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CSPAN Former Governor Mike Huckabee R-AR Presidential Campaign Announcement May 5, 2015

Stretch because that is a very political kind of thing. There is, however, a prize offered by the foundation for machines computing. It has now gone global. There is a chinese indian, the european council. I am former president of that organization. I am still serving in that role until the middle of 2016. The prize is called the tur touring award. That prize is 1 million. It is funded by google. We are proud to offer that through acm every year. I did get that price, along with bob, in 2004. So i feel more than adequately compensated. It was not 1 million back then, and they are doing it retroactively. [applause] i asked, but that didnt work. It is a coveted and very high recognition of contribution to the Computer Science community. I think that is more than enough. John hughes how about a pound of applause for our speaker . [applause] i would also like to thank National Press club staff including its realism institute and broadcast center, for organizing todays event. Remember, if youd like a copy of todays program or to learn more about the National Press club, go to our website press. Org. Thank you very much. We are adjourned. [applause] [indistinct chatter] [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] and today, another candidate turned the race. We will take your life now where former governor microscopy is expected to announce former governor Mike Huckabee is expected to announce. [singing] [applause] [singing] [cheering] hello everybody hello i come off the plane and what is the first thing i hear and it didnt stop all the way to the theater . I like mike. [cheering] [applause] i like [chanting] we like mike i tell you what, i come to the city for the first time and have known mike for many, many years. I can see why he is so trustworthy and kind and such a wonderful, honest and. Man. It is like that throughout this whole city. [cheering] [applause] on behalf of the governor and mrs. Huckabee, i am happy to welcome you all here today. I am honored to be here and honored to welcome you all. I am glad to see so many of arkansas elected leaders. Thank you for all being here ladies and gentlemen. Lets begin today by asking a former pastor and a former College Roommate of our good governor, our good friend, i cut could be Mike Huckabee. Mr. Rick rick . Old College Roommate, huh . [applause] all right, lets play prayed together. The heavenly father, we pause on such a an exciting day. We thank you for your love, forgiveness, your abundant blessing on each one of us as individuals and also as a nation. We pray for the health and the future of our nation. We pray especially for Mike Huckabee. We thank you for his life, a life lived and filled with character, conviction, courage. We thank you for his love, his love for you, his love for his family, his love for his country. We thank you for his leadership and his willingness to come forward at a time when our nation so desperately needs a man like him. Lord, we thank you for the excitement and the hope that todays announcement brings. We are so grateful for the work that you have done in the life of Mike Huckabee to prepare him for such a time as this. So load, we ask you to keep your hand on him, leave him strengthen him. We pray this in your holy and mighty name. Amen. [applause] if you will, please. [applause] thank you, rick. Beautiful. Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the presentation of our nations flag and remain standing. Ladies and gentlemen, please remain standing as we begin. Forward march [drums playing] forward halt. Present arms. [drum roll] guard. In position. Salute. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united dates of america. And to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. [kindle] [piano] oh, say, can you see . By the dawns early light whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous night fight or the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh, say that at starspangled banner yet wave for the land of the free and the home of the brave [cheering] [applause] [applause] arent they amazing, ladies and gentlemen . That was beautiful. [applause] i will would like to share the story with you. Before i think this next song, a song i wrote five years ago for governor huckabee. This is the first time i have ever had the opportunity to sing it. When he asked me to come and honored me with this moment, i felt this was the right time he wanted me to sing the song to you. Now, we are in a beautiful hometown of his called hope. So in a town called hope, we are a nation of needed continued hope. And i believe this man, who is the most trusted man i have ever met in my life, can bring that hope to america. [applause] [cheering] you can hit it. It is called america is my hometown. [piano] written by myself and michael cromarty. [piano] [singing] from the cornfield in the valleys to the towers in the sky america is my hometown mothers and daughters with fathers and sons with sisters and brothers we are a family of one around the arizona desert to the appellation high appalachia high america is my hometown when i look around at the bravest ones that keep our freedoms sound as i hear the voice of the people paying tribute to our fallen ones yes, our daughters and sons america is my hometown from new york city to east l. A. People, here when i say when i look across this great divide america is my our hometown when i look around at the bravest ones that keep our freedoms sound and i hear the voice of all the people paying tribute to our fallen ones our daughters and sons mountains, deep blue seas it is the land of brothers it is the land of liberty from the cornfield in the valley to the towers of the sky america is your hometown yes america is our hometown oh, america is my hometown [applause] [cheering] thank you ladies and gentlemen. God bless you and god bless Mike Huckabee. And god bless america. [applause] you were raised on an asphalt farm ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the 46 governor of the state of arkansas, governor asa hutchinson. [applause] [cheering] [cheering] [applause] governor hutchinson thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, this is an extraordinarily exciting day for hope. [applause] it is a great day for arkansas. [applause] and it is an important they for our nation. [applause] [cheering] i am delighted to be here just as you are pleased to be here to show our support to mike and Janet Huckabee. [applause] [cheering] 23 years ago, Mike Huckabee drove up from texarkana to my office, when i was chairman of the party, and he said, asa i want to get involved in politics. I want to run for office. I didnt tell him, but i thought, you dont know what you are getting into. [laughter] and i thought Mike Huckabee go from a candidate to a leader to governor to a Great National spokesperson on the national stage. I have been governor of arkansas for a little over 100 days, and during that time, i have had the privilege of governing with the majority republicans in the legislature and Republicans Holding offices. [applause] [cheering] and that has been wonderful for me, but let me tell you, even with a republican majority and republican governor, being governor is still a tough job. And i think back to when my Mike Huckabee was governor of the state for 10 years as a republican leader with the Democratic Legislature when arkansas was as blue as any state in the nation. Those were tough times. And Mike Huckabee came into office, happy to govern in a bipartisan way and lead our state in troubling times. He led our state with conviction, he led our state with conservative values, he lowered taxes, he balanced our budget for 10 years, he reformed education, he preserved our hunting and outdoor culture here in this rate. This state. He has led the state and done a great job as a leader of arkansas. [applause] and he did that, again, whenever he had to reach out to the other side and say, join me in this effort. That is the type of leadership that we need on the national stage. [applause] [cheering] Time Magazine called him one of the best governors in america. And they were right about that. And he took his [applause] he took his leadership skills to the national level, and we, in arkansas, have been proud of the way he has represented us, he has represented our values, and he has pointed the right direction for our country. [applause] every step of the way, he has been a company by home we have he has been accompanied by whom we have known as the wonderful first lady, Janet Huckabee. [applause] and today, we all think about the direction of our country and we have troublesome times ahead for our nation. We need a leader of our country who is steady on their feet, study with their convictions has a vision for america with good, conservative values, and who is a proven leader. Mike huckabee has every one of those qualities and will make a great resident of the United States president of the United States. [applause] [cheering] our country needs the leadership of Mike Huckabee, and with janet by his side, mike and janet, we are here today to tell you that arkansas is on your side. Thank you very much. [cheering] [applause] i have now. But after our first year of marriage, i started experiencing some back pain. You dont like to hear the word cancer. Any certainly dont like to hear the word malignant. I think mike really was the hero in all of it because he would get up early in the morning acne into the car. Pack me into the car. And then bring me back home, and the in class that morning. Plus hold a job down. If he should have left me, he should have done it right then. And he chose to stick it out. So, he made a promise to me, for better or worse, in sickness or in health. He had to live up to that promise right then in our first couple years of marriage. I dont know how you can go through anything like that and not get stronger. The one thing i did learn about mike is his leadership qualities. He had the capacity to take any situation, look at it, and its the how each decision he could make further down the road could affect this day and the people. Our speed inherited 75,000 people state inherited 75,000 people in just a few days. Mike instantly said i wanted all my faith leaders to come forward, any denomination that had a camp, for instance, would already have beds, playgrounds cafeteria is cafeterias. He said, i need you to open up. Every camp became another little town. They loved him. They took them in. So much so that people didnt want to leave. People first, paperwork later. One of the important parts of really running for any office, but primarily running for president , is that you are willing to give up something in order to do it because it is not an easy task. But i am always reminded of the song that said, may all who come behind us find us faithful. I hope that even those headlines that my children, my grandchildren will see, that they will see that we were faithful. Not just what we were given as governor and first lady, as mom and dad, or as a grandmother and grandfather, but that we were faithful and running our campaign, that we did it, you know, to the best of our abilities, but did it with good character and nothing to be ashamed about. And to be proud of what we did. [applause] [cheering] [applause] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome mike Janet Huckabee. [applause] [cheering] Janet Huckabee you do know i am not the main event, dont you . [laughter] thank you so much. Imagine yourself at a dinner, and your dinner guests were george washington, john Adams Benjamin franklin, and thomas jefferson. And you had 30 minutes to defend america. What would you say . Would you be able to defend america . Would you say that america is great . Would you say the economy is soaring . Would you say our value system is solid . Or would you say that the constitution is being trampled . There is fighting in the streets , congress is doing nothing. The unborn is not protected. And there is no leadership in this nation. [applause] [cheering] where is the passion that those forefathers had . When they left the country to come and start america. Do we have passions the today that they had . [applause] is there anything that we would die for that our men and women by today for everyday when they go fight . Do we still have that passion . America is a great story, but i think it can be greater. Mike and i started our story right here in hope, arkansas. I moved here when i was one and a half. My mom had five kids. In seven years. They are all here today. I am very grateful. [applause] perhaps she needed cable tv i dont know, but she had five kids in seven years. [laughter] unfortunately, she had the raise those kids without government assistance i herself. But mike and i were educated here in Hope Arkansas. And on generally 29, 1973, i had my first date. He had to wait for my basketball game to get finished. [laughter] and he had to wait for me to clean up and shower. And, unfortunately, all of the restaurants and hope, arkansas in hope, arkansas were closed. And we had to travel to fulton arkansas, which is much smaller to a 24hour truckstop. [laughter] i might add, it was very quiet and romantic. [laughter] but it was perfect for me. And that following year, we got married. As you saw in the video, that was 41 years ago. But im going for the gold. [applause] [cheering] because in nine years, that could be 50. I am not too far off. With my history of cancer, i thought it wouldnt make it to 20, so i really excited now that i make i might make a 50 year anniversary. [applause] you see, we have lived the american dream. And everybody ought to have that opportunity. But with that battle of cancer, and later when we were hardly may not have children, i found out right away i was pregnant with our first son. And mike and i decided right away that i was going to be a stayathome mom. [indiscernible] [no audio] those guitars work in a make him the fifth wheel. And that was really are to get out. But he had to sell those guitars, and he made a sacrifice for us. And we had a washer and dryer. See, that is what you do when you dont have everything you want right away. You have to make sacrifices. And if you dont have the money to do it, you find a way to do it. And you do what you have to do to take care of your family. We do have to break away. Janet huckabee here making remarks before the expected announcement of her husband that he will be running for the republican nomination for president 2016. But the u. S. House of representatives about the gavel and. We expected expect it to be a fairly short pro forma session. Then they want be back until tuesday, may 12. Once the house pro forma session is done, we will bring you back here to Hope Arkansas for the announcement. With best wishes i am. Signed sincerely karen l. Haas. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to section 4b of House Resolution 223, the house stands adjourned until 11 00 a. M. On for his announcement of his president ial bid for 2016. A video being shown. Governor huckabee lets win the fight for what matters most. [applause] where i come from ladies and john mack, please welcome ladies and gentlemen please welcome Mike Huckabee. [applause] [applause] governor huckabee thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We want mike. We want mike. Governor huckabee thank you very much. Wow. It is a long way from a little brick red house on 2nd street and Hope Arkansas to the white house. [applause] governor huckabee here in the small town called hope, i was raised to believe where a person started did not mean that is where he had to stop. I always believed that a kid could go from hope to Higher Ground. Like a lot of americans, i grew up in a small town that was far removed from the power, money, and influence that runs this country. The power and money and political influence have left a lot of americans lagging behind. They work hard, they lift heavy things, and they sweat through their clothes writing out a living. But they cannot seem to get ahead, or even stay even. My own parents like that. My dad was not an educated man that he was a smart man. He and my mother did not have a whole lot, but they had honesty to the bone. I taught my sister and me the basic lesson of life that we were to do unto others as we would have others do unto us. [applause] governor huckabee it was here and hope that i learned how to swim, how to write a bike, how to read, how to work, and how to play fair. I learned the difference between right and wrong. I learned that god loves me as much as he loves anyone, but that he doesnt love some more than others. [applause] governor huckabee i learned about america. And miss marys kindergarten as well as in brookwood elementary, i learned the pledge of allegiance, the lords prayer, and a preamble to the constitution. [applause] governor huckabee we prayed at the start of each day and we prayed before lunch. I learned that this exceptional country could only he explained by the providence of all mighty god. [applause] governor huckabee it was here and hope i learned i do handle a firearm and a fishing pole. I spent a lot of hours with both. I got my first bb gun at age five, a daisy model 25, i still have it. It is in mint condition. I learned the basic rules of gun safety and i never thought about using a firearm to murder someone. [applause] governor huckabee iran lines in boat are so we could catch catfish we would freeze and live off for weeks. It was here that i was baptized in the Garrett Memorial Baptist Church after accepting jesus and a Vacation Bible School when i was 10 years old. [applause] go

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