Comes out of morocco the a political statement . I think it will be. How much will be in it . I think that will be a function of these discussions. How do you recognize the progress we have made but do not rest on your laurels . The lima agreement, accords, each one of these has their own kind of structure that i think the moroccans would want something that they could say, we do these things and we can look back at pride look back with pride. Much, we areyou so out of time. A great discussion. [applause] i want to thank jonathan in coral for this great discussion. Rate moderation and discussion and questions from the audience. We look forward to you all coming to our next program. Once again, lets give a round of applause. [applause] with the Supreme Court back in session, we have a special webpage to help you follow the court. Go to cspan. Org, select Supreme Court. You will see the calendar for this term, a list of all current justices, and with Supreme Court video on demand, watch arguments we have aired in recent cspan appearances by Supreme Court justices. At cspan. Org. Tonight, a debate for new yorks 19th Congressional District between the democrat and republican. Hillary clinton and donald trump both campaigned in florida today, we will have their remarks later. Cspans washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. This week we are focusing on president ial battleground states leading up to election day. Coming up wednesday morning, it is pennsylvania. We will talk about voters, recent polls and Political Races in the state. Include Terry Madonna , is to for Nicholas Christopher nicholas. Be sure to watch us live at 7 00 eastern. The new york 19th district is being held by someone he was not running for reelection. Time warner cable news host of this debate in woodstock, new york. Hello and welcome to our debate. Running to replace the congressman. Interestingly enough, both of these candidates have previously run for governor. Here on the rules they have agreed to before the debate. It gets one minute for an Opening Statement and one minute for a close. In between we will be asking questions on a range of topics. Answers are limited to one minute followed by a 45 second second rebuttal is allowed at moderator discretion. We will also have a lightning round. The order of the Opening Statements was determined earlier this evening by chance. Teachout. Ms. Sorry. Thank you. Here, the most important everybody watching the debate. I love this country and i. Am running for congress because im worried about it. Patriot and iic believe we should be focused on bringing jobs home, supporting local farming and making things in america. Im also running because we have got to protect our water from the big polluters, but there is a deeper issue happening in our country right now. We have a crisis of democracy. Everywhere i go, people ask me how can we get congress to work again so the people, not be corporation, not Political Parties . With many of you on the fracking fight, on common honored tof i am have your vote, i will be an independent voice in congress because i cannot be bought. Thank you very much. Fasso. Thank you. I am running for congress because our country is in crisis. We face an economic crisis that affecting the future. We would be the first generation to leave our children and grandchildren with a country worse off than the one we found. We have an inner capacity to fix this. Taxve laid out a program of reforms and regulatory relief to get our economy moving again. We also have a crisis of National Security and we have to make sure that america is strong, that their defenses are second to none, and that we have the best intelligence and diplomatic capacities in the world. It is a privilege and honor to run for this office and if i am honored to serve, i will give every measure my devotion to the people of this district and the United States of america. Now the first question. Fighters along with u. S. Airstrikes and support troops are conducting a major offensive against isis in mosul. Is this the right time to have the offensive . We are facing three major National Security threats in the global environment. One of the biggest ones is isis. This should be policies in terms of abroad. E of theeen supportiv president s actions in that area. I think it is important we keep a tough but strong focused approach. I unlike my opponent was opposed to the intervention in iraq. I was opposed to the intervention in libya. So you know i will disagree with members of my party when i think theyre making the wrong decision. They key is instead of making interventions that in a ,ongterm lead to instability we have to be more using our judgment in terms of where we intervene in the first place. There been some developments in the past stay in terms of having Turkish Forces move into the region, there been tensions. Should the u. S. Welcome the tankers Turkish Forces . I think alliances are important and i would approach talk toaying military legals leaders. I think there is a lot more wisdom from the people on the ground than from a distance. Isagree that combating isis incredibly important to the security of the region and our country in the free world. The fact of the matter is that the coordinated attack that is being made now has been well planned and executed and we know that isis is going to be and if often threat. An evolving threat. I think the overriding issue in the region is the Iran Nuclear Deal which i think has made us next less secure. Gets highly likely if iran a weapon, so will saudi arabia and others in the region which will destabilize the region. These troops have been considered to be advisory groups. Should the u. S. Commit Ground Troops to this area if that is necessary . We should rely upon the local nations who have the first line of defense. We dont have 500 troops there, forces 60008000 special and others in that region. It is important that the American People understand that our role in the region is ongoing and while it doesnt get a lot of publicity, it is vitally important that we aid and help the instruction and kurort for the iraqis and combat isisan successfully. We move onto another equally important topic. Trade. We have heard a lot about the Transpacific Partnership in particular. There are now on both sides of the aisle, opponents, despite the fact that the Obama Administration is champion on the championing it. Where you stand on the tpp . Vote in terms of giving fasttrack negotiation power to the president . Differentre two issues as you correctly put in your question. I am not in favor of tpp because i think the Obama Administration has mishandled the critical details. I think it is plain that the leaders on both sides of congress of said that tpp is not going to get voted on and is unlikely to be adopted and in the lameduck session. But i think it is important to recognize that trade is vitally important. We are 5 of the worlds population and 95 of the customers without of the United States. It is important that we understand that there are 6000 plus jobs in new york alone that depend on u. S. Canada trade. When we hear voices talking about throwing out trade agreements, there are a lot of people here who depend upon it. I think the fasttrack authority is critical for any president , and we have seen president s from both parties utilize it over the years, because you cannot negotiate with 15 Different Countries at once knowing that they can go back to the National Legislature and amend the agreement. Congress gets an up or down vote on fast track. Toyou would feel comfortable give donald trump fasttrack authority . These are all hypothetical. I think the fact is that president of both parties for over 35 years. I think it is the only way we can conduct trade negotiations in a reasonable way. I think they will be more bilateral trade agreements between the u. S. And other countries individually. With brexit and england leaving the eu, and it could be that you see many more agreements that are done separately rather than these global type arrangements. This is an area where i think we have real differences. Trade is something i feel passionate about. John was talking about the last 35 years. We have lost so many manufacturing facilities. Since nafta, we have lost 50,000 minutes efrin facilities in this country. Beginning on the estimates, it is 5 million jobs are more. Luckily, a little manufacturing is coming back to the United States, but i am running to congress to bring jobs home. Dealsrack enables these with offshore jobs. Im not only deeply opposed to the tpp, but i think we need to regulate these agreements. When i am in congress, i will be a strong voice for made in america. I put the same question to you if Hillary Clinton is in the white house, would you not vote to give her fasttrack authority . I would not give president clinton or any other resident fasttrack authority. The last 35 years of trading deals have not helped American Workers. I think it is time for 21st century trade policy that focuses on our workers. This requires looking back at all of the trade deals. Fasttrack overturns a fundamental constitutional premise and gives way too much power to the executive branch. That she fails to understand the lessons of history. Thehe Great Recession in 30s 1930s, it was because we erected traded various trade barriers. She puts all of the problem on trade when the fact is that every expert left and right has said that we have lost many manufacturing jobs due to productivity and automation. So yes we need to fight to make sure we reformed our tax code so that we ring the opportunity to bring those jobs back. I have specific ideas to do that. I just want to say that i think that anybody who is traveling through a community can see the devastation of the loss of manufacturing jobs. There are political elites who believe that the trade deals of the last 30 years have helped americans. Some of those political elites are big donors to my opponent. There is a guy who gave 500,000 to my opponent through a super pac. They are not feeling the pain of what is happening in our community. Believe in American Workers and believe American Workers can compete if they are allowed to compete fairly. The tax question gets to that, it will. We will stick with the economy. The Financial Services industry was widely blamed for the economic collapse. However, this industry is also essential for generating needed tax revenue in new york. Should wall street be further regulated, and if so, how would you go about that . After the financial crash, i cofounded a group that was all volunteer, grassroots, dedicated to taking on the big banks. The big banks have way too much political power. They are running the table in washington. When we went as citizens and tried to say that they brought down our economy and our subsidizing them so heavily with the bailout, what you can see is that the hit given so Many Campaign contributions and gotten so involved in lobbying that their power was drowning out the voices of Small Businesses. There is a whole series of things we should do. That we have to recognize the Watchdog Group that came out of the loss after the financial press, is responsible for catching wells fargo in massive fraud. It is important that we allow for those groups. I believe in structural reform, breaking up the banks. Do you think. Frank went far enough . Frank went far enough . Yes. The bureau that uncovered this massive fraud. There have been problems within dodd frank. When i talked to Community Bankers, and you can even see this in 2009, 2010 in washington, the Community Bankers were not getting a voice , and the big banks were happy to have regulations pushed down on the Community Banks that really drop them out. Ground them out. I listen to the series of exploration explanations and it is like fair play monopoly. The board did not uncover wells fargo, it was uncovered by the Los Angeles City attorney. The fact is that the consumer wasnce protection board declared unconstitutional. Anmeant that there was unaccountable bureaucracy subject to no power of congress, subject to no oversight. This is what the left elites want. Super bureaucracies to control every aspect of the economy and that is perfectly acceptable for her but it does not work. That is why we had a financial crisis, because we had bad regulation and oversight. Do you think there are any regulations that you put in place for wall street . Wall street is strictly regulated and it should be even more closely regulated, but i would not want to do what ms. Teachout did when she put a Stock Transfer tax on stocks. Every teacher with the pension, every state and local worker, every worker with an ira is going to get taxed every time there is a transaction that goes forth. This is lunacy. Killing thet is local lending with Small Business is excessive regulation from dodd frank. This had nothing to do with the mortgage meltdown. A few things. It is a matter of Public Record of the discovery of wells fargo. You can look up. I favor the Teddy Roosevelt approach. What we really see happening is banks not doing the job of banks but becoming political actors, where they are really involved in policy and in trying to buy and shape policy instead of just. Oing making banking i favor a rules approaches that of regulation approach that focuses on managing, making sure the big banks dont get so powerful in the first place. This question is for ms. Teachout. There has been a lot of fingerpointing during the campaign regarding property taxes. I know you said when you are running for governor you would support rolling back the property tax cap. You have accused your opponent of mischaracterizing your position and you said that you understand the importance of reducing high property taxes. You prefer doing so through other methods. Please could you clarify your position, but also, where is the money going to come from for investment and things like education . Thank you so much for the question. On yourave been turning tv,. Youve probably seen some attacks that since the are not true. We have got to lower property taxes,. They are the highest in the country and are calling causing real pain. Overfamilies are paying 10 or 20 of their income and property taxes. It is a heavy burden on people who have had land in their families for generations. It is a real problem. I have a long video online what youre welcome to watch. And talks about the property tax burden and how to approach it. I am a big supporter of local control and testing local communities instead of politicians telling local communities what to do. The second part of your question, you see property taxes go up. When my opponent was in albany, they went up 43 . The core reason they wind up is because the state started giving mostly downstate the companies and to the wealthiest new yorkers. There was less revenue for the state and the state then pushed all of these Unfunded Mandates onto the local communities. Just to be clear, i know you investing an additional amount into the education system, for example, the money comes from . A more fair tax system in new york state. Right now, the 1 and the big corporations are the ones getting away with it. Timesunion had a great story about where our tax revenue has vanished. A lot of it is from the Biggest Companies in new york city. A higher personal income tax . No, i am focused on the corporations. , before you respond, earlier in your campaign, you put the plan to reduce the local cost of medicaid, and unfunded , and that would certainly relief a burden that local governments arent getting a lot of revenue for, but is not really federal issue. Federaltually is a issue because federal law permits a state to impose the burden partially on the localities. I researched this and i realize that we are one of the only state in the country to does this. We can fix Nelson Rockefellers 50yearold mistake. We can fix it by amending federal law and ive proposed is that. I propose just that. You would be just one member of a whole host of a conference. How would you convince folks to do that . If you look at the local burden on medicaid in the whole country, 9 billion is spent by local government in the whole country. 7. 5 billion is spent by local governments in new york state. When people say that there taxes are higher here, that is one of the reasons. Ms. Teachouts approach is wrongheaded. She doesnt know what she is talking about when it comes to property taxes, maybe because she just moved into the district and has not paid property taxes. Thebottom line is that Circuit Breaker that she has supported this not hold the line on local spending. The localities, the town or village, a School District can override the tax cap. If they want. It is a high burden in terms of their ability to override that cap. Ms. Benjamin it is a halliburton, you would agree, in terms of their ability to override . Ms. Teachout because property taxes are too high. Not only does she want to raise the property