Nominee. Joining me now by satellite, senator marco rubio. Thank you for joining us tonight. Thank you, thank you. Great to see you. So you believe great the see you. You believe the majority of voters dont want donald trump but at this point in the contest you have yet to win a single race. With the understanding that past is prologue, what are you going to change to get a different result . Well, first of all, admit hes the frontrunner and im an underdog but i have been my entire life. From where i grew up and how i came to the Senate Running against the republican establishment to this race. When ive been hit by over 40 million of negative ads by establishment money but this is a country of underdogs, a nation of people that scratch and claw to move ahead and improve their laws and an important election. We wont allow the conservative movement to be defined by a nominee who isnt a conservative and need to elect someone prepared to be president in a thoughtful and serious and important way given the thoughts this country faces. So thats why a majority of Republican Voters are not supporting donald trump and once this race begins to narrow a little bit, you will see more of that support consolidating. We are in this situation that were facing and going to keep working hard and picking up as many delegates as we can. But i didnt hear anything in there talking about a change. An enthe question is whether you like being second because if you dont change anything, what are the odds that that numbers going to start changing for you . Well, were not going to change our message. This is why im running, because i understand we have real challenges. I know people are angry. What tactics . Thats why i ran in 2010. The tactics are the following. Every state is different. We want to go in with the resources we have and try to move numbers an endo that. So our tactics are not going to dramatically change. The biggest change in the campaign is when the people not named donald trump choices narrow and give the Republican Voters a clearer choice of who they want to get behind. Im as conservative as Anyone Running in the race. Record of 15 years of turning conservative ideas into conservative solutions up against Anyone Running but i can win. I can unify this party, grow the party and i will win this election. The democrats desperately dont want to run against me and attack me more than anyone else in the race and if we lose that means Bernie Sanders whos a socialist or Hillary Clinton whos under fbi investigation becomes the next president of the United States. So, its going to take a longer than people want but i feel good about it and no one will outwork us. Thats for sure. All right. Lets get some voters in here. This next issue is getting a lot of attention in the democratic race, a hot item with young Republican Voters, as well this is from tanya sue, shes here with her mom lydia and describe s herself as undecided and wants to ask about the cost of college today. What is your question for senator rubio . Good evening. Thank you so much for allowing me to be here tonight. Im a student and first in my family to further my collection. What would you do to provide opportunities for students to further their education while making it affordable and decreasing the student debt thats crushing americas youth. Yeah. Thank you, tanya, for the question. Thats an important one. Im the only republican running talking about student loan debt. I have a plan to deal with all of it and one of the reasons im passionate about it is because four years ago becoming a u. S. Senator until 2012 i still had over 100,000 in student loan debt. We have a comprehensive way to deal with it. The first is were going to provide more information. When im president , you will know how much people make graduating from the school youre going to with a degree youre seeking to make an informed decision of whether its worth borrowing thousands of dollars for a degree that may not lead to a job. We preel vid alternative ways for College Credit without paying for sitting in a classroom and 21st century, through alternatively acredited methods, you should be allowed to get credits without paying for it and shorten the time in school and its also going to open the door for Higher Education for nontraditional students. Third is to make incomebased repayment the automatic method of repayment. Rather collect 20 from man than default and ruin the credit and unable to buy home or start a business or whatever and the fourth thing to do in the provide alternative to Student Loans called the student Investment Plan and it would allow students, especially graduate students, to go to a private Investment Group and get them to pay for your tuition instead of a loan. If you make a lot of money, they make their money back like invested in a Small Business that was successful. If you dont make a lot of money, they lose their investment. But its better than a loan and doesnt sit on the Credit Report and all the risk is on the Investment Group so we have developed this straenl and because i feel passionately about it because i can tell you all right. The audience they wrapped you for me. They wrapped you for me. Thank you for that. I want to get to the questioner whos carrie, a Small Business owner hearing from tonight. As a businessman, he say that is he has a number of concerns and one in person is a big deal for him. Kerry, tell us your question. Thank you so much for taking time to listen to us tonight. Thank you. As a Small Business owner, we have a number of concerns. Taxes, excess regulation and Health Insurance. As a Small Business, we have a tough time affording Health Insurance for employees. I dont think thats fair. But the Health System is currently broken. What are you as president going to do to fix the broken Health Care System . We need more than repealing obamacare or breaking state lines. Right. We are going to repeal obamacare and replace it. I dont want do go back to the old system. That wasnt working well either. Substantial number of americans uninsured. By the way, only one running for president did anything about obamacare. I got rid of the bailout fund to use with your money to bail out private insurance companies. I led the effort to do that. Part is allowing everyone to control their own health care spending. Under my plan, you would be allowed to provide to your employees if you cant find insurance, you would be able to provide medical money, the equivalent of paying on their behalf to receive that money, only used for medical care but it would be tax free and not treated as income and they would be able to use it to fund Health Insurance any way they want, a Health Savings account, a combination of a Health Savings account and buying insurance of the kind they want from any company in america. You would be able to pool your resources with other similarly situated businesses for a coverage group. Again, it would give you more options. So what i want to do is provide more choices because that leads to more competition in the Health Insurance marketplace and it is through competition for better coverage, lower prices and Better Networks and thats a much better approach than we have now where the cost of the Health Care Exchanges where the companies are losing money, all being passed to the commercial plans and why the premiums keep going up. Very good, senator. Thank you. Well, the issue of Prison Reform is starting to bubble up in the campaign trail, as well. On both sides of the aisle. And as an interesting point of preference, it is one issue where the Obama Administration and the very conservative Koch Brothers find themselves in agreement and working together. You got president obama, van jones and charles koch agreeing on the same issue. Like your head is going to explode. Our next question from jake and hes a young student at baylor university. Welcome, jake. And your question . Thank you. My question is about Prison Reform. Currently there are several bills in the house and senate cosigned by democrats and republicans alike, all trying to fix the issue of mass incarceration. What would you do with the united front as president to solve this issue . Well, first of all, thank you for the question. Its an important issue but i think largely misunderstood. Federal crimes, vast majority of people not in jail for a small thing. The growth incarceration in the country largely of mandatory minimum sentences for violent offenders. Up until 1980s we had huge crime rates in america and then minimum mandatories kicked in around the 90s and you saw that people once quickly released returned back to the streets an committing crimes, much of the crime in america committed by recidivist and now being locked up and suddenly a plunge in crime rates. Thats the bulk of people incarcerated are. I wont undo that. I believe in mandatory Norman Mineta mum sentences. Im hoping to diverting people out of the system firsttime offenders and not a danger to society. I believe thats especially important for juveniles and young people who made a bad mistake or did something dumb and dont want them with the criminal Justice System business that stigma oftentimes leads to criminalization later on. The vast majority of people commit crimes as users are addicted or dependent. I dont want to see them in jail. Im hope to that. Coming to violent and dangerous criminals and drug dealers, i support minimum mandatory sentences because it worked to reduce the crime rate in america in the last 25 years. [ applause ] all right. We will have much more on the opposite side of this break. Opposite side of this break. Yes. You cant breathed. Through your nose. Suddenly, youre a mouthbreather. A mouthbreather how can anyone sleep like that . Well, just put on a breathe right strip and pow it instantly opens your nose up to 38 more than Cold Medicine alone. 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What is your ke . Senator rubio, you oof been criticized by right to rise being too prolife to be president. What are your positions on Stem Cell Research . As president will you veto legislation to help save a life at the cost of someone elses life . Well, first of all, i dont view it as that couple of choice. Theres all kinds of Stem Cell Research going on, including umbilical cord blood and all of that. What i do not support anything that leads to the creation of an industry of embryos for the purpose of cultivating stem cells because im prolife. I believe all human life is worthy of protection of the laws. Its a difficult issue. Largely comes up in the context of abortion. This is a hard issue. I get it. It puts two competing rights against each other, the right to choose what you do your body and the right of an unborn child to live. I have to make a choice which side will i be on . I have chosen the side of life. Its a human rights issue. I believe deeply all human life is worthy of the protection of our laws and we are a soc headed in the wrong direction fast and so thats my view. I feel passionate and deeply about it. I understand and respect americans that have a different view on it and i certainly believe we make advances on Research Without creating an industry where embryos are cultivated for purposes of accessing stem cells. So cord blood fine but Embryo Research absolutely not . Is that your position, senator . Yeah. Especially embryos for that purpose. Yes, absolutely. What about discarded embryos of ivf procedures . Thats a harder issue but its difficult whats hard about policing that, anyone can claim theyre discarded already and not for purposes of life. I just just to clarify very concerned about the industry. Just to clarify worried about an industry yeah. No. Understood. Just to clarify on the abortion issue, we talked about this at the first debate in august, you state now that you are you are against abortion even in the cases of rape or incest. Is that your position tonight . Yeah. What i said, i dont require those exceptions to support a law. I have supported laws with those exceptions because im interested in saving lives. I support the 20week abortion ban and has those exceptions. If im president , even though i dont personally require exemptions for those two things, i will support a law that has them because i am interested in saving as many lives as we can. Understood. Okay. Our next voter came here tonight hoping to put the question to donald trump. Since he could not be here, we have asked her to put the question to you, sir. Okay. An issue of a lot of emotion on the campaign trail and heres alison with a story and a question. Thank you. Senator rubio, recently a Muslim AmericanArmy Reservist denied access to a gun rage range in oklahoma and sign and saying its a muslim free facility. What is your opinion on this and do you think the rhetoric of the Campaign Season especially the antimuslim rhetoric increased the sentiment . Yeah. The story you just told me is wrong. Its immoral. We should not be doing that to people. Bottom line is millions of patriotic Muslim Americans. And if you go do a National Cemetery where we bury veterans of the service of our country you will see stars of davids and a cross and also crescent moons, Muslim Americans who have died in the service of this country. And so, our issue is not with patriotic Muslim Americans and islam but radical jihadis. Its a radical ideology. Threatens islam and the west. Isis, wants to kill all shia and all sunnis who do not agree with that you are own version of islam so we recognize the contributions that Muslim Americans make in this country and no one should be discriminated against in america because of religion or faith. I also think we have to recognize and i think the Muslim American community does that radical islam poses a threat. What did you make of the question of the rhetoric in the campaign putting some muslims in this position . You know, Muslim American who is are worrying about their sons and their daughters walking the streets and going to gun ranges and so on . Thats important. As president of the United States you have a mega phone and set the agenda and the tone for the country. We have a president thats divisive. We should not pit and divide americans against each other. A weak i we we are camible of recognizing the threat of radical islam without demonizing a religion. Many don the uniform and die on behar of our freedoms and liberties. All right. Well get on to the next question, which is on the plan announced by president obama on tuesday to close the u. S. Military prison in guantanamo bay, cuba. Transfer the detainees to a facility inside the United States. Carolyn, what is your question for the senator . Senator rubio, president obama announced to close gitmo. Would yo