You know how you got a bad deal . You elected somebody president who has never run a Lemonade Stand or bought a car. We need to reengage in the mideast. I will get you a better deal. I will go to iran and say if you want a Nuclear Power plant you can have it. But its going to be small for peaceful purposes. And you will not get a penny of money or another bullet until you stop destabilizing the region and trying to kill our friends in israel. [applause] and if you want a war, you are going to lose. It is up to you. I do not want a war with anybody, but i am not going to sit on the sidelines and watch our country be walked over and walked over and walked over. I am not going to be a commanderinchief that allows the enemies of our nation, like iran, to have the weapons to kill millions of us one day. When is the last time the u. S. Won a war . Senator graham when was the last time we won a war . Iraq in 2009. That was not a war. Senator graham at the end of the day we were at war. That was not a declared war senator graham do you believe we are at war . I think were at war. With radical islam. Presbyterians here . Yeah. Senator graham you were predestined to be here. Thanks for coming. [laughter] how many of you believe that we are at a in a religious war . I do. What more do they have to do before you believe what they say . Make me your commanderinchief and we will keep them from coming back here again. Make me your commanderinchief and i will have the back of the 1 that are doing the fighting for the rest of us. Make me the commanderinchief and our nation will be respected again. Make me commanderinchief because we need one that knows what the hell they are doing. [indiscernible] senator graham the second thing that we need to do is get the nation out of that. Out of debt. Does that make sense . We are on the road to greece. 18 trillion in debt. How do you get that . Bipartisanship. Both parties spend more than you are giving them to spend. Do you know what drives the debt . The baby boomer retirement. Anybody born from 1946 to 1964 . Anybody born after 64 . We want our money. [laughter] senator graham 80 million of us are going to retire in the next 25 years and we are going to wipe out medicare and Social Security. Remember Ronald Reagan . Ronald reagan rebuilt our military and put our enemies on notice and we were respected again. But he sat down with tip oneill and he adjusted the retirement age to save Social Security from bankruptcy. It needs to be done again. I will be the Ronald Reagan if you can find me a tip oneill. I want to work with democrats. I am running to be the republican nominee, but i want to be the president of all of us. Tell me how you can save this country without the parties working together . Tell me how you can fix medicare and Social Security without anybody on the other side helping you . You cannot. Ronald reagan and tip oneill had a drink every night. When i am president we will drink more. [applause] and after a couple drinks, we are going to stop the bs and we are going to work together. If you are president of the United States, you should openly embrace the other side if they will work with you. Folks, we are running out of time. The American Dream is going to die on our watch if we do not do something about it and the enemies of our nation are getting stronger as i speak. There is no problem without a solution, but let me tell you the commonality. And i will take questions. Sacrifice. Some of us have got to sacrifice to save this nation. Two the 1 who are fighting this war, you have to be willing to go back and i know you will. What more sacrifice can you make that to go back over there so they do not come here . As to the rest of us, are we willing to sacrifice a little bit for our country . Yes. Senator graham i am. I make a hundred 75,000 the year. I make 175,000 a year. I will take less from Social Security because i can afford it and give it to people who need it the most. I am willing to sit down with democrats and fix immigration instead of yelling about it all of the damn time. Once you secure the border and control who gets a job, with the 11 million, lets be practical. Nobody wants the crooks. The rest can stay but you have to learn our language. Pay taxes and get in the back of the line and keep your nose clean. The reason i want to be your president is that this country has been incredibly good to me. As a young man, i was bitter. Why was my life turned upside down . Why was i affected by losing my parents when i was 22 . The older i got, the more i appreciated that it was not about what i lost. It is what i had. I had two parents who loved me. How many people in this country have one parent maybe . I have family. How many people have nobody . I had friends and was loved and was taken care of. I am a republican. I believe in limited government, but most of us are one car wreck away from needing somebody to help you. So, if i get to be your president , were going to do the hard things, and we are going to do them together because we are all in this together. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you for being here today. You have said in the past it is important to give girls a chance in other parts of the world [indiscernible] trying to create a better life. Senator graham right. [indiscernible] if you are elected president , would you create a president ial initiative to focus on Global Early Childhood Development and nutrition . Senator graham he asked a question about helping other people. When youre 18 trillion in debt you cannot be everything to everybody. Does that make sense . But youre not going to save this country and defeat radical islam by dropping bombs alone. If you want to really hurt radical islam, you want to get these guys a real punch in the gut . Let a young girl go to school. Let a mother have a say about her children. Of if im president , we are going to kill those guys are catch them. But we are going to do something else, too. Were going to build up other people. I have been there 35 times. I know there are plenty of people over there who want the things that you want. When i am the president of the United States we will build up others. A small schoolhouse educating a poor girl will do more damage to radical islam than anything that i can think of. This is a generational struggle. Let me tell you how it ends. We win and they lose but it will take a while. [indiscernible] senator graham he said, why do we need a bigger navy . Because the terrorists have no ships. Do you know why we need a bigger navy . We need a bigger navy because if you are going to pivot to asia, what do you pivot with . A rowboat . We are going to be spending more on our National Defense than any time since world war ii. The reason i want a bigger navy is to be sure that china knows that we still exist. Why is china doing what they are doing . Building islands over resource rich territory held by others . Because they can. When obama drew a redline against the side, he crossed it, and nothing happened, putin and china took that as weakness. You know why it want to rebuild a larger navy . I want putin to know. I want to rebuild our defenses like Ronald Reagan, get us out of debt, balance the budget, and take the fight not only to isolate, but let putin know you are not going to walk all over our friends. Remember when we signed the deal with the ukraine to give up Nuclear Weapons . We guaranteed their sovereignty. Putin stepped all over that. We are to take natural gas and sell it to our friends in europe to undercut his monopoly. We are going to give weapons to the ukraine so they can defend themselves. We are going to rebuild nato so that he knows that america is back. That is why we need a bigger navy. Right here. [indiscernible] senator graham alzheimers, yes, sir. [indiscernible] senator graham ok, ive got it. How many of you are willing to spend more money on Alzheimers Research . How many of you are willing to spend more money on education . How many of you realize that if we do not reform entitlements we are not going to have money to spend on anything . I am all for helping alzheimers. Because it is a big cause that is growing. It is a terrible disease that maybe can be cured or at least blunted. I lost my uncle. Here is what i want to tell you. Any farmers here . We do not have any money left if we do not deal with the retirement of the baby boomers. By 2031, all of the money we collect in taxes goes to paying medicare and medicaid and Social Security and interest on the debt. Does that make sense to you . If we do not adjust the age of retirement and deal with benefits, there is no money left to help anybody do anything else. There is no money left for the department of defense. Have you heard of Simpson Bowles . It is a bipartisan plan where you clean up the tax code and eliminate deductions and use the money to pay down the debt . The democrats have to agree for younger people to work longer because we all live longer. If we do not ask people at my income level to give up benefits then we are going to lose the system for the people who need it the most. Please understand that there is no way to balance the budget unless you go to where the money is being spent. Two thirds of the federal government is on autopilot. If republicans and democrats do not do what Ronald Reagan and tip oneill did soon, we are going to become greece. We are going to lose our way of life. We will become a debtor nation. But heres the good news. We are one big deal away from saving america. Here is the bad news. Nobody in this campaign is talking about it. Would i do revenue . Would i put revenue on the table, if the democrats would adjust the age of retirement, and the means test benefits . Yes. I am not going to raise taxes but i would eliminate a deduction to pay down debt. How do we have money for Alzheimers Research and Everything Else outside of medicare and Social Security . You have got to reform the system wont we lose the ability to defend ourselves and care for each other. [applause] final question. [indiscernible] senator graham ok. This is a republican democrat thing. How many believe both parties are failing you . Everybody here. Senator graham ok. How many believe that what is wrong with washington is that we do too many things together . You are right, we do not do the big things together. I went to leave you with a thought. Tell me how you save medicare and Social Security from bankruptcy without a democrat working with a republican . I am dying to hear. Let me know how to defend this nation without all of us working together to rebuild the military that will fight for your benefit whether you are a republican or democrat, libertarian, or vegetarian . What is missing in washington is the desire to put the country ahead of the party. What is missing is leadership, telling you what you need to hear and not what you want to hear. [applause] those in my party, i am a republican too. Hispanics. We are driving them away, folks, because of the way we are talking about fixing a hard problem like immigration. When i am president of the United States i will grow this party. Two to young women, welcome to the republican party. Young people, you have been the biggest losers under obama. The American Dream used to be to own your own home. Now it is to get your kids out out of your home. I will tell you this and then i will quietly go. There is no problem that cannot be solved, but it takes leadership. Radical islam is not going to surrender. Somebody has to defeat them with a plan that will allow us to be safe at home and protect our friends abroad. I have the background, judgment, experience to take the fight to the enemy in a smart and successful way. Because i lost my parents at 22, because i have been knocked down, i think i have the heart for this job. What your president needs more than anything else is a heart. For his country or her country. Without a heart, it is all talk. And i want to give you not only my background in my experience, my background, my experience, but i want to give you my heart. And here is the only way to pay you back as a nation. Is to do everything that i can to save the American Dream that has been there for me and darline. There is nothing i will not do to get this country back on track. Including being yelled at by my own party. Thank you very much. [applause] scott walker was at the fair on monday. Governor walker lets give a thank you for your service. Fair andt to be at the great to be in iowa. Counties. Ng all 99 we know that check grassley has done that it we are going to do that as well. One ofe with my wife and my sons and we are having a great time. Not too hot, not too cold. America is a cando kind of country. Unfortunately, we have a government that cant quite seem i callthe job done or as it, 15 square miles surrounded by reality. Im not just frustrated by the president , im frustrated with the Republican Leadership in washington as well. If we just elected a republican senate, they would put a did to repeal obamacare on the desk of the president. We are still waiting for that measure. We need to have some leadership in washington. Some of the reasons we see these things is that people want to we want to send a message to Republican Leaders in washington that when you make promises on the campaign trail, we want to see it when it is standing up against ilLegal Immigration. 24 other governors who took the president to task and took him to court the president who said 22 times he could not do what he said in november it took me and other republican governors to change that. We need leaders who will stand up against the president and say enough is enough. That is something i am at home with. We did not just take on the democrats, we took back we took on our own party establishment. Governorte, iran for because we talked about it and prayed about it. We knew as tough as it is to win in a state like wisconsin, wisconsin has not voted republican for president since 1984 when reagan was elected we knew we had to do something. We saw the mess that was happening in our state. And for our children, we wanted something better. We inherited a 3. 6 million budget deficits. We have a surplus now. [cheering] we defunded planned parenthood more than four years ago. If you want to get welfare, you have to pass job training and pass a drug test. We want to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat. We require a photo id in wisconsin. We did all of these reforms. We got a great field of republicans. One of the best since the 1980s. But there is a difference in the candidates. I am asking for your vote in for you to cooperate with us. What makes a difference is that there are a lot of fighters out there, yet they have yet to win in washington. We have winners but have yet to win the fight in recent years. There is only one candidate who has fought and won and gotten results, even in a blue state like wisconsin. If you are someone who can win and get results and not compromise your values, get him into the white house. [cheering] [applause] we had 100,000 protesters, some of which are here today. They have every right to speak, but they cannot drown out the voices of the millions who elected me in wisconsin. [cheering] [applause] [booing] gov. Walker the truth is, things are better in wisconsin because of our reforms. If we can fix wisconsin, we can fix america. [applause] we can fix america. It was not too late for a blue state like wisconsin, it is not too late for america. We can push true reform. We can put it into the hands of the processes it in iowa. We need to bring the power back to our people. That is what we did. We took the power out of the hands of the special interests and back into the hands of the hardworking taxpayers. If we could do it over there, we can do it in washington. [cheering] [applause] we measure success in government by how many people are dependent on the government. We understand that this does not comment from the mighty hands of the government, it comes from the people to control their own lives. [applause] as a kid, i lived in plainfield, iowa. We moved to television, a small town in wisconsin. My first job was washing dishes. Then we moved to the big time. We started flipping hamburgers at mcdonalds. To work the cash register. I work in those jobs. My dad was a small time preacher at the First Baptist church. My mom was a parttime secretary. My grandparents were farmers. My dads dad was a machinist. I did not inherit fame or fortune from my family. I got the belief that if you work hard and play by the rules, you can do anything you want. That is the american creed, the american spirit. [cheering] [applause] that is how you save the economy. Not with more washington. Last year, six of the 10 wealthiest counties and america, they were in and around washington, d. C. We understand that people want jobs, not the government. It is time to get the government out of our lives once and for all. [cheering] by repealing obamacare, we will have the [cheering] [booing] we have to get the outofcontrol federal regulations the epa is ruining our rivers. We will reign in the epa, going forward. We will pull in all the other regulations that are like a wet blanket on the American Economy so we can get the economy working again. [applause] we will have a new policy to say we will defend what god has given us in america. I oppose the Keystone Pipeline to save the American Economy. [applause] we have to get people of the education and skills they need to succeed. That will work for more than the minimum wage. Despite what the naysayers said, the facts are the facts. Years ago, they said they would be devastated. Graduation rates are up now. Thirdgrade reading scores are up. [cheering] that is because we put power back into the hands of the people. We need control powers at the state level, not washington. [cheering] [applause] in the present economy, it is a way to [inaudible] as well as our job creators. I am proud to say we have not touched that in our first four years by more than 2 billion. [indiscernible] we live on manufacturers, property owners. We need to go on, going forward. There are a lot of people that talk that. I am the only one who stood up to 100,000 protesters. [cheering] to fight for the American People. [cheering] [applause] if you want to balance the budget, if you want to satisfy the hardworking people, if you want a better life for farmers and manufacturers, you need me to be our nominee. [cheering] [applause] if you want to balance the budget, if you want to satisfy the hardworking people, if you want a better life for farmers and manufacturers, you need me to be our nominee. I want you to know that that going forward. [cheering] [applause] one more thing about the economy. When it comes to safety, we need a president who has the kurds to stand up to anyone and do what is necessary to protect our children and grandchildren. If i am the president , i will push the fight to isis instead of letting them come to us. I am not intimidated by huge crowds or anyone else out there. I will fight for the American People over and over and over and over again. You want someone to stand here, i am right here. We will not back down. We will do what is necessary to defend the American People going forward. [cheering] Hillary Clinton and barack obama have failed this country. We are leaving them behind. We need a president who will stand up, just like Ronald Reagan did. We need someone to stand up and defend our military against our enemies and stick with strong american values. If you think this is true, [cheering] this is why i am in iowa [indiscernible] right here and right now. That is the status we have now. [inaudible] for my children, i want to make sure we have clean air and clean water. But we also need not only sustainable economy. We need an environment while standing up for a strong environments. I want my children to enhance good land and water but i also want them to have a job. [inaudible] gov. Walker the question was what will you do about money is power in washington. Whether it is in education. We take her from washington and send it back here and ultimately to your School Boards across america. You know better at the local level. It is more efficient. [inaudible] gov. Walker the question was about college and College Education and affordability. I am proud to say in my state, we froze tuition at all university of wisconsin campuses. I was criticized the other will day by Hillary Clinton. While i was freezing tuition for four years, she was charging 2,500 a speech to college campuses. It seems to me that she was raising it. What we need to do nationally is place incentives for colleges and universities to have students to get Financial Assistance to keep their tuition lower. But we have poured more money into Student Loans than we actually solved the rate of inflation. It is sometimes three to four times higher than the National Rate of inflation. I know how important it is to make sure we bring the cost of College Education down. To make it affordable. That is our plan going forward. We have done that effectively in wisconsin. We want to carry that across the rest of the country. When it comes to all centers. You failed your state gov. Walker the question was about Social Security. What it comes to three of the big drivers and federal government. There is medicaid, medicare, and Social Security. I would send medicaid back to the state. State leaders are better than the federal services are. When it comes to medicare and Social Security, for People Retirement age tour near retirement age, i would not touch it. My generation and younger, we will have to put inflation reforms going forward. We will put that out in the coming weeks. I will lay out a specific obama care plan. But we need a specific plan for my generation and younger so we can support those currently in retirement and those in retirement going forward. [inaudible] gov. Walker the question was about immigration. Months ago, i was asked about this with chris wallace. I said i listen to governors in border states and talk to people across the country. I said my plan then is the same as today. We need to secure the border. That means more than talking about it. We need to secure the border far greater than immigration. I have seen the border. It is a National Disgrace in the terms of the threat to Public Safety and to the sovereignty of this country. Secure the border with infrastructure, the wall, personnel, and technology. I was in israel. They built a 500 mile fence. It lowered terrorist attacks by 94 . We need to do the same on our border. We are a bigger country but we should be able to uphold that. We need to secure the border. We need to enforce the laws. [cheering] we cannot have any sanctuary cities. Outside of the realm of the federal law. You dont need sanctuary cities in the country. I do not believe an amnesty. I think there are a lot of people who come in my great great grandfather came in as an immigrant. His father was a miner. He eventually made his way to the midwest. But they followed the legal path. I do not believe in amnesty. We need a Legal Immigration system that gives priority to american working families to focus on their jobs and wages in a way that will improve the American Economy. [cheering] [inaudible] gov. Walker the question was about the renewable fuel standard. We had an ethanol i do not support it. I do not support the concept. What i came here, i pointed out it is already in place. The tax subsidy is gone. The renewable fuel center is still in place. You need to support the industry in place. I would like to see be different standards and mandates bunched together and phased out over time. I believe you get work in excess, so you do not need the standard. Market access is the issue. I have talked to farmers. We have already put it in my state. We try to do the grants to make sure that ma and pa gas stations can actually have a blend of their. If you have market access, you do not need the standard. And consumers make the choice. My time is up. Thanks for coming out. God bless you. [cheering] [indiscernible] more of our coverage of the candidates same candidates so rocks. Carly fuhr enough spoke to the crowd. This is about 20 minutes. Misty arena im so happy to be engaged in this great ritual of president ial politics. Yes, i have had a life that is only possible here in the United States of america. Its only possible here a young woman can start as a secretary and run for presidency of the United States. [applause] i have had my share of hardship as well. I battled cancer. I learned the power of faith. We lost our younger daughter to the demons of addiction. Each one of us sometimes needs a helping hand. I will not give you a speech today because i want to answer as many questions as i can. To get the ball rolling, i will tell you about a question i was asked early on in my president ial race. I was asked on a National Television program whether a womans hormones should prevent her from serving in the oval office. Can we think of a single instance where a mans judgment could have been clouded by his hormones . [applause] ms. Fiorina the question is about raising the minimum wage. I believe minimum wage should be a state decision, not a federal decision. Why . Because it makes no sense to say that the minimum wage in new york city is the same as the minimum wage in iowa. We have to remember that a lot of minimum wage jobs are jobs where people start. In those jobs, they learn skills. We need to be honest about the consequences of raising the minimum wage to high. Young people who are trapped in poor neighborhoods will have less opportunity to learn how to move forward. I started out as a secretary in a real estate firm. My husband started out as a tow truck driver. I tell young people all the time, dont worry about getting the perfect job. Just get a job, any job. [applause] in every job, you will learn things. You will learn things about yourself, about the world around you, you will learn skills you can use to get a better job. We need to understand where real growth in jobs comes from. It does not come from local government telling businesses how much to pay their workers. Those small familyowned businesses and farms create twothirds of the new jobs in this country. They employ half the people. We are crushing them. The power of the federal government that benefits the wellconnected. We are destroying more Small Businesses than we are creating. We destroy a community, destroying the opportunity for someone to get that job, learn skills, and get a better job. [applause] [indiscernible] ms. Fiorina this country was built on innovation and entrepreneurship. Big Companies Get together and they write the rules. This is an example. Who is trying to crush uber . Taxicab companies are getting together with regulators. There is a patent reform bill, supposedly will reform the patent system. Like many things washington, d. C. , does. They should be using the laws we have to punish those who violate the law. But this bill would call Thomas Edison a patent troll. A bunch of professional politicians who are being lobbied strongly. They crush the small and powerless. I have lobbied against that bill for many months now. [applause] [inaudible] ms. Fiorina the question is about drilling in the gulf of mexico. We can be, we will be, the Global Energy powerhouse of the 21st century. We have the resources, the expertise to do it, and we must be responsible stewards of our resources and land and of our planet. All the people who tell us we cannot do this, we cannot drill, we cannot keep the coal industry going, they all site the science of Climate Change. You have to read the fine print. All the scientists that tell us Climate Change is real we can destroy every job in this country, we can destroy the agricultural industry, the epa will control 95 of the water in the state. Just like they control the water in california. The agriculture industry in california is in deep trouble. We can destroy all of these jobs in this nation. We can destroy industries. Heres the truth. Lives are being destroyed at the altar of ideology. This is about ideology, not science. One of the reasons to be the global powerhouse, one of the reasons to be the Global Energy powerhouse is not just because it creates jobs. It is because we need those industries in order to be able to innovate. Innovation, not regulation. [indiscernible] ms. Fiorina the question is about iran, isis, the issues that are critically important. Whether it is sitting with Vladimir Putin or Benjamin Netanyahu privately, i know this. When the United States of america does not stand with our allies and confront our adversaries, it is a dangerous place. We must care for those [applause] washington, d. C. , talks about fixing a lot of things. We need someone who knows how to translate a good speech into results. I do. I will make two phone calls. The first one will be to my friend netanyahu. We stand with israel. The second will be to the Supreme Leader of iran. He will get the message. And the message is this until you open every military facility any time for inspections, the United States will make it as difficult as possible for you to maneuver in the economic system. The rest of the world has moved on. We have to cut off the money flow. They are a signal loud and clear to every adversary that the United States of america is back in the leadership business. [applause] i would not call Vladimir Putin. I would begin rebuilding the defense program. I would conduct aggressive military exercises and he would get the message. [applause] i would hold a camp david summit immediately. The king of jordan is a man i have known for a long time. He is going to china to get that help. The kurds have been asking us. Our arab allies know this is their fight and they are prepared to fight it. They cannot fight it without leadership and resolve from the United States of america. [applause] [indiscernible] ms. Fiorina the question is about alzheimers. I lost my father to alzheimers, so i understand the heartbreak. Many of you who have followed my campaign know i believe the government is broken. Huge, powerful, corrupt. 75 of the American People agree with me. We need to be investing in research around these critical diseases just like we need to be investing more in mental health, treatment of addiction. It is amazing to me that every time we say there is something important when he to invest more in, they say, we need more money. You want to repair more roads and bridges, we need more money. How can it be that the federal government gets more money every single year, debts and deficits increase every year, and the important things always cost more money. We never look at how we are spending the money. We do not even know anymore how we are spending our money. When you have a bloated bureaucracy, no consequence for failure to perform, guess what happens. It quits performing. We need tax reform. We need to hold people accountable. We need to know where our money is being spent. [applause] the government has to invest in those things that are important and quit spending money on those things that are not important or do not work. [applause] [indiscernible] ms. Fiorina the question was about Big Companies have too much influence. Ask yourself a basic question. If something is so complicated that you dont understand it, what do you suppose the chances are of getting taken advantage up . 100 , you are right, sir. We must not just reduce the size and power of the federal government. We must simplify. A 73,000 page tax code by the time i left hewlett packard, we had turned it into almost a 90 billion firm. We led in every part category and market segment. I could higher loads of accountants and lawyers and lobbyists to figure out how to take advantage of all that complexity. The reason we are destroying for businesses now is because of Small Business cannot handle the weight of the complexity. The only way to level the Playing Field is to dramatically simplify. What happens . A big get eger. If you doubt that, look at dodd frank. They have become even bigger, more powerful wall street banks and thousands of Community Banks have gone out of business. What happened to obamacare . What do you see happening right now . Health Insurance Companies are getting bigger. Drug companies are getting bigger. The only way to curb the power of the big, powerful, wealthy and did is to well connected is to simplify. If anybody can fill out the form, you dont need to higher mountains of accountants, lawyers, and lobbyist to figure it out. [applause] yes, maam. In the pink and white striped shirt. The question is how do i feel about the planned parenthood videos . I am prolife. [cheers and applause] i believe that science is proving us write every day. Right every day. You dont have to be prolife to understand the hideous nature of what is going on here. This is about the moral character of our nation. When you can have employees who target poor communities, who are pushing women into later term abortion so that they can more successfully harvest body parts even though late term abortions are demonstrably bad for women, you can only be horrified when you see employees picking over a petri dish for body parts while they say look, its a baby. There is no excuse, planned parenthood must be defunded. [cheers and applause] anyone who buys the democrat argument, with all due respect, that this is about Womens Health, you need to look at all of the other facilities that provide Womens Health services. You need to look at how many mammograms they actually do. You need to look and understand the foundation of planned parenthood which from its inception targeted poor women, African American and hispanic women. There are more africanamerican lives aborted in new york city than born. That, ladies and gentlemen, is not right. [applause] so, if congress does not have the courage to defund planned parenthood, i tell you what when we go to zerobased budgeting, we will find the money to defund planned parenthood. [applause] i have one final question. In the time that i have left, let me just leave you with this thought. This is the most extraordinary country on the face of the planet because our founders knew what my mother taught me, everyone has god given gift. I am a conservative because i know that no one of us is any better than another one of us. Everyone of us is gifted by god with the capacity to live a life of purpose and meaning. Our founders created a country in which you have a right to find and use your godgiven gifts. Thats what they meant when they said life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Lady liberty, she stands tall and strong, as america must always the. She is clear eyed and resolute. She does not shield her eyes, but she looks out as america always must and holds her torch high. She knows she is a beacon of hope in a troubled world. Lady justice holds a sword at her side because she is a fighter. A warrior. She holds the scale. She says that all of us are equal in the eyes of god and all of us must be equal in the eyes of government. She wears a blindfold. With that blindfold i believe that she says it must the true. Ith that i believe she says must be true. Ladies and gentlemen, it can be true. It does not matter who you are. It does not matter what you look like. It does not matter your circumstances or how you start. Here in this nation every americans life must be filled with the possibilities that come from their godgiven gifts, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen. God bless you. Thank you so much. God bless you all. Thank you. [cheers and applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] more of our road to the white house coverage coming up this evening and later this week youre on cspan. Here the security discussion on russia, georgia, and the rest of the region. We will hear from the Georgian Defense minister about how her country is dealing with the threat of isis and its relations with russia. This is the defense ministers first trip to the United States, meeting this week with defense secretary Ashton Carter and other administration officials. Should be underway shortly. Life youre on cspan. Live here on cspan. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. This is great see. I was just having the conversation with the minister and the general about the number anpeople in this room on august afternoon. Minister, this is a tribute to how important this topic is. Let me welcome you all. My name is ill taylor. I am the executive Vice President here at the United States institute of peace. We are so pleased to be able to welcome the minister of defense from georgia here this afternoon on a range of issues. As probably most of you in this room know, the minister has been in washington for a couple of days and has had senior meetings and met with our secretary of defense yesterday and had a very good conversation with secretary carter. About a range of issues having to do with jordan security, other issues Georgian Security and other issues that directly impact georgia and the United States. Was very carter impressed with the kinds of conversations they had and it was a very productive conversation. She has also had conversations at the white house. Victoria nuland is another strong supporter of georgia. Georgia faces challenges. We know these challenges. Georgia has been a stalwart ally of the United States and of nato activities around the world. Georgia has demonstrated its capabilities. Its military day but nobodys, diplomatic capabilities, diplomatic capabilities. Georgia has been a strong ally for the United States and the nato nations. It is important for us to understand the kinds of challenges they face. You can see one of the challenges that georgia faces just by looking at the map. So, this is a great opportunity for us. Minister minister s background is available to you. She has been in this position to demonstrate to the world and to the georgian people her commitment to european immigration, to nato immigration, to you integration eu integration. This is the kind of strong message the minister has provided from georgia and to georgia. We are again very pleased to have the minister here. We will be looking forward to her remarks here and then i will join her for a couple of westerns. We are very much looking forward to your questions and a dialogue following your remarks. So, prepare your questions and please welcome the minister of defense of georgia. [applause] minister khidasheli thank you very much to joseph for hosting this event. This is not believe the best time to be engaged in these types of activities, but times are difficult, even tragic, in my parts of the world, and you dont have time for location or enjoying summer holidays, one would say. There are lots of things, lots of troubles georgia is in today. And has been, historically. If there is one thing this map ws it is that there is georgia stands as one of the only exceptional places in that heart of the world that did not give up and still fights for success. Proving to everyone that success without russia being in charge. Without permission being granted from moscow. This is probably the main reason that russia fights so much, so desperately against anything in georgia, against every ambition that georgia has. It is possible and acceptable for our northern neighbor to have a successful country coming out of the soviet union on its own. What is happening today in russia i would characterize in a simple one sentence, saying that mr. President putin is recovering russia from its drama,viet, postyeltsin when the baltics escaped and russia was weak. Some other countries in the world took over and dominated and set the agenda for those countries who escaped at that time. Today he proved that those mistakes are possibly history. Russia is back on the scene and it will not role for anyone. Anyone within their sphere of influence to have a say. Without that permission, without that engagement. It is dangerous for the region. If georgia is successful someone might get the wrong idea that it might work for them as well. Go through the same fight the georgia went through for years. And it is dangerous for the russian leadership, because the russian voters might have questions about success in georgia. About the kind of success that they are not experiencing and is not happening in russia. This is one of the reasons why georgian success matters. This is one of the reasons why it should be important not only for us, but for our friends ,artners in those countries that georgia succeeds in these exercises, to prove to those countries in the region that if you try hard and work hard, then success as possible. A couple of years ago, six years ago, when the policy was tasked with some of the best examples and an unfortunate failure, the european neighborhood policy started to accept countries. Europe was enthusiastic. Brussels was making plans, one to another. Today we basically had one and a half countries left. Azerbaijan almost did not show up. The other one almost walked out of the room. Problems. Big problems. Significant ones. Ukraine, we know. Then there was georgia standing as one country alone, trying to prove its course and that we deserved a chance. We can cite a lot of examples like that of different projects that the world had started over the last 20 years, when those countries were falling apart and georgia stayed on the same path. Desperate not to go anywhere, we will fight to the end. I dont want to make a long speech here. I would be more willing to answer your questions, here your interests on georgian perspectives to those issues. Argumentsle of more that i want to make for the reason why i am here today and why we are going to different capitals of the world. Searching for answers and providing arguments for the kind of work that georgia is engaged in. We came to washington to strengthen our partnership with the United States. To have more tangible results. To have the people in georgia seeing the nature of the results of this partnership. To have georgian military even more engaged. And at the same time to search for the answers, advising support. Summer is coming. Georgia has made it clear to the nations and partners that we will be raising an issue for membership, and a large one, stronger than it. We believe that georgia deserves it, first of all. But at the same time we believe that nato needs it more than georgia does. Thateeping the promises this organization has been making over the years. We hear the arguments for the advancement or enlargement of nato. We have heard the triggers for russia to act. Legitimate little one, but it is not the fact. The facts are different. Natoacts say that when refused to enlarge in 2008, this is exactly what would happen. This refusal, or no courage on the side of nato to accept the challenge was understood as a green light by russia on activity in georgia. In 2009 the world said ok, lets forget what happened between the two of us and start a new discussion. A new partnership. We had policy and lots of other things following it. Russia was considered as a partner and there were lots of other ways to establish a partnership. Ifhink that before that after the august war there was this illusion that russia could afterartner in any way the ukrainian developments and war, to name it as it is, it has become absolutely clear that there is no partnership to be expected from russia, reliable, predictable partnership from russia, which is willing to go at any moment and invade into any country. Change the territories of states. Annex parts of its collective lands, claiming they were part of russia in history. In georgia right after the summit there is another implication of that failure on the side of our partners. Immediately russia started in georgia. Again, it was not triggered by delivery, but welcomed by , aselivery in all cases modern times history shows. We are witnessing on this artificial border from 2008, after the occupation, daily moments on the territory of georgia proper. Russia took a kilometer, two kilometers, from that artificial border, for three months, actually. The last month was the most difficult and problematic for us. The georgian government says that we are going to keep patient. We are not going to respond. We will not allow for the war on the territory of georgia to happen again. Stopping our Movement Towards the nato European Union. We are not going to be troubled. At the same time we need to keep that the place where the russian checkpoints will be this 30 pretty soon points that they have marked recently are only half of the kilometer away from the main highway in georgia. So, the question obviously here is whether the target is to block that aint highway and cut the country into. There is only one highway that connects east and west of georgia together. If russian soldiers and tanks roll onto that highway, thats country will be silly cut into. Whether it is the target or the target is just the idea of them moving and us working on this issue constantly and forgetting Everything Else that we are working on together today. Whichever is their goal, for the short term it is absolutely clear that waiting for a russian decision and depending on russo thats the territory, thats the moment we will be seeing. Either backwards or forwards. Depending on the decisions of the rough so rough so russos. Of 2016,g is july which is right in the middle of the Electoral Campaign for our major elementary elections in 2016. Or whatever comes out of the warsaw will be part of a decision that georgia voters are making in october of 2016. Skepticism is growing. Especially because of ukraine in georgia. People start to get disillusioned about the georgian of integration into the European Union or nato. Our colleagues, european nations especially, often remind the rest of the world that there will be no expansion. Either of the European Union or nato for the next five to 10 years. Again, these are just lyrical statements. Whatever happens in warsaw will be a fact of that. Endingthe warsaw summit with two possible outcomes. One, saying no to the a marchman. By that creating in the best Case Scenario a kind of article five item in europe. When nato will say finally clear, these are my boundaries. The rest of it, i dont care. Russiasof it is under political dominance, interest, settle the issues and deal with it before the next summit. Or there will be an expansion and a clear message sent by nato members to russia. Partnered the same way as the members, the Partnership Matters to nato. If there is anything that the , it is thates to us nato brings the power of these. There was no war as far as nato in banding area expanding. If that decision is not made in warsaw, im pretty sure that will encourage russia not only in the ukraine and georgia, but also for the next more advanced challenge, leadership of one of the nato member countries. Reason ort see any actionctical argument that will determine russia from this if things continue as they are right now. For a year and a half there is a war in ukraine. Im sorry to say that, but it true. Ukrainians are fighting. They haves anything proved it is that they are going to fight to the end and will not surrender. People are still dying there. The world was not able to stop the war. For a year and a half. I think that is the best answer to all the questions, all the arguments and perceptions we are hearing, you know . As to the intention of russia thosetential to deter challenges as they come from russia. Hope very much there is still one year before the warsaw stomach summit. At the end of the day if we dont come up to the same conclusions as to the level of threat that russia poses to peace and security, that needs to be made in order to address the kind of threat thats coming. Thank you very much. Looking forward for your lessons very much. [applause] minister, thank you very much for those are marked. As earlier, very direct, varies forward. You have a very clear point. Im glad to be able to ask or that a little bit. Before i do let me welcome your excellent ambassador here. Very glad to have him. As the general. Welcome, glad to have you here in support of the minister. So, i just got a couple of questions but i am very much looking forward to, as the minister said, your questions and comments on this. Minister, you talked about the that we can see. On the map. That we can see on the upcoming the upcomingin decisions about georgia and ukraine, as you pointed out. You mentioned that it is even dangerous for the russians. Had several conversations. We have all had many conversations, people in this about a in this room related argument to the one you are making, which is that if russia absorbs georgia, if russia absorbs ukraine, that is dangerous for the russians. And their eventual Movement Towards a responsible democratic dissipation in the world community. Particularly in europe. What is your sense . If you could elaborate your comment about the danger for the russians of continued aggression . Minister khidasheli i dont think that russians today care that much about democratic participation. If there is anything that is gone, at least i very much hope for now, would be russia making the serious argument that they want to be engaged in a democratic process in the world. That they want to be part of the democratic elite. I think thats just dogma. Stronger russia, russia dominating, russia being in charge of everything in this world is the policy of dominant argument. If we talk about russia as a society, were in georgia we have this thing about to russias. Of course, there are people and parts of the society that are part of those actions in its own country, which is very is worried about its own actions in that country. Most are either here or in other parts of the world. And this is a constant threat of the physical. Other than that, i believe that do notussian politicians really have any trouble, any problem explaining their own how they suffer because of this capitalist world. They are making sure that they can make everything possible. Enemy, as there is an this enemy, you can blame everything on them. For example, talking about sanctions, why the sanctions will not serve their purpose, although i am very much positive that the democratic world was able to unite on something and have a consensus on some joint action. Not think i do not think that the sanctions alone will be enough for probably most of the voters in russia or the troubles that are coming because of the sanctions, like economic decline, policy, currency and so forth. They believe that they will die as heroes in a fight against capitalist i capitalist world a capitalist world. There are masterminds that know how to do it. We see it every day on russia today, in their use of communication coming out of the kremlin. World. Different getting the rest of the to understand the problems that will result, i o is say one year ago they had a dinner conversation and everybody was very enthusiastic about the sanctions. Withg they should go out all of those things that will happen, waking up the russian. Eadership they were satisfied that they would be obliged to react. Small thing that we think from this discussion. This is the country where people were eating [indiscernible] during leningrad, or whatever it was called. They survived. The second world war. They won. This is the country we are dealing with. Of those notions of hardship and heaviness that we have in the ,nited dates, france, or italy they are completely irrelevant. Minister, you also said that nato means piece. That is, the russians look at nato nations. Other than in wild fantasies that i hope will remain fantasies, will not think of challenging a nato nation. Thus your point on this trip, about natotoday membership for georgia. Earlier we were talking about 2008. Ou mentioned that discussion bucharest. Where the support for nato in georgia was very high. 80 . The support for nato membership in ukraine was about 20 at that time. That has not changed. The support for nato in ukraine has gone up dramatically because of the clear threat. Because no nato means no peace. Nato does mean peace. Can you elaborate, again a little further, on the benefits both for nato and for georgia. Indeed, for security in europe in an expansion in warsaw . Minister khidasheli i think that for georgia, the benefits are pretty clear. Georgia has made its decision. Talking about the benefits for nato, to help nato make its own decision. Why is it beneficial for nato . First of all, nato has made it aboutlear for many years becoming partners. Nato has been talking for all of these years about upanddown policy. They were talking about making decisions rather than anyone else outside the club having individual power. Deliveredision is not in warsaw and we are not even talking about membership newly. But realistically speaking we are talking about this expectation, this one step forward that we have made. Names,call it many other but in essence meeting that there is no intermediary and georgia is on a membership track and we doubt anything in between the two to be accomplished. So, this intermediary step should be part of the warsaw summit. Delivered,it is not if the issue is on the table, straightforward by georgia or any other country for that matter and it is no, we put nato in serious danger. I had a meeting with the secretarygeneral. 28was also talking about the working decision. Right, absolutely, yes, we need all 28 countries to agree. But if it is not delivered in warsaw, is anyone in this world slovakia, great britain, the United States for that matter, with a vote against it . Nobody wants to be noticed. Yes, that would be a clear that they dossia have veto power in organizations in which they are not present or that they are fighting for the existence of. I always say without hesitation that looking in looking at the developments in my parts of the world, nato needs georgia more to prove itself, to prove its strength, to prove that they had the courage that was there were nato was created. And georgia needs nato. [indiscernible] not going to give anybody anything to georgia that we do not already have all of the instruments that come with it, we already have for a long time. For many years. All we are talking about is making a political statement. If we are told know on that, that is a very clear message. Somebody out there, either in natoels or the capital member states, they believe that there is the potential in partnership and successful work with russia. Ith todays russia with the russia that has the current leadership they have. Minister, i have one more question and then i will ask my colleagues for theres. Irs. Thers we both mentioned ukraine. Minister khidasheli people sent for those advisors. Georgians in the ukrainian cabinet and subcabinet. There is also a ukrainian pushing who may be reform a long and a part of part of ukraine that very much needs it. This experience with the russians. The ukrainians have a similar problem. They annexed crimea. The georgians have given advice to the government. Geo strategically, what kinds of should the ukrainians take based on the experience you have had since 2008 . Minister khidasheli those are two sorts of issues. Is in a part of the world that is obviously in a from what we up have today. They are working under the gun , which is unfortunate for ukraine. ,n the other side, obviously its quite important to be a part of these reforms. Ringing more for the advance and development on that consideration. Again, its kind of difficult to certainty that0 it is absolute. To say that we dont do those reforms for nato or the europe and union, because that is the all the way to survive. For your own country to be proud. To be a proud citizen of a proud country. The family united under the European Union. The number one things that need it is not to creep on the domestic front as well. Fighting the war is important. To befall taught and one inside the country if you have a dominant system and kind of close to the criminal regime. I think of that is crucial and most important. Unfortunately we were not successful of this. We have attempted not to make the same mistakes. Thank you, minister. We now have the opportunity for my comments colleagues to ask questions. We would be very interested. If you would state your name, your affiliation, and i think we will have a couple of youophones come to you as will through this. Right here, sir. Yes . [inaudible] question is yesterday you met with [indiscernible] so, how much assistance from the United States do you expect to get this year and next year . Meaning howdasheli much money . Money. Minister khidasheli shall i answer or collect more questions . This is fine. We will see how much time we have. Minister khidasheli yes, we had a productive and good meeting. For the last 20 years, on those kinds of things you dont discuss the details. There is going to be a long dialogue between the two. We have agreed was agreed on a long time ago. It was in our intro to foreign policy. We will continue on that more than we had before. Yes, sir . Yes, im formerly a resident of georgia. Consultant, now. I want to share the hope that you will have a positive statement coming out of warsaw. But i do want to make sure that we understand the point you are making. You say that in 2008 the failure to go beyond the prominent membership was the reason for the russian attack. Secondly, you say that there is a political statement that is missing but you are receiving benefits, nato Training Center defense system. That you thing mentioned was the impact of the 2016 elections. A know fromve warsaw, do you anticipate substantive actions they could be taken to avert a negative reaction . If not, what do you anticipate the ramifications being . Well, 2008idasheli i think we were given the promise of membership that not given what we were asking for. Unfortunately it was the same statement. It meant the kind of performance. That was probably the reason why, before december, before the givencenario they were time for that dialogue and consideration between georgia and nato, seen by russia as an opportunity. And they acted and stopped georgia, as we see in that chart of development. 2016, i hate to predict these things, thats not something any government wants to be part of, predicting. I just hope in emphasizing that it wont happen. Unfortunately, the history of that anytime prove there is no results from either the European Union or nato summit, russia act more. Know in ukraine we dont what will be happening in ukraine or in any other neighborhood of russia for that matter. But i am absolutely confident that if warsaw is not delivering , then russia will get even more aggressive than it is today. Directions or much more directions than we have today than ukraine and georgia. The 2016 elections, my is that it will be the time when Political Partners will run on russian tickets in the soviet parliament, which is not the case now, which was not the case in the previous parliament. We will have officially legitimized the prorussian initical process in georgia the official open politics. We will have members of parliament who will be educating from that point of view. The russian case. But that will be it. I do not expect them to win or come in with substantial numbers. Personally, thats a tragedy. That after 22 years we might end up with Something Like that. Of course, its not a tragedy in the way that georgia hasnt seen before. But then again, what will be there numbers what will be the numbers on the election, i of oneean that because or another solution people will either fall in love with russia and go and vote for the Russian Political Party or anything like but i am not sure that my voters will show up in the. Umbers that they used to because this appointment is already big enough. After warsaw it will of course be even bigger. You know better than i do how it works with those numbers. You dont need to increase prorussian voters on the other side of the world and give the benefit to them. Dont expect sentiments to change or for the mood to change. People suddenly becoming prorussian, thats not going to happen. But people becoming skeptical . Of. People becoming tired the promises . Yes. Minister, in addition to the people in this room, in addition to the people watching us online , there are others in another room just on the other side here who came and were not able to fit into this room. But they are able to ask questions. Minister khidasheli very good. A person over there has two questions for you. In your position as minister of defense georgia faces the threat of incursion from the north of russia. From russia. Once the newly acquired french systems become operational, do you intend to use it against russian aircraft violating georgian airspace . First question. [laughter] and the general is here. Minister khidasheli general . Can i ask you . [laughter] the second question, do you have contingency plans to prevent further creeping annexation of georgian territory . Minister khidasheli the and defense system, you said it many times, i repeat now, we are not buying anything to fight anybody. This is purely for defense purposes and georgia. Havenly way that they today of making their army better equipped is to deter it and make sure that we are ready for georgia being ready for any new challenges out there. Are we going to shut down the plane . I dont know. If there is a threat constituted to the population or its territories, it depends. There are multiple answers to the question depending on the threat. Lots of are seeing illegal movements by the russian military. Playing for other instruments with member countries, they are not shutting them down because they are not immediate threats that those instruments are constituting to those countries. Again, if there is a direct believe thathat i it depends on the level of threat that it constitutes. ,s far as creeping annexation the answer is probably the same. We are witnessing Constant Movement on the territory of georgia. Runningauthorities around with nets that they have by putting together this data from different publishers in the soviet union. 1922, 35, 86. You have different borderlines there. With russians they have put together the best options of any village on the territory of georgia. They have basically joined forces. We have this wonderful borderline that basically cuts the country in any direction in half. The russian intention is very clear. They wanted us to be provoked. They wanted to stop us. They wanted to have something that would make it impossible for anyone to talk to us. Was as well very crystalclear. That you cannot stop us. We are going to pursue this goal. What is the redline question cutting the main highway, is this a redline or not . This is a tricky question. But i believe that this is not a question only for us. It is a question for our partners. It is a question in washington and in brussels. We are not going to make any moves of that kind alone. We will go through the consultation process constantly with friends on our side every time we decide to do something. That i dont have answers to those questions, but im not ready to answer them openly. I dont know the answers in the other parts of the world. Its not the same way that it matters for georgia. Its my country, not your country. But it should be good for our partners as well. I think that that is where we are today. We will be seeing much more development of that kind. It is not just by accepting annexation. You have lots of russian growing in other ways as well in georgia. Ngos that you have never heard of. Weree do you never knew politically or publicly active and are suddenly showing up on televisions and becoming these bigshot experts. We are seeing other influences in georgia, in india. We have seen with 100 certainty that here it is. Slowly you see the mood is changing there. Too early to say anything finally, but it is there. Your Political Partners were the former speaker of lifeament in a previous going to moscow and no one knows what hes talking about. Every time she goes and comes back, something horrible happens in georgia. Write the next day after she got back from moscow. Lots of things like that. Its not just physically moving border here or there. You have other means use and implemented by russia. Fortunately they do not have Fertile Ground in georgia. If there is any country in the world where they do not have Fertile Ground, that would georgia. That does not mean that people will stay as enthusiastic, because they wait for all of these years for the potential us pursuing the goal they have. Potential of pursuing the goal they have. Yes, right here. Im from the center of international policy. Military aid is expected to increase. What does it mean to georgia that they will be receiving the most aid out of central asia and the caucuses . Thiso you perceive increased aid holds meeting to you . Minister khidasheli normally there is a framework to this aid. Its not like its coming and then we start thinking what to do with it. Fields oftraditional cooperation for our countries that have been there always. I see lots of people here who have been working on that for many years in georgia. Areas. On is one of those being that it supports the universities and integral educational systems in georgia, as well as having more students sent here for education. These professionals are who we need the most. Georgia is not switzerland. There are so many different areas where we need to receive support, both financial and expert aid to get us on the right path and get the right reforms implemented. But i think we have advanced to the level where it would be the incorporation without anymore of a student teacher kind of attitude. It would be partners sitting around the table and discussing strength to aid the good of my country. Yes, sir . [inaudible] youster, since taking over have taken a number of very decisive step. And you have taken a very active interest in the military. Concerning food, concerning how they live. I would say that you took a rather courageous step recently related to the cables case prison release. I would like to hear from you your decisionmaking coming to that courageous and Bold Decision and how this has affected morale within your ministry. Well, theredasheli is nothing courageous about that decision. I have committed my life to the rather than being aggressively intervening every time against and democratic principles. [indiscernible] since i dont know how it influenced morality within the ministry hopefully in a positive way. If there is anything that this , it will be tricky regardless of my personal opinion about those people or anybody else. Thats it. Ands all of my philosophy that is probably the main reason elieve my government is there is respect for the principles. I think we have time for one more question. Lets do it right here. Thank you very much for a very encouraging and interesting presentation. In the last few months there have been several reports that came out here about isil recruiting in georgia. Of course, isil has been recruiting all over the world. By then the context of their relationship with russia, particularly the area from which they were recruiting in georgia i want to ask you a little bit about what you can do, what you have been doing to prevent this from happening. This is also posing a great danger to georgia itself. , it isr khidasheli yeah a great danger to georgia itself. Its not something a country can be proud of. You have all the countries across europe fighting with the same problem. I think that the region it is , particularly from a government that overcomes in georgia, picking up the , they remindblems themselves in this way. I dont know. I cannot give you answers to a question no one has managed to answer yet. More education in these communities, especially given the problems in their employment time there are traditional means for at least decreasing the numbers, the tension, the feeling of inlation and abandonment narrow country. So, more education, more employment. Be, should be paved by the budgets and work in that particular region. As well as other places in georgia. Intentionally when you look at the mock potentially when you look at the demography of this country, you can figure out where if things go wrong, they can go worse than in other places. This should be a very targeted demographic approach to the various parts of the country. Minister, on behalf of the room,here, in the other watching around the world, let me thank you very much for your remarks and your answers to the question. General, ambassador, you are very well represented. You have a strong, direct speaking minister of defense. ,or a country it is important not just for the region but for International Security more broadly. Please join later today, Chris Christie holding a town hall meeting in new boston, new hampshire. That is live on cspan at 7 00 p. M. Eastern. The latest National Polling showed him losing ground. He returns to new hampshire. 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