Mitt on 'The Glenn Beck Program' today

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Transcript of Mitt Romney's interview with Glenn Beck
today on his radio show.
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GLENN: Okay. The one thing that John McCain and do you think the polls on John McCain are turning now because of this, because, you know, I have been asking for a while, and you are the only one. I've been using you as an example lately. I went back and I looked at your platform on energy and everything else and I said the world would be a different place today if Romney were the candidate because you were talking about the things when nobody else was talking about them. You can see over the horizon, and the only time I've seen any of these people running for President lately that seems to appear as though they can see over the horizon is with John McCain with Russia. He recognized that one. He wasn't surprised by it. He nailed it the first time out. How much of a concern is Russia for you?

GOVERNOR ROMNEY: Well, Russia is a real concern for me. Glenn, I see the world being driven by the power of each nation's economy, and the strength of your military derives from the strength of your economy. We're competing on the basis of free enterprise and democracy. China is saying, we're going to take that free enterprise but we're going to be a communist, one party, no freedom land. Russia is saying we're going to compete on the basis of energy and we're going to get the energy resources of the world and hold up the world. It's a whole different strategy and they are serious. They intend to become the world superpower, to dominate the world. That has been their ambition from the beginning. Putin is still there. John McCain said, I looked in his eyes. I did not see, you know, a sympathetic soul. I saw the KGB.

GLENN: Yeah.

GOVERNOR ROMNEY: And John McCain has been proven right and he's absolutely right to be concerned about the Russians and we're going to have to be serious in confronting their ambitions for power and for territory.