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Republican nominee, the democrats are going to put that in every ad. she hired 30,000 people. that's exactly the kind of thing, miss fiorina, that sunk mitt romney. >> i'm flattered that the head of the dnc would come after me, i guess that means we're gaining traction. i led hewlett-packard in a difficult time. it was the post technology recession in 25 years. i would remind debbie wasserman schultz that it's taken the nasdaq 15 years to recover. sometimes in tough time, tough call, necessary. however, we also took a company from $44 billion to almost $90 billion. we quadrupled its growth rat...

The dotcom bust, post 9/11, the worst technology recession in 25 years. in tough times sometimes tough calls are required. but despite those tough times we took hewlett-packard from about 44 billion to almost 90 billion in revenue. we qaudrupled its growth rate, qaudrupled its cash flow, tripled innovation to 11 patents a day and went from lagging behind in every product in every market to leading in every product in every market. at the end of my six years i was fired in a board room brawl. and i was fired because when you lead you must challenge the status quo. and when you challenge the sta...

And elected to office and served in the u.s. military and she hasn't. >> the professional political class is a modern invention. ours is intended to be a citizen government. and we have come up with this idea that only professional politicians can run for office. what leadership takes is character. character to the point of your question. character is about being a person of integrity, of trust worthiness, of honesty. >> last time around mitt romney got hit for being too successful. they hung bane around his neck. how will you avoid that kind of attack. >> there are some who will attack my rec...

Clinton doesn't have a track record of. >> you bring up your business background with hp. let's just say that it's been litigated quite a bit there. you've seen this website. carlyfiorina.org, and a person there says you failed to register this domain so i'm using it to tell how many people lost their jobs while you were ceo. emoticons of 30,000 sad faces. then it has a quote taken out of context having to do with people you fired as executives saying "i would have done it all faster." do you have regrets of those lay-offs. >> that website and your line of questioning leaves out a number of fa...

Of the people of hewlett-packard and what we accomplished. and the facts and the record are clear. >> in february you told cnn and i'll quote you, hp requires executive decision making. the presidency is about executive decision making. you were responsible for layoffs. >> and job creation as well. >> 30,000 layoffs for a ceo can be something to be proud of. it helps your stock pice. but in politics it's livelihoods that were lost and people are going to care about that. >> i really get so tired of the characterization of chief executives as liking to do layoffs. i managed through the worst te...