And iowa, South Carolina or New Hampshire, 202 7488003. The website or send us an email. One of the local papers out of New Hampshire that cosponsor the event courtesy of museum. Gop. Ca meets the all eyes turned to the nations primary state as republican candidates take the stage. Each cast themselves as the most qualified candidate. Candidates took terms took turns answering questions about pressing domestic issues and they criticized the Iran Nuclear Deal and funding for planned parenthood and the Affordable Care act. 11 where in New Hampshire. Senators, tedan cruz, rand paul and marco rubio. They were in town for that vote on cutting funding and planned parenthood. Each of them participated for around of q a oneonone. They did two rounds of questions and the other candidates were sitting in the audience. View of these gop candidates . This is from the iowa paper. Also another cosponsor of last nights event. Gop hopefuls foul repeals. It says in a nationally televised voters first forum, it refers to public and speed of the one after another candidates called for repealing the tax code. The dodd frank act. The Affordable Care act here is senator ted cruz from last night on repeal efforts. Senator ted cruz would you agree that republicans might have been blamed because it did not come up. Had they maybe obamacare never would have been passed. I want to know your thoughts on that. And are there any parts of the afford the character you take are worth keeping . Sen. Cruz there is no doubt we need common sense of care reform. I think it ought to expand competition, empower patients and disempowered government bureaucrats from getting in between us and our doctors. The best way to do that are three concrete ideas, number one, allowing people to Purchase Health insurance across state lines so that you can have True National marketplace and low cost catastrophic Health Insurance. Number two, as dr. Ben carson talked about, expanding Health Savings accounts so that you can save for more routine health needs and number three, working to make Health Insurance affordable the linking it from employment so that if you lose your job your Health Insurance stays with you. Everyone of those in power station empowers. Obamacare has been a manifest disaster. Inurance companies have put this year for premium increases of 51 , iowa 30 , South Carolina, 33 . Millions of americans have lost their jobs, health care i have been proud to lead the fight, to stop obamacare and in the United States senate against the Washington Cartel and there are a lot of politicians in washington that have largely given up. They do not believe obamacare can be repealed, including, sadly, a fair number of republicans. I dont believe that. I intend to make 2016 a referendum on repealing obamacare and if im elected president well repeal every word of obamacare and pass common sense Health Insurance reform to make it personal, portable and affordable. Host texas senator ted cruz participating in less thes voter forum. Affordable care act and vowing to repeal every word of it. Read getting your word on this. That is how we are dividing the lines this morning. Republican styling in. Independents we want to hear from you as well. 202 7488002. If you live in New Hampshire, and you are republican your line is 202 7488003. This is another headline. The Associated Press from last nights forum. They frame it as gop hopefuls take on illegal immigration in debate preview. Several candidates answering questions on immigration. Here is the Ohio Governor john kasich on this issue. A we will get to that in just second. We will show you what he had to say on immigration but the Associated Press reports this. That rick perry, who may not qualify for the upcoming debate called the flow of immigrants crossing the border illegal a serious wound. He says his republican rivals watched from the front row of the college auditorium. Parry charged, you go find them. You pick them up and send them back from where they are from. The former pennsylvania senator went further calling for a 25 reduction of low skilled immigrants illegally. Lets go to donna in new york. Good morning to you, donna. Good morning and thank you for cspan. I appreciate it that you show the candidates right out of the chute. I have not made up my mind yet about whom i would choose but that was a good start last night. Concerned about electing our first woman president i think Carly Fiorina would be a good choice did right out of the gate, president or Vice President. I think they need to seriously look at her. I was leaning toward cruise or a rant before. Now i have my eyes open to john kasich. I think he has qualifications for many reasons. Role, hehat dual certainly has a lot of experience. The ones that i mentioned. I would not rule out some of the some of them were obviously struggling. Think the ones the meeting has held up as a role models artist are the ones i would work for. I wouldnt even consider those gentlemen. Host why not . Caller because i just see them they talk about soundbites. I wasnt impressed with what he said and why he thought he could be president. To look in the mirror and say, can i do this job. I thought that was kind of a silly thing. Bush, he can be his own person, but i think he is kind of flipflopping on the issues. Common court to meet was a very strong point and i dont know. He talks a good story. I think several candidates made good points. Can get people up there and they can talk a good story but lets see what they have done. Ted cruz stood right up there along with rand paul in particular. They have done what they said they would do. Those candidates that you saw, which one do you think could go headtohead in a general election matchup if the democratic nominee is Hillary Clinton . Host it is too early for me to determine but i would certainly love to see the two women go headtohead. That would be fine for me. Im not saying i would backer at this point in time but it certainly would be interesting it would show the world there is more than one woman out there who can do the job. Host that is the argument that Carly Fiorina made less light when on the stage. Post and career of South Carolina has the headline as well. The senator from South Carolina and the gop rival bashed clinton and the democrats weighing in on immigration, drugs and other policies. Look what Carly Fiorina had to say on the clintons. I think that Hillary Clinton thinks they are political inconveniences. They are far more than that. She lied about benghazi. They knew that it was a purposeful terror attack on the anniversary of 9 11. She went to the people and talked fiction about the videotape. Well lied about her servers and the kinds of information she had on her server and why she kept everything on a single device. Here is the thing. In order to be Hillary Clinton or whoever the nominee turns out to be we need a nominee on our side who will throw every punch. Fight for the future of this nation and the character of this nation and we know that sometimes the right questions to not get asked in a president ial debate. Host that is Carly Fiorina talking about Hillary Clinton and taking her on. Linda in florida, independent. What do you make of these gop candidates . Caller go rand paul, go. I thought that he was wonderful. He presented his case in asus synced way. Concise and hed has wonderful ideas and he is the only one who pulls the best against Hillary Clinton. That he is the best one for the job. A lot ofive out here your 20yearolds and 30yearolds are rand paul fans. So he can get that demographic between 18 and 34 which is what we definitely need to win. Thus those of us or independents wheeling for him as well. We need him as well. He is my favorite. I definitely believe in the bill of rights. I think the bill of rights as a whole have been trampled under barack obama. I love his ideas about education and like i said my age group and my friends and my family are all in that 18 to 34 and a graphic and we care a lot about education. We like his openmindedness, his ideas are different than what a lot of other republicans are pushing and he believes in these ideas. Hey come from his heart and has been working on them ever since he entered the senate he said what he is going to do and he does it. God bless him yesterday for putting forth the defund planned parenthood vote even though i lean libertarian i do believe this country is probably moving more toward a prolife stance. Defundn that vote to planned parenthood it was actually a procedural vote. In order to move to the ville they had to take a culture vote to go to debate. Democrats blocked it and Senate Democrats protect funding for planned parenthood. They said that the vote was largely symbolic since it was clear that republicans did not have the super majority needed to move forward. Conservatives in the house and the senate vowed to block passage of the 2016 spending bell. Threatenedouse has to veto any legislation that would end funding for the legislation. Organization. This is how the vote broke down last night. Noted thatgton post there were 51 republicans and two democrats that voted yes for that. That is 51 republicans. The two democrats senator donnelly. The 46 broke down this way. 42 democrats plus independents Bernie Sanders and angus king and then a republican from illinois he voted yes and Mitch Mcconnell the majority leader switched his vote the yes to this issue could come back up in the fall. Eddie from pennsylvania, an independent, good morning to you. We are talking about less lights debate, what are your view of the candidates. Carsonked fiorina and and ted cruz and i liked the way that they come across. I think it cannot be too liberal. He cant be too conservative either. You have to move toward the center. Too many problems in this country. People are causing them. Because it for themselves and it comes back on everybody else. The should not pay them to have babies. Max, you are on the air. Caller i am not very impressed by what i saw. I have been watching all of the candidates on cspan and it just seemed like their answers to everything were basically things from their previous stump speeches. They reached up on a shelf and found the line that they thought might fit and gave it for an answer. That really disappointed they didnt give any new ideas things they the have said before. It was kind of pathetic. William in georgia, i republican, what is your view of the republican candidate to i like them all. I just have one question. The thing that i am disillusioned with is they get all this money from the Political Action committees and by the time they go to washington they are held hostage by all of these promises they have made. I wish we could have Carly Fiorina with trumps money. With the money he is on the outside and does not have to follow the system that has been going for the last 40 to 50 years. . O what do you do host did you watch list night . Caller no, i did not. Im sorry. Host so who are your favorite candidate . Caller there are some that i like. But they said can anybody be Hillary Clinton. The only people that will vote for hillary are the ones that went the freebie. They have also the same thing for the same 50 years. They never fix anything. Jane in indiana, and independent. Hello jane. I want to call and congratulate cspan for the fine showing less night. I really appreciate the staff and the people from New Hampshire that put this on. I amhat it gave me energized by a. Because people are speaking out and fox can have their program but it is also highest. So being an independent i really liked Carly Fiorina last night. I had seen her interviewed a couple of times. Experience and knowing World Leaders it is so impressive. Her business of knowledge and it managing budgets i dont know what else we need right now. We have to do that before we can help others that we would like to help in our society. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Host before you go, what about the front runners. And how they did last night and jeb bush and scott walker . Much attentionng to anybody who has been in politics for a career. I cannot do that anymore. Host ok. Caller if they spent most of their time in politics they will not get my vote to host that is jane in indiana. 11 of the candidates were in New Hampshire last night and they took to the stage one by one. Three senators, ted cruz, rand were at theco rubio cspan studios because they were in town for that vote on planned parenthood. She was just talking about some of these front runners like jeb bush and scott walker was she says she will not vote for anybody who has been a politician. Was person who is not a politician who was not there last night was donald trump. Did not participate in less lights forum and he told the Union Leaders, the New Hampshire union leader, no endorsement . Noshow. This is the story they had. Donald trump is still not participating in the forum. He says it is because he thinks he is unlikely to get that New HampshireUnion Leaders endorsement and thinks there are too many candidates for one event. As many of you know on thursday night fox will have the first debate and only 10 of the candidates who are pulling the highest in the polls will make the deadline today. 10, they willp get to participate. They said right now that means it is looking unlikely that rick perry will make the stage for that foxnews debate. This is what jeb bush had to say less night. Was one of his answers in the fight against isis. If i would take the advice of the military very seriously we need a strategy first. This president has two times admitted we dont have a strategy as it relates to isis. I think we need special forces. The idea of boots on the ground im not sure is necessary but special forces and bedding our troops and traders here in the army trimming them at a much faster rate. We spent a half 1 billion to have 60 people ready to go. Effort we a serious need to treat it seriously. Engaging in the world, creating alliances with our traditional arab nations and supporting it with air power and military power and creating a strategy and sticking with it. Is final thing i would say that there needs to be a political element to this as well. The United States is not trusted because no one has a sense that we will be around. It is hard to engage with everyone because they will not make the commitment. We are getting your thoughts on that first voter forum in New Hampshire. Cspan cosponsor the event along with the local sprint and tv stations there. What is your view of the candidates. Republican candidates after last night. Republicans 202 7488001. Independents 202 7488002. If you are a voter and one of these early states 202 7488003. Fayetteville, arkansas. Lauren is next. Good morning to you. Caller good morning. Firsttime caller. I was thoroughly impressed with the whole field. It is a great field of candidates. To hear carly,ng she came off real well and George Pataki impresses me. I dont know anything about him but he stands out to me and ted cruz. He wants to fight the establishment. So it is a good field. I think one of them said that any one of those is better than what the democrats are offering up and i can see where the democrats could look at this field and maybe cross over because what the democrats were offering for the democratic voters is not a lot. Lauren is happy with what he sees on the republican side. But the wall street journal reports this morning that unhappy voters shake up the contest rate this is from a new poll that found that an unhappy and on satisfied electorate is giving space to unhappy candidates and changing the context of both parties. Donald trump has moved to the top of the republican field while Bernie Sanders has gained ground among democrats. Anricans are taking unusually sour view. Jeb bush is losing ground among the most conservative voters, Hillary Clinton is you do more negatively now that almost any time in her career and mr. Trump inspires more negative feelings than any other major candidate. Among democrats mrs. Clintons need remains controversial. As well as rising interest in mr. Sanders and signs that Vice President joe biden may consider a run. Take a look at some reaction on twitter to the forums. This is what the democrats were tweeting out with a picture of the senators who joined the forum via satellite from the scene cspan studios. Marcos why rand paul said rubio and ted cruz are not in New Hampshire tonight. They said sorry we could not be here, too busy raging waging war on women tell. They said we need a history of standing up to the cartel. And also on twitter Carly Fiorina sing that this is the fight for the future of the nation and the character of the nation. We are getting you