly, it’ll go through a process.	0
435	TRUMP	And, happily, we’ll win — I think.	0
436	TRUMP	Go ahead.	0
437	TRUMP	Let’s go.	0
438	TRUMP	Let’s hear it, NBC.	0
439	TRUMP	Come on.	0
440	QUESTION	Thank you, Mr. President.	0
441	QUESTION	"I just want to say, in the past, when President Obama tried to use executive action as it related to immigration, you said, ""The whole concept of executive order, it’s not the way the country is supposed to be run."""	0
442	QUESTION	"You said, ""You’re supposed to go through Congress and make a deal."""	0
443	QUESTION	Will you concede that you were unable to make the deal that you had promised in the past, and that the deal you’re ending up with now from Congress is less than what you could have had before a 35-day shutdown?	0
444	TRUMP	No.	0
445	TRUMP	Look, I went through Congress.	0
446	TRUMP	I made a deal.	0
447	TRUMP	I got almost $1.4 billion when I wasn’t supposed to get one dollar — not one dollar.	0
448	TRUMP	He’s not going to get one dollar.	0
449	TRUMP	Well, I got $1.4 billion.	0
450	TRUMP	But I’m not happy with it.	0
451	TRUMP	I also got billions and billions of dollars for other things — port of entries, lots of different things.	0
452	TRUMP	The purchase of drug equipment.	0
453	TRUMP	More than we were even requesting.	0
454	TRUMP	In fact, the primary fight was on the wall.	0
455	TRUMP	Everything else, we have so much, as I said, I don’t know what to do with it we have so much money.	0
456	TRUMP	But on the wall, they skimped.	0
457	TRUMP	So I did — I was successful, in that sense, but I want to do it faster.	0
458	TRUMP	I could do the wall over a longer period of time.	0
459	TRUMP	I didn’t need to do this.	0
460	TRUMP	But I’d rather do it much faster.	0
461	TRUMP	And I don’t have to do it for the election.	0
462	TRUMP	I’ve already done a lot of wall, for the election — 2020.	1
463	TRUMP	And the only reason we’re up here talking about this is because of the election, because they want to try and win an election, which it looks like they’re not going to be able to do.	0
464	TRUMP	And this is one of the ways they think they can possibly win, is by obstruction and a lot of other nonsense.	0
465	TRUMP	And I think that I just want to get it done faster, that’s all.	0
466	TRUMP	Okay.	0
467	TRUMP	Yes, ma’am, go ahead.	0
468	QUESTION	Thank you, Mr. President.	0
469	TRUMP	Thank you.	0
470	QUESTION	Roberta Rampton from Reuters.	0
471	QUESTION	I wanted to ask about China.	0
472	QUESTION	Do you feel that enough progress has been made in the talks to head off the increase in tariffs scheduled for March 1?	0
473	TRUMP	Well, you know, you’re talking to the wrong person, because I happen to like tariffs, okay?	0
474	TRUMP	I mean, we’re taking in billions and billions of dollars in tariffs from China.	0
475	TRUMP	And our steel industry now, as an example, we tax dumped steel — much of it comes from China — at 25 percent.	0
476	TRUMP	Our steel industry is so vibrant now again, they’re building plants all over the United States.	0
477	TRUMP	It’s a beautiful thing.	0
478	TRUMP	And from a defensive standpoint, and from any standpoint, you need steel.	0
479	TRUMP	You know, you can do without certain industries.	0
480	TRUMP	Our country cannot do without steel.	0
481	TRUMP	So, I love tariffs, but I also love them to negotiate.	0
482	TRUMP	And right now, China is paying us billions of dollars a year in tariffs.	0
483	TRUMP	And I haven’t even started.	0
484	TRUMP	Now, here’s the thing: If we make a deal, they won’t have to pay.	0
485	TRUMP	You know, it’ll be a whole different story.	0
486	TRUMP	They won’t be paying that, but we’ll have a fair deal.	0
487	TRUMP	There won’t be intellectual property theft.	0
488	TRUMP	There won’t be so many other things that have gone on.	0
489	TRUMP	And no other President has done this.	0
490	TRUMP	No other — you know, we didn’t have a deal with China.	0
491	TRUMP	You had the WTO, one of the worst trade deals ever made — probably even worse than NAFTA, if that’s believable, which, you know, hard to believe, because I think NAFTA was just a disaster.	0
492	TRUMP	It was a total disaster for our country.	0
493	TRUMP	And now we made the USMCA, which is going to be a terrific — a great deal.	0
494	TRUMP	And, by the way, the USMCA, from Mexico — that’s United States, Mexico, Canada — that’s where the money is coming from, not directly but indirectly, for the wall.	1
495	TRUMP	And nobody wants to talk about that.	0
496	TRUMP	Because we’re saving billions and billions of dollars a year, if Congress approves that deal.	0
497	TRUMP	"Now, they might now want to approve a deal just because they’ll say — one of the things I’m thinking of doing — this has never been done before: No matter how good a deal I make with China, if they sell me Beijing for one dollar, if they give me 50 percent of their land and every ship that they’ve built over the last two years — which is a lot — and they give them to me free, the Democrats will say, ""What a lousy deal; that’s a terrible deal."""	0
498	TRUMP	Like, ZTE, I got a billion — more than a billion-dollar penalty in a short period of time.	0
499	TRUMP	"And the Democrats said, ""Oh, should’ve gotten more."""	0
500	TRUMP	"When I made that deal, I said, ""This is incredible."""	0
501	TRUMP	I just got — I got over a billion-dollar penalty, plus they had to change their board of directors.	0
502	TRUMP	They had to change their top management.	0
503	TRUMP	But they had to pay over a billion dollars.	0
504	TRUMP	"I said, ""What a deal."""	0
505	TRUMP	It took like a week.	0
506	TRUMP	And the Democrats didn’t even know there was a problem with ZTE.	0
507	TRUMP	I’m the one that find them.	0
508	TRUMP	I’m the one that settled it.	0
509	TRUMP	Over a billion dollars.	0
510	TRUMP	And President Xi called me and he said it would be important to him if they could get a deal.	0
511	TRUMP	And we made a deal — paid — like, in a short period of time.	0
512	TRUMP	"The Democrats went out and said, ""Oh, they should’ve done better."""	0
513	TRUMP	So what I’m thinking of doing is getting Chuck Schumer, getting Nancy Pelosi, having them bring two or three of their brilliant representatives.	0
514	TRUMP	And we’ll all go down together, and what we’ll do is we’ll negotiate.	0
515	TRUMP	I’ll put them in the room and let them speak up.	0
516	TRUMP	Because any deal I make with China, if it’s the great — it’s going to be better than any deal that anybody ever dreamt possible, or I’m not going to have a deal.	0
517	TRUMP	It’s a very simple.	0
518	TRUMP	"But any deal I make with China, Schumer is going to stand up and say, ""Oh, it should’ve been better. It should’ve been better."" "	0
519	TRUMP	And you know what?	0
520	TRUMP	That’s not acceptable to me.	0
521	TRUMP	So I’m thinking about doing something very different.	0
522	TRUMP	I don’t think it’s ever been — I just don’t want to be second-guessed.	0
523	TRUMP	But that’s not even second-guess; that’s called politics.	0
524	TRUMP	Sadly, I’d probably do the same thing to them, okay?	0
525	TRUMP	But any deal I make toward the end, I’m going to bring Schumer — at least offer him — and Pelosi.	0
526	TRUMP	"I’m going to say, ""Please join me on the deal."""	0
527	TRUMP	And, by the way, I just see our new Attorney General is sitting in the front row.	0
528	TRUMP	Please stand up, Bill.	0
529	SYSTEM	(APPLAUSE)	0
530	TRUMP	Such an easy job he’s got.	0
531	TRUMP	He’s got the easiest job in government.	0
532	TRUMP	Thank you and congratulations.	0
533	TRUMP	That was a great vote yesterday.	0
534	TRUMP	Thank you very much.	0
535	QUESTION	Mr. President —	0
536	TRUMP	Yes, go ahead.	0
537	TRUMP	Go ahead.	0
538	QUESTION	In your remarks, sir, you said that you were too new to politics, earlier in your administration, when you would’ve preferred that this be done.	0
539	QUESTION	Is that an admission of how you might be changing on the job?	0
540	QUESTION	And —	0
541	TRUMP	Well, I’m learning.	0
542	TRUMP	I mean, I am learning.	0
543	TRUMP	"Don’t forget, it’s not like I’ve done this for — a senator came into my office and said, ""Sir, I’ve been running for office for 30 years. I’ve won seven out of seven. I did lose a couple when I was younger."""	0
544	TRUMP	"I said, ""Well, I’ve won one out of one. But, you know, I never did politics before. Now I do politics."""	0
545	TRUMP	I will tell you, I’m very disappointed at certain people, a particular one, for not having pushed this faster.	0
546	QUESTION	Are you referring to Speaker Ryan, sir?	0
547	TRUMP	But I’ve learned — who?	0
548	QUESTION	Speaker Ryan.	0
549	TRUMP	Let’s not talk about it.	0
550	QUESTION	Okay.	0
551	TRUMP	What difference does it make?	0
552	TRUMP	But they should have pushed it faster.	0
553	TRUMP	They should have pushed it harder.	0
554	TRUMP	And they didn’t.	0
555	TRUMP	They didn’t.	0
556	TRUMP	If they would have, it would have been a little bit better.	0
557	TRUMP	In the meantime, I’ve built a lot of wall.	0
558	TRUMP	I have a lot of money, and I’ve built a lot of wall.	0
559	TRUMP	But it would’ve been nice to have gotten done.	0
560	TRUMP	And I would like to see major immigration reform, and maybe that’s something we can all work on, Bill, where we all get together and do major immigration reform — not just for a wall, for a barrier; for port of entry, for other things.	0
561	TRUMP	We have a real problem.	0
562	TRUMP	We have catch-and-release.	1
563	TRUMP	You catch a criminal and you have to release them.	1
564	TRUMP	We have so many other things.	0
565	TRUMP	You have chain migration, where a bad person comes in, brings 22 or 23 or 35 of his family members — because he has his mother, his grandmother, his sister, his cousin, his uncle — they’re all in.	0
566	TRUMP	You know what happened on the West Side Highway.	0
567	TRUMP	That young wise guy drove over and killed eight people and horribly injured — nobody talks about that — horribly — like, loss of legs and arms — going 60 miles an hour, he made a right turn into a park on the West Side Highway, along the Hudson River in New York.	0
568	TRUMP	He had many people brought in because he was in the United States.	1
569	TRUMP	It’s called chain migration.	1
570	TRUMP	And then you have the lottery.	0
571	TRUMP	It’s a horror show, because when countries put people into the lottery, they’re not putting you in; they’re putting some very bad people in the lottery.	1
572	TRUMP	It’s common sense.	0
573	TRUMP	If I ran a country, and if I have a lottery system of people going to the United States, I’m not going to put in my stars; I’m going to put in people I don’t want.	0
574	TRUMP	The lottery system is a disaster.	0
575	TRUMP	I’m stuck with it.	0
576	QUESTION	Mr. President, could you tell us —	0
577	TRUMP	It should have — wait.	0
578	TRUMP	It should have never happened.	0
579	TRUMP	Okay.	0
580	QUESTION	Mr. President, could you tell us to what degree some of the outside conservative voices helped to shape your views on this national emergency?	0
581	TRUMP	I would talk about it.	0
582	TRUMP	Look, Sean Hannity has been a terrific, terrific supporter of what I do.	0
583	TRUMP	Not of me.	0
584	TRUMP	If I changed my views, he wouldn’t be with me.	0
585	TRUMP	Rush Limbaugh — I think he’s a great guy.	0
586	TRUMP	Here’s a guy who can speak for three hours without a phone call.	0
587	TRUMP	Try doing that sometime.	0
588	TRUMP	For three hours, he speaks.	0
589	TRUMP	He’s got one of the biggest audiences in the history of the world.	0
590	TRUMP	I mean, this guy is unbelievable.	0
591	TRUMP	Try speaking for three hours without taking calls.	0
592	TRUMP	Taking calls is easy.	0
593	TRUMP	Okay, I’ll answer this one. I’ll answer that one.	0
594	TRUMP	He goes for three hours, and he’s got an audience that’s fantastic.	0
595	QUESTION	Should they be —	0
596	TRUMP	Wait —	0
597	QUESTION	Should they be deciding policy, sir?	0
598	TRUMP	They don’t decide policy.	0
599	TRUMP	In fact, if I went opposite — I mean, they have somebody — Ann Coulter.	0
600	TRUMP	I don’t know her.	0
601	TRUMP	I hardly know her.	0
602	TRUMP	I haven’t spoken to her in way over a year.	0
603	TRUMP	"But the press loves saying ""Ann Coulter."""	0
604	TRUMP	Probably, if I did speak to her, she’d be very nice.	0
605	TRUMP	I just don’t have the time to speak to her.	0
606	TRUMP	I would speak to her; I have nothing against her.	0
607	TRUMP	"In fact, I like her for one reason: When they asked her, like right at the beginning, who was going to win the election, she said, ""Donald Trump."""	0
608	TRUMP	And the two people that asked her that question smiled.	0
609	TRUMP	"They said, ""You’re kidding, aren’t you?"""	0
610	TRUMP	Nope. Donald Trump.	0
611	TRUMP	So I like her, but she’s off the reservation.	0
612	TRUMP	But anybody that knows her understands that.	0
613	TRUMP	But I haven’t spoken to her.	0
614	TRUMP	I don’t follow her.	0
615	TRUMP	I don’t talk to her.	0
616	TRUMP	"But the press loves to bring up the name ""Ann Coulter."""	0
617	TRUMP	And you know what?	0
618	TRUMP	I think she’s fine.	0
619	TRUMP	I think she’s good.	0
620	TRUMP	But I just don’t speak to her.	0
621	TRUMP	Laura has been great.	0
622	TRUMP	Laura Ingraham.	0
623	TRUMP	Tucker Carlson has been great.	0
624	TRUMP	I actually have a couple people on CNN that have been very good.	0
625	TRUMP	I have some on MSNBC.	0
626	TRUMP	The other day, they did a great report of me.	0
627	TRUMP	"I said, ""Where the hell did that come from?"""	0
628	TRUMP	I think it was the only one in over a year.	0
629	TRUMP	So the crazy thing is, I just had, as you know, Rasmussen — 52 percent in the polls.	0
630	TRUMP	It’s my highest poll number.	0
631	TRUMP	And people get what we’re doing.	0
632	TRUMP	They get it.	0
633	TRUMP	They really get it.	0
634	TRUMP	And I’m honored by it.	0
635	TRUMP	Yes.	0
636	TRUMP	Jim Acosta.	0
637	QUESTION	Thank you, Mr. President.	0
638	QUESTION	"I wonder if you could comment on this disconnect that we seem to have in this country, where you are presenting information about what’s happening at the border — calling it an ""invasion,"" talking about women with duct tape over their mouths, and so on — and yet there’s a lot of reporting out there, there’s a lot of crime data out there, there’s a lot of Department of Homeland Security data out there that shows border crossings at a near-record low —"	0
639	TRUMP	That’s because of us.	0
640	TRUMP	But it’s still —	0
641	QUESTION	— that shows undocumented immigrants committing crime at lower levels —	0
642	TRUMP	Excuse me.	0
643	TRUMP	It’s still massive numbers of crossings.	0
644	QUESTION	— that shows undocumented criminals — or undocumented immigrants committing crime at lower levels than native-born Americans.	0
645	QUESTION	What do you say —	0
646	TRUMP	You don’t really believe that stat, do you?	0
647	TRUMP	Do you really believe that stat?	0
648	QUESTION	What do you — well, let me ask you this —	0
649	TRUMP	Take a look at our federal prisons.	0
650	QUESTION	I believe in facts and statistics and data, but —	0
651	TRUMP	Okay?	0
652	TRUMP	Any more?	0
653	TRUMP	Quick, let’s go.	0
654	QUESTION	Let me just ask you this: What do you say to your critics who say that you are creating a national emergency, that you’re concocting a national emergency here in order to get your wall because you couldn’t get it through other ways?	0
655	TRUMP	I ask the Angel Moms: What do you think?	0
656	TRUMP	Do you think I’m creating something?	0
657	TRUMP	Ask these incredible women, who lost their daughters and their sons.	0
658	TRUMP	Okay?	0
659	QUESTION	This is real.	0
660	TRUMP	Because your question is a very political question because you have an agenda.	0
661	TRUMP	You’re CNN.	0
662	TRUMP	You’re fake news.	0
663	TRUMP	You have an agenda.	0
664	TRUMP	The numbers that you gave are wrong.	0
665	TRUMP	Take a look at our federal prison population.	0
666	TRUMP	See how many of them, percentage-wise, are illegal aliens.	0
667	TRUMP	Just see.	0
668	TRUMP	Go ahead and see.	0
669	TRUMP	It’s a fake question.	0
670	TRUMP	Yes.	0
671	TRUMP	Go ahead.	0
672	QUESTION	Can I ask a follow-up?	0
673	QUESTION	Thank you, Mr. President.	0
674	QUESTION	Just to follow up on that, unifying crime reporting statistics — numbers from your own Border Patrol, numbers from this government — show that the amount of illegal immigrants are down, there is not violence on the border, and that most —	0
675	TRUMP	There’s not violence on the border?	0
676	QUESTION	There’s not as much violence as —	0
677	TRUMP	Oh, really?	0
678	QUESTION	Let me — wait a minute.	0
679	QUESTION	Wait a minute.	0
680	QUESTION	Wait —	0
681	TRUMP	You had 26 people killed —	0
682	QUESTION	Let me finish the question, please.	0
683	QUESTION	Let me finish the question, please.	0
684	TRUMP	Two weeks ago, 26 people were killed in a gunfight on the border —	0
685	QUESTION	I understand what you’re — I understand what you’re saying.	0
686	TRUMP	— a mile away from where I went.	0
687	QUESTION	I was there.	0
688	QUESTION	I understand.	0
689	QUESTION	That’s not the question.	0
690	QUESTION	The question is —	0
691	TRUMP	Do we forget about that?	0
692	QUESTION	No, I’m not forgetting about it.	0
693	QUESTION	I’m asking you to clarify where you get your numbers, because most of the DEA crime reporting statistics that we see show that drugs are coming across at the ports of entry, that illegal immigration is down, and the violence is down.	0
694	TRUMP	Okay.	0
695	QUESTION	So what do you base your facts on?	0
696	TRUMP	Okay, let me — come on, let’s go.	0
697	TRUMP	Sort of — sort of —	0
698	QUESTION	And, secondly —	0
699	TRUMP	No, no.	0
700	TRUMP	You get one.	0
701	TRUMP	You get one.	0
702	TRUMP	Ready?	0
703	QUESTION	Well, the second question is —	0
704	TRUMP	Just sit down.	0
705	TRUMP	Wait.	0
706	TRUMP	Sit down.	0
707	TRUMP	Sit down.	0
708	QUESTION	Could you please answer it?	0
709	TRUMP	Sit down.	0
710	TRUMP	You get one question.	0
711	TRUMP	I get my numbers from a lot of sources — like Homeland Security, primarily.	0
712	TRUMP	And the numbers that I have from Homeland Security are a disaster.	0
713	TRUMP	And you know what else is a disaster?	0
714	TRUMP	The numbers that come out of Homeland Security, Kirstjen, for the cost that we spend and the money that we lose because of illegal immigration: Billions and billions of dollars a month.	0
715	TRUMP	Billions and billions of dollars.	0
716	TRUMP	And it’s unnecessary.	0
717	QUESTION	So your own government stats are wrong, are you saying?	0
718	TRUMP	No, no.	0
719	TRUMP	I use many stats.	0
720	TRUMP	I use many stats.	0
721	QUESTION	Could you share those stats with us?	0
722	TRUMP	Let me tell you, you have stats that are far worse than the ones that I use.	0
723	TRUMP	But I use many stats, but I also use Homeland Security.	0
724	TRUMP	All right, next question.	0
725	QUESTION	And do you — wait a minute.	0
726	QUESTION	Just a quick follow-up.	0
727	TRUMP	Go ahead.	0
728	TRUMP	No.	0
729	TRUMP	Go.	0
730	TRUMP	Please.	0
731	QUESTION	Thank you, Mr. President.	0
732	QUESTION	I just want to bring you back to China for a second.	0
733	QUESTION	The White House put out a statement today talking about the March 1st deadline.	0
734	QUESTION	The other day, though, you gave the possibility that maybe this could slide.	0
735	QUESTION	Are you eyeing a possible extension — 30 days, maybe 60 days?	0
736	QUESTION	What is the status there?	0
737	QUESTION	Or is March 1st the deadline?	0
738	TRUMP	Yeah.	0
739	TRUMP	Very good question.	0
740	TRUMP	So it’s a very big deal.	0
741	TRUMP	I guess you could say it’s like — must be the biggest deal ever made, if you think.	0
742	TRUMP	Trade with China, how big does that get?	0
743	TRUMP	Although if you look, the USCMA is right up there.	0
744	TRUMP	But it’s very complicated.	0
745	TRUMP	There are many, many points that we’re bringing up that nobody ever brought up or thought to bring up, but they’re very important, because we were on the wrong side of every one of them.	0
746	TRUMP	There is a possibility that I will extend the date.	0
747	TRUMP	And if I do that, if I see that we’re close to a deal or the deal is going in the right direction, I would do that at the same tariffs that we’re charging now.	0
748	TRUMP	I would not increase the tariffs.	0
749	QUESTION	Let me also ask you about the debt, sir, because it’s gone from a shade under $20 trillion from when you took office.	0
750	QUESTION	Now it’s a shade over $22 trillion and heading in the wrong direction.	0
751	QUESTION	What are your plans to reverse it?	0
752	TRUMP	Well, it’s all about growth.	0
753	TRUMP	But before I —	0
754	QUESTION	(Inaudible.)	0
755	TRUMP	— really focus on that — and you have to remember, President Obama put on more debt on this country than every President in the history of our country combined.	0
756	TRUMP	So when I took over, we had one man that put on more debt than every other President combined.	0
757	TRUMP	Combine them all.	0
758	TRUMP	So you can’t be talking about that.	0
759	TRUMP	But I talk about it because I consider it very important.	0
760	TRUMP	But first, I have to straighten out the military.	0
761	TRUMP	The military was depleted.	0
762	TRUMP	And if we don’t have a strong military — that hopefully we won’t have to use because it’s strong — if we don’t have a strong military, you don’t have to worry about debt; you have bigger problems.	0
763	TRUMP	So I have to straighten out the military.	0
764	TRUMP	That’s why I did the $700- and $716 billion.	0
765	TRUMP	But growth will straighten it out.	0
766	TRUMP	You saw last month, the trade deficit went way down.	1
767	TRUMP	"Everybody said, ""What happened?""  Well, what’s happening is growth."	0
768	TRUMP	But before I can focus too much on that, a very big expense is military.	0
769	TRUMP	And we have no choice but to straighten out our military.	0
770	QUESTION	Is growth the only answer, sir, or is (inaudible)?	0
771	TRUMP	Yes, ma’am, go ahead.	0
772	QUESTION	Thank you, Mr. President.	0
773	QUESTION	On North Korea — back on the last summit, you guys came out with a pretty general agreement.	0
774	TRUMP	Yes.	0
775	QUESTION	I was wondering what you thought has, you know, been accomplished since the last summit.	0
776	QUESTION	And then —	0
777	TRUMP	A lot.	0
778	QUESTION	— are we going to be seeing anything concrete —	0
779	TRUMP	A lot has been accomplished.	0
780	TRUMP	Okay.	0
781	QUESTION	— on denuclearization.	0
782	TRUMP	Yeah.	0
783	TRUMP	A lot has been accomplished.	0
784	TRUMP	We’re dealing with them, we’re talking to them.	0
785	TRUMP	When I came into office, I met right there, in the Oval Office, with President Obama.	0
786	TRUMP	And I sat in those beautiful chairs and we talked.	0
787	TRUMP	It was supposed to be 15 minutes.	0
788	TRUMP	As you know, it ended up being many times longer than that.	0
789	TRUMP	"And I said, ""What’s the biggest problem?"""	0
790	TRUMP	"He said, ""By far, North Korea."""	0
791	TRUMP	And I don’t want to speak for him, but I believe he would have gone to war with North Korea.	0
792	TRUMP	I think he was ready to go to war.	0
793	TRUMP	In fact, he told me he was so close to starting a big war with North Korea.	0
794	TRUMP	And where are we now?	0
795	TRUMP	No missiles.	0
796	TRUMP	No rockets.	0
797	TRUMP	No nuclear testing.	0
798	TRUMP	We’ve learned a lot.	0
799	TRUMP	But much more importantly than all of it — much more important — much, much more important that that is we have a great relationship.	0
800	TRUMP	I have a very good relationship with Kim Jong Un.	0
801	TRUMP	And I’ve done a job.	0
802	TRUMP	In fact, I think I can say this: Prime Minister Abe of Japan gave me the most beautiful copy of a letter that he sent to the people who give out a thing called the Nobel Prize.	0
803	TRUMP	"He said, ""I have nominated you…"" or ""Respectfully, on behalf of Japan, I am asking them to give you the Nobel Peace Prize."""	0
804	TRUMP	"I said, ""Thank you."""	0
805	TRUMP	Many other people feel that way too.	0
806	TRUMP	I’ll probably never get it, but that’s okay.	0
807	TRUMP	They gave it to Obama.	0
808	TRUMP	He didn’t even know what he got it for.	0
809	TRUMP	He was there for about 15 seconds and he got the Nobel Prize.	0
810	TRUMP	"He said, ""Oh, what did I get it for?"""	0
811	TRUMP	With me, I probably will never get it.	0
812	TRUMP	But if you look at Idlib Province in Syria, I stopped the slaughter of perhaps 3 million people.	0
813	TRUMP	Nobody talk about that.	0
814	TRUMP	They don’t talk about that.	0
815	TRUMP	Russia and Iran and Syria were going to go in and perhaps destroy 3 million people in order to get 45,000 terrorists.	0
816	TRUMP	"And I heard about it from a woman who had her parents and her brothers living there, and she said, ""Please, please."""	0
817	TRUMP	"And I thought — I said, ""No, it can’t happen. What are you talking about?"""	0
818	TRUMP	No, they’re going to get…	0
819	TRUMP	And I come home, and I read a certain paper where the story was there that they were actually forming to go into — to really — to really do big destruction.	0
820	TRUMP	"And I put out a statement that ""you better not do it."""	0
821	TRUMP	And in all fairness to Russia and Iran and Syria, they didn’t attack.	0
822	TRUMP	Or they’re doing it surgically, at least.	0
823	TRUMP	Saved a lot of people.	0
824	TRUMP	We do a lot of good work.	0
825	TRUMP	This administration does a tremendous job, and we don’t get credit for it.	0
826	TRUMP	But I think the people understand what we do.	0
827	TRUMP	So Prime Minister Abe gave me — I mean, it’s the most beautiful five letter — five-page letter.	0
828	TRUMP	Nobel Prize.	0
829	TRUMP	He sent it to them.	0
830	TRUMP	You know why?	0
831	TRUMP	Because he had rocket ships and he had missiles flying over Japan.	0
832	TRUMP	And they had alarms going off; you know that.	0
833	TRUMP	Now, all of a sudden, they feel good; they feel safe.	0
834	TRUMP	I did that.	0
835	TRUMP	And it was a very tough dialogue at the beginning.	0
836	TRUMP	Fire and fury.	0
837	TRUMP	Total annihilation.	0
838	TRUMP	"My button is bigger than yours and ""my button works."""	0
839	TRUMP	Remember that?	0
840	TRUMP	You don’t remember that.	0
841	TRUMP	"And people said, ""Trump is crazy."""	0
842	TRUMP	And you know what it ended up being?	0
843	TRUMP	A very good relationship.	0
844	TRUMP	I like him a lot and he likes me a lot.	0
845	TRUMP	Nobody else would have done that.	0
846	TRUMP	The Obama administration couldn’t have done it.	0
847	TRUMP	Number one, they probably wouldn’t have done it.	0
848	TRUMP	And number two, they didn’t have the capability to do it.	0
849	TRUMP	So I just want to thank everybody.	0
850	TRUMP	I want to wish our Attorney General great luck and speed, and enjoy your life.	0
851	SYSTEM	(LAUGHTER)	0
852	TRUMP	Bill, good luck.	0
853	TRUMP	A tremendous reputation.	0
854	TRUMP	I know you’ll do a great job.	0
855	TRUMP	Thank you very much.	0
856	TRUMP	And thank you, everybody.	0
857	TRUMP	Thank you very much.	0
858	TRUMP	Thank you.	0