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TVU 15 ELIZABETH WARREN EXETER NH TOWN HALL REFEED ABC UNI 111119 2020 EXETER, N.H. - Sen. Elizabeth Warren said she doesn't believe questions about sexism should only have to be answered by women in the race when asked today in a gaggle about her back-and-forth with Biden last week that ended with her campaign's email about women being told they can't be angry. "I think you should ask the others about that. That shouldn't be a question that just the women have to deal with. This should be a question the men should have to confront, head on," Warren said after being pushed twice to say whether she thought there was sexism in the 2020 race. 171031 "For me, this is really talking about - to all the little girls came up just now and who've done pinky promises is that we're here. We're strong, and we have strong views. When people are getting treated poorly, yeah, it makes us angry. And when people are getting crushed by student loan debt, it makes us angry and when people can't pay their student loans, it makes us angry and we're going to stand up and we're gonna talk about it," Warren also said. 170951 She also gave Buttigieg credit for acknowledging that sexism is a force in politics, as he said Monday in response to Klobuchar's comments that she and other women candidates wouldn't have made the debate stage if they had his level of experience. "Do you agree with Klobuchar that Mayor Pete only got as a debate stage because he's a male?" she was asked. "I think that Mayor Buttigieg said that that was the case. I think he agreed with Senator Klobuchar. And I appreciate his recognizing that he gets a certain advantage by being male. That's what he said," Warren said. 171049 I would also note that before the gaggle, a voter at the town hall also asked Warren about gender. She asked how they could get men to vote for a woman. Warren talked about the power of women getting out and voting in 2018 and inspiration from the Women's March, adding that she was open to ideas. "I was told I need to smile more," Warren joked. Warren also brushed past questions about Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's criticism of Medicare for All, which she said in an interview Friday was not what Democrats needed to win the electoral college. "What do you think of her remarks saying, let's focus on November - fix the ACA, don't go for Medicare for all, it's an election loser?" a reporter asked. "I'm out there talking about what I believe," Warren said 171336. She also refused to answer a question about what she would do if House moderates wouldn't vote for Medicare for All, saying only "we're not there." "We're not there. No, but we're not. No, I'm not. We're not, we're not there because we need to be out talking about people's experiences right now. Experiences of people with health insurance," she said. 171315 And one last add -- Warren continued to lean into her "boohooing" of billionaires and millionaires today, leveraging the Bloomberg moment and the criticism she took last week into a pitch for her wealth tax. More on how she's been using this to her advantage from my story here. <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fabcnews.go.com%2FPolitics%2Fsen-elizabeth-warren-besieged-attacks-millionaires-billionaires-playing%2Fstory%3Fid%3D66877762&data=02%7C01%7CMegan.X.Farrell.-ND%40abc.com%7Ce8893f01c1f0448c6cd708d766fcd497%7C56b731a8a2ac4c32bf6b616810e913c6%7C1%7C0%7C637091108487907060&sdata=BMJF%2BqYLZPsAqGrXlG%2FUtkt0U68jPFStQT29dnOSXzw%3D&reserved=0> "Maybe you've heard, there's some billionaires who don't like this. Yes they've been interviewed on TV I've noticed lately. Yeah, yeah. So sad! Soooo sad! The billionaires have to pay 2 cents out of their bazillion dollars. They say, 'oh you know I worked hard,' yeah unlike anyone else," Warren said. 175429 TVU 15 ELIZABETH WARREN EXETER NH TOWN HALL ABC UNI 111119 2020 REFEED 170902 Q>> in Super Tuesday states it Bloomberg enters the race. He says if you will focus primarily on those, what is your strategy for Super Tuesday? WARR>> My strategy is what it is right now. And that is to get out and talk to as many people as possible. Talk about what's broken, talking about how we're going to fix it and to build the grassroots movement to get it done. I don't think that elections ought to be about billionaires either buying it for themselves, or forming super PACs to buy it for somebody else. I think that in a primary, we've got a chance to reach out to voters. This is how democracy should work. 170935 Q: A couple of days ago, you wrote that over and over again, women are told to be quiet. I wonder if you're willing to say in person that you found some of the comments from Joe Biden sexist. 170951 WARR>> I think that you should ask him about that. For me, this is really talking about-- to all the little girls came up just now and who've done pinky promises is that we're here. We're strong, and we have strong views. When people are getting treated poorly, yeah, it makes us angry. And when people are getting crushed by student loan debt, it makes us angry and when people can't pay their student loans, it makes us angry and we're going to stand up and we're gonna talk about it. Q: But as the only woman now in the top tier of the Democratic candidates, I wonder if you are willing to say yourself that you think that there aissexism right now in the 2020 race? 171031 WARR>> I think you should ask the others about that. That shouldn't be a question that just the women have to deal with. This should be a question the men should have to confront, head on. Q: Do you think there is? WARR>> I think that this is something that is really important for them to talk about. 171049 Q>> Do you agree with Klobuchar that Mayor Pete only got as a debate stage because he's a male? WARR>> I think that Mayor Buttigieg said that that was the case. I think he agreed with Senator Klobuchar. And I appreciate his recognizing that he gets a certain advantage by being male. That's what he said. Q>> How would you convince some moderate House members that Medicare for All is something they should run on? 171119 WARR>> So, I think the more we talk about both what's broken right now, how much people with health insurance are having a pay out of pocket and how much risk people run with -- who are fully insured but whose costs are not covered. I think more people around the country start to see just what's broken in the system and see the need to fix it. 171148 People with health insurance are being sued by their hospitals because they thought they were covered and yet it turns out they owe thousands of dollars that the insurance company refuses to pay. It's also about access. People who just stopped me in the group I was in right at the beginning, don't get to see the doctors they need, they don't get the services they need because their insurance company is the one determining what's the best treatment for them. They want their doctors to do that. Not their insurance company. So I think a lot of this is going to be talking about the need -- helping bring that to the fore. Q: Your reaction what's going on in Bolivia right now? 171228 WARR>> Oh, well, there--go ahead. Q: There are millions of people protesting in the streets. WARR>> That's right. And I think that when people are protesting, democratically, for their rights, that United States should listen to that. I think the same is true in Hong Kong. That we should be a country that encourages the democratic process and makes sure that people are heard. We talked on stage today about the protests of the day after the 2017 inauguration and how these protests have led to real change in this country at the voting booth, and I love seeing that. Q: If Nancy Pelosi says there's just not a market, among the House, for Medicare for all. You just can't do this. What do you do? 171315 WARR>> We're not there. No, but we're not. No, I'm not. We're not, we're not there because we need to be out talking about people's experiences right now. Experiences of people with health insurance. Q: What do you think of her remarks saying, let's focus on November--fix the ACA. Don't go for Medicare for all. It's an election loser. 171336 WARR>> I'm out there talking about what I believe. I spent a lifetime watching and studying why families go broke, and the number one reason in most of those studies is medical bills. And back when I was studying it , two out of every three people who filed for bankruptcy in the aftermath of a medical problem had health insurance. It's not covering people. It's giving them enough protection. 171402 And we have a way to fix that. And the way we can do that is to ask the top 1% and the big corporations and tax cheats to pay a little more. And that will give us the money. So- Q: Last year, what you believed was we should fix the ACA. 171419 WARR>> I do think that we should strengthen and defend the ACA. That's not inconsistent. Of course we should. But we need--and we need to do that right now. The Trump administration is trying to take it away. And I think that's a terrible mistake. They could cost millions of people their health care coverage, take away protection for people with pre existing conditions, take away protection for people who are on their parents policies. 171447 We need to defend the Affordable Care Act and we need to move toward Medicare for all, so we don't have people who are going broke because over medical bills. It's hard enough to make it in today's country but, boy, the squeeze because of medical bills even for people who aren't sick is really terrible. 171508 And God forbid something really bad happens and a family is just turned upside down financially. That isn't happening in other nations. It's happening here and we could stop it just by asking those of the top to pay a little more. I think that's what we should do. And that's what I'm going to keep fighting for. Q>> what what inspired you to include the wealth tax? At what point? Was there an aha moment that you just thought, okay, we need to propose this? 171536 WARR>> So it was -- Oh, I've been thinking about a wealth tax for years now. Mostly, as I just see, how distorted our economy has become so that people who work hard, who play by the rules, they're just flatlining in terms of income, and yet all their expenses are going up. 171558 But for this tiny fraction that amasses big wealth, that wealth just keeps on growing at a huge pace. So I think it's time to ask those folks to pay a little more. I'll tell you one thing that was really important to me on this, and that is how much they're paying right now. So in America right now, the 99% is going to spend about 7.2% of their total wealth on taxes this year. 171629 The top one 10th of 1%, those with the great fortunes that I'm talking about, they're going to spend about 3.2%. I'm tired of freeloading billionaires. I think it's time that they pay a fair share. And with that money, we can make an investment in every single child in this country. That's an American that works not just for those at the top. That would be an America for everyone. ### TOWN HALL 172715 WARR>> Good to see you, sir. It's good to see all of you. Let me say another thank you to Jen. That was a great introduction. [applause] Just fabulous. So I think about our being here today. What better way to spend Veterans Day than to make an investment in our democracy. And thank you for being here for exactly that reason. You know, I have three brothers who are all veterans. 172749 As I always remind people, I'm the baby in the family. I'm what used to be called a late in life baby. My mother always just called me "the surprise." But I have three much older brothers. To this day, they are referred to as the boys, even though they're all retired, all back in Oklahoma. 172818 And that is to distinguish them from the surprise that came along later. But all three of my brothers are--They went off to the military. My oldest brother, Don Reed, was career military. He spent about five and a half years off and on in combat in Vietnam. We were very lucky to get him back home. Talked to him this morning. 172847 And my second brother, John, was stationed overseas for a little over a year. My third brother, David, trained as a combat medic. Now, that has given rise to a rule in our family, and that rule is never choke in front of David. The man carries a sharpened pocket knife and he is convinced he could do an emergency tracheotomy. He's ready to go at all times. 172920 It makes for very exciting Thanksgivings. Somebody goes [clears her throat] and David's ready and we all just back out of the room. But it is a reminder of how much we owe our veterans, how they are part of our families, our friends, our communities, and on this very special day, just to say one more time. Thank you to all of our vets. Thank you. 172950 It's great to be back here in Exeter. Super to be here. I brought family with me this time. No, not Bailey. Sorry about that but I do have my son Alex and his wife, Elyse. Where are you? Al? Whoa! Stand up, Al. Guy in the blue shirt. [cheers] 173019 Yeah, I know. We have to watch out here. Now, Alex, just so you all know, Alex has been my tech support since second grade. No, it's true. It is true. And now he has a new job. He has his business that he's been running for a while, his own small business. But he has a new job. And that is support your mother when she runs for president of the United States. Way to go, Al. 173051 But I'm glad to have you here and his wife, Elise, who is just delightful so it's good to have you here. You know, I just thought I'd tell you today a little bit about myself, a little bit about why I'm in this race, we'll take some questions. And then if anybody wants to, we'll stay and do selfies. [cheers] So like I said, I am the baby in a family.Born and raised out in Oklahoma. 173118 That's where my brothers have all now retired back to. When my brothers and I were growing up, our daddy had a lot of different jobs. He he saw fencing. He sold paint. He sold carpeting. He sold housewares. And when I was in middle school, daddy had a massive heart attack. By then, the boys were all gone. So it's just my mama, my daddy and me. 173149 And at first, we thought we're going to lose him. Some of you here know what that is like for a kid. Oh, the neighbors come, folks from church come and bring a covered dish. Everybody talks in quiet tones. He pulled through but couldn't work for a long time. And even now, I can remember the day when we lost the family station wagon. 173219 I can remember how my mother used to tuck me in at night, she kissed me and she'd pat the blankets and always gave me this big smile and I knew what was coming next. 173232 She'd smile and walk out of the room and close the door. And I'd hear her start to cry. She never wanted to cry in front of me. And this is the time in my life when I learned words like mortgage and foreclosure. And one morning I walked into my folks' bedroom and laid out on the bed was the dress. Now, some of you in here will know that dress. 173303 It's the one that only comes out for weddings, funerals and graduations. And there is the dress and down at the foot of the bed in her slip and her stockinged feet is my mother. And she's, she's got her head down and she's pacing and she's saying, "we will not lose this house. We will not lose this house. We will not lose this house." 173333 She was 50 years old. She had never worked outside the home. And she was terrified. And finally, she looked up and she saw me standing at the doorway. I'm just a kid. And she didn't say a word. She just looked at me and she looked at that dress. And she looked at me and finally she walked over. And she picked the dress up off the bed. Pulled it on. 173401 Zipped it up. Put on her high heels, wiped her face and walked to the Sears, where she got a full time minimum wage job. And that minimum wage job saved our house. And more importantly, it saved our family. And I always think of this is the lesson my mother taught me. That no matter how scared you are, and no matter how hard it looks, when it comes down to it, you reach down deep, you find what you have to find, and you take care of the people you love. 173436 That's who we are. And it was years later that I came to understand that isn't it just what my mother taught me. It's what millions of Americans do all across this country every single day. Millions of Americans, no matter how scared they are. No matter how hard it looks, they reach down deep. 173505 They find what they have to find. And they take care of themselves and the people they love. That's who we are. That's all what we do. But it was years later that I came to understand that same story in my mother and daddy's bedroom, that story is also a story about government. Because when I was a girl, a full time minimum wage job in America would support a family of three. 173530 It would cover the mortgage, it would cover the utilities, and it would put food on the table. Today, a full time minimum wage job in America will not keep a momma and a baby out of poverty. That is wrong. And that is why I am in this fight. Yup. And understand this difference: It is no accident. 173603 It is about who government works for. When I was a girl, the question asked on minimum wage is "what does it take a family of three to make it in America? What does it take a family of three to get a toehold in America's middle class? What does it take a family of three to have something solid that they can build on?" Today, the question asked in Washington is "where do we set up the minimum wage to maximize the profits of the giant multinational corporations?" 173638 Well, I don't want a government that works for giant multinational corporations. I want one that works for our families. Yeah. So like I said, the boys, they went off to join the military, there was a path to America's middle class. And it worked for them. 173704 Me? I had a dream. I knew what I wanted to do. I have known what I wanted to do since second grade. It's true. Oh, you laugh, like you didn't decide till what? Fourth grade, fifth grade in the back, right? People who came in late it was 5th grade. Right? I can tell. I could tell. No. I have known what I wanted to do since second grade. I wanted to be a public school teacher. 173730 Can we hear it for our public school teachers? Yes. This is what I wanted and I never wavered. In fact, I invested early. I used to line my dollies up and teach school. Had a reputation for being tough but fair. Oh, I wanted this. But by the time I graduated from high school though, my family didn't have money for college application, much less to send me off for four years at university. 173806 So like a lot of Americans I do not have a straight line story. I have a story with some twists and turns in it. So here's how mine goes: I was a high school debater and I got a scholarship to college. Yay. And then I'm in college and at 19, I fell in love, got married, dropped out and got a minimum wage job. 173829 Yay. Well, I picked. I mean, nobody made me do this. This was -- and it could be a good life. A good life. But it wasn't the dream. I wasn't gonna get to teach school. And then we've living down in Houston, Texas, outside Houston. And that's when I found it. A commuter college that cost fifty dollars a semester. Yeah. And for a price I could pay for on a part time waitressing job. 173903 I finished my four year diploma. I became a special education teacher. I lived my dream job. [17:39:16] So we have a public school teachers in here. Oh, God. [17:39:32] So hold back me up on this. This is not a job. It's called I love this work. I loved it. I had a four to six year olds. And to this day, I can remember almost all their names. I can remember all the faces. I can remember things we worked on. I loved it. And I probably would still be doing it today. Oh, my story has more twists and turns. Here's how they go about it. My first year of teaching, I was instantly pregnant. [17:40:06] And the principal did what principals did in those days. [17:40:11] Wish me luck and hired someone else for the job. OK, so now I am at home. I got to I can't get a job. [17:40:23] What am I going to do? [17:40:27] I owe a lot of food so I can buy now only to be in New Jersey. I found a public law school cost four hundred and fifty dollars a semester. Baby on here. I had offered two, three years of the law school. I graduated from law school, visibly pregnant. [17:40:47] You will discover a pattern to these stories. I was waiting to be born until after graduation. Thank you. [17:40:59] And then I took the bar past the bar and practiced law for 45 minutes. And then I went back to my first love teaching. I created a little bonus for three once and spent most of my life teaching and law school made lot of changes in my life. Husband number one hit. It is never good when you have to number your husband's. [17:41:30] Each one is I called and I parted ways, but I found Bruce, who took on a woman with two kids and the red station wagon and his name, buddy. So it all worked out. [17:41:45] I want to have sex. [17:41:51] I am teaching at the law school, so I know if everybody does is set up for me, having grown up in a family where we are kind of hanging onto our place in the middle class by our fingernails, really, man. I want to do courses on money. I wanted to learn and I wanted to teach. So I taught contract work. Murphy Wall art in my payment system, secured transactions. I taught bankruptcy law. Debtor, creditor and law, corporate finance, partnership finance. One economics. It was about money. I was there. I was 10. I teach and that there was always one central question that I worked on one part and that was what's happening to working families in America? [17:42:44] Why is America's middle class being hollowed out? [17:42:49] Why is it that people who work every bit as far as my mother worked two generations ago today find that a path so much rockier is so much steeper and for people of color, even rockier and even steeper? [17:43:11] And the answer is like the answer on a minimum wage. [17:43:16] It's who government works for. [17:43:21] This way we have a government works great for giant drug companies. It is not working for people trying to get a prescription filled. [17:43:32] We have a government that is working great for anyone who wants to make money by investing in private prisons as private detention centers south of the border. [17:43:44] It's just not working for the people whose lives are destroyed by those institutions. [17:43:51] We have a government that works great for giant oil companies that want to drill everywhere, just not under the worst adults who see climate change bearing down on us. [17:44:13] When you see a government that works great for those with money and it's not working for much of anyone else, that is corruption, pure and simple. We need to call it after. [17:44:36] Money goes everywhere in Washington, campaign contributions, lobbyists, lawyers, PR firms of think tanks. But pay for experts. [17:44:50] Here's the deal. Whatever issue, this is the one that really gets you up in the morning. [17:44:56] Donna, violence, all health care, all immigration. [17:45:03] What ever it is that catch you up and it gets you going. If there is a decision to be made it in Washington, I guarantee it's been influenced by mining. [17:45:13] Yeah, it's been shaped by money. [17:45:17] It's been nudged by money, money, money, money is what is influencing the decision making in Washington. [17:45:27] Let me give you a short story on this from back in the early 1990s, we had we got the science sinuses told us it was having on a client that didn't quite have the words. They didn't quite know the speaker was good enough. But they knew, right. That pumping this much carbon into the air and the water was to be a complete disaster. And and pretty uniformly telling us this. And here's the interesting part. In Washington, Democrats and Republicans were working together. [17:45:59] They're talking about what do we need to do? We need to give them more authority, the EPA. We need more money in the clean up. We need to pass some other regulation. They were working. [17:46:07] Regulations, they were working together because no one wanted to be responsible for this. And then. Along came the Koch brothers. [17:46:19] Cue the music. [17:46:21] I hope rotors oh, the the oil companies, the big polluters, and they got together and said in effect, huh? [17:46:33] So if Congress really might change it. If they really do step up on the regulations, that's going to dividing our profits and it's going to hurt our bottom line. So we've got an investment decision to make going forward that could decide, you know, handwriting into on wall. We're going to start with a carbon based fuel. We're going to go to clean. They don't do that. [17:46:58] They could decide, you know, we're going to invest over R and D money into how to get carbon out of the air or how to clean up the work. They don't do that. Oh, they make the investment. They invest in it. [17:47:11] Politicians, they invest in the people who write the regulations in Washington. And in fact, they not only invest in campaign contributions. The ones that really get. They invest in the climate deniers. You see these guys. [17:47:30] I have a daughter who does a daughter first. We live in a climate for a long time. Climate was there when there was quite a dry climate and the dinosaurs loved it. And it was good to. [17:47:46] Just gibberish, right? Gibberish. So why does somebody pay to give you those jobs as a platform? Pay. Get them out. Keep giving speeches. Why is that money flowing into sports? Those guys don't understand climate science. [17:48:01] But the good news is that the deniers could build something very special. [17:48:09] They can build an umbrella that the politicians could hide under and keep taking the Koch brothers money and keep taking big polluters money and taking oil industry money. And if any of the public who asked about say, gee, I don't know, I'm not a scientist, I understand it's all very controversial. It's exactly what the plan was. [17:48:29] You want to understand that the climate crisis we face today is 25 years of corruption in Washington that brought us here. So money slithers through Washington like a snake. We want to make real change. It is not going to happen by say, what is actually going on here. Couple of regulations over there. 174906 No, we need big structural change. That's what it's going to take. And I know where to start. Let's attack the corruption head on. Let's just go right after it. Right up the middle. I'm tired of playing defense on this. So here's the thing. Here's the good news. I have the biggest anti-corruption plan since Watergate. I got ya. 174937 Yes, I do. Here's to the bad news. We need the biggest anti-corruption plan since Watergate. Yes, we do. Alright. So this is a big plan, it's got a lot of moving parts cause that's what it takes. Money is felt in so many different ways. So let me just give you a sample from this plan. 175000 Here's part 1: end lobbying as we know it. Here's another, you're going to like this. Block the revolving door between Wall Street and Washington. Here's one you may never have thought about it, but it matters. Make the United States Supreme Court follow basic rules of ethics on conflicts of interest. 175039 Okay now I could do these all day long. I really could, but I tell you what I'll do just one more. You really want to hose out some corruption in Washington? Make every single person who runs for federal office put their tax returns online. 175106 That'll be fun. Oh, that'll be fun. Yeah, OK, so there's part one, attack the corruption and head on. Because here's the thing, when we attack the corruption, now you got a chance to make other changes. When you knock back the moneyed interest. Now you got a chance to make this government work for the people. 175133 So what's the next thing we need to do? We need to make some structural change in this economy. Let me tell you where I think we ought to start. We got a problem with giant corporations in this country and how much concentration of power we've got now. These are the corporations that have swallowed up little businesses, swallowed up medium sized businesses, shoot, they swallowed up what used to be big businesses. And now they've got so much power. 175202 They run over their employees, they run over their customers, they run over the communities where they're located and then call the shots in Washington. We need a president with the courage to enforce our antitrust laws and break these guys up. Big tech, I'm coming for you. Big AG, Big banks, enough. 175229 So that's how you start to change the structure in the economy. But by itself, it's not enough. We got to get more power into the hands of workers. That means make it easier to join a union and give unions more power when they negotiate. Yup. Unions built America's middle class and unions will rebuild America's middle class. 175301 So there's a couple of ways that we can help make structural change in the economy. Here's another. It is time for a wealth tax in America. Love this. So let me tell you how it works. The idea is that it's - it's a wealth tax, tax on all your accumulated wealth. 175330 Your first 50 million is free and clear. Yeah, I see guy back there, "Whew" okay. This woman is reasonable. I can deal with her" Okay, first 50 million is free and clear. But your 50 millionth and first dollar you've got in a in two cents and two cents on every dollar after that. And just so everybody gets it -- how many folks in here own a home or grew up in a family that owned a home? 175400 Yeah. OK. You've been paying a wealth tax forever. It's just called property tax. All I'm saying that's different is for, by the way, the top one tenth of 1 percent. That is how many have got these fortunes that it's not just about their real estate. In their property tax, they need to include the real estate, the stock portfolio, the diamonds, the Rembrandt, and the yacht. Just kind of the whole thing, right? Does that seem right? 175430 And maybe you've heard there are some billionaires who don't like this. Yes, they 've been interviewed on TV, I've noticed lately. But -- (crowd laughs) Yeah. Yeah. So sad, so sad that they might have to pay two cents out of their bazillion dollars. 175501 So here's the thing. And they say, "You know, I worked hard." Yeah, unlike anyone else. But OK. You worked hard, you had a great idea. You followed it through and you turned it into something really big. Good for you. Terrific. That's great. But here's the deal. You build a great fortune in America, I guarantee you built it, at least in part using workers all of us help pay to educate. 175530 Yup. You built it at least a part of getting your goods to market on roads, bridges, all of us helped pay to build. You built it at least in part protected by the police and firefighters all of us helped to pay salaries for. 175556 And here's the thing. We're glad to do it. We're happy to do it. We're Americans, we believe in making these investments in creating opportunities. We are glad to do it. All we're saying is when you make it big, I mean really big. I need top one tenth of one percent. Pitch in 2 cents so everybody else gets a chance to make it in this country. 175630 Alright, two cents. And here comes the fun part. What can we do for two cents? Oh, man. I'll tell you where I'm starting. Universal child care for every baby in this country age 0 to 5. Two cent,s we can do it. Plus universal pre-K for every 3 year old and 4 year old in America. 175703 Plus, we can stop exploiting the mostly women who do this work, raise the wages of every child care worker and preschool teacher in America. Two cents. We can do that for every one of our babies, plus we can invest from the federal government an additional 800 billion dollars in our public schools all across this country. 175740 Go K-12. Quadruple the funding for our Title 1 schools that are teaching low income children. Yeah, give them a real chance. You're not going to be surprised to hear this one from a special ed teacher: for the first time in history, fully funded IDEA so every child with a disability gets the education that child needs.Yes. 175815 And we need to create excellence grants. I've done the math on this, works out to about a million bucks for every single public school in America. Let's have them all be great schools. We can do it. Two cents. 175842 We can do all that for our babies, we can do all that for K12 public school. Plus we can make post high school technical education, two year college, four year college free for any kid who wants it. Anybody who wants to get an education. Yes we can. Yes we can. Plus, we can help level the playing field. 175915 50 billion dollars into our historically black colleges and universities. Let's create some more opportunity. I'm still not sure we can do all of that for just the two cents on the top one tenth of one percent. Plus we can cancel student loan debt with forty three million American. [17:59:52] A structural change in an economy headed, by the way, I saw one other point pointing rhythms. [17:59:59] When you're thinking about how an economy should work. Where should we should make our investments? One more picture here, because none other play. And the more I talk about it, which just to say that it is our values. [18:00:11] After all, a lifetime of hard work. People are entitled to retire with dignity, and that means protecting and expanding Social Security. I got a plan to extend my decades, the solvency of Social Security and to increase the monthly Social Security check and a disability check for every single person in this country. We're going to let 5 million people out of poverty by doing that. [18:00:53] So it is. That's part two, part one attack corruption head on. To make some structural change in this economy. Part three, we need to protect our democracy. [18:01:14] We need a constitutional amendment to protect the right of every American citizen to vote and get counted. We are fighting hard. [18:01:34] It is time to pass a federal law to end all political gerrymandering. It's time to roll back every racist voter suppression law in this. [18:02:04] I do this all to just one more turn, Citizens United to. [18:02:21] Yes, I saw three things. Attack corruption head on makes it a structural change in the economy and protect our democracy. [18:02:32] And for me, those three things are actually tightly related to each job particular matter. This fundamental question going forward, what kind of country we're going to be, a country that just preserves opportunity for those born into privilege or being a country where every single child in this nation gets a first rate education. [18:02:53] We can't do that as. We are a country where every kid gets a chance to get a good job to star his or her own business, to move to a small town. Special ed teacher realized that opportunity means different things to different people. Sometimes it means an opportunity to be able to live independently. Opportunity. [18:03:24] I originally got a lot of money along with a bill. The ballet bill. [18:03:38] For me, that's what this whole thing is all about. Not in a million years did I think going to be standing on a stage like this. My dad finisher. As a GM, his baby daughter got the opportunity, the opportunity to be a public school teacher. The opportunity to be a college professor. [18:04:04] The opportunity to be a United States senator. Any opportunity to be a candidate for president of the United States is. [18:04:53] Little democracy is doing it. You've got it. Come on. Here we go. You ready? Oh, look at you're the best. You're going to go in the basket. Oh, my goodness. Q&A [18:06:08] Why did you sign wait. Tell your name. Hi, Mary. Hi, Natalie. You know, I wouldn't want to be insulted if I asked how old you are. No. [18:06:25] Family Ten and ready didn't do a little democracy today, modified cow. [18:06:31] OK, Natalie, why did you decide to divide four to become the first? Oh, good question, Natalie. So she's asking why I decided to run for president. You know, Natalie, I'll tell you why. Because when I see what's broken, I just it a big part of my life studying what's happening to families all across this country. And I've watched as people who work really hard. It just keeps getting worse and worse and worse that the minimum wage doesn't grow and wages on top of that don't grow. [18:07:12] So basically, it's been a whole generation and wages adjusted for inflation just kind of stay flat. But wow. Families get squeezed because it's a ton of the cost to keep it going up. So the cost of sending your kids to daycare, the cost of health care, the cost of housing, the cost is trying to get kids educated, have all just gone through the roof. And it means that people who work hard in America just get squeezed and just kept working on this and working on this about why this was happening. [18:07:50] Because to me, in a democracy, it shouldn't happen. It shouldn't happen. And the answer is, our government's just been captured by a handful of folks who got lots of money to spend and they even make the government year after year after year or work a little better for them. They get it. The taxes work a little better for them. They don't have to invest in our folks. They just make it all work a little better for them. [18:08:16] And so I decided that that's going to end up in a Senate race. I never thought I'd ever run for public office, but I saw the fight and I saw how many people in Washington were there. You know, to say the right things. But when it came down to it to fight for the folks that already had a lot. And I got deeply grateful for all that spin and give him to me. So within this presidency, you know, we're coming into 2020. I decide, you know what, I'm gonna stand up and fight for what I believe. [18:08:54] And what I believe in is that we could be an America that doesn't just work for some people, but that we could be an America that works for everyone. And to me, that was a good reason to get in the fight. It's a good reason to stay in the fight. And it's a good reason to ask you and a whole bunch of other people to join me in that fight. So that's why I'm here. [18:09:23] Thank you. That was a great question. OK. Who's next? There we go. Hi. Hi. This may sound like a simple question. Tony, my name is Helen Chandler. Hi, Helen. In Ipswich, Massachusetts. It's nice to see you, Helen. [18:09:41] Anyway, my question may seem simple, but how can we get men to vote for a woman for president? [18:09:58] How about we give him a tough, smart woman to make for? [18:10:13] Do I get good at this guy? I get there and sort of, you know. [18:10:19] But for me to talk about. What do you make of it when you try to fight for. I believe in it. But because we got problems in this country and I leave it to them to have better ideas. [18:10:36] She's got real plans on how I'm going to pass it along and make some real change in that. [18:10:47] I see this as a lot of women and a lot of men once did, I have a chemistry that works not just for a handful, but a country that works for everyone. [18:10:59] And that's what I'm counting on to matter every day, trying to talk to people about it, trying to bring more people into the fight. But you've got more ideas, I was told, to dividing it to do a smile or. [18:11:21] But this thing I love being to. It is for my first day. It is better at the end of the fight that I'm on the sidelines and. [18:11:37] You know, going to put on this and that is, after all, when I was elected and I meant I was surprised like a lot of us are. [18:11:51] I said I'm I could go to his inauguration. I mean, some people did it. But what I most was important. I I was an important witness. Right. And it's a good thing because it is not burned through to the backs of my. I was cheered by I. I came back home and I was down in Washington and I flew back home that I look at Boston and I remember getting up early and sort of thinking, oh, my God, take away health here. [18:12:22] From 30 million people by the end of week, they go to the house, they go to the Senate, and the White House could just do it. And there's no way to stop it. We don't have the votes to stop it. We have a majority to law. [18:12:38] I thought, what did we get out of it? This left. I thought, so why now? Why don't we go to the left and then used to us? We still have each other and we still have the ability to get over that fight. And that morning, you may remember this after the inauguration. There was a little bit of a rally. [18:13:06] As for the signs of those rallies. [18:13:13] One girl I saw. She's a dad and shoulders and she has a design she made herself. She's just 7 years old, was my guess. [18:13:22] I know she did your show because you a blister on and and her side said, I fight like a girl. [18:13:37] Then for the moment. [18:13:38] It is a reminder that all those women and friends of women, also known as men, came together and said, we're going to make our voices heard. [18:13:50] We are not going to quit. We are not going to lie down. [18:13:53] We are going to get back in this fight and go back to what we did in seven days. [18:14:04] That's how we want to pay for a subway. That's how we get out of the way you can take. [18:14:34] OK. Who got somebody else? [18:14:38] Hi. Hi. Hi. Where I hi, my name is Matt. I'm not married. [18:14:49] Hi, Dad. Congratulations. [18:14:51] And I wanted to get married if it weren't for the battle in the South when affordable care. Yeah, I had a chronic illness diagnose and it was that that allowed me to keep my job in New York. And I be the love of my life. Now, I'm very supportive of Medicare for all plan. But the question I have is a lot of my friends and family have had that little experience, are concerned about Medicare for all without other options that people are concerned about that health care plan be taking away. What do you say to them? What can I say to them? Because a lot of them are like a lot business with the board, except on a little technical on that. Medicare for all. [18:15:27] OK, so thanks for asking that. So let's start in the first place, and that is where our folks are right now and where we're gonna be if we don't make some serious changes. So right now in America, the average family for is is about insurance. Ten twelve thousand five hundred bucks a year out of pocket. Think about it. [18:15:55] That's a little over there by deductibles, reduced co-pays, doctors to their own network, restrictions to the drug, accommodating. You all cover all of it. [18:16:08] And health care itself is no longer just about you and your doctor or you. Only pharmacists reviewing exists. Will Ferrell, they're treating your nerves. No, it is. No. And you and your insurance company, because it's the rooster. It's time you said sorry, we can't see the doctor. [18:16:28] Sorry. The doctor wanted this round of treatments, too. We're not going to pay that. Sorry. We're going to cover that restriction. Sorry. You only have for his physical therapist who is still the work. [18:16:41] And that's just too bad. You got a date. You're out of pocket. Do you? You be the consequence of this is that people without health insurance are not going to get a long term deal. Going taking the kids to the doctor because they're worried about the costs. People with health insurance are getting sued. By hospitals, because the hospital bill was entirely covered by the insurance that the family is now and the family can afford to put it this, the big terms. [18:17:18] We do not. If we stick on our behalf or on over the next 10 years, Americans are going to reach into their pockets. And if they are going to pay eleven trillion dollars in our pocket costs for healthcare in this the richest nation on earth, they're thinking about it. So here's why. Medicare for all is all male. This is the system worked. We can't do this. [18:17:47] We can't keep sending the bills to the family. There are four places right now that pay for health care, for ways that we pay for health care in our federal government. Medicaid. Medicare. Right. State government. Medicaid. Employers who are required by Law and Affordable Care Act to provide health insurance for their for their employees. They are willing to put employees and families that that I live in sterling dollars. So you don't have to care for all us, at least in the plan. [18:18:19] The way I proposed this federal government pay an insane. Everything stays the same. It just goes matter. Here. Saying I'll continue to stay the same just as an independent here and a lawyer say instead of writing a check to your insurance to be ready to get to Medicare Part changes. It's just the ultimate a trillion dollars, instead of people reaching or participating in literally dollars, the bills go to Medicare or having to make out that love is drawing dollars. And it has to be pretty straightforward. [18:18:52] You ask the top 1 percent to pay a little more. Yes, the big corporations to pay a little more. And you squeeze down hard on the tax cheats. Those three things will get to see a lot of his early eyes. [18:19:14] All of this is now ultimately doing two things for families. It is saying you're not going to have insurance. I'm telling you, doctor, can't see your medicine. You can't get. You've got a lot the health care coverage, but health care you actually really need. That's part one. And the second part is nobody ever again is to go bankrupt over medical bills. That is bad enough that somebody in the family is a little bit sick. It's really bad. Somebody in the family has got a chronic illness, is really terrible when somebody in a family is diagnosed with something catastrophic. [18:19:54] But what America, for all that is to say, concentrate on people we love. Concentrate on how and take care of them. Concentrate on making them. It will send for the bill of Medicare for all. We've got to wait that others pay forward because that's the America that we ought to be a. So I want to thank you all for being here and actually picking up on our point. It's just getting to the point. I don't want to talk for just a minute about getting things done. And I want to get a story about. It's true when I say young mom, toaster burned down houses, those little toaster hoods. [18:20:46] Yeah. They did have a lot of shops on. And so you put it first licenses to toast in a toaster oven for the thing on to hear the baby cry. Ready to go to the restroom a little longer than you thought you had. And when did you come back? Poetry out of the flames. Only just about eight to 10 and saw. Ask me how I know. [18:21:08] Yes. One year my father bought me a fire extinguisher for Christmas, and the purpose of the problem is not just to the. So many cash cards that the card is on fire and then you're in real trouble. [18:21:20] And then we'll came a federal agency. Consumer Product Safety Commission. They said that enough, you can't sell your toaster in an America that couldn't have one. And if I had a chance to bring it down, I said, I'm going. And that was it. But no testifies basically in America. [18:21:37] But do thousand in America mortgage have it so complicated and it's so dangerous? They had a 1 in 5 chance of a possible family here at home. [18:21:52] Not under fire, but through foreclosure. Only this time the government, once someone on the side of the people. The government was deep in the pockets of the big banks. And so they got those big banks to keep selling those things until they crashed the entire economy. And that was too fast, too big. So I had an idea. My ideal was, how about if we had a consumer agency that watches out for people when they're buying mortgages and credit cards and student loans, who paid it? [18:22:24] And also people were not getting educated. Kind of like that. And other consumer agency that watch out that are special to the basic market. [18:22:31] So I went to Washington, D.C. I'm not in politics and I go to Washington and I talked to we could look at this. Want to get into the fight or talk? You know, here's an idea. And then you say two things to you think part 1. This is a great idea. You could actually make a real difference. Structural change. You could do this prior to. Don't give a try. Don't give a try because the big money will be against you. You pathetic banks will be against you. The Republicans will be a tax issue that I'm sure Democrats will be against you. You will never get it done. [18:23:11] I get it big structural change is hard, but it is also the right thing to do. So we need to get on into the big mining. We fought back. [18:23:25] We got an agency through Congress and President Obama decided to end it all. Actually, area, you think, oh, my gosh, you don't like the plot of a federal agency and I'm turning it into just a total nerd. Let me tell you, in that little light, agency has already forced the biggest banks to return more than 10 to 12 billion dollars directly to people being executed and with a million. So I did learn from that experience. I learned to leave it in the big bang, so why did it even if the big drug companies don't like it? Do you think insurance is still going to give it up for the big dollar dollars? Still don't like it. We need big ideas to meet the big problems of our time. [18:24:31] We have big ideas to inspire people to get involved. [18:24:39] We got here. [18:24:45] We need big ideas to be the lifeblood of our party and to show the world who and what Democrats are willing to fight for. [18:24:59] We need big ideas to take back the Senate and put Mitch McConnell out of. [18:25:26] Big ideas. [18:25:27] And we need to be willing to fight for them. You know, I understand that it is easy to give up on the idea. It's easy to make yourself sound sophisticated and thoughtful by just saying, no, no, no, we're not going to do that too hard, too complicated piece of the thing we can do about big ideas. We can do other people whose lives to be touched by big ideas. And those people are already inside. [18:26:01] People who are struggling to pay their medical bills are already people who are getting crushed by student loan debt already and by people who are getting stopped by the police because of the color of their skin or deny access to the boat, but because of the color of their skin are already fine. [18:26:20] And those spikes are all of our flags. [18:26:34] This time of crisis and Washington insiders and media pundits and shooting people in our party don't want to admit it. They think that running so they campaign that nibbles around the edges is safe. If all we can say is business as usual after Donald Trump, we won't lose. [18:27:04] We win when we have solutions that are bad after MASH. The problem is that in this country. [18:27:21] We win when we get out and fight. Look for me. I'm not running to insult the driver of the campaign. I have not come up with a bunch of plans that are carefully designed not to offend big donors. You probably figured that out. [18:27:42] I run a campaign. Based on a lifetime of fighting for families, by running a campaign from the heart. Because I believe that 2020 is our time in history. Our time to win the fight for a green new deal to save our planet. [18:28:12] To win in a fight for Medicare for all of us, same people. [18:28:16] Applause. [18:28:21] Our time to win the fight for it to do that. Well, to ask it and invest it in public education. [18:28:33] July 20 is our time, our time to dream big job, fight hard and win. Thank you.