The house side. Outside the formal hearing process, just sitting down and explaining what hes trying to do one him a lot of allies on the senate side. That sort of speaks to the dysfunction in congress. Reporter senator isakson has done more negotiations with the v. A. And white house than his House Republican counterparts. If the white house signs off on this, if they can get House Republicans to sign out on it. Host and the pipeline of veterans coming into the system, your facial expression tells the story. Reporter the number of women coming into the the a is going to double and they have unique requirements and demands. The number of serviceconnected disabled veterans is going up in their demands are going to increase. Either know a lot of veterans who have lost limbs or have genital ones. Their care and costs are going to increase and increase. We have the world war ii and korean veterans population going down slightly but this new generation is demanding Costly Services and they are good at demanding services. I think they use the gay services more than previous generations. Host and they live in the age of social media pressure as well. That is changing the game as well. Thank you for your time. X we are live now in hanover, germany, moments away from a News Conference with president obama and german chancellor angela merkel. President obama visiting germany as part of his european trip in the wall street journal reports part of the reason is a personal to chancellor merkel, visiting a trade show in hanover. We expect this News Conference to get underway shortly. Live coverage here on cspan. Again, here we are in hanover summit germany, expecting a News Conference with president obama and german chancellor angela merkel. We will show you a portion of this mornings washington journal. Host one party does have its ballot. Why did you decide to become a candidate for the const party . Think the rule of law is very important and the constitution is very important and im trying to preserve those things and reestablish the rule of law in america. The people in the Constitution Party wanted me, so here i am. Host and the platform of the Constitution Party includes the following mission statement. The mission is to ensure the tossings of liberty ourselves and our posterity at all levels of government. Candidates will uphold the principles of the declaration of the independence, the constitution of the United States, and the bill of rights. Thes our goal to limit federal government enumerated under constitutional functions. What does that mean to you and to your party . Guest it means in the constitution, article one, section eight delegates only 17 powers to the federal government. The 10th amendment, all other powers are reserved to the states or the people respectively. That is what we mean by that. We think the constitution should be followed in its original intent. Host what is your background and what do you bring to the party and this National Debate . , im aby profession lawyer. Ive been a lawyer for 35 years approximately. Ive been in the Constitution Party since its original founding in 1992. Ive been vicechairman of the party three different terms and in 2008, i was Vice President ial candidate. Nomination at the convention in salt lake city, we covered your speech along with your running mate, but it did not get a lot of national attention. In thisou break through kaleidoscope of media . Im sitting here talking to you, so that certainly helps. Ive only had the nomination for a week and here i am on National Television. Thanks to yout and i think out was there, but it is not easy to cut through the fog and get Media Coverage in this day and age. People seem to be so dissatisfied with the four candidates still existing in the democrat and republican parties that we are getting some attention. Gotten quite a bit of attention from the convention. Scott bradley is your running mate, what does he bring to the ticket . For 20i have known him years. Hes a man of integrity and understands the issues that confront the country. Gifted incially issues from the west. Hes from utah and has a good understanding of federal control of land in the west, which is a big issue for all who do not own 90 of their own state. Those are the things he brings. Complete understanding of the country and the founding furthers Founding Fathers and the precepts under which they found that our government. Host as you look at the history of third parties in recent times since 1992 and 1996, the last time a third party had any Significant Impact in a general hard for why is it so you and other candidates to breakthrough in americas twoparty system . Because democrats and republicans control the system and control access to the ballot. The states with the most electoral votes like california and texas, new york, many other states, those states have the requirements for access to the ballot. Those are controlled by the democrats and republicans in the state legislature. Year ofn the ninth. Itigation against the state they always appeal. They control the process and you make the process exclusive and theys how for 160 years have traded power back and forth. Its like a drug. Once you have it, you dont want to give it up. Host we are talking with the Constitution Party president ial candidate. What is your goal in this cycle . My first goal is to be president. Along with that goal, my goal is to get the issues important to the Constitution Party and have both of the public hear them. To make the Constitution Party stronger and help build state parties around the country. Host our conversation includes your calls and comments. Open. One lines are if you are a member of the Constitution Party or thirdparty in general, give us a call. A call from michigan, good morning. Ask thei would like to difference between the tea party and Constitution Party and what is your view on the social issues going on . First heartrd the about the difference between the Tea Party Groups and Constitution Party. That is theo Constitution Party is a Political Party and the Tea Party Groups are political activists. A candidate for Public Office might say hes a member of the tea party. That means those groups support him, but it is not a legitimate Political Party like the Constitution Party. Host the second part dealt with social issues, whether it is a right or other hot button issues like that. Are you asking a question about where i stand on those issues . If you want to take the issue of abortion, we are certainly against it. Its a principle of the party and we believe strongly in the right to life and those waiting in their mothers limbs to be born are legitimate persons. Deserving of are the right to life. Samesex marriage as a social issue, if you want me to comment on that, im a i personally dont believe in it but i believe the government has no place in marriage to begin with. Wants you to buy a license to do everything but in my view, marriage is an act between us and god. God determines what marriage is and its not up to the government. This is from jd reading what is the constitutions party goal and what are you doing to get to the debate stage for the general elections . Do you have a strategy . Guest thats a good question. My friend with free andy has done some things to get us in debates and we usually end up relegated to third Party Debates the republicans and democrats control access to the debates and they are not going to legitimize other parties by letting them in, whether the Constitution Party, the green party or Libertarian Party. They are not going to let them into the debates because they assume if people had a chance to hear their views and see their candidates, they might choose someone different. It is a difficult process when you have a debate process set up and controlled by the two major parties. Is it too late for the Constitution Party this year . Will you be on my ballot in november . How many states will you be on the ballot . I dont know what state you are from, but we are on the ballot in 18 states. And wemoving forward expect to be on the ballot in enough states to theoretically win the election. If you tell me what state you are from, i could tell you whether we are on the ballot. We hope to be on the ballot in enough faith and i hope we will be. Maria, westville, new jersey, independent line. Thank you so much for broadening the conversation. I want to make a comment and i have a question. Thatmment is i feel jefferson said the tree of liberty has to be refreshed from time to time with the blood of tyrants and patriots. If everything is found on we, the people, what is our duty to . Arch on washington and the other thing i want to know is if the gentleman could what do you think of the import tariff replacing the irs . Could you have someone on from the american Citizens Party . Are covering all of the third parties not only here on and theton journal next one will be the libertarians. They gather in orlando, florida on memorial day weekend. I will try to answer as many of those comments as i can or member. Mass action and march on washington is certainly a right. Im a candidate for Public Office and national office, so ive pledged to not overthrow the u. S. Government by force. I dont advocate anything like i dont think mass i think mass action is a political right and is justified. The rest of the question, i think i remember a question about taxes and what would we do about it . Im an advocate of the constitutional taxes set out the taxing authority in the hands of the states and says tax should be collected through apportionment in the states as the census is apportioned. The states would be responsible, which would return power to them and take it away from washington. As far as taxes on imports, that is one of the planks in the Constitution Party platform. I personally have no problem with free trade. Im opposed to various free trade agreements, but if the i did to work out a deal with it says you dont charge us for trade, we wont charge you for trade, i see nothing wrong with that. Im not a person who wants to go in front of the American People and say everything you buy is going to cost a lot more. We have to be careful about too much tax on imports. It could provoke trade wars and damage the economy. Other than that type of fear, we certainly supported. Jody has friend tweeted back saying that she is from arkansas. Guest yes, i am on the ballot in arkansas. Vote for me and i would appreciate it if he would. Host whats the difference between the Constitution Party and Libertarian Party . Could there be a merger between them . There are many differences, but i can give you a couple of primary differences. The Libertarian Party supports open borders and we dont. We support secure borders. I read the other day there most likely candidate, gary johnson, he identified himself as an economic conservative. He said he was in favor of open borders and in favor of abortion, which he referred to as prochoice. Those are two primary differences. He said he was an economic conservative. I try not to label myself with the terms conservative or liberal or whatever they might be. I dont like to wear those labels but there are some differences like that. Host robert is joining us from south carolina. The independent line. Overr i hear over and that we dont have the right to ite for president , but believe we do. Would you clarify that . Guest are you talking about the Electoral College . The bush the gore decision. Question afy your little bit more. The right of citizens for the United States to vote for president or Vice President or senator or representative of congress should not be denied or abridged. The issue is voting for president or Vice President. Dont understand the problem. Why would you be denied the right to vote . Correctly,i recall chief Justice Rehnquist based bushinion on gore v. That people did not have the right to vote for president. But then it said 24 men and should not be abridged. That is what it says for sure. Host this is a call from another robert saying ask your guest to comment on roadblocks, if any to nullify third parties. I dont know about the term nullify, but they keep third parties from becoming a much louder voice by denying access to the ballot. It takes millions of dollars which thirdparty people do not have to gain access to the ballot. Thats because the requirements to get signatures and so many states are so high and egregious to hire people to collect those signatures for you. Ways except for programs like this. They are always refusing to into the debates and marginalizing the third parties and many other ways. Marginalized would be a better word, i think. This program is carried live on the Bbc Parliament channel. The newly minted Constitution Party nominee shes a graduate of east Tennessee University and earned his law degree from memphis state university. He was a retired u. S. Marine corps officer. Mike from tampa, florida, democrats line. Good morning. Caller good morning. I have a question regarding the Constitution Party. The efforts that you make to try to president and congress of the United States. I dont believe there are any members in congress that are members of the Constitution Party. Are you not just spinning your wheels . That might be your opinion. Its not my opinion. Theave no members in congress or the senate. We dont think it is spinning our wheels. We dont object to the two parties that have led the wentry for 160 years and offer people a return to Constitutional Government and they returned to the rule of law. Bebelieve theyre going to successful. People are going to go back to the charter of liberty, and that is the constitution and when they do, we are here. Another viewer saying i expected a thirdparty to be popular following the Anti Government sentiment out there with the rise of donald trump and senator sanders feeding into the antiestablishment fervor. Have you sent that with your own party and do you sense it is an area that you can tap into . Absolutely. Ive only been the nominee for here i am on but National Television and that hasnt happened in a while. We have had a tremendous response to my speech at the convention and cspan did it for me and then al jazeera covered and our emails and web responses are all growing. We sense it and we are going to try to take advantage of it. Decatur, arkansas. Good morning. Get us i want someone to quick as possible back to the constitution laws. The judges dont believe in the constitution. Walk onnk they can people and it says in the they can comehat on private property at any time to arrest anybody. This is my question. It says they cannot come on private property to arrest without a legitimate warrant. There are certainly act now that have given authority over the act like the patriot act and nsa security. In general, i certainly agree and i respect the constitution. Thats why im here. What i would say to people such as yourself is if you want things to be different, you will have to elect from people and choose Something Different besides democrats and republicans. Because for 160 years, they have led the country exchanging power back and forth, each time getting worse and worse. E do representative returns our next call is from memphis, tennessee on the independent line. Caller good morning. My question is a comment in regards to the constitution as a whole. I would like to hear your viewpoint on this. Word that has always been present in the constitution is we the people. That has not been properly defined because the reality is aristocracy provide for the common defense, provide for the general welfare and secure the blessings of for the slaves without rights under our federal control. The reality is the United States documente slaves to a formulated by a handful of purposes of for the maintaining a status quo in this country. Host thank you for the call. Are certainly entitled to your opinion. The constitution does provide under article five and avenue for amendment. If we think it is outdated or not valid, we can always amended and change it. But to ignore it is to ignore the rule of law and to elevate people in positions of public trust beyond what they have a right to have. The website is Constitution Party. Com and they issuesven fundamental that make up the party including life, liberty, family, property, the bill of rights, state rights, and american sovereignty. Ohio, goodm dayton, morning, democrats line. Good morning. My question is about the 10t