Full share into those type of things and for other things as well to look to fight disease around the world if it helps to make a more peaceful and prosperous world as well, but, in return, what i want is, lets lower the heat on the pharmaceutical companies. Lets be supportive. It doesnt mean everything that he was right because there is nobody in the world that everything they do is write. O person, no corporation the reason this stuff was available to us is because they were really is because they were willing to take the risk. We can do this together and help the rest of the world. I think we should. And i believe that our party is the party that helped to lead that fight. If i am president i want to try to end that fight. Thank you for bringing it up. Right there. Governor. Ou, what would you do to bring honor back to the veterans of this country . As my first question. The second question is, how would you straighten out the va . Gov. Christie first off, i will take it in reverse order. A raighten out the the the va, we have to a knowledge publicly that we made a promise to veterans. That promise was, if you volunteer for service in our military, if you are drafted for put yourself in service of our country and put your life on the line, we promise you, in return, to care for your medical needs for the rest of your life. Not if it was convenient, not our time schedule, but for the rest of our lives we will provide you with that service in return for your service. The first thing i would do is to fire those folks that have been responsible for the incompetent handling. President has only fired one person. There is a lot more people that deserve to lose their jobs over this. Second, i would go around the country and look for the finest Hospital Executive that i could find in the country and ask that man or woman to come in volunteer some of their time to come back and be the new secretary of veterans affairs. Become, in the main, is a provider of health care. When i get the very best Hospital Executive we can find a look at what were doing in our va hospitals and other medical service providers, and get that person to come in and task them with the job of straightening out the system. Third, because our veterans should not have to wait for that to happen, i would expand what is being done now. Every veteran should be able to take his or her car and go to every Health Care Provider his or her card and go to any Health Care Provider in the country. Hospitalsways need va because they provide specialized care, but you should be restricted to just the va hospital. In terms of bringing honor back to our veterans, not only is it about the way the president himself conducted himself in his interaction with veterans and conducted himself as commanderinchief so americans feel proud of their service because of the commander in chief they have. Let me tell you a couple things i have done in new jersey that are concrete to that people know about how much i care to make sure our veterans are treated the right way. About three years ago, we started a program called vets for warriors. This is a 24 hour a day, 70 week hotline for seven day a week hotline for veterans having Mental Health issues. It is run out of Rutgers University and is run nationwide. Phones. Man those this is a partnership to the state of new jersey and the department of defense. Spring, the department of defense illuminated the funding for this program. Eliminated the funding for this program. This july, the funding the program is going to close. When i heard about this spring and i found that we could get money out of the federal government, i went to two leaders of the legislature, both democrats, and i said, we cannot let this program close. For 3. 3llion, million, we can give health care to every veteran around the country to give this program to every veteran of the country. Now, the program is still running. At the expense of the taxpayers of new jersey for the entire country. That is how strongly we feel about our veterans new jersey. Secondly, since we are advocating this program, we decided to start a Pilot Program in new jersey without trauma care hospitals. We are giving 5 million from the state, they are matching with philanthropic money, and they are guaranteed for any that has been denied care at a va facility, if they come to one of these hospitals and presents himself and says id tried to get care, they guarantee that that vet will get care that day. We put our money where our mouth is when it comes to our vets. Third and last example is that a lot of these bets who come home with drug or alcohol problems, Mental Health issues, and of hitting bottom and becoming homeless. In new jersey, we always have a homeless place for veterans. It is in the southern part of our state. When our largest Psychiatric Hospital is going to be closed in the northern part of the state and they suggested that we sell the hospital to a private facility. I decided no. What we did with that facility is that we open veteran haven north so that the veterans in the northern part of our state we have place to go, too. The upside to that is that most of them have drug and alcohol dependency problems. There is a private drug and alcohol did counseling drug and alcohol counseling facility on that property. We said, you can stay on the property as long as you promise providereturn to us, to drug and alcohol counseling to any of the homeless bets. Vets. Homeless they agreed and we now have a partnership where Homeless Veterans have a place to go, sleep, eat, and get Mental Health and drug and alcohol counseling to try and get themselves back on their feet. Those of the things were doing in new jersey to help vets. Ill take the same approach as president of the United States. My staff tells me i can take one more question which means i will take two. The reason for that is, i want to remind them that im still the boss. Especially since you met springsteen before. Thank you. I just want to preface this question by saying that in my 20 years of voting eligibility in this great country, you are the first candidate to really inspired not only myself, but my entire family to get out there and vote in the election of 2016. One issue that my whole family has been dealing with recently is the obamacare issue. I would love to know if you could speak a little bit about how you feel about it and how my things change if you were to be president. Off,christie first obamacare is a failure and needs to be repealed and replaced. We will start off with that. It is not enough just to say that. Every republican will say obamacare is a failure, ok. That means you got the handbook. What you all have to be demanding a peer, and the rest of the country is counting then you too demanded you have to ask for more than that because you are the president ial wine tasters for the rest of this country, and especially now with 17 of us. First, you cannot have a program of washington dc that handles that large a piece of our. Conomy in 50 different states it was bound for failure. I can or member with our first coming up for this thing and they want to open the basement wants to open the state exchanges. I was refusing to open the state exchange my state. I got a call from the white house and a set they would really like me to open this exchange. I said i wasnt going to. They said you should partner with the president on this and i said no. Heres why. I said, you want me to start a program where i have no control over the rules and no sale the budget but all the responsibility for whether it is successful or not. There is no good executive in the world who would ever accept that deal. None. Not a good one. You have no control over the rules, you have no control over the costs, and you have all of the responsibility. If it goes south, theyre not going to call washington. If you have a bad exchange in New Hampshire, you are calling the locals here. I think we need to do is to go to a completely statebased system. Lets take our two states. New hampshire and new jersey are geographically, relatively the same size. You have 1. 3 million people. They are spread out. There is a lie the southern part but there is also a good piece of the northern part. Your problems are mostly access. Lets take new jersey. Were about the same size. We have 8. 9 million in about the same space. Our problems for health care are not about access. You trip over a hospital in every four miles in new jersey, and we trip over each other in new jersey. Our problem is cost. Our access point is cost. Why would we think that one program out of washington dc could fix those problems . The constitution of the United States said that anything that is not enumerated as a power for the federal government reverts to the states. I dont see health care in the constitution of the United States. Make thelling to governors and legislatures each of these states responsible for coming up with a Health Care Program that deals with access and cost in their state. Not optional, they have to come up with a program. I might not necessarily like the program that your governor comes is, you but the fact have a Republican Legislature that can help to do some Different Things here. We trip over hospitals in new jersey, you guys trip over state reps. You have 400 of them. Heres the good news. You can get to them. You cant get to these people in washington if you dont like obamacare. You can get to your state senators, get to your executive counselors, and get to the governor. You cant do that in washington dc. I believe each state should be tasked with the responsibility of coming up with a plan that works for their state. We have the most ethnically diverse stay in the country, the most densely populated state in the country. And represent a whole bunch of Different Health care challenges, so we need to have a plan. I trust the governors, republican or democrat, because they know that people in congress, are accountable to no one. Poll that said 13 of the American People approve of the job congress is doing. The only thing i was surprised about is, who are those 13 . Who are the people that are saying, i like that . You can get to the people here. I think that the government that is done most closely to the people is the government that is the most effective. Should not be, we allowed the federal government to take over this. Changet president has to it, but they have to change it by also addressing the Health Care Needs of the American People. But our states do with the way should be done. That is the best way to bring change and opportunity. Lets get this gentleman here for the last question. X for coming to New Hampshire. I was wondering what your opinion is on h1 visas. Electric laidd off their foreign staff. Its not helping jobs. Gov. Christie heres the thing. We have an entire immigration system that doesnt emphasize quality, doesnt emphasize fairness, doesnt emphasize american citizens. We have a system that has totally run amok. Our time,ost of unfortunately, talking about the border situation. The border situation is a problem and i have talked in detail about what i think we need to do to secure the southern border. That is not what your question is about. We spent a lot of time talking about that. It makes, i think, the American People seem smaller than we are. The fact is that we need to talk about the entire system and illegal immigration. And legal immigration. How can we make sure it is controlled in a way that benefits our country and the people of our country . We havent even had that conversation. The argument talking about it. This is my 17th or 18th town hall meeting up. Here. Youre the first one who is me about the visas. Not only illegal folks coming up we also need to do something to make sure that the American Worker is getting a fair shake. Right now, people feeling the immigration system, no matter whether you are a high skilled person like yourself or a low skilled person, they all feel like they are being taken to the cleaners. It is broken and it is a mess. I think we need to be able to do is first, secure the southern border. People wont want to talk about the visa problem until we secure the border. We have to deal with the whole issue of legal immigration. It is extraordinary important, especially given this gentlemans question. A young kid out of college or a middleaged guy like us or whoever you are in between. Bealso dont want to ever seen as antiimmigrant. My grandfather was born on the boat between sicily and the United States. Imagine that. That means that when my was havingfather trouble getting work in sicily and applied to come to united , my greatgrandmother was nine months pregnant. And they got on the boat anyway. They were so hungry to come to the United States. I cant imagine my greatgrandmother giving birth on that boat. Mother would tease my grandfather and say you are nothing, not sicilian, not american, you were born in the ocean. My grandfather died when i was very young. One of my few memories of my grandfathers he would say, thats not true, im an american. They made me american when i got to ellis island. My grandfather was so proud of his mother and father and he made it. They worked out the bills. Well want that part of our countrys story we dont want that part of our countrys history to be insecure. Get educated, did the right things. That is the conversation we have to have. One of the things that bothers me right now is that there is too much heat and out of light and not enough light. Your question is a great example. No one talks about that but it is really affecting you and others. I can i feel like i cant get a job. I read that senator rubio wants to triple the number. One other point . Back to Social Security, how about Getting Congress to pay in . Gov. Christie you are talking whoy who does the doesnt understand why congress has term limits and i do. Somehow, the governor of new jersey, the president of the United States are dispensable but congress is not dispensable. State, i dont get pension members of my legislature do. Im not asking for a pension but they should be getting on either. In 1994,to have all the rules that Congress Passes will apply to himself. We forgot about that. This is why people get so cynical about congress. You are right that that is exactly what should be happening in instead, they make special rules for themselves. We, as understand why American People, should put up with that. I think there should be term limits, 12 years for everybody in congress. If you cant get it done in 12 years, then go home. I have a guy my state legislature get ready for this. He has been in the state legislature for nearly 42 years. Get out. You havent done everything you want to do three times in 42 years, time to go. That is part of the problem that creates the issue you are talking about. I guarantee you it is something in the water in washington. Im going to let new jersey water trucked into the white house. We need to have a congress that have a law that applies to them, need to be inthe touch with folks like you. Thank you. Gov. Christie five state troopers and this guy is helping me out here. Heres the thing. The biggest thing is that Congress Loses touch. They lose touch with people and they dont know your story. Part of the job of a governor or president who has the executive authority is to make sure and that is why did townhall meetings, because i want to stay in touch. I want real stories coming out about the theories you get pitched to you, but how these policies or lack of policies affect real people and their families. Andre a first timer on that i didnt think out of going to get a firsttime question tonight. First off, thank you for coming in the daylight and staying until its dark. This is my first outdoor, in the dark townhall meeting in New Hampshire. I hope it will not be my last. I want to and by saying i want to end by saying two things. First, to say thank you for being such an incredible example of the greatest democracy the world has ever known. This state reinvigorates my belief in the fact that we are getting it right and we can get it right if we Work Together to work with each other and we care enough about the future of our country to spend the time we need to spend to pick the right leaders. You are doing that and i appreciate it very much. Thing, i think if you go to Chris Christie. Com, you go to the website, read it again, you will go through all the specific plans. It is important for you to see it, because seven years ago, the majority of the American People floated for a bumper sticker. Voted for a bumper sticker. Hope and change. Sounded like great words, but if human but if you knew hope and change meant the weakest think economic recovery the weakest economic recovery since world war ii, a nuclear iran, Healthcare System that was broken. If you knew that that was what hope and change meant, you would have been running for the hills. This time, i am challenging all of you. You had better figure out what the man or woman is offering themselves for the job is going to do when they get there. The only way were going to do that is to demand that they tell you now. That is why were putting all that detail the website. We care deeply about insomniacs but it is not just to help them. It is also to make sure that you know, when i show up on january 20, 2017, you better know what im going to do. And then if you complain i can say, i told you. You voted for me, now im going to go do it. Second thing is that i cant tell you everything that im going to do because we dont all everything that is going to come across my desk. The one th