Nice. Thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. Thats it for special report, fair, balanced and unafraid. Dont forget full election coverage tomorrow. I will be in new york. Greta goes on the record right now. Welcome to the empire state and tonight on the record in new york on the campaign trail with president ial candidate Ohio Governor john kasich, governor kasich is just wrapping up a Campaign Event here in huntington, long island at the beautiful Paramount Theater. [cheers and applause] and just over two weeks two weeks from tonight new yorkers will hit the polls. But tomorrow the great state of wisconsin is on the line and joining me here isqa c c president ial candidate Governor John Kasich from ohio. Nice to see you, governor. Thank you, greta. [cheers and applause] and now my first question to you, governor, governor, 48 years ago tonight Martin Luther king was candidate for democratic nomination robert f. Kennedy announced at a rally the death of Martin Luther king. A lot has happened in the last 48 years. We have dealt with ferguson and dealt with baltimore. How do you assess or describe the state of Race Relations today . Well, the one thing that i do remember i was still pretty young, but i do remember how Bobby Kennedy got up on the car and asked the people to have, you know, to remember this but not to riot. He calmed the crowd down and
what a time that was. In our state, greta, as you know, we have had some tough decisions involving police in community. These three ladies came to me andz the leader, a lady named nina turner, state senator, africanamerican, she said we need to get on this because we know there are decisions coming that are going to be tough from the courts. She said i want to have, you know, a commission. I said no, no, lets not do a commission. Lets get this thing going and come up with some recommendations. I was able to get her involved and the two other ladies. She became the chairperson of this thing. And our head of Public Safety who ran the Highway Patrol became the other chairperson. And the two of them, you any, we brought them on. Her by the way, ninas son is a Police Officer. We had police, we had community activists, we had ministers and we sat down to say how could we improve police and Community Relations . Two days in the baltimore
riots they came out with the unanimous report that number one creates a statewide policy for the use of deadly force and secondly recommendations on hiring recruiting and now were trying to get the community and the police together. The community realizing that dad wants to go home or mom wants to go home at night not v in a box and their Police Officer and second for the Police Officers to understand the concerns of the community. That has served us well in ohio. And it goes way beyond that here are the things that i felt were so important. Number one, woe worked to fix the cleveland schools, which is largely. H minority. We reformed them dramatically on bipartisan basis. It was really cool. Secondly, we are now saying that we have set aside programs for the minority business people. I believe in giving them a jump start. For the first time in ohio history, we are actually meeting the goals that were set. Thirdly, we have reformedrdfj4 the criminal justice system
to give people a chance to work themselves out of prison. You know, in addition to that we ban the box. If you were a nonviolent felon and came in and apply for the government how are you doing . You check this box that say you you are a felon. We take it and throw it in the trash can. Right now we have banned the box. Can you explain what you did when you were a young man or young woman and we have eliminated these collateral sanctions. We have given people a path so if you were a nonviolent felon, you canteven cut hair in many places in the country today. We have changed that we are giving folks a chance to believe in the Minority Community that they can rise, greta. But we have a long way to go. Still too much poverty. Too much unemployment. Thats why the schools have to change. Thats why the skills have to be given to the young men and the young women so that they can have, they can fulfill their godgiven purpose. Look, im very concerned about this because when we have americans who feel that
the system doesnt only just work for them, but can work against them. We have to remedy that. Let me tell you a little bit about welfare and yont go on and on but this is a complicated question. Somebody take a woman with two kids, single mom, right now she can, in some cases not take a pay raise or promotion because she loses more than what she gains. Why dont we have a system who the people who are the working poor have an opportunity to rise and welfare system that makes sense. So a mom can make more money without losing her child care. [ applause ] these are the kind of things that we have to think about. [ applause ] one more thing i want to tell you about. Just one more thing i want to tell you. I went in one of our urban school districts. They hadve 63 Graduation Rate. I met these people that mentor kids. They are from the businesses. They spend an hour a week for a year. The Graduation Rate in that
high school is 97 . We need to grab our children and tell them that they are special and give them guidance, love, and encouragement. And thats across the board of particularly people who come from an area where they are extremely poor. I think we need to pull together as americans. [ applause ] governor, members of Law Enforcement come up to me all the time they feel like they are under siege inj this country, that a lot of people are against them. A lot of people are for them but they feel a lot of people are against them. They see a Supreme Court justice can go off on an expensive trip and just notify violent ethics information saying that they are going off on the trip but they cant get a free cuppen of blends and doughnut some place without getting in trouble. They see such a discrepancy in terms of what they can do and what they see other people in government can do. Thats just nuts, first of all. I understand it but Law Enforcement in this country feels like they are getting the short end of the stick. A lot of them do. First of all, we need common sense in the country, period. [ applause ] earlier today at hofstra, we cant even do a handshake anymore. We have got to have five of contracts. Lets get back to simpler tidges. Lets talk about Law Enforcement. We love Law Enforcement. They protect us, right . We love them. We love them. At the same time, and they will be the first ones to actors, people who have not been trained appropriately and overreact in a situation, they dont want those folks to be anything other than retrained and in some cases let go. But i believe the public loves Law Enforcement. I have no doubt in my mind about it because we know that if you run them down, how are they going to protect us and we have seen some of these horrific assassinations. Remember the Police Officer shot in new york city. We had one shot in ohio. And we know that when we degrade Law Enforcement officers like in baltimore stimentsz youin dont get them to do the polices they need to do. We have had two controversial decisions in cleveland. One was a couple in a car they had bullets shot in 147 times. They were unarmed. Nobody was found to bed in a position of being charged with anything. No violence. We had a 14yearold man shot and killed in cleveland, and there was a no bill returned from the grand jury. I said protest, no violence. We didnt have any. So when you pull communities together, they begin to understand the difficult job that Police Officers have and i believe that Police Officers want to be fully integrated into the community, greta. Its working in our state. The proofs in the pudding. Question from audience member. Question from donald. Donald, your question . Welcome to long island, mr. Kasich. My question is. My family has owned Construction Business over 60 years. Regulation and taxes have taken a heavy toll on the industry and family business. How will you help provide the businesses that helped build america. Look, there is three things that you need to have job growth. If you go to a doctor, and say doctor, how can i be healthy economically. You go to the economics doctor, here is what you need common sense regulations that dont strangle your small business. And every time you get another rule, another paper, another, this another that, it hurts yourjs family business. Am i right . Yeah. Thats number one. Common sense not no regulations. They Small Businesses employ our kids. Small businesses in my state Small Businesses pay no income tax. We got rid of it small
businesses are the economic growth. In our country we need to bring down the top rate. Some people say we are going to have a flat tax after 10 . And then after that we have a chicken in every pot. We have to be realistic about what we can achieve. We can bring these rates down. We g can simplify the system. And finally we need to have a path towards a balanced budget and we have to have good workforce training in our schools. All right. 3300 earmarks in the tax bill. Special interest by somebody in washington getting somebody to put those. In what are you going to do about 3300. I would love to have the line item veto. You dont have it. Let me tell you the way this works. I just sat with a group of legislators in my state in wisconsin and they got all these tax credits they want to stick in. I said were north doing that because were going to have swiss cheese out of our tax system. So you have got to work with the people in the congress. If you bash them all the time, you will get nowhere. You have got to inspire them to raise higher than what
they normally do. And we have to simplify the system. I dont think there is. There is that chicken in the spot if you think you are going to get congress to do that. I think there is no question, greta, that you can simplify the system, but i think the individual tax reform is the hardest thing to achieve. It would be easier to do a balanced budget, lower corporate taxes. Get on a path to a balanced budget, have common sense regulations than it is to do the individual tax reform. It hasnt happened since 1986, but, with dedicated republicans and democrats who are smart and understand that this code is keeping us from creating jobs. It will take time but i believe you can get it done. I was there. I did all these things. I was there when we cut the Capital Gains tax. Balanced the federal budget. The same in ohio. I know how to do this. You have a question from deanna in the audience. What is your question. Good evening, governor cwby9 island. Half years since super storm
sandy impacted the island and the east kez g coast fema ad the federal government have eliminated supplemental policies. I started when i purchased my home paying 2,200 a year in Flood Insurance premiums. Its now ue to 3,600. And with the fact that they are no longer supplementing the program, when i go to sell my house to the new homeownersu they will need to pay 9 to 10,000 Flood Insurance premiums in addition to homeowner premiers. How am i supposed to sell my house. How are the people on long island supposed to change with this change in policy and budgeting . Thank you. I think there is two. I got asked this the other day when i was in queens because even there they were hit by sandy. You know it, seems to me that there is two kind of
category. Im just telling you what im thinking outloud because i havent investigated it. There is one group of people who absolutely live in an area where they expect that they are going to get hit at some point. There is another group of people which i would argue would be you who would just because of this catastrophic impact you shouldnt get penalized for because you are not doing what the first person did because you are living in a place thats safe. We have to deal with it we cant just run you out. Look, when you are an executive like i have been in ohio, when these kind of things come up, you have to deal with them and you have is being impacted and what is the proper way to go about helping them . You cant turn your back on people who had a big storm come in. Have your house flooded and walk away from it its not the right thing to do. Some will say the conservative approach. Okay. Final. Lets find a conservative
approach that reflects a human approach because we just cant turn our back on you. Now, we will get your pplause ]on. We will find out more. And, governor, if you will just patiently sit by. We will bring much more live from the campaign trail with Governor John Kasich. Thats next. [ applause ] jake reese, day to feel alive jake reese, day to feel alive jake reese, day to feel alive
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governor, a question from charles. Charles, your question, please. Good evening, governor kasich. I think most americans are tired of the dysfunction of polarized partisan politics. Unfortunately, some republicans are attracted to the demagoguery of a nonpolitician who makes shallow statements and have emotional appeal. Ineffective politician who believes being uncompromise something a political virtue. We need a better class of politician who embraces our bedrock american values. We need a leader who can cast a vision and then have the political skill to movus fo. Governor kasich earlier this evening you spoke with the tremendous work did you on the balanced budget. Your record is clear to me. But can you describe another specific occasion as a congressional leader or as governor of ohio where you were able to Reach Agreement between opposing constituencies including opposition from members of your own party and what was the result of that work . Well, most of the time i was fighting to balance the
budget i was fighting against my own party. I will give you an example. My great friend tim penny who is a democrat he is now an independent from minnesota, he had an opportunity to cut one penny out of every dollar in federal spending. This is before we got to the balanced budget. And so he came to me and said im going to need some help. So we formed a republican and democrat group. it must have been made up of 20, 25 people. Here is the ground rule. If the majority objected to the penny cut, then we found another penny. If the majority approved it, woe lived with it we offered this penny out of every dollar in federal pending and we lost by four votes. Who worked against us . Hillary clinton, the clinton administration, the republican appropriations committee. And they put pressure on members saying if you vote for this, were going to kilt bridge in your project. You know, project thats in your district. We came within four votes of winning. And it was glorious because it was the first shot heard in the effort to balance the federal budget. Let me tell you a couple other things. I was a military reformer. I was the one that fought the b 2 bomber that was going to cost a billion dollars apiece that was going to fly in the middle of the soviet union in the middle of a nuclear war and drop more nuclear weapons. I said how many nukes will ruin your day . So i wanted to build 13 of them. The pentagon wanted 132. I fought everybody on that. Got democrats together with me and republicans. Tom ridge, the former governor of pennsylvania. Ron, a liberal democratic out in california. I lost. We ended up building 21. So i went from 13 to 21. They went from 132 to 21. It wasnt a bad loss that i had. And we took the money and we invested it in the department of defense. In a ohio, we i wanted mom and dad to stay in their own home rather than being forced in a nursing nursing hom. I had to break the back of the nursing home lobby. Get mom and dad in their own
home. I had to fight everybody. You know what . We got it done. Now mom and dad with stay into their own home rather than being forced into a nursing home if they are able to to do it. Governor let me say one last thing. I believe we have got to fix social security. I believe we have got to fix the border. I believe we have got to balance the budget. We cant do it. Ronald reagan put together a coalition of republicans and conservative democrats to achieve their goal. And, you know, i have been thinking more and more, greta. Good luck in washington. How about if the people march . What if the people say fix social security, bala