Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. That's what I came here to talk to you about. Thank you very much. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. It's wonderful to be in Arkansas. And if I have my history correct, it's wonderful to be the first president since Harry Truman to stay overnight here in Little Rock. Back just a few years ago when other people were burning our flag, you were waving it. I don't know if the President ever thanks you for that, but I'm proud to thank you. It's good to be in the home state of the University of Arkansas Razorbacks. I understand the Razorbacks have a big game this evening. How do you think they're going to do? Well, then I have another question. How do you think we'll all do next week? But let's not any of us be complacent. I'm telling you quite frankly that if a gypsy were to look into a crystal ball and say, Mr. President, you can either win easily on Tuesday or win with fewer votes. But with a Congress that will help you, I would choose the latter. Because if we're to solidify our gains, the gains we've made in these past four years, we'll need a Congress that will allow us to move forward. A Congress that won't insist on going back to the bad old days and the bad old ways. Arkansas is called the land of opportunity. You have some wonderful candidates for the Congress that will help our entire country continue to be a land of opportunity for everyone. I want to talk to you about Ed Bethune, who's going to be the first Republican senator from Arkansas since Reconstruction. I know that many of the good people of this state are Democrats, and I respect that tradition. I was a Democrat too for most of my adult life. But I changed parties when the leadership of the Democratic Party changed course. Its current leaders have made that once great party into the plaything of the left, the hobby of the elite and the home of the special leaders. They don't represent America anymore the way they once did. But people like Ed Bethune do, he believes in a strong and united country in America of pride and power. And he's for a strong national defense. He's for prosperity. And he's for lower taxes. Don't think his opponent could make those same statements. Now his opponent is the gentleman who said in 1980, if Reagan is elected, it will be an unbelievable and unbearable experience. It hasn't really been that bad has it? My friend Ed Bethune answered his opponent by saying, if Ronald Reagan comes to Arkansas, it will be an unbelievable and unbearable experience for David Pryor. He can do spirit of Judy Petty in the House of Representatives. She's for the policies that will create economic growth. And she's often said, young people don't want a welfare check, they want a paycheck. We need that more of that kind of thinking in the Congress. And we need Congressman Paul Hammersmith too. Will you send them all to Washington to help us? And please send Woody Freeman to the State House. Arkansas is an entire congressional delegation to be a part of the great renewal that we began in 1980. A renewal that followed the wise advice of a wise old president. Abe Lincoln said, we must disenthrall ourselves with the past.  Four years ago, that's what we did. We made a great turn. We got out from under the thrall of a government which we had thought would improve our lives, make them better, but which we found tried to live our lives for us. Four years ago, we began to navigate by certain fixed principles. Our North Star was freedom and common sense were our constellations. We knew that economic freedom meant paying less of the American family's earnings to the government. And so we cut personal income tax rates across the board 25%. And those in this campaign were telling you that those taxes were unbalanced and benefited certain groups more than others that lying in their teeth. We cut them across the board for inflation, the quiet thief, and record interest rates. We're stealing our future. We knew that our national military defense had been weakened, so we decided to rebuild and be strong again and to be prepared for peace. It was a second American revolution, and it's only just begun. But America is back. America is on the scene, powerful in its renewed spirit, powerful in its growing economy, and powerful in its ability to defend itself and preserve the peace. You know something? That's not debatable. Four years after our efforts began, small voices in the night are sounding the call to go back, go back to the days of drift, the days of torpor, timidity, and taxes. And any of those rumors suddenly that have been floated around desperately in these last couple of days about some suspected tax increases from our side over my dead body, which is understanding of economics as well described by his predictions. Just before we took office, he said that our economic program was, quote, obviously murderously inflationary. And it was just shortly after he said that that we reduced inflation from over 12% down to around four. And then just after our tax cuts were adopted, he said the most he could see was anemic recovery. And that was right before the United States' economy created more than 6 million new jobs in 21 months. He said that decontrolling oil prices would cost you $36 billion. But one of the first things we did was decontrol oil prices, and the price of gasoline went down 8 cents a gallon. Now, I've got it figured out that all we have to do to get an absolutely perfect economy is to get him to predict an absolute disaster. He says he cares about the middle class, but he boasts, I have consistently supported legislation time after time, which increases taxes on my own constituents. Doesn't that make you want to be one of his constituents? He's no doubt proud of the fact that as a United States senator, he voted 16 times in the Senate to increase your taxes. But this year he's outdone himself. He's already promised, of course, to raise your taxes, but if he's to keep all the promises that he's made in this campaign, he will have to raise taxes by the equivalent of $1,890 for every household in the United States. That comes out to a little better than $150 a month. That's like having a second mortgage, a Mondale mortgage. His economic plan has two basic parts. One, missed me. As I was saying, his economic plan has two basic parts. One, raise your taxes, and two, do it again. But I got news for him. The American people don't want his tax increases, and he's not going to get them. First of all, his tax plan would bring our recovery to a roaring stop. The tax cut is the principal reason for the recovery that we're having. Now, if my opponent's campaign were a television show, it would be, let's make a deal. You trade your prosperity for what he's got hidden behind the curtain. And if it was a Broadway show, it would be promises, promises. And if it were a book, you would have to read it from the back to the front to get a happy ending. He sees in America in which every day is tax day, April 15. Well, we see in America in which every day is independence day, the 4th of July. We want to lower your tax rates, yours and everyone's in this country, so that our economy will be stronger, our families will be stronger, and America will be stronger. And I'm proud to say on another subject that during these last four years, not one square inch of territory in the world has been lost to communist aggression. You know, the United States is more secure than we were four years ago. But my opponent sees a different America. After the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, he said, it just baffles me why the Soviets these last few years have behaved as they have. Well, there's so much that baffles him. One year ago, we liberated Grenada from communist thugs who had taken over that country. What we did, a violation of international law that erodes our moral authority to criticize the Soviets. There is nothing immoral about rescuing American students whose lives were engaged. Let me try to put this in perspective, apropos something I said earlier. This 1984 election isn't just a partisan contest. I was a Democrat myself once for a long time. I was a Democrat of my adult life. And I was just going to say, I hope, though, that there are many out here who are still members of that party, but who are here because they found they can no longer follow the policies of the leadership of the party. Back in those days when that gentleman and I were members of the party, its leaders weren't in the blame the America first crowd. These leaders were men like Harry Truman, Senator Scoop Jackson, and John F. Kennedy, men who understood the challenges of our times. And they didn't reserve all their indignation for America. They knew the difference between freedom and tyranny, and they stood up for one and damned the other. All across this country, in rallies like this, I've been speaking to people that I knew many were Democrats. And those who respect that tradition that I've just mentioned, I say, you are not alone. We're asking you to come walk with us down that path of hope and opportunity. And in the traditional bipartisan manner of this country, together, we can keep this land prosperous, secure, and free. Last month, an American woman, Catherine Sullivan, walked in space. Then she made her way back to the space shuttle, in which some of the great scientific and medical advances of the future will be made. Cures for diabetes and heart disease may be possible up there. I've seen the evidence in experiments already conducted, advances in technology and communications.  And he called it a horrible waste, where we support the space shuttle, and we've committed America to meet a great challenge, to build a manned space station, and to build it within a decade. And I think that you will all agree, what America needs is high tech, not high taxes. Probably going on too long here, but bless you. That isn't what you meant by four years up here. Well, the point is we were right when we made the great turn in 1980, right to take command of the ship to stop its aimless drift and to get moving again. And we were right when we stopped sending out SOS from Washington and started saying USA. United States of America was never meant to be a second best nation. Like our Olympic athletes, let's aim for the stars and go for the gold. If America could bring down inflation from 12.4% to 4%, then we can bring it down further from 4 to 0.0, and that's what we're going to do. If lowering your tax rates led to the best expansion in 30 years, and they did, then we can lower them again and keep America growing right into the 21st century. If we could create 6 million new jobs in 21 months, then we can make it possible for every American, young and old, black and white, every American who wants a job will be able to find one. And if local governments can establish enterprise zones to create economic growth, then we can elect people to Congress who will free our enterprise zones bill. This is a bill to go into the distressed areas, rural and in our great inner cities, and using tax incentives, bring industry in there to provide jobs and get people off welfare and to bring prosperity to those areas. And that bill for more than two years has been buried in a committee in the House of Representatives under the direction of Tip O'Neill. And you know something, I think that Judy Petty and Bethune and other congressmen there, I think they can bust it out of there. That bill will provide jobs for millions in the most distressed areas of America, and this we must do. We're leading a revolution in technology, pushing back the frontiers of space, and if we give our workers the tools they need, I have always believed this, and I believe it more than ever. Give American workers the right tools, and they will out-produce, out-compete, and out-sell anyone, anyplace, any time in the whole world to restore excellence in education. It has reversed a 20-year decline in the Scholastic aptitude test scores, and we're going to keep raising those scores and restore American academic excellence second to none. Our crackdown of crime produced the sharpest drop ever in the crime index, and we're going to keep cracking down until your families and friends can walk the streets and not be afraid. We've reversed the decline in our military defenses and restored respect for America, and we're going to keep this nation strong to protect freedom and peace for us, for our children, and for our children's children. I have to tell you of all the things that I'm proud of in this job, nothing has made me more proud than those young men and women that are in the uniform of our military today. And if we make sure that America remains strong and prepared for peace, then we can reduce nuclear weapons and, one day, banish them entirely from the face of the earth. Every once in a while I see along the street people with nuclear-free signs, and I know that my opponent has adopted that, and I know they're kind of trying to heckle me, and I'll tell them something, and I'll tell you, yes, to a nuclear freeze. After we have reduced nuclear weapons down to a verifiable and equal level on both sides, then we can have a nuclear freeze. And as we strengthen our economy and strengthen our security, strengthen the values that bind us, America will become a nation even greater in its standard of living, in art and culture and learning, greater in love and worship of the God who made us and who has blessed us more than any people in this earth have ever been blessed. I ran a little short of time a couple of weeks ago on the debate, and I'd like to finish what I didn't get to say there, and this is to the young people of our country who are here with us today.  We've seen our young people all across this country on campuses, in schools, in rallies like this, and I can tell you, your generation really sparkles. Your idealism and your love of country are unsurpassed. And you know, my generation, and well, there are a few generations between mine and yours, when we have a sacred trust, and that is when the time comes to turn the reins of government and this country over to you. We're going to turn over to you in America that was every bit as full of opportunity, hope, confidence, and dreams as we had when we were your age. The last thing I was going to say in that debate was we're going to turn over to you in America that is free in a world at peace. All of us together are part of a great revolution, and it's only just begun. America will never give up, never go back. We were born to be a kind of special place. I've always believed that, that this great land was placed here between the two great oceans to be found by a special kind of people from every corner of the earth, people with a love of freedom that made them pick up and leave home and friends to come here for the new opportunity that was present. We have a unique mission to carry freedom's torch. To a tired, disillusioned world, we've always been a light of hope where all things are possible. Throughout my life, I've seen America do the impossible. When I was a much younger individual, we survived a great depression that toppled governments in many countries of the world. We came back from Pearl Harbor to win the greatest military victory the world has ever known. And in a single lifetime, my own, we went from the horse and buggy to sending astronauts to the moon. But as a people, we Americans have fought harder, paid a higher price, done more to advance the freedom and dignity of man than any people who ever lived on this earth. America's future will always be great because our nation will always be strong. And our nation will be strong because our people are free and our people will be free because we're united. One people under God with liberty and justice for all. A home of the free because we're the land of the brave. You have honored me greatly. I've been honored these past four years. You allowed me to serve you in that period of time. But much remains to be done. And we must continue to build upon the new beginning that we started four years ago. So I have come here to ask for your support, to ask for your vote. One more thing. Don't send me back there alone. Send these people here and send this one to the state house. I know what governors mean in a national government having been one myself. Let me tell you, stop looking at the polls. They scare me because I think you might decide that whether you've got something better to do you don't need to vote on Tuesday. No. President Dewey told me we should never get complacent or overconfident.  America's best days are yet to come.


Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE, covering AWS re-invent 2018.  Hello everyone, I'm John Furrier, co-host of theCUBE here live in Las Vegas where Amazon Web Services is re-invent 2018. Our six-year covering is presented by Intel and AWS. Our next guest is Paul Seville, Senior Vice President of Core Network and Technology, exclusive for CenturyLink. Welcome to theCUBE, good to see you. Thanks for coming on. Thanks, really glad to be here. So one of the things we've been covering on SiliconANGLE and theCUBE is that the holy trinity of infrastructure is storage, networking, compute. It's never going away, but it's evolving as the market evolves. You guys have been providing connectivity and core network, really high availability bandwidth and connectivity for many, many years. Now you guys are in the middle of a sea change. What's your story? What are you guys doing at re-invent?  What's your story? Why are you here? What are you talking about at re-invent this year? Sure, yeah, I really do believe it is a sea change. We've actually been working with AWS for many years and when AWS first started, we were one of the major internet service providers for AWS and access into AWS cloud services. But a few years ago, we really started seeing this sea change start to happen because enterprise customers started asking for weird things from us. They actually wanted to order dedicated 10 gigabit optical waves from their enterprise location into the AWS platform.  Why are people doing this? And really what was driving it was issues around performance, concerns around security. And so we're starting to see the network really start to play a major role in how cloud services and how performance cloud-based applications are delivered. We're here in day two of re-invent. We've got two more days to go. Andy Jast has got his big keynote. He's the CEO of AWS. He's got his big keynote tomorrow morning. We're expecting to hear latency to be a big part of his keynote, specifically as Amazon evolves their strategy from being public cloud, where all the action is to having a cloud version on-premise because of latency and heritage or legacy workloads on-premise aren't going away. Certainly, people need to work on this. Maybe a footprint might be smaller, but I buy that, but it's not going away. But connectivity and latency is now at the front of the conversation again because data and compute have that relationship. I don't want to be moving data around.  I want to send some compute to the edge. So latency is important. Talk about this because you gave a talk here around milliseconds matter. I love that line because they do matter now. They do. Talk about that concept. Sure. Yeah, we're absolutely seeing it. And the reason that we came up with that tagline is because more and more, as we've been working with enterprises on networking solutions, we found that this is really true in how well their applications perform in the cloud. And I really do applaud Jassy and AWS for working on that solution to deliver to the-prem some of the AWS capabilities. But really, we see the market evolving where in the future it's a trade-off between latency and the amount of bandwidth and how the performance needs to be applied across the bill because we believe that some things will make a lot of sense to be hosted out of the cloud core where there's major iron, major storage and compute. Some things can be distributed on the prem, but then other things make more sense to be hosted out of somewhere on the far edge where it can serve multiple locations. It may be more efficient that way because maybe you don't want to haul all the bandwidth or huge amounts of data very long distances that becomes expensive. Well, bandwidth is cost. It's a cost too. It's still a cost. Yeah. It's latency one is a performance overhead cost on that that could hurt the applicant. But it's also a cost. It's actually financial cost. There is. Talk about this concept of latency in context to the new kinds of applications because what's going on is that as compute, and you mentioned storage to start to get more functionality specifically compute. Yes. Things happen differently. I've been studying AI. I'm a computer science major since the 80s and AI has been around since the 80s and earlier. But all those concepts just didn't have the compute capability. Now they do. Now machine learning is on fire. That's a renaissance. Compute can help connectivity. You just mentioned the use case there. So this is powering new software applications that no one's ever seen before. That's right. How is these net new workloads and applications changing connectivity? Give some examples. I mean, what are some of the things that you guys seeing as use cases running over the connectivity? Sure. So we're seeing a lot of different use cases and you're right. It really is transforming. I mean, an example of this is retail robotics, for instance. You know, we're seeing very real applications where large retail customers want to drive robotics in their many retail store locations, but it's just not affordable to put that whole hardware software stack in every single store to run those robotics. But then if you try to run those robotics from an application that's hosted in a cloud somewhere a thousand miles away, then it doesn't have the latency performance that it needs to accurately run those robotics in the store. So we believe that what we're starting to see is this transformation where applications are going to be broken up into these microservices where parts of it's going to run in the cloud core, part of it's going to run in the prem and part of it's going to run on the near edge where things are more efficient to run for certain certain types of applications. It's kind of like a human. You got your brains and you got your arms and legs in the middle round so the brains can be in the cloud and then whatever's going on at the edge can have more compute. All right, Doug, give some other example. You and I were talking before we came on camera about video retail analytics. Right. Okay, pretty obvious when you think about it but not obvious when you don't have clouds. So talk about video analytics. Yeah, that's another important driver is that with all of the AI tools that are being developed and as AI advances and as other things, technologies like machine learning advances, then we want to apply AI to a whole new range of applications. So retail, like video analytics, for instance, what we're starting to see is the art of the possible is that you may have a retail store that has 30 different video cameras spread up around its store and it's constantly monitoring people's expressions, people's moods as they come in. There's an AI sitting somewhere that's analyzing how people feel when they walk in the store versus how they feel out when they walk out.  Are they really mad when they're in the waiting line someplace or is there a corner of the store where real time there's an AI that's detecting that, hey, there's a problem in the corner of the store because people seem like they look upset. You know, that type of analysis, you know, you don't want to feed all of that video, all those simultaneous video feeds to some AI that's sitting a thousand miles away that's just too much of a lift in terms of bandwidth and too much of a cost. So the answer is that there's this distributed model where portions of the application and the AI is acting at different locations in the network and the network is tying it all together. My co-service is going to create a whole new level of capabilities and change how they're implemented and deployed. Yes. And connectivity still feeds the beast called the application, what is the IOC edge? Also the other thing we're seeing too is Amazon, we're expecting to hear Amazon announce new kinds of connectivity, whether it be satellite and or a bandwidth to edges. Yes. IOC or the network edge as it's called where the edge of the network kind of ends where power and connectivity because without power and connectivity it's not on the network, it's not an edge. So. That's right. There's a trend to push the boundary. Yes. Of edge. Right. So battery power is letting longer. So now you need connectivity. How do you guys essentially look at this how so you guys want to push the boundaries? How are you guys just pushing the boundaries? Sure. Yeah, IOT is another area that's really changing the business and it's opening up so many new opportunities. And when you talk about the edge it's really funny because, you know people define the edge in so many different ways. And the truth is the edge can vary depending upon what the application is. And in IOT, if you have a bunch of remote devices that are battery powered that are signaling back to some central application well then that IOT, those physical devices are the new edge and they could be very deep into some kind of a market. But there's a lot of different communications technologies that can access them. There's, you know, 5G wireless that's emerging or regular wireless. There are applications like LoraNet which is a very low bandwidth but very cost effective way for small IOT devices to communicate small amounts of data back to a central application. And then there's actual fiber that can be used to serve locations where IOT devices can be feeding very heavy amounts of bandwidth back to exactly. So it's good for your business. It's great for our business. We really see it opening up so many other new avenues for us to serve our customers. So I'm going to put you on the spot here. If I ask you a question what has cloudification done for CenturyLink? How has it changed your business? How do you respond to that question? I think that it's made what we do even more critical to the future of how enterprises operate. And the reason for that is just the point that you made when we started which is between storage and compute and networking it's all really coming back together again in terms of how it boils down to those things but networking is becoming a much more important factor in all of this because of the latency issues that are there and the bandwidth amount that is possible to generate. It's, we believe that it's creating an opportunity for us to play a more pivotal role in the whole evolving cloud ecosystem. I still think, you know, this is such an awesome new area because again, it's so early and as storage networking compute continues to morph all of us networking geeks and infrastructure geeks, software geeks are going to actually have an opportunity to reimagine how to use those parts and have with microservices and custom silicon. You see what Amazon's done with Emma Perna. You can have data processing units, connectivity processing units. You can have all kinds of new capabilities. It's a whole new world. It is and you know, interestingly though enough organizations are going to have to change. You know, one of the things that we see with enterprises is that in many enterprises are organized so that those three areas are still completely managed in separate departments but in this new world of how cloud is crushing all of those things together those departments are going to have to start working much more closely aligned.  But he says, I don't know how to get my organization to do that. They're still so segmented. It's a tough challenge. And silos are critical. I just saw a presentation with the FBI Director Deputy Director of Encounter Terrorism and they can't put the puzzle pieces together fast enough to evaluate threats because of the databases. And she gave an example around the Las Vegas shooting here just to go through the video tape of the hotel took 12 people for 20 hours a day for a week to go through that video to see who we talked to. They did it in 20 minutes with facial recognition. That's just, and they have all this data so putting those puzzle pieces together is critical. I think connectivity truly is going to be a new kind of backbone. You guys do some good work. Okay, let's get the plug in for you guys real quick. Thanks, by the way, thanks for the insight. Great stuff here at Reinvent. One year anniversary of CenturyLink with level three coming together. Synergies, what are you guys doing? Give the update of the company. One year anniversary of the synergies. What are the synergies? Yeah, we're getting tremendous synergies. In fact, if you listen to our analyst reports and our quarterly earnings calls, we're really ahead of plan in that area. We've actually raised our earnings guidance for the year as a result of what was originally expected of us. And so we're doing really well on that front. But I'll tell you the thing that excites me more than synergies is really just the combined opportunity that we have because of these two companies coming together. Ways that bringing the companies together surprised me that we found new opportunities. So for instance, when you take level three, which is a globally distributed network, covering Europe and Latin America and North America and parts of the PAC-REM with fiber and subsea systems and combine it with CenturyLink's dense coverage fiber in North America, then it really creates a much more stronger ability for this company to reach enterprises with very high-performing network solutions. But one of the main things that surprised me actually relates to this conference. And that is that CenturyLink was really focused around building out cloud services, working closely with companies like AWS on creating managed services around cloud, building performance tools around managing cloud-based applications. Level three was really focused on building out network connectivity in a dynamic way to use the new software-defined networking technologies to be the preferred provider of high-performance networking to cloud service providers. So the timing was pretty impeccable on the combination because you were kind of cloudifying kind of before cloud native was called cloud native, you were thinking about it in a kind of a DevOps mindset and they were kind of thinking from a software agility perspective and infrastructure, bring those together, did I get that right? That's exactly right. You know, level three was thinking about how to make the network consumable on a dynamic basis and on-demand basis the same way cloud is. And when you combine CenturyLink's capabilities with that, then it's just opening up so many new things for us to do, so many new ways that we can deliver value to our enterprise. Well you know I'm always hungry for more bandwidth, so come on, are you guys lighting up all that fiber? How's all the fiber? Yeah, it's all in letters. We're expanding dramatically. You know, we're investing heavily in that fiber network. We have around 160,000 enterprise buildings on our network today and we're growing that just as fast as we can. So Paul Seville, you're the guy to call if I want to get some core network action, huh? That's right, that's right. Thanks for the insight. Great to have you. And good luck at the show here at ReInvent. CenturyLink here inside the queue powering the connectivity. Big part of the theme here at ReInvent this year is powering the edge, getting connectivity to places that needs low latency for those workloads. That's good, the key theme. Congrats, you guys are right on the trend line. Here at CenturyLink on the queue, I'm John Furrier. Stay with us for more wall-to-wall coverage after this short break.