I won tickets through the Library Summer reading program. At that point baseball was very foreign to me and my family. Rickey henderson played that day. I havent baseball cards. I loved him. One of the greatest of all time. He was so quick and fast. Welldeserved. Glad to see the name to the field after him. We will check in there and a couple of minutes. The Senate Judiciary committee is meeting at this moment to vote on the nomination of neil gorsuch to the supreme court. He is expected to be approved by the committee. This morning the republican chairman of the committee and Diane Feinstein who is the ranking democrat had very different views on the nominee and their statements. He is eminently qualified. He is a mainstream judge who has earned the universal respect of his colleagues on the bench and in the bar. Unfortunately, his answers were so diluted with the ambiguity, one could not see where he stood even on big and long settled cases. This morning Diane Feinstein confirmed tha
Tomy question is a followup one of the other questions. You mentioned two things republicans avoid going in to the next election. You think they will be strong. My question was, what do you strength . He biggest 2014 is off year as an election. I believe as strongly as anyone the importance of having important conservative ideas. They will on their a more unveil a more comprehensive version of their own Health Care Reform that will be better than obamacare. People are working on that and doing good work. ,istory suggests the election it is about that partys tenure on the white house. Do you want to have to help them . Ut, or check senators that will not go along with president obama and given like his approval rating, it looks to me like republicans are in good shape. I think republicans hold the house. Different from 2016. President ial elections are about the future. Nonincumbent president ial elections, particularly about, president obama will have been there for eight years. Or do
As induce very that supports them because they will ultimately have dubai, man, train and equip not only the current force we have, but the course of the future. They have to be ready to address the growing challenges will likely face across the entire indo Asian Pacific in the world. The comments i made were not about american rebounds to the act because that is track. Were making progress and opaque on commanders is. We are doing the things we have committed and said we would do to the rebalance. My comments were about the current sophistication and capabilities of todays Weapons Systems and relative dominance with the systems. The warfare capabilities we must also ensure we invest in the proper mix of the offensive capabilities that manan equipped ships. And capabilities they have a bleep on domino required and they must continue to strive for that. I will stop and take your questions. The last point you make, do not think the u. S. Is losing ground and dominance in the pacific and
Those people who normally come from the caribbean are very conservative, they come here, and dont identify with the right party. My question is, how are you able to remove the d and the r and connect to people on a oneonone basis . And if there was one particular issue, what was that issue to help your message connect . Thank you. For me, it was really talking about the American Dream and prosperity. Weve talked about the housing bubble. Ive talked about we saw a lot of foreclosures in our state, and when you talk to people about how people are walking away from their homes or getting bailed out, people really resonated with that. The life issues and other issues with conservative democrats in our state, that they will relate to us with. But i really think when you go back to the American Dream and freedom to prosper, that is really where we identify with one another. I dont ask anyone to change their party. I really just ask them to think about the thing that is i stand for and to vot