OR
MINNESOTA'S SECOND DISTRICT
RACES THE UNUSUAL.
IT IS AN OPEN CONGRESSIONAL
SEAT.
YOU DON'T SEE THAT VERY OFTEN.
CONGRESSMAN JOHN KLEIN IS
RETIRING AND TWO STRONG
CANDIDATES CAMPAIGNING TO
REPLACE HIM.
IT'S A CAMPAIGN STRETCHING FROM
THE SOUTHERN TWIN CITIES METRO
SUBURBS DOWN TO ROCHESTER.
FORMER EXECUTIVE ANGIE CRAIG IS
THE DEMOCRAT IN THE RACE.
SHE JOINS US TODAY.
THANK YOU FOR BEING A -- BEING
HERE.
THANK YOU, PAT. I WANT TO
DEAL WITH SOME NEWS OF THE DAY.
WE HAVE THE TERRIBLE VIOLENT
INCIDENT IN ST. CLOUD, THE LAW
ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES ARE
INVESTIGATING A POSSIBLE
TERRORISM INCIDENT THERE IN
WHICH IT HAS POLITICAL
OVERTONES, A MAN WIELDING A
KNIFE ASKING PEOPLE WERE MUSLIM
-- IF PEOPLE WERE MUSLIM AND
THEN STABBING EIGHT.
IS THIS AN INDICATION OF
VIOLENCE THAT WE SEE AND THEN
-- IN THE INNER CITIES?
WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THE
TERRORISM OUTSIDE THE TWIN
CITIES? WELL, PAT, MY HEART,
MY PRAYERS, MY THOUGHTS A GOING
OUT ST. CLOUD RIGHT NOW.
OBVIOUSLY ALL THE VICTIMS WOULD
AND THE COMMUNITY, LAW
ENFORCEMENT, FIRST RESPONDERS,
ALL OF MINNESOTA IS REALLY WITH
THEM TODAY.
THE FIRST JOB OF THE U.S.
CONGRESS IS TO PROTECT THE
NATION'S CITIZENS, PERIOD.
THIS IS A CRITICAL ITEM TO TALK
ABOUT IN THE SECOND DISTRICT
RACE IN AROUND THIS COUNTRY.
CERTAINLY THE DELEGATION NOW
NEEDS TO COME TOGETHER AND AS
PART OF THAT, I WOULD BE
CALLING FOR THE STRONGEST
POSSIBLE FUNDING TO HELP US
ATTORNEY ANDY LUGER CONTINUE TO
COMBAT THIS EXTREMISM THAT IS
OCCURRING IN THIS SICK -- IN
THIS COMMUNITY AND COUNTRY.
WE NEED TO FOCUS ON THE FUNDING
LEVELS NEEDED TO CONTINUE TO
BUILD THAT PROGRAM, TO REACH
WITHIN THE COMMUNITIES, TO
BUILD THOSE RELATIONSHIPS SO
THAT WE CAN COMBAT EXTREMISM.
AS MAY HAS WORKED ON THIS QUITE
A BIT.
THERE IS RESTORATION ABOUT LACK
OF FUNDING IN THIS AREA. AND
THIS IS ONE AREA OF CONTRAST
BETWEEN MYSELF AND JASON LEWIS.
THE SEQUESTER CUTS GET A LOT OF
ATTENTION.
THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, THE
LAST TIME WE WENT INTO THE
SEQUESTER, SAID THIS IS GOING
TO MAKE SEQUESTER CUTS, THE
WORLD A MORE DANGEROUS PLACE.
HOMELAND SECURITY SAID YOU ARE
NOT GIVING US THE RESOURCES.
CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION.
FBI.
HOMELAND SECURITY.
TO DO WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO
PROTECT THE NATION'S CITIZENS.
JASON SAID THE CUTS DON'T GO
FAR ENOUGH.
THE FIRST PRIORITY OF A MEMBER
OF CONGRESS, PERIOD, IS TO
PROTECT ITS CITIZENS.
THERE IS A VERY STRONG
REPUBLICAN STRAIN HERE SAYING
THIS IS CLINTON FAULT.
HILLARY CLINTON AND BARACK
OBAMA ALLOWED THIS TERRORISM TO
FLOURISH OVERSEAS.
YOU BELIEVE THAT?
THAT IS PART OF THE PROBLEM
IN WASHINGTON TODAY.
INSTEAD OF ACTUALLY SITTING
DOWN AND TRYING TO FIND A
SOLUTION TO A REAL PROBLEM, WE
IMMEDIATELY MAKE A POLITICAL
POINT BY THROWING BLAME ON
SOMEONE ELSE. A LOT OF PEOPLE
IN MINNESOTA VOTE FOR THE
PERSON.
THEY WANT TO KNOW WHO YOU ARE,
WHO YOUR FAMILY IS.
YOU PUT YOUR FAMILY, YOUR WIFE
IN YOUR FOUR TEENAGE SONS,
FRONT AND CENTER IN YOUR
CAMPAIGN WEBSITE AND THIS PAST
WEEK, A REPUBLICAN PARTY
OFFICIAL ACTUALLY PUT YOUR
FAMILY IN THEIR STRONGLY
SUGGESTING THAT THIS IS NOT THE
KIND OF FAMILY THAT WE SHOULD
BE VOTING FOR.
JASON LEWIS DID SAY LEAVE THE
FAMILIES OUT OF THAT.
WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT
THAT? SO IT'S AN INCREDIBLY
PERSONAL ISSUE.
WHEN I RAN FOR CONGRESS JUST AS
ANY OTHER CANDIDATE WOULD, I
REFERENCED THE FACT THAT MY
FAMILY IS, I AM PROUD OF MY
WIFE AND OUR FOUR SONS.
THAT HAS BEEN FRONT AND CENTER
TRANSPARENCY.
ON THE OTHER HAND, MY SON, WHO
HAS BEEN AWAY FROM COLLEGE, WAS
VISITING MINNESOTA THIS
WEEKEND.
FOR THE FIRST TIME, HE HAD TO
SEE THAT.
MY SON PLAYED BASEBALL, JUST
LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE IN OUR
NEIGHBORHOOD PLAYED WITH HIS
BROTHER, HE PLAYED FOOTBALL.
MY SON SAID OUT LOUD, LOOK, I
AM JUST LIKE ANY OTHER KID WITH
ANY OTHER FAMILY.
I BELIEVE MINNESOTA IS BETTER
THAN THIS.
I HAVE TO HAVE FAITH THAT WE
ARE BETTER THAN THIS. IS THIS
THE EXCEPTION, WHAT HAPPENED IN
THIS POSTING?
CLEARLY HOLDING OUT YOUR FAMILY
IN A NEGATIVE LIGHT.
IS THAT THE EXCEPTION? IT IS
A TOUGH THING.
IS IT THE EXCEPTION OR IS IT
INHERENTLY PART OF JUST
POLITICS TODAY WHERE WE JUST
LOOK FOR SOMETHING TO ATTACK
ANOTHER PERSON WITH?
I DON'T KNOW.
OTHER PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO
ANSWER THAT QUESTION.
WHAT I KNOW IS THAT I THINK
MINNESOTA IS BETTER THAN THIS.
I WANT TO GO TO WHAT MANY
VOTERS ARE SEEING.
ACU ON TELEVISION WITH AN AD
AGAINST JASON LEWIS.
IT'S A NEGATIVE AD.
YOU HAVE GONE NEGATIVE AGAINST
THEM.
IS A FORMER TALKSHOW HOST WHO
SAID WHO SAID A LOT OF NEGATIVE
THINGS.
I'M GOING TO SAY WHAT I
BELIEVE, AND I DON'T CARE WHO
IT TRAUMATIZES.
IF YOU DON'T WANT TO OWN A
SLAVE, DON'T, BUT DON'T TELL
OTHER PEOPLE THEY CAN'T. WHY
IS THIS RELEVANT?
WHY DO YOU WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW
THIS ABOUT JASON LEWIS? JASON
HAS SPENT OVER 20 YEARS ON
RIGHT WING RADIO, STOKING
PARTISAN DIVISIONS, AND SO ONE
OF THE THINGS THAT SOMEONE SAID
IS IS THIS OUT OF CONTEXT?
THE QUESTION IS, UNDER WHAT
CONTEXT WOULD YOU WANT TO SCORE
POLITICAL POINT OR MAKE A
POLICY POINT BY CALLING WOMEN
NONTHINKING OR IGNORANT?
BY FOCUSING OUT LOUD A
POLITICAL POINT OUT OF ONE OF
THE DARKEST TIMES IN THIS
NATION'S HISTORY, SLAVERY.
I REALLY THINK THAT THIS COMES
TO THE VALUES AND CAR REMEMBER,
THIS AD IS IN JASON'S OWN
WORDS.
YOU REALLY BELIEVE THESE,
BELIEVES THESE THINGS.
HE WAS TO PUT THE WORDS INTO
ACTION.
YOU WANT ALL HIS ARCHIVES
RELEASED. DEMOCRATIC WOMEN
HAVE SAID, YOU HAVE CALLED
WOMEN NON-RANKING, YOU SAY YOU
WANT TO PUT YOUR WORDS INTO
ACTION.
I BELIEVE THAT THE VOTERS
DESERVE TO HEAR ALL OF HIS
WORDS, THAT LEVEL OF
TRANSPARENCY.
SO ABSOLUTELY, I BELIEVE VOTERS
DESERVE HIS ONLY RECORD ARE HIS
POLICY VIEWS THAT HE STATED
OVER THE YEARS ON THE RADIO.
ALL OF A SUDDEN AS HE IS
RUNNING FOR CONGRESS, THOSE
ARCHIVES DISAPPEAR, THOSE
PODCASTS COME DOWN.
THE VOTERS DESERVE TO HEAR WHAT
HIS POLICY YEARS. HE SAYS HE
DOESN'T HAVE ACCESS TO THESE.
WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT MORE
OF THIS IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF
WEEKS AND MONTHS.