Rand Paul wants to provide "job training" to nonviolent drug offenders
Rand Paul was in Ferguson, pandering for the Black vote ahead of his 2016 run. He was on the Situation Room following his meetings. He advocated reducing sentences for nonviolent drug offenders...
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Sen. Rand Paul has said repeatedly that he's considering a run for president in 2016
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Editor's note: Wolf Blitzer's interview with Rand Paul will air in full on CNN's "The Situation Room" at 5 p.m. ET
(CNN) -- In 2011, Sen. Rand Paul told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that he would favor a halt of U.S. foreign aid, including assistance to Israel.
In August, at the height of the recent Gaza conflict, the Kentucky Republican made headlines for declaring he never proposed ending aid to the country.
Democrats and other critics seized on his sharp change in tune and blasted the likely presidential contender for flip-flopping. The criticism kicked off a wave of close scrutiny of Paul's past statements.
On Friday, Rand spoke with Blitzer again, saying he stands by what he told him in 2011.
"Interestingly, they keep playing our interview, Wolf. So we had a great interview. But the interesting thing of it is I actually still do agree with what I told you. Ultimately, I think a country that's $18 trillion in debt should not be borrowing money from China to send it to anyone," he said.
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Rand Paul doubles to down on aid to Israel
Rand Paul usually starts with a joke; it relieves the tension thats never there. On Tuesday, Sept. 30, the junior Senator from Kentucky is running a little late, but a University of South Carolina lecture room is already overfull, stragglers fighting for space behind a row of TV cameras. A few college Democrats are in the room, but as listeners, not hecklers.
Most of the students actually sound like Brett Harris, a sophomore studying political science, who had showed up an hour early to win a front-row center seat. Id have camped out on the lawn if Id had to, he says, clutching a red-and-white STAND WITH RAND sign to his matching STAND WITH RAND T-shirt. Of course I would! Its Rand Paul!
Harris starts to explain his affinity for Paul, and how right hes been about foreign policy, when the man himself arrives; jeans and battered cowboy boots, no jacket. This will be his uniform for two days of speeches and schmoozing and selfies, across South Carolina and North Carolina, in front of everyone from military veterans to pastors to reporters to donors to students. The students would come first.
Will we in 20 years be fighting a war and saying, Oh yeah, we voted for it in 2001?
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Last time I was here, I was at a barbecue, says Paul. The guy in front of me was loading up two plates of barbecue. I said, Youre not gonna live long eating like that! He said, My granddad lived to be 105. I said, He didnt live to 105 by eating like that. He said, No, my granddad lived to be 105 by minding his own business.
The joke is as fresh as the last grease scrapings from an outdoor smoker. Two years ago, Paul liked to deliver it before introducing his father, Rep. Ron Paul, to the Republican voters tasked with picking a presidential nominee. His father badly lost the South Carolina primary both times he ran, which was taken as evidence that antiwar libertarianism had no place in the heartland of the modern Republican party. Rand Paul is in the state to explain what these voters missed. His sort of politics should be popularin fact, isnt it popular already?
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Rand Paul speaks to students at the University of South Carolina.
Sometimes I think if we ought to have a campaign theme for government, that ought to be it, says Paul when the guffaws subside. Minding your own business. Maybe theres enough of us in the country who say, you know what? Lets be part of the Leave Me Alone coalition.
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Rand Paul: Middle East: intervention prime source of the chaos
Senator Rand Paul September 18, 2014 Madam President, if there is a theme that connects the dots in the Middle East, it is that chaos breeds terrorism. What much of the foreign policy elite...
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Rand Paul: We shouldn #39;t arm rebels
Sen. Rand Paul tells Wolf Blitzer that we have to do something about ISIS, but arming the Syrian rebels shouldn #39;t be the answer.
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