Husband, became the joy of my life. The rock of mine for 30 years. I think, often, about how different my life would he had he not been in the world. A couple years later, i learned i could not have children of my own. I know how this is a gift life is. A gift ofw precious life is. I do say the american women on this issue have found Common Ground. The Common Ground is this. Everybody, the majority of americans believe abortion for any reason at all after five months is wrong. Let us take that Common Ground and finally pass the Child Protection act. This. E found the American People are horrified planned parenthood is harvesting body parts. Tissue for research purposes. You may have noticed how strongly i have spoken out about this. Heat i took from the liberal media. Budget president fiorina submits will have no funding for planned parenthood. [applause] i have been a registered republican for 22 years. I understand where this question came from. We have had too Many Republican president s who have not served us well. Perot, starting with we have to take our country back, every politician has said the same thing. Nobody ever says who worked we are going to take it back from. I have and to know who we are going to take it from pyramid donald trump knows who. So does Bernie Sanders. So do you, too. Tell me who we are taking it from. Ms. Fiorina we are taking it back from the professional political class. The big and powerful. The special interests. We are taking it back from the benefitedent that has from a complicated, powerful government. People who use all that complex of the to their advantage. Have a big, powerful government, it creates more and more crony capitalism. This is the lie Bernie Sanders tells. He says crony capitalism is a problem and he is a bright republicans and democrats have contributed to it. Eli lie is this. His solution is more big government. More government creates what . What . More crony capitalism. Dodd frank. Remember doddfrank . Financial crisis. How did that start . How did the financial crisis, the housing crisis, start . Fannie mae and freddie mac, right . Government sponsored entities. Republicans and democrats alike supported them. And they started rolling up, you know, government decided it was a good idea for everybody to own a home. Then wall street got engaged. There were 25 Government Agencies that were supposed to be minding the store. None of them did their job. When the crash happened, what did democrats do . They passed doddfrank. They didnt reform the 25 agencies. No ones reformed fannie mae and freddie mac. And guess who helped write doddfrank . The wall street banks. And the result is that we have 10 wall street banks too big to fail who have now become five, even bigger, even more powerful wall street banks. Meanwhile, 1,590 Community Banks have gone out of business. 20 of the Credit Union Industry has gone out of business. And why does that matter . Because Community Banks and Credit Unions serve whom . You. Me. Us. Small businesses, new businesses, families struggling. And we are crushing them. And meanwhile, wall street gets bigger and bigger. So Bernie Sanders knows the problem. But Bernie Sanderss solutions will not work. Although they will take us to socialism, which is apparently what he wants. Donald trump frankly is a businessman who has used all of this complexity for his own advantage, his entire life. He is a crony capitalist, ladies and gentlemen. And he admits it over and over again. [applause] ms. Fiorina by the way, we do not need another narcissist in the white house who talks about us but only cares about himself. [applause] you mentioned your dad. He was my tax professor. Ms. Fiorina oh, wow. Great to meet you. Even then, he spoke about better ways to tax. He vowed, he went for the valueadded tax. He wanted to know what the tax code should mean, not what it was. Hes saying the stuff you are now. My question is this. We have, shockingly enough, over 300,000 people that have died from gun shots in the past decade. And weve done a lot of things wrong. Im not interested to know what you think about president obamas plans or what hes done in the past. My question is, if in the multiple facets of that problem, do you have a plan that you would envision to try to reduce that total . Ms. Fiorina so first, we need to enforce the laws we have competently. And the reason we have to start there, dylan roof in south carolina. The young man who stormed into a church and murdered nine people. He never should about have been sold a gun. The f. B. I. s admitted it. We didnt do the background check right. And president obama and his speech actually said, gee, we need more f. B. I. Agents and more d. E. A. And a. T. F. Agents. My question to the president is, where have you been for the last seven years . Secondly, the reason you have gun violence, incredible levels of gun violence in cities like chicago, that have the toughest gun laws in the nation, is because there are lists and lists, loads of criminals who own guns. We actually know who they are. The Justice Department has lists of criminals who should not own guns and who do. And do you know how many of those people are being prosecuted . Less than 1 . If we want to keep people safe, lets take guns out of the hands of the criminals who arent supposed to have them. And if we want to change the laws of this country, then theres a way to do that. And it isnt with executive orders. Its with the peoples representatives. [applause] ms. Fiorina thats part of returning power to the people. So, you know what, the things that president obama put forward in his executive order about background checks actually failed in congress on a bipartisan basis twice. So if its really true that the American People are all fired up about this, then lets go get laws passed. But it is not the role of the president to say, i just dont like this law, so im going to do something different. Thats called lawlessness. Just as his immigration executive orders have been lawless. Hes not the only president who has abused the power of the presidency. But, part of returning to a citizen government is remembering what the president s job is, and what the legislatures job is. And by the way, we have kind of a good blueprint for that, too its called the constitution, ladies and gentlemen. [applause] ms. Fiorina lets enforce the laws we have. Questioner my name is michelle lamborn. Pleasure to meet you. Youve spoken a number of times about citizen government and putting the power back into the hands of the people. I live locally. Our community has been subjected to Corporate Power and privilege, being able to override our local decisions. They often use their power and privilege in these cents they created many of the state agencies and Government Agencies. The individuals coming from the corporate to industry and in turn, serving ends they industries and regulating their own industries by writing those laws. Have a Grassroots Organization in New Hampshire that has posed a cause it to secure theent to right of community selfgovernment. I am not talking about home rule. Home rule is a myth. About ise talking local communities being able to an act laws to expand and protect the rights of community, people, and nature so you can collectively protect your natural resources, your local economics, etc. What is your stance on that proposal . That is up to the people of New Hampshire. Let me address the larger issue. Let us be honest. Domain,italism, eminent this unholy alliance between big unions and businesses in and pick complicated government is what we have to take our Government Back from. You are right. The Companies Often work with a legislature to get laws passed so they can overturn that the will of the people. Fundamental philosophy i have is that the United States federal government should only he doing those things that they are responsible for doing. A unique concept, isnt it . Look, let me say two things. Were no longer a nation of laws. We have a coming nation of rules. Rules iout how many would consider executive orders part of this rolemaking. Think about how many roles were a lot of washington, d. C. Alone, it hasar been 86,000 pages of rules. We have been rolling out tens upon tens upon tens of thousands of pages of rules every year for 40 plus years. Who are these rolemakers . They are not elected. Hey are not accountable their nameless, faceless bureaucrats and they spew rules out of washington, d c isst role we have to appeal obamacare. Yes, it is a law but it is also accompanied by tens of dozens of pages of rules. By the way, did you know that buried in the pages of all those regulations of obamacare is the take over of the student loan industry. Federal government decides now that to your child is going to pay between four point five and 6. 5 interest on the loans the federal government gives them and the federal government only pays between 1. 5 percent and 2. 5 interest on its debt. In other words, the federal government is making money off of our young people. Does that strike you as a record . It is [ . A racket . It is. When was the last time we looked at every single role on the books . Never. When was the last time you can remember a regulation was repealed . Not never. Ronald reagan. The 55mileanour National Speed limit. Airlinelated the industry. Deregulated the trucking industry. That was a long time ago. Why does this stuff not happen, ladies and gentlemen . Why is it that politicians stand thingstell you the same over and over . Less regulation. Less taxation. Never happens. It is the difference between managers and leaders. That politicians are bad people necessarily. Some of them are. A lot of them are not. But managers are people who do the best they can within the existing system. They do not challenge the status quo. The status quo. They operate within the status quo and maybe they take advantage of the status quo. That is a manager. Andrew herdman does their job is to challenge the status quo. Fix is the only way you challenging problems. Margaret thatcher is a hero of mine. She once said this, im not content to manage the decline of a great nation. Ladies and gentlemen, neither of my. We have been managing the decline of this great nation for far too long but with your support i am prepared to lead the resurgence of a great nation. [applause] fiorina this gentleman had his hand up. We of time for one more question. Do you think you should add forour list term limits politicians and what is your feeling on that . We getiorina when through this list, these are not the only things we have to do, these are just the most important things we have to do first. So when we get through this list, then, if you believe in term limits and want this pass, press one for yes and two for no, ladies and gentlemen. Whati had a politician ask he could do for me one day and i said stop making new laws, we cannot keep up with the old ones. Carly fiorina i might quote you on that. I might buy that. I am going to stop for now, come on up to and if you did not get a chance to ask your question, you can ask it in line. Thank you for being here. I know it is hot. I know it is the middle of the first week back. Like i said, this is not going to be quick and easy but that is not what were all about. We can restore possibilities for every american regardless of their circumstances. Government down and hold it accountable. We can lead again in the world and on earth those who help us and to serve to keep our nation safe everyday. We cant do these things. But we cannot do them unless we are prepared to challenge the status quo of the professional politicians. Unless u. S. Citizens are prepared to use the power you have. Ask you again, whether you see me one time or three times or two times, join me. Stand with me. Support me. Vote for me. Citizens, it is time. It is time to take our future back. Our politics back. Our Government Back. It is time to take our country back. God bless you. Thank you for being here tonight. [applause] [whistling and applause] chatter] [indiscernible chatter] [indiscernible chatter] [indistinct chatter] [indistinct chatter] [indistinct chatter] [indistinct chatter] [indistinct chatter] [indistinct chatter] [indistinct chatter] p chatter]ct [indistinct chatter]