we begin the candidate interview i'd like to know that all public news has made several attempts to contact the clark campaign to invite them to debate mr i have been all but as of yet have not received a response to our request i'm joel rott stain arlington public news we're here with mr frank out of it all up who is the republican candidate for the fifth congressional district for mr adams thank you for joining us for this interview the next we will review the format of the interview there will be a live tape to interview which means no edits once we begin there is no prescreening of questions and answers will be limited to two minutes each we will start with a one minute opening statement and from the candidate and after the questions we will conclude with a one man closing statement mr out of it all you know how one minute to make your opening statement with thanks for inviting me today it's nice to see you again so i just like to introduce myself to the voters that are at home my name's frank out of the nola and i was born and raised in malden massachusetts i was born in the same home in which one mother was born and so we have deep roots here in the fifth congressional district after i graduated from all that high school i went off to merely to wait and see college when majored in biology came back to the community in my early twenty's and started a business so i come from a small business perspective i know what it's like to be in business i know the challenges the opportunities the frustration and the excitement of being a business person i'm also trained in science i'm a biologist at the national institutes of health went down to washington d c and i was involved in science and i did that with teaching and research in the laboratory so when you learn about what we're going to say today you realize that i come from a small business perspective i come from the private sector and i'm not a career politician so i'll be here today answering questions and i hope you enjoy what you hear and you'll consider voting for me on december tenth it's a special election and so i'm looking forward to this we will proceed to the questions you have two minutes to answer each question do you support or oppose the affordable please give us specific reasons why or why not well thanks for that question so we talk about health care we really need to focus on three things we need to talk about quality excess ability and affordability and i'll talk about all three of those briefly as far as quality of care we're going to see a dramatic decrease in the quality of american health care when we move to it socialized medicine and that's where we're actually headed toward socialized medicine and any country that is had a system in which the government has a direct role in the administration of health care has seen the quality that kid go down so really as we look into the horizon that's what i'm most concerned about with the affordable care act now i do realize that health insurance and health services are an important component of civilized society so therefore we need to talk about affordability and we need to talk about accessibility it's powers affordability we have issues now these medicines very expensive it's about seventeen percent of the g d p i have some experience working at hospitals doing research and i have some university experience as well in health care and some policy issues and so we talk about this affordability we need to have some reforms we need to be able to buy insurance across state lines get some competitive prices as we look for that insurance we also need to reform although i happen to be an attorney i'm not a proponent of having the cases go to court w punitive damages and physicians get sued when mistakes can happen in the clinic so i don't think that that's the right approach to penalize doctors because as a result of that we actually have a lot of defensive medicine defensive medicine means you go in you get more tests and you really need we drive up the cost not really very important component of the health insurance is also the accessibility we have a number of people maybe thirty million forty p p forty million people that don't have access to health care well as a society we need to address that issue we can work on that besides getting it an affordable care act and make a national system it's up to the states to reach out to the constituents of the district and say what can we do within a state to help us citizens and i don't think the quotable care act use of right approach what are the biggest issues facing the u s economy and what policy priorities would you support to address that question what's the most important issue in the district and to answer that i would say it's the economy so we're actually coming to the same conclusion the economy is a very important issue when i'm up there talking to voters what i'm hearing is that people are concerned about the economic prospects and so as a result of that many people focus on what can happen in the economy to help us as individuals and one approach that doesn't have work which has not worked doesn't seem to work and has not worked in the past is a stimulus by the government we are a country of capitalist we are a country of small businesses and large businesses and productive individuals so what we need to do is we need to have a mechanism in place to encourage businesses to hire people with businesses hire people you become an employee when i'm comfortable employee confident in my prospects of employment i go back to my community i spend money in the community and i help stimulate the economy so how can we get employers to hire more people well failed policy that wasn't good proposed by the obama administration was let's have a tax credit for hiring new people now with theory that's an excellent idea but the problem was that as we talked about the ministration talked about it for some period of time many employers  hate what we need to do is slow down let's not hire the people now but after that tax credit goes in that will get a benefit for hiring new people so what actually happened was while the dialogue was taking place in the promise of this tax credit which i support is a very good idea while that dialogue was happening businesses were cutting back that never took effect there is not a tax credit today for the fact that people can hire companies can hire employees and what i would propose of we need to jumpstart the economy we need to look at businesses we need to look at the private sector we need to have companies hiring people providing goods and services that can be distributed within commerce and when we do that we're going to see that we're going to have a more robust economy and that's what people are really worried about in the district and question number three please give us your position on our current immigration policy and if elected what changes would you support and why well i'm pro immigration so i'll start off by saying that and i have a problem with ration because it's not that long ago that i can remember my grandparents had come to america didn't speak much english or in fact spoke virtually no english when they arrived to america they worked to assimilate themselves into society and they train tried to become hardworking industrious people and both sides of my family own some real estate because they worked long  i'm pro immigration what i'm talking to people in the district what i hear from a lot of people is that there is a disadvantage to actually come to this country legally and that disadvantage is that if you're a person that came here in the last decade or two decades you filled out the paperwork you paid the money for the application and you waited you're actually have put yourself at a disadvantage because why because you spent all that time and effort to come here now this talk about amnesty well i don't think that's the right approach if somebody does something illegal we can't cleanse our hands by saying we're going to make a policy that what used to be illegal is now going to be considered illegal it's very bad for the american economy to bring people here and to have them work you legally it's very bad when companies go out there and hire these illegal individuals that are here illegally it's very bad because you're looking for cheap labor i don't support cheap labor taking advantage of people so we need to have a legal residence hired and what we're also seeing is the unemployment very high the unemployment because we have a competition between legally entitled individuals people that can have a job because they have a socially curry number and those that cannot have a job because they're not here with the proper status and as a result of that we see that we're depressing prices for wages we don't want to depress prices for wages we want to have enough people working so we have a robust economy so unfortunately these people find themselves by their own deeds or maybe their dejah their parents coming here illegally now we need to get them integrate into society they need to go back to where they begin with again this journey fill out the application and we want to welcome them here is legal immigrants moving on to our next question what roles and responsibilities to federal state and local entities have in aggressing u s energy policy are the circumstances in which federal policy should supersede state and local concerns well we do have a federal government and we have to look to the constitution to draw those powers in the constitution has a numerated which means some principles are spelled out in the constitution and i teach a bit of that to my students at northeastern and we talk about that we need to limit the size and scope of the federal government it's really up to the states to have their experiment of what's going to work within that state and if i don't like the way things are working in my state i'm going to ultimately move to a different state where the climate is more favorable for me unfortunately when we have a large federal system and if i don't like things that work in the federal system i've got to get on a plane or a boat got to go somewhere offshore to find that opportunity powers what we have happening with energy is we need to actually recognize that energy although we have concerns and we have things with environment which are concerns and certainly concerned about that and i have been for a long time we need to recognize that we as a civilized society that depend upon machinery and tools and transportation we need to have sources for energy and so it's really up to the federal government to have a standoff policy allow the states compete for those resources and for that energy and we're seeing in texas for example that it's a robust economy there's a lot of energy that's happening in texas and we need to recognize that massachusetts with all its regulations actually has one of the highest prices for electricity and we have a high price for electricity because we overregulate that int we overregulate those monopolies and that drives up the cost of all for solar energy i'm all for green energy but those energies need to develop and those industries need to develop as the market can accept those products so we don't need to subsidize those companies position ok and on to question number five do you support or oppose and i say bulk collection of telephone and electronic communications from americans and if you can explain your reasoning ok well we're actually talking about that exactly in class today and i will say that i remember this document is called the united states constitution and it's united states constitution has something called the bill of rights and in order for the constitution to be adept adopted by the states the bill of rights need to be incorporated in the bill of rights without getting very technical here we have something called the fourth amendment that protects my privacy and that protection for privacy is a fundamental right it's a constitutional right it's a bedrock principle now the government needs to have resources to investigate people that might be doing thing in things illegally or things to hurt the united states but i am opposed to n s a s blanket authority and blanket use of surveillance to intercept communications by law are abiding citizens we have mechanisms in place that would be called the subpoena every choir's probable cause so if the authorities feel that a person is potentially violating or has it has in fact violated the laws then a subpoena needs to be issued today that subpoena goes to the pfizer quote the pfizer quote is very secretive and that is not correct it's not the right approach that deep challenges are going to change within the united states a society evolves over time what we need to do though is we need to steadfastly hold onto the bedrock principles constitutional principles and we need to respect those rights that people have that's the american way so we do need to in fact to the what people that want to hurt us we need to do that legally cank what principle should drive u s foreign per u s foreign policy and how would you prioritize these principles and practice what i would say the two main principles one would be national security and the other would be the promotion of democracy in the world and we first of all should promote national security in american people have an expectation and in fact we have a right that the federal government should protect us from invasion and from home from other lands and that also people that can come to united states so our number one concern should be national security and i feel that that is the number one responsibility of the federal government and that is in the constitution protection common defense of the country so we need to make sure that we're safe here in the united states and so national security is most important and then we also want to have good relations with other countries and sometimes want to give direct foreign aid for example direct foreign aid to israel i'm a big proponent of that and then direct foreign aid to israel which amounts to about four billion dollars a year those products are made here on american soil those dollars get recycled into the american economy and those products get shipped to one of the best allies in the world and we need to protect israel so direct foreign aid to israel i would definitely be in favor of and i would continue to support that agenda we also need to recognize that other countries need some assistance economic assistance development of their country and so they are going to need to resources by american in american society and so we should be reaching out to these countries and we do that to build good relations with other countries to be an argument today that a lot of people raise it to say there's a lot of bad people out there that are trying to hurt us and they're trying to hurt us at the same time we're giving them and that we need to be sensitive to what we need to recognize that sometimes we don't want to destabilize the entire country in which some of these bad people live and operate want to make sure that we keep the country in a whole whole intact as best we can and then within the country itself we wan encourage them to identify those terrorists identify those bad actors and to in fact punish them within society in which they would find themselves ok on to the seventh question does u s government have a role in influencing international capital markets and expanding exports of the u s goods and services and if you can explain that show well of course we live in a global economy now and the school economy has really been for about fifteen to twenty years and we start to see it increase more and more and so what we need to do is we need to recognize of course we do want to export more products and services outside of the united states so we do that we have a net influx of dollars coming to united states but unfortunately we cannot control world markets and what i mean by that is we need to make sure that we're doing the best job we can to efficient means of production to provide goods and services that will be adopted by other countries and to be taken by those countries and purchase from america and sometimes we need to recogni that we cannot produce all goods and services some country may have a specialty for those products they may have cheaper labor for example and so we're going to allow those companies to move themselves to those locations and maybe in a national basis in china for example or india or even in eastern europe they will make some products that we don't make what we do want to do is we want to make sure that we're focused on high technology we need to make sure that we focus on innovation in developing new products and new services that have value not only in the united states but also valued in other parts of the world so intellectual property is very important i have a bit of experience studying that at the university and so we need to make sure that in america we don't export jobs that take the technology outside the united states so that other countries can then grow those industries and actually compete against us so we need to be selective on which companies in which products and which services technology for example that we're going to try to have as an as a domestic product or service and those are going to be more efficient to be given to other countries are your priorities going to be to serve the district best well my party is going to be to meet the needs of the constituents and the way i'm going to do that briggs sample is to be responsive to the constituents and so what i need to do is i need to have a better understanding about what's important to people in the community now i have a good understanding from my own perspective i think i have some good rational basis and actually some quick thinking that i can bring to the office but i need to hear from the constituents who as people hear about this debate or this discussion that we're having today i want them to reach out to me to tell me what's important to them the more i understand about what's important to people the better job i can do to represent them and i am excessive all and let's talk about that just a moment here today having this discussion with you i know you are stationary reached out to my opponent katherine clock for example as of today we have six debate in which she's refused to appear or not responded at all now that's a disservice if you're a candidate you have a responsibility to be available you have responsibility to go out there into a public forum to submit yourself to questions to answer questions from the audience and to let people understand more about your positions i'm coming from the private sector i'm not a politician that work their way up through the system that's going to be a rubber stamp for my party i'm here with fresh ideas working in the district to try to better the lot of people that are here i'm not going to retire in washington i made a promise no more than eight years and i want to step aside i have a term limit promise of eight years i asked my opponent if she would also have a term limit she proposes no she would not now i don't think she should go there retire twenty thirty years he was different than thirty seven years before he got promoted to set it that's too long we need citizen legislators people that go forward bring some good ideas then step aside and let someone else get in there and advocate for people so it's very important to be responsive to the constituents game does the u s government have a role in bridgin to advance themselves in their lot in life for example i went to school williams college when i went away it's called chose one of the few people from my community to gain admission to williams and how did i do that i did that by applying myself by going to live and friday nights and saturdays and and sunday nights and studying late into the night so when i looked at that opportunity of saying i'm going to have a chance possibly go to college i looked upon myself and said what can i do to better myself to increase the probability that i will succeed as admitted candidate into college and what i look at first i look to myself now of course as i look to myself and as i made the experience and made the effort and so what then should be nobody placing barriers in my way but it's really up to me to begin the process of applying myself into moving my then the opportunity will unfold so what i do think the united states government role should be it should make sure that there is opportunity for all people to make sure that nobody's discriminated against we don't want to have anybody discriminated against and we want to give everyone an opportunity to advance themselves some people want to go to a particular vocation or a different vocation different people have expectations of their life let's let people do what they feel good about what's going to work for me may not work for you what's going to work for someone here may not work for someone there we shouldn't put people into a cookie cutter and say we've all got to be a particular way let's let everyone be the way they want to be and let's get out of the way and not inhibit their ability to express who they think they should be as they mature and move through this journey called life question ten do you support placing restrictions on the one nine hundred seventy three road versus wade supreme court decision and if so please explain the restrictions you support and your reasoning ok well the start of this question here we're talking about we're talking about abortion ok and we talk about abortion a very personal issue for many of us and it's a dispute that many of us feel deeply about and when we talk about roe v wade it's a question about does a person have a constitutional right to an abortion and before i answer that question i want to propose a what we need to do is we need to focus on some education we need to make sure that people understand the quote consequences of their action we need to have prevention so that people can appreciate the responsibility that sex main volved and if i engage myself in some activity it has consequences and i need to understand that it would least it should be pointed out to me in advance so that qantas a paid if i'm willing to take that under do if i'm willing to take on that risk or not so all that being said i am pro life and i'm pro life which means that i believe with myself and my relationship with god i believe that i am in fact pro bob child pro child and i'm pro choice in what i think we should do is i think we should choose life that's how i feel now i'm not going out there making a big discussion about this i'm not leading with this and each of us has to look inside and say how do i feel as a person how does god if i believe in god of my maker if i believe in my maker nothing nobody that i believe in but how do i feel as a person and how can i be comfortable with that individual how can i consider this to be my future and how i position myself in the stances i take so i personally am pro life pro life which means that i value the respect and the dignity and the sanctity of life and i think it's very unfortunate that children don't have that opportunity to join this world and i do think that in fact we should be educating parents that there are other options beside abortion there is adoption we have a social network movement set up in this country we have more acceptance of language mothers and so forth and we should allow people to recognize that if they want to take these actions and participate in an activity that's going to give those consequences let's encourage them to feel comfortable to develop another avenue besides of advice just aborting that child and moving on to our last question please give us one example of an issue that you and your opponent agree on and two examples in which you defer and why your positions represent the best interest of the congressional district hear from her unfortunate she didn't make the time we didn't have the opportunity or didn't think it was important enough to be here to have this dialogue and for sure the voters at home are not hearing from her and it would be more appropriate if they were but in any event what do we see is differences i am actually different than her because i believe in what i say and what i mean by that is i'm for the working people and for working families and why can i say that i'm for working families and then accuse her of not being for working families well for example she voted recently so that if you don't have a valid social security number  you should be entitled to a state funded in federally funded benefits now what that does is that actually cheats two groups of people it cheats primarily the people that need assistance by the government and that's one of the roles of government to help people where we only have so much money and if we take some of that money and we distribute it to people they don't qualify maybe i'm here illegally or i don't in fact have the proper documentation to and qualification to receive that assistance we diminish the opportunity to help those people that are legally entitled to that benefit and who else do cheat what we really cheap also cheat in addition to that it would cheat the tax pays because the tax payers trust the system the system takes tax dollars from them and the society in which we live i believe most of us believe we should help people so when i pay my taxes as a hardworking individual i want the government to be responsible i want to government to reach out and help people that need help i may not be able to do it directly and give charity to all these people but let's have the government take the money system and let's have the government just to the proper people so she believes we don't need a valid so security number shows all fields and we don't need to have a declaration of where we live i consult the clear so if i come from new hampshire in the benefits of his good i could have a friend that lives in massachusetts and i can say i live in massachusetts and then i'll get those benefits sent to me in massachusetts and that cheats the taxpayers here in the commonwealth ok well thank you for the answers that you gave to these questions we're moving into our final stage you now have up to one minute to give your closing statement but should everyone listening to our discussion today so again my name is frank out of an all of we're going to have a special election on december tenth i'm a republican but i'm a reasonable individual and i am a working person and what i mean by that is that i want to represent the commonwealth in the fifth congressional district unlike my primary opponent i was born in the commonwealth i understand what it's like to be born in massachusetts to grow up in the commonwealth and grow up in the district and then to work as a private person i'm not a career politician i'm not like my opponent that had a job in one elected position then two in fact participating in the process of being agreeable with the leadership was able to move to a higher position and now she's running for congress and i want to ask you a question do you think it's right that my opponent doesn't show up and give you the courtesy of the time that would be necessary for you to understand her position she hasn't taken her job responsibly she's a candidate that doesn't want to participate in a public dialogue and an actual question and if that's the case and that's her attitude today what is your hello and welcome i'm michel merino with arlington public news before we begin our candid interview i'd like to know the arlington public news has made several attempts to contact the clark campaign to invite them to a debate but as of yet have not received a response to our request again i'm michelle marino and i'd like to welcome mr jim hall who is the justice peace security candidate for the fifth congressional district special election thank you for joining us them thank you now i'm going to review with you the format of the interview this will be a live to tape interview no edits will be made once we begin there was no prescreening of the questions and answers will be limited to two minutes each we will start with a one minute opening statement and after the questions will conclude with a one minute closing statement mr hall you have one minute for your opening you very much and thanks to arlington community media for doing this program so i am running for congress to help bring about the goal of president john kennedy and ronald reagan to eliminate nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction from the face of the earth president kennedy warned that weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us president reagan stated there have been times in the past when we thought the world was coming to an end but never anything like this i am running for congress because we human beings can realize the goal of presidents kennedy and reagan and so many others we can how we can achieve peace on earth and it stablish a bright and prosperous future for ourselves and our children indeed we can be optimistic that we can do so because not only can we envision we are in fact building the kind of global human  community that will neither want nor need the weapons of war my campaign has a website that has a full statement of how we can and how we must build that world thank you now we're going to move on to the questions i have two minutes to answer each question our first question is do you support or oppose the affordable care act well i think it's a good step forward and it was very necessary to have that passed and we should support it in that it does extend universal healthcare to everyone and it allows people to get coverage even though they have preexisting conditions that previously might have prevented them from getting health care  so i think it is good we've made those advances health care is a human right everyone is entitled to good health care and given that prior to the affordable care act we had forty to fifty million people not even having health insurance it was good that we made the step to pass the affordable care act but i think it's not the best way to provide universal health care i think the best way is to a single payer universal plan and that would not only be less expensive than doing this piecemeal approach that we have it would eliminate these problems that we found with  obamacare i'm not fan of the individual mandate or the employer mandate that you have under the affordable care act it would be far better to have as i say a single payer universal plan similar to what we have for medicare for elderly people and in addition it would eliminate this huge administrative cost that we have i've experienced that myself with my parents this just mixture of private coverage government coverage and so on it's estimated that twenty two percent of all health care costs go to pay for administration of health care and with a more streamlined universal plan a single payer we would be able to save that expense thank you question number two what are the biggest issues facing the u s economy and what policy priorities would you support to address those issues well the biggest issues that certainly we faced over the last three or four years has been joblessness and unemployment which has been far too high  economy is it's obviously a very complicated system our us economy across the country and the government with regard to its budgets and so on has two major responsibilities the federal government of course has to provide for programs that we want to need the military of course being a major one but you know all the different programs that the federal government  maintains they're paid for of course through our taxes and through a budget but in addition to that the federal government has a responsibility to try to oversee the economy and in a macro economic sense in other words in trying to make sure that we have an economy that's humming that's providing jobs hopefully full employment and is running fairly the government has a responsibility in that regard and of course when obama became president there was a huge stimulus package that was passed by congress and went into effect and that was to try to get the economy back going again and that is that's a fiscal responsibility of the federal government so there really it can be necessary to have major deficits sometimes from the angle of just trying to get the economy going to stimulate demand  the other thing the federal government does really independent of the administration of the executive branch is that you have a monetary policy that's the federal reserve board and they really have been  going i have to give credit to ben bernanke making every effort to try to through monetary policy keep the economy running at a good pace increase employment and so on thank you question three please give us your position on our current immigration policy and if elected what changes would you support and why basically i support what has been attempted to be put before congress  and by that bipartisan group including senator mccain and and the george w bush interesting lee enough thought that you know we obviously have to control our borders we have to maintain good immigration policy and be careful about admission of people to this country but nevertheless we should also be generous in terms of doing that we always have been in terms of admitting people from other countries and they've greatly enriched our country by their contributions the diversity of this country is the united states is one things that makes it great and i do support that we need to  control entry into this country and the number of immigrants and so on that we should have a path for citizenship to those who are here and so the proposal is a very difficult very tough one for immigrants to meet a many year process of going through making sure that they fulfill paperwork taxes requirements and so on  and it's all a compromise and not clear that it's going to go anywhere because of the difficulties of this whole issue but i think that is something that we should be doing we should be generous with regard to our immigration we should as i say have a path to citizenship for those who are already here i was encouraged and it was good when it was allowed for young people in this country the ones who had been born here to be able to stay without being faced with being required to leave the country thank you fred our next question is a two part question what roles and responsibilities to federal state and local entities have an addressing u s energy policy are there circumstances and which federal policy should supersede state and local concerns well i think basically yes and there are actually constitutional system generally the federal government does have the right to supersede state and local laws and that  been true in all sorts of areas we do however have a system where state governments have certain responsibilities and do have programs that can exist with federal programs and they all should be work together obviously the major responsibility for energy policy course has to be with the federal government has to be a national concern but state and we as citizens when we think about energy we might think about these grand questions but there are things that have us as individuals can do as well and certainly recycling conservation is a major goal if we conserve our energy and so on that's less power plants we need to build and so we have to look at everything and we have to there's a role for each level of our government federal state and local and but it's primarily a federal role and that's why as a member of congress i would in particular be involved in that and we want to be obviously emphasizing newell's energy we like to know that while we have to have a mix and we'll be having carbon sources of energy for a long time just because of our existing infrastructure we support or oppose the n s a bulk collection of telephone and electronic communications from american well basically at this point i oppose that i think what we're missing and what has to be done is we have all sorts of claims that these programs by the n s a is preventing terrorist attacks you know it saved us from facing terrorism in this country i mean those claims are made i think to really make a good decision on what kind of an essay programs we should allow we have to know i mean obviously not the names not details of what it's claimed that these programs have done to prevent terrorist attacks but we have to know what supposedly the good of these programs is so far we haven't gotten that and i think the burden is on the n s a the federal government to show why it is that they think they need these programs i ran for congress in two thousand and two and two thousand and four and back then i opposed the usa patriot act i thought that wasn't necessary it was just a knee jerk response to the nine eleven attacks it was something that required some real thought but the obligation of those who would restrict our civil liberties who would do this kind of invasion of our privacy the obligation is on those people to show why it is that we need those programs and that hasn't been done and until it is done i think that those programs should be opposed and we should try to rein in those programs so it's not curbing them entirely so it's a very serious area i mean there's no question that we face real dangers in this country from possible terrorist attacks and so on we can't obviously take that lightly but nevertheless we shouldn't fall thinking that oh any claim that's made that some and if a program is saving us from terrorism that oh therefore we have to support it i think that has to be proven to us thank you question six what principles to drive us foreign policy and how would you prioritize these principles and practice well i think definitely what has to be done and this is really why i'm frankly running for congress as i indicated in my opening statement i mean i'm running for congress because i think we can establish a peaceful and prosperous world we can't  work with people all around the world to do this the good news is that human rights are a universal aspiration of people we're finding that across the world people are fighting to establish democracies fighting for freedom fighting for equality it doesn't always proceed you know it as a straight line of progress as we see in egypt for instance there can be all sorts of fallbacks and we can have situations where we have a situation gets worse instead of better at all times but nevertheless we have to promote human rights we have to try to work for a peaceful resolutions to all problems we have to make sure that we're striving for disarmament in the world there is a real danger in terms of weapons of mass destruction as i indicated and that's been a fear of for ever since the tonic weapons were first used so that's an area where i think we have to be very careful to work as hard as we can for the peaceful resolutions to disputes i was very much opposed to the iraq war that was another big matter in the in two thousand and two when i ran for congress i opposed the iraq war the incumbent congressman in our district at the time supported george w bush on that i thought it was a major mistake i thought the size of the fact that it would spend unnecessary resources it would just make for a more dangerous world for us and i think that's proven to be the case thank you our next question does the u s government have a role and influencing international capital markets and expanding exports and u s goods and services well absolutely sure and we should try to do that our federal government  should try to increase exports good for our economy good to produce jobs in this country so and in terms of capital markets absolutely the same and we are the world's largest economy so whatever we do clearly has an effect throughout the world we are oftentimes seen as the leader in the world economy the dollar is the currency that used for international trading and so on so we have a real responsibility to try to make sure that the the global economy runs smoothly and other countries look to us for that purpose as well and so the answer is it's very difficult just to if we think it's difficult to try to keep our economy in this country running at a good pace providing full employment low inflation and so on you can see have tremendous exports coming into our country which we pay for and we worry about the trade imbalance for instance but on the other hand said names china is very much dependent on us that  y require us to continue buying products from them as they have as we have so it is a matter that we do have to be a leader in the world economy we do have to say you know look at all aspects of it capital market export imports and we have to be careful i mean a major issue with globalization is how much authority do we turn over to global markets and is that good for us many countries are worried about that thank you questioning if elected what are your priorities to serve the district best well i think the major thing is that  i've said the major problem the big issue of our time and really of all time is the danger we are in with weapons of mass destruction this is something that certainly was brought clearly to our attention with the nine eleven attacks it was why we invaded iraq was the fear that iraq would get a weapon of mass destruction and as you may recall the bush administration spoke of the danger that the smoking gun of a terrorist attack would be a mushroom cloud over one of our cities and so we that is even though it seems like an issue that is remote from our district to me it is very present it's been recognized that if there was a major terrorist attack on any city in the world would be a game change in terms of the devastating consequences around the world for economic and social systems so that is something that is very important but of course  in terms of within the district it's important to have constituent services it is important to be involved with local issues i would plan to stay very much in touch with regard to that try to  have as much contact with people in the twenty four cities and towns in the district as i could because everything has to work together i mean i'm running under that's the nation of justice peace and security all those things need to work together and justice can be come right down to a small matter as you know somebody being treated fairly within their own community we have to work on all aspects of that thank you education in education ok well yes certainly although i think one of the real strengths of our country is that education is primarily a local matter and i think that's good i mean we all know in our own communities we have our school boards they're primarily responsible for the education in their communities and i think that's good i think it's good that we have local control over schools for the most part and it's good because it gets people involved too rather than some central federal government coming down with dictates on education it's the people themselves in their own communities having to be involved to make sure they have good schools and and the best education they can for their own children and as a father i know that's something that's of something that all parents are concerned about having said that there's no question that the federal government also can play a role with regard to education and should play a role and especially with regard to the achievement gap it can be the case that in terms of fairness for school districts which are not as wealthy as others the federal government may well be able to provide funds and assistance to those schools and the lower performing categories perhaps and usually in the less wealthy communities to make sure that they try to bring their programs up and so on and that's something that we all should support i mean we have our own local communities but our country is also about community as is our world and we all have a responsibility for all people in our country and in our world and so we should do that to have programs from the federal government to help try to close that achievement gap thank you question ten do you support placing restrictions on the one nine hundred seventy three roe versus wade supreme court decision and if so please explain the restrictions you support and your reasoning well this is the all very difficult issue of abortion we've known that courts ever since roe versus wade and even before of course roe versus wade it's something you know as i was around the district this time and in past times collecting signatures on my nomination papers this was a matter that came up frequently people feeling very strong on this issue about abortion very strong on both sides and it is it's it is a difficult issue i don't think anybody myself included is in favor of abortion i mean it's not something that you like to see but i certainly am in favor of choice i think it is up to a woman her family and her doctor to decide if an abortion should be done  so in terms of that having to make that decision i think it's a choice for the woman that shouldn't be the government dictating that decision the roe versus wade decision is actually very interesting and it would be seen and criticized as sort of a pro abortion decision but it actually is as we may recall you go back to that decision and you see that there was the  in terms of when abortions could be permitted the first trimester of a pregnancy second trimester third trimester basically first trimester it was up to the woman as i say in her doctor to make the decision second trimester there could be reasonable regulations third trimester abortions could be absolutely prohibited so it wasn't the case that roe versus wade gave feel free rein for abortions  and and of course one of the problems we're having in this country now is the attempts of those who are opposed to abortion is to put all sorts of restrictions on many of them are being found unreasonable and i think that is the case that  while there could be reasonable restrictions during that second trimester many of these restrictions the states are trying to put on them go way beyond what should be done thank you question eleven please give us one example of an issue that you and your opponent agree on and two examples of issues that you differ and why air positions represent the best interests of the fifth congressional district well i it's interesting i think one issue and i don't know if it's those other three who are running with agree or not it's is the case that none of the other three are making major issues about what is my major issue which is a foreign policy issue if you will which is the matter of what do we do to try to achieve peace in the world as i say that seems to be a nonpartisan issue and that's one thing that i've emphasized as i've talked about it and you know people have said what would you do to try to get around this by this partisan gridlock that there is in washington and i say well the major issue that i'm pushing is really a nonpartisan issue and as i indicated in my opening statement it's been it was a goal of president reagan a goal of president kennedy ever since president eisenhower right through to  goal has been to try to bring about peace in the world obviously try to reign in weapons of mass destruction and many of the presidents have been in favor of eliminating weapons of mass destruction entirely so i think that's a matter that hopefully we all would agree on the other three candidates and myself i do think that some of the matters that i do press are ones that the other candidates would not necessarily be in favor of i mean as i say on abortion is certainly one of those that is a major issue gun control is another one that i'm sure there are differences on i think ms clarke and i would be similar on that issue i think mr all n t and mr adelman have all those might have different views on that and but on the other hand i would hope that we would all try to agree on reasonable restrictions on guns  not in favor of outlawing guns people have a right to guns but it's something that i would hope we'd all agree that we could have reasonable regulation thank you mr hall you'll have one minute for a closing statement very good thank you very much and as i say thank you to arlington media following on what i've been talking about during this program i want to emphasize that i think it is possible for us to create a just peaceful and secure world we can end terrorism we can abolish war we can build the world that knew that once more the weapons of war we can have a peaceful and prosperous global community for all and we can accomplish all these goals because as i indicated human rights are really a matter that are universal aspirations we're finding that history of the last sixty years shows that democracy liberty equality tolerance is increasing all throughout the world you think of democratic government coming to latin america asia africa europe and so on so this is the issue that i think we have to the most important we can have a just peaceful and secure world and we can vote for such a world on