This guy is a divider and we have made the mistake of joining along and we are doing the same thing. We are being just as vitriolic as he is right back at him. It doesnt help this country. We need a message ladies and gentlemen that is a positive message for americas future. Something that includes all americans and it. We should be the party. The Republican Party is the party of the union. We want to unite people. The Democratic Party wins elections by dividing america into classes and groups. That is how they win and they go out and try to pump up the boats within their own little groups. The Democratic Party is a collection of these groups labor unions and trial lawyers abortion activists environmentalists. That is who they are. All these little groups. That is not who we are. That is not who the Republican Party is. We are the party that is a broadbased party that doesnt rely on any special Interest Group to fund us. That is who we are. Theres a message that appeals to that broad group. Great, thank you. Are you ready for some questions . [applause] we will start off over year. My name is emily and i go to the university of dallas. My daughter graduated from there. Any talk about the rising cost of College Education . That is one of the toughest issues out there. I can say a lot of controversial things right now but i probably wont. Better left for the private conversation only that doesnt exist in america anymore either. First you have to question the value of a College Education with the cause. Thats a fundamental question we see a lot of folks encouraging people not to go to college. You have to look at the nature of college. There are some great schools. Most of them are liberal education. Theres a study done by the university of texas that says 62 of kids are coming to colleges in America Today with a faith conviction and leave without it. Are we really doing the country a favor by sending our best and brightest so they can be stripped of their faith so they can be told the world is about more relativism than godlessness and all the things that are pounded into them. I remember giving a speech at yale university. Two months before the 2012 election i was asked to speak. I was asked by one of these old debating societies that has been around for years to come and speak to their campus. Seven parties and if they like what they have to say they pound on the table and if they dont they hate us so you sort of know how you are doing. They are very active in that regard. Eyes had spoken there once before on radical islam so i said i will come back. Its a fun thing to do. I showed up and when i went the first time they were probably 200 kids. I came in 2000. The largest crowd they have ever had. Do you know what the subject was . Resolve. The government is destroying the american 2000 kids showed up to hear it. They were ready. They were ready to pounce. I went out there and i said lets define our terms. I defined with the family is and what is the purpose of the family was serviced as a cap to society. What sustains a family sedan just walked through it all. When i finish not a person left. It was 90 degrees with no airconditioning. People cannot table me one after another every stripe you could possibly imagine it said the same thing to me. I have never heard any of that before. One of the elite universities of our country and they have never heard any of that before. It goes back to the fundamental question. How much do we want the federal government to subsidize your liberal education in america . Are we doing kids any favors by putting them through this and having these huge bills and a huge bill to the federal government for what they are getting . The answer is i think there needs to be dramatic reform within the educational institutions of this country if they want to come to the federal government and say we deserve to have more support from the federal government. We have a question over here. Is controversial. Thank you for coming to speak with us. My name is phil wegman and i good at hillsdale college. a la although i know them all as a problem. You talk about how republicans can tailor their message to workingclass families. Would you comment on the Exportimport Bank which is coming up for reauthorization in september and how that institution affects the local guy . I think its a mistake for us to be out there focused on the exim bank. I agree with the string of libertarianism in a Republican Party that says that government doesnt do a lot of things well particularly when it comes to interfacing with the business sector. I agree and support most of that agenda. I think one of the problems with an ideology is that its an ideology and it has no foundation in practical roots of what goes on in society. I always say that the federal governments job when it comes to every business is to create a level Playing Field. Government is going to be involved in a needs to set rules. I know there might be some who say we dont need Big Government but i dont think there are many out there. Government needs to exist and it needs to be a Playing Field is level for everybody. Heres my point i make this point in the book repeatedly. The problem with manufacturing is this different than every other business in america. Why is it different . Wegmans, the Grocery Store competes with another Grocery Store down the street. Walmart competes with target. Citibank competes with bank of america. You can go on down the list. Any restaurant, aei to heritage, they are all in competition. Thats great. They all have a level Playing Field that when youre a manufacture your competition is not the manufactured down the street. Someone from mexico, malaysia or china so when the American Government looks at how we create a level Playing Field for manufactures we cant just look at other manufacturers in the United States. We have to look at how do we compete and how do we create a level Playing Field visavis the competition that exists around the world . That is why you have to look at our tax rates and say well the tax rates for manufactures should be the same. We should look attacks rates around the world and see what our tax rates are compared to others and look at the regulations, the same thing. Financing is another thing. Every major government and every export country in the world has a similar or much more intrusive agency than exim bank that subsidizes in a great way the financing of exports. And to suggest that we say because its a Government Agency involved in business its a bad thing and we should get rid of it, we are tying the hands of our manufactures. The availability of credit for big projects. Small banks wont do it and a lot of the bigger banks wont do. He becomes a big problem particularly for smaller manufacturers to get the credit they need to be able to do these exports. So i understand the ideology and i dont know how many of you know russell kirk but russell kirk was as conservative as you can get but he also understood that compromise is not a bad thing. We cant just be rigid in complying applying these principles. Not everything is the same. It mostly works. Sometimes you say well in this case this principle needs to be amended. That is not a bad thing. I know in the world of interest politics that compromises. There is good compromises and bad compromises. I defined did find it in my career in the senate consistently this way. A bad compromise is doing less, getting less of a bad thing so if you can work with ted kennedy and he wants to pass some terrible pill and you can water down so it doesnt hurt as bad thats a bad compromise because you know its going to hurt but if you compromise with ted kennedy in order to when i was there in order to get something that but less of it thats a good compromise. We have to stop compromising your bad things and be willing to compromise to get less good things. That is how the left was able to eventually do what they are doing. They were always willing to compromise on taking less of the loaf. The next day come back for the next piece. And we dont. We stand for if you cant get this and we are not for it. Thats just stupid. Its not how you move the ball. Another question down here. Link and cover from saint louis mr. And i will be attending wheaton in the fall. I know you mentioned about how your message to bluecollar workers was specifically what brought you close to clinching the republican nominee. What is the message and how we need to frame it looking at 20 2016. What i talk about in the book and the message i deliver is we need to have a message that focuses on three major areas. Number one we have to have a message that focuses on energy and manufacturing. There was a company that was sold six months ago called what app. Remember this . So for 55 billion, excuse me 19 billion, 19 billion. 55. Those are jobs. Do you want to talk about redistributing wealth . Create employment in areas that by its nature creates jobs for more americans. Technology is great and im not knocking technology that 19 million for 55 people, its good because of the value that Technology Brings but its not putting anything on the table for average working americans. If we can focus on energy first, and why energy is important because as we know the principle costs of energy cost to the average working american is as much a part of their budgets as anything else so we can keep Energy Prices down that helps. It creates an environment where manufacturing can aspire. We allow for the exploration for natural gas low and stable. We have other things we need to do and i talk about the tax bill and a whole lot of other things. I grew up in a small town people did well. People have to have a decent job to bring home a decent wage to support their family. That is a huge impact on the american psyche. Theres a political element to that. What a manufacturers locate . Dont locate in blue america. They locate in red america. What is happening with demographically in our countries more and more people are being pulled in to the cities and what does that happens they are lost because they get involved in a culture thats very different than the small towns and rural areas they grew up in in their thinking becomes very different. Creating opportunity for smalltown Rural America to create economic viability. I came from pennsylvania and i was every little town in pennsylvania that existed because some sort of manufacturing or mining or timber, the mill was there and that is where the town grew up. We need to receive those communities so people can live in the communities they grew up in and people want to get out of the rat race. You going going to smalltown and Rural American raise the children away the children away in a way thats consistent with their values. Two other things and i will be real quick. The second thing is education. I was with governor mike pence in indianapolis. Hes proud of the fact that he is putting Vocational Education back in every high school in america. We allow the left to strip Vocational Education out of our schools. 70 of americans dont have a College Degree and we are not giving them the tools that are necessary. Yoyou are a generation that does not use tools. The first generation in Human History that does not use tools. He can fix anything. We need people who know how to work with their hands and by the way if some of you love to go out in the garden and love to go to fix things, i fix things and its much more gratifying. Politicians may never know whether what you produce produce good enough that he can tell what you built is good or not. Or something gratifying about doping something. And the final thing, the family. We need to focus on marriage. Not the definition of marriage but reclaiming marriage is a public good. Marriage is the most important factor. All the studies done by the obama about income equality. And everyone at the studies the number one determinant of whether you are economically successful or not number one by far was marriage. Whether you came from married family or were intermarried relationship. Every family in america is a little business. Has a budget in income and expenses. The word economy comes from the greek word which means home. Every home is a little economy and when those little economy struggle and suffer because they are broken broken and there are not two people using their efforts to make things successful, only one than america fails. Those are the three things i would talk about a focus on. Im twothe eagle forum coli gins leadership summit. From booktv, this is 25 minutes. Our next speaker is emily miller and her talk is on emily gets her gun that obama wants to take yours. Emily miller is the chief Investigative Reporter for the fox affiliate wtt g. Channel 5 in washington d. C. She previously served as Senior Editor at the Washington Times and the comments economist at aol. Emily served as Deputy Press Secretary at the department of state for secretaries of state colin powell and condoleezza rice. She graduated at Georgetown University school of foreign service. Please welcome emily miller. [applause] its always hard to follow a big ask but i know you can do it. I am talking about guns. That always brings out always brings outages. Thank you for having me. I might be here and so honored to be in the presence of all you guys. I miss i wish ms. Schlafly was here she says such an example for conservative women for those of us out there fighting for her. As i said im talking about gu guns. On the cover of my book i have myself covering a gun which is my own gun. And got around the corner and found him stand outside of about 15 other men then melissa and the cme. And that turned in quickly ran back. And to become an thing now. The license plate and so thats where i walked into. And by the grace of god i was not heard. Killing to bet that was terrified. What if god forbid they act out. And so if you just dont know. The first time in my entire life i have a chance to defend myself i took my friends dress. Try to barricade myself. At the Washington Times was fine. Guncontrol laws that no more arrows in the country. Overturns the complete ban on ownership. But after nine the Supreme Court acted. All these gun control laws. And started going through it. A written test. It ended up. Took four months. And so did hear those. Is that right . And those of you are not reacting to my but youre from the northeast. It takes 17 steps of four months and i dont get it. As normal. Its so hard to exerciser Second Amendment right to. In america recognizes that part of the constitution. Thats shocking. A mile away. He walked into a gun store. And not mentally ill. Not a drug addict. Hot the state background check. Its because sen after i decide who have been through all of a sense of what guncontrol laws do. Soon after that we had two factors. All reelected and that always this currently antigun and openly sell the second horrific thing that happened. The children and educators who were shot and killed by a homicidal maniac. Now i think all of us, every human being was distraught over this and the idea that these children were killed. But what president obama did and what is different now. Functionality. They ignorance is widely exposed after the white house released a photo of president obamas de shooting. The New York Times incorrectly labeled a gun and rifle instead of a shotgun. For those of you that dont know this, rifle shoots a single bullet while i shotgun fires many pilots. Skeet shooting is done with a shotgun in order to have a chance at hitting plate. It is difficult to do. It would be impossible with the rifle. They are not shotguns. Every newspaper uses the term assault weapon. Highcapacity magazine to my clips, technical terms. These are not functional terms weapons of war. But the average gun owners possession. Continually astonished the hon remarkable quantities of ammunition. Once again in New York Times editorial involved boats and questioned why both purchases are not monitored by the government. Apparently they did not realize a casual shooting go through a thousand rounds of original we can become a reasonable and costeffective cox quarter a large amount of one time theftproof. I went to my closet to see how much ammunition i own. I have 1500 rounds. It takes up about as much space is mighty veld. When you hear arsenal it is as much. So this book and wanted to get out. It is the facts. The three most important, i hope he will take away. Number one no gun control laws are reduced crime. Common sense guncontrol laws tatami wind. And that is not part of this. The centers for disease control, Government Agency cannot find one that reduced crime. Harvard university, not in exactly a bastion of conservative thought to the same study. Number two, there is no correlation between gun ownership and gun crime. What i mean by that is war guns in civilian hands. There is no increase in gun crime. Less guns . Why . There is adhered less gun ownership. Halfhour american houses have begun. However, gun control, gun crime has gone down every year for the past 20 years to the point that gun murders are down 50 in the past 20 years. You talk about people who were shopped down 70 a news so damn crime is like this. It is not actually accurate to say morgans lead to more crime. However, the rescue organization polled this question. Do you think and crime is up, the same, or down. Nine out of ten americans said gun crime gun murders, gun killing is up. So that means there is only one out of ten people and the cou