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TVU 14 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION LONG BEACH CA GAGGLE CAM ABC UNI 111619 2020 P2 [gap] [20:55:58] Program of what I think we actually need to do, in particular, I would declare a state of emergency on day one. I would not wait for. I would ask Congress to pass some version of the Green New Deal on day one, but they've gone over 30 years in terms of passing things. So from my standpoint, if you actually look at the climate, you see this is a real time state of emergency. That's what I declare. I wouldn't wait. I would ask Congress to pass, but we're not waiting. Day one state of emergency. Emergency powers, the presidency number one goal of foreign policy. [20:56:30] So do I support the Green New Deal? Yes. [20:56:35] You, Mr. Starr, if you support a deal on which Medicare for. [20:56:44] Look, everybody, I think who's a Democrat running for president wants two things. In terms of health care. Health care, affordable health care as a right for every American and to use the buying power, the negotiating power of the federal government to drive down costs. There are two ways to do that, and people have been arguing about it. [20:57:06] From the very first debate and continued up to today about whether that should be Medicare for all or we scrap the existing system and put everybody on the government system, or if we leave the existing system of private insurance and let people who you automatically everybody would be enrolled in Medicare, but the people don't can choose it who already have another choice. That's a public option. [20:57:31] The reason that I'm for the public option is because I believe it does let us do the two things I'm talking about, make me make health care available to everybody and drive down costs. But it doesn't say to 160 million Americans, including millions, tens of millions of union workers who've negotiated to get their health care through their employment, that they have to do what the government says or they're breaking the law. [20:57:54] If if the public option is so great, they can go to their employer and say, give me the money you're spending on my health care, I'll buy the public option, but it's choice. It's still America. We don't scrap the existing system. We let people make their choice. And I also think you can see this system. It's not like we're just starting a health care system. We have one we can build on that system and make it better and move towards that. [20:58:17] If people want that, if if the public option is so cheap and so great, let everybody choose it and we'll get there because they chose it. But I don't like the idea of killing 160 million Americans. I know your health care better than you know your health care. I know your family better than you know your family. I know your life. You do it my way or you're breaking the law. Doesn't seem very to question. [20:58:38] What is your plan to make sure that police are held accountable for acts of brutality? [20:58:42] So we've seen. Injustice across the criminal justice system and in particular, we've seen policing that has we've seen it on our cameras has been unjust. So when we think about it, there's a number of things we can do to prevent it in the future that involve resources, training, more community based policing, specifically making sure that happens, but also oversight that the Justice Department can make sure that police that the police treat communities fairly. And we know that there's been a racial bias in this. [20:59:21] So there's a whole bunch of things we can do in terms of resources, attention, training and specifically community based policing. But in addition, we can hold people accountable to make sure that when they're doing the wrong thing, they don't get away with. Thank you, everyone. It's a treat. Thank you, guys. Wonderful. [20:59:46] Look, I think the first debate I just wanted to introduce myself to millions of people who never met me, never heard of me, didn't know my name. I think this in this case, I'd like to more clearly define how I'm different from the other people in the state, because I think I have a different background. I think I'm saying different things. I think I have different priorities. I want to make a picture that people understand those because I think they're really important and I believe that they're the right thing for America. Thank you. ANDREW YANG [21:01:30] Everybody gets a thousand dollars. You see there's a thousand dollars. [21:01:35] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Eight minutes. [21:01:44] Yeah. I get to choose what a delight I choose. [21:01:51] There are many Medicare for all day. Me. What do you think of Elizabeth Warren's new transition? Is your concern? [21:02:02] It does in part. I think Senator Warren is wrong when she says that all Americans uniformly hate their health insurance plans and coverage. That's not the case in the studies I've seen. When you ask Americans how many of them like their insurance coverage, it's a actually significant proportion. [21:02:20] And so if we're going to convince Americans to shift to a different health care plan, to me the best way to do that is to provide a superior option that Americans would prefer. I think her new transition timeline is better than saying we're gonna do it all at once. But I'm skeptical that some of her funding mechanisms are realistic because a lot of the funding comes from an elevated wealth tax of 6 percent. And when the wealth tax has been implemented in Sweden, Germany, France, Denmark and other countries, it has not met its revenue targets and it's had massive compliance issues. And that would be even more true at 6 percent than it would at 2 percent. [21:03:03] I like to go man, woman. [21:03:04] So if you want, you know it. [21:03:23] I love this question because it's assuming that I become president United States in 2021. We pass the freedom dividend. Everyone gets a thousand dollars a month. It makes us stronger, healthier, mentally healthier, improves relationships and decision making creates hundreds of thousands of jobs around the country. [21:03:38] And then some landlords look up and say, well, maybe I can stick it to tenants because they're getting an extra thousand dollars a month. If you look at our economy today, there are three core sources of inflation that are making us miserable. Unfortunately, the three big ones. Housing, education and health care. If you look at our other consumer goods, most of them are staying the same in cost or getting better or cheaper. [21:03:58] What am I talking about? Clothing, electronics, media, most food, cars, all staying stable in price or getting cheaper or better. So why are housing, education and health care are getting more and more expensive? It's because these markets are dysfunctional in different ways. Education. The cost of college has gone up 250 percent, even though it has not gotten any better. Health care, their business model is to raise the prices every single year. Notice how drug prices and insurance prices never go down, they only go up housing. [21:04:29] There are a number of issues. One is that it's hard to develop affordable housing in many parts of the country because of NIMBYism and the fact that everyone's for affordable housing in the abstract. But then when you say, hey, it's gonna be in your neighborhood. Then they say, how about it be somewhere else? So what you have to do is you have to put buying power in our hands. That would actually make it harder for us to be exploited and pushed around. So imagine if everyone here got an extra thousand dollars a month. [21:04:53] You're very happy. You're like, wow, that Yang guy really did it. And then the next year, your landlord was like, hey, I'm going to ratchet up your rent by a thousand dollars. What would you do? Would you say, Oh, I guess I'm paying that rent? Of course not. You would look around and say, wait a minute, is there another place that's not going to stick it to me? And then you try and find another landlord that's not trying to gouge you to the Nth Degree. Maybe you find that landlord and let's say every landlord decide to try and stick it to everyone. [21:05:18] Then you would look up and say, OK, there are three or four of us with an extra thousand dollars a month. That's an extra 4000 dollars a month. Maybe we will buy a fixer upper and actually make that someplace we can live. Particularly because the freedom dividend is portable. It goes with you wherever you go. It actually makes us much harder to push around for landlords. But the goal is to have separate plans in place to reduce the inflation in housing, education and health care that are making us miserable because in the other marketplaces you see that a combination of price sensitivity among consumers and competitive dynamics in those markets actually keeps prices lower. [21:05:58] Yes. [21:06:03] Oh, so heartbreaking. Kill. [21:06:05] Kill. Kill two to two students. So American. I was the reporter on the ground and many parents were asking what could be done with it? Is it metal detectors? Is it more mental health counselors? You'd think Big Pharma is playing a role in what's going on with mental health and. [21:06:22] Now, I'm I'm the parent of two young boys in my son's school, just had his first active shooter drill, and my son is 4 years old. And so you have to ask yourself, is this where our country is and how can we improve it? I looked at what happened in Santa Clarita. It's heartbreaking, man. I'm sorry you had to report on that and see what was happening in the families and communities. As a parent, it's heart wrenching. [21:06:46] And to me, we have to attack the epidemic of gun violence at every level. So you start at the top with common sense gun laws that most Americans at this point should have agreed should've been passed years ago when you break the stranglehold of the NRA. But in this particular case, some of those laws would not have influenced this particular shooting because this was not an assault weapon. This was not someone who was going to run afoul of a background check. I don't believe this particular individual had any record to speak of. And so then you have to go deeper. [21:07:14] What is the chain of events that leads to gun violence? The last steps are procuring a gun and then using it, which are terrible, tragic steps. But we all know that there are many steps that happened beforehand, including in this case. So I'm talking about what's going on in families, what's going on in schools. What's going on in communities. And we have to face facts that 96 percent plus of the shooters we're talking about are boys or men. We have a massive failure in our society to help. [21:07:42] Turn our boys into strong, healthy men, and as a parent of two boys, I see this and I can see that having the wrong boy in the wrong school can lead to tragic outcomes generally for the boy and his family. But every once in a while, those outcomes can become. Externalized and tragic to others. So we have to try and rebuild from the ground up our families, our schools, we have to make our schools and then on the assembly lines with these standardized tests that kids all feel like they're just on a on an assembly line moving forward, they're just like an interchangeable widget. [21:08:18] We have to have an education system that treats our kids as individuals who learn differently, who might be at different stages, that they're not all going to be at the same point in their development at age 12 or 13 or 14. And this is a very high bar for schools. Most schools right now do not have the expertise or resources to be able to help our kids. Boys in particular manage some of these issues, and that's what we can influence. That might have helped prevent this particular tragedy. [21:08:45] I would invest in social, emotional learning in every school in. Managing technology because one of the things that we also do not talk about is that the mental health crisis among young people is hand in hand, is lockstep with smartphone adoption and use of social media apps. And as a child, I was a very shy, introverted kid. But when I went home and I shut the door, my classmates were not in the room with me. [21:09:11] You know what I mean? It's like you shut the door and then you could read a book and get lost in your own world. And it's not like you have to worry about what people are thinking about. You are saying to you. But our kids today, their peers are with them everywhere they go. So the way we prevent this tragedy, we start with the guns. Yes. But we have to go deeper and start trying to reconstitute our families, our schools or approach to mental health, our approach to our educational system and our approach to technology, particularly in the hands of kids, minors and teenagers. [21:09:44] WOMAN Yes. [21:09:48] So. [21:10:02] The Equal Rights Amendment should have been law. And the fact that it's not. I actually had to look up and say, wait a minute. We actually don't protect the. Equal rights for people of different sexual orientation. I assume that we actually had done that quite some time ago. So I'm 100 percent aligned with the fact that we need to make it a law. And I would make it a top priority as president. I think that we should do a number of things with the Supreme Court in particular. Number one, we should have term limits for Supreme Court justices. At this point, there is no reason why we are following. [21:10:39] A centuries old practice of lifetime appointments. When the Constitution was written, people do not live as long as they did. Now, as they do now and Supreme Court justices actually step down all the time for any of a number of reasons, they did not have that post until literally they were at death's door. And number two, I would look at expanding the Supreme Court because that would actually help depoliticize it. If you have 18 year terms and a larger bench, then instead of feeling like you're putting a Supreme Court judge in place, that's going to have an impact for 30 years hence your rotating one off every two years and then our laws can evolve more with our society, with the times. [21:11:17] Last question. [21:11:21] I like this man is out to do some wonderful things here, too, by the way. [21:11:28] Yeah, you did. I appreciate that. So no, you start the Yanks year. [21:11:33] You get a good. Lot of love, a lot of your economic ideas. However, some of us are very concerned when it comes to some of us. Let's give it up. Thanks. Well, see you. [21:11:49] Would you call it? Well. [21:11:55] I'm going to outline some of my foreign policy principles to give you a sense of where I am. I've signed a pledge to end the forever wars. We should not be in a conscious state of armed conflict as we have been for the last 18 years. In our Constitution, it does not say that it's in the president's capacity to even declare war. It says it's an act of Congress. But Congress has ceded that responsibility to the executive branch for the last 18 years, and that is not the way it should be. If we do intervene militarily, there's a three part test. [21:12:25] You can call the Yang Doctrine. No one there has to be a vital national interest at stake or we can avert humanitarian catastrophe. Number two, there's a clearly defined timeline for how long our troops will be in the theater and in harm's way. And number three, there are allies and partners that are willing to join us in the mission. If those three things are in place, then I would consider military action. And that gives you a sense of how my progressive priorities apply internationally. [21:12:56] The reason why I think we are suffering so much under President Trump, if you look at the order of operations, our strength abroad reflects how we're doing at home. We are falling apart at home. We elected a narcissist reality TV star as our president. He is now an erratic and unpredictable foreign policy leader. Our allies are looking around saying, what the heck happened? The United States. [21:13:18] So how do we come back from this? We become stronger and more whole at home. And then we go to our partners and say, America's back. We're going to have a sustained and reliable foreign policy set of priorities that you can actually rely on over the long haul. Thing was, James Mattis, who said if we invest less in diplomats, we have to invest more in ammunition. And that's not a dove. That's the former secretary of defense. We need to invest more in diplomats and less and less and ammunition. [21:13:48] I think what we're doing. [21:13:50] All right, guys. Handsome Zach says, wait, I got a question on climate change. All right. Yeah, sure. [21:13:55] What was it right now? [21:14:18] I released a fairly extensive climate change. Platform about, what, three, four weeks ago and includes the fact that we have to move on from subsidizing fossil fuel industries who benefited from tens of billions of dollars in subsidies and turn those funds and subsidies to solar, wind, renewable source of energy. We should tax carbon and pollution immediately. One of the big problems in American life today is that there are these negative externalities that companies don't pay for and we all pay for it. [21:14:48] And if you think about the cost of climate change, what is that? In dollar terms, trillions of dollars, millions of lives. If we have the companies who are polluting actually pay a price for that, then we would change their incentives and generate hundreds of billions in new revenue that we could then apply to solving the problem. The tough truth of this is that the United States of America only accounts for about 15 percent of global emissions. [21:15:09] So even if we were to very aggressively move in a more renewable direction, if the other 85 percent is rising, then the earth will continue to warm. And we're already at the point of no return in many respects. What's happening in the rest of the world is that China is going to developing countries and saying, hey, great news, I've got a power plant for you. It burns coal. And then what does that country say? [21:15:32] Great, because they just want energy as cheaply as possible. So if we're going to curb those emissions, what we have to do is be at that table and say instead of taking that coal burning power plant from the Chinese, you should take these solar panels or these wind turbines and we will subsidize them to a point where they're actually cost competitive and a no brainer for you. We also have to start investing in protecting our communities. We already have climate refugees in the United States of America. I was in New Hampshire because I'm running for president. So you go to New Hampshire a lot. [21:16:00] And in Portsmouth, there's a shrimping business that went from millions of dollars to zero because all the shrimp died and the houses and buildings that are on that shoreline have started flooding regularly. So this is no longer speculative. This is with us right now. And instead of leaving Americans to their own devices to try and protect themselves from climate change, we should be investing tens, hundreds of billions of dollars right now to make our communities more resilient to the ravages of climate change. [21:16:26] If we spend the money now, we'll actually save money. The current American approach is to wait until the disaster happens and then try and clean it up. And that is not what you want to do with climate change here in California. You're seeing it with the forest fires that are. Dislocating. Tens, hundreds of thousands of people costing lives. Those forest fires are not an act of God. They're the result of the fact that climate change has made all of the underbrush in the forests, tinder boxes. [21:16:57] And we do not have the government resources to actually manage the hazards over time. We're actively managing less than 10 percent of U.S. forest land and clearing it of underbrush that would eventually. Cause fires that then end up spreading very, very quickly and wildly. So this is not an act of God. This is a failure of government. We need to dramatically improve our approach to forest management and make it so that we don't have forest fires and wildfires here in California. Year round, it's an existential crisis that we need to rise the occasion for. There's a proverb that says the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. And the second best time is now. We should have done this 20 years ago. But as president, I will do it now. Thank you all very much. [21:17:43] Thank you. Andrea. So, Charlie, here is John. Also you. By the. We're just going to. ANDREW YANG & CORY BOOKER 211823 [Booker and Yang walk to the podium together] YANG>> Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Cory Booker! 211832 BOOKER>> That was like the days when you're opening act is much bigger than the person who's doing the concert. YANG>> That's very kind, brother. I've looked up to this man for a long time. And it's a privilege to consider you a friend. BOOKER>> Thank you very much. Q: What's your favorite thing about Booker? BOOKER>> Hold on, let me just tell you, this was a true promise that was made. He said that if either of us go to the White House, we will both shave our head. YANG>> You do make it look good. BOOKER>> Thank you man. Thank you so much. 211903 BOOKER>> Give it up, does the press corps applaud for Andrew Yang? This is the Yang gang. CORY BOOKER booker gaggle.mov [21:19:08] Hello, everybody. Welcome to New Jersey. Jets are giants. You're looking at the. This is breaking news right now because I don't think we have the Internet. Nobody can look it up. But you're looking at the Giants. [21:19:23] Nineteen eighty six pick for high school football player of the year. So I am loyal to the people that were loyal to me back in my high school football playing days. [21:19:33] That's the Giants. Oh, my gosh. All right. You lose one. All right. Yes, sir. [21:19:43] What's your name, sir? Kareem. And mockery about where are you from? From Kenya. And are you here living in California now? And won't be sure. Who do you write for? Who do you write for what press organization you represent? All right. African Warrior magazine. That sounds intimidating. [21:20:03] All right. What what what? What was like? [21:20:05] No. Sorry for interrupting. [21:20:16] My staff put you up to this. I'm not I'm not exaggerating, but you finish your question, cause I want to tell you what, this is literally what I'm saying all the time. Yes. So we're retreating from the continent in some substantive ways. And I was the ME and Jeff Flake were the leaders, Dem and Republican of the Africa subcommittee, the Foreign Relations Committee. And I'll never forget to your point, flying into Zimbabwe after Mugabe had been, let's call it overthrown, an embassy demagog. Well, we were going to meet with him to talk to him about human rights violations. Talk to him about free and fair elections. An American sanctions. But when we land to have this conversation about honoring things like human rights and free and fair elections, he's coming in the same day from China. And their message to him had nothing to do about human rights. Nothing new about free elections. It was a transactional relationship. There is a contest going on that we're seeing on the continent of Africa as well as around this globe between totalitarian governments, dictatorial governments and free democracies. And Africa is one of those points now where America should not be retreating. There were critical strategic national security issues in Africa. There were critical strategic human rights issues in Africa there. [21:21:32] There are things that we have a responsibility to be involved in. And this can't be a time where Donald Trump is pulling us out there. So I've been speaking up in a bipartisan way about that. And if I'm president, I'd states to the point of your question. We're going to have a robust Africa policy because it's in the best interests of America as well as the right thing on the planet. All right. As anybody else from a periodical with the word warrior in it, because I would like to not at call on you. Yes, sir. What's your name? I catch you. Don't identify yourself, Sergeant, from viewpoints. OK. [21:22:14] Petrol prices, correct? Yes. Yes. The question, why did you vote no on? [21:22:23] Well, first of all, there's a lot of junk on the Internet about that. And I wouldn't. Yeah. So I would actually not read the Intercept article, but go to the article entitled The Stupid War on Cory Booker. I would never, ever do anything to stop prescription drugs from coming in. Forget. So I did not vote against any measure that would have stopped that would have to stop. Prescription drugs from coming to our country. Absolutely not. And again, go to the student, Warren, Cory Booker, go to the fact check. That was done by, I think, The Washington Post. I have been all my life fighting for cheaper prescription drugs. I'm proud of it. And since I was a mayor, I was calling for importations from places like Canada. All right. [21:23:01] Yes. No question I had is. How are you going to restore Democratic? [21:23:15] And pull back against democratic backsliding. Pope, I'm sorry, hold back against democratic backsliding, backsliding and sliding. [21:23:23] How would you, as president hold back against that backsliding democratic? Can you be more specific? Because so with the rise of. Oh, boy. I'm in agreement and the rise. Country first. Politicians like Scenario and MAXINE Bernie. [21:23:48] How would you look on the global level? OK. So look. Sort of like I did my answer to my friend and fellow warrior or the first question, we are at a point in America where we're seeing this this president say he is an America first policy. But what it really means is America isolated and alone policy. He's turning his back on institutions and allies and attacking them. In fact, he he's a better relationship with people like Tati and Putin than he has with Merkel and Macron. We are a nation right now that has to understand that this world needs us to lead on issues from climate change to peace in the Middle East. And this pulling back from everything from the Paris Climate Accords all the way to the air. Iran anti nuclear deal is unacceptable. And so when I'm president United States, I'm going to restore America's partnerships with critical allies, because we are the strongest nation on the planet Earth. But our strength is multiplied and magnified when we stand with our allies. All right. I'm going to get some gender balance here, so please. And his Long Beach life, it sounds like it's like a well-being. It's like the law. It's a mood. It's it's OK. I understand. Are you living the Long Beach life yourself? How can somebody from New Jersey live the Long Beach life in Long Beach? Thank you for knowing. How did you know that? I didn't. New Jersey trivia. Did you know that the Eminem was invented in Newark, New Jersey, along along with patent leather? [21:25:21] Did you know that? [21:25:26] And finally, very importantly, did you know that also Shaquille O'Neal was invented in Newark, New Jersey? [21:25:33] Yeah. I mean, born, I guess, is a better way to put it. He was created there. OK. All right. And I do have some issues about the way Kobe treated Shaq here in California. Can we. Can we talk about that? Can we talk? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Go ahead. [21:25:54] That's going to be for the rest of my life. You're soon dead as a cancer on the body of our nation. [21:26:06] It is. It is crushing this country. It is undermining our global competitiveness. Every other country, our competitors are lowering the cost of college. Germany between 0 and 4 percent of median income all the way to go to college. Canada, like seven percent in this country, is between 50 and 60 percent of median income to go to college. While this rest of the nation understands that the more you cultivate the genius of your country, the better success your country has economically. But we are saddling kids. It's a number one, pushing lots of young people away from college. But those are literally changing their behaviors as a generation from buying houses, getting married, making decisions like that. This has to stop and I will stop it. Number one, we are going to do the Debt Free College Act. We're gonna make that law so that we begin to have affordable college. Number two is we're going to stop the kind of games are being played like the federal government making billions of dollars of profit off of the loans to college students. That's going to end. And we're gonna reinvest those money in lowering and eliminating interest rates. And by the way you like, you can't with your car and can't with your mortgage. You should be able to refinance your college loans. And if you have if you have some act where you have to declare bankruptcy. Those should be dischargeable like other debts are. We are gonna do something. But the last thing I'll mention I mentioned from the stage is more innovative things that I've read proposing like baby bonds. What if every kid in America had a thousand dollars in a in a in a interest bearing account? And every year they get money placing that depending on the wealth of their parents, the lowest income kids would have upwards of fifty thousand dollars of wealth to invest in buying a home and starting a business or going to college. Look, I think that we should make R and I've been calling for this for a long time. We should be making our community colleges free. But I'm not interested in making and using taxpayer dollars to give Donald Trump's grandchildren freedom, freedom to go to college. I think we can have pathways to debt free college so that nobody's graduating was saddled with debt. We can achieve that in America. We can compete with our global peers and have pathways. But I want to say this. Two thirds of American kids don't go to college, and this conversation doesn't seem to include all young people in this country. We have got to make sure we have pathways to career success for everybody. And that means changing our economy to being far more emphasis on apprenticeship programs like our competitors do, because the same country I mentioned from Germany to Switzerland. They don't only have affordable college. They have robust apprenticeship programs that every young person has a pathway to a successful career. And that's what I'm gonna do as president. I'm going to stay. One more question. I'm going to. Did you want one more person over there? Because I was going over here. OK, we're gonna go to the person in blue. I'm sorry. My favorite color. Oh, my gosh. All right. I hope this is a vegan related question. You did. Welcome to our side. The vegan. [21:29:17] So far, Bernie Sanders only presidential. [21:29:28] Look, I. I'm on the Foreign Relations Committee and we were just talking about Zimbabwe. And literally, we have to understand, when you call something a coup in Africa, actually it triggers certain things to happen. So let me just tell you what I believe and let's not get into semantics that the people of Bolivia right now do not have representative government and they deserve to have a government where they get to express their democratic ideals, where they get to participate in elections and have self-determination, which we should have in Bolivia. [21:29:59] But. [21:30:08] Again, I am taking my information from the OAS and I'm going to say to you right now, the principle which we should be fighting for before arguing over semantics, a principle we should be fighting for as a country, should be going against corruption, dealing with poverty with our neighboring nations and making sure that our Latin American countries have robust access to free and fair elections and that the democratic principles are the ones, as the OAS says, the democratic principles are the ones that are paramount. [21:30:39] And we did it last night that he wearing the Democratic Party. [21:30:47] Look, I just want to say that I know the media and a lot of folks like to talk about left and right. But as a guy that lives in a low income inner city community, that's not the way my neighbors think when I'm sitting in the barbershop. Yes, I go to the barbershop when I'm when I'm sitting in the barber shop, having talks, talk conversations about real issues that affect real people's lives. People do not use left right. People talk about affordable childcare, affordable prescription drugs. They talk about having access to a great schools for their kids. And so what we're doing right now, creating these dynamics within the Democratic Party. We've got to be careful because whoever is the nominee, we have one shot to make Donald Trump a one term president. And so I'm not interested in delineating left or right or criticizing other folks. I will talk about the policy differences between us. They're real. Some people in the state don't believe in a carbon tax. I do. Some people in the stage don't believe in gun licensing. I do. Is that left or is that right? I don't know. I know that I got into politics in the 1990s running to be a city council person, one of the poorest census tracts in our country. I still live there. And what my folks want is progress. They're tired of a nation that somebody works. A full time jobs still need to go to my bodega and use food stamps. They're tired of a nation that seems to care more. [21:32:17] About. The deaths of some children. And not the kids are getting killed in communities like mine every day. [21:32:27] We have a criminal justice system, we're sitting here right now. We have a criminal justice system, as Bryan Stevenson says, it treats you better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor, an innocent as we're sitting here right now. There are children in jail, in solitary confinement. [21:32:42] That if their parents had money, they wouldn't be there. That affects my neighborhood. [21:32:48] We sit comfortably by in a nation whose infrastructure is crumbling and you argue that hurts most. It hurts the kids that have to drink water coming from lead service lines. [21:32:58] The absurdity to be in a country where the most valuable natural resource we have is the genius of our children. And we have a nation where there are 3000 jurisdictions where children have more than twice the blood lead levels of Flint, Michigan. Is that left or right? Let's stop tearing each other down. Let's stop drawing artificial lines. 213322 I am tired in this election of hearing some people say, well, if this person gets elected, I can't support them. And then other people say, if this person gets elected, I can't support them. Are you kidding me? Donald Trump is the president of the United States of America. 213338 And dear God, if he gets another four years, in my community, lives depend on it. People are dying right now in this country because we have a president that every mass shooting comes along, he doesn't want to take action. He doesn't even see the people dying in my community. So I'm sorry. I'm happy to be in this field and I plan on winning, but the one thing I'm going to stop is us tearing each other down, because if I hear from a Democrat after this primary that they're not going to support the person, and they're gonna sit this one out. They need to go back and understand. King said it more eloquently than I did. Well, we have to repent for it. Not the vitriolic words and violent actions, the bad people. It's the appalling silence and inaction of the good people.
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