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John they dont deal with the damage caused by the drug war. Medical mayor is. They talk and talk but dodge the big questions. What they wont say. Thats our show tonight. [ ] they talk and talk, but there are so many things they dont say. Neither candidate says much about americas unsustainable debt. They never talk about the constitution and what it says president s cannot do. They almost never talk about the war on drugs. I could go on. Instead we get grand poll tested promises. Well make America Great again. To keep you safe, to get you good jobs, to get your kids the opportunities they deserve. John people like hearing statements like that and we want our kids to have opportunity. We want america to be great. But trump and clinton rarely say how they are going to fulfill the promises. And there are so many issue thets dont talk about. Well start now with a trump and hillary supporter. What should they talk about thats not been talked about . Less transparency in the government. Deregular laying and every Regulatory Agency the rank all their regulations top to bottom. They dont talk about regulations and they strangle the economy. He has talked about a moratorium on new regulations. John tamara, what would you have the media and the candidates say. Donald trump and has used the foundation to pay for things that are his personal obligations. The small things like the tim tebow sphawb jersey that he had to have that he won a bid over at the susan g. Komen foundation and said the Trump Foundation paid 12,000 for that. Trumps failure to pay for his obligations and how is he going to pay for the obligations of the country besides renegotiate can the bad deals . John i think they should talk about hillarys foundation. It has raised 2 billion and gives very lit toll charity. The press reported that people who donate get meetings. Hillary has an answer for that. This excludes 2,000 meetings i had with World Leaders and government officials when i was secretary of state. It looks at a small portion my time. John unfair, a small portion, she says. She met worth diplomats and members of the state department. But most of them gave the Clinton Foundationing if they were outsiders. 55 should be given to charities and with the Clinton Foundation they give only 5 . There are things about the Clinton Foundation that bother me. But the question is did it affect policy . Not everybody gets to meet with Hillary Clinton. To blame hillary that she is not meeting with everybody. Is patently ridiculous. We need to figure out if she did something where there was a paytoplay and policy was affected by those donors. Billions of dollars answer they are giving 5 to charity . Its a slush funds for her political friends. They helped countries with vaccines, with building hospitals, with helping women. John 5 . They spent 95 of it on salaries, and travel, and a lot of administration. This is a worldwide organization. So salary and travel are important. Maybe its a world wide ocean. Maybe 55, 45, 5. 7 . Do they tall fly first class on the concord . John three days after anker northeast quake ravaged the country of haiti. The aid is getting out, there just isnt enough of it. John she always wants more money. But the country is still a wreck. Many haitians ask what did the foundation do with the money . Here is a haitian protester in new york city. Where is the money . And the Clinton Foundation has much to answer. Most of the commitment came from haiti, the haitian government, france and the United States. The commitments didnt come from the Clinton Foundation. So to blame Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation on the fact that things have not happened yet in haiti that is not their fault is ridiculous. John how do you know its not their fault . Maybe they just spinlts on politics instead of haiti. They helped with hospital build, they donated solar panels. John donald trump brags about his wealth. Bute coflawnlts his wealth by releasing his tax returns he i will release my tax returns against my lawyers wishes when she released her 33,000 emails. As soon as she releases them, i will release. Her emails are gone. His texas returns arent. No, really. He doesnt have an obligation release his tax returns. John most president s do. It many just some to show you are transparent. Do you pay for veterans and the wars we have all paid for . Are you paying for these things or are you just saying you are and you are mad at washington d. C. , but you are not contributing to anything. Hillary clinton cant release her emails because they are destroyed. She had her aids take hammers and destroy her blackberries. Her server would have the emails scrubbed after a conscious am subpoena. If you get a subpoena its obstruction of justice. The question was about tax returns. I find it very rich to hear Hillary Clinton complaining about a lack of transparency when somebody took a hammer to destroy blackberries. John one thing they didnt talk about at the debate are Health Medical records. Hillary and trump and so old, they are my age. And lots of people my age die. Americans should know about the president ial candidates health but we know very little. Trumps doctor says he would be the healthiest individual ever elected to the country. He said it was something he wrote quickly while a trump limo driver waited impatiently for him to finish. By contrast, older candidate john mccain 10 years ago released a thousand pages of medical records. Hillary released a twopage report that says she is fit to serve as president. After she stumbled getting into her car and later said she got pneumonia a reporter asked if she would be willing to take a neurological exam. Would you be willing to do that. Im sorry i got pneumonia and im glad antibiotics took care of it and thats behind us now. John shouldnt they be honest about their health . They are running for president. I dont think either one of them have anything to cover up. John how do we know . We dont know. But Hillary Clinton macedon a poor job on her p. R. Front. She could have used the pneumonia as a way to get some sympathy. She could have said i have walking necessity moan moan yeah, people get all the time. Going going this 9 11 service and then im going to leave. Instead she falls apart. She looks silly. It looks like she is covering something up which is something she has been accused of doing before. Its a side coverup and stupid p. R. But i think Hillary Clinton is the victim of some,ism, that she is not Strong Enough as an older woman. The fact that she is she is seen getting help up the stairs. Who cares . I agree with about 4 of what you said. If Hillary Clinton said im going to take a few days off. People would have said great. But if you say the many just a cough. And it turned out she is overheated at the 9 11 events and we hear its pneumonia. Too your guy trump hasnt been forthcoming. He had a second letter. But there was a second letter other than talking to dr. Oz. They should both be much more open. John Something Else hillary wont talk about is there are tradeafters between a pure environment and energy poor people can afford. For years hillary dodged this question. Would you sign a bill, yes or no in favor allowing the keystone xl pipeline. If its undecided when i become president , i will answer your question. Reporter that was last year. A few monthed later she changed her mind and said no Keystone Pipeline should not be allowed. She never talks about the cost of stopping pipe lines. It hurts poor people. Whats disturbing about this is the bank of canada had a 1. 9 billion investment in the Keystone Pipeline. The state department under Hillary Clinton ruled the it was environmentally sound. At that time the bang was paying clinton 1. 10 million to chitchat about whatever ideas he had on his mind. So she is trying to decide whether the pipeline is okay, and she says it is and 1. 8 mill goes to her husband, isnt that cute. John i would say sleazy. Its questionable. It doesnt look good. But i think that you are going toward the question of why wouldnt she answer the question as to whether she supported something. And it could be she didnt have enough information. She hadnt spoken to enough people. John it was 7 years into the argument. True, but maybe she needed a little more advice. When you are running for president , you dont want to block people. She wants all of these people to vote for her. I dont think she should be obligated to put themselves in a box and alienate all the other voters. John thats why there is so many they wont say and it seems to work. I asked you on social media, what do you wish the candidates would say that they dont say . On Facebook James riley says he wishes donald trump would say here is my tax returns and Hillary Clinton would say yes, i committed treason to line my pockets. I will turn myself and my cronies over to the authorities. Thats the best answer, you should have him on. John thank you. Next, what the candidate went say about the National Debt, the war on drugs, privacy, and the limits of government. Ill discuss that with the previous candidate who did. The main problem we have is the government is too big and the government is too big and this man creates software, used by this bank, to protect this customer, who lives here and flies to hong kong, to visit this company that makes smart phones, used by this Vice President , this little kid, oops, and this obstetrician, who works across the street from this man, who creates software. They all have insurance crafted personally for them. 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Make the biggest investment in our children. Well invest in greater technology. John of course her investments are Government Force reply taking money from you and giving it to people she says deserve it. But how about at least acknowledging its an assault on individual freedom in the last two election there was one voice that consistently did talk about freedom and that was congressman ron paul. This election i dont hear that word. I havent heard it either. So if that means they can avoid trying to deal with the question, what is the role of government and what is the purpose of having a government. Their argument is to make us safe and secure and happy and behave ourselves and not use the wrong kind of word and dont ever be insulted. And they want to rule or us. They are author tearans. In that manner they are not interested in liberty. John i hadnt realized null pointed it out. At the conventions and the debates. Trump and hillary never mentioned liberty. It didnt come up. Its not on their minds. John you wrote that trump at the convention sounds like he wants to be National Police chief. I really think he does. There is no authority in the constitution. Policing activity should be done locally by the state, not by an intrusive government. We had 100,000 government bureaucrats that carry guns. Guns of the bureaucrats trying to enforce laws that are illegitimate. They believe if there is no explicit prohibition in the constitution a president can do whatever he wants and the congress can allow him to do it. But if you look at the document carefully its a thou shalt not. John on Facebook Sharon asked i wish someone would ask the candidates if they know what powers the president has as outlined in the constitution. If they go to section one article one section 8. The president doesnt have the authority to just pick up and go to war. But they capitulate and give him the money. And people dont say much. Think of how much better this country would facebook we wouldnt have wasted so much in the last 50, 60, 70 years of just endless wars technically unconstitutional. If we tell these young people who get maimed for life and killed to feel good, you are a valiant warrior and hero because you are defending our freedom and defending our constitution. If they just think about that, how fighting an illegal war and invading another country that has not attacked us and bomb and kill a lot of people and say that yo you are a hero for defending the constitution. Here is a Facebook Post you will like. What are you not hearing twhiewt like to hear from a candidate. Sharon wrote she hopes clinton and trump will say we are unfit for president and we would like to nominate ron paul. Well, im not looking for a political job. John donald trump says his wall will solve americas drug problems, too. Im going to create borders. Im going to create borders. No drugs are coming in. 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The war is an utter failure. Its cost billions, it creates vicious drug gangs, makes criminals out of americans who just want to alter their minds with weed instead of booze. America locks up now more people than any other country. Yet drug use stays the same. The media rarely asks the candidates about this, even in colorado. Colorado where marijuana was newly legal. There were no questions about marijuana legalization. Paul chabot says this should be among the top five issues. He worked at drug czars office for george w. Bush and bill clinton, so he and i are on opposite sides of this debate, but we agree that the war is not not is important, and theyre not talking about it. Youre absolutely right, john. If you go into the home of any average family, almost to a household you will find somebody who knows of a drug alcoholrelated incident that has devastated their family or neighbors family. So i think its critical that our president ial candidates address this issue front and center in the debates. And its also up to the media to probe them john the media doesnt even ask. Why dont they ask . I think because weve become numb to it as a society. It has become part of our mainstream culture and almost tattoo to talk about taboo to talk about. John Hillary Clintons long been a drug warrior. We need to take these people on, theyre often connected to drug cartels. Jon this is her speech john this is her speech that brought her criticism. They are often the kinds of kids that are called superpredators, no conscience, no empathy. We can talk about why they ended up that way, but first we have to bring them to heel. John so she took grief for that, she apologized for using that term. But she and you are together. You want to just keep fighting the war, keep going, do more even. Well, first off, we dont see it as a war. We see it as a cancer. Youve got to treat it. Today were absent, and thats largely because this administration has ignored the issue, and were seeing the fallout in these communities. John its been illegal all these years, it doesnt make it were the. It make it doesnt make it better. We should not be punishing those lowlevel addicts. They need help. John you are. No. We now have millions of addicts running across this country not fearful of going to prison or jail, not able to get treatment, and we see property crime, Violent Crime on the rise and, look, most crime is drugrelated. Either john its not cigarette related. No, but they arent an intoxicant. John the government says its just as addictive as heroin and cocaine. There are no cigarette or bud riser gangs because budweiser gangs because its legal. There are cigarette gangs john the government taxes it too much. They are much less dangerous than the drug gangs. Even today with state after state legalizing weed, hillary wont go there. Here she is at a cnn debate. Are you ready to take a position tonight . No. John i mean, come on. Its a huge issue, but her boss, barack obama, decided not to enforce federal drug laws in a number of states, and now were seeing the ramifications of that. I think that john the ramifications that people are not being thrown in jailsome. No, that we have more people driving high on our highways, increased societal abuse. We look at john what increased abuse . Denver . Yes, absolutely. John traffic accidents are down. One out of every five kids in our schools are using illicit drugs. Thats nothing we should be proud of. John trump was once reasonable about the drug war n. 1990 he said you have to legalize drugs to win that war. You have to take the profits away from these drug czars. Its not going to change anything, and im glad that trump has had a change of tune. We dont want to see people grow up as addicts. And, look, i think that this has got to be a critical issue of discussion in the debate. John in colorado since marijuana legalization, highway deaths in colorado are at near historic lows. Well, thats not all the reporting were seeing coming out of denver. The Rocky Mountain area program has put out an annual report consistently talking about the dangers. Look, you and i agree on personal liberty, but we also have to agree that the number one role of government is to protect the people. And if we cant protect the people from those who are using illicit drugs and harming others in our community, then were missing the boat. John but prohibition didnt protect them. Did alcohol prohibition work . Would you like to restore that . Were never going to eliminate crime. John we create crime with your law. Just because the problem doesnt go down to zero, does that mean we take all the comes off the street and say, look, lets just legalize burglary and manage the process . We cant do that. John we agree to disagree. Yes, we do. John thank you, paul chabot. 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We came up with a plan that makes Public College tuitionfree for working families and debtfree for everyone. [cheers and applause] john what the candidates almost never say is how theyll pay for that. Were already almost 20 trillion in debt, but the media rarely pester the candidates with questions about how theyll fund their grand schemes. So ill pester Investment Adviser and radio host peter schiff. Do you agree this is this huge issue that rarely gets discussed . Oh, sure. Its the elephant in the room, you know . Youre talking about making mexico pay for the wall. The way were going to make mexico pay for it is were going to borrow the money if from mexico and china and everybody else. Donald trump did mention that the National Debt is 20 trillion and it doubled under john we should give the candidates some credit. In this weeks debate they did both address it briefly. You cant do what youre looking to do with 20 trillion in debt. The Obama Administration from the time theyve come in is over 230 years worth of debt, and hes topped it. Hes doubled it. Your plans would add 5 trillion to the debt. John hes right about that. But, of course, what trump didnt point out is that bush also doubled the debt during his eight years. That is the trend. Can we double it again, can we really go to 40 trillion without a complete disaster . And that guy quantityic bubble that donald trump correctly identified is going to blow up like an atomic bomb. John so why do you think the media dont ask . Because they dont like the answer. The medias very liberal. They want all these great new social programs. They want free college. They dont realize how expensive free college is. John donald trump at one point basically said, well, maybe well just default. Well, you know what . Thats better than the alternative because its impossible to legitimately repay. I mean, that would take massive tax kin creases. Tax increases. Not on the rich, but on the middle class, and i dont think middle class americans should have to pay more that. I think our creditors should share in the blame. After all, they were dumb enough to lend our government the money. Why should we pay them awe off in full . John hey, china, we owe you a dollar, were going to pay you 40 cents. Yes. Its better than printing a bunch of money, because when you wipe out the currency because you dont have the integrity to honestly default, then you hurt everybody, the little old lady whos got her money in a mattress. John Hillary Clinton proposes more than a trillion dollars in new investments, but she says shes going to pay for them. Were not only going to make all of these investments, were going to pay more every single one of them for every single one of them, and heres how wall street, corporations and the super rich are are going to start paying their fair share of taxes. [cheers and applause] theyre already overpaying. The people who arent paying their fair share are the clinton voters who arent paying anything. But, you know, the government doesnt invest. The private sector invests. The government just steals their money and spends it, and that reduces john you could Call Building a bridge investment. Well, maybe its a bridge to nowhere, and maybe they overpay for the bridge. I mean, private sector actually judges the cost benefit of the money it invests. Government doesnt care, it just spends it. John and her point about take it from the rich resonates. Some people are absurdly rich. Why not just get the money from them . Yeah, it always resonates, thats the problem. Lets steal from the rich and give it to the people who vote for me. The problem is the rich are the job creators. Hillary clinton pretends that she wants jobs. Well, how are are you going to have jobs if all you want to do is tax the people that create those jobs . John even if you took all the money from the rich people, it wouldnt be enough to pay for entitlements down the road. And that assumes taking all their money didnt destroy their incentives to earn money in the first place. John but neither candidate is talking about anything that might get us out of this debt. Donald trump says dont touch entitlements, hillary will not mention anything about that. Well, because john what hope do we have . Somewhat thats not how you get votes. Donald trump says, oh, were not going to touch Social Security. Were going to spend more on military, on infrastructure, how are you going to spend more on everything and still claim youre worried about the debt . All hell talk about is waste, fraud and abuse. Sure, how much is that . You know, weve got to john like nobody ever thought of waste, fraud and abuse before. They all say that. Thats somebodys entitlement. By the way, i dont think anybody is entitled to somebody elses money. Thats the problem. 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I think hes a total traitor, and i would deal with him harshly. John that was donald trump talking about edward snowden. Snowden is the National Security Agency Contractor who told americans their privacy was being invaded illegally by our government. The nsa was collecting data on all americans. The courts have ruled that some of that was illegal but didnt stop them from spying. The candidates are rarely asked about this. And when they are, they spout platitudes like this we always have to keep the balance of civil liberties, privacy and security. Its not easy in a democracy, but we have to keep it in mind. John of course theres a line that has to be drawn. How about asking the candidates for some specifics . No one does. Perry metzger, who runs a Digital Security firm, says there need not be a tradeoff between privacy and security. How can that be . Really mostly what we have is a tradeoff between security and nonsecurity. People, you know, might want to read the contents of my grocery list, and i dont particularly care about that. But unfortunately, the contents of my grocery list are protected by the same things that protect my bank information, Nuclear Power plants, transit systems. You dont get security for one of these things without security for all of them. It is not possible to put back doors into our systems and still have those systems be safe from people with bad intentions. John why . Unfortunately, we dont know how to do it. John is it weird that the candidates rarely get asked about this or speak about it . Well, it seems to me to be something that should be a major issue. The infrastructure of the United States now runs on Computer Networks and computers, and disrupting that infrastructure is probably something that people who dont like us might want to be able to do. And yet it really isnt something that they discuss at all. John back to snowden. Trump said he should be killed because hes a traitor. If hes a traitor, who exactly did he betray us to . That seems to imply that the American Public is the enemy. Theres something wrong with that sort of thought, i think. John he broke the laws. Hillary clinton also says snowden should be caught and punished. He broke the laws of the United States. He could have been a whistleblower, he could have gotten all the protections of being a whistleblower, he could have raised all the issues that he has raised, and i think there would have been a positive response to that. John he could have gone to the congress. People tried doing that. Theres a gentleman named william binny who tried going through channels, thomas drake tried going through channels. There were a lot of people who tried going through channels. Most of them, at best, were ignored. Some of them, like thomas drake, ended up getting charged with federal crimes only to have the charges dropped. The message at the nsa was very clear was that you could not go through channels. John after the terror attack in california this year, the fbi said it needed to get inside the killers iphone to see if there were isis contacts. They wanted apple to help them get past the phones security. Essentially, were asking apple take the vicious guard dog away, let us try and pick the lock. John apple replied customers dont want their phones opened up. They want privacy. They have set out to design a phone that cant be opened. Those phones arent only protecting peoples pokemon games, theyre also protecting peoples bank accounts. Its not possible to produce systems like the ones that the fbi would like that cant then be abused by bad actors as well. John but the fbi did finally get into that iphone without apples help. Yes. By spending a considerable amount of money. What the fbi would like is to have it be so simple that lots of bad people would also be in a position to do this, possibly without even being local to the phone. John on fox friends, donald trump argued that a after a terrorist attack companies ought to give the fbi access. To think that apple wont allow us to get into her cell phone, who do they think they are . I think they have a responsibility to hundreds of million of people and not simply to the director of the fbi. It is not possible to produce safe systems that have back doors in them. Again, it would be lovely if we had magic and could do that sort of thing, but we dont. John i would think that spying and privacy would be pretty big issues for president ial candidates to discuss. Did you know that the police can turn on the microphone on your cell phone even when this thing is off and secretly listen to your conversations . They can also watch you via the camera on your computer. The fbi director was asked about that this month. Do you still have a piece of tape over your cameras heck, yeah. At home . Heck, yeah. I think people ought to take responsibility for their own safety and security. And theres some sensible things you ought to be doing, and thats one of them. This, apparently, is something sensible to do its probably so in the current environment. John because bad guys or the cops could spy on me even when the thing is off . Yeah. But i will point out, however, that the fact that the fbi director has to be afraid of this seems to indicate that the fbi isnt doing a very good job of protecting us. And, in fact, probably shouldnt be spending so much time trying to undermine the security of products like that laptop. The fact that you have to worry about those things is an issue. When apple tried to secure these systems so they cant be abused, thats something we should welcome, not something we should excoriate them for. John fbi director comey also said this in any government office, we all have our little camera things that sit on top of the screen. They all have a little lid that closes down on them. You do that so that people who dont have authority dont look at you. John i had no idea about this. In all government offs a lid . Some government offices certainly have that. But again i have to ask, you know, why is it that the security on the governments computers is so poor while the government spends quite so much money attempting to break into and listen in on everything in sight . One would think that they would have some interest in defending our systems, not just in tearing them down. But it seems they spend almost all of their budget and all of their attention on offense and very, very little on defense, which is a shame. John thank you, perry metzger. Next, the most disgusting evasion from the leading president ial candidates. 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We are well equipped to meet it, and we can do so in keeping with smart Law Enforcement, good intelligence and in concert with our values. John what does that mean . She doesnt detail what smart Law Enforcement is or good intelligence. Does that mean we have bad intelligence and Law Enforcement now . Youre going to fix it, then tell us how. Trump has a reputation for plain speaking, but hes as bad as hillary when it comes to dodging specifics when reporters ask questions. He sounds like hes going to answer, but then he wanders around, never really answering. Here a Reporter Asks will you ban all foreign muslims . As of this moment, i am very unhappy when i look at the world of radical islam, im very unhappy with it. Were going to find the problem, and were going to come up with a solution. Obama could never come up with a solution. Number one, hes incompetent, and number two, the solution just is never going to be out there for him. John its all obamas fault. Come on, mr. Trump, will you ban foreign muslims . Whats your solution, President Trump . Its rarely clear. Its just magically going to be good. Here Chris Wallace asks a specific question about our debt crisis. Would you be willing to use the debt limit and risk the possibility of the country going into default to get more spending cuts . I would use the debt limit i dont want to say. I want to be unpredictable because, you know, we need unpredictability. Everything is so predictable with our country. John yeah. And i suppose its predictable that if he says i might default or we have to cut medicare, hed lose votes. So just shout platitudes instead. The central question in this election is really what kind of country we want to be is and what kind of future well build together. Today is my granddaughters second birthday, so i think about this a lot. John oh, how sweet, her granddaughter. Both leading candidates hide from the truth. Its one more reason ill vote libertarian. Gary johnson will at least say what needs to be said. Nobodys talking about balancing the federal budget, nobodys talking about reforming medicaid or medicare. John those are clearly not popular things to talk about. But president ial candidates ought to talk about them. So much is at stake. The fact that hillary and trump wont speak the truth is irresponsible and dangerous. Thats our show. Thanks for watching. Have a great weekend. Good night. This show has never been solely about investments. We talked about anything that affected people and their money. The new wall street week. Anthony welcome to wall street week. Im anthony scaramucci. Liz im liz claman. The 016 president ial election has hit the home stretch with the candidate squaring off in