First question - What is the first thing he will do upon entering office?
Rand - deftly switches to saying Ron wants to balance the budget and cut a trillion dollars, eliminate five departments. First woman nods approvingly but cautiously.
Second question - How can Congress cooperate with him?
Rand - missed the answer
Third question - Which departments?
Rand - Lists all five departments. Reagan conservative moved to eliminate DOE. Many want to be Reagan conservative but voted for Medicare part D
Crowd shots - enraptured with Ron
Man - Gov . is way too big now. No one disagrees with economic policy. IOt is the foreign policy.
Rand: If you take all the revenues, 40% of every dollar is borrowed. Something has to be change.
Only a few raise their hand on agreeing with Ron s foreign policy
Rand - chuckles.. we have work to do. Ron agrees we need to work on strong national defense.
Man - comes off as isolationist
Rand - He doesnt want them to get a nuclear weapon. He does care. Three previous chain of command heads said preemptive attack on Iran could have dire consequences. We survived Cuban Misslecrisis through diplomacy.
Audience respectfully claps.