John president ial candidates made some good promises this year, well get to them. But much of what they said was terrible. Well start with the worse promises. The tenth worse promise is from donald trump. Im a free trader. A lot of conservatives say donald trump does not like free trade. I want smart trade. John smart trade. Whats wrong with that . Here to help us understand, day began mcdowell and katherine manguward. Manguward. What is smart trade. When people agreed grow to when people agree to trade goods. If we push them across the Pacific Ocean to china, none of that changes. Its still smart trade according to the two people swapping things. John i guess donald trump means the government decides. Trade is just a Production Technology that aloud us to get more things for less in both countries. John he has a way to decide kinds of on the campaign trail. In trump sometimes got specific about how he would fix trade. He wants a 45 tax on imports from china. And if an American Company brings in anything from mexico. You are going to pay a 35 tax every time it crosses the border. We have to or we are not going to have a country left. Everyone is ripping us. This is insane. I dont want my iphone to cost 5,000. If you put a tariff on imported chinese goods across the board, you are going to crush lower Income America its easy to say that. We should be worried, because more and more in recent years the executive branch has been hand power over trade to impose tariffs because congress doesnt want to touch it because they moist has a tendency to be swayed by populist notions. One of the populist notions is Steel Workers have lost jobs and they are angry. We have been fighting over trade especially over steel tariffs. Trump will have no respect for the world trade organization. John tariffs can change where we produce things and how we can produce them. When we see an Assembly Line that helps lower costs. If you put a tariff on chinese goods, that production is not going to come back to the United States where it would be more expensive. It will go to a lowercost country and you are seeing that with some manufacturing from china to other Southeast Asian countries. Candidates say we are going to bring the jobs back and everyone says great. Whatever that takes, you do it. I understand it. You drive down through the south, factories are gone and factories are gone. Its been going on for 35 years. People feel ignored. But that doesnt mean the solutions you are hearing are correct. John free education. Make every Public College and university in this country tuitionfree. [applause] john free stuff. It boggles my mind that people are looking at what happened with Public Education in this country k12 in the last couple decade, increased spending, no better result, and saying lets duplicate that to the preschool and college level. Every time the president ial candidate promises something for free, a small piece of their soul dies. There is no such thing as free. Thats why we are soulless. What is the cost, who pays it, and is it worth it . If sanders is going to make college free for everybody. Its not free it just means some people will pay for other peoples kids to study worthless majors that dont bring them jobs. I dont want my tax dollars to be used to turn generations of kids to be colded and told her wonderful. John not all colleges. A quarter Million Dollars in some. It isnt just college they are offering free. Hillary clinton says well give you have free preschool. Free preschool. As a mother of two preschoolers i should be the target audience and it still doesnt sounds like a great idea to expand it. True story, john. But explain why it should terrify other people. A lot of people say i need daycare and some families dont know how to teach the kids. Do you think the k12 Education System is doing a good job educating our children . How about parenting . How does that sound . Its free for the taxpayer that are parenting. Teach your kid at home. Of course people want to have something to do with their kid. But i cant imagine the best thing to do with them is to han. John most people think i dont know what the curriculum will be. This will give my kid a head start. Going up against that are significant government studies of universal preschool which show kid that very, very small advantages going to kindergarten. Some of these studies show by third grade they are actually doing worse than their peers on behavioral measures. My dad taught me how to build a shed in the backyard. Thats what you will learn at home. Im proud of that. John people say my dad didnt do that. But what are we going to do for the people whose dads dont. You are right, these experiments havent worked. Oklahoma scores went down. I support a 12 National Federal minimum wage. A living wage. 15 an hour. Yawn what wrong with that. John whats wrong with that. They might launch into that argument, what about 20, 50, 100. John they determined this is the reasonable amount. The federal minimum is 7. 25. If you double the federal minimum wage it will be crushing for low skill workers, particularly teenagers getting their first job, trying to build the basic skills of showing up for a job and collecting a paycheck. I heard that from the employers. You look at buffalo wild wings. The ceo said in places like seattle where there is a 15 minimum wage we are not going to take a chance on a teenager if i have to pay that person 15. Critic would say these are fox anecdotes. Paul krugman says there is no evidence raising the minimum costs jobs. And the studies are a little vague. The studies look at the existing changes in minimum wage the last 20 years, which is fingering with the numbers. A lot of these are rollover employment. When we talk about doubling the federal minimum, there will be no ambiguity left. When you talk about the Democratic Party who say they want to help immigrant. Can you mawng come to this country legally. Checked all the boxes and done the hard work. They might need a little training and extra help. This is when the private sector can work on its own. Walmart raising its wages for 1. 2 million associates. The average pay is 13. 40 an hour. John the unions say they only raised their wage because they saw the minimum going up and that prompted them to do it. The unions want them to do it so they get more negotiating leverage in terms of work rules. Seiu is backing Hillary Clinton but they are also funding the fight for 15 and behind Bernie Sanders on that. They will take it where they can get it. Most Union Workers arent making the win mum wage. They want a minimum wage to price out substitutes for the wealthy Union Workers. John if you say to somebody, how many workers make the minimum wage in america . Some would say 20, 30, 50 . Its 5 . The free market gets companies to pay well above the minimum wage. Its across the board. John more our countdown coming up. Big promises about stopping terrorism. Well utterly destroy isis. Well carpet bomb them into oblivion. I dont know if sand can glow in the dark, but we are going to find out. Welcome back to our political proisms countdown. The 7th worst promise comes from in my opinion all the republicans still in the race. Well have a reaganstyle rebuilt of the United States military. It will be bigger and bert and stronger than ever before. Well utterly destroy isis. Well carpet bomb them into oblivion. I dont know if sand can glow in the dark. But we are going to find out. John there were two promises made there, lets start with the first, rebuilding the military. Its moments like this i miss rand paul. There used to be a guy on stage who would say there is another way to approach this question. Now they are outbragging each other. I think there is a lot of good reasons to say we need to rethink hour we are allocating our military spending. Im very sure that the number of raw dollars is not looking. The United States typically spends as much as the next eight countries in the globe and thoaft most them are our allies. We could probably make ourselves safer if we get out of places where we have been poking hornets nests. Donald trump advocates spending more on defense, then in his tax plan he codifies whats already in practice. He says almost half of american households wont have to pay any income tax. That means every one of those of you individuals is not paying one time to our military and not paying one time to the people in uniform who are out there fighting for us. John what about their point about the quantity we are spending its more than everybody else combined. Its less than a percent of our gdp. I think if there is a role for government, its to defend the nation. John 700 billion isnt enough . That would be a loot of money. But if you are measuring it as a percentage of tour economy. Is it that much harder to defend our borders . It should be dropping. John marco rubio says we gut the military and have the smallest military since world war ii and the Smallest Navy in 100 years. They have say so we are going to make government smarterren we are going to cut where we can cut. And in the department of defense, that never happened. It has never happened. This is the place where the 800 screwdriver or toilet seat. We never cut defense, we always spend more. No one has given a good accounting of how they are going to pay for it. These are marketoriented republicans who think the military can run the post office. I do believe weve have a Strong Military and i would gladly pay nose soldiers more. John the question is ways strong. Cruz talked about carpet bombing them into oh tblifon. He did say well carpet bomb where isis is, we are not going to level cities, and hes less hawk i shall than some of the on the hes less hawkish than the other republicans. When the most comforting thought you can sum moneys a candidate for the presidency doesnt understand the definition of carpet bombing. He means indiscriminate bombing of a large area to kill everyone there including civilians. John he says going into libya was a disaster. The sirrian civil war is not in americas interest. Hes trying to sound cool. He thinks the phrase carpet bombing sounds cool. He thinks americans think killing a bunch of innocent people sounds cool. Come on. Thats harsh, nate. These are awful people. Some of them really want to murder us and it makes people say kill them over here before they have kill us over there. The them is the problem. When he says carpet bomb them. John and it creates new terrorists. Do you not agree our being over there has made more terrorists want to murder us . I pushed back on that. Then that gets into the very liberal narrative of we deserved 9 11 somehow. It starts us walk down that road that somehow we asked for that. Im not buying it. Did you know one republican candidate still in the race promised to create you a new Government Agency for jeu day ohchristian values. When you think about success, what does it look like . Is it becoming a better professor by being a more adventurous student . Is it one day giving your daughter the opportunity she deserves . Is it finally witnessing all the artistic wonders of the Natural World . Whatever your definition of success is, helping you pursue it, is ours. Tiaa. Chris capuano you might feel like theres too many problems in the world or that, you know, you, as a 15yearold, 16yearold, cant really make a difference. Giancarlo stanton its not always about you. Its not just one person, its a group, its a team. If we all show up together thats what its all about. Kari foley i was a part of helping to build what it is today. Neil kirsching im really lucky to get to be a part of that legacy. Chris capuano just that simple act that takes, you know, five or ten minutes of your time is making a difference and is transforming someone elses life. Giancarlo stanton once you get there and realize how much you can change someones life, its one of the best feelings in the world. Mauricio id do anything to convince you just to be a part of this. Giancarlo stanton you guys keep doing what youre doing its something special. Chris capuano get up and try somethingjust try it. Just go to one event one action team event. Margaret itll just make you feel so good about yourself. Our worst political promise countdown continues. Anybody killing a police officer, Death Penalty. Its going to happen. Cant let this go. John whats wrong with this . For starters the war on cops, thats a strong concept. John implies more being killed. There arent more being killed. Since the 1970s its been cut in half. John why not execute those who do kill cops. I dont trust the government to run Death Penalty. Given the abuse of police power we have been seeing. We should be more worried about protecting citizens from cops. Im for the Death Penalty and i think it abuse of power by cops is overstated. John what about the time when they break into a house and some scared home own per shoots a cop . How about the dramatic increase in cops just this year in the beginning of february, cops dieing in the line of duty. John there was a dramatic increase. Cutting from 1976 to now in half is not a cherry pick. You can call your grab why it next time someone breaks into your house. Im from texas, i dont call anyone. I go to the safe. Thats a good point. We can have black lives matter and the war on crops be see you mundane was issues in this election. John a republican candidate promises to create a new Government Agency. The new agency that has a clear mandate to promote the core judeochristian western values we and our friend and allies share. Im even doing this. We are going to create a Government Agency. You will not establish john he walked this back. He said you dont need a new agency. Once we defeat isis, then we can engage in the battle of ideas so the radical groups dont pop up. People say he seems almost sane. But its part and parcel with trump saying we are going to put a travel ban on all muslims. The notion we are using peoples religious affiliations to dictate our political priorities is totally backwards. All these social issues fall by the wayside and there is a quote in the wall street journal, saying i want a leader, not a preacher. People dont want the government dictating how they worship. John if they want a leader, they want to be led. That frightens me as a libertarian. Why would this republican propose a new agency. Arent they into shrinking the state . I remember when during gop debates they would talk about agencies they are getting rid of. Dont we have a separation of church and state . Its the first amendment. And the government shall not establish a church and it provide for governments are involved in counter propaganda, trying to figure out how to discourage people from being recruited by jihadists online. And you have got to seat goat video game the f. B. I. Came up with. John they are already doing this, but now we are going to get more from john kasich. The candidate who promised to investigate ufos and the rest of the worst promises. John continuing our countdown of this years worst political promises. Number four for something that sound so good to some people. My proposal to provide healthcare to all people, get private insurance out of health insurance. Get private inout of health insurance. The kind government will take care of us. You wont have to fill out the forms. This from the party who during the Obama Administration says everybody has to buy private understand. Yawn they had to compromise. John they had to compromise because they knew they couldnt get single pair. Bernie sanders cant do that by himself. With a village he cant do that. Universal healthcare says im going to abolish the laws of scarcity. He will say you get healthcare, you dont. You get it today, but not tomorrow. They only tart doing that when the entire system is bankrupt. Thats why medicare wont work. John in vermont they tried this, they passed single payer healthcare, and several year later they study it, and the democrats who were supposed to put it it costs too much. Could create difficulties. It was unsustainable. I argue with my parent all the time. You are taking more out of the system in term of healthcare than you ever put into it. Around drain on the system. Im paying for your healthcare. Thats why medicare is going broke and it will run out of money in 14 years. Bernies prop is are predicated on the math based on the astronomical economic growth. There are economists that say that its the same as flying puppy dogs with lotto tickets. John prop is number three cape when a reporter in New Hampshire asked Hillary Clinton, what your stance on ufos. She replied im going to get to the bottom of this. I used to go to the air and space museum when i was a kid. I thought nasa and the Space Program and flight was such an inspiration. If we can map the human genome we can look to outer space. John spend your own money on it. Im with da with dagen on this one. Astronauts into space on russian rockets. Thats sad. John what does it have to do with the government investigating area 51. John worst prop is number two, donald trump will stop illegal immigration and it will be easy. Dont worry, folks, well be building a wall. [cheers and applause] are you ready . And who is going to pay for the wall . [mexico] you Better Believe it. John mexico is going to pay for the wall and hes leading. If he wants to make sure there are fewer mek cans in the youth he bert make sure his wall have a door. When up grants come to the United States, they make our economy stronger, they benefit greatly, but the native born get wealthier. And contrary to crazy claims it doesnt steal our jobs or depress our wages. It warped my heart to hear people it warmed my heart to hear people shouting at a trump rally, mexico schai schaim. Sending money, people who come to first world countries send mone