Signs theen promising next government will be more inclusive. We have to use diplomacy. We have to ally with other countries in the region to create a political system more sustainable. Again, this is a situation where politicians of both sides of the aisle are trying to sugarcoat it. To have a more focused view on the National Security interest and a more limited use of force that reflects our National Interests. Clearly defined missions are important. Not clearlys it is defined. As catherine pointed out, i think the concern that many have is we wake up one day and find what was sold to us by the politicians is not actually the case and we have seen mission creep. We saw that in afghanistan and iraq and members of Congress Need to be willing to take on their own party and administration to make sure we have clarity and limitations and focus on whenever we put peoples lives on the line. Moving onto issues that are still international in scope. You were a member of you are a member of congress right now. I have heard it said Immigration Reform is a lot like the weather. Everybody talks about a but nobody does anything about it. Any specific policy ideas or initiatives that would break the gridlock . The senate voted last summer on a compromise. I do not love everything in it. I would like to see the speaker put the compromise on the house floor . It would pass with a tremendous economic benefit for economic growth, 5. 4 to almost 1 trillion in deficit reduction and stabilize social security, increase border security, allow workers to in earn a path to citizenship by paying a fine. Biotechnology we are sending people home who we educate. Right now the firm workers we are letting some crops rot in the field. Is this is why washington is broken. You get special interest that load up a big bill, thousands of pages long and crowd out the issues people actually agree on. E need to secure the border we need to secure the border first and put the resources and attention and accountability behind securing our nations border. Not only so that we can prevent an immigration system where people get to run to the front of the line but National Security issues. Who knows who is able to cross into the border in terms of terrorist groups that may want the American People. Instead of focusing on something that democrats and independents nd look aticans a the polling. Independents and republicans but members of congress constantly want to put poison pills in the pills in the bills that become thousands of pages long. I think we need to focus on securing the border and should be a single subject bill. I think it would get bipartisan support if we focused on the area of agreement. This is the mac check magic of mr. Dimaio confusing the issue. We have a bipartisan approach. Art of it is securing the border. Republicans and democrats agreed on the compromise. We cannot get a boat because the will notf the house even put it up for a vote. This is something i wish everyone agrees. The u. S. Chamber of commerce and labor community, Faith Community and the Tech Community all agree. Analystsnow this next say this is one of the most important things we can do to get job creation going, get the economy going. All we need is the speaker to put this before the house and we would have Immigration Reform the next day. Me surprised scott peters because you had an opportunity when the bill came before the house, a very targeted bill on funding security, and much of that would have ended up here in time san diego to deal with our challenges, and you voted no on a scaledback version. When you sit there and say if we could just have a vote, when you had a chance to be part of the solution and modest step forward to provide the resources necessary to secure the border, you voted no. Nancy pelosi and the democrat leadership twisted arms to say we want to make sure no democrat votes are part of the compromise package. You voted no. That did go to the house floor. Emigrants the only Immigration Reform that we need. I think the councilman knows i was raided last year at the fourth most independent democrat because i am willing to take votes against my party, and i do rank my Country First and party third. I would not have gotten that ranking if i was voted if i voted lockstep with my party. That is how i got my parties endorsement. Tea partyt want extremists, the kind of people who shut the country down and threaten the patients credit rating. Lets just stop right there. You want to come 10 you to apply labels to meet because you cannot defend your own record. You can call me names all you want. I have not sat there and called you names. I have issues i disagree with you on. There are differences in the record in which the way we are pros approach it. Divisive and it is what is wrong with politics today. Lets talk about voting the party line. Obviously we knew this was going to come up. You cannot turn on the tv without hearing and at. Lets bring up the quote that has been attributed to you. Actually, no. Took a video and spliced it. I gave a speech across san diego too many groups including labor union to do not support me. There is not awful lot we have in common that or any group that could listen to the plan on pension reform. In this speech i was not talking about social issues. I disagree on the rightwing approach to social issues. Before them and said lets focus on a positive agenda. Positive and san diego . Reformed outofcontrol tension system at city hall. Put a system in place of a sustainable and allows us to save money and restore services. I will reach out to groups that this up disagree with me. I will owe you and our collective group everything. His is what they are saying the question was, who is backing your opponent . I said in the mayors race, the downtown insiders and governors union, i am not their candidate come and i am proud of that. Because who do i owe . I owe you the people everything. That is how i am always approached every issue. For mr. Mr. Peters to try to deceive voters is an act of desperation. First of all, i am more than happy to defend my record and am proud of my record in congress. How do you take this out of context . The whole video is on my website. Is the conscious of the Accountable Government movement. You and ourwill owe collective movement and everything. Ater you see him sneer people. Lets sit down around the table and work out things. The second is the supporters. There were three republicans in the primary running in the race. Every Tea Party Pack chose mr. Dimaio as the candidate because they know when he gets there, he can join up with them. Third, his own record at the city where 102 times he was the one no vote on the city council. Invoted against mr. Sanders the council bipartisan budget because they were not extreme enough. He voted yes to a 700 Million Health care form of a workout at the table with a labor unions. When he lost the mayors race, editorialized he would leave a legacy device in this. And when he wanted to be mayor, they had a big meeting of the Republican Leadership in la la, and the upshot says upshot was they wanted you are too divisive and belong in congress. That is exactly what is wrong with congress. We have enough of that. Sending a Tea Party Extremists to fix the problem with Tea Party Extremism is not the way forward. First and foremost, the tea party did not support me in the primary. Rightwing a candidate and the fact that candidate. Why . Because i have a history and record of taking on my own Political Party and challenging them to change. I am taking on the right wing on social issues. I do not believe it should be part of the agenda. I believe we should allow people to make decisions in the counsel of their own faith and personal beliefs. When you talk about the accomplishments at city hall, everyone in san diego saw that when mr. Peters left the city council in 2008, the city was on the brink of bankruptcy. Aliens of dollars in debt. Hundreds of million in shortfall in the budget. The city was paying out lavished pensions we could not afford. Mr. Peters talks about an extreme budget. Programsto eliminate for needy families for day care and undermined police and fire services. My budget plan has always in, how do we make government work again, restore services . Fact that in four years time i cleaned up the mess you created over eight years and we did that but bringing people together. I partisan folks after bipartisan vote on the city council and the ultimate bipartisan vote, the Pension Reform Initiative in 2012 that wrought democrats, independents and republicans together from around the city and carried every Single Council district, socioeconomic group. Why . Because weve built a solutionoriented agenda. Opposed those every step of the way. This the city of san diego had a couple decades of that financial practices before i got there. I was on the city council that ended it. We work for many years on reforms before he got there. They are sanders called me his partner in meaningful pension reform. At the end of the work, the sec said same day ago model for other cities to follow. Dimaio that within the city 22 million per year in pension immense, he came to the press conference to congratulate us on the work. To say nothing was done while he was there is really disingenuous. I would also say, we had a lot of issues with the bubble bursting in the internet. With a lot ofk tough budget issues. We did it as a bipartisan group. Mayorsed with republican and democrats in council. I was proud to be part of a Construction Solution oriented group. What he was doing is voting against every single budgets and then claiming credit for what was in there. Mr. Peters standard off handed off all the media accounts of the time. Roads wereand falling apart. City services were at historically low levels in terms of library hours. Esther peters, after Cutting Services gay politicians of 42 salary hike in the middle of one of the worst budget crises. He took 69,000 dollars in auto allowances for his new bmw. This is the leadership he gave us on city council. On four years time what did we do yucca we balance the budget. We did it without accounting gimmicks. Figurean end to the six payout budgets. We were able to make san diego a model around the country. Or importantly than anything else, we started restoring the services mr. Peters cut. I bury hours and road repairs. Getting the city moving again in ways we have not seen in a decade. I am proud of that. No amount of distortions can change that reality. Just Getting Started here. All done so far. As we head to the break so far we wanted to pass along an item in the nature of full disclosure. While doing research we learned that comcast has a Political Action committee that has donated to the congressional candidates around the country, including 2000 to mr. Peters amid the incumbent democrat. That Political Action committee donated 8,000 to the predecessor during the last election cycle. That committees action have no bearing of what we do at nbc seven or any other questions tonight but wanted to be as open as possible. We will continue the conversation right after this. Ill come back to a special edition. Were hosting a conversation with the candidate of the seat. Ct 52 congressional facing off in the Congressional Election are scott peters and carl dimaio. Before we get back to questions, we thought we would give viewers background about the candidates. Scott peters earned his undergraduate degree from duke nyuersity and is attended school of law. He served on the San Diego City Council from 20002000 eight and became the First Council president after a switch to a strong layer firm up government. He lost his bid to the City Attorney office in 2008 and was termed out of office as a councilman the same year. In 2012 he successfully challenged brian build a bilbray. He lives with his wife in la jolla and have a son and daughter. Carl dimaio attended georgetown university. The four running for office he started the performance institute. Carl demaio. Later founded the American Strategic Management Institute which offered financial and management training. Both companies he later sold for millions. He moved to san diego in 2002 where he began to speak publicly. In 2008 he ran and won a seat on the San Diego City Council, representing the strip ive as an openly gay man and the self is right government watchdog. This put before voters of plan aimed at drastically retooling city retirement off city retirement plans. He ran for mayor. Advancing to the runoff before losing to bob filner. His pot partner is jonathan hale. Can both both candidates have in common is a think we left off with a couple of loose ends. We want to give 20 seconds to wrap up that. On the car allowance, which i guess is his idea of talking about issues. Everyone got the same car alliance. It was part of the compensation package. I was the First Council member to turn it back. The only person now taking a car allowance is lori beth, who tvported mr. Demaio in his commercials. I did not understand that he has ever asked her to stop taking it were any effort to get her out of the conversation compensation package. He made millions of dollars himself off of government contracts. He was a man of means who drove a bmw. About 20 seconds. Nothing to do with creating a job, educating kids. Cutting congress perks, politician perks is never ridiculous. Need by example. You ought to be ashamed your you ought to be ashamed that you took 60,000 dollars worth of auto allowance payments from taxpayers and years of Cutting Services for kids. About thelse attack tea party. You saw the package from nbc. A kissinglly moderate on government reform, speaking truth to power including taking on my own Political Party. Aching government work. That is not a tea party agenda. That is an agenda of trying to fix broken government and standing up to extremist and my own party and saying cut out the social issues and focus on job creation and fiscal reform. That has been my lifes work. No amount of distortion can change that. Let me ask you this. Onas struck by your remarks the day you announced for Congress Last september. You had very harsh statements about the Republican Party, one of them was tarnished brand. Now it seems they are touting you as someone who can remake the image of the party. You at one point have touted your self as the mold of ted cruz. How will that shakeout here . That is also not true. What i have said is people can make a difference even if there is one difference. Destructive a difference. That was the context of the speech that he once again took context. Y out of destructive difference would be individuals that will stand out there and not move the ball forward, i do not see how that moves the needle and solves problems. I am willing to take on the Establishment Republicans who think there is nothing wrong with waste all spending, nothing wrong with corporate welfare and certainly nothing wrong with giving politicians, including themselves, perks. I am going to take on Tea Party Republican to have a social agenda i do not think that the future of the country. Who also would rather stand there and say we have to get everything done overnight or everyone else is somehow suspect. I think we need to have a focus on what i talked about the entire campaign. My lifes work is offering positive solutions and trying to build consensus. If you are so busy taking on everybody in speaking truth to power, i think a lot of constituents and voters want to know whether you will go to washington and fight with everybody or if you really can get things done. I would point to the four years on the city council where we took on the idea of a sales tax and some members of the Republican Party. Ans stood with me. We took on the pension system. Unions and several republicans said we do not need pension reform. I am pointing to a record of saving the city from bankruptcy, and that means you need members of congress in city council that are not worried about pleasing the spiritual interest to working to provide Quality Services to taxpayers. Your question hit the nail on the head. The fact is the tea party, the frustrated establishment of republicans are frustrated. Says shut down the government. Do not pay the debt. Have anyot seem to duty to come together and reach an agreement. Own words and who support him and also in the history of the city he fought with everybody. The problem is we have too much of that in washington. What we need is people who are willing to have the courage to go to the center of the room and shake hands. I was proud to be elected as the city Council President who has a signed trust in me. He is the only member of the trustedncil who was not by his colleagues with even a Committee Chairmanship because they did not see him as someone who could work with other people. That is what we have to avoid in congress. Take a look at the problems in san diego. Balance the budget, restored services mr. Peters had cut. We eliminated the politician pensions and perks they were getting themselves. We stopped downtown redevelopment shell game where they were taking money and put against in the pockets of developers. The a look at accomplishments we were able to get done in four years. That is a positive record. Benefiting from the fa