RAND PAUL CRITICAL OF THE CLOWNISH THINGS THAT TRUMP HAS SAID, AND HOW TRUMP HAS USED EMINENT DOMAIN FOR HIS OWN BENEFIT. TRUMP IS NOT A CONSERVATIVE. DISCUSSES TED CRUZ AND HIS CRITICAL COMMENTS CONCERNING THE SENATE LEADERSHIP.
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the media may be downgrading Rand Paul's chances in 2016 based on sagging polls
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an anemic fundraising but he hasn't lost any of his feistiness I spoke to the
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presidential candidate here in washington Rand Paul welcome thank you
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in this week's battle in the senate over a government shutdown or boarding line
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and defunding Planned Parenthood UNF your rival Ted Cruz you said he's pretty
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much done in the senate what do you mean I wouldn't call it really going after I
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would just ask a question about different styles and I think we do have
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different styles my style is when I disagree with someone not to call them
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in a more to be very inflammatory I can be very strong and what I believe in and
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I'm willing to stand up for that but even in Harry Reid who is on the
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opposite side from a pretty good relations with him even though he's a
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democrat and I wouldn't call him a liar wouldn't you know call them dishonest
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because I don't think that furthers and debate even with people you disagree
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as you know it was a dramatized by John Boehner his resignation there is a
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strong hardline faction the house that believes that if you're not willing to
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potentially close down the government over defunding Planned Parenthood closed
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down the government over getting rid of Obamacare your squishy or I know you're
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not fighting for your principles your thoughts
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well I do think that we should exert the power of the purse so I am one who says
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that we haven't been doing enough and we control the house and the Senate and
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frankly I've been traveling the country and yes conservatives and Republicans
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are very unhappy that were not controlling the power of the purse many
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in Washington will say well we don't have the votes sixty votes to defund
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things and I say it's kind of backwards if you let the spending expire then to
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restart spending takes 60 votes you've been mixing it up with Donald Trump who
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tweeted prediction Rampaul then driven out of the race by statements about him
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he will announce 21 percent gentleman from kentucky is the floor I think the
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rumors of my demise are somewhat exaggerated to say the least and now
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we're doing quite well actually we run a tight ship around here we plan on being
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in for the long arm and I think ultimately celebrity will sort of filter
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this and I think the clown I think there are some clownish things that he has
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said I think also really but what's more important is that I just don't believe
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these are true conservative I think that being for higher taxes being for a
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single-payer health system
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those are conservative notions he was for the bank bailouts he was also for
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President Obama's government stimulus package but probably the biggest issue
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that makes me think that trumpets of fake conservative is that he's for using
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eminent domain governments eminent domain to take property from small
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property owners and give it to big corporations like his and he's actually
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personally profited by having the government do this dirty work of taking
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people's property and there's nothing conservative about that how do you come
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out the growing you in the media that your campaign is really struggling I
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think one way is to look at how will we do against Hillary Clinton when you look
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at polls we are not doing as well as some of the polls but if you look at how
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well we do against the democrats we do much better than actually many people in
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the republican party we actually lead Hillary Clinton in five states that were
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won by President Obama what does that show it shows that we have the ability
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to attract independents democrats and people that you need to come to your
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party if you think your gonna be able to win these battleground states I magazine
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with most interesting man in politics lately the headlines have not been so
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great on this kind of fickle I still think I'm the most interesting man in
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politics no I hard for you to break through the mood of people you know
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reporting things I think changes but to me I'm exactly the same as I've always
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been I talk about the same things limited government the Constitution
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Privacy Bill of Rights and I continue to see our crowds grow bigger and bigger so
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if I weren't reading the so-called pendants and I were traveling the
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country as I am every day I see bigger crowds every day I see more enthusiasm
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one complains when you started out with a deep skepticism of us' military
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intervention overseas will do
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that well it's not about that because with the growing threat from my saves in
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Russia starting airstrikes on Syria this week are you still skeptical about
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greater us' involvement in Syria our founding fathers wanted it to be
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difficult to go to war so they gave the power to initiate war to Congress and
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one of my complaints for a long time is it being the president is sort of taking
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over that power and it's not his power under the Constitution so the first
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thing we should do is debate should we be in Syria should we be in Iraq and
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there needs to be a vote in Congress answer well what I would say is that I
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don't wanna boots on the ground to bu s boots on the ground
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we've had an Iraq War and frankly I think it was a mistake in fact I think
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every time that we have toppled a secular dictator in the middle east
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we've gotten chaos the rise of radical Islam and actually made it more
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dangerous for us I think that hillary's war in Libya is actually made us less
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safe for us the same does though for a side we have many ppl President Obama
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Hillary Clinton and some republicans want to topple Assad and I think would
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be a mistake to topple Assad frankly because I think that would allow a power
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vacuum for Isis to move into CNBC just announced a three percent threshold for
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its debate which would put you and some other is in danger of not making the
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prime-time stage do you think that is a fair approach by CIBC interestingly we
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look at the criteria pretty closely because it affects us and it actually
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looks like it would include us we see nothing about the criteria that they've
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put forward that wouldn't include US Senator Paul thanks very much for
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