Clicks you got it. I love you. And this is my brother, john. I knew very well johns sister, best. We had so much fun together when we taught up at fayetteville, the law school. And she loved you. And i loved her back. She came here and was the solicitor general. Convinced her to go to washington for a while. She wanted me to get a picture. You bet. This is megan. High, megan. John is going to be in it. We will take a couple. Thats wonderful. You know, i had to laugh, about thewas thinking potluck. She and i used to run little. Otlucks together it was something she brought with her from arkansas to iowa and then to washington. She took it to the justice department, because janet reno, remember . Having people come together for a potluck is one of the best ways to get people to meet each other. We are ready for your fundraiser, and we will do everything we can. Thanks, bill. We live just north of. Ayetteville and we have a little business. It has kept us going. He lives and breathes seed. So. Here we go. Anyway, it is so good to see you. She could do a potluck for me. Exactly. I have to ask you, how does it feel to be a grandmother . The best ever. Before you are one, it sounds like it would be wonderful but then it happens to you. And its like the best. And then you are worse than the rest of them. Clinton i know. We are way over the top. Bill and i are crazy. Thank you so much. Take care. Byebye. And conversations about his plans . Clinton thank you. Oh my gosh. Hi, bruce. You should have heard him. Thank you for coming. It is good to see you. That is my daughter. Yeah. She wanted her kids to grow up in a working farm. I was in eastern iowa and then in human resources, and i decided i wanted to have my kids grow up on a farm. I love it. Best thing i ever did. Its wonderful. Family farm. Generation after generation. How many years in your family, bruce . 110. How about you . , and mysix generations two kids are in college. They are seven. We hope i grandkids will be too. How far back does that go . As far as we can trace back to where they were in europe. And then they moved here. So great. Its so wonderful having had the chance to sit down and talk to have all, and then you here. We talked about better end ethanol. Corn ethanol. That was so perfect from the epa. It doesnt get any better, and you folks put that together so well. We didnt, but it came from listening. Have you been down . There is the casino. It doesnt get headlines, but it is the way i learned the real goingson. Well, that was kind of my final exam essay. A plus. Cracks are you going to continue . Absolutely. Hi, i am from riverside, so. E are friends with wally we just wanted to say hi and thanks for coming. We are longtime farmers. I am also the mother of a severely disabled child who is on many medications right now. Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton making the rounds at the iowa state fair. Chris will be on the soapbox at thursday. We will cover that. Right now, we are waiting for governor christie in New Hampshire. He is holding a town hall meeting that should be getting underway in about 10 minutes from now. We will take you there live when it gets started. The iowa more from state fair. Rick perry appeared at to the fair today. While we wait for chris christie, here is rick perry on the Des Moines Register soapbox stage. Welcome back to the Des Moines Register political soapbox. Speaker today is rick perry, who is seeking the nomination for the Republican Party for the presidency. He was first elected to the house in texas. He was then agriculture commissioner and served as lieutenant governor. As theed 14 years governor of texas, the longest term as that states chief executive. This will be his third time to grace the stage of the register soapbox. Governor perry, welcome back to the soapbox. Mr. Perry thank you, carol. That was awesome. Thank you. Be lookingasure to at this you and listening to our starspangled banner sung by this extraordinary talent. Is an extraordinary state. It reminds me as i travel across , many miles of its, it reminds me of where i grew up west of fort worth in haskell county. A Little Community called paint creek. It was not big enough to have a post office. It was where i called home. The values i learned there shaped my worldviews to today. Those values are hard work, the dignity of having a job, of serving your country, serving your state, serving your fellow man. Being able to give back to this incredible country that has given all of us the opportunity to succeed. One of the reasons i want to be your president is because i think all too often some of those opportunities are not where they could be today, should be today because washington, d. C. , have decided they are the fountain of all wisdom and that all decisions need to be made their. You know what my answer is . I am mad as hell and will do something to change it. [applause] i think that is what this election is reflecting his people having a bellyful of all of the decisions trying to be made 1500 miles away from where they need to be made in this date. I think it was Dwight Eisenhower that said it is easy to farm when your plow is a pencil and you are 1500 miles away from the farm. That is what we are facing today. We are seeing this continual consolidation of power in washington, d. C. A place that has become corrupt, a place we do not trust, and a place that is america less of a place than it could be if we happy decisions devolved back to the states. I am a big believer in the constitution of the United States of america. I put my hand up an i swore and allegiance to the constitution of the United States as i was a pilot from 1972 in 1977. My father did the same thing. My dad was a b17 tailgunner in 1944 and 1945. He flew five missions over nazi germany to help liberate that continent. My dad wanted to go home, live in peace, and farm. That is what he did. My dad is a 90yearold man living in texas today. He taught me everyday about giving back to my country, giving back to my state, giving back to my community. He understood that Public Service is an honorable thing. America is great because men and women hold up their hand and say here am i. Send me. There are a lot of ways you volunteer this country and get back to this country. It is one of the reasons we are a unique country. You can join the peace corps or the marine corps or anything in between. Get back to this country. Give back to this country. That is what we need in this country again is americans who believe that you can attain the american dream. We are not going to do it unless we deconstruct that crap going on in washington d. C. That is the challenge of our lifetime. You need a leader that understands how to do that. I want to share with you i was the governor of the state of texas for 14 years. Unquestionably, it is a place that i will suggest economically one of the great places to live in the world. It is that way because we freed people from over taxation and overregulation and over litigation. We give people the opportunity to contain anything they wanted in the life because we gave them the opportunity to graduate from high school and go on to the next stage of my. Stage of life. Until 2013, we went from 27 in the nation in High School Graduation rates to the second highest valuation rate in america highest Graduation Rate in america. You want to send a powerful message across this country . You free up the states to do those decisions. I believe in this constitution. Our constitution was created by an incredibly visionary people. You think about what that constitution says. It clearly illuminates the powers that we are supposed to do as a federal government. Enumerates them. We are supposed to stand a strong military. Today, we have the smallest personnel in the army we have had since 1940. We are down to one fighter in the production, the f 35. We are down to 10 carriers. We should have 13 at least to protect commerce, to protect our allies in this country. We are down to ohio class submarines being the third leg of our nuclear triad, and we are down to the last years of their useful life, and we have no plan to reuse them or refurbish them. Our military has been hollowed out. Our constitution tells us to do Something Else in this country, and that is to secure our border. Wouldnt be awesome if the government got those two things right . Then we can have a conversation about if there is anything else the government needs to be engaged with. The idea that d. C. Is deciding our childrens curriculum is nonsense. The idea that washington d. C. Should be telling us how to deliver health care is nonsense. The idea that washington d. C. Should tell us how to do transportation infrastructure should be left to the states. Because if washington would take a look at the constitution and read the bill of rights, it would get up to the tent of amendment that says the powers not delegated to the government by the constitution are reserved to the states or for the individual. Lets get back to being a constitutional country. Believe in the constitution. Apply the constitution. [applause] that is what we have to do. We need a president of the United States that has a record of delivering. Listen, youre going to hear a lot of people stand on this stage, and they are going to tell you a lot of good things. But all too often it is just rhetoric. I think it is time and i hope you agree that we have a president we will have eight years of a young inexperienced United States senator that i think has gotten us into the ditch economically and from a Foreign Policy standpoint. It is time for a president of the United States that actually has a record. This is going to be a show me, do not tell me election. [applause] show me what you have done. That what im talking about. Show me what you have done as the leader of the 12 largest economy in the world. Here is what i want to tell you about. If you want to talk about how an individual is going to react, i already have that record. Nobody gave me a handbook that said here is how you deal with a Space Shuttle that will disintegrate over your state. Nobody said here is how you will deal with this massive amount of people that will show up on your border moving away from a hurricane called katrina. Your state is going to receive all of these people from louisiana. Last summer, nobody gave me the howto book when people massed on our border being driven by gains and cartels trying to come into this government. Government failed to secure our border. Nobody said here is how you deal with it. Nobody gave me a manual that set manual that said this is how you deal with a disease that will scare the world that has showed up in your state, and i am talking about ebola. Americas got to see in every one of those cases leadership by example. Americans saw a competent and confident governor and the people of that state dealing with all of that. Of issues. They got to see how we deal with an economy creating the most dynamic economy in the country. We created 1. 5 million jobs from the end of 2007 to the end of 2014 while the rest of the country lost 400,000 jobs. I do not think that was an accident. It happened because we allow the people to have the freedom to keep more of what they worked for. People to have the opportunity to know that the government will not strangle them with regulations. I think that is what this country needs, a proven leader who day in and day out will go to the oval office and make washington d. C. As inconsequential in your lives as we can make it. That is what this country is looking for. [applause] i know how to do this. I have a record of being able to put in place tax files and reaching across the line. I dont mind working with democrats. If you believe in america and you want a better future, i do not care what political party. Democrats and republicans have fouled it up in d. C. We need somebody that will go there and put this country back on track to the greatness of which my father was a part of. I took my dad back to the base where he served in 1944. As a 19yearold young man. He got on that b17 35 times. They went down the runway with a bombladen b17 to a very uncertain future. I took my dad back there some years ago. It was a powerful moment for a son to be able to stand 60 miles away from where i was stationed with my dad and talk about the most powerful time in his life. And what it meant to him. My dad and i let that air station, and we crossed the English Channel on our way to a point. My dad said sun this is my 71st trip across the English Channel. On the sixth of june, on that plane above the beach called omaha, my dad and i celebrated in memory of those 4000 plus Young Americans. Those 4000 graves that are on top of that windswept plain. The sacrifice Young Americans made for our today. Young americans who gave their todays for our tomorrows. 4000 plus graves, those white crosses and stars of david reflecting extraordinary sacrifice. It struck me standing there looking at that vista. Every one of those graves look west. They look west across the atlantic ocean. West to america. West to the america those Young Americans would never go home to. An america they love. Loved. I think they are in silent judgment of us. We have to ask ourselves how we lived up to their sacrifice . Have we earned their respect . You can watch all of this event from the iowa state fair on cspan. Org. We leave the last minute or so of rick perry to take you live to New Hampshire where chris is appearing tonight at mollys in New Hampshire. Live road to the white house coverage on cspan. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] good evening. Please take your seats. Elcome, governor christie we have here a new jersey boy. He is a real jersey boy from newark, new jersey. The university of delaware, got his law degree, and has a long biography which i will not go into. He is going to explain himself. But i remember the first time i ever heard him speak, and i thought, my gosh, this is refreshing. He tells it like it is. And he is using that as his campaign motto. Thebelieve me, this is third time i have seen him, and i know he will tell it like it is. I am the chair of the new boston republican committee. Thank you. If you have never been to one of our meetings, we are at the local library the first thursday of every month. Please come and see us. E have some great speakers and we will welcome you. I am going to turn this microphone over to governor christie. Mr. Christie it is great to be here tonight. I first want to introduce the best thing that happened to me during my four years at the university of delaware. I came out with a bachelors degree of Political Science and a wife, the first lady of new jersey, mary pat christie. And tell you, one of the things i have enjoyed the most so far about this campaign is the fact that mary pat and i have been able to meet so many extraordinary people. And when i go back to new jersey, people ask me all the time, what is it like to for president of the United States in places like New Hampshire, iowa, and south carolina. I tell people all the time it will renew your confidence in american democracy. That was the first thing i thought about when i came around the corner from the car and saw at theyou down here bottom of that little incline. And america should see this, and i hope they do, because here we are, on an august evening, on a wednesday night, and so many folks from New Hampshire are out here tonight to listen to a candidate for president of the United States, and to try to aboutake your decision who the republican nominee should be and who the next president of the United States should be. People get cynical about our , we all do sometimes, and man, we earn it. But this is what they should see. How engaged americans are in the way they are going to be governed. I wish my oldest son andrew was here tonight. I come home, when to ask me questions about what it is like to run for president. He should see this tonight. Thank you for being here. There is a little guy in a yellow shirt waving at me. Dont want to disappoint him. Thank you, buddy. I want to leave the rest of the time for you to ask me questions. These done a bunch of town Hall Meetings in new jersey. Over 130 in the time i have been governor. One of you have seen those youtube or on the computer. They tend to be somewhat raucous affairs at times. I am much more couple answering your questions and finding out what is on your mind. Here are two things i want to talk about. If you watch the debate almost two weeks ago now, and i assume that if you are here you probably watched the debate only 24 million of our fellow americans were tuned in that night. If you remember the interaction i had with evan or huckabee, i want to read the governor huckabee, i want to revisit that for a second. It was a civilized its agreement and exchange. I thought that was great. We have differing opinions on this issue. Governor huckabee came up to me on the commercial that is the stuff you really wanted to see, by the way. You are watching fox make a lot of money from commercials. They should have given you an option to pay a little more and watch what we are doing. Governor huckabee came up to me and said, thanks for such a civilized exchange. I said to him, i have known mike for a while. Mike, you are civilized to me, and i will be civilized to you. That is how it should be. We were an hour and five minutes or so into that debate. Here is why it is a problem. Today,the federal budget 71 is being spent by entitlements and debt service. Whelming the over amount of time except for that question on the other 29 . Why is that . Politicians are scared to talk to you about it. We have to reform the entitlement system because the government has failed you on entitlements. The g