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TVU 18 ANDREW YANG CONCORD NH MEET AND GREET ABC UNI 092819 2020 Yang held a meet and greet event in Concord, NH where he took questions from the crowd after delivering his stump speech. Yang talked about US-China relations, saying that it's harmful to think that "every good thing that happens for China is bad for us" TVU 18 (Check tape for exact quotes) 112605 One thing I will say is that it's bad for American interests to think that every good thing that happens for China is bad for us like really zero sum game mentality. Then you end up leading to a regional war and potentially other forms of conflict and tension over time. And that's a pattern we should not get into unless. There's a very very clear American national security interest that's being threatened. Yang then commented that China is leapfrogging the US in artificial intelligence. 112647 There is an old joke in artificial intelligence that went like this. How far behind is China and America. And the answer is 12 hours we go to sleep they wake up. But now they're in position to actually leapfrog us because they have more access to more data than we do. They also have another advantage which is that the Chinese government has essentially given these companies a blank check when it comes to computing infrastructure. Yang told the crowd that he did not support getting rid of the electoral college, but acknowledged that it did have some issues. He also mentioned that if we moved toward electing a president strictly on the popular vote, it would isolate rural communities like the ones prevalent throughout New Hampshire. He proposed instead, to allocate electors proportionally within each state. 113046 So here's a solution I would propose that I believe that you could get more states on board. And it is this that you have electors get allocated proportionally within the state. So this means that everything matters. This means that someone like me might even campaign in Mississippi or Alaska or someplace just like can't carve off one elector or it opens up the map and if it keeps the built in advantage of a place like North Dakota has that it has more electors than their population within the state which is really what their issue is. 113125 Because if you just made it popular the other problem with just saying popular vote and this is something that you all should understand here in New Hampshire, is the incentive of the campaign would all be in densely populated urban areas. There was a very cute moment when a baby girl started crawling toward Yang and stole the show for a few moments. 105731 Ooh, it's the littlest Yang Gang member. I don't even think she can vote for my re-election. I'm really glad mommy brought you though. ((hard to hear so please check tape on this part)). I'm going to smell your hair later! TVU 18 ANDREW YANG CONCORD NH MEET AND GREET ABC UNI 092819 2020 104751 Morning Concord. It's so great to be here. I was here at this cafe in April 2018. Was that a year and a half ago? I think that was the first visit to New Hampshire. I have to say, the group's bigger. More math hats. I'm not even sure we invented the math hat in April, 2018. It's great to be back. I actually went to high school here in New Hampshire. I went to high school at Phillips Exeter Academy not that far from here. 104823 Graduated '92. Do people know people who went to Exeter? Maybe some people here did? Excellent. They had me back to speak a few months ago, and when I got there I said I hadn't been back since I graduated., because I didn't enjoy my time there. And then the student body erupted in applause, and I was like, whoa. I was like, oh, I didn't intend that reaction. 104848 So after I graduated here in New Hampshire, I went to Brown University. Anyone here do that? Rhode Island? Works. And then I went to law school, became an unhappy corporate lawyer for five whole months. Yeah. And then I left that job to start a business. How many of you have started a business or organization or a club or a mailing list? So if you have your hand up, you know it's a lot harder than anyone thinks. 104916 And when someone asks you how it's going, what do you say? It's great. There's only one answer that question. So my business went great until it failed. And so I was lying on the floor [inaud] wow this is so hard, but I'd been bitten by the bug. I said I want to try this again. So I worked for a series of entrepreneurs over a 10 year period, and then I became the head of an education company that grew to become number one in the US. 104941 And then it was bought buy a big company in 2009. So at this point, my parents tried to talk to me again. Very exciting. But 2009 was a really tough time in the country. How was it here in Concord? Rough? So this was the financial crisis and the aftermath, and I thought I had some clue as to how it had happened, is that all of the want to be whiz kids from Exeter and Brown and Columbia where I'd gone to school and gone to Wall Street and came up with these exotic financial instruments that crashed the economy. 105010 And I thought, well that's a train wreck, so we should try to find something better for us to do. So I quit my job. I donated some money to start a new organization, Venture for America, to help train people to start businesses. I started calling rich friends, and I asked them this question. Do you love America? And then the smart among them said, what does it mean if I say yes to that question. And then I said, at least ten thousand dollars. So we raised a couple hundred thousand dollars, it grew to millions. Helps create several thousand jobs around the country, in cities like Detroit, Cleveland, Baltimore, New Orleans, Burmingham. I got recognized by the Obama administration for creating thousands of jobs. I got to bring my wife to meet the president. So my in-laws were very excited about me for a brief while. 105055 How many of you grew up here in New Hampshire or New England generally? How about the Midwest? The south? West coast? So I grew up in upstate New York, came of age in New England, I had never been to the Midwest. I had never been to Detroit or St. Louis or Birmingham until I ran Venture for America for those seven years. And I was blown away by the disparities between regions of this country, where if you fly between St. Louis and San Francisco or Michigan and Manhattan, you feel like you're crossing dimensions and decades and ways of life and not just a few time zones. 105135 And I was trying to translate this to people. They were patting me on the back saying, great job, you've helped create these jobs around the country, and I said, I feel I'm pouring water into a bathtub that has a giant hole ripped in the bottom, and that the changes in the economy are much bigger and hairier than anyone realizes. And then Donald Trump becomes our president in 2016. You remember that night? 105158 How did you react when that happened, November 2016? Shock, disbelief. Some people here, I'm sure all of you have neighbors who were very excited about his victory. And there are probably some people here that were happy about it as well. To me, it was a giant red flag. It said that things have gotten so bleak that tens of millions of our fellow Americans decided that taking a chance on a reality TV star narcissist was a good idea. And so that to me is a giant red flag as they wait let's stop what we're doing. And if you turn on cable news. Today or any day since he won why would you think that Donald Trump's our president today. Immigrants. Hillary. [10:52:49] Russia. E-mail. Philly. Has. Corrupted racism own Facebook. FBI. All is all mixed up in a cocktail. A really nasty for family to the dad to cocktail kids. Big news. [10:53:10] This year. But I'm a numbers guy. When I dug into the numbers I was a very clear and direct explanation why Donald Trump won in 2016. We automated away 4 million manufacturing jobs in Ohio Pennsylvania Michigan Wisconsin Iowa all the swing states he needed to win and did win. This happened in New Hampshire to a little bit earlier. [10:53:32] You all lost tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs when you go to the northern part of the state. They still feel it. You still feel it. So he got rid of these millions of manufacturing jobs and what we did do those jobs we are now doing to retail jobs. Calls that are jobs. That was through jobs that eventually drunk driving jobs in the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution the greatest economic transformation we've ever seen. How many of you notice doors closing where you live here in this part of New Hampshire. [10:54:00] Why are those doors closing. Yes. It was a one word answer. Right now Amazon is opening up 20 billion dollars in business closing 30 percent of your stores in malls. How much of it was on Valentine's Day last year. [10:54:14] That is your math. New Hampshire. Twenty billion out. He wrote back. [10:54:18] Most common job and most of the country is working as a retail worker cashier. The average retail workers a 39 year old woman make between nine and eleven dollars an hour. So when her store or mall closes What is her next job going to be. [10:54:33] Well you just said McDonald's. But when you go to McDonald's have any of you seen the self serve kiosk. They're going to be in every location in the country by 2021. That's two years from now. Food service and food preparation the third most common job. In the country. When you all call the customer service line of a big company and you get the bottler software you do the same thing I do which is you say zero zero zero zero human human human right. [10:55:00] How do you do that. We all do that. I do it too. [10:55:04] But in two or three years when you get that software it's going to sound like this. Hey Andrew how's it going. What can I do for you. It's going to be delightful seamless efficient a little bit sexy. You might not even know it's software. What is that going to mean for the two and a half million Americans who work in call centers right now I mean 14 hours an hour. [10:55:26] And I notice the direction we're heading because I spoke to 70 CEOs of big companies I asked them how many of you are looking at having software and hey I replace your back office clerical workers. Guess how many hands went up about 70. [10:55:40] All of them. [10:55:41] The truth is you get fired that CERP did not replace back office clerical workers and call center workers with software because they have to optimize for one variable. That's the bottom line. And if I can do that work more inexpensively with technology then you have to do that deal. I'm going to talk a little bit about to me the most disastrous development coming down the road literally which is self-driving trucks and how many of you know a truck driver here in New Hampshire. Driving a truck is the most common job in Twenty nine states. There are three to. [10:56:15] The littlest guy guy. I don't even think she can vote for my re-election. You got to know. We. [10:56:33] Got to think. With us. Smelly apparently. SO. Got me a truck is the most a job in United States and this country where three and a half million truckers. [10:56:54] 94 percent men average age 49 make about fifty thousand dollars a year. My friends in California are working on trusting could drive themselves. Why do they work on those trucks. Really have to be that guy. But. [10:57:08] I do like music. So why are my friends in California working on trucks that can drive themselves. For the money. Hundred sixty eight billion dollars a year in estimated cost savings if you can automate truck driving. Think about that number under 60 billion dollars a year. That's where you can employ hundreds of the smartest engineers in our country to solve. The problem. Self-driving trucks and they told me they're 98 percent of the way they're. Self-driving trucks are already on the highways in Arizona right now. [10:57:37] Uki has just invested in a robot truck company. How many of you saw that headline. U.P.S. invest in the retro company and trucks on the highway. [10:57:45] Now the reason why the trucks on a highway in Arizona is because there's no snow in Arizona. And the robot trucks stink its snow because they rely upon picking up road markings that they can't see the road markings. Then they get confused. So how do you how do you get over that hurdle. What they're working on is tell the operating software on the truck so that when the truck doesn't know what to do. There is an alert to tell the operator in Nevada Oh Arizona. And then that tell operator beams into the truck it drives like a video game. There are cameras on the top and the front of the trucks they can see the road. Now this sounds far out but you remember the first time you saw the TV on your phone. [10:58:27] That's 3G. We're working on 5G now which is like real time immediate latency data transfer. [10:58:37] What do you think the ratio is going to be between tele operators in Nevada and Arizona that we're going to have a million Americans who drive a truck right now. Maybe 10 percent. Maybe 5. Percent. Maybe 1 percent. It's probably closer to 1 or 2 percent. What is that going to mean for the three and a half million Americans who drive a truck for a living. Or the 7 million Americans who work at truck stops motels diners and retail establishments that rely on the truckers getting out having a meal every day. [10:59:06] Only 13 percent of truckers are unionized so this is not going to be some grand negotiation that I want to imagine. Being a trucker who took out one hundred thousand dollars in loans to lease your truck. And then competing against a robot truck that never stops. And your truck literally will force you to stop after 14 hours you can get out and go to sleep like your truck will stop you driving our 15. Your life savings is in that truck or the three or four trucks that you leased and maybe you have a few guys working for you. How would you react in that situation. This is the true challenge of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. When is the last time you heard a politician say the words fourth industrial revolution just now. [10:59:53] And I'm barely a politician. [11:00:03] So this is all of the research and data I was unpacking in 2017 when I was trying to figure out how. Donald Trump was. Now there is a direct line up between the adoption of industrial robots in the voting area and a movement to Trump one of the strongest correlations you could find in these Midwestern towns. But my first move was not to run for president. [11:00:21] My first choice was to go to our leaders in Washington D.C. and say what are we going to do and what do you think the folks in D.C. said to me when I asked what are we going to do. You're like I know. The three most common answers I got were these number one we cannot talk about this. Number two we should study this further. Number three we must educate and retrain all Americans for the jobs of the future. [11:00:45] That sounds very reasonable very responsible. But I said look. I checked out the studies on how effective government funded retraining programs were for the manufacturing workers who lost their jobs in the Midwest. You don't want to guess how effective those programs were. On a percentage basis. Yeah. Zero to 15 percent. There were essentially failures. And when I said that the folks in D.C. You know what they said next. [11:01:11] I guess we're going to get better. [11:01:14] That's what policy out of D.C. looks like and what person in D.C. said something that brought me here to you all today he said Andrew. No one in this town is going to do anything about this set of problems because this is not a town of leaders. This is a town of followers. We're never going to do anything and the only way we would wake up is if you create a wave in other parts of the country and bring it crashing down on our heads. And I said Challenge accepted I'll be back. I. Am. [11:01:47] So glad that I had someone with me when this guy gave me this little speech. Do you think I was making it up right. I felt like a witness because I was like a movie supervillain speech but instead of the DC lobbyist speech. Turns out they're very similar. So this is the set of challenges. [11:02:07] The real problems I got Donald Trump elected. And the question is how can we one wake up our fellow Americans to the fact that it is not immigrants causing these problems. It's an evolving economy. And number two what are the solutions. What's the positive vision. [11:02:22] If you were here this morning and I really appreciate you all being here because it's a beautiful Saturday morning. You know like you know the birds are singing the sun is shining. We're all here together to talk politics. The vision that you heard from my campaign the first time you've heard about this was this. Is an ancient man running for president who wants to give everyone 1000 as much. As they. That. [11:02:46] Nothing like the first recovery. [11:02:51] And the first time you heard it it seemed like a gimmick. It seemed like it was too good to be true. It seemed like it would never happen. But this is not my idea at all. Thomas Paine was born at the founding of the country. Call it the citizen's dividend. Martin Luther King bought forward in the 60s called it the guaranteed minimum income and it is when he was waiting for the day he was assassinated in 1968. [11:03:12] A thousand economists endorsed it. It was so mainstream that it passed the US House of Representatives twice in 1971 under Richard Nixon. It's called the Family Assistance Plan. There's a deeply American idea that's been with us the whole time. In 1982 one state actually passed the dividend without everyone in that state. That's between one and two thousand dollars a year. No questions asked. [11:03:34] And what state is that and how does Alaska pay for it. And what is the oil of the 21st century technology data. [11:03:46] Self-driving cars and drugs. A study just came out and said that our data is now worth more than oil. How many of you saw that. Never getting your data check in the mail. That didn't get lost. Where did that check go. I can tell you where to win it winning winning a Facebook Amazon Google. The big tech companies are now profiting to the tune of billions of dollars off of our data and we're not seeing any of it. [11:04:12] This is the nature of the 21st century economy where we're throwing off information that then gets monetized and resold and traded around and we're none the wiser and we look around our communities to the store's closing eventually see the robot trucks and the highways the truck stops closing. We are getting sucked dry. And it is up to you all the people of New Hampshire. To wake up the rest of the country and then start presenting real solutions. [11:04:43] What the reason I love being here in New Hampshire how many people are here and this and this bar right now in this room. What's the fire code. We'll take that subtract one but if you look around. Maybe one hundred of us are. And this might seem like a modest gathering to you all. But there's a reason why presidential candidates like myself come here every single weekend. How many candidates have you already seen in person this cycle. Raise your hand. So this would be five. Three. Like two hands to be ten or more. Like that. There's a ten ten. I know. So he lives in all of us. [11:05:22] Why are we all here. What do you think. [11:05:26] Yeah. We want change. Thank you. You go first. [11:05:31] The reason why all the candidates are here all the time is because you all control the future of the country. Doesn't feel like you're just living your lives and you're a little bit spoiled ballots are kind of used to it. You're also like don't know about that yet. I've only met him the one time. But I've done the math here in California Californians each of you is worth. 1000 Californians. So there are. [11:06:00] So there are a hundred people here today. That's like two and a half football stadiums in California. [11:06:06] It may not feel like it but this is the kind of room you launch a revolution. And the revolution is necessary. The revolution that helps build a trickle up economy for our people and our families and our communities. After all I'm president. Thanks to you all 20 21. And. We. [11:06:29] Get the dividend into your hands. How would you spend it in real life. Where will the money go. It's time. Get. Back. How. Would people. Pay down debt pay down debt. Home Care Home Repair. College college loans for sure. You. [11:06:47] Start a company. Love it. Maybe you'd maybe you frequent this coffee shop a little bit more often. Maybe you device that extra stuff at the farmer's market outside. How much of the money would stay here in New Hampshire. Most all of it a little bit would float away. [11:07:03] We all know you'd like upgrade the Netflix subscription. They'll buy an extra day. I don't feel like I really have my eye on that toaster. Now those dividend the toaster will be mine. [11:07:17] But most all of it would stay right here in New Hampshire. [11:07:19] It would go to daycare and Little League sign ups that local organizations and car repairs have been putting off it circulates over and over again throughout your economy. And then something floats up to the big guys in the clouds and most of it stays right here. This is a human centered economy. We need to build as quickly as possible. In large part because right now we're directing our economy's energies and capital to things that don't make our lives any better. Now how many of you got excited about GDP when you woke up this morning. [11:07:50] I feel like yes I'm going to make a big contribution this Saturday. I can feel it just makes contributing. [11:07:56] Oh it's ridiculous. We all know on some level that GDP is variable little relationship with how we're doing. And it's gotten so extreme that even now as GDP is at record highs you know what else are at record highs in America today. Suicide and drug overdoses stress financial and. [11:08:17] Student loan debt it's gotten so bad that our life expectancy has declined as a country for three straight years which is not normal in a developed country. All know the last time American life expectancy declined for three years in a row. Say. The Spanish Flu of 1918. You have to go back to a global pandemic that killed millions. Plavix Plavix on the idea that in finding know. Those young guys are. [11:08:48] So smart. [11:08:50] You have to go back 100 years to a global pandemic to find a time when America's life expectancy decline is wrong. And why is this declining now. Because suicides and drug overdoses of each overtake vehicle deaths as causes of death in the United States eight Americans are dying of drugs every hour. And I know that the answer is that struggling with the opiate epidemic as much as any other part of the country and people in this room have been personally affected. And we have to do much more and much better. So this is a sign of how bad our measurements are. And I talk about my wife who's at home with our two boys one of whom is autistic. What is her. Calculator that GDP every day. Zero. And we know that's the opposite of the truth. In other words he's doing as well in the most challenging and important work that's being done. So we can all joke about how irrelevant GDP is what would actually make you excited if I said this got better in Concord New Hampshire. Happiness. Happiness. How about mental health and freedom hmm substance abuse. Since I got better you literally be happy about it. [11:09:54] What else. Education. Childhood success rates. Our kids are doing better. That would be something to get excited about. Clean air and clean water. And I got better really great. Debt. Yeah. Income affordability and indebtedness. Oh how about health and life expectancy. So you include these in a new American scorecard and as you're president it will be my privilege to go down the street to the Bureau of Economic Analysis and say hey GDP. [11:10:26] One hundred years old. Out of date kind of useless. And even the inventors that one hundred years ago. That's a terrible measurement for national well-being and we should never use it as that. I mean you couldn't look that up as a direct quote from because that's a hundred years ago. And here we are blowing it off a cliff. So what I'll do is I'll up. Grade update and modernize GDP to the American scorecard and then I'll present the scorecard to you all every year the State of the Union. I will use PowerPoint decks in the state of the Union and if it was a real sense of how things are going well. And. [11:11:02] Now if you recognize our true problems can we then work on solving them. And this really does animate me because as someone who's running the organization I'm actually running an organization. You got the wrong measurements of organization too over time. That's where we are right now as a society. We use three measurements to see how we're doing economically. GDP stock market prices and headline unemployment rate and they're all the garbage GDP we just went through. [11:11:29] Stock market prices the top 20 percent of Americans own 92 percent of stock market wealth the bottom 80 percent or 8 percent. The bottom 50 percent own essentially zero. So why on earth would you be cheerleading something that only corresponds in the force with the top 20 percent of your people. That doesn't make much sense. And headline unemployment. It ignores the fact that people are dropping out of the workforce. It ignores underemployment. It ignores temp labor contract work that doesn't have benefits. It ignores the fact that 40 percent of recent college graduates are underemployed doing jobs that don't require a college degree. None of that stuff shows up with the headline unemployment rate. [11:12:10] And if you look at the labor force participation rate which is how many of us are actually in the workforce we're at a holding decade low the same levels as El Salvador and Costa Rica. Right now in year 10 of an expansion. And when Donald Trump was a candidate what did he say. He said these numbers are Bayview they're garbage. They're tens of millions of Americans are out of the workforce. And then he becomes president. What happens. Then the numbers are great. Now the numbers. Speak the truth. [11:12:38] He was right the first time the numbers are garbage and misleading. We need to modernize the measurements and then give us a true sense of progress we can channel our energies toward solving the real problems and improve our own way of life. So this is a vision we need to present to the rest of the country as quickly as possible. And New Hampshire I have to say you all have not just. This power but this. Obligation. Because right now the rest of the country they look up and they see these giant pipes that are clogged with money flowing with corporate money. [11:13:12] And if you go to them and say hey you need to vote they think on some level that their vote does not matter. Because Americans are very smart and savvy and they are generally correct that their vote cannot clean the pipes. It is only your voters that can clean the place. [11:13:28] I stand before you today and I was fourth in a recent national poll. And. Get a good deal of corporate PAC money. The contribution to my campaigns only twenty four dollars so my fans are even cheaper than Bernie's. I. Am one of only two candidates in doesn't feel that 10 percent or more of Donald Trump supporters say they will support. Which means the lie of the nominee we win the whole. Number. One. [11:14:07] The criteria that Democratic primary voters have with the nominee who can beat Donald Trump very reasonable is the right criteria. They look around and say well who can make this happen. When they realize that I'm beating Donald Trump by eight points right here in New Hampshire you'll see that they have another sure thing in Andrew Yang right now. That's one reason why Joe Biden is leading in the polls because people think he's the surest bet. But there's another sure bet and you're looking at. That. [11:14:42] Plan. [11:14:43] This is the vision we need to drag our economy into the 21st century. Donald Trump in 2016. He's ever going to make America great again. And what did Hillary Clinton respond. Americans aren't angry and acted in order. He got some other problems right when his delusions were the opposite of what we need. What were his solutions. We're going to build a wall. [11:15:10] We're going to turn the clock back. We're gonna bring the old jobs back. We have to do the opposite of these things to him to where we have to turn the clock forward. We have to accelerate our economy and society to rise to the challenges of the 21st century. We need to evolve in the way we think about work and value in our own humanity. [11:15:28] And I have the ideal candidate for that job because the opposite of Donald Trump is an Asian man who likes that. Thank you. So. Q&A 111617 Q: I was wondering . But I don't know what your plans are for the planet. 111630 YANG>> How many of you all are concerned about climate change? Ah, that means you're awake. If you saw the Detroit debate, you remember me saying you have a new third position in American politics on climate change. Remember this? Position number one, climate change is a problem we need to work on. Position number two, climate change is a hoax. Andrew Yang's position number three, it's worse than you think, and we need to go even bigger. 111657 July was the hottest year in human history, it was the hottest month in human history. And the last four years were the four warmest years recorded in history. So it doesn't take a scientist to say, hey, it looks like climate change is picking up steam. And the fact out of Greenland where they say their ice pack is melting at the rate projected in 2070 today, 50 years earlier than they thought. So it's going to hit us, and it's going to hit us hard. And we need to try and advance our economy as quickly as possible, not just by doing less of the bad, but more of the good. 111730 So what does the good look like? It's things like planting trees and trying to reforest vast tracts of land. It's reseed our oceans. Right now the Atlantic Ocean is losing 48% of its biome, 4.28, not 48, but 4.28% of its biomass every year. And I was just in Portsmouth at a multimillion dollar shrimping business went to zero because of changes in the marine ecosystem. So we need to reseed the oceans with planted and other vegetation to try and rejuvenate some of the ecosystems. 11185 We need to move towards renewable forms of energy as quickly as possible here in the US. But the tough part is that the United States of America only accounts for 15% of global emissions. Which means even if we were to go to zero like that, the earth would likely still warm. So what do you do on the global level? Right now, China is going to Africa saying, great news, I got a power plant for you, and it burns coal. And what does Africa say? 111828 Yeah. That's great. Because we just want energy, we want cheap energy. So then how do you get Africa to say no thank you to the coal burning power plant and say yes to solar panels and wind turbines? Primarily solar panels, they've got wind too, but a lot of sun. You have to get in there and say the solar panels are a better deal for you. 111848 You have to get in there and subsidize and export. We have this EXIM bank that subsidizes certain things, it's not subsidizing these renewable technologies to the tune that we need to. So we need to try and get the rest of the 85% down. Then we need to invest 10s, hundreds of millions of dollars into more modern infrastructure including making our communities more resilient to the impact of climate change right now. 111912 When there's a natural disaster, who suffers the most in America? Poor people, communities of color, and people who don't have modern shelter or cars to get into to try and drive to safer places. So putting money into our hands helps us protect us and our families. But then we need to invest billions to actually raise the levees and make our communities more climate change proof. It's one of those situations where you invest 10 billion and you save yourself 20 billion later. 111940 Which is not really the American way today. The American way today is wait until the thing gets destroyed and then be like, "Oh, I guess we're gonna build this thing." There's one house that we've rebuilt 36 times on federal money to give you a sense of it. There's also a community in Louisiana that we've already relocated. There are already climate refugees in the United States, but there was a town in Louisiana where their town became uninhabitable so we started moving them. So we need to start actually getting real about the challenges ahead and saying, "Look, it's already happening. We need to give communities and families the resources we need to be more resilient." 112012 And then I would propose a constitutional amendment to say that it's up the US government to safeguard our environment for generations to come, not just today [applause] There's a lot of work to be done, but we need---there's a Proverb that "the ideal time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is today." We should have done this 20 years ago but we should do it today. Sir! I promised you a question, here you go. 112041 Q: You did. YANG>> Yeah, and you get to start a business which I love. Q: There's a balance between safety and personal privacy that isn't spoken about in campaigns often enough, i.e. security cameras vs tracking. What are your thoughts on that? 112104 YANG>> So the question is about the balance between, let's say, collective security and individual privacy. And we're in an unprecedented era where so much more information about us is available if we sign to participate in the internet, modern day technologies. And I'm gonna speak for myself for a second---I'm a creature of convenience. When you give me that giant like Terms & Conditions thing, I just scroll through and then click. Does anyone actually read those things? No. No one reads those things. 112136 And many Americans operate the same way I do, and so you give up your data because you have better things to do, and just hope they don't abuse it too bad. Like, that's where I am. And we can do better than that. We can do better than what I'm doing, for sure. So I would propose that our data is our own, that data is a property right. And then, if I choose to share it with companies for my own convenience, then a couple things apply. 112203 Number one, if they get paid for my data, I want some of that money. You have to tell me that you sold my data and then give me some of the money, and not just have me like opt-in to something. Number two is I have to know what you're doing, and then number three is I can turn it off if I want. I can change my preferences. One of the interesting things is that our data actually becomes more valuable if we buy in. Because right now, the data that gets sold about us is anonymized most of the time. 112230 So if you were to actually say, "Hey, I'm Andrew Yang, and like, this is me." Your data actually goes up in value. So that's why in terms of data as a property right---thich is not answering your question, sir. Your question's about how much privacy one should expect and collective security. And this is one of the most fundamental challenges of this time because we're in an era where now individuals enabled, oftentimes by technology, can become much more destructive than they were in past times. 112258 To me, there's a zone of piracy and we should expect within our own homes, let's say, or within private interactions. But it is the case that when we go outside on the street, we're going to be in a society where maybe the convenience has a camera or someone else has a camera, and then we'd be captured in some way. And so, to me, within your own home everything should be off limits. But then, when you're in a public space, we should expect to have some degree of monitoring that happens ambiently. 112334 Q: I'm actually from Miami and I have a summer home here, so we'll spread the word. All right. I have a lot of concerns. I have a lot of concerns about the hate in communities that you know whether or not you feel comfortable with that. Really. I think so many things. My most recent is my husband I started in. College on Wednesday. And. Had a speaker. Talk about decoupling the United States and China. And the Chinese leader is the guy that comes from some small town in China. And he is very much to try. And. He's going to stand his ground. And I think that. Donald Trump. Has punched this guy or the terrorists. But ultimately I heard the people's right and it's going to really have a major effect on the economy. And I'd like to know how you would address the Chinese president because it's all about that. That pride. It's not reasonable. 112435 YANG>> It's a great question. Thank you. Such a great question. The decoupling that you're describing, to me, is a very bad thing for American interests over time. So just to walk you all through what this means. The most understandable example is this: Many of the Chinese cell phones that were manufactured were using Android as the underlying software platform. Android's essentially open source, it's reliable, it's embedded, it's got a million apps and so the Chinese have been using Android. 112508 Now, because of this trade war, pressure was put on Google to say "hey, no letting the Chinese use Android anymore." And so the Chinese software manufacturers then had to migrate from Android to their own software, which is a very very painful process for them because their own software stinks compared to Android. Android's awesome, and like their homegrown stuff... Not very good. So they had to move into this new software platform but, just like everything else, their software gets better over time. 112538 Like, people like all of the same socks, but then like many---software, and then eventually it gets better. Now this is a bad thing because having them tied to the Android operating system is a very important relationship. It's good for Google, it's good for America. Them being on their own software is bad. It's creating this whole parallel ecosystem and it makes our interests more divergent. So, I think that that is going to have negative repercussions for a long time to come. 112605 The thing I'm most concerned about---there are a lot of things I'm concerned about, where China's concerned. One thing I will say is that it's bad for American interests to think that every good thing that happens for China is bad for us, like really zero sum game mentality. Then you end up leading to a regional war and potentially other forms of conflict and tension over time. And that's a pattern we should not get into unless there's a very very clear American national security interest that's being threatened. 112633 The thing I'm concerned about in trying to sidestep piracy of intellectual property is the fact that they are positioned to leapfrog us in artificial intelligence and artificial intelligence is perhaps the most important aspect of the 21st century economy. So, this I'm also gonna walk you through. You know, I find it's really important to understand artificial intelligence, right now, is reaching a point where whoever has more data ends up with better algorithms and smarter AI. And China has more access to more data than we do. 112704 There is an old joke in artificial intelligence that went like this. How far behind is China than America in AI? And the answer is 12 hours because we go to sleep, they wake up. [laughter] But now they're in position to actually leapfrog us because they have more access to more data than we do. They also have another advantage which is that the Chinese government has essentially given these companies a blank check when it comes to computing infrastructure. 112732 Where there are islands of computer servers as far as the eye can see, that the Chinese tech companies can use to crunch numbers and make their AI smarter. And I've sat with the leaders in Silicon Valley who are prepared to spend 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 billion dollars on the same sort of computing infrastructure and they say "hey, this billion dollars we're spending cannot compare to the 10, 20 billion dollars that China is spending." And so I said to them, "look after I'm president I will match Chinese Computing resources so that you, Google and the other tech leaders, don't have to compete with a state actor in the same way." 112816 So, this is a real challenge for us moving forward with the China relationship is that China has a couple of main interests. One is economic growth. Two is maintaining order. And if we are able to remain one of the global leaders in AI which I believe we can then we can collaborate with China and then keep tensions from rising, keep there from being like this AI conflict. But we need to be one of the leaders to do so. And right now, the folks in Silicon Valley are concerned about us maintaining our leadership. 112845 That's a long winded way of saying, I agree with you that the China-U.S. relationship has some built in sources of tension and that the best way forward, in my mind, is to outcompete them. And if we outcompete them, then we actually will reduce tensions. Strangely enough. 112911 Q: I would just say that you feel like that impressed me the most definitely. [applause] My question is about the electoral college which has now given us W & Trump, do you have any ideas about fixing that? 112941 YANG>> It's a great question. The electoral college has not been reflecting the popular vote over the last number of cycles. But if you want to change the electoral college, you're looking at a constitutional amendment. Because that thing is baked right into the Constitution. And if you're in North Dakota, would you agree to a constitutional amendment that makes you less important? Of course not. You know, so if you need a supermajority. You're never going to get it to reform the electoral college. 113012 It's one reason why I get a little frustrated with calls to reform it, because to me this would be a political non-starter. The other thing on the Democratic side is it's kind of bad form if you run a couple of elections and lose. And then you say, "you know what we have to do? We have to change the rules that are in the Constitution on how to lose." You know, in my world that's called being a sore loser. Like, you know, you got to win a couple of elections by the rules and then you can say, "hey maybe these rules aren't so great." 113041 But here is the rules change I would proposed because the Electoral College does have some very negative consequences attached to it. So here's a solution I would propose that I believe that you could get more states on board with. And it is this: that you have electors get allocated proportionally within the state. [applause] So this means that every state matters. This means that someone like me might even campaign in Mississippi or Alaska or someplace just like could carve off one elector. It opens up the map and if it keeps the built in advantage that a place like North Dakota has that it has more electors than their population within the state, which is really what their issue is. [11:31:25] Because you just made it popular. The other problem with just saying popular vote and this is something that you all should understand here in New Hampshire the incentive the campaign would all be in densely populated urban areas because if I spend time there and I get a TV and more people see it. So who does that disadvantage rural areas places that are less densely populated. That's one reason why some states wouldn't systematically oppose any changes to the Electoral College. [11:31:52] But I believe you could tell a proportional elector policy because one of the things that North Dakota is in the Alaska and the Mississippi is of the world don't like we ignore them for every presidential election. Right. On the other side too. There are some states that get ignored on the blue side some states get ignored on the red side. If you made a proportional one all of a sudden would have an incentive to show up everywhere. Thank you. We have other. Question. [11:32:20] Here. I was wondering if you've got any plans to have big pharma. I know that. That's right. Now we're starting to see some of the on CNN. 30 dollars me. I also know they're big tests in America for people rash fever flu. So what are you going to be lived with Dr.. [11:32:43] Notice how drug company drug prices only go up and just will go up. Have you ever get like Hey we got cheaper drug. [11:32:53] Prices. So I've got a four part plan to attack. [11:32:58] Higher prices. Number one is you have to let the guard negotiate for a price on behalf of us. You're going to believe this but the drug lord is actually kept the government from negotiating. That's crazy. I think that would be a no brainer but we don't do it. We need to do it. Number two. It's routine for an American drug company to target Americans to reinforce ties with their target Canadians or Australians or other countries. [11:33:22] And sometimes we actually subsidize the development of those drugs as a country and then they're down to us. So the second thing is you have to say look you can only charge us with 10 percent of whatever you're charging like you are in your other countries. And that would bring the prices down very very quickly. 113337 The third thing is to say if you keep gouging the American people beyond these international parameters, then we can force licensing of your drug, and then we have a public manufacturing facility that would then manufacture that drug and deprive you of the profits. And drug companies would have to know they just serve the bottom line. They don't care about our health. They don't care about affordability. 113400 You could have some person dying from rationing insulin, and the drug companies would not care. They only care about their bottom line. So what you do is you hit them where it hurts. You set this plan up, and you say like look, if you go too far, we're going to deprive you of hundreds of millions and billions in profits. I have a friend who's a private investor who tells me that she has never seen profiteering and profit taking and price gouging on the level that she currently sees from drug companies, device companies, and private insurers. 113429 It's one reason why we're spending 18% percent of our GDP on health care to worse results in other countries. So I totally agree with you that drug prices are one of like the clearest signs that our system needs reform. 113446 One more question and then it's selfie time, and I see this woman that's had her hand caught my eye. And I'm gonna run the mic to you. Q: I grew up in the era where instead of hitting the comment button on social networking, when you were for or against something, you hit the streets to fight for it or against it. There's $4 billion a month being spent on Afghanistan war. There are still soldiers over there dying who believe that they're over there because our country believes it has a cause to be there. I hear very few candidates talking about what they're going to do about that war. It seems to me that an awful lot of what you talk about wanting to do for the country, in terms of giving money, $1000 a month, that $ [11:35:37] To do it quickly. Turns terms giving money. And a thousand dollars a month. That four billion dollars to go for and certainly could go for education could go for health care. So I wonder if you could just talk about you know because all self combat. There is a lot of people making money off that war. Private contractors and people like Lindsey Graham who are and those like. The one. In the. Cotton. In Arkansas they're going to fight against shopping because their states get billions. In defense. Do. You. With. A. [11:36:22] Policy. There's a reason why First the number of 750 billion being spent on this very advanced private contractors every year. So that's the headline number. And there's a reason why they spread this money around and everything congressional district. Because in every single congressional district has economic interest paid to that are they're tied to this military industrial complex. So first in terms of foreign complex we have really gone to this incredible extreme as a country over the last 18 years. [11:36:57] What does the Constitution say about the Fair Work Act of Congress. Within 18 years ago Congress passed something called the EU IMF and said hey the president the executive branch can do what it wants. It's related to this general. War on terror or global global conflict. And then then that's essentially been a. Blank check for the executive branch to do whatever it wants. So we've been in a constant state of armed conflict for 18 years and it's not what the American people want. I've signed a pledge to end the forever wars and bring troops back. We should not be engaged in these conflicts that. Are. [11:37:41] And to me what's going on. In other parts of the world reflects how we're doing at home. The chain of events was that we started to disintegrate at home. We like Donald Trump. Donald Trump is down as erratic and unreliable partner that other countries around the world are looking at being like wow we have to trump the US like signs the thing that drops out. You know he says one thing one day and everything the next. So job one is to make us stronger at home. Bring some of those resources back and to the extent that you have to convince legislators to get on board. [11:38:11] What I'm suggesting is we take the military defense expenditures that are assigned to these congressional districts and say look you can keep the money but instead of going to the defense industry it's going to go to infrastructure in your state. Which ends up being more economically productive and employs people right here at home. And it's politically acceptable for that. So that's one of the big moves but the bigger picture what you're describing really is a microcosm of the whole problem which is that at this point we're just. [11:38:40] Revolving around the almighty dollar of all things. And I know that there was someone who actually went into one of the military contractors that was Northrop Grumman or Lockheed Martin at the end of the Cold War and said okay we're going to find it in a war. You know other than that that's industry like right now is the tail wagging the dog where it's in the public interest determining how much money you spend it's how much money we spend is it shaping policy. That is the big challenge that we have to reverse. And I think I'm the ideal type of candidate for that because people can sense I'm not a politician. [11:39:13] I have zero corporate interests. I'm going to go and try and make things more rational and humane and I believe that's what the American people want. One of the proposals I have. If you look at the lobbyists and the overrun our government. I've been running for president for a year and a half now and I already see how our government gets corrupted. Because you have the money on one side then you the people on the other. And between the people and the money the money is a lot easier to listen to. You can count it you can get bigger chunks of it from like individual you know interactions. The food is better. That's why you have our legislators all just answering to the money. And all of the Democrats have a rules thing we should overturn Citizens United. It should be very difficult by the way. [11:40:05] That's another it might require a constitutional amendment or a supermajority to do. But the fact is corporate money was in there before Citizens United and the corporate money will continue to predominate. It's like life in Jurassic Park you know like life finds a way. Like it's like a money flies away. [11:40:23] Have you ever met a DC. They're literally the richest city in our country right now. You know you go there and you're like Where did all this money come from. [11:40:31] I mean it came from our communities. So the question is how do you get the government working for us again. Step one you get someone like me into the Oval Office and then I've even said after I'm president I will do a number of things. What I would never do I wouldn't even take speaking money for personal gain after I'm president. [11:40:49] Because the fact is it's human nature. If you can pay me a quarter of a million to show up and schmooze your clients. I'm probably going to be a little bit nicer to you. So instead of that was to say like no corporate speaking fees. So he gets someone like me in the office and then you tie the will of the people to the money. Now how do you do that. It's not that hard. Cities in the United States have already done this. [11:41:19] What they've done is they've either backed small donations or they've issued vouchers. What I'm calling democracy dollars where everyone in the country gets one hundred dollars that you can give to a candidate or campaign. This would wash out the lobbyist money by a factor of eight to one. It will make it if I get ten thousand Americans on my side that's a million dollars. And then when the lobbyist comes with his fifty thousand dollar check I say I don't care about fifty thousand. I'm getting a million dollars from the people. [11:41:53] Where we ever beat back the military defense contractors and the pharma companies and the gun lobby and their companies that have essentially taken over our way of life. I'm going to share one story then we're going to take some selfies. I went to Phillips Texas are a good friend of mine. He went to work in Capital Hill and he went there with the best of intentions. He's a good man dear friend and he said to me I will never be a lobbyist because they're corrupt. They're being all is not what I want to do with my life. I'm better things to do. He was on Capitol Hill for 12 years and then what. What is he today. [11:42:28] A lobbyist. And you he. He was sheepish about it. To me it's like you know because he knows I remember that conversation. But. I understand what happened to him. That is the set of incentives for the machine in D.C. that takes good people and corrupts them over time. It's not. It is. And that is what we have to change in some ways is the biggest set of channels we need to rewrite the rules of the game is going to start at the top. Are you with me New Hampshire.