RAND PAUL - WE SHOULD CONTROL THE POWER OF THE PURSE

RAND PAUL - WE SHOULD CONTROL THE POWER OF THE PURSE.   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.   0:00 the media may be downgrading Rand Paul's chances in 2016 based on sagging polls 0:06 an anemic fundraising but he hasn't lost any of his feistiness I spoke to the 0:10 presidential candidate here in washington Rand Paul welcome thank you 0:15 in this week's battle in the senate over a government shutdown or boarding line 0:19 and defunding Planned Parenthood UNF your rival Ted Cruz you said he's pretty 0:23 much done in the senate what do you mean I wouldn't call it really going after I 0:27 would just ask a question about different styles and I think we do have 0:30 different styles my style is when I disagree with someone not to call them 0:35 in a more to be very inflammatory I can be very strong and what I believe in and 0:39 I'm willing to stand up for that but even in Harry Reid who is on the 0:43 opposite side from a pretty good relations with him even though he's a 0:47 democrat and I wouldn't call him a liar wouldn't you know call them dishonest 0:51 because I don't think that furthers and debate even with people you disagree 0:55 with 0:56 as you know it was a dramatized by John Boehner his resignation there is a 0:59 strong hardline faction the house that believes that if you're not willing to 1:03 potentially close down the government over defunding Planned Parenthood closed 1:06 down the government over getting rid of Obamacare your squishy or I know you're 1:10 not fighting for your principles your thoughts 1:12 well I do think that we should exert the power of the purse so I am one who says 1:17 that we haven't been doing enough and we control the house and the Senate and 1:22 frankly I've been traveling the country and yes conservatives and Republicans 1:26 are very unhappy that were not controlling the power of the purse many 1:29 in Washington will say well we don't have the votes sixty votes to defund 1:33 things and I say it's kind of backwards if you let the spending expire then to 1:38 restart spending takes 60 votes you've been mixing it up with Donald Trump who 1:43 tweeted prediction Rampaul then driven out of the race by statements about him 1:47 he will announce 21 percent gentleman from kentucky is the floor I think the 1:52 rumors of my demise are somewhat exaggerated to say the least and now 1:57 we're doing quite well actually we run a tight ship around here we plan on being 2:01 in for the long arm and I think ultimately celebrity will sort of filter 2:05 out of this 2:06 this and I think the clown I think there are some clownish things that he has 2:11 said I think also really but what's more important is that I just don't believe 2:16 these are true conservative I think that being for higher taxes being for a 2:21 single-payer health system 2:23 those are conservative notions he was for the bank bailouts he was also for 2:27 President Obama's government stimulus package but probably the biggest issue 2:31 that makes me think that trumpets of fake conservative is that he's for using 2:35 eminent domain governments eminent domain to take property from small 2:40 property owners and give it to big corporations like his and he's actually 2:44 personally profited by having the government do this dirty work of taking 2:48 people's property and there's nothing conservative about that how do you come 2:51 out the growing you in the media that your campaign is really struggling I 2:55 think one way is to look at how will we do against Hillary Clinton when you look 2:59 at polls we are not doing as well as some of the polls but if you look at how 3:03 well we do against the democrats we do much better than actually many people in 3:07 the republican party we actually lead Hillary Clinton in five states that were 3:11 won by President Obama what does that show it shows that we have the ability 3:15 to attract independents democrats and people that you need to come to your 3:19 party if you think your gonna be able to win these battleground states I magazine 3:22 with most interesting man in politics lately the headlines have not been so 3:26 great on this kind of fickle I still think I'm the most interesting man in 3:31 politics no I hard for you to break through the mood of people you know 3:39 reporting things I think changes but to me I'm exactly the same as I've always 3:43 been I talk about the same things limited government the Constitution 3:47 Privacy Bill of Rights and I continue to see our crowds grow bigger and bigger so 3:53 if I weren't reading the so-called pendants and I were traveling the 3:57 country as I am every day I see bigger crowds every day I see more enthusiasm 4:01 one complains when you started out with a deep skepticism of us' military 4:06 intervention overseas will do 4:07 that well it's not about that because with the growing threat from my saves in 4:10 Russia starting airstrikes on Syria this week are you still skeptical about 4:15 greater us' involvement in Syria our founding fathers wanted it to be 4:19 difficult to go to war so they gave the power to initiate war to Congress and 4:24 one of my complaints for a long time is it being the president is sort of taking 4:27 over that power and it's not his power under the Constitution so the first 4:31 thing we should do is debate should we be in Syria should we be in Iraq and 4:36 there needs to be a vote in Congress answer well what I would say is that I 4:40 don't wanna boots on the ground to bu s boots on the ground 4:43 we've had an Iraq War and frankly I think it was a mistake in fact I think 4:47 every time that we have toppled a secular dictator in the middle east 4:50 we've gotten chaos the rise of radical Islam and actually made it more 4:54 dangerous for us I think that hillary's war in Libya is actually made us less 4:59 safe for us the same does though for a side we have many ppl President Obama 5:04 Hillary Clinton and some republicans want to topple Assad and I think would 5:08 be a mistake to topple Assad frankly because I think that would allow a power 5:12 vacuum for Isis to move into CNBC just announced a three percent threshold for 5:16 its debate which would put you and some other is in danger of not making the 5:19 prime-time stage do you think that is a fair approach by CIBC interestingly we 5:24 look at the criteria pretty closely because it affects us and it actually 5:27 looks like it would include us we see nothing about the criteria that they've 5:31 put forward that wouldn't include US Senator Paul thanks very much for 5:34 joining us 5:35 thank you