And in the department of defense, when people are still in uniform, were focused on this. Letting people know that its not a weakness, its a strength for you to seek out help when you are suffering from severe depression or other, you know, challenges like that. With respect to young people, you know, id be interested this is one where i think id really like to hear from all of you. Because this is a story i hear too often. When i was at standing rock, i mean, it was just the number of stories that i heard was heartbreaking. And we can provide more resources, and we are doing so, ive asked sali and others to really focus on how do we prevent suicide a, addiction, provide more Mental Health services and counseling, but i think id love to hear from you guys who are in it. What you think would make the biggest difference. What you think would be most helpful. Since you asked it, why dont you i feel like its very taboo to speak about it in native american communities, especially the older adults might think that it is. But i feel like the youth are really ready to speak about it and i feel like there should be a little bit more support in the school system. Because some of the schools ive actually got to work with, on the reservation they dont have afterschool programs. They have theyre really strict on education, but theres really nothing that can connect you to your culture after school. Or teach you some of your traditions after school. But i feel like some of these are very important to youth. There might be some kind of cultural identity or identity loss and some of them might be confused and feel like theres no help. Logical explanation that they might have or they might think is maybe suicide. Or me, i want to i guess prevent suicide. And im in theater, i do theater, i love theater. I try to do a lot of that in my work and try to understand why these youth think the only answer is suicide. It could be something at home like abuse, child abuse. Or just their parents might be alcohols or something. But no one really speaks to these kids. President obama anybody else want to offer some thoughts . I think talking about suicide is very crucial. It should be talked about. We should knock down the stigma of talking about your problems. A lot of people look at it as s a sign of weakness and it isnt. Its actually like you said stated, a sign of strength. I lost a friend, a very good friend. He was at prep school and he came home and he committed suicide. I never you know, we constantly searched for the answers but the answer usually is that its that stigma. You dont want to be be looked at as a weak person. I think we need to knock down that barrier. And have it be known that talking about it isnt a sign of weakness. President obama anybody else have any thoughts on this . I do. Id like to shout out to my friend jasmine over here. Because she did the warrior circle project and president obama hey, jasmine. [applause] whats the warrior circle project . As she explains it, she helps children that think about suicide and also have problems within schools, right . And she talks about them because people can actually connect to youth more, like youth to youth, instead of youth to adult. So i just thought that was a good project to bring up because i work with her. President obama absolutely. Thats great. [applause] any other thoughts on this . Through my experience of traveling and speaking and seeing a lot of native americans across the country, ive also come to realize that, and growing up and living on a reservation, ive realized that young native americans do struggle with whether its emotional or mental or physical abuse, i know that it can be frustrating being a young native american in a society that you feel like you really are the minority and things like that. But i just feel like we as native people need a resource or need an outlet and a lot of the times i feel like young native americans are scared to speak about it. Whether its because they feel like theyre weak or because whatever the reason might be. But i know its easier said than done. But there is we need to get through to them to let them know that that really isnt the answer and you need to find somebody to talk to. How do we get that through to them . President obama one of the things, i talked about generation indigenous. The goal is to get native American Youth leaders to be able to network with each other nationally. And then were trying to set up a Youth Network digitally, through the internet. So that if theres a good idea, like the one that tatiana was just talking about, a program that we know is working, then somebody across the country can learn about it and try to set p a similar model. And share ideas. And i think one of the things that im hearing a lot of you guys Say Something that, making sure that young people are supporting each other is really important. Because adults have to be there, but i will tell you from my experience talking to malia and sasha, that sometimes when im talking to them, i sound ike you guys ever see Charlie Brown christmas . [laughter] whawhawha. You can tell theyre just looking at me but the words make no sense to them. But i think that how their peers are supporting them and talking to them and encouraging them, a lot of times can make even more of a difference than what theyre hearing from adults. Obviously if somebodys got a severe depression, thats a medical issue. And they may need medical hefment help. If somebody even at a young age already has an addiction, they need help. If they are experiencing abuse in the home, then they need adult help and Law Enforcement help to prevent that. And youre right. It has to be talked about. And we have to be honest about it. Ut sometimes with young people , you know, everything is magnified. Youre just going through a lot of stuff, especially in the teenage years. And just having friends and people your age who are bucking you up and supporting you and listening to you and relating to what youre going through, that a lot of times can make danchese a difference before it gets worse. So were going to see how we can help facilitate more of those youth communities around the country. Just to add on to what you were saying about when i was in high school, i was a senior, we had program called sources of strength. Thats what it was. It was a student to student peer, you know, if you were getting bullied, if there were problems at home, you could speak about it. Because theres that barrier. Its hard for a student to speak to a teacher about it. For a student to talk to another student, it was mauricier and a lot of the students were able to relate to it because they might have experienced it in their life at some point. That seemed to work very well. President obama good. Moderator that concludes our question and answer session. I would just like to thank you, mr. President , and each of our panelists for being up here with us today. President obama lets give everybody a big round of applause. [cheers and applause] all right. Ood job. Im supposed to make closing remarks. The only thing i want to say in closing is just, this is an example of the incredible of our nd potential young people. And its true in every tribe as cross the country. We have a huge stake as a country in making sure that they get opportunity, that their voices are heard. And i want to be a partner with you to make sure that every possible door is open to them. Ok . They inspire me. You guys inspire me. You make me feel good. Thank you, everybody. Come on. Get a good picture. Come on. [cheers and applause] come on. Stand stand right here. These guys are going to take our picture right here. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] president obama speaking to some of the young tribal leaders in washington, d. C. Members attending from 150 recognized u. S. Tribes. The theme at this seventh annual event, native American Youth. Speaking at the reagan building n washington, d. C. And this weekend on cspans news makers, refugees fleeing syria. Well talk with andrew richard, assistant secretary of state, for population refugees and migration. News makers, sunday at 10 00. M. And 6 00 p. M. On cspan. About whom will you next write think . Thought, there is only one person about whom i would write if i were to write a second biography. I remembered bonhoffer. Did i write that book. I thought, im going to be standing next to the president speaking to 3,500 of the most important people in the world in this room here in d. C. Who knows how ill feel in the moment . I dont know. So i had the idea that i might do that. I thought, maybe ill give him the books later. But if i feel, you know, as a new yorker, ill use the word hudsba, if i feel that in the moment to be able to pull off the goofyness, ill do it. This sunday night, author and radio host eric on his writing career, his best lling biography of deet rick bofhoffer and his crossover between religion and politics. I think its Everyone Needs to vote but never to make what we christians would call an idol of politics. There are people that have done that and theyre worshiping that idol rather than the god who would cause them to care for the poor and injustices. Its a fine line. Its something i talk about fairly often. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a. All campaign long, cspan takes you on the road to the white house. Unfiltered access to the candidates, at town hall meetings, news conferences, rallies and speeches. Were taking your comments on twitter, facebook and by phone. And always every Campaign Event we cover is available on our website at cspan. Org. Republican candidate marco rubio was in New Hampshire. The florida senator spoke with young Business Leaders at a college in manchester for about 45 minutes. Everybody, thank you for being with us today. Im kate, i am the president and ceo of, this is the first event of the series. We were not expecting the small house so i hope you are accountable for the next 45 minutes. The idea behind this is a partnership between state, work, play to bring a different discussion to pinnacle conversation. We want to offer you the chance to get to know senator rubio, to find out what he is like as a person and what his political policy and ideas are. We have a number of questions and we really want to have you engage throughout the course of the morning. We want to thank banc of america, we would not be here today without them. Thank you very much bank of america for your sponsorship today. If your social media it is life of the party and h. So be sure to use that. Without further ado, we would like to invite senator rubio to join us. [applause]. Senator, thank you so much for being here. What we thought we would do quickly is have everyone, our moderator go around and introduce themselves. We will get right into it. You met kate wesco, she is ceo. I am to klein i am at the New Hampshire leader, now i am out on my own as an independent writer and can indication consultant. I am jessica, fundamentally a mom, i raise money for programming throughout New Hampshire at heat New Hampshire humanities. I serve on a variety of boards. I mike, i am president and ceo of the Greater Manchester chamber of commerce. Former and also a proud alumni of the college which we are pleased to welcome you here today thank you for being here. As you can tell, we have a full room, a lot of Professionals Community leaders, we prepare questions very different than what you have been asked at other events and programs. This is going to be very different than all of the debates you have been doing lately. By the way, our goal is moderator is to surpass the performance of some of those debate moderators that ive been getting so much attention lately. Hopefully we can pull that off. What i would ask, those crazy debates, how do you recover from those . What is your process after them. Is it hitting the gym, family time question i cannot imagine after one of those debates what you are feeling like and what is like for the candidate. Will keep in perspective you are standing in an airconditioned room for two hours. I think the only thing about it is like an adrenaline rush and coming down from that takes a couple of hours. The last few debates have been a different time zones so it has given us a few extra hours, i think the last ones were eight or 9 00 p. M. Mount time. I dont do anything special. Usually the next day we wake up early and that the downside of being in those time zones. You gotta get up and get going the next day so i dont have a routine to recover. The cnn debate was long, that was the three hours. I was fine. I dont know how you do it. Congrats. Its a lot of fun. The first one when you got up there and went on stage, my feeling was and i been watching these on to be for years and now im actually in one. The first one really kind of struck me that way. The first one really impacted me just the idea that i have been watching the debate baits devitt bates for year. That took a few minutes to get used to. So fitting with the theme today, we had your playlist on spot a five. There is it you two in there, but fitting in with the life of the party theme, if you would host a party of 40 of the top young professional leaders around the country, what with would that party look like . Where would you have it. Well hopefully in the white house. One of the things im a fan of the early 90s hiphop stuff , its hard to listen to that with kids. They are talented people but not familyfriendly so there is a genre you are familiar with and i mention it to other people the electronic dance music, and the good thing about is i can it is i can listen to it and there are no words so i can listen to it with my kids. So i would like to have some of that music, maybe some of those guys and gals could command, some of the performances going on around the world. What would you eat. That is a great question. I like texmex so something along that line. When you are planning your party thing, one of the questions we had was, people always ask what one politician would you want to sit down and have a beer with, but in the you could be president you could invite anybody to the white house, anybody alive, maybe historical too. Who would you call up and say i really wanted to hang out with that person. I was a huge dan marino fan growing up that was from the 80s and 90s. I think there is a few theres a few interesting things happening today. Iowas mess up the last name, a young lady lala who is speaking out with global issues. I think she is maybe 18 or 190, she is very young but she put a lot of work into 18 or or 19 years of life. Someone i really spoken to once in my whole life, former chess champion who was is part of the rush and actually could not return to russia today. I had a chance to speak on the phone to him a few days ago. He has a real fundamental understanding of what is happening inside of russia. And what it means for the future for our country, europe and beyond. Those are a few names that come to mind. Before this is over i will probably think of someone else. I was thinking about this race politically, you have Hillary Clinton burning sanders on the other side. You have a guy who says, openly i would like to bring socialism to the United States. You grew up in a community where a whole bunch of people would flee socialism. They would flee communism, there is a socialist democracy in europe where government provides for every aspect of your life but there is a consequence to that. They flee communism, its a government controlled society. People are being executed and so what they would flee is beyond that. But i get your point. When you hear Bernie Sanders talk about this do you ever want to say, look bernie here is the real deal. You know what i appreciate about bernie, he is not trying to sugarcoat it. That is what he believes. Hes not just trying to say this is not a new version of enterprise. It has gotten him reelected in the state. Since theres dozens of countries around the world, we can continue to be america where we can achieve anything with hard work and perseverance. With the debate we have we truly believe, that is why we are free and open for a Democratic Society where we can have a debate about policies and their implications. I dont personally have a problem with bernie because hes been honest being honest with what he believes in. While were on the topic of Foreign Policy, you mentioned russia a few minutes ago, one question came to mind is a question about vladimir hooten. He comes up a lot about debates and how people will have have to deal with them. I think its interesting because he has taken on a character within american politics and society and have seen these crazy pictures of him hunting, riding horses, wrestling tigers, there is actually some really significant and scary aspects to russia and their involvement on the world stage. How would you deal with someone like him what would be your approach . On the one hand he is the leader of a country that between them and us, we control over 90 of the worlds nuclear weapon. Climate putin is virtually undistorted symbol ahead of organized crime. He ordered the blowing up of a Apartment Building and blamed it on someone else. But he is also a geopolitical actor, unlike people like radical jihadists who are motivated by religious, hes motivated by political. Part of it is to distract the world from ukraine and the situation there, part of it is domestic policy. He wants to appear as a Strong International leader. He wants to put a rush on par with the United States, part of it is he wants to retain an air of influence in that region and syria gives him a chance to do that. So theres multiple aspects to his calculation. Before he takes action he weighs the cost and benefits. He only perceives if he believes the benefits outweigh the costs. He must really do that in georgia in 2,072,008, he did it in ukraine and now it syria. As an american president our job is to change that to ensure that he realizes that the costs are higher than the benefits than any of the activity he may take. You have to understand this is not someone you will be able to find some sort of cooperative agreement with. Youll have to deal with him in wa