[applause] Mike Huckabee i will be funded and fueled not by the billionaires, but by working people across america, that will find out that 15 and 20 a month contributions can take us from hope to higher ground. [applause] Mike Huckabee rest assured, if you want to get a million dollars, please do it. [laughter] but i know most of you cant. Im just going to ask you to give something. In the name of your children and grandchildren. I walked away from i own income to do this, so i am not asking for some sacrifice i am unwilling to make. I dont have a Global Foundation or a taxpayerfunded paycheck to live off of. I dont come from a family dynasty, but a working family. I grew up bluecollar, not blue blood. I ask you to join with me today not just so i can be president but so we can preserve this Great Republic and some so that your children and grandchildren can still go from hope to higher ground. [applause] Mike Huckabee i still remember when my dad took me to the dedication of the newly comes drafted newly constructed ark, name for my best friend lester who is here today. I was eight years old, and my dad said, son, governors dont come dedicate this to the lake. I will take you down there to hear him talk. Because you may live your whole life, and you may never get meet a governor in person. [laughter] [applause] Mike Huckabee had my dad lived just four months longer, he would have seen me do more than meet a governor, he would have seen me become the 44th governor of my state. [applause] i always wish he could have been there and maybe spent at least one night in the governors mansion, a place he never thought he would get close to. Ill was wanted to feel that he did see that moment from the best seat in the house. [applause] Mike Huckabee and i hope that he is able to watch in january of 2017 one that bashful little kid from the rent house on 2nd street is sworn in as the 45th president of the United States and with your help and god, we will make that journey from hope to higher ground. God bless you. Thank you very much. Thank you. [applause] [country music] we lost the last few moments of the Mike Huckabee announcement in hope, arkansas from earlier today. Mike huckabee becoming the sixth official to announce of the Republican Party. We want to your your thoughts. Join the cover station. Josh the conversation. You can also leave us a comment on facebook and the hashtag where using on twitter is cspanchat. We will get to your calls momentarily. As soon as Mike Huckabee announced, the tax group put out a adequate us as in the former governor for his tough tax policies as he was governor. Reportedly spending some 100,000 on this ad. Here is a look at that released earlier today. 20 conservatives oppose my cup to be . Mike huckabee . [indiscernible] the wall street journal has editorialized about your record. You finished your term as governor with a net tax increase of 505 million. [indiscernible] Mike Huckabee receives anf f for his current term. Ready for huckabee . That ad released today by the club. We will get to your calls in a moment. A quick check at facebook. Com. Your thoughts are welcome. On twitter cspanchat. On our democrat line. Caller thank you. I think you do a good job. Im a conservative democrat. I like ms. Clinton. I hope she does good. I know a couple more democrats i will buy to see jump into the field. Mike webb, the former senator from West Virginia would make a good candidate. Host jim webb . Caller yes. I think he is more moderate. I think jim would be a little better candidate. With Mike Huckabee, i like Mike Huckabee. I was glad that even the first time and i was hoping he would have done a lot better. I think this time, this is his second term running and i feel like he will be a lot better and i think he would be a lot better than jeb bush would be. Host Mike Huckabee ran in 2008. Our caller was talking about potential candidates. Here is a political report this morning about Elizabeth Warren who says to not enter the race. She met privately with the draft warned supporters in massachusetts. She recently hobbled with progressives affiliated with the campaign urging her to run for president. Her office insists she was unaware of any connection. Next up is linda on the independents line. Caller my comment is first of all we thought you are wasting your time and money. There was a spark to him we hadnt seen before. I dont think it would hurt for him to get in the race. I am glad romney dropped out. Note nondemocrat will win because of the unionization of all the Hospitality Industry and the legal status people who are here in our country. A lot of people dont realize. With all of the people that unionize, if those people get unionized come it will not matter who is running because no one will win because of a voting block. I am just concerned about that. Host you mentioned the power of the unions. Certainly one of the candidates that appeals to Union Members is Bernie Sanders. He was at a town hall earlier today. He had a budget town hall and he tweeted, talking about corporate profits soaring and workers struggling. This from Huffington Post politics. He plans to introduce a bill to break up the big banks. Next is william and Buffalo Junction indiana on our independent line. Go ahead. Caller i just wanted to comment on something. Recently, i saw the tax statement in the mail. Last year, i went and paid my taxes. I got a comment that said she kind of laughed. I paid them in one dollar bills. Host how many bills did you use . Caller 523. I dont see how it is possible for a working class man to be represented by a man in a suit and tie just like i dont think it is possible for a working class man to represent a man who wears a suit and tie. I think my cup to bes Mike Huckabees background will help appreciate the work americans do. Host he still feels like a workingclass guy to you . Caller it seems like he appreciates his father was a bluecollar type gentleman. Host we appreciate your comments. Lets hear from peter in luxembourg, new york. Plattsburgh, new york. Caller [indiscernible] i think the democrats will win. Host thank you. Rand paul and ted cruz were the only ones to vote against the gop budget passed this afternoon. The Senate Passes its first bicameral gop budget in a decade. Claudette, thanks for waiting. Caller i dont want jeb bush, ok . Mike huckabee brought me to tears tonight with his announcement. I just feel that the really, truly loves this country. He is a working man for me has worked for his family, the American People. We need someone like that he will work and rock about us. I cried. I am 68. I have 100 disabled veteran husband and i feel what he is going through right now. I hope to hell he didnt fight for nothing because what obama has done for this country and what the democrats and what the rino republicans Loretta Lynch openly said she would not protect our borders. They still put her in and i am so scared. I am so scared we have lost our country. I hope it is not too late. Mike huckabee seems to be such a good man and we need them and he brought me to tears. We are being taken over. I do have a brief song i would like to sing. Host we want to make sure everyone has the opportunity to give their comments. Sean is in florida. Sean Mike Huckabee made some good points. A lot of common sense. We need common sense in america. They cannot run the country the way they are running it. We need someone with common sense values to bring us back to where we have to be and that is it. We need common sense values. Host some tweets from the campaign. Here is rand paul. Dena titus that event earlier today. Karen from oregon on the independent republican line. Caller i want to talk about what got my attention about huckabee. The taxes and the term limits. He got my vote right there. Host here is big become oklahoma. Bigsby, oklahoma. Caller one thing that got me is to get read of this irs. All we are doing is printing money lets get rid of the irs. Everybody that spends would be equal. Everything would be equal. One the tax day comes around, it would be another day. That is the main thing i got. We are printing our money nobody wants it and we need to get out of it. We got people up there trying to control some of that. That is one of the main things but the other things he said as far as being equal and turning this country around and everything, i think he would be the best we could ever get. The main thing was the irs and the flat tax to make it equal for everybody. Host one more from Fort Lauderdale on the democrat line. Caller yes, sir. I will vote for huckabee. He is a godly man and we need the judeochristian way of running the United States back because these democrats are going toward socialism and socialism does not need to become common. I think huckabee would be a great man. He is ineligible smart man. Host more talk about politics. I look ahead to Tomorrows Program live every day at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. We start with a conversation about ways to reduce poverty in urban areas. Later on from virginia, col. John petosek talks about the training for troops and International Combat zones. Your comments and emails are welcome. Hillary clinton was speaking this afternoon to students in las vegas and she spoke about what she would do as president in terms of immigration and made some notable changes about changes in immigration policy. Hillary clinton and several students. [applause] mrs. Clinton hi, how are you . Hello. [cheering] wonderful to be back in nevada and here at rancho. Im delighted to be joined by a number of young people who are going to talk with me and you about their lives and stories and in particular, immigration. I want to acknowledge my friend and congresswoman dena titus for being here. [applause] Hillary Clinton it is cinco de mayo, an especially appropriate day to have this conversation. I want to thank everyone for hosting us today at the high school. Im looking forward to hearing from each of our panel participants. I have a lot of wonderful memories from my time here in nevada. Ive gone doortodoor meeting with families not far from this school. Ive met with a lot of culinary workers who keep the economy going strong. I accompanied a registered nurse on her 12 hour shift. I was very pleased to go back to her home and have dinner with her and her kids. And i know how hard hit nevadans were by the recession. This state in particular suffered some very tough blows. There were a much higher than average home foreclosure rates for example. A lot of people lost to their hours were cut, which made it difficult for them to continue to make a good living. We now see that the state is coming back from those tough economic times. Families have found ways to make it work for them. We also saw people once again starting businesses, thinking about sending their kids to college. Maybe doing some home repairs. Putting a little bit aside for retirement. We are not yet back on our feet. We have climbed out of the hole, but weve got to do more than just get by. We have to get ahead and stay ahead. There are a lot of ways to think about how we do that together. I think it is important to recognize even with all of the hard work and sacrifice so many families made, in many ways, the deck is stacked in favor of those at the top. Im well aware in las vegas there is nothing worse than a stacked deck. [laughter] Hillary Clinton i want to reshuffle the deck. I want to be a champion for hardworking americans. I want to work across party lines. I want to work with the public and the private sector. I want people to get back to the good oldfashioned american style of problem solving and setting us on the right course. To help reshuffle the deck people have to do their part. They have to step up and take education seriously. They have to be willing to work hard because nothing is given to you. My dad was a small businessman. He was a really small businessman. Just a few day workers from time to time. My mom, my brothers. He understood hard work was the path forward in the United States. He made a good living for our family. I will forever be grateful for that. When families are Strong America is strong. I am convinced having fought for families going all the way back to my years in law school and ever since, there is nothing more important. In this campaign, we have to wage and win four big fights. One is to build the economy of tomorrow, not yesterday. Weve got to be really focused on what is going to prepare young people and we have to start early. Education is the key. Education in the first years of life is essential. Now we know that Brain Development really has formed by the time a child is three or four. Weve got to do more to make sure every child has the best chance to do well in school, to get ahead. Two chart his or her own future. It is also essential that we strengthen families and communities. That means we have to once and for all fix the immigration system. This is a family issue. It is an economic issue, too. But it is a family issue at heart. If we claim we are for families, we have to pull together and resolve the outstanding issues around our broken immigration system. The American People support comprehensive Immigration Reform. Notches because it is the right thing to do, and it is, but because they know it strengthens families, strengthens our economy, and our country. That is why we cant wait any longer. We cant wait for a path to equal citizenship. This is where i differ with everybody on the republican side. Make no mistake, not a single republican candidate announced or potential is clearly supporting a path to citizenship. Not one. When they talk about legal status, that is code for secondclass status. We should never forget who this debate is about. You are going to meet some of them in a minute. People who work hard, who love this country, who pay taxes to it and want nothing more than to build a good future for themselves and their children. We are talking about the young people at this table. They are dreamers in much more than name. I dont understand how anyone can look at these young people and think we should break up more families, or turn away more hard workers with talent to help us build the kind of country we want to see. So i will fight for comprehensive Immigration Reform and a path to citizenship for you and for your family across our country. I will fight to stop partisan attacks on the executive action that would put dreamers, including those with us today, at risk of deportation. And if Congress Continues to refuse to act, i would do Everything Possible under the law to go even further. There are more people, like many parents of dreamers, and others, with deep ties and contributions to our communities, who deserve a chance to stay and i will fight for them. The law currently allows for sympathetic cases to be reviewed. Right now most of these cases have no way to get a real hearing. Therefore we should put in place a simple, straightforward, accessible way for parents of dreamers and others with a history of service and contribution to their communities to make their case and to be eligible for the same deferred action as their children. That is just the beginning. There is much more to do to expand and enhance protections for families and communities to reform immigration and enforcement, so they are more humane, targeted, and effective. To keep building the pressure for comprehensive reform. On a personal basis, the first time i ever met anyone in our country working was when i was about 12 years old, as i recall. Through my church, i was recruited, along with some other girls in sunday school, to serve as babysitters on saturday for the small children so the older children could join their parents in the fields. When i was growing up, it was farm fields as far as the eye could see. The migrants, immigrant laborers would come up, up through the midwest, chicago, michigan. We were asked to try to help out. I remember going to the camps where the families lived. Taking care of the little kids while kids my age were doing hard work. What stuck in my mind was how at the end of the day there was a long road from the camp that went out to a dirt road in the middle of the field. And the bus that had the workers that came back around 4 00 in the afternoon, stopped and let off the parents and the older brothers and sisters. All of these kids started running down the path to see their moms and dads and their big brothers and sisters. They were scooped up by these really tired people. I just watched this and thought, they are just like me and my brothers. When my dad comes home from work. We go out to see him. After he has come back from his day of doing what he had to do to support us. Ive never gotten that experience out of my mind. So, for me, this is about what kind of people we are and what kind of country we have. I am convinced it is in our economic interest. It is in the interest of our values. It is in the interest of our longterm security as a nation. So you know where i stand. There can be no question about it. I will do everything i can, as president , and in this campaign, to make this case. I know there are people who disagree with me. I want them to have a conversation with me. The facts are really clear. We know how much people who are working hard contribute to the economy. In what they buy and do what they pay in taxes. In new york, which i know about, our undocumented workers pay more in taxes than some of the biggest corporations in new yo