Warren was a top congressional aide. In business,ful not a successful a senator warner, but i believe those experiences of having worked on capitol hill, having been a party chairman, having advised private sector people how to get things done with bipartisan support in washington can actually be a productive senator. I think it would allow me to stand up to the specialinterest groups, to stand up to senate leaders, to stand up to a white house for virginians and keep my promises to the people of virginia. I believe my experiences will make me effective on day one. I am proud to say and all of the jobs i have held, people have felt that i performed them very capably and well and i promise i will fight every day for hardworking virginians in virginians who want to find work. Senator warner . I think you asked a good question. That youre a lobbyist, but who you lobby for. Enron. Increasing fuel efficiency standards. Lobbied against financial haveations that might stopped the financial crisis. Washington is broken. But it is broken because of the absolute partisanship on both sides. Opponent has a long and illustrious record, the record as a lobbyist. I go back to where i started. Up anding is who is down, republican versus democrat. If you want another partisan lawyer in washington, he is your guy. But as i stated when we missed the socalled again, misleading, not reflective of the record, i did not bring the independent voice i would not have john mercer. I would have more supporting me this time than when i ran in 2008. On virtually every major piece of legislation, i start the republican partner because that is where he get and stun on the middle hour. That is reyou get things done on the middle hour. Mr. Gillespie . If you had been a senator he said he would be, i would not have 47 of his former donors giving to me because of their frustration with his time in the senate. Look, governor warner wouldnt recognize senator warner today. Sadly. I believe the phrase i used was happy partisan lawyer which is what you do when your chairman of the Republican National committee or chairman of the Republican Party of virginia, our Current Governor is a former chairman of the Democratic National committee. Your colleague in the senate is a return of the Democratic National committee. Youre a former chairman. That is your job. That is the role you play when youre in those jobs. The role of the senator is different. I understand that. I believe i would get bipartisan the commonsense Economic Growth proposals and policies that i have. Because i believe you can reach across the aisle. Reaching across the out is not an end in and of itself. You have to pass bills. The entire time you been there the democratic president and democratic majority senator, despite all the bipartisan talk, you have passed two pieces of legislation. Two bills. One was in support of the get up in the program and the other was a recent bill that i suspect senator reid wanted to make sure got moved after i announced my candidacy for the senate. I am proud of what i have been able to get done. It is a pretty broken place. Government transparency, the bill that has government reporting underreporting programs. The data bill, my partner was therell issa. You have to be able to follow. I feel proud about the work. Andid not get done on debt deficit. The gang of six and the prod ballot we started, im proud of some of the things that actually dont make the news in terms of helping everyday virginia families and businesses. Military families and inadequate housing and we got that fixed. Recently, the whole delegation he had his time and let me take my time and i will stop. Funding of the George Washington am a the 11th carrier in our fleet to make sure National Security and thousands of virginia jobs. Again, im proud of my record. The next question for senator warner, theres an issue potentially affecting jobs in virginia. Here on the Senate Banking committee, you have supported the government Export Import Bank. Which her opponent charges engages in crony capitalism, disproportionately helps large corporations. Will you vote for its refining and if so, how do you justify it . I absolutely support it. Is maybe not that well known, but it supports american economyes in a global giving financial backstop. I think the number was about 200 million to support virginia companies, large and small. It has traditionally been extraordinarily bipartisan supported. Party movestain further to the right, and my opponent embracing that, it is way out of the mainstream that arethe small group of folks opposing this institution. The National Association of manufacturers, u. S. Chamber of commerce them every business isup in america says, this the tool you ought to keep in the toolkit. There may be some ideological argument that says in a Perfect World we should not support exports, but im not going to unilaterally disarm american businesses when canada and smaller thanries ours, have much greater percent of export support. Lord knows when he goat is the chinese, it is not a level playing field. Knows when you go against the chinese, it is not a level playing field. Questions about how we do real meaningful tax reform and entitlement form. The approach, particularly of someone on the far right is where the reach. Unfortunately, that seems to be where my opponent has landed. I do recall saying crony capitalism and my remarks, but i do believe we have to evaluate every program. Where our debtnt is going to equal in the next few decades our entire gdp. I believe every Program Needs to be subject to scrutiny. I also agree we need to open new markets, exports for our American Goods abroad, in particular our agriculture goods in virginia. We have not had any trade agreement since this Administration Took Office and that is a mistake. I think we should try to open more markets for our goods and services. If we are going to get control of federal spending, we have to find bills were even our friends ive a lot of friends to support the Export Import Bank, believe me. I hear their arguments. You can make a case for any federal program. But i think it is an area where we can get some savings and the broader effect of reducing the drag of the debt on our economy along with other areas and programs that need to be subject to reform and elimination and cuts, offsets the longterm benefit. And that is hard to do. I understand that. I know it is hard to stand up to the chamber of commerce, but that is the job of a senator. Stand up for what is in the best interest of the country and our commonwealth. I believe in this instance, and i know i have a lot of members of my own party who do not agree with me on this, i understand that, but i think when you come to a conclusion that this is the longterm broader interest of the country, you need to stand up on principle and fight. Mr. Warner . My opponent did not mention the Export Import Bank does not cost the taxpayer dime. The returns many each year. And why would america unilaterally disarm in a Global Economy yacolt yes, absolutely support additional trade, but why would you say open our markets but were not going to then provide our businesses with the same tools other countries have . Lets go to another issue. Debt and deficit. We need to make more progress. Ive taken more arrows from the administration, from left and right because i laid it out based on the simpsonbowles plan. Laid out entitlement reform. I believe getting that right is singly the most important thing our country can do because if we leave our kids with kind of spiraling debt, what ive heard from my opponent are platitudes and soundbites like, oh, yeah, im going to do constant mention constitutional amendment because that fixes everything. When you been in the trenches fighting, it is the most important issue facing the nation. Thank you. First of all, were going to have a figure of dispute over whether or not the bank generates money or doesnt because the Congressional Budget Office says his court accurately with the risks on the box, does not. Secondly, the experience of senators talking about is worth revisiting because the fact is, when i was working on capitol i was a staffer, but top staffer as you know and very involved in the room with the discussions, the negotiations. In 25balanced budget years with a Republican Congress and democratic white house. We can do it again with the right priorities and the right leadership. I think it would be hobbled have a balanced Budget Amendment as senator warner believed before flipflopping on it. I would also say we need to try to get one without that amendment. The house has moved forward with provisions to do that in the senate never has. Dollarsat seven trillion. We have another candidate question. Senator warner to mr. Gillespie. Ed, you been ranked as one of the top d. C. Lobbyist and described as the ultimate washington insider. You were the lead lobbyist for enron who committed the greatest corporate fraud in modern american history. You and your lobbying firm made more than 700,000 and helped enron avoid the kind of regulations that allow them to gouge consumers with higher rates. You talk about job killers. 20,000e execution is jobs. Not just jobs, but pensions and savings. , was that really fair for you and your firm to take so much when some a lost so much . Firm, one bipartisan of the most effective at helping to advise major employers about how to get things done with bipartisan support, when enron at the time approached our firm to be a clients and to represent them, they had been on the cover of either fortune or forbes, one of those two magazines, as for the fifth year in a row is the most Innovative Company in the country. And that was the perception. Perceptions are not always reality. What we sell his company was they were cooking the book sent away nobody knew. One of my partners at the firm joined a classaction lawsuit against them because he had been a shareholder and had been what he said was basically hoodwinked about what was going on. Yearlong contract, but it was really only 10 months because two days after ken lay pleaded the fifth in a senate thatng, we said this is the company we thought it was. Clearly, we were not hired to do this kind of work will stop we left them. Im very proud of how effective our firm was, one of the best riveted firms in the business. I think it is one of the things that i will be held help get things done with bipartisan support. What we did not hear from my opponent was whether it was fair that he and his firm to made 20,000 folks lost their jobs. He did not also mention was that even afterwards, he lobbied against additional regulations that might prevent future enron scandals. Again, i think the record speaks for itself. We now move the final round of questions and i want to start with Foreign Policy. This first question in this block is to senator warner. Ukraine. President obama invoked limited economic sanctions against russia after their initial aggression in ukraine. But as we are watching, even after this horrible shootdown of the malaysian passenger jet, almost certainly by russian separatists with russian help, president putin, instead of backing off, appears to be escalating the crisis. Russia is not intervening directly in the ukrainian civil war, shooting down Ukrainian Military planes, Russian Artillery batteries shooting across the border into ukraine. What should be done now to stopputin in as president obama been too timid on this . Judy, we live in extraordinarily [indiscernible] i think the president should have acted sooner and tougher on sanctions on russia. Started calling for the sanctions back in march. At the same time ive heard from american businesses who said, if there is not european sanctions as well, all were doing is russians are trading out american contracts for german or british or french contracts. Firmerve we need sanctions. I think this is an extraordinarily important time for nato and washington to stand up to this kind of bullying activities and aggression. I believe as well that is why we ought to be expediting the permitting of liquefied natural gas so we can export more of that so we can start [indiscernible] russian oiliance on and gas so they might have a little more back home. It is one of the reasons i support keystone as well in sending the signal to europe that you can look elsewhere for your energy supplies. But i also believe it is going to require the europeans to step up as well. I think we need to ratchet this up injured in concert with the europeans, but i believe he should have acted earlier. Mr. Gillespie . I agree we should stiffen the sanctions and he shouldve acted earlier. I also believe we should give to the Ukrainian Army and to the military government or to the government there to help they been looking in terms of arms as well lethal weapons . Yes, i believe they need the right to defend themselves as a nation and i think what were seeing here is the longterm effect of what has been described by this administration itself, Foreign Policy approach of leading from behind. Theres another word for that and that is following. When the United States receives from leadership role in the world becomes a more dangerous place were seeing as well. We should left the band on export of domestic to go if i natural gas and we should also lift the ban, i believe, and the export of domestic liberties crude oil as well. In the same way to go fight natural gas export and relief would diminish putins leverage over lesser European Countries with a lifting of the ban on domestic crude would diminish ofns governments internationally as well. Are you describing the most immediate things that could be done to stop president putin . Need sanctions. We need to send the energy signal. Try to try to help get europeans more backbone. We have seen cameron stand up more. I think we as well need the french are in the process of selling assault warships, salt carriers to russia. If nato has any reality in the 21st century, we need to stop that. These are actions that we need to take right now. But i do think as well, my opponent criticizes the president but i would like to of ther that he was part Bushcheney Administration and was an advocate for the initial movement into iraq where we were told Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass distraction. That we would be greeted as liberators. That it would be a quick, in and out operation. Wrong, wrong, wrong. You want to answer . A wrong assumption or assessment shared by not a lot of people, senator, not just the bush of administration. It was also the view of the Clinton Administration and majority senators on both sides of the aisle who believed that was the case relative to iraq. Look, we should learn from mistakes of the past. But we should also recognize mistakes of commission are bad but so are mistakes of omission. I believe what president obama initially early in his Administration Made a decision to negate the agreement with the Czech Republic in terms of Missile Defense agreements that have been made that sent a very strong signal to Vladimir Putin and to russia and embolden them. I think were seeing the effects acts up or mistakes of omission here which can also have pretty negative ramifications for our own National Security longterm. Some argue it goes back to the First Administration there were not further actions taken we will move to the next question. This is per mr. Gillespie. Iran. If a satisfactory nuclear deal cannot be reached with the iranians as the israeli Prime Minister netanyahu is saying it cannot, would you then support u. S. Military action to take out Irans Nuclear facility . Well, i believe it is important the United States never take that option off the table. Obviously, the preferred approach is one worry have a negotiated agreement and that is not necessary. We have to watch closely what theyre doing because time is their friend in iran. The president says theres a deadline and we dont enforce that deadline, the negotiations go on, they will ease some of the sanctions anyway. I saw there is a bill now being introduced that will not ease the sanctions prematurely. I would support that. The senator has supported bipartisan efforts to increase haveions on iran and expressed concerns about this. I think it is important in terms of a principal with u. S. National Security Policy of Foreign Affairs that you not take off any option off the table. Click on this issue i think we generally agree. I thing the option should be taken off the table. I think we cannot allow iran to have the capacity to build a Nuclear Weapon or have a Nuclear Weapon. I believe we have to be very careful in terms of leakage on the sanctions. I think we need more visibility of ours of the status ability to view iranian facilities at this point in terms of big servers. I think we need essential to shoulder with our most important ally, israel, both in terms of making sure iran doesnt move forward but also, and i think we all see the tragedy going on in the middle east right now, since 9 11, things are always challenging in the east. I believe israel has a right to defend itself. What i find remarkable, you see these