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TVU 22 ANDREW YANG FAIRFIELD IA TOWN HALL ABC UNI 010520 2020 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ANDREW YANG GIVES A TOWN HALL IN FAIRFIELD IOWA TVU 22 ANDREW YANG FAIRFIELD IA TOWN HALL ABC UNI 010520 2020 HIGHLIGHTS THERAPY 134356 Q>> I know that you're a big proponent of counseling and therapy, you want to have a therapist in the White House. And you also you also want to have free marriage counseling. And I'm curious, what is a personal transformation that you've experienced from getting support from therapists and counselors? 134421 YANG>> Thanks for the question. I've never gotten this but I love it. When I was a sophomore in high school, I was very angsty. I had like, you know, some bangs that like covered my eyes. And it was like very -- like I listened to the cure and the Smiths and was like very. so. (crowd laughs) So my high school, in ninth or 10th grade said, "Hey, Andrew, like, we think you should see this counselor." 134453 And then I said, Sure. And so I saw this counselor and spent that period, talking to them about whatever was on my mind. And I enjoyed it. I liked it. Now, she concluded after I think a semester of this, it's like, "Hey, I'm enjoying these conversations, but like, I don't think you really need to see me anymore." And then I was like, "that's too bad because I sort of, you know, enjoyed this." And so from an early age, I thought everyone should have someone that they can talk to. And then as I got a bit older, my brother became a clinical psychology professor. 134526 And so he has been imparting to me and my family, sometimes, it's really annoying, honestly. (Laughs) But but but but other times, he'll be like, "you know why you do this, like this or that?" And I'd be like, Oh, yeah, you're right. And so from those experiences, I've felt my entire life that everyone would benefit from counseling, therapy, some kind of help. So I do believe that we should have a psychologist in the White House. I thought that before this administration. But we need to de-stigmatize these issues at every level. 134558 We have to have more resources in schools in particular, because we're seeing a mental health crisis among kids. And I, and it's hand in hand with the use of technology. I hate to say it, because when I was this awkward, 12, 13 year old, when I went home and shut the door, I felt like I could shut the door on the world. Whereas today, if you're 12 or 13, you shut the door and it feels like your classmates are right there with you, because you have a smartphone, where you can see what they're doing and thinking and saying. 134627 And that's really tough on our kids, and their sense of well being. So we need to do all we can to make our people stronger in terms of our mental health at a very early age. Teach them social and emotional learning in schools, and also stop overmedicating every problem under the sun. ## IRAN 134658 Q>> Hey, Andrew, I'm Burt janeski. Hey, there's a -- news flash came across my Apple watch a minute ago about Iran. I don't know if you're aware of what's going on there. But yeah, well, they just announced they're withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear agreement that they still have with the rest of the world besides America. My bigger concern is with the $800 trillion or $800 billion that we spend on the military industrial Complex that Dwight Eisenhower warned us about and Richard Nixon warned us about. 134738 And you know, recently we read about the Afghanistan papers. We know about reasons for going into Iraq, so on and so forth. What are we going to do to divert some of that money to pay for a dividend for the rest of America? 134756 YANG>> Thank you for the question. We spent over a trillion dollars in Iraq, over $6 trillion dollars in the Middle East, and even worse, lost thousands of lives and destroyed 10s, even hundreds of thousands of lives. I've spoken to hundreds of veterans who have never really recovered from their time in the war. And we need to spend that money on things that would actually make us stronger, healthier, more whole more productive at home. 134827 What I've suggested -- because here's what's happened, we're spending, let's say 8 hundred billion, no one really knows, but the official number is somewhere 7 to 800 billion. And of course, the military industrial complex spread those $800 billion dollars out to every congressional district. So there is not a single Congress person who feels like they can vote to reduce the budget without losing jobs in their district. So what we need to do is we need to make this trade and claim and say, "Look, we get it, you need the jobs in your district. But we're spending $800 billion dollars on things that are not making us safer." 134901 What are the great threats of this time? Climate change, cyber security, loose nuclear material. So what I'm proposing is that we take a big chunk of that $800 billion dollars and invest it in infrastructure in our communities, because then if you are a congressperson, you can say, "Well, I'm getting the same amount of dollars, the same number of jobs in my district, but the infrastructure spending would be much, much more economically productive than what we're spending on the military. 134932 In terms of foreign policy in Iran, I'm one of the few candidates that's just came out and said this was a terrible mistake. Some Democrats, I feel, feel this impulse to make it seem like they're not soft, or they're not dovish. 134947 I will just come out and say I signed a pledge to end the forever wars. We've been in a constant state of armed conflict for 19 years and counting. That is not the will of the American people. 78% of Americans want nothing to do with a war in Iran. We need to be investing in our historic alliances and partnerships, and spending less on the military industrial complex, that unfortunately at this point, is dragging us into conflicts and not making us any safer. SURVEILLANCE STATE 135032 Q>> Okay. Hi, I'm David Goodman, thank you for coming here. Really appreciate your coming here.It's - you hinted on this, but I'd like you to unpack this a little bit about this surveillance state that is possibly going to be watching us all the time. I know I was I was in China a month, a year ago. And I know had my picture taken at least four times a day. And I know it's coming here. Five G(?) is part of that props. What are your thoughts? Thank you. 135101 YANG>> It's a fundamental question, David. I did touch on that a little bit, but I'll go further now, I believe that our data should be ours. I believe that if we loan it to a tech company, it's still ours. So there's should be a set of rules in terms of our data. Number one, we should know what you're doing with it commercially. So if you're selling and reselling it, we have to know. 135129 Number two: we have to share in the value. If you're making money from it, we should make some money too. Number three, we should be able to turn it off at will. Now that's our data in terms of the way the tech companies interact with us. And this is more than just an inconvenience, like when they tell you they, they got hacked, and you might have to change your password. Right now the tech companies know us better than many of our friends and family do. 135155 And you can be making a decision, let's call it "who to vote for" that you think is yours, but you could be led there through a whole series of digital breadcrumbs, because they know what 10,000 people who have these similar traits to you did when they had the same trail of breadcrumbs, and they can end up changing our behavior in particular ways. So this becomes a human agency problem as much as anything else very, very quickly. Now, your questions about government surveillance, and certainly right now the Chinese are, let's call them the world leaders in surveillance. 135228 They have virtually no privacy protections at all. And they're investing in AI that now is set to leapfrog the US. There was a joke in technology, "How far behind is China, behind the US and AI?" And the answer was 12 hours, because they would wake up and see what we did the previous day. But now unfortunately, they're in position to leapfrog us because they have more access to more data than we do. 135259 And their government is putting up 10s of billions of dollars for computing infrastructure that even our richest companies cannot match. So they're going to develop very, very powerful surveillance technology that they're already starting to use in a place like Hong Kong. And they're going to try and export it to other parts of the world. And then there's our government, whose you know, we all know, has the capacity to follow in the same path if we're not careful. 135327 So we should be pulling back on a lot of the, the legislation that authorizes -- first you have to repeal the AUMF, which is giving the executive branch power to declare military conflict. And then you have to repeal the post 9/11 rules about servailing your population. The guidelines I would have on surveillance of us -- on the population is that there should be a few areas where we all accept that they're going to be cameras on us. Let's call it malls. Or like public areas. 135358 Where if you're going to monitor employees, then you should expect that you're going to be monitored. But if you're in another environment, you should expect to have privacy. And that should be the guidelines that we have as a country. And one addendum to that: every police officer should have a body cam on them all of the time. Because they have the capacity to use force on behalf of the the government, of the state, and so that should be a very, very high standard. 135426 But other than that, we should not feel like we're in fear of being monitored by our government. ## FULL TRINT [13:16:06] Thank you, Ed, again for that introduction. It's on. I can never tell if it's on. Is it on? OK, thank you so much for that warm welcome. I was so excited to join Andrew on the trail this weekend and get to meet so many more Iowans who will really help determine the fate of this election. You guys all know how much power you have. And I have to say, it's really wonderful to see how this state has been responding to Andrew's humanity. First message. Here's what humanity first means to me. It means super charging people, super charging our families, super charging our community is it's not just about giving people money. [13:16:46] It's about what people can do. And they're empowered with more choice and more freedom. Our humanity shines through. We all want the ability not just to help ourselves, but to help others. It's what's part of being human. So building a better society starts with us, the people. It's so basic but so powerful. Invest in us and we will invest in each other. So many people are just scraping by and that is terrible for humanity. [13:17:18] Because that's how we become isolated in fear and stress and in doubt. With this campaign offers is a new way forward. It's a movement that suggests that people have value no matter their race, their gender or their paycheck. It is reframing everything and turning politics as usual on its head. And people are paying attention because we know the real value in this world is when we put humanity first. So thank you all for coming out here and supporting this movement. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. And now I'd like to introduce the next president of the United States, my husband, Andrew Yang. [13:18:12] Allo, hi. [13:18:16] Yes, hello, everyone. Hello, bear build out. Yeah. [13:18:25] Hello, everyone. Thank you so much. Let's give my wife, everyone another round of applause. It's incredible to be back here in Fairfield. This is my 24th trip to the state. Who's counting and only the second or third with Devlin, and I have to say. Campaigning with her is such a joy because I've felt like the world is now finding out just how lucky a man I am. And when people about thanked me for running, I say with all sincerity, thank my wife because she let me run in the first place. [13:19:03] But number two, she has been sacrificing more on the homefront than anyone. I've been running for president now for a couple of years and now a couple of years is no exaggeration. I really did start two years ago. But now the energy is higher. The crowds are obviously bigger. This is not the size of my first crowd in this state and we are only twenty nine days away from being able to make history together. [13:19:29] Most of the country looks at Iowa with envy in terms of the power you have over the future of the country. Most of our fellow Americans look up and they see the pipes clogged full of lobbyist cash and they think there is nothing they can do about it. They are generally correct. You are the only people in the country who can do something about it. I did the math. You know how many Californians each of you is worth? 1000 Californians each. [13:20:02] Susan? [13:20:04] So if you look around this cider house, what is the fire code in this building? It's on. Make sure. I'm going to give it Trump an estimate. There are 900 people in this room. If there are 160 of us in this room today, that would be four football stadiums worth of Californians. That's the power we have together right now. And the question is, how are you going to use his power in twenty nine days? What is the vision that you want to take to the rest of the country? I talked to Ed on the way in here and I was briefed on how Fairfield is not the norm in Iowa where you are. [13:20:51] As you all know that. [13:20:53] But Fairfield seems like an oasis or emblem of growth and development and progress and progressivism relative much, much of the rest of the state. It seems like my friend Marianne Williamson, for example, has a lot of friends here in town. [13:21:15] I just spoke to Marianne two days ago. One day I'll let you in on a bit of a secret about some of the candidates are friends with each other, like we send each other text messages and calls and let you know we have. We consult with each other sometimes. So I understand that Fairfield is not the norm. You're in Iowa. [13:21:34] Iowa traditionally has been a very purple swing state. And yet Iowa went to Donald Trump by more than eight points in 2016. [13:21:47] And it sounds like you reacted the same way I reacted when Donald Trump won, which was shock, dismay, despair. But here in Iowa, you have many friends and even family members that celebrated his victory. That has to be the case because again, he won the state by eight points. And so you would have to know people that supported. Trump's win. If you turn on cable news, why would you think that Trump won in 2016? [13:22:23] Media Russia. [13:22:27] Turn out money. Hillary Clinton emails FBI Electoral College. Bernie. DNC. All mixed. I mean, the DNC is trying to help Hillary's. I mean, you know, I don't know that. [13:22:42] So. So that's the. [13:22:46] A set of reasons presented to us all on the news networks, but Fairfield. I'm a numbers guy and I went through the numbers and found a very clear and direct explanation as to why Donald Trump won Iowa by eight points, why he won Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Missouri. The reason is that we blasted away four million manufacturing jobs that were based in those states, including 40000 right here in Iowa. And when you head to one of the towns that has lost its manufacturing jobs, not just as the plant closed, but the shopping district is closed. People left, the school shrank, and that community has never recovered. [13:23:26] Kind of the opposite of a Fairfield, if you will, because I know you all are actually growing your you have innovative firms here doing great work. The opposite dynamics playing out in many towns here in Iowa and around the country. And unfortunately what happened in those towns is now. Migrating to other parts of the economy. How many of you have noticed stores closing around around Iowa? Generally, maybe not in this town, but generally Main Street's closing. Oh, why are so many stores and malls closing? It used to be Wal-Mart, but now it's Amazon. [13:24:04] Amazon soaking up 20 billion dollars in business every single year and paying zero in taxes while doing it, shutting 30 percent of your stores in malls. Most common job in most of the country is retail clerk, average retail clerks, a 39 year old woman making between eight and ten dollars an hour. What is her next move? When the store closes. When you all call the customer service line of a big company and you get the software bot, I'm sure you do the same thing I do, which is you pound 0 0 0 as a representative, representative, human, human until you get someone on the line. [13:24:35] Right. Raise your hand if that's what you do. Yeah, we all do that because the software is terrible and dehumanizing. But in two or three short years, the software is going to sound like this. Hey Andrew, how's it going? What can I do for you? It'll be fast, seamless, a little bit seductive, perhaps. What is that going to mean for the two and a half million Americans who work at call centers right now making 14 dollars an hour? [13:25:00] How many of you all know a truck driver here in Iowa? My friends in California are working on trucks that can drive themselves. A robot truck just transported 20 tons of butter from California to Pennsylvania with no human intervention. What is this going to mean for the three and a half million truckers or the 7 million Americans who work at truck stops, motels and diners that rely upon the truckers getting out, having a meal every day like Iowa, 80 in Davenport? [13:25:28] This is the greatest economic transformation in the history of our country, what experts are calling the fourth industrial revolution. When's the last time you heard a politician say the world's fourth industrial revolution? Three seconds ago. [13:25:44] And I'm barely a politician. I spent the last seven years again with everyone's blessing. [13:25:54] Running a nonprofit that helped create thousands of jobs in Missouri, Ohio, Michigan, Alabama, Louisiana, cities around the country. And I saw the tide going out in many, many communities. Donald Trump won. And to me, that was a giant red flag. That was this is not business as usual. Tens of millions of our fellow Americans decided to vote for a narcissist, reality TV star and install him in the White House. [13:26:19] So then I saw OK in the numbers where in the midst of this historic transformation that's about to take off. It's about to speed up. And our country does not understand what's happening to it. We are scapegoating immigrants for problems. Immigrants have next to nothing to do it. So this is why I decided to run for president. And even then, my first move was to go to Washington, D.C. and ask our leaders, what are we going to do to help our people manage this historic transformation? And what do you think the folks in D.C. said to me when I said, what are we going to do? [13:26:55] Now that three main responses I got were, number one, we cannot talk about this, Andrew. Number two, we should study this further. And number three, we must educate and retrain all Americans for the jobs of the future. And that last one sounds kind of reasonable. But then I said, look, I checked out the studies. You all want to guess how effective the government funded retraining programs were for the manufacturing workers who lost their jobs here in Iowa or Michigan or Ohio. [13:27:27] Zero to 50 Yang Yang knows it's like he literally has a shirt on saying knock, but I knock with Yang Yang. So he would he would know that zero to 15 percent. Those retraining programs don't work. And when I said this to the folks in DC, they said, well, I guess we'll get better at it than. But when those programs don't work, it's not just a oh no, that's too bad. [13:27:49] Half of those manufacturing workers never worked again. And of that group have filed for disability. And you then saw surges in suicides and drug overdoses in those communities to the point where America's life expectancy has now declined for the last three years in a row. Know the last time that happened in America? [13:28:09] This house ought to have the answers. I like it. The Spanish flu of 1918. A global pandemic that killed millions. [13:28:24] You have to go back 100 years to find another time in American history where our life expectancy declined like this. It's actually highly unusual for life expectancy to ever decline in a developed country. Ordinarily, this goes up because we're getting richer, stronger and healthier. But in this country, as suicides and drug overdoses have each overtaken vehicle deaths for the first time in history, and it's bringing our life expectancy in the wrong direction. [13:28:48] So when I said this to the folks in D.C.. One of them actually said something that brought me here to you all today. He said, Andrew, you're in the wrong town. No one here is going to do anything about this because fundamentally this is a town of followers and not leaders. And the only way we will do anything about it is if you were to create a wave in other parts of the country and bring that wave crashing down on our heads. And I looked at him. I said, challenge accepted. I'll be back in two years with the wave. [13:29:25] And you may not feel it yet, but you all are that wave. It is going to be for you to help rewrite the rules of the 21st century economy, to work for us, to work for our families, to work for our people, because the rules are turning against us more and more. Our most common jobs are starting to get zeroed out. And I look at the work that England does every single day. How much does our economic measurement system right now value her work staying at home with our two boys, one of whom is autistic? Zero, and it's not just her. It's stay at home parents around the country. It's caregivers like Kyle, let's call him. [13:30:11] Where do I go? Oh, there ya go. How you doing, man? Purple Rain. Now you have good taste in music. [13:30:19] It's caregiver is like Kyle, who's at home with his ailing mom who's recovering from cancer. It's volunteers. [13:30:26] It's artists, very often journalists. [13:30:30] Now we've zeroed out over 2000 local newspapers that have gone out of business, leaving much of the country, local news desert. [13:30:37] Volunteering, mentorship, coaching, the things that we claim to value most dearly, the market is minimizing more and more. We have record high corporate profits. We also have record high levels of stress, anxiety, financial insecurity, mental illness, depression, even suicides and drug overdoses. [13:30:57] If your corporate profits are going up and your people are dying sooner, which do you listen to? We know which one D.C. is listening to you right now. That's what we have to change. That's what you all have to change. Now, when you first heard about me and my campaign, I know you heard something like this. There is a man running for president who wants to give everyone in the country 1000 dollars a month. [13:31:23] And I know even in Fairfield, that seemed like a reach. It seemed like a gimmick, too good to be true. Fanciful would never happen. But this is not my idea and it's not a new idea. Thomas Paine was forward at the founding of the country. He called it the citizen's dividend for all Americans. Martin Luther King fought for this in the 1960s, and it is what he was fighting for when he was killed in 1968. A guaranteed minimum income for all Americans. I sat with his son in Atlanta and he said this is what his dad was fighting for. [13:31:57] It was so mainstream in the 60s that a thousand economists, including Milton Friedman, endorsed it and it passed the US House of Representatives twice in 1971 under Richard Nixon. It was called the Family Assistance Plan and would have set an income floor for all Americans. Then eleven years later, one state passed a dividend where now everyone in that state gets between one and two thousand dollars a year. No questions asked. And what state is that? Fairfield. [13:32:21] And how does Alaska pay for it? [13:32:24] And what is the oil of the 21st century technology? Data, A.I. software, self-driving cars and trucks. A study just came out that said that our data is now worth more than oil. How many of you saw that study? How many of you got your data check in the mail last month? We laugh, but who's getting these data checks if our data is now worth tens of billions of dollars a year. [13:32:50] Those are all correct. [13:32:53] Facebook, Amazon, Google, Apple. The trillion dollar tech companies that are paying zero or next to zero in taxes. That's the game. Your communities, not this one. But Iowa, more globally, rural communities generally are getting depleted and sucked dry. It's turning people against each other. They're looking around saying this isn't working. It's making them subject to bad ideas and bad leadership. [13:33:20] There is one study that showed that if you had trouble paying your bills, it has a functional equivalent of reducing your IQ by 13 points or one standard deviation. So if you have the feeling that many of our fellow Americans are getting less reasonable, less rational, less optimistic, less oriented toward problem solving. [13:33:40] They are. Because that is what you would expect if you were to introduce pervasive financial insecurity into a population. Right now, 78 percent of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. Almost half can afford an unexpected five hundred dollar bill. So then if you go to them and say, hey, these people are to blame. They look up and say. [13:34:00] Say perhaps they are or if you go to them and say we need to fight climate change. They look up and say, I can't pay next month's rent. I can't worry about a problem that might be years away. [13:34:11] And then their next thought is, well, maybe it's not so bad anyway. We have to get the boot off of people's throat in order to solve the problems of this time. [13:34:22] I talked to Evelyn when I first started to launch this campaign, and she was blown away by the fact that we were this close to passing the freedom dividend or universal basic income in the 1960s. And she said, what the heck happened to us over the last 50 years where now it takes the futurist Asian man. To advance an idea that was so common sense. Not that long ago. And what she and I agreed was that somewhere in the last 50 years we have been collectively brainwashed to think that economic value and human value are the same things. [13:34:57] And it is your job to dispel that confusion for the American people and let them know that we and our children have intrinsic value as Americans, as citizens and as human beings. [13:35:23] That's what this campaign is all about. It's about redefining our country and our economy to actually worked for us to be able to look our kids in the eyes and say we fought to leave a country we're still proud of for them. I'm not running for president because I dreamt about being president. I'm running for president because like so many of you here today, I'm a parent and a patriot. I have seen the future. We are leaving for our kids. [13:35:49] And it is not something I'm willing to accept. We can do much better and we must do much better. If you want to take this vision to the rest of the country, we need you to caucus for this campaign in 29 days. If we make this case, it's going to catch on like wildfire around the country and you've already seen it. My campaign raised 16 and a half million dollars in the last quarter in increments of only thirty five dollars each. So my fans are almost as cheap as Bernie's. But there is zero corporate PAC money. [13:36:30] All grass roots, all money from the people because the people see that we need to reclaim control of our own government and remake this economy so that it will work for us. If you were born in the 1940s in this country first, congratulations, because that's already a pretty good run. But if you were born in the 1940s in this country, there was a ninety three percent chance you were going to be better off than your parents were. That's the American dream that brought my family, brought everyone's family to this country. [13:37:03] If you were born in the 1990s, you're down to a 50 50 shot and it's declining fast. That is how Donald Trump won. That is why we feel like our kids are inheriting a future that is less stable and less secure than the lives that we have let as their parents, because that is the truth of it. And that is what you all we all must change in twenty nine days. Donald Trump's our president today because he had a very simple story. He said he was going to make America great again. What did Hillary Clinton say in response? America's already great. You all remember that. It's been a long several years, I know Fairfield. [13:37:41] But it is about to end. [13:37:50] Hillary's response did not work because it failed to acknowledge the depth and reality and severity of the problems in our communities. The suffering is real, the problems are real. But what were Trump's solutions? He said, we're going to build a wall. We're gonna turn the clock back. We're gonna bring the old jobs back. Fairfield, you know, we have to do the opposite of these things. [13:38:11] We have to turn the clock forward. We have to accelerate our economy and society to rise to the real challenges of this era. We have to evolve in the way we think about ourselves and our work and our value. I'm the ideal candidate for this job because the opposite of Donald Trump is an Asian man who likes math. Thank you all very much. [13:38:35] Thank you, sir, I appreciate it. Thank you. Barrett beheld your beautiful. You may not know this, but math is an acronym and what does it stand for? Make America think harder. That's right. That is your job. It is your job to move us. Not left, not right, but forward in 2020. And I know you'll do just that. Thank you. Let's make history together. And now, happily, I think we have some time for some questions. [13:39:14] I think that's right. Am I right about that? All right. [13:39:25] My name is Margaret, and I'm wondering how will you end corporate control of our government? [13:39:34] Margot, this is the question of our time. So step one, you put someone into the Oval Office that doesn't owe anyone anything except trying to fix the problems for the American people. [13:39:46] And I'm getting. Please don't hold us against me. But I'm getting 10 percent of Trump voters coming our way because many of them really distrust D.C. politicians and feel like I'm an honest leader. [13:40:02] And that's I'm going to suggest what we need to beat Trump in the general election because the Democrats and progressives will line up, obviously against Trump, but we need to peel off 10 percent or more of his supporters. Another survey said that 18 percent of college Republicans would choose me over Trump in the general. So, number one, you get someone in who's not corrupt, frankly, and. [13:40:25] Honestly, basic. [13:40:27] And then number two, you try and break the stranglehold of the lobbyists in DC. So you try and overturn Citizens United, which requires a supermajority of Congress. And like all Democrats, I am for that. But I would take it a step further and say we have to line up the money and the people because right now politicians respond to the corporate interest because they have more money, they can pay them better, etc. etc.. So. First, you give every voter one hundred democracy dollars that you can only give to any candidate or campaign. This would flood out the lobbyist cash. By a factor of five or six to one. [13:41:03] I said on the debate stage the other day that fewer than 5 percent of Americans donate to political campaigns right now. Which is true. What percentage would it be if everyone had 100 free democracy dollars that you could give to any candidate or campaign that you liked? [13:41:21] Maybe 50 or 60 percent people are lazy. [13:41:25] They'd still be 30 percent of Americans. Like, I can't be bothered to give my hundred dollars to someone, but you could if you got it up to 50 or 60 percent, you would still wash out the lobbyist cash by a factor of four or five to one. The third thing you do is you shut the revolving door between government and industry because as soon as a regulator shows up, the companies are there being like, hey, you know what? You could use a job with us after you're done here in DC. So how about we talk in two years? [13:41:52] We'll pay you five times what you're getting paid now and maybe you want to take it easy on us. And then what does a regulator do? They're like, yeah, I probably should take it easy on you. And I hate to say it, but that dynamic starts at the top. You have to prohibit the president from giving paid speeches where a quarter million a pop after they leave office. Because even the president will look at someone and be like, hey, you're the head of a big company. [13:42:15] Like maybe you'll pay me a quarter million to come show up and schmooze your clients for an hour. And so you have to shut that door and you shut the door for all the regulators, too. And this is not something that. Regulators themselves unaware of a woman named Sheila Bair who ran the FDIC, said, look, as soon as I got here, all my incentives are to go easy on industry. [13:42:36] So what you should do is pay us more and then say you're not allowed to work for industry afterwards, which strikes me as a very, very reasonable trade. So those are the three big moves you have to make to try and. Break the stranglehold of corporations on our government. There are other moves to bigger picture. Trump said he wanted to drain the swamp. I want to distribute the swamp. So what I mean by that is why are we hiring people and building these agencies in one of the most expensive places in our country? Washington, D.C., that's now the richest city in our country. [13:43:11] We should be taking that level of resources and moving it to Iowa, Ohio, Michigan, Florida, like places that, frankly, would be thrilled to have the jobs and spending. It would save us billions and billions of dollars because everything would be cheaper. And I would suggest they would make better decisions because they'd actually live in a normal place and not Washington, D.C.. So there are a lot of problems in terms of corporate corruption. [13:43:39] But it starts by getting someone into the White House. That's an honest actor that does not owe anyone anything except the American people. [13:43:55] Andrew, huge fan. Um, I'm. I know that you're a big proponent of counseling and therapy. You want to have a therapist in the White House and you also you also want to have free marriage counseling. And I'm curious, what is a personal transformation that you've experienced from getting support from therapists and counselors? [13:44:24] Thanks for the question. I never got this, but I love it. [13:44:29] When I was a sophomore in high school, I was very angsty. I had like a you know, of some bangs that I covered by my eyes and it was like very like I listened to The Cure and the Smiths and was like, very. [13:44:43] So. [13:44:45] So my high school in neither 10th grade said, hey, Andrew, like we think you should see this counselor. And then I said, sure. And so I saw this counselor and spent that period talking them about whatever was on my mind. [13:45:01] And I enjoyed it. I liked it. Now, she concluded after, I think, a semester of this. It's okay. I'm enjoying these conversations. But like, I don't think you really need to see me anymore. And then I was like, that's too bad. So I sort of, you know, I enjoyed this. And so from an early age, I thought everyone should have someone that they can talk to. And then as I got a bit older, my brother became a clinical psychology professor. [13:45:26] And so he has been imparting to me and my family sometimes it's really annoying, honestly. But but, but but other times he'll be like, you know what? You do this. Like, you know this or that. And I'll be like, oh, yeah, you're right. And so from those experiences, I felt my entire life that everyone would benefit from counseling, therapy, some kind of help. So I do believe that we should have a psychologist in the White House. I thought that before this administration. [13:45:55] But we need to destigmatize these issues at every level. We have to have more resources in schools in particular because we're seeing a mental health crisis among kids. And it's hand in hand with the use of technology. I hate to say it because when I was this awkward 12, 13 year old, when I went home and shut the door, I felt like I could shut the door on the world. [13:46:18] Whereas today, if you're 12 or 13, you shut the door and it feels like your classmates are right there with you because you have a smartphone where you can see what they're doing and thinking and saying. And that's really tough on our kids and their sense of well-being. So we need to do all we can to make our people stronger in terms of our mental health at a very early age, teach them social and emotional learning in schools, and also stop overmedicating every problem under the sun. [13:46:57] Hey, Andrew, I'm Birch Nowitzki. Hey, there's a news flash came across my Apple Watch a minute ago about Iran. I don't know if you wear what's going on there, but. Yeah, well, they just announced they're withdrawing from the 2015. Nuclear agreement that they still have with the rest of the world, with both sides, America. My bigger concern is with the eight hundred trillion dollars or eight hundred billion dollars that we spend on the military industrial complex that Dwight Eisenhower. [13:47:34] Eisenhower warned us about. And Richard Nixon warned us about. And, you know, recently we read about the F Afghanistan papers. We know about the reasons for going into Iraq. So on and so forth. What are we going to do to divert some of that money to pay for a dividend for the rest of America? [13:47:58] Thank you for the question. We spent over a trillion dollars in Iraq, over six trillion dollars in the Middle East and even worse, lost thousands of lives and destroyed tens, even hundreds of thousands of lives. I've spoken to hundreds of veterans who have never really recovered from their time in the war. And we need to spend that money on things that would actually make us stronger, healthier, more whole, more productive at home. What I've suggested, because here's what's happened. [13:48:29] We're spending, let's say, 800 billion. No one really knows. But the official number is somewhere some 800 billion. And of course, the military industrial complex spread those 800 billion dollars out to every congressional district. So there is not a single Congress person who feels like they can vote to reduce the budget without losing jobs in their district. So what we need to do is we need to make this trade and claim and say, look, we get it. You need the jobs in your district. But we're spending 800 billion dollars on things that are not making us safer. What are the great threats of this time? Climate change? [13:49:05] Cybersecurity glues nuclear material. So what I'm proposing is that we take a big chunk of that 800 billion dollars and invested in infrastructure in our communities, because then if you're a Congress person, you can say, well, I'm getting the same amount of dollars, the same number of jobs in my district. But the infrastructure spending would be much, much more economically productive than what we're spending on the military in terms of foreign policy and Iran. I'm one of the few candidates as this came out and said this was a terrible mistake. [13:49:39] Some Democrats, I feel feel this impulse to to make it seem like they're not softer than dovish. I will just come out and say I signed a pledge to end the forever wars. We've been in a constant state of armed conflict for 19 years and counting. That is not the will of the American people. Seventy eight percent of Americans want nothing to do with a war in Iran. We need to be investing in our historic alliances and partnerships and spending less on the military industrial complex that unfortunately at this point is dragging us into conflicts and not making us any safer. [13:50:24] Thanks, Nancy. You got it. [13:50:28] We have one more than we've got to move to our selfie line. OK. Hi, I'm David Goodman. Thank you for coming here. Really appreciate your coming here. It's you hinted on this, but I'd like you to unpack this a little bit about this surveillance state that is possibly going to be watching us all the time. I know I was I was in China month a year ago, and I know I had my picture taken at least four times a day. And I know it's coming here. 5G is part of that, perhaps. What are your thoughts? Thank you. [13:51:02] It's a fundamental question, David. [13:51:10] I did touch on it a little bit, but I'll go further now. I believe that our data should be ours. I believe that if we loan it to a tech company, it's still ours. So there should be a set of rules in terms of our data. Number one, we should know what you're doing with it commercially. So if you're selling and reselling it, we have to know. Number two, we have to share in the value. If you're making money from it, we should make some money, too. Number three, we should be able to turn it off at will. Now, that's our data in terms of the way that tech companies interact with us. And this is more than just an inconvenience, like when they tell you they they got hacked and you won't have to change your password. [13:51:50] Right now, the tech companies know us better than many of our friends and family do. And you can be making a decision, let's call it who to vote for that you think is yours. But you could be led there through a whole series of digital breadcrumbs because they know what 10000 people who have these similar traits to you did when they had the same trail of breadcrumbs. And they can end up changing our behavior in particular ways. So this becomes a human agency problem as much as anything else. Very, very quickly now, your questions about government surveillance and certainly right now the Chinese are, let's call them the world leaders in surveillance. [13:52:29] They have virtually no privacy protections at all. And they're investing in a guy that now is set to leapfrog the U.S.. There was a joke in technology. How far behind is China behind the US in A.I.? And the answer was 12 hours because they would wake up and see what we did the previous day. But now, unfortunately, they're in position to leapfrog us because they have more access to more data than we do, and their government is putting up tens of billions of dollars for computing infrastructure that even our richest companies cannot match. [13:53:07] So they're going to develop very, very powerful surveillance technology that they're already starting to use in a place like Hong Kong, and they're going to try and export it to other parts of the world. And then there is our government who's, you know, we all know has the capacity to follow in the same path. If we're not careful. So we should be pulling back on a lot of the. The legislation that authorizes first you have to repeal the IMF, which is giving the executive branch power to declare military conflict. And then you have to repeal the post 9/11 rules about surveilling your population. [13:53:45] The guidelines I would have on surveillance of us on the population is that there should be a few areas where we all accept that there are gonna be cameras on us. Let's call it malls or like public areas where if you're going to monitor employees, then you should expect that you're going to be monitored. But if you're in another environment, you should expect to have privacy and that should be the guidelines that we have as a country. [13:54:11] And one addendum to that, every police officer should have a body cam on them all of the time because they have the capacity to use force on behalf of the of the government, the state. And so that should be a very, very high standard. But other than that, we should not feel like we're in fear of being monitored by our government. [13:54:39] Wow, these are such good questions, I could answer them all day, but it looks like I'm supposed to convert to Salafis, is that right? [13:54:45] It's a selfie lifetime. Thank you, Burpee. Let's make history together in twenty nine days. [13:54:55] As the selfie line can begin right here. Make sure you have your phones out and your camera up so we can get this for you. [13:55:03] Yeah, right here, guys. [13:55:10] Again, thank you all for being here. If you'd like to volunteer, please talk to our folks over at the table. You guys have a great rest your Sunday. Thank you. [13:55:20] People thought, oh, my God. I'll see you at the next one. Yeah.