CNBC EXCLUSIVE: CNBC EXCERPTS: CNBC'S MARIA BARTIROMO INTERVIEWS REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE SEN. JOHN MCCAIN AND VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE GOV. SARAH PALIN TODAY
WHEN: Today, Tuesday, October 28th
WHERE: CNBC's "Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo" and "Wall Street Crisis: Is your Money Safe?"
Following are unofficial excerpts of a CNBC EXCLUSIVE interview with Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain and vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin that took place this morning in Hershey, Pa. The excerpts focus on answers to "what is wrong with the redistribution of wealth" as well as "how is the McCain/Palin partnership going" in the last week of the Presidential campaign.
The full interview will air this afternoon on CNBC's "Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo" (4-5 PM ET) as well as on CNBC's live primetime special "Wall Street Crisis: Is Your Money Safe?" (7-9 PM ET).
All references must be sourced to CNBC.
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Maria: On the issue of redistribution of wealth, which Obama talked about as far back as 2001 in an interview, what is wrong with the redistribution of wealth? How are you going to help the people on the bottom of the income scale?
Sen. McCAIN: Well, obviously that's been tried. That is a bold left-wing
liberal view of how you help people in--they've tried it in other countries.
America--look, you don't take money from one group and give it to another.
You get--you let people have the ability to accumulate wealth, create jobs,
create opportunities, create all the things that a free society, a free
enterprise system. Of course we have an obligation. We have Social Security,
we have Medicare, we have unemployment insurance. We have all of those
things. But to somehow say that we're going to take money because "Joe the
Plumber" reaches a certain income level, now we're going to take that money
from him and give it to somebody else, that's a fundamental contradiction to
what's made this country the strongest and greatest nation in the world. It's
a fundamental contradiction, and the American people are beginning to figure
it out.
Gov. PALIN: So...
BARTIROMO: But we know that there's an income gap.
Gov. PALIN: But instead of taking more from our families and our small
businesses, that's creating this atmosphere where we cannot create jobs,
hiring more people, not if we're taking more from our businesses. Instead of
doing that and then spreading that income according to a politician's
priorities, let's do what John McCain has been saying, let's spread
opportunity so that people like "Joe the Plumber" and others can create more
jobs, they can hire more people. Because they'll be able to reinvest their
hard earned money according to their priorities. We can be compassionate and
we can be generous with others without government mandating where those
dollars should go to. (Unintelligible)...minimum wage...
Sen. McCAIN: One additional point. One of the reasons for that inequality
you pointed out, of course, one of the major reasons is because the rising
cost of health care. Fewer and fewer lower income Americans are able to
afford it, and small businesses. We want to make health insurance and health
care affordable and available in America. That's a key item.
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BARTIROMO: How's the partnership going? Governor Palin, when I spoke with
you in August, you weren't sure if you were on anybody's short list, and then
two days later you get the call.
Gov. PALIN: Yeah.
BARTIROMO: How did it all come down?
Gov. PALIN: It came down the way it was supposed to, and it's all good. And
it is very good, the partnership is very good. And John McCain, he is a true
leader, and a true leader in his campaign in unifying and creating this
cohesiveness that we need in order to get the message out there, allowing
voters to know the stark contrast between these two tickets. And it's a world
of difference what voters will have in front of them on November 4th. To
understand that our ticket supports policies that will create jobs and get the
economy back on the right track and win the war, as opposed to a ticket that
supports policies that will kill jobs and will harm our economy.
Sen. McCAIN: Can I just say, I couldn't be happier. I couldn't be happier.
The enthusiasm, the support, the people who come to--and look, here's two
mavericks. Here's two mavericks. Did anybody expect us to agree--to agree on
every issue? I think we'd be pretty dull--we--on ANWR, we continue a
discussion about that. We're not going to agree on every issue, but that's
the fun of our relationship. And I am so--I can't tell you the excitement
that she has generated and the role model she is. I couldn't be happier.
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