Destruction of the jewish state. Every time that israel has turned over territory of any kind, gaza, it is used as a launching pad to attack israel. Thats what will happen again. These groups are not interested in a deal with israel. What they are interested in is ultimately removing the jewish state and occupying its entire territory. So maybe in 30 years the conditions will exist, but they do not exist now. To have a president forcing the israelis to the table is harmful to israeli and emboldens its enemies. If i become president of the United States, one of the things that will be an absolute priority is number one, protection of israel but also seeing if a deal can be made, the toughest deal, the toughest negotiation, but i would like to give it a shot. I have friends, israelis, nonisraelis, happen to be jewish and love israel, every single one of them wants to see if we could ever have peace in israel. Some believe it possible. It may not be, in which case well find out but it would be a priority if i become president to see. Do you agree that the Palestinian Authority is inciting this violence . No question. They were saying the israelis intended to go to the dome of iraq. Thank goodness we worked with israeli to give them the iron dome where they can protect themselves against all the missiles that were flying in. Can you imagine living in miami here and having people shooting missiles in . Secondly, there was just an article where israeli were learning to rain underground in combat because hamas is digging tunnels trying to come in under israel. Theyre coming at them from above, trying to come at them under the ground. I dont believe there is any longterm Permanent Peace solution. I think pursuing that is a wrong thing to do. I think everybody day supporting them with our 100 backing is the way to proceed in the middle east with regard to israel. Senator cruz, i want to stay in the region. Just this week there was a Central Command general lloyd austin essentially said its going to take a lot more troops on the ground to fix to end the isis threat in syria and iraq. From the beginning of this campaign, you have said you will follow the judgment of military commanders and the pentagon. Heres the commander saying a lot more troops are needed on the ground. Will you follow that advice and inject americans again into what is in essence is metastasizing shia sunni war. We need to do whatever we need to do to defeat isis. Right now were not using a fraction of the tools we have, not using our air power, not arming the kurds. Those need to be the first steps. We need to put whatever ground power to carry it out. A question that jake asked, we have our troops engaged in combat but president obama has rules of engagement that are so strict that their arms are tied behind their back, theyre not able to fight, not able to defend themselves or kill the enemy. I have to tell you, hugh, i think that is wrong, it is immoral. I give my word to every soldier, sailor, airman and marine, every wife, husband, son and daughter, every mother and father that will end in january 2017. Governor kasich, if it takes 20,000 or 30,000, if the pentagon says thats what needs to be done, will you follow their advice . Hugh, i said all along and laid out my Foreign Policy, im going to remind everybody that 55 of the Foreign Policy experts in this country said i was the best to be commander in chief. I spent 18 years on the defense committee, the Armed Services and then i was in the pentagon with Donald Rumsfeld after 9 11 in and out for a couple of years. We absolutely have to win this with a coalition. Arabs have to be with us, the europeans have to understand that this threat is closer to them is as close as it is to us. In addition to that, you have to be in the air and you have to be on the ground. And you bring all the force you need. It got to be shock and awe in the military speak. Then once it gets done, and we will wipe them out, once it gets done, it settles down, we come home and let the regional powers redraw the map if thats what it takes. Mr. Trump, more troops . We really have no choice. We have to knock out isis. We have to knock the hell out of them, get rid of it and then come back and rebuild our country, which is falling apart. I would listen to the generals but im hearing 20,000 to 30,000. We have to knock them out fast. Were not allowed to fight. We cant fight. Were not knocking out the oil because they dont want to create environmental pollution up in the air. These are things that nobody even believes. They think were kidding. They didnt want to knock out the oil because of what it going to do to the carbon footprint. We dont fight like we used to fight. We used to fight to win. Now we fight for no reason whatsoever. We dont even know what were doing. So the answer is we have to knock them out, we have to knock them out fast and get back home and we have to rebuild our country, which is falling apart. Thank you, mr. Trump. Let turn from current conflicts to those who have served had conflicts. Senator rubio, according to a v. A. Study of 22 veterans who commit suicide every day, they have no connection to the v. A. . What would you do to ensure the veterans get what they need . My brother is a veteran. Hes struggling with the v. A. We heard a horrible story, a headline in the usa today and it says calls to the v. A. Suicide hotline went to voice mail. About a few days ago we found out one of the veterans who left a voice mail committed suicide and they happened to call him back the day after he died. People need to be held accountable for this. One of the things im proudest of is in my time in the u. S. Senate working with jeff miller here from florida in a bipartisan way, and Bernie Sanders was a part of this, we passed a v. A. Accountability bill. It created now a law that gives the v. A. Secretary the power to fire people that arent doing a good job. Senior executives should be held accountable if the v. A. Outreach isnt working. No one being held accountable. Even though we passed that law, no one has been fired for outreached, for that call going to voice mail. When i am president , if you work at the v. A. And you are not doing your job, you will be fired from the v. A. The Veterans Affairs department a one of the biggest line items in the budge. As part of an attempt to cut costs, the republicans voted to try to reduce spending in the post 9 11 era to reduce benefits to the g. I. Bill. Should veterans be part of the attempt to reduce the budget . The veteran Administration Needs to be restructured, downsized and spread out. It needs to be so responsive to the needs of the veterans. Secondly, the pentagon need to share information with returning veterans, with the operations in the states and with the job people in the states so that when a veteran comes home, they can be linked with a job. And when that happens, that means that every veteran will get work because theyre our golden employees. No veteran out to be without health care, no veteran ought to be homeless or unemployed in the United States of america. Lets turn to another issue. Just over a week from now president obama will visit cuba, the first time in 88 years a sitting u. S. President will set two of you on this stage have parents born in cuba and moved to the United States. Senator rubio. Donald trump agrees with president obama and his decision to reengage in cuba. The majority of americans seem to agree with that as well. Why are donald trump and. I will love the relationship with cuba to change. Today it has not. The fact of the matter is that after these changes were made, there are now millions of dollars that will flow to the regime. It will allow them to become permane permanent. They will be allowed to nothing will change for the cuban people. There has not been a single democratic opening. Things are worse than they were before this opening. The only thing thats changed is the result of this opening is that now the cuban government has more sources of money from which to build out their repressive apparatus and ask nothing in return. Compare that to burma. At least when there was a democratic opening, they were required to make sop democratic openings. And today the former minority majority is now the majority party. He asks nothing in return and we are getting nothing in return and cuba and its regime remains an antiamerica communist dicta dicta dictatorship all in exchange for nothing. Mr. Trump, you said the concept of opening cuba is fine. Why do you agree with president obama and disagree with what senator rubio has said. I think im somewhere in the middle. What i want is i want a much better deal to be made because cuba is making we dont make good deals. We dont have the right people negotiating. I heard recently where the threat was made that they want represe reparations for use of abuse. Nobody is talking about it. Well get sued. All that stuff has to be agreed to now. We dont want to get sued after the deal is made. So i dont agree with president obama. I do agree that something should take place after 50 years its enough time folks. But we have to make a good deal and we have to get rid of all the litigation thats going to happen. This was a little story, but it was a big story to me because i said here we go, we make a deal and we get sued for a tremendous amount of money. So i want to do something, but its got to be done intelligently. To be clear, mr. Trump, are you saying if you were president you would continue the diplomatic relations or would you reverse them. I want to make a good deal. I would want to make a strong solid deal. Right now everything is in cubas favor. Every single aspect of this deal is in cubas favor. All we do is keep giving. We give and give and give. Mr. Trump to be clear there is an embassy that we have to decide whether it be would be open or closed. I would probably have it closed until such time as a good deal was made and struck by the United States. First of all, the embassy is the former con sul ant. Its the same building. Second of all i dont know where cuba is going to sue us, but if they sue us in a court in miami theyre going to lose. Third on the issue of a good deal, i know what a good deal is. Ill tell you the good deal is cod fieed. Cuba has freedom of the press. Cuba kicks out the russians and kicks out the chinese listening station and cuba stops helping north korea, cuba takes all of thats injustice including the cop killer and send her back to jail and then we can have a relationship with cuba. Senator cruz. If you become president senator cruz if you become president would you reverse course and break diplomatic relations with cuba . Yes, i would. I think this exchange highlights a real choice for republican primary voters. When it comes to Foreign Policy do you want to continue on the same basic trajectory as the last seven years of the obama Foreign Policy. When it comes to these deals, cuba and iran, they were negotiated by john kerry. What he said is he agrees in principal with what theyre doing. The only thing he thinks is they should negotiate a little bit better deals, they should be more effective. I have a fundamental disagreement and i think most republicans and most americans do that we shouldnt be allowing billions of dollars to go to nations that hate us to go to cuba, to go to iran and to let them use those billions of dollars to try to murder us. Thank you. Mr. Trump. If ted was listening he would have heard me Say Something similar. I said we would not do the deal unless it was going to be a good deal for us and i think i said it loud and clear and i think after 50 years that i have many friends and own Many Properties in miami and i have many people that know and feel exactly the way i do, make a deal, it would be great, but it has to be a great deal for the United States, not a bad deal for the United States. As far as iran is concerned, i would never have made that deal. It is a disaster. So for ted to say i agree with that deal, its a staple in my speeches that may be the worst single deal ive ever seen negotiated so dont try to put it on my like its wonderful. Senator cruz, your response. Ill point out its a matter of Public Record that donald supported john kerry in 2004 and he supported Hillary Clinton, gave her two checks in 2008 and indeed once she was secretary of state he described her as one of the greatest secretary of states in history. The point on the iran deal, his answer to everything is if only someone smarter were in government, things would be better. No, we dont just need smarter people in government. We need leaders that are protecting american interests and when it comes to iran donald has said he would leave the agreement in place and try to renegotiate it. Giv giving them over 100 billion that shows you do not understand the enemies, understands and doesnt give them billions of dollars to threaten our safety and security. I was against the giving of the money at all costs. I said dont negotiate at all until you get the prisoners back. If they dont come back early three years ago, one of the longest negotiations ive ever seen, if they dont come back early i said dont negotiate. They come back early. What you do is you take it back and say either give us the prisoners or we double the sanctions. What we should have done is doubled up the sanctions and made a better deal because the deal is a disaster. The money is larger gone because of incompetent and very poor negotiators, but that money is largely gone and already spent everywhere but the United States. Lets refocus this back on cuba. Governor kasich, a pair of Business Owners have received approval to build the first factory. Th in cuba. If you were elected president would you encourage companies to do businesslike that in cuba . No, i wouldnt. Our friends around the world is saying what is america doing . You dont support us. We cant figure out where you are. You wont arm the Freedom Fighters in ukraine. We let the russians trump up an excuse. You had a red line in syria. You walked away from it. You refused to fund the russian rebels. You undercut egypt. Then we turn our back a. I know in human nature sometimes theres a sense that you make better with your enemies than you do with your friends and you know what happens when you do that you make a terrible mistake. You need to support your friends. You need to hold your enemies out here and negotiate tough deals. The fact is they need to understand who we are. The chinese understand. They have to stop hacking everything we have in this country or well take out their systems. We will arm them so they have legal defensive aid. We will destroy isis and mr. Putin, you better understand youre with us or against us. Youre not our enemy, but were not going to put up with this any longer. A Strong America is what the entire world is begging for. Where has america gone is what many of our allies say around the world. Thank you governor. I reached out to the republican mayor of miami to find out what he wanted to hear from you this evening. The mayor told me Climate Change means rising ocean levels which in south florida means flooding downtown and in our neighborhoods. Its an every day reality in our city. Will you as president acknowledge the reality of the scientific conscience will you honor his request for a pledge and acknowledge the reality of the Scientific Consensus of Climate Change. One of the reasons the climate is changing is the climate has always been changing. There has never been a time when it has not. I think the question for a policy maker is is the climate changing because of something were doing and if so can you fix it. On the issue of flooding in miami its caused by south florida is built on land that was once a swap and if there is higher sea levels or whatever may be happening we do need to deal with that through mitigation. As far as a law that we can pass in washington to change the weather theres no such thing. There is laws they want us to pass. There are laws they want us to pass that would be devastating for our economy. Or these programs like what the president s put in with the clean power act on the war on coal. Let me tell you who is going to pay the price of that . Americans are going to pay the price of that. The cost of doing that is going to be rammed down the throat of the american consumer, single parent, the working family, the businesses who are going to leave america because its more expensive to do business here than anywhere else and you know what impact it would have on the environment, zero because china is still going to be polluting and india. So i am in favor of a clean environment. My children live here. I want this to be a safe and clean place, but these laws will do nothing for the environment. Just to clarify the mayor when he talks about the reality of the Scientific Consensus about Climate Change the republican mayor of miami, hes saying the Scientific Consensus is man does contribute to Climate Change. When you talk to him because he is the mayor of miami you tell him hes wrong . I would say to him theres no law that they want us to pass that would have any impact on that. If you took the gift list of all these groups that are asking us to pass these laws and did every single one of them, there would be no change in the environment. The sea level would still rise for a lot of Different Reasons because america is not a planet, its a country, and these other countries are more than making up in carbon admission for whatever we can possibly cut. Heres what the mayor is a great mayor and a good friend, but what hes immediately going to start hearing from. He will immediately start hearing from families in south florida who are barely making it by and now their electronic bill went up because we made it more expensive to generate power. That cost will be passed on to working families. Gov